I remember when there was no. . . .

Color TV
Cable TV
Remote controls
FM radio
Push button telephone service
Seat belts
Car seats
ATM's
Polyester

I could go on and on. How about you?

Soda was a dime.
Gas was a quarter per gallon.
Water fountains had "Whites Only" printed on them.
Peace was cool.

Do you remember when you could go to the pharmacy, yes the pharmacy, and order a cherry phosphate? It was a long time ago, but I still recal it.

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PC's
Cell Phones
Internet
Calculators

No steam irons - my Mom "sprinkled" the clothes fresh out of the dryer, with water, and put them in the frig until ironing day. She ironed everything, socks, underwear, sheets. I never could figure out why she bothered to dry them all the way.

I remember opening up the refrigerator and seeing bundles of my dad's uniforms waiting to be ironed. Now my mom remembers heating irons on the woodburning stove.

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hell yeah! my mom had a bottle with a sprinkler and we had a 5 foot long chest freezer you could put a body in. But it was filled with all sorts of different stuff and laundry. and there were two kinds of girl scout cookies, he excellent shortbread ones and another kind

except at the movie houses.

That was a long time ago.

:D

How did we ever survive with no A/C?

I remember checks and balances.

we all used slide rules.

(and only - I fled quickly, not to return untill the year 1999)computer class had the keyboards in one room and the computers in another huge room! And my TI calculator cost like 80 bucks. Now I can get one with the same functions for $10.

I remember black and white tv only. Husband remembers phone numbers in Tucson with letter prefixes. Stingray bicycles, Barbie when she was a single entity and you bought or made clothes, not a new doll for each costume. (I didn't get my first Barbie until she and I were both 30 - I had Skipper and Frances - remember them?) Matchbox cars. comic books for 10cents. Glass milk bottles, delivered. Tap water was what you drank. Soda was a treat and it came in a 6 oz bottles! white patent leather shoes, a new dress, and even a hat for "Easter" even though the family was not religious and never went to church. (what was that?) kids playing sports on their own, no AYSO or parents allowed! Vinyl records, 8 tracks, barging right into the neighbors house without knocking. Building forts out of scrap lumber and dangerous nails. Board games! kids delivering the paper (the paper!) on bikes. huge all metal cars, with metal dashboards and no seatbelts (I remember my dad installing lapbelts in the 64 ford station wagon) dial phones - with curly cords, one per house in the hallway, tv dinners in aluminum trays, Marshal Kgun in Tucson and Wallace and Ladmo in Phx, which reminds me remember when cartoons were only on early Saturday morning and a few after school?

Kinda random and covers a span of time there! cool, thanks for the little journey

Ours was RAndolf 9-6997. I'll never forget it.

sunscreen, spf(s)...and we wore bathing caps (YUCK), and zinc oxide (not in a color either)....

And by god... our mothers drank and smoked when pregnant.

Safety? We ran with scissors. We drank 7-Up (NO diet drinks!) from green glass bottles at the pool, where there was no lifeguard on duty, and

No flu shot. No tonsils (everyone had 'em out). No pants worn by girls at school.

No sex on the first date.
No Pill.

No AIDs.

stockings and garters? Much better than pantyhose ever thought about being.

Sorry 'bou that!

Actually, here in AZ in the summer, if I MUST wear hose (and in my job, it can sometimes happen), I wear stockings and garters--it's MUCH cooler.

(sylus) for your record player?
OR..better yet, a WIRE recorder?

I bought an entire Magnavox console stereo/TV at a garage sale just so I could have the needle for my parent's old Magnavox. Man, that stereo rocked.

now you can get whole turntables for a few bucks - think them whippersnappers use 'em for some kinda musical instrument

It's not like they play music by themselves.

sanitary pads? And the pads were a couple of inches thick.

I grew up in the 1980's (most of my elementary years were there) and I remember the "box" that was sent home to girls in 4th grade. The box contained the "belt" and I had no idea what that was for. By then there were already all these pads out there that had adhesives on them. Did they send it to me for historical reasons? Maybe showing me how far women's products have come?? Maybe those boxes were packed ten years or more earlier ... :shrug:

Your comment just brought back that memory ... :hi:

Why would the school send you those sort of things? I was in 4th grade in the 80's too (1988). I've never seen one of these belts.

