Do You Remember?

[RoyceConnors]

When Sunday was the day to watch The Big Show of the Week.

There was always a local swimming hole every kid knew about.

Hitting puberty and only being concerned about how to kiss, instead of being a porn star.

Jello was the best dessert w/Cool Whip on top

McDonald's hamburgers were $0.10 and cheeseburgers were $0.15

 

[NeonSubtlety]

Ring pops and slap bracelets.

Bring em back.

 

[akaSol]

My grand mother had a house phone you needed to put money in before making a call.
And yes it was a rotary dial.

 

[RoyceConnors]

I loved those iced Lolas. Big triangle of flavoured ice.

waiting for the new phone book to arrive and see if you were first on the page, lol

catalogue shopping after the new ones were delivered.

walkie talkie radios that barely worked out of line-of-sight lol

Hot Wheels were the coolest

 

[Cwtchseeker]

When the Corona van used to deliver your fizzy pop on a Sunday

A time where £1 would keep you supplied in sweets for a week

More songs were played on the radio than talking

The teams on Merseyside were the only one challenging for the title each football season

When every school meal had some type of potato in the mains and custard for puddings?

 

[RoyceConnors]

pop machines that you slid a bottle along a series of chutes to get it out and open the cap on the side of it.

cool prizes inside candy and popcorn boxes.

x-ray glasses from comic books.

chia pets and pet rocks. my pet rock is 43 and doing great! lmao

 

[jaF0]

The early days of FM radio when the late night DJ would play an entire album, both sides uninterrupted.

 

[jaF0]

PacMan built in to small tables in bars where people could sit on all four sides and play against each other.

 

[RoyceConnors]

Daytime shows like Dialing for Dollars, Bowling For Dollars, Queen For A Day.

Blue movies on late night Fridays.

8 track cassettes were the latest technology in music.

stereos came in furniture cabinets.

 

[steve6161]

Daytime shows like Dialing for Dollars, Bowling For Dollars, Queen For A Day.

Blue movies on late night Fridays.

8 track cassettes were the latest technology in music

stereos came in furniture cabinets.

You forgot Whose line is it Anyway, What's. My Line and don't forget Mae West ,Mimi Van Doren and W.C. Fields

 

[Jaime_H]

When most models had pubic hair and no tattoos.......

 

[GoldenBooty]

Getting hand-written letters in the mail

 

[mickyp123]

When most models had pubic hair and no tattoos.......

At school with the other boys sneaking a look at well fingered Parade and playboy magazines

 

[EctoJohn]

When I wasn't the weirdo for NOT having a cell phone or social media.

When you could just go onto an airplane.

When a job application was an actual piece of paper
and didn't come with a 1000 question personality test
where there is no right or wrong answers, and passing it is practically random.

When Amazon.com sold books and just books.

When eBay wasn't big business and was just people selling crap to other people.

 

[toeskr]

The early days of FM radio when the late night DJ would play an entire album, both sides uninterrupted.

Dr. Demento!

 

[jaF0]

When a parent could tell their crying child 'knock it off before I give you something to cry about' without fear of going to jail.

 

[thefishfryer]

Air-brushed pubes. How did they do that before Photoshop?

 

[RoyceConnors]

Vargas girls in Playboy were one of my fave things to check out.

The worst STD would take you out for a week or two and not kill you outright like now.

Cell phones were the size of a brick and the same weight, lol Fuck size, we were stylin' being able to talk hands free, lmao

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Damned, you folks are sure old! The house we bought and moved back "home" is 56 years old and mostly looks like it did when built in 1961. We love it this way and apparently everyone so far that visits does too. The real hardwood floors (not the fake new stuff) is under like new carpet. The kitchen has 'linolyum.'
I still drive a 1955 Chevy station wagon and a 1941 Ford. Have other old junky cars unfinished. http://i.imgur.com/XKg5efs.jpg
Our furniture is in the colonial style and the fake electric fireplace looks real.
My parents didn't have a phone till I got out of high school and married. If we needed to call someone we'd go to grandma's where they also had a black and white TV. Their phone number was 5445. Weekends were TV nites at grandma's.
I hated that damned Lawrence Welk and Liberace crap but we liked the Colgate Comedy Hour with Carol Bernet and Harvey Corman.
Those dancing cigarette girls sure had purdy legs. I could go on for hours.

My aunt in the country had a wooden wall phone on a party line. She'd wait for the ringy dingies and then answer or pick up and tell the operator she wanted to call BR 549.

When we were brave enough to travel without satnav and have a mobile communication device at hand for in case we broke down.

I still drive everywhere using my free insurance co. road atlas. Getting off route was half the fun.

To lower the tone from you lovely people - trying to buy saucy magazines for sharing with the gang!

Those were behind the counter at Maurie's Carmelcorn magaizine store. It's still there but old Maurie is long gone. If we talked real sweet he'd sell us a mild porn magazine with real tits in it.

I still do that. Paper maps rule!
But not that.

Yep, they still do. If I want to hear someone telling me where to go I ask my wife! And the kids actually looked out the windows at cows, barns, and billboards.

Huddling around National Geographic in the school library.

I saw my first titties there. They were black and many were slung over their shoulder feeding the kid on her back. I used to think all titties were long and skinny!

When each house had ONE telephone, no matter how many people lived there.

Lucky people. We had none but later dad got a used console TV with a tiny round picture.

Play marbles anyone?

Can I use my steely?

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.

Ordered my wife's first string bikini while living here in Illinois. Someone stole the top around the second year at a campground along Lake Michigan. She still wears the tiny top.http://i.imgur.com/NsikjLT.jpg

To get FunnyFaces thread back on track....

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

5 cents each and over 6" long.

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

My Radio Flyer was much larger and did have bigger wheels.

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

- 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.

Yes to all. Elvira had cleavage!

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.

Yep and gas would go from 24.9 to 19.9 during weekly gas wars.. Still got oil, radiator, tires, battery checked, and all windows washed. Didn't have to walk inside and wait for some one buying lotto tickets either.

You forgot Whose line is it Anyway, What's. My Line and don't forget Mae West ,Mimi Van Doren and W.C. Fields

In the 50's car bumpers had Mae Wests.
"This weather's not fit for man nor beast."

When a parent could tell their crying child 'knock it off before I give you something to cry about' without fear of going to jail.

And we had to go get our own stick to get spanked with. Or dad's belt. We respected our parents and other adults.

I really don't remember.

 

[angelofthenorth]

Film for cameras remember that!?

 

[jaF0]

^^ Still available, but on a far more limited scale.


Now if you had mentioned the 110 sized film and cameras ....

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

When it was expected that kids walked their bikes across the street? Going to the movies was considered a special treat? Watching TV at home meant using pliers to change the channel because the plastic channel knob had stripped? And, "Clean your room, or no dinner" meant exactly that?

 

[mickyp123]

When we had 3TV channels with decent programming free of endless Reality crap, celebs on jollies, and cheap game shows

 

[Glycerinelimits]

* "KISS" and "Happy Days" Trading Cards
* Being your dad's remote for turning the channel
* When smoking was common -- cashiers in some stores could smoke, ash trays formed in the porcelain of men's urinals, "smoking section" on planes and restaurants, etc.
* Specific to Seattle Area -- JP Patches morning show
* Kids played outside
* Before cable TV
* Making mixed cassette tapes
* Old drinking and driving laws -- Passengers could have a beer but drivers weren't supposed to or they could get a ticket

 

[latecomer91364]

DYR: When people had larger families living in smaller houses with huge yards. Now, the lot is all house, no yard (but that's okay - kids don't need a yard to play in, they're all hunched over their iphones).