Do You Remember?

[happyplayer]

I remember my brothers stealing the fredericks of Hollywood catalog. It was so cheesy. Like lingerie glamour shots. Oh lord, that too! Glamour shots, another terrible idea of the past.

So lovely and so innocent. I remember the catalogues too before we discovered the topless mags. I remember the feeling that looking at bras gave me and at that stage I didn't know there was more I could do with the hardness that ensued!!

 

[DriftWood75]

Oh yes, I remember that bizarre mix of feelings everytime I flicked through them that hardness and the butterflies in my stomach a mix of guilt and excitment. I removed those mornings when the postman (not postperson) delivered the new copies and then having to wait until my mom had opened it and flicked through it first, if she were at work it might sit unopened until the evening...oh the agony.

 

[DriftWood75]

To get FunnyFaces thread back on track....

Remember when we had real chocolate bars? Not these shrunk and condensed mutations we have nowadays.

 

[jaF0]

When people didn't identify by Area Code or Zip Code?

 

[Harrywildone]

I have no present recollection.

 

[boss302500]

Do you remember walking to the corner to mail a letter?

 

[happyplayer]

I will take my ticking off like a man

 

[doog_kuron1]

Wagon Wheels use to be bigger.

 

[mickyp123]

Wagon Wheels use to be bigger.

Nope thems is the same size, you were just smaller, one night while working nights that topic came up so we googled it lol.


Do you remember Cheyanne, Wagon Train, and Laramie.

 

[doog_kuron1]

Nope thems is the same size, you were just smaller, one night while working nights that topic came up so we googled it lol.

Oh I know, but I REFUSE to believe it. LIES I say, LIES! It's a biscuit conspiracy I tell ya!

 

[thefishfryer]

Taking your ration coupon to the sweet shop to get your weekly packet of Polos.
Your mother cutting up the weekly Mars Bar into 5 and sharing it with your siblings.
Being sent to the corner shop to buy a packet of Cigarettes for your Dad.
Sitting outside the Pub with a packet of crisps and a bottle of Lemonade while your parents went in for a drink.
Good manners
No swearing in the house
No TV and a wireless that crackled all the time and took a couple of minutes to warm up when you switched it on.
Wearing short trousers with a snake belt until the age of 13.

It really was the Good Old Days

 

[doog_kuron1]

Taking your ration coupon to the sweet shop to get your weekly packet of Polos.
Your mother cutting up the weekly Mars Bar into 5 and sharing it with your siblings.
Being sent to the corner shop to buy a packet of Cigarettes for your Dad.
Sitting outside the Pub with a packet of crisps and a bottle of Lemonade while your parents went in for a drink.
Good manners
No swearing in the house
No TV and a wireless that crackled all the time and took a couple of minutes to warm up when you switched it on.
Wearing short trousers with a snake belt until the age of 13.

It really was the Good Old Days

Yeah, 2010 was a tough year.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

- Using pliers to change the TV channel because the tv knob was stripped.

- After a storm, climbing on the roof to re-position the antennae

- Having my mom yell my name after dark so I'd come home for dinner soon

- Sticking Green Stamps onto paper sheets, and saving the sheets so you could buy something.

- Getting excited hearing the jingle from the ice cream truck. We also had a donut truck drive by occasionally.

- Watching Elvira late at night.

- Every channel had the "sign off" logo late at night - and trying to stay awake occasionally just to say that you saw it.

- Saving up to buy a radio that got FM, in addition to AM. Very cool to have an FM radio. A status symbol.

- TV's only got 13 channels, and 5 or 6 of those channels didn't have any programming - just static.

 

[adrina]

.... staying up for Saturday night wrestling. Rowdy Roddy Piper. And the campy commercials from the local businesses sponsoring it.

.... being able to go to a park early in the morning and not see anyone. Sigh. And in general when there were about half the people.

.... cigarette smoking everywhere - grocery stores, restaurants... anywhere. Glad that one is gone.

.... staying out late on summer nights playing kick the can with friends, coming in after dark and your parents weren't worried about you being abducted.

 

[DriftWood75]

- Using pliers to change the TV channel because the tv knob was stripped.

- After a storm, climbing on the roof to re-position the antennae

- Having my mom yell my name after dark so I'd come home for dinner soon

- Sticking Green Stamps onto paper sheets, and saving the sheets so you could buy something.

- Getting excited hearing the jingle from the ice cream truck. We also had a donut truck drive by occasionally.

- Watching Elvira late at night.

- Every channel had the "sign off" logo late at night - and trying to stay awake occasionally just to say that you saw it.

- Saving up to buy a radio that got FM, in addition to AM. Very cool to have an FM radio. A status symbol.

- TV's only got 13 channels, and 5 or 6 of those channels didn't have any programming - just static.

13 channels!!! Try growing up in Britain we had only 3 until 1982 and only a fifth channel in 1997. That's if you don't include the satellite channels via sky

 

[RoyceConnors]

Racing home after school to watch Howdy Doody and Superman on a tiny B&W tv.

I live in a 55 yr old home we had since new and it still has the milk box at the back door and we had it delivered then, along with bread.

"Give it a whack..Bonomo, give it crack...Bonomo and hey away we go...." Turkish Taffy anyone? lol

Playing Cowboys and Indians because PC wasn't getting in the way of fun.

$0.50 a gal for gas

Pinball was awesome to play.

Making kites and boats out of old newspapers.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

13 channels!!! Try growing up in Britain we had only 3 until 1982 and only a fifth channel in 1997. That's if you don't include the satellite channels via sky

The U.S. always had more of everything - even TV channels!

When I was growing up in LA, I got channels 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), 5 (KTLA - local to LA), 7 (ABC), 9 (Can't recall the letters, but also local to LA), 11 (Same), 13 (Same). PBS was a new thing, and on channel 28 (which we never got).

All other channels only showed fuzzy snow (which we now know was the antennae receiving the signal from space of the remnants of the Big Bang)....

 

[jaF0]

'It takes a licking and keeps on ticking'

'Plop, plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is'

'That's a some a-spicey a meat-a ball-a'

'How do you spell relief? r-o-l-a-i-d-s'

 

[jaF0]

The whole 'Paul is dead' thing. Walking barefoot on the Abby Road album for example. 'He blew his mind out in a car' for another.

 

[RoyceConnors]

'It takes a licking and keeps on ticking'

'Plop, plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is'

'That's a some a-spicey a meat-a ball-a'

'How do you spell relief? r-o-l-a-i-d-s'

Timex

Alka Seltzer

Chef Boy-Ar-Dee

Rolaids

 

[adrina]

'Plop, plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is'

As a kid, I used to jump up and down on the bed to that jingle. Much to may parent's irritation.

 

[mickyp123]

Playing Knock down Ginger

 

[RoyceConnors]

Playing nicky-nicky-nine doors.

hitchhiking and not worrying who picked you up.

watching the first objects being shot into space.

Ward and June Cleaver were America's parents.

Rock music was brand new and long hair bell bottom jeans were the standard.

 

[GoldenBooty]

When you knew all your friends' and family's phone numbers by heart, instead of just tapping on their name in your cell phone

 

[mickyp123]

Beverley Hillbillies