rnorton
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I remember when I could print out EVERY post on all of Usenet on my IBM 360's line printer and read them on my lunch break.
I am so old I remember........
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I remember when I could print out EVERY post on all of Usenet on my IBM 360's line printer and read them on my lunch break.
rnorton
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rnorton
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Lived in NM since 1958, where we all had sufficient knowledge of what nukes do to make that ridiculous, so the schools didn't do it. They did tell us that there were probably at least a dozen ~15 megaton warheads targeted on Albuquerque and Los Alamos (which turned out to be pretty close to the truth). They used to store 4000 nuke warheads here. Now they only store about 1000, but in a far less bombproof location.
Prior to coming here, I lived in South Texas and Norfolk, VA, and they did the duck and cover like a religion. The kids all knew they were doomed, though.
usedto
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rnorton
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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:
I watched the Royal Coronation, the McCarthy Hearings and the Kefauver hearings. I watched the Checkers speech and the first satellite TV, an Eisehhower speech bounced off of Echo 1, a big empty Mylar foil balloon in orbit.
I watched about a dozen Navy Vanguard rockets blow up on TV trying to launch a satellite before they gave the job to the Army, who accomplished it in less than a week.
rnorton
Super Member
You still can in Viet Nam. It's become a freer country than this one in SOME important ways.
Candy cigarettes.
Those wax Coke bottles with sweet liquid inside them.
Wax lips and Dracula teeth.
Lick-em-Aid and Pixie Sticks.
Those wax Coke bottles with sweet liquid inside them.
Wax lips and Dracula teeth.
Lick-em-Aid and Pixie Sticks.
"Fill 'er up with Ethyl!"
Which, I found out much later, was just tetraethyllead additive, or in other words leaded gasoline...after awhile almost all the gas had lead in it, so they quit calling it Ethyl.
Which, I found out much later, was just tetraethyllead additive, or in other words leaded gasoline...after awhile almost all the gas had lead in it, so they quit calling it Ethyl.
NOHDjunkie
Well-Known Member
I remember wishing I had a machine that could record tv video. (pre vcr)
1970's Fan
Super Member
I remember when the television's remote control was attached to the television by a cable. When you could watch television without hearing filthy innuendo.
I forgot what I remember ..........
fallout shelters ,the Cuban missile crisis it was real ! As long as they had IRBM's
in Cuba for sure . I don't think they had any working ICBM's at the time that could hit us from Russia I'm not so sure we knew that then . But they had the TU95's and nuclear boats
fallout shelters ,the Cuban missile crisis it was real ! As long as they had IRBM's
in Cuba for sure . I don't think they had any working ICBM's at the time that could hit us from Russia I'm not so sure we knew that then . But they had the TU95's and nuclear boats
Flashes from the past
I remember when the New York World's Fair was going on.
I remember my inflatable dinosaur toy from Sinclair!
Cigarette commercials on television. Cigarette machines in hospitals.
I remember when the Corvette Stingray and Ford Mustang were introduced. I recognize the reappearance of some of the original colors on the new Mustangs.
I remember when I was in high school and records went up from $3.00 to $3.25. I said: "Nuts to that, I'm not buying any more records!"
I remember when the New York World's Fair was going on.
I remember my inflatable dinosaur toy from Sinclair!
Cigarette commercials on television. Cigarette machines in hospitals.
I remember when the Corvette Stingray and Ford Mustang were introduced. I recognize the reappearance of some of the original colors on the new Mustangs.
I remember when I was in high school and records went up from $3.00 to $3.25. I said: "Nuts to that, I'm not buying any more records!"
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Sandy G
Retired Member
I remember 1/25th scale plastic car models were $2.00 each...And AMT came out w/a Peterbilt tractor-18 wheeler kit that was $3.75 & we were OUTRAGED ! But at least back then you could buy the Testor's glue that you used to put 'em together, & nobody gave you the Fish-Eye..
I remember some model kits being $1.75 too but can't remember what the Pactra paints in the little glass bottles cost, maybe 19 cents?
Horizontal and vertical hold knobs on the old Setchell-Carlson, which had a small white doy on the screen for awhile after you turned it off. As kids we only got to watch Saturday morning cartoons and Sunday evenings Walt Disney and Lassie. Sometimes we got to watch Shirley Temple movies if it was rainy outside. Mostly because I lived at the neighborhood park all day on weekends (unless we could scare up a rock fight somewhere!).
Horizontal and vertical hold knobs on the old Setchell-Carlson, which had a small white doy on the screen for awhile after you turned it off. As kids we only got to watch Saturday morning cartoons and Sunday evenings Walt Disney and Lassie. Sometimes we got to watch Shirley Temple movies if it was rainy outside. Mostly because I lived at the neighborhood park all day on weekends (unless we could scare up a rock fight somewhere!).
I did the same thing.
jaymanaa
RIP 1961-2018
Candy cigarettes.
Those wax Coke bottles with sweet liquid inside them.
Wax lips and Dracula teeth.
Lick-em-Aid and Pixie Sticks.
Dude, they still sell candy cigs at the stores on the east side. I nearly **** when I saw them there on the counter. The pack was made to look like Red Apples, and even had fake warnings on the side. I bought a pack, so you can see them at Twangfest. I was thinking of buying a few cases and selling them as new in the box antiques on epray.:scratch2:
nj pheonix
Lunatic Member
Matchbox, johnny lightening and hotwheel cars
red skelton show
7$ rock concert tickets
The original bozo the clown
all the different monster movies on sat night (creature feature, chiller theater)
Cars without emissions with manual chokes
Gas stations that checked oil, tire pressure and cleaned windshield
The smothers brothers
mannix
the futitive
hogans heroes
the saint
outer limits, twilight zone, one step beyond
I spy
red skelton show
7$ rock concert tickets
The original bozo the clown
all the different monster movies on sat night (creature feature, chiller theater)
Cars without emissions with manual chokes
Gas stations that checked oil, tire pressure and cleaned windshield
The smothers brothers
mannix
the futitive
hogans heroes
the saint
outer limits, twilight zone, one step beyond
I spy
I remember:
Black and white TV sets with VHF-only tuners -- no channels above 13
Cars with no seat belts, or with only two lap belts in the front seat (like the 1964 Ford Galaxie I learned to drive on)
"Drive with care and buy Sinclair" and the inflatable dinosaur toys (thanks for the memory jog, KiM3Ce)
Budget classical records for only $2.84 each from Radio Doctors in Milwaukee
Tube testing machines at the local hardware store
AM-only tube table radios. My mother had a seemingly endless sequence of these in the 1960s, and I got my first electronics experience trying to fix them whenever one of them quit. More often than not I was successful.
Double inventories in the record stores -- stereo and mono versions of the same recordings sold side by side
Grade-school band programs that enrolled almost every kid
Nuclear energy was regarded as a very good thing, and futurists predicted that we would soon be driving atomic-powered cars. (I wonder what happened to my copy of "Our Friend the Atom"?)
The Interstate highway system expanding every year
Get Smart, with Don Adams as Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99
Cars that needed tune-ups at least once a year, bias-ply snow tires in Northern winters, and frequent brake jobs and muffler replacements. Most of them also cornered like grocery carts and floated down the highway. Maybe the good old days weren't all that good for car owners ...
Black and white TV sets with VHF-only tuners -- no channels above 13
Cars with no seat belts, or with only two lap belts in the front seat (like the 1964 Ford Galaxie I learned to drive on)
"Drive with care and buy Sinclair" and the inflatable dinosaur toys (thanks for the memory jog, KiM3Ce)
Budget classical records for only $2.84 each from Radio Doctors in Milwaukee
Tube testing machines at the local hardware store
AM-only tube table radios. My mother had a seemingly endless sequence of these in the 1960s, and I got my first electronics experience trying to fix them whenever one of them quit. More often than not I was successful.
Double inventories in the record stores -- stereo and mono versions of the same recordings sold side by side
Grade-school band programs that enrolled almost every kid
Nuclear energy was regarded as a very good thing, and futurists predicted that we would soon be driving atomic-powered cars. (I wonder what happened to my copy of "Our Friend the Atom"?)
The Interstate highway system expanding every year
Get Smart, with Don Adams as Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99
Cars that needed tune-ups at least once a year, bias-ply snow tires in Northern winters, and frequent brake jobs and muffler replacements. Most of them also cornered like grocery carts and floated down the highway. Maybe the good old days weren't all that good for car owners ...
