Remember when....

[klo1335]

When "#" was a pound sign and not a hashtag.

My husband is an elementary band teacher. He had a beginner band kid (4th grade) ask him why there were hashtags all over the music? No joke. I laughed so hard when he told me.

 

[kimmar067]

Remember when satellite tv meant you had that HUGE dish outside in the yard?....

....heck, I remember when a dish was something you ate dinner off of....

 

[goofyernmost]

When did testing start? I'm close to 50, and remember filling in those bubbles in elementary school. Just checked, and it appears the Iowa Skills test was used in the 70's. I remember my last name was too long to fit in the space allotted.

I am 53. I didn't take any tests in elementary school, but remember hearing that they were coming...the California something or other test. I think testing wasn't widespread until much later. Only some school districts used them early on.

I'm 67 and I remember them clearly. I was born and raised in New York State. The schools, private or public were required to do standardized testing twice a year. The were frighteningly known as the Regent Exams! Or Regents for short. I don't remember if we had them in 1st or 2nd grade, but I do remember them from the 3rd grade. It didn't matter what your school grades were, if you didn't pass them, you didn't go on to the next grade.

I also remember that there was no such thing as Kindergarten or pre-school. You started at 1st grade. There wasn't the emphasis on early education back then. Most of the time you didn't even know how to count or the alphabet on your first day in school. There was no Sesame Street and the closest thing to a kids educational TV show was Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Science. No calculators either, you had to know your multiplication tables by heart.

No cassettes, no 8 tracks, no Walkmans, just record players that played 78's, 33 1/3, 45's and some 16's. It was great fun to listen to a 78 record on the 16 speed. Radio's were AM only but, there were small portable radios that sounded like tin and if you stood in a certain place you probably could get up to 3 or 4 stations. Color TV's just started becoming marketable around 1960 as long as you didn't mind everything having a green tint to it. I remember sometime in the late 50's RCA sent out a clear plastic sheet about the size of half a standard TV Screen (14") that had a color image on it. On a special night, I believe it was the Ed Sullivan show had a stop action scene. They froze the picture for a few minutes while you lined up that plastic with the black and white image on the screen so everyone could see what it would be like to have a Color TV.

 

[NFLDERS]

Listening to Casey Kasem on Saturday morning waiting to hear your favorite song so you could hold your tape recorder up to the radio to record it hoping nobody walked into your room and ruined it!!!

When "#" was a pound sign and not a hashtag.

When you would go outside after breakfast and only come in for lunch and dinner, go back out after dinner until the street lights came on.

And just had fun goofinoff! No scheduled activities..

 

[kimmar067]

...remember when an album didn't mean a book you kept photos