I'm so old...

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  • bp716
    bp716 Posts: 68 Member
    Watching Neil Armstrong's "small step" with the whole family gathered around the one tv in the house

    That was magic. I watched Neil's giant step at a camp ground in Ontario outdoors on TVs set up in an outdoor theatre for the purpose. I watched the TV and looked up to see the moon, expecting to be able to see the lander.

    I was at girl scout camp, they woke us up and dragged us down to the mess hall to watch it on a 24" TV...300 of us, I was in the back...it was all pretty fuzzy!
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    I remember teasing my mom about turning 45yo. Now that I'm turning 45, I'm thinking, hey, that's not so old. LOL

    Remember when there was no ATMs?? How did we live without money on demand 24/7??

    And on almost any given Saturday morning my brother and I used to watch the same cartoons over and over again (mostly because there wasn't much choice). When Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, CHiPs or Knight Rider came out, my brother took over the tv. Miami Vice was good but Dukes of Hazzard was ridiculous... unless you are boy, I guess. hehe
  • Uniey76
    Uniey76 Posts: 7
    Remember digital clocks that were composed of little flip cards?

    HYSTERICAL
  • samantha1953
    samantha1953 Posts: 156 Member
    Did line dances to the Beatles first album in my best friend's room next to the bunkbeds.

    Had a Beatle haircut and didn't even know it!

    Cried at a Monkee's Concert for PEE-TER!!!!!!
  • bp716
    bp716 Posts: 68 Member
    Putting a penny on the tone arm so the record wouldn't skip.

    and had to have a steady hand to do it!!!!
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    Punchcards for computers. My Dad was a teacher at a Community College... I remember watching the computer students carrying a stack of punchcards with all their work on them. More than one of them would almost cry when they dropped their 2000-3000 punchcards on the floor.
  • candice382
    candice382 Posts: 60 Member
    There was no Caller ID, so you took your chances when you answered the phone....

    (my kids are appalled by this idea)

    I remember this too but now wonder how we lived with out it ....screaning calls by the answering machine....but I also remember no answering machine
  • jsidel126
    jsidel126 Posts: 694 Member
    I remember when:
    McDonalds came to town...
    There was no Big Mac only single and double cheese burgers...
    The standard adult value meal was equivalent to the size of a kids meal today...
  • bp716
    bp716 Posts: 68 Member
    handheld calculators were a big deal
    calculators were slide rules....
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    Wondering who shot JR?
  • candice382
    candice382 Posts: 60 Member
    When satelite dishes were 10-15 feet high and about 5-8 feet wide!!
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    Where's the Beef?
  • 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!

    The TV got 2,4 and 7 in Buffalo , but if the wind was right we could get 9 and 11 out of Toronto....after we played with the roof top antenna and smacked the set....when the Sabres were the Bisons.....

    I grew up in the burbs of Toronto. We had 5 channels. The local CBC and CTV affiliates and the CBS, ABC, and NBC stations in Buffalo. Weather permitting we'd get independent CHCH from Hamilton.
  • candice382
    candice382 Posts: 60 Member
    I remember when:
    McDonalds came to town...
    There was no Big Mac only single and double cheese burgers...
    The standard adult value meal was equivalent to the size of a kids meal today...

    ^^^^^They should have never moved away from that!
  • KarenAnnne
    KarenAnnne Posts: 190 Member
    I remember when all of the stores were closed on Sundays

    I remember when my sister and I would sneak into my brother's room to kidnap GI-Joe so our Barbie could have a date for the dance because we thought Ken was just a little to girlie for her
  • brendaj39
    brendaj39 Posts: 375 Member
    I remember when all of the stores were closed on Sundays

    I remember when my sister and I would sneak into my brother's room to kidnap GI-Joe so our Barbie could have a date for the dance because we thought Ken was just a little to girlie for her


    I used my brothers Johnny West and Geronimo
    Speaking of Geronimo....anyone remember yelling that when you were playing "outside" with your friends..especially the boys would yell it....
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    I remember when all of the stores were closed on Sundays

    I remember when my sister and I would sneak into my brother's room to kidnap GI-Joe so our Barbie could have a date for the dance because we thought Ken was just a little to girlie for her


    I used my brothers Johnny West and Geronimo
    Speaking of Geronimo....anyone remember yelling that when you were playing "outside" with your friends..especially the boys would yell it....

    Yup. And there was nothing wrong with it either.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!
  • brendaj39
    brendaj39 Posts: 375 Member
    I remember when all of the stores were closed on Sundays

    I remember when my sister and I would sneak into my brother's room to kidnap GI-Joe so our Barbie could have a date for the dance because we thought Ken was just a little to girlie for her


    I used my brothers Johnny West and Geronimo
    Speaking of Geronimo....anyone remember yelling that when you were playing "outside" with your friends..especially the boys would yell it....

    Yup. And there was nothing wrong with it either.


    i bet if we said it now we'd get strange looks............
  • decafdrinker
    decafdrinker Posts: 2
    Those purple dittos in school, still warm and smelling of...gosh, how to describe that.

    Needing those little 45rpm adapters.
  • ifitkillsme
    ifitkillsme Posts: 77
    M & M's had a tan and no blue!
  • Dad_of_3
    Dad_of_3 Posts: 517 Member
    I saw Moses come off the mountain.
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    Harvest Gold and Avocado green appliances. Deep shag carpet, swag lamps, paisley wall paper.
  • brendaj39
    brendaj39 Posts: 375 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    I saw Moses come off the mountain.

    Isn't that on every Easter?
  • Dad_of_3
    Dad_of_3 Posts: 517 Member
    I saw Moses come off the mountain.

    Isn't that on every Easter?

    Touche'!

    But I saw the real one. :p
  • FATBOYBGONE
    FATBOYBGONE Posts: 35 Member
    First digital watches that you had to push a button to read and it was red LED numbers. I think Texas Instruments came out with them
  • FATBOYBGONE
    FATBOYBGONE Posts: 35 Member
    I actually played outdoors.
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    I saw Moses come off the mountain.

    Isn't that on every Easter?

    Touche'!

    But I saw the real one. :p

    Only really old people are catching what we are talking about....
  • vfnmoody
    vfnmoody Posts: 271 Member
    When M&Ms were exoitc imported food...
    VHS us Bata...

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