I'm so old...

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  • ken1994
    ken1994 Posts: 495 Member
    I remember our new console tv that weighed a mere 600lbs with the attached hi fi stereo including record player. Went over the top when our new cable box arrived and it had a turning knob no remote control with a whopping 35 stations!
  • DBiddle69
    DBiddle69 Posts: 682 Member
    Knew Mohammad Ali as Cassius Clay

    The first Ford Mustang
  • akamatilda
    akamatilda Posts: 19
    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.
    Aluminum foil on the antenna? My aunt had a cellophane sheet on her TV screen that was blue on top and green on the bottom
    "Color TV"
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    The George Brett "Pine Tar Incident" was over 29 years ago!!!
  • gwduker
    gwduker Posts: 293
    Knew Mohammad Ali as Cassius Clay

    The first Ford Mustang
    My buddy has Cassius' autographed pic!
  • krissyliz78
    krissyliz78 Posts: 181 Member
    HAVE MERCY! I clicked on this to join in but 98.9% is jibber ish to me. Lol *hangs head and exits post*

    Yup what she said! :ohwell:
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I watched 'Hockey Night In Canada' in black and white every Wednesday and Saturday. On my first trip to Maple Leaf Gardens in 1964 I saw the Toronto Maple Leafs play the Detroit Red Wings. The explosion of colour blew me away!
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    My family never owned a microwave or VCR when I was growing up. They hadn't been invented yet.
  • almc170
    almc170 Posts: 1,093 Member
    My brother and I would try to stay up until the tv stations signed off for the night
  • natesangel
    natesangel Posts: 210 Member
    OMG i mentioned Y2K to my niece and she looked at me like i had grown horns…. until it dawned on me that she was born in '99 and honestly had NO clue what i was talking about… um yeah.
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    I have a full Unabridged English Dictionary in HARD COVER!

    I do too with the matching Thesaurus and book of Famous Quotations! lol

    I :heart: you!! I do have the Dictionary of famous quotations though. That thing got me through history papers in college! LOL
  • cutchro
    cutchro Posts: 396 Member
    We didn't have keyboarding classes .... we had typing classes and business machines. lol Used a mimeograph (sp) machine! oh the mess!
  • vaderandbill
    vaderandbill Posts: 1,063 Member
    addressing people as Mr. or Mrs. it still feels weird when those same people insist that I call them by their first name.
  • Beastette
    Beastette Posts: 1,497 Member
    ...I had a crush on Pipi Longstocking pippi-longstocking-2.jpg

    She was so badass.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I remember when we had a rotary phone in our house.
  • brendaj39
    brendaj39 Posts: 375 Member
    big hair with lots of teasing and hairspray :ohwell: and dark purple eyeshadow were in
  • cutchro
    cutchro Posts: 396 Member
    Ha I lived on Rural Route 2!! lol And Cable when it came to our town... stopped 1/4 mile before our house. :( there was 4 channels on tv ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.
  • mdbs2004
    mdbs2004 Posts: 220 Member
    I remember looking forward to getting a new phone book.
  • jonnyb62
    jonnyb62 Posts: 426
    I watched the lone ranger and the cisco kid in black and white every morning before anyone else got up.
  • pitbullmama
    pitbullmama Posts: 454 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....

    I miss the wonderful world of disney!
  • gwduker
    gwduker Posts: 293
    Dad bringing home out BRAND NEW 1966 Ford Gallaxie 500 that he paid $3,200 for. Man we were rich back then.....
  • lrkidd
    lrkidd Posts: 74 Member
    Stretching the phone cord as far as possible to talk on the phone in the closet for privacy !

    Wonder Twin powers ACTIVATE! !!!

    I'm not your average bear Boo Boo

    We were just talking about this a few days ago!

    We had a phone chord that had to be 30 feet long and we still stetched it out!

    And bag phones!!! My first cell phone was bigger than a laptop!
  • mdbs2004
    mdbs2004 Posts: 220 Member
    I remember when people would memorize phone numbers
  • gwduker
    gwduker Posts: 293
    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....

    I miss the wonderful world of disney!
    Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Merlin Perkins....
  • mdbs2004
    mdbs2004 Posts: 220 Member
    I remember when eating all the bread and pasta you wanted was healthy!
  • Eleisabelle
    Eleisabelle Posts: 365
    Drive-in movies. *sigh*
    There's one by us yet!!

    I am SO jealous! I miss them...
  • Di3012
    Di3012 Posts: 2,247 Member
    .....all the songs I loved as a kid are now being sampled in new pop songs....

    .... I remember when only rich people had touch tone phones....

    ....trees I planted as a child are getting old with me...

    for some reason, the bolded bit above choked me up, it is absolutely wonderful!!!
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    Dad bringing home out BRAND NEW 1966 Ford Gallaxie 500 that he paid $3,200 for. Man we were rich back then.....

    We had a 1966 Meteor Rideau station wagon. It was huge.
  • penguinlally
    penguinlally Posts: 331 Member
    I remember walking to the Saturday matinee at the move theater paying my 35 cents to get in, a nickle for a bag of popcorn and 2 cents for a winner sucker.

    Remember when penny candy was a penny?

    I remember when penny candy was TWO for a Penny at Mrs. J's! phone numbers started with the exchange J U 5 -6307 junipero serra
  • jonnyb62
    jonnyb62 Posts: 426
    Just remembered this one - I was the coolest kid in high school because I had a tv in my bedroom. It was this big old balck and white thing that someone had given my Dad because it wouldn't sell at their garage sale, and I ran a cable from our living room through the basement and up the duct work into my room, but, by God - I had a tv in my bedroom!!!

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