I'm so old...

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  • fishergreen
    fishergreen Posts: 109 Member
    I remember holding the tape cassette player up to the TV so I could record the the latest song off of Solid Gold. It was the only way you could get the music for free.
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    Sprinklers that were not automatic, you had to go out and water the lawn or turn them on manually.
    The garage door didn't have an opener, I was the opener.
    Non motorized lawn mower and edger.

    Of course the kids outside......
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    I saw first run episodes of star trek.. the original

    Family night was watching the wonderful world of disney together on Sunday night

    cop shows used to rock.. Like Baretta, Police Story, the Mod Squad

    a fun saturday night was skating double sessions at the local skating rink....
  • Tiggerrick
    Tiggerrick Posts: 1,078 Member
    ... my brother was the remote control
  • doogie52
    doogie52 Posts: 53
    I remember learning DOS commands on this beauty:

    300px-IBM_PC_5150.jpg

    And I used to save my files on these!:

    cooper_8floppy.jpg

    Had one of those at an old job...lol
  • thomassd1969
    thomassd1969 Posts: 564 Member
    What a fun post- thank you
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    I am older than the microwave and the VCR.

    I know what a VCR is. I remember when you could rent them from Blockbuster.

    I know what Blockbuster is.

    I remember Beta vs VHS!
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I remember gas at $.38 a gallon. A pack of smokes was $.19 (I quit 5 years ago)

    The test pattern with the Indian chief's head on it at around midnight.

    'It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?'

    A 45 rpm single cost $.16.
  • Flyer615
    Flyer615 Posts: 173 Member
    I remember H.R. Puffenstuff and when Batman episodes said "In Color" in the opening titles.

    Oh, and I installed an 8-track stereo in my first vehicle.
  • suzieqcookie
    suzieqcookie Posts: 314 Member
    i remember my dad *****ING because gas was up to .17 and how it was going to make our vacation cost a fortune!
  • Eleisabelle
    Eleisabelle Posts: 365
    Drive-in movies. *sigh*
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    Getting up to change the channels on the TV, and having to use pliers because the knob broke. LOL.

    Haha we owned the same tv.
  • happyfeetrebel1
    happyfeetrebel1 Posts: 1,005 Member
    Dukes of Hazzard and C.H.I.P.S on Sunday nights after driving home from the cabin.

    I had the coolest "ghetto blaster' ever! (now we'd be drawn and quartered for using that term, lol)

    Recording music on CASSETTE on the aforementioned 'ghetto blaster'

    I wore neon shirts and nail polish the last time around LOL
  • jojo52610
    jojo52610 Posts: 692 Member
    I remember when MTV first came on the Air

    And they played Video's
  • Donnaakamagmid
    Donnaakamagmid Posts: 198 Member
    Smacking the side of the TV to stop the "flip" and adjusting the wire coat hanger antenna.

    My kids have no idea what I'm talking about when I tell them about the "flip" Kinda hard to describe.:ohwell:
  • TexanThom
    TexanThom Posts: 778
    I remember going to CB's Hamburgers in Greenville Tx and getting a burger for 10 cents.

    Also, I remember when a kid NEVER talked back to a parent.
    Didn't DARE talk back or we were backhanded faster than Obi Wan could pull his light saber...

    And it did not matter if you were at home or at the super market.
  • rompers16
    rompers16 Posts: 5,404 Member
    Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days and spending all day outside because Saturday morning was the only time kids shows were really on.
  • jonnyb62
    jonnyb62 Posts: 426
    I wasn't allowed to watch Hawaii 5-0 because it was too racy...
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    All the cool guys in school had muscle cars

    <<---- 67 GTO for me!!!
  • Wol5894
    Wol5894 Posts: 127 Member
    Our first television arrived when I was 5 and it was in a big wooden cabinet with double doors. Didn't get another one until the mid 1970s and wow, it was a colour one!

    A radio had valves which had to be replaced - transistor radios came into common use when I was about 10.

    I played outside on the street until it got dark or I went in because I was hungry.

    Wrote with a fountain pen at school - in fact out school forbade the use of new-fangled ball point pens. I remember writing all my assignments BY HAND - if you were lucky you could get access to a typewriter and either do it yourself (yeah, right) or get someone to do it for you. And if you wanted a copy, you used carbon paper (messy stuff).
  • Tiggerrick
    Tiggerrick Posts: 1,078 Member
    ...I had a crush on Pipi Longstocking pippi-longstocking-2.jpg
  • DBiddle69
    DBiddle69 Posts: 682 Member
    How Much things cost in 1964
    Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 874
    Average Cost of new house $13,050.00
    Average Income per year $6,000.00
    Gas per Gallon 30 cents
    Average Cost of a new car $3,500.00
    Loaf of bread 21 cents
    United States Postage Stamp 5 cents
    Average Monthly Rent $115.00
    Ticket to the movies $1.25
  • gwduker
    gwduker Posts: 293
    Drive-in movies. *sigh*
    There's one by us yet!!
  • MzCongeniality70
    MzCongeniality70 Posts: 352 Member
    Emergency break-throughs. LOL

    Hahaha!!!! My friends used to do that to me all of the time!!!!

    Our first microwave was a freakin' beast of a thing that took up the whole damn counter!
    PONG!
    HBO was a little box on top of your console, get up and change the damn channel, TV..
    MTV played music videos, and the VJ's were awesome!
    Vinyl!!! Listened to with HUGE headphones!
    Rotary phones only.
    Orange, Brown, and Yellow were THE colors in your sofa!
    Macrame hanging everywhere.
    Seeing the Beach Boys in concert every 4th of July
    Knocking on your friend's front doors to see if they could come out and play :D

    Ahhh...the good ol' days!!!!!!!! Thanks for this thread!
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    Being racist and a bigot was funny.... ie Archy Bunker in all in the family...

    Love to see a network try to pull that off now... oh man!!!
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I remember H.R. Puffenstuff and when Batman episodes said "In Color" in the opening titles.

    Oh, and I installed an 8-track stereo in my first vehicle.

    So did I. It had 4 speakers, and the car was a Gremlin X.

    I had a stereo that recorded on blank 8 tracks. Too cool for school!
  • mikeyboy
    mikeyboy Posts: 1,057 Member
    I'm so old that I used to be my Dad's remote!
  • AddA2UDE
    AddA2UDE Posts: 382
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    Spring Chicken!!! Damn, you guys are all O-L-D!!! :bigsmile:
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    I'm still pretty young, but I was raised on the Beatles and listened to vinyls. I still have a set of encyclopedias and a globe that has the USSR on it.
  • vaderandbill
    vaderandbill Posts: 1,063 Member
    I am older than the microwave and the VCR.

    I know what a VCR is. I remember when you could rent them from Blockbuster.

    I know what Blockbuster is.

    I remember Beta vs VHS!

    I own The Breakfast Club, Johnny Dangerously and LIve Aid on Beta and still have the player in storage

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