Post something that proves you're over 30, or....

[KimOhio]

I could legally drink 3.2 beer in a bar at 18

 

[damo]

Watching the Canada vs. Russia hockey games in school

 

[mskani]

I can relate to most of the stuff already posted. Here are a few of my own...

I remember my uncle doing his math homework at the dining room table and he used a slide rule.

I remember when digital watches cost a fortune.

I remember Don Cornelius was the original host of Soul Train.

I remember all of the words to the School House Rocks series.

I remember watching Sanford & Son with my grandfather on a big screen Black & White television.

Great thread!

 

[Teejay32]

I remember watching Luke & Laura's wedding with friends after school.

 

[Baboo]

Maybe I missed reading this one, but I don't think anyone has mentioned watching the original Mickey Mouse Club.
My Barbie is one of the very early ones and then I got the head that you put on instead and it has three different wigs.
JFK and MLK both being killed.
I remember very little of Disneyland the year after it opened.
The Beatles first appearance on Sullivan.
Man circling the earth for the first time.
Moon parties the night they walked on the moon.
Poodle skirts when I was really little.
My mother was a rare bird because she had a JOB outside the home.
Buying our camping gear at an army surplus store instead of a trendy outdoor store.
Yo-yo and hula hoop the first time around.
Ironing your hair if it wasn't naturally straight, (My brother did this )
Roots wasn't a clothing line. The only thing they made were those ugly earth shoes.

 

[Catzeyes]

Even though I was only 4 I remember bits of JFK's funeral on tv. I remember playing pacman all night at the bar when I turned 21. Phone numbers had letters in them when I was growing up, and for entertainment we went to roller skating rinks.

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

Baboo, my first Barbie was a bubble-haired brunette! Remember her friend Midge?

 

[Cindy B]

My Mother had a Midge doll (ok, time for all of you to cringe)

For the record, she married very young and had children very young.....


I remember the ice cream man costing 25 cents.

School lunches were 25 cents as well

 

[spb999]

I had the Barbie wig doll too, Baboo !

 

[Lanshark]

I remember the 'real' Michael Jackson

 

[gina2000]

Honey West on TV.

Smothers Brothers

Cars before air conditioning

Heck, life without air conditioning

Chubby Checker

Hullaballoo!

Go Go Boots

garter belts

Catholic mass in Latin

Woodstock

Altamont

Sonny & Cher

And the list goes on.......the list goes on.....

 

[oldkicker]

Three channels on our black and white TV. No remote control either, just that channel dial. And the stations went off the air between midnight and 1 am every night.

Bomb drills in school. Ducking under our desks and covering our heads with our hands in case the Russians dropped the A-Bomb on us.

Popsicles for a nickel, with two sticks.

Two sneakers were cool. White Chuck Taylors. Black Chuck Taylors.

Christmas decorations went up after Thanksgiving.

Etch-a-Sketch was high tech.

No seat belts.

Party lines.

Rexall stores with a soda fountain.

Polio vaccinations.

Ed Sullivan with Elvis. Ed Sullivan with the Beatles.

Crewcut wax.

 

[CarolG]

Bernie, I'd forgotten the bomb drills! (Like you'd be safe under the desk!) I lived in Savannah during the Cuban missile crisis. We had to keep a rinsed bleach bottle full of water at school. We were supposed to take it with us if we were attacked; school children were to be loaded on trains and taken somewhere "safe". We eventually used the water when the out-door water fountains froze during the a rare freeze the following winter.

We took the polio vaccine orally on a sugar cube (3 doses a few weeks apart). Everyone, adults and children, went to the local schools to get it.

And I still have a smallpox vaccination scar on my left arm. (Hope I don't need a new one, )

 

[Tense]

How about when a Burger King Whooper really was big!
You got .25 or even .50 from your Grandma and you were rich!
Chinese jump rope
Going out and sharing 1 meal with 4 friends who had to pool their allowances!
Cereral toys that you put baking soda in!
Having 1 bathroom in the house!
Having 1 TV...black and white!
Playing board games not video.
Bolongna curls in your hair!
Sour cream came in reusable glasses!
Yougut was cheap .25
The smell of mimiograph paper in school!
Cartridge pens
Lunches WITHOUT ice packs!
Projectors for those home movies!
When you couldn't curse on TV
Mom's wore aprons
Pots and pans WITHOUT non stick
Nestle hair setting glop..the gray stuff in the bottle
Breck shampoo
NO ATM's
Copper colored appliances
No dryer just the back yard line
No dishwasher(Mom dad and kids)
Church key!
And bottles that needed them!

 

[goofygirl]

Proof I am over 30:


I remember:

UHF channels
Pong game
Micheal Jackson when he was dark skinned
WDW before Epcot
Roller disco
designer jeans
Princess Diana's wedding
President Reagan
Fotomat
Comodore 64 computer
Lps and 8 tracks
lava lamps
Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies
Flowers in the Attic books
Atlantic City before casinos

 

[goofygirl]

Pierre Robert just celebrated some milestone at WMMR, either 20 or 25 years... there's a billboard about it near the Ben Franklin bridge, Philly side...

I met Pierre TWICE! Once was during the AIDS walk one year (I have a photo, I'll post it later!) and the other time he was doing a promo at Bridge Street (public transportation terminal)!

 

[SuiteDisney]

We had a Corvair!

I remember how excited I was the first time a tv station stayed on all night.

I used to watch Dark Shadows after school.

I saw Night of the Living Dead when it first came out.

I remember life before cable tv.

 

[jsmith]

The name of the first boy I ever had a crush on is on the Vietnam Memorial.

 

[figmentvi]

Originally posted by jsmith
The name of the first boy I ever had a crush on is on the Vietnam Memorial.

Me too jsmith......still breaks my heart to think about it. He sold me my first surfboard, which btw was 8 ft. long (there's another hint to how old I am)

 

[Cindy B]

The Diving Horses at the shore...(all you former current Philly area people know what I am talking about)


you had a smoking section in school

When the Phillies were in the World Series!

You managed to go through your whole school career without a computer.


Peter Gabriel was the lead singer of Genesis.


You bought albums


When all four Beatles were alive


When Elvis died