How old are you, Do you remember?

[fumbled time]

I was just thinking of things that use to be around and are no more and things that were not and now are!

I remember such things as:

Soda machines that dispense glass bottles

Table side juke boxes

Turn style tv's

Tv test patterens that came on late night and went of when programing came came back on in the morning

4 digit phone numbers(local)

S&H green stamps

Hi-Fi's

Metal ice trays

Blue flash bulbs

Roller rinks

Cork guns

Drive in resturants(like A&W)

Wash tub ringers

Seeing most classic disney movies at the box office

The first VCR

Commadore 64 commputers

Microwaves being the newest thing.

How many do you remember?

[ThePloughman]

TV
Black and White
Color Tv
Technicolor
Kodachrome


Rogers Drums.......

[Larrysperf]

Rock candy
kids walking to school with out parent
25 cent icecream cone
4 rings party lines on phone
playing hockey in the streets with out getting yelled at by drivers
respect for teachers and adults
Super Beta
should I go on
Atari
Pong (lol)
Drag racing at the beach with cops watching late at night

[ThePloughman]

The Road Runner
Buggs Bunny
Yosemite Sam
Daffy Duck

[defcon235]

Original Nintendo when it was brand new,
Getting tv with an antenna,
Phonographs,
VCR's with manual tracking,
Penny candy that was actually a penny.

[atomcorr2]

adding machines
1 kind of coke
1kind of pepsi
don kirshners rock concert
midnight special
american bandstand
writing somebody a letter
in 1975 i bought a brand new chevy impala for 3,500 bucks
there were no D.J.'s just live music

[pastor_bob]

manual typewriters
78 RPM LP records
33 1/3 RPM LP records
45 RPM records
45 RPM spindle adapters
record players with manual RPM selectors
8 track tape players
Rambler American
Studebaker
Sunglasses with "black light" lenses.

I'm sure there are others, but I am getting old and forgetful!

[xweasel]

I remember:

Going to a Wiggles concert when I was 4
CRT monitors
Commander Keen
Talk to HAL

Yeah I'm not that old eh

[Mr Ice]

i remeber :

LPs
VHS
a 286 computer
seeing "queen - live at winbley" sometime in the 80s
when my family got the newest thing called a sega master system
my first cell phone in 98
my first real job in 99
comadorre 64
amiga
NES (nintendo enteratainment system)
the screen saver called john or johnny castaway
cassette tapes
minidiscs
basicly all the big things in the 90s
i remember getting a walkman and changing in to a portabal cd player to change that with an MP3 player

[Bish]

All of the above...ugh


Does anyone remember what they named their first dinosaur pet?

[bongobro]

I remember...

Party Line phones (not my old telephone talk show either!) ...

wringer washers (Mom had a Dexter twin-tub wringer washer which, when you think of it, resembled a pair of congas on a wheeled stand; one load could be washing and another load rinsing at the same time!)

wide white-sidewall tires

refrigerators that YOU defrosted

floor wax that really contained wax (Aerowax, Beautiflor, etc.)

cars with three-tone paint jobs (white roof, black accent, red bottom, to mention one)

Buicks with droning straight-eight engines and Dynaflow (a/k/a "Dynaslush")

black-and-white TV

live TV programs (and their associated technical difficulties)

"sermonettes" at the beginning and end of a TV station's broadcast day

Radio stations with broadcast days that ran from 6 a.m. to local sunset (the station I worked went 24 hours in 1980 and man, I thought that was a miracle!)

Kaiser-Frazer dealers

DeSoto-Plymouth dealers ("tell them Groucho sent you!")

Studebaker-Packard dealers

and I even remember Edsel dealers!

[bongobro]

For those curious about how a washing machine could resemble a pair of conga drums, here's an ad for the Dexter Twin-Tub!

[drummer]

No one's mentioned phone booths. They were everywhere! If you were driving along and had to make a phone call, you had to stop at a phone booth somewhere. And sometimes there was a line!

[fumbled time]

Great one drummer, That is something I haven't thought of in years(since I quit wearing my red cape, and blue tights, w/a huge S on my shirt,LOL) Thanks for the contrabutions guys this has been fun for me. F/T

[xweasel]

Phone booths? We still use those here in NZ... You see them around the place.

[CharlyG]

Pretty much ditto bongobro but here are a few more

putting peanuts in RC Cola
Hamburger, fries, and a Squirt - 50 cents
old men's coin purses or whatever they called em
Allis Chalmers
super balls
3 transistor radios
Fet radios
WLS (Chicago) and KOMA (Oklahoma City) AM radio stations going to 50,000 watts at 6:00 PM so we could hear them in South Dakota!
Studebaker Lark
Whirlybirds
Lassie
I'm starting to feel melancholy, I'll stop for now...........

[PHROGGE]

Man I dont remember any of dat stuff....
I musta been sleepin....
So sayeth Phrogge Van Winkle....!!!!

[LDS]

Wow! 50,000 watt AM radio stations. Those were the days!

LOL!!! I remember staying up late on weekends to listen to exotic stuff like Jimi Hendrix and Rare Earth played on Beaker Street, a midnight radio show on 50,000 watt KAAY out of Little Rock. They were the first I ever heard play a certain idiosyncratic three-piece band from Canada, I think they were called Rush or something like that...

[MartyM]

Ok here are my contributions
actually having to use a can opener for a soda can before "pull tabs"
super balls, most times using a baseball bat and losing the ball and having to buy another
shadow stripe pants and banlon shirts
toys that were made out of steel not plastic
milk shoots on the side of our house
kids delivering the newspaper, and gettin screwed by customers on collection days
theres more, but i am old and thats all for now, time to rest

[2slow]

I was raised an army brat my moms from georgia so when we would visit, her aunt had a farm house with no in door pluming !! haha! outhouse in the corn field !

Also remember going to the movie on saturday afternoon and watching the roy rogers series each week 25 cent popcorn and coke !!

[CharlyG]

more
25 cent haircuts
25 cent movies
milk separators
hand milking cows
REAL skim milk(by skimming the cream off the top!)
Keds
Nehru jackets
etch-a-sketch
Lincoln logs
erector sets
Tonka trucks

[nio]

Ok, here's a few...

Gone:
- Phone Booths
- single-head drum sets
- cheap gas
- Vinyl Records, cassettes, and 8-tracks
- Rabbit Ears antennas
- mechanical typewriters

New:
- Internet
- cell phones
- VIAGRA !
- Cable TV
- laptops

[late8]

Pet Rocks
Mood Rings
The Commadore Amiga Toaster
Leaded Gas
Cassette tape
Reel to reel tape recorders
Transistor Radios
Typing and sending a real letter via US snail mail

[Redeye]

I'm just approaching middle age, but here are a few...

8 Track players
TVs without remote controls
My family's first microwave
Rotary dial phones (a few still had party lines)
Disco
The Atari 2600
Zildjian Scimitar Cymbals
Jimmy Carter

[STACK57]

Wow, you know this makes me feel old.

I remember going to see Elvis in concert.
Getting a Slinky for a birthday.
Mom heating Dr. Pepper on the stove for a winter drink.
Going up on the roof so my Dad could tell me when the picture on the TV was semi-clear.
Actually playing outside all day as a kid, only coming in for meals that we ate as a family.
Seeing my first color TV at a neighbors house.
Collecting 45's.
My Dad's acoustic Gibson from the 50's.
Gas for $0.18 a gallon
My first CB radio
My Mom hanging clothes on the line outside.
Going to the Johnny house at my Grandmother's and having to empty the pot on a cold morning.
Listening to the rings so you tell if the call was for your house or the neighbor.

Man, my kids missed so much!