• rupert7 said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Hey kid!.... I remember theTV with the dial channel selector,I remember that in the early days we had ONE channel only, the boring ABC and only in black and white. In Australia there was no TV before 1956 and no color until 1975. In my country town we got a second station in the early 70's. Even now, here in Western Australia there are only 6 free to air stations. There is Foxtel if you want to get pay TV,which we have not got!
  
  Yes I remember the 8 track....remember when it first came on the market! The first calculator i ever saw was the size of a  small paperback book! My first video player was the size of a small suite case! Hell,I even had a car that had a "crank handle" to turn the motor over!
  
  When we went to the movies (hey watch it!.....not that old, we did have sound!) lol, yeah, at the movies they showed news reels and the national anthem was always played before anything started.  This grand old man was born 1950.
  

• wombat said on Dec 29, 2007....

  You brought to mind this memory..
   
  When I was dating my ex...He had a yellow Mustang with an 8 track player.  We used to drink Miller Pony's and toss them out the window, on our way to serious partying.  We played alot of Creedence.
   
  And I remember tv when Lucy, Popeye, Elvis the Pelvis, and the Beatles were new...
   
  Really Big Shoow.......

• FutureGoddess said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Rupert:  thank you for the "Kid" comment!  How about the cell phone that you carried with a suitcase (it was then known as a sattellite phone).

  Wombat:  Never got to see Lawrence Welk in those days - I don't remember what was new except this really cool show about "the story of a lovely lady with three girls and the nice man with three boys of his own". Oh, and this GORGEOUS guy who sang lead in a band with all of his family including his mother!!  "Come On Get Happy!"

• GracefullyGrowing said on Dec 29, 2007....

  I remember too!
   
  ~Grace~

• lfbno7 said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I remember when baseball cards came with a really hard flat board of gum. I remember milk machines. When you had to slap typewriters and make them go Bing to go to the next line. Carbon paper.

• rupert7 said on Dec 30, 2007....

  Future - scary thing is that all that stuff was not so very long ago,was it kid! (now tell me you are actually 61! lol

• Aqua-Bristol said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I remember penny gumball machines.

• FutureGoddess said on Dec 30, 2007....

  Rupert: nope, 20 years younger than that.

  lfbno: You realize that there are kids who will never know what a typewriter is?  And how bout the smell that Carbon Paper gave off?

  Aqua - I have letters from long ago written by my grandfather (the original blogger who never used a computer, just pen and paper) who told me about NYC in the early 1900's and gas street lamps, 5 cent Nathan Hotdogs, 5 cent subway rides. 

• Aqua-Bristol said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I remember my grandmother telling me her wedding dress was purchased for a dollar. However, as far as penny gumball machines, not so far back as that--although the 'Y' generation may have no memory of such things. ;)

• rupert7 said on Dec 30, 2007....

  Future - that was a joke!..actually suspected you of being at least 30 years younger,but you are still a kid! lol

• lfbno7 said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I remember 15 cent subway rides, 15 cent pizza slices, and 3 cent stamps. They go along with me kicking a rock all the way from my house to school. And finding the same rock after school and kicking it back home too.

• quietone said on Dec 30, 2007....

  yes I remember also...tv with 3 channels on a clear night... my mother would have to put aluminum foil on the rabbit ears to make it come in better...all b&w and snowy of course.  I remember Howdy Doodey, Rin Tin Tin, and like wombie saidd...the "relly big show"  the first time I saw the beatles live...but then I was already a teen. 

• travelr712 said on Dec 30, 2007....

  yes, i remember it well. and to answer your question about why they call it 8 tracks, as i understand it, each tape had 4 sections, or tracks on it. each section had 2 channels, a left and a right, for the stereo effect. so the first track was actually 2 sound tracks. when that track ran out, the head would drop down to the second track and the tape would reverse direction. so, two channels (or sound tracks) times four music tracks equals eight tracks. does anyone remember the 60's show 'the time tunnel'? it was from the same guy who made 'lost in space', irwin allen. i vaguely remember a couple episodes from when i was a kid, but it's not been brought back that i've ever seen. here's a pic...
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   

• FutureGoddess said on Dec 30, 2007....

  Rupert:  Thanks again :)

  Travelr:  Wow! ya learn something new every day.  Thanks for the 8 track info. 