The belts were obsolete by that time .. no one used them (and we all didn't have our periods yet, obviously, so we never used them either!). When our school did the talks about our bodies in fourth grade, we got those packages mailed to our homes. I don't remember what company was responsible for sending them, I'm almost 100% sure it wasn't done through the school, but they had signed us up for the mailing .. know what I mean? It was full of information and products that were meant to teach us about our bodies and familiarize us with "feminine products."

The belt had thrown me off though ... LOL

:hi:

I do remember when I was little, the ads for those use to boast that they were "beltless" and I always wondered what they were talking about. It was all very mysterious.

when the bra was worn over the shirt for the ad.

my daughter doesn't know how lucky she is. you had to wear dresses to school too - uck! the skirts were so short my legs were always so cold in fall and winter.

yes just barely remember. Hey better than washing stuff like Grandma had to do!

Awfulness.

And I'm only 21!

I remember addresses like "New York, 12, NY". SIP COdes were started in 1963, when I was ten.

when there were no VCRs. You had to wait until a movie came out on network television to see it again after it was out of the theaters. My kids will be blown away by the fact that you couldn't always pause and rewind live tv, so they won't believe me when I tell them you had to wait for commercials to go to the bathroom when I was a kid.

All phones were molded out of black bakelite until around 1960. The handpieces alone weighed about five pounds.....

I guess it's probably a Western Electric. She rented it from GTE for years. It was the only phone we had until I was a teenager, back in the late '70s. They didn't get pulse dialing in my mom's exchange until about 1982, though.

She bought the old clunker from General Telephone when Verizon bought them out, a few years ago. The ringer no longer works, but I made her promise she wouldn't just throw the phone out -- Hammacher Schlemmer sells the reconditioned ones for a couple hundred bucks.

It was the loudest ringer -- and the loudest speaker, for that matter -- I ever saw on a phone.

Sputnik was launched in 1957, when I was four or five.

They used to be called Datsuns.

we have an 83 and a half nissan/datsun pickup - has both names - right when they changed

Kids today look at me like I am fresh from the surface of the sun when I tell them that. :D

:-)

Good thing I discovered it, then.

Please stop dialing, we have a winner!

All tires used to be bias-ply - first four-ply, then two-ply. Eoripean cars started offering radials in the '60s, and now I think that radials are all you can get.

Hide in the hall and cover your heads....lol. Same time I remember when a girl could hitch-hike to the beach in a bakini and feel ok.

Times have sure changed.:(

putting your head between your legs and kissing your ass goodbye? :)

Nuclear war was survivable, in those days.

Anyone know if they still have bomb shelters?

First one ever - arse! Note to self: if I get an error message when I click the post button, check first to see if it really has posted before posting again.

Cable TV and remotes were avail but we didn't have them. I remember only rotary phones (my grandparents actually had a party line until 1980). And ATM's surfaced in my teens. Everything else is my time frame.

I, too, remember party lines. My first phone (installed in my bedroom in 1981 when I was really sick) was a rotary.

As far as TV, my Dad was a "first in the neighborhood" kind of guy, so we had cable TV in 1967 and in was color, but with no remote (but my Aunt had a remote which made loud clicking noises to change the channels).

And, can't forget buying 45's for 99 cents at the Fay's Drug store around the corner from my house. Now, it's the same price @ iTunes (of course, you don't get a B-side), and no walking to Fay's anymore.

Excuse me while a fart some dust...;)

But I would add LPs, 45s, HiFis and party lines for telephones to the list. Am I really older than I thought? Where's my Geritol?

I remember when there was no internet.
I remember why the clicker for your TV was called a clicker :).
I remember when calculators were forbidden in class instead of required.

.........I'm getting pretty sick of them.

:D

All Hondas were motorcycles back in the '60s. Their advertising slogan was "You meet the nicest people on a Honda."

or viagra

And cigarette companies sponsored TV shows. Hell - I remember Fred Flintstone doing commercials for Winston!!!

Wow. Edwin Armstrong put the first FM station on the air in 1939.

Up till then, AM ruled.

Indianapolis didn't get an FM station until 1964, I think...Hell, we didn't get colour TV until 1963!

My father worked for RCA, and got one on employee discount. Back then, only two stations in New York broadcast in color (and only part of the time) - Channel 4 (WNBC) and Channel 9 (WOR, now Superstation WWOR). The rule in our house was that if there was a color show on, that's what we would watch. I mean, the greatest program of all time might be on Channel 2 (WCBS), and a "Sons of Hercules" movie in color might be on Channel 9, and we'd watch the "Sons of Hercules" movie....

