I'm so old...

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......

... my brother was the remote control

What a fun post- thank you

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.

i remember my dad *****ING because gas was up to .17 and how it was going to make our vacation cost a fortune!

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.

I remember when MTV first came on the Air

And they played Video's

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.

I wasn't allowed to watch Hawaii 5-0 because it was too racy...

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).

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

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

Ahhh...the good ol' days!!!!!!!! Thanks for this thread!

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!

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Spring Chicken!!! Damn, you guys are all O-L-D!!! :bigsmile:

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