Blast from the past! Remember when..

I remeber when a kid could buy cigarettes and beer from a grocery store or liquor store with a note from a parent.

I remeber my step sisters just having to have jordache jeans nothing else would do.

haha this, i used to have to go to the store and buy a fifth of bacardi white rum and a 16 oz. Coca Cola and a pack of Kool cigarettes every friday for my mom. i was probably about 9 or 10.

also remember summer days in NYC....leaving the house in the morning and not coming back until 8 or 9 at night (or whenever it was time to come in)....and when we would have those brownouts/blackouts in the 70's in the city. the parents would sit outside up and down the block, playing music from battery-powered transistors, smoking and having a drink or 2. they would let us all play out on the block and it would be past 10 or 11pm.....what fun :laugh:

I'll bet my Pog collection would put yours to shame. Also you know what I remember, My super effective method of getting my nintendo cartridges to work. blow into the cartridge using your shirt as a filter and smack your knee with it 3 times.

I did that too.. well, without smacking my knee! The question is, why would you do it three times? :laugh:

I can remember sitting in grade 9 computer class and trying so hard to figure out this whole "internet" thing… "what? I'm supposed to type some weird letters into that white bar up there… no… that can't be right…"


oh, oh!!! Ren & Stimpy… yup

hmmm, i remember when i wanted lyrics to a song i wud use the cassette tape and rewind the song over and over to hear the words.
I remember the tape in cassettes coming undone
i remember gel pens
i remember when beepers were around..

AND I REMEMBER WHEN GAS WAS UNDER A DOLLAR =(

Remember using a pencil to wind the cassette tapes back up?

I remember when J.R. was shot!

And Bobby died...

But the next season... he was taking a shower... all a dream!





My mom LOVED Dallas and Knots Landing!

I thought for a second you were talking about Bobby Kennedy!! LOL!! OK, I'm showing my age. I was so busy having babies in the 80s that I wasn't watching when J.R. was shot! Whenever I see Larry Hagman I think of "I Dream of Jeannie", not "Dallas".

I remember playing with POGS

I remember my mom commenting to the gas station attendant, who was filling our tank and cleaning our windshield, about the price of gas going up to 74 cents a gallon. It was a Gulf Station.

I remember Lisa Frank trapper keepers.

Seriously this is a thing. I teach middle school, and today one of my 8th graders was talking about how it's a cool thing to buy "vintage" Lisa Frank trapper keepers on eBay. It's like retro cool. You know, those good ol' "retro" 1990's!

I feel old and I'm 27...

*puts dentures in cup*

At the office, the fax machine was the size of a coffin and it spit out crappy hard to read faxes from rolls of thermal paper.
We could smoke at our desks.
We still had selectrics and could either type with elite or pica sized text.
Forms were types in quadruplicate.. white, canary yellow, pink, blue, and gold, and we had matching liquid paper for corrections.
A pack of cigarettes was 50 cents, about the price of a gallon of gas, and with five bucks I could fill up my beetle. Beer was less than two dollars for a six-pack.

I remember when as kids we were required to play Oregon Trail in computer lab. Who plays video games as a class? We did. Apparently it was so we'd understand computers. Go figure.

Had to have a Guess watch

Slap Bracelets

Dougie Howser, MD

I need to stop. I keep remembering stuff. lol

I remember tests that would leak on your fingers and were printed with a bright blue ink. The teacher would run her main copy through a machine. It required that she manually turn a handle to make copies.

I remember the first pong game (before Atari I think) and it had two controllers and was connected to a main station and you could play your siblings with a line and a ball that bounced back and forth. There were no colors and it was black and white. The controllers just had a dial that you twisted.

I remember the battle between Beta and VHS - I know who won and whose practically disappeared now.

I remember having tons of vinyl albums and playing them on my record player. I remember trying to line up the needle without making funky scratching sounds.

I remember the first cellphone for the car. It was huge! My mom would pick it up and it looked like some sort of military technology.

I remember when my brother, sister and I WERE the TV remote. And I remember when cartoons came on on Saturday mornings - and by the time Fat Albert came on, you knew they were almost over.

I remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.

I remember when everything was red, white and blue for the bicentennial.

Computers that ran on DOS. Command prompt. That printer paper with the perforated edges...

Drive up photo huts
la gear tennis shoes
calvin klien jeans
Flippo
fritz the night owl

i remember when disney was actually GOOD DISNEY now its all like you cant sing dance or actor your hired for disney -_-