That may have been why. P.R. Mallory, the capacitor and electronics company, had an experimental TV staion in the late 1940's. about the only peole watching it were Mallory engineers, who were doing research on circuit design, and Radio hams who built receivers in their basements.
My Great-Aunt was the architect on the studio building at 30th and Kessler. (Mallory wanted a late-Moderne-style building.)

And then along came WFBM on May 30th, 1949, telecasting the "500".

Geez, I love broadcast history!

It was just that Dad used to say that he didn't spend all that money on a color set for us to watch something in black & white. Ergo, we saw a lot of bad movies on Channel 9......

He sounds like my dad!

"The following program is brought to you in Living Color on NBC..."

"If you're hot, roll down the window!!"

The first car Dad ever had with A/C was a used Pontiac Lemans he bought in the Early '80s. Then he had a Ford Crown Vic, and it had air, too. At least he was comfortable toward the end....

Huge blower-evaporator unit that hung under the dash like the king of the 8-Track machines
Every car I've ever owned except the Kombi had AC. Whether it was functional or not was another thing. Most of them didn't work.

I remember when there was no speed limit between Vegas and anywhere. Of course there were no highways or freeways either.

out of state license plates were never seen in "neighborhoods" just on "the strip"

Las Vegas checking in over here.

There was no Steve Wynn, no Hilton and Hughes was still hiding in his "tower."
My grandparents had a washer with a wringer on top; still used it when I was about 4.
My moms fingers were mangled in the mangle iron.
There was no "haze" over the Las Vegas valley.
Circle Park was still and circle and we walked across it to the Huntridge Theater.
The only place to shop when I was a kid was the downtown Penney's and Sears.
Fremont was the street we high school kids "cruised" on Friday nights.
Helldorado was a yearly event with horses and rodeo (which I hated) and Cashman Field was a real field.
We watch the fireworks on the 4th of July while sitting in front of the Jeep Posse Club House.
Fantasy Park was the greatest place to hang out if you were a kid. Now it's plowed under to keep the homeless away and they built the state gov't building there.
The majority of the crime committed was limited to the state and local legislatures rather than on the streets.

I remember when there were no gangs.

Wow, I'm amazed at how much I remember.

Thanks, great thread!



:hi:

8mm home movies, Sunday drives,drive-in movie theatres,
cartoons before the movie feature,Aluminum X-Mas trees...

Far out, man.....

:-)

having bongs and pipes displayed for the window shoppers.

and they were 10 bucks!

Ther were called "S. S. Kresge's", and they were five & dime stores, like the one in Morristown NJ when I grew up.

There's a police substation, a hotel, a pizzeria, Bennigan's, some offices and not much else. You'd think there be more with those office towers connected to it.

They tore down a beautiful movie theater (the Park Theater, built in 1910) tho put up 1776 On The Green. And dozens of stores stood empty along Speedwell Aveenue before they tore them down to start the parking garage. It was a real mess through the '70s and most of the '80s.

and "White Out" (aka Liquid Paper) without any nostalgia whatsoever.

Broadband

there was no hot water, no showers, no clean clothes, no hot meals, no sunny days, no dry ground to sleep on, no mail, no phones, no internet.

I give you

cultural and educational programming, such as Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, a children's travelogue called On the Go, and a Nova-like program called Conquest.

Sunday night was Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, followed by the Ed Sullivan Show, and everyone of all ages watched both programs.

In those days, the few programs that WERE in color announced the fact before the start of the show. NBC had a peacock whose tailfeathers would turn into color crayons as the announcer said, "This program is brought to you in living color on NBC."

Or a dime if you hung around the store and gave the bottle back when you were done. At the corner store (remember those?). The store I frequented was run by an older German couple named Adolf and Eva, I kid you not. Hmmmmmm.

:eyes:

We didn't have any FANCY gaf-ee-cal you-sore intree-faces or mouse click-ity things for our computers. We had to TYPE IN COMMANDS to get where we were going. We were THANKFUL when we didn't have to use punch cards. When we did use 'em, we had to sort them before submitting the batch, AND WE HAD FUN DOING IT, DAMN IT!

Frightening, isn't it? Especially when I try to explain all that to people who are a LOT younger than I am.

That kinda killed everything.... :-(