RandySF

Some of you may remember!!!

retrolife

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dboyd001

I remember:

• 78 RPM records
• portable TVs: they weighed almost as much as a regular TV, still required a place to plug it in but were "portable" because they had a carry handle!
• 8 oz. soda bottles were the norm.
• airplanes all had propellers
• Fins on cars
• no seat-belts in cars
• car air-conditioning were the triangular windows
• automatic transmission was just on the luxury cars
• radios only had AM (and lots of tubes inside too!) and TV had only channels 2 to 13 (never could figure out what happened to channel 1).
• You had to be out in the sticks to need a schoolbus to get to school. Everyone else walked.
• there were only six teams in the NHL
• the baseball team in Washington were the Senators
• there was no such thing as instant coffee
• Ice cream was vanilla, chocolate or strawberry!
• People dressed up nice when going on the train or an airplane.
• when no one had credit cards (maybe store accounts, but that was it)
• every drug store had a soda fountain
• whitewall tires
• and every winter had to change those tires to winter tires or put chains on the tires
• coal furnace (not ever missed!)

Dave

gospodin

I remember:
Throwing pomegranites at the neighbor's wall and getting the belt for it.
Brylcream and the stink of it in my hair.
Having to take showers after gym class...boy, that was not a fond memory. Too many towel snaps...
A&W Rootbeer stands and getting the Mama burger (Baby burger was too small and Papa burger was too big...Mama burger was juuust right). DQ Dilly Bars were da bomb, too.
My dad complaining on a trip to Canada, driving through Montana, about the cost of gas there. $.49 a gallon...highway robbery!
Our little Shasta trailer, with the silly wings on the back of it. I guess it was to show our trailer was faster than an Airstream.
My dad's Corvair convertible.
Watching JFK's inauguration.
Watching the opening moves of the Vietnam War on CBS Nightly News with Walter Cronkite.
Staying up to watch the Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters and Gilligan's Island.

Although I was born in 1956, I was mostly a child of the Sixties. BTW, my childhood home kitchen looked just like that! We also had a giant wooden spoon and fork set (I think everybody had one back then). And the stupid pole light with the cone-shaped directional lights.

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I remember these cats on our TV.

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dboyd001

..... Damned! I remember being in the Viet Nam war and I didn't see Walter Cronkite once! Being on a ship in the Tonkin Gulf was better that trapsing through the bush in-country with the Marines. Those little Viet Cong and NVA could get mean with ya!
Dave (40th anniversary of my Purple Heart on 24 June)

Roarer

The days when you had to get up to change the T.V. channel and a remote control was ... well, it hadn't even occurred to me that such a thing existed as a kid!!

There were only 4 TV channels

The A - Team, Skywolf, Night Rider and Challenge Anika were all considered serious viewing

If a car had electric windows then it was positively luxuriant!

If a car had flip up headlights then it was the coolest thing ever!

Getting £2 pocket money was utterly fantastic, £5 was just IT, and £10 was ...'Am I dreaming??!!'

In the same vein as the 'portable TV' bit mentioned previously, teens walked around with, on their shoulders, getto blasters that were almost as big as they were!
If someone had Mohican punk hair or ripped jeans then they were no good at all and to be avoided at all costs, particularly if they happened to have a getto blaster!!
Heck only knows why!

If you had a video player (VCR) then you were special, and this was increased by about tenfold if you knew someone who had a mobile phone or, in fact, anyone who had ever even seen one!! (although it would have been almost impossible to prove on thinking about it).

The house phone still had to have each number individually dialed in by turning the bit on the top, and trying to phone into competitions on the telly was bloody murder because there was no redial or anything like that so you had to do it all manually every time, and by the time you had done that and finally got through, the competition had probably closed anyway!

.... Erm, anyway, this was only last week!! ha ha!!

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dboyd001

When it was really cool if you had an 8-track player in your car!

..... Actually I remember as a little kid going to a car show with my dad and there was actually a car with a record-player! Imagine tooling down the road playing your favorite 45 RPM records... SO COOL!!!!

Dave (my car has a cassette tape player)