I am so old I remember........
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Sharpstik
Stuck in the 70's
Quinn Martin Productions. Lol. I remember when I actually watched television. Petrocelli, Barnaby Jones, The FBI, Voyage to the Bottom...
When kids actually had to walk to school ( me included ) in sub zero weather because our parents didn't want to take us. Now, there is a school bus at every house for every kid.
5 cent bridge tolls. And my father complaining when they went up to a dime.
Wishing Daylight Savings time would last until 10 pm so we could play another inning.
When Am radio was practically my best friend.
When churches were full.
When kids actually had to walk to school ( me included ) in sub zero weather because our parents didn't want to take us. Now, there is a school bus at every house for every kid.
5 cent bridge tolls. And my father complaining when they went up to a dime.
Wishing Daylight Savings time would last until 10 pm so we could play another inning.
When Am radio was practically my best friend.
When churches were full.
I should have added that I remember later standing looking up at the night sky in awe that the gleaming little light was my nextdoor neighbor zipping by in SkyLab. (I was kind of appalled when I moved back to my hometown a few years ago and the space capsule that took him up there and back was sitting in an alley of a deadend street behind the local ballpark where just anybody could pilfer with it.)
The big teenage dance craze was the Twist. Chubby Checker (Brand X Fats Domino, get it?) had an album of all Twist songs. But the biggest celebrities were Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle, and President Kennedy. Kennedy was worshipped like a god. Pictures of him and quotes from him were ubiquitous. I don't know if that was nationwide. I lived in a town that was half Catholic, half Jewish. Maybe that made a difference.
In New York, we had trick or treat for UNICEF. Do they still do that? Then we moved to California, where they didn't.
Later, everybody's parents, including mine, hated the Beatles.
Goldfinger was a hit.
I remember phone booths with folding glass doors. Calls were a dime, not a nickel. We're phone booths opaque once? That would explain how Superman changed his clothes in one.
Speaking of dimes, occasionally in the sixties you got a worn Mercury dime, buffalo/Indian head nickel, wheat penny, Miss Liberty quarter, half dollar or silver dollar. Silver coins were phased out by sandwich coins, which seem to hold up better, in the mid-60s. Some paper money was silver certificates, which looked a bit different than Federal Reserve notes.
Japanese cars were sold only in California. The body panels were very thin and dinged easily. Annually, Toyota ran commercials in which their car lost a tug of war to an elephant. Most of the cars in Marin County were Volkswagens.
In the east, nobody was familiar with Mexican food. They didn't put lettuce on hamburgers. Every few yards on the turnpike was a Howard Johnson's. They promised 28 ice cream flavored, but were always out of almost all of them.
Movie ratings, originally GMRX. Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, and Fritz the Cat were X-rated. Today, they would be R or even PG.
Jump ahead to the 1980s. I told my roommate, "Jesse Jackson may be elected President."
He said, "Oh come on now, Paul, he is black."
I worked for a mail order company. Our idea of instant gratification was that your products were delivered within two weeks. No Internet; toll-free numbers were a big deal.
In New York, we had trick or treat for UNICEF. Do they still do that? Then we moved to California, where they didn't.
Later, everybody's parents, including mine, hated the Beatles.
Goldfinger was a hit.
I remember phone booths with folding glass doors. Calls were a dime, not a nickel. We're phone booths opaque once? That would explain how Superman changed his clothes in one.
Speaking of dimes, occasionally in the sixties you got a worn Mercury dime, buffalo/Indian head nickel, wheat penny, Miss Liberty quarter, half dollar or silver dollar. Silver coins were phased out by sandwich coins, which seem to hold up better, in the mid-60s. Some paper money was silver certificates, which looked a bit different than Federal Reserve notes.
Japanese cars were sold only in California. The body panels were very thin and dinged easily. Annually, Toyota ran commercials in which their car lost a tug of war to an elephant. Most of the cars in Marin County were Volkswagens.
In the east, nobody was familiar with Mexican food. They didn't put lettuce on hamburgers. Every few yards on the turnpike was a Howard Johnson's. They promised 28 ice cream flavored, but were always out of almost all of them.
Movie ratings, originally GMRX. Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, and Fritz the Cat were X-rated. Today, they would be R or even PG.
Jump ahead to the 1980s. I told my roommate, "Jesse Jackson may be elected President."
He said, "Oh come on now, Paul, he is black."
I worked for a mail order company. Our idea of instant gratification was that your products were delivered within two weeks. No Internet; toll-free numbers were a big deal.
Echo was a cutlery I don't remember the "one" Im I close?
I think he was referring to the satellite.
That's the one that gets me. When I came along, it was 2.8 billion and I've always felt I was at least one too many.
Make me feel old, why don't you. The Superman model kit, the first superhero model kit, came out at 98¢. Later, the price went up to $1.98. In my day, comic books were 12¢, so I learned my 12x multiplication table early.
Comic-book conventions were new in 1965. I went to the early San Diego Comic-cons in the early 1970s. They were tiny and poorly publicized. There were few girls.
I am so old I remember first German post war Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's funeral live broadcast, simultaneously in all TV channels available then (three 
), due to that event the TV show for kids was also cancelled, what made me very angry so that I remember it till today. :yes:
), due to that event the TV show for kids was also cancelled, what made me very angry so that I remember it till today. :yes:
onepixel
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...and CZs and Maicos.
sax6
Loudness always ON
Love this one
