This is for all of you old farts....
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We won't mention any names, Big Daddy
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Remember when....
- Thread starter gizzy
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Oh I do remember a bunch of that stuff, but mostly this one: "When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?" My dad was an officer in the Navy and I feared him when I had done wrong more than I did the police. Nice post, I got all teary eyed!
Or 3-speed bikes with that internal gearbox on the back wheel, banana bikes, Boy's Life and MAD magazine, the Orange Crate Schwinn bike (we could never afford). Hot wheels with the orange track and purple connectors (remember the Beatnik Bandit?). How about 13 channels on the rotary TV dial of which only three actually had any programming, on the pretty much round CRT tube-type TV. Or building Heathkit AM-FM radios or a shortwave radio, and begging for the mini-bike? How about the strap on metal wheeled roller skates (skate key already mentioned). How about Jeapordy with Art Fleming? Or Jonny Quest? And don't forget the Harvest Gold or Avocado Green appliances along with the vinyl kitchen chairs.....and cheapo looking wood paneling throughout the house along with different colored shag carpet in every room (my brother had red shag with off white paneling, I had dark blue-green shag with fakey blue paneling).
Keep the memories going........please add to all this......
Keep the memories going........please add to all this......
O.K. Some of these are actually more common before my time but did have a place in my own childhood memories.
- Moon boots
- I don't remember calling "Richmond 7, 4562" but I do remember only having to dial 4 digits and the party line.
- The large paddle, in the principals office that had metal studs in it that spelled "SPANK"
- Parents wern't reported for child neglect if their kids were in the yard playing without supervision.
- Blowing up acetylene ballons in AG Shop
- School shoping was done through the Sears and JCPenney catalogs and delivered by UPS.
- Parachute pants were actually cool.
- Trucks that had two gear shifts instead of one.
- Starter switches that were a peddle on the floor, right of the gas peddle.
- Hi-beam switches were on the far left of the floor.
- Push button automatic transmitions that had a lever for park.
- Carburators & Oil pan air filters.
- Studded tires for the winter.
- McDonalds was a fancy restraunt (Story behind this one: My grandfather wanted to take our family out to dinner to a fancy restraunt and my sister (about 6 at the time, jumped up and down yelling "Oh boy, were going to McDonalds).
- A 12 year old could go to the hardware store, buy 2,000 rounds of amunition and no one would bat an eye.
- Bed mattresses used to be VERY springy!!!
- 128K used to be a huge amount of memory.
- 5MB hard Drives
- 8" Floppy disks
- PASCAL was a thriving programming language
- Long Distance phone calls were short and important - every one else must be very quiet.
- Taking a cap gun to school was normal
- Lite-bright
- Pong, Tennis, and shootout where the only home video games.
- Didn't everyone have a butter-churn?
- Microwaves had dial timers.
- Video discs (used before VHS)
- There was no TV programming after midnight until 5 or 6 in the morning.
- Telephone booth stuffing.
- School kids were all sent to the gym to watch space shuttle launches on TV.
- Hand crank start tractors (or cars for that matter)
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Damn, I still have my Schwinn Fastback 3 speed - the narrow tire version of the Schwinn bannana bikes.... Hotwheels? The Beatnick Bandit!! Jack Rabbit Special was my favorite!... Aurora AFX NiCad cars...Haji and Bandit on Johnny Quest...Lost In Space - Dr Smith "Oh no my dear boy, what's to become of me? Oh the pain, the pain, the pain." Danger, Will Robinson!....I remember the day the dial tone changed from single tone to DTMF... 9 volt powered "11 transistors" AM only radios....leaded gasoline...power BACK window in sedans...Stores in Pennsylvania were closed on Sundays by law (blue laws)...."the jet set" .... power tools had all metal casings... No such thing as rechargeable or alkaline batteries, only carbon batteries...Goldie Hawn, Flip Wilson ("sock it to me"), Artie Johnson ("veeerrrrryy interesting") on "Laugh In" ....
I gotta say, I'm only 21, but I remember alot of that, and regarding the whole being more afraid of your parents, I definitely remember that...hec, sometimes I'm still terrified of them. My Dad used to be a boxer, and when my brother and I were little, my mom made sure we knew that. lol. I still think that there are good things about the modern era; everything isn't and corrupt and dilapitated and bass-akwards.
Sean
Sean
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My Camaro has the high beam switch like that. ![[:D]](/images/smilies/biggrin.png "Big Grin [:D]")
How about non-power assisted 4-wheel drum brakes? My Camaro has those too, although they are the revolutionary-for-the-time self-adjusting type with an amazingly technologically advanced dual circuit master cylinder! It's funny to read the 1967 Service Manual for the car - it makes a big deal about those two "revolutionary" features.
How about non-power assisted 4-wheel drum brakes? My Camaro has those too, although they are the revolutionary-for-the-time self-adjusting type with an amazingly technologically advanced dual circuit master cylinder!
It's funny to read the 1967 Service Manual for the car - it makes a big deal about those two "revolutionary" features.