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  • fishergreen
    fishergreen Posts: 109 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    ... my brother was the remote control
  • doogie52
    doogie52 Posts: 53
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    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
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    What a fun post- thank you
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,512 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Drive-in movies. *sigh*
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
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    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
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    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
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    I remember when MTV first came on the Air

    And they played Video's
  • Donnaakamagmid
    Donnaakamagmid Posts: 198 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    I wasn't allowed to watch Hawaii 5-0 because it was too racy...
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
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    All the cool guys in school had muscle cars

    <<---- 67 GTO for me!!!
  • Wol5894
    Wol5894 Posts: 127 Member
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    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).

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