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    Blast from the past! Remember when..

    Posts: 73
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    I remember when cigarette commercials aired on TV. I remember when smoking was allowed on commercial airlines. I remember when school chalkboards transitioned to whiteboards. I remember when it was trendy for girls to gather their t-shirt and tie a knot at the bottom. I remember when crimped bangs were really cool. I remember when credit cards were carbon-copied.

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    • Posts: 333 Member
      I remember buying fake candy ciggarettes from the ice cream truck as a kid lol.
    • Posts: 1,288 Member
      I'm 18 and I can still remember having smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. I also remember the days before DVR or TiVo, when you had to actually tape things on Tv. I also remember when DVDs became really popular.
    • Posts: 1,457 Member
      OMG i remember those fake cigarettes! loved them (funny i don't smoke - tried it, hated it that was the end of that). remember atari, remember having to get up to change the channel, remember rotary phones (my inlaws had one up until 2 years ago), the realtor we used to buy our first home had one of those CAR PHONES! HA!!!! TV dinners with the little chocolate cake. yum. as a kid i used to love playing in the street in my pjs - after bath time of course.
    • Posts: 91 Member
      I remember when phones were rotary and we were on a "party line"
    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      I remember when MTV actually played music.
    • Posts: 9,307 Member
      I remember when the world was in black and white.
      Thank God someone invented color TV and fixed that. :smile:
    • Posts: 6,171 Member
      I remember when I had to stop and find a payphone if I got lost.

      *shudder*
    • Posts: 2,603 Member
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    • Posts: 1,428 Member
      I remember 8 tracks, and when your neighborhood actually knew each other.
    • Posts: 6,296 Member
      Captain Kangaroo.

      Romper Room.

      Mister Roger's Neighborhood.

      Sesame Street. (never went away)

      3-2-1 Contact!
    • Posts: 1,410 Member
      I can remember doing a tune up to a car using nothing but a screwdriver.
    • Posts: 900 Member
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    • Posts: 968 Member
      Sweet valley high

      Girls world

      Kenan and kel

      Push pops

      Tape player

      Sega mega drive

      Tiny tears

      Those trousers that had a skirt attached were a fashion lol

      Sports gear wasn't chavvy lol

      East 17

      Backstreet boys

      Jason Donovan and Kyle minogue

      Pj and duncan

      Byker grove on tv


      Ooooo the list goes on x
    • Posts: 968 Member
      The Michael Jackson moonwalker game on sega mega drive
    • Posts: 437 Member
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      yes yes loved it!!

      i remember when the cool kids wore velcro shoes, and my hair wasnt perfect until my bangs stood straight up.
    • Posts: 105
      I can remember when candy bars were a nickel. When it cost 4 cents to mail a letter. When stores closed on Sunday. When as a kid I could go out first thing in the morning and not come home till dinner time and my folks never worried.
    • Posts: 107 Member
      Playing out side and being home before the night light in the yard turned on.
    • Posts: 720 Member
      I remember beepers and walkmens and 21 Jump Street
    • Posts: 900 Member
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    • Posts: 722 Member
      I remember: when SNL was funny, when MNF had Howard & Dandy Don (turn out the lights), when Sat morn was the only time to really get cartoons, when you had to wait for the TV to "warm up", New Coke, Crystal Pepsi, the Miracle on Ice, East & West Germany, The Donnie & Marie show, CHiPs, Dukes of Hazard, Battle Star Galactica (the original), Hee Haw (my dad watched it so I watched it by default as we only had 1 TV in the house), Pintos, playing football in the neighborhood instead of sitting on your *kitten* playing video games, Atari, floppy disks, slap bracelets, parachute pants, Friday Night Videos.......
    • Posts: 23 Member
      I remember when television only has 3 channels and didn't start till 5 p.m.!
    • Posts: 1,386 Member
      I'm 18 and I can still remember having smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. I also remember the days before DVR or TiVo, when you had to actually tape things on Tv. I also remember when DVDs became really popular.

      There was a time before that when you had to actually watch something when it aired, or you just plain missed it! :noway:
    • Posts: 73
      I remember when Troll dolls were all the rage.. Also POGS! Anyone remember that? And LOL, I also remember that computer game.. What was it called? Pitfall? Ugh, I'm terrible with names but I do remember playing that very game.
    • Posts: 4,868 Member
      I remember:
      All That
      Hanson
      N'Sync
      Light Up Shoes
      Stirup Pants
      Lisa Frank
      Jelly Pens
      Nano Pets or Tamagatchi
      Dial Up internet
    • Posts: 2,920 Member
      I remember I Spy and New Zoo Revue. When Shaggy and Scooby never palled around with Scrappy. I remember leaving the house just after Saturday morning cartoons and not coming home until you could see the light of fireflies.

      The day we brought home the Atari and how kick butt Space Invaders was to play.
      I was the the t.v. remote as well as the dish washer and on the weekends I also played lawn mowing service.

      Awww the memories of the box fan as air conditioning, blessed was the day we go a ceiling fan...

      I remember during the week it was homework before anything and if failed at school it was my fault and not the teachers.

      I remember if I misbehaved the only time out I got was the time it took the belt to reconnect with my *kitten*.
    • Posts: 347 Member
      I remember when TV went off at midnite. :laugh:
      I remember when we did not eat out :laugh:
      I remember when the family use to eat at the table at the same time:sad:

      30 to 40 years ago were the best of times, oh how I wish for those days again
    • Posts: 1,200 Member
      I remember when MTV actually played music.
      omg yes! wtf now ! i gotta watch until like 7 or 8 am for music videos then the rest of the day is ****
    • Posts: 347 Member


      I remember if I misbehaved the only time out I got was the time it took the belt to reconnect with my *kitten*.

      So so true. :laugh: And your parents did not go to jail for doing it. Aww the memories.:bigsmile: There was no such thing as time out. Where did that come from?
    • Posts: 2,964 Member
      I remember when cigarette commercials aired on TV. I remember when smoking was allowed on commercial airlines. I remember when school chalkboards transitioned to whiteboards. I remember when it was trendy for girls to gather their t-shirt and tie a knot at the bottom. I remember when crimped bangs were really cool. I remember when credit cards were carbon-copied.

      when did gathering tshirts and wearing crimped bangs out of style, I wore mine like this last week!!! lol

      just kidding.....

      I do remember when smoking was allowed in shopping malls though, I actually remember when cell phones came out, and 8 tracks. I owned an atari machine and thought it was the best technology ever, I remember tv's that didn't have remote controls and I also remember when all phones had cords.
    • Posts: 2,964 Member
      I remember when Troll dolls were all the rage.. Also POGS! Anyone remember that? And LOL, I also remember that computer game.. What was it called? Pitfall? Ugh, I'm terrible with names but I do remember playing that very game.

      I loved pogs.....I had a lot of them!!
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