  Quiet One:  "Rabbit Ears" !!!  Holy Smokes - I forgot about Rabbit Ears!!!  When my sister broke the antennae off the TV we replaced it with a wire hanger twisted into a wacky shape. 

  I was reminded of the first stereo system I owned.  I felt so cool!  It was supposed to look like individual components like a really expensive system, but it was one large piece connected and covered with a maple veneer.  It had (from top to bottom) a turn-table, an 8 track player "component", a cassette player "component" and a reciever/radio component.  And the first record I ever played on it was ELO's "Out of the Blue"

• silverwhisper said on Dec 30, 2007....

  FG, i didn't know you're a giants fan--me too! :>
  
  i think i'm only a little bit younger than you, but yeah, i do remember TV not being on 24/7. how extraordinary, i'd completely forgotten about that. :>
  
  ed

• crybabylu said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I sure do!

• momsrock said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I remember 8 tracks, the old records and changing the tv with the dial...I also vaguely remember the star spangled banner but I was pretty young for all of it.... we had cassettes when I was in elementary school and I remember my father being the first person I knew to actually have a cd player....I remember whitney houston's "I wanna dance with somebody" being the first song I heard on a cd.... lol...forgot all about that...:)

• wakingharmony said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I remember Sheriff Johns
  
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  We're gonna bake a birthday cake
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  I'm another year old today
  
  I'm gonna have a party with my birthday cake
  Come on and take some birthday cake
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  I'm another year old today
  
  We'll have some pie and sandwiches
  and chocolate ice cream too
  We'll sing and play the day away
  and one more thing I'm going to do
  I'll blow out the candles on my birthday cake
  and when I do, a wish I'll make
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  I'm another year old today
  ........
  
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  We're gonna bake a birthday cake
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  I'm another year old today
  
  I'm gonna have a party with my birthday cake
  Come on and take some birthday cake
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  I'm another year old today
  
  We'll have some pie and sandwiches
  and chocolate ice cream, too
  We'll sing and play the day away
  and one more thing I'm going to do
  
  I'll blow out the candles on my birthday cake
  and when I do, a wish I'll make
  Put another candle on my birthday cake
  I'm another year old today
  Happy birthday to you
  I'm another year old today.
  
  

• Mamie said on Dec 30, 2007....

  ooooh this is so fun! I remember 6 cent stamps, going to the movies for a quarter...we had milk delivered to the front door and if we were good, my mom would order a quart of chocolate milk! Our catholic schooling was free and our dues for brownies and girlscouts was a dime. Um, what else...I thought all cars started by saying a Hail Mary before you turned the key. There was no such thing as "hot lunch" at school...vaccinations were given by the school nurse in the church...oh this is a good one: I took ballet lessons and the ballet teacher's dad picked me up at my house each week!
  Ok, I admit it, I must be ancient!

• SweetViolet said on Dec 31, 2007....

  Oh, I remember that stuff!
   
  My father had a remote control for the TV back in the early 50s...my brother. My mother had a dishwasher in those days, too...me!
   
  My favourite TV shows were My Friend Flicka, Fury, and Sky King. My parents like Sid Caesar, Ed Sullivan, and I Love Lucy.
   
  I remember nickel Cokes (in glass bottles), candy cigarettes, and red wax lips. I remember walking to school, and in the rain having red rubber boots and a rain coat to go over my school clothes. We thought kids whose mothers drove them to school were sissies!
   
  Ice cream sodas at real soda fountains with marble countertops and ornate knobs on the fizzy spout. Blue plate specials for half a buck. An afternoon at the movies, complete with popcorn, for fifty cents. Serials like Lash LaRue and Buck Rogers in between the two features, cartoons and newsreels before, previews of next Saturday's matinee after.
   
  US Keds that would "stop on a dime." Bicycles with fat tires, clamp-on rollerskate where you had to use pliers to tighten them because you lost the skate key, "Fizzies," crinolines, poodle skirts, and saddle oxfords.
   
  Yep, I'm old all right. I remember outhouses, baths in the kitchen in the washtub, and picking crops in the summer for pocket money. I remember hall monitors and "care packages" we filled in the classroom by bringing soap and chocolate and socks from home for our soldiers overseas. I remember singing a patriotic song and pledging allegiance to the flag every morning before starting class, but never a prayer. I remember 40+ kids to a classroom, double sessions, and seeing kids "flunk" (not euphemistically get "held back") because they had not successfully learned the academic skills needed to succeed in the next grade.
   
  I remember girls being send home from school to change when their skirts showed their knees...and only boys being allowed to wear pants to school. There were no seatbelts, no car seats, no air conditioning, and the idea of TV in the car was ludicrous. No cell phones, only one phone per household, and that could easily be a party line, so you had to be careful what you said because one of your gossipy neighbours might be listening in.
   
  You had to be careful what you did, too. If you behaved badly, your neighbours or teacher would tell your parents. And they wouldn't get mad at the neighbour and tell them to mind their own business, they would take you to task, sometimes rather harshly.
   
  It was a different time, then. Not necessarily better (if you were white, male, Christian, and straight, you had it made; if you weren't...well, that's a different story), but definitely different.

• FutureGoddess said on Dec 31, 2007....

  Violet:   "If you behaved badly, your neighbours or teacher would tell your parents. And they wouldn't get mad at the neighbour and tell them to mind their own business, they would take you to task, sometimes rather harshly."  You reminded me of a story - my parents always said that if we ever got caught hitchhiking they would cut off our thumbs, and if we ever picked up a hitchhiker we would get our driving priviledges revoked.  Well, when my older bro was about 18 he was down the NJ Shore and he picked up a really pretty girl in the car he had bought from my father.  When he got home, my father said: "So, ya picked up a hitchhiker this weekend?  On such and such a street at this particular time?"  My brother was floored - he even knew what the girl was wearing - turns out my father's business partner was right behind my brother's car (which he recognized from being my dad's) when he picked the girl up and he called up my father and told him.  Of course, my bro had his keys taken away for a period of time.

  Harmony:  Huh???

• wakingharmony said on Dec 31, 2007....

  FG sorry a bit old I guess was song sheriff John sang to all the Birthday boys & girls.
  
  I remember  those days too Violet. You never wanted to be caught with your parents driving you to school.
  
  and I remember sitting between my moms knees in the pront seat on the passenger side and my brother  driving in my Daddys lap down a road. I remember when you hardly ever saw women driving.  and when the legal age for a man to leave home was 21 & a girl 18.... yet  some girls married at 13 yrs old!!! I could never imagine my daughters being a responsible adult at 13.. and once you were married you were considered adult.   Here in Texas if you are married and your Spouse is over 21...It is legal for you to drink. In some places your parents can still take you into a bar and buy you a drink! (or at least they could about 10 yrs ago I haven't been into a bar since then) 
  

• Racerboy said on Dec 31, 2007....

  I remember 8 tracks, how about reel to reel?  I still have a working 8 track.  I remember Time Tunnel, and all the bad special effects.  I remember when gas was a quarter (.25) as it still should be!  and new cars for under 2000 dollars.
  Cars with metal dashboards and no seat belts,  Apple crate Bicycles.  Penny candy and Sideburns.  Dad with a flat top and mom with cats eye glasses and saddle shoes.  Back when a mans word meant something.  Times change but not necessarily for the better.

• Racerboy said on Dec 31, 2007....

  Any body remember "ditto" machines and making the carbon ditto masters?  I used to swipe them from the old man and sell his english tests to upperclassmen?

• FutureGoddess said on Dec 31, 2007....

  "Ditto Machines"  you made me laugh!  I remember them. 

  And Racer:  whether it's for the better or not, Times do change.  I certainly think in a lot of ways we had it a lot easier than kids today in terms of "innocence".   There just doesn't seem to be any innocence any more.  But they do have it better in terms of technology related innovations. 

  Harmony - Sorry, it was a bit before my time, but I know that others definitely appreciated it. 

  But I do remember Bozo the Clown saying hello to the boys and girls and always wanted to hear my name.  Same with "The Magic Garden"

• wakingharmony said on Dec 31, 2007....

  I remember when Bozo came out. My brother loved that show and still talks about the kid that said "cram it clown on tv" My Uncle Larry besides singing was also a Construction Coordinator and helped  to build the Time Tunnel.  I was remember my Dad Having a "record recorder".... it was old and had like a nail as a needle ( I remember buying diamond point needles for records too) and it had like a crank on the side and  a megaphone looking thing on the arm if I remember right.
  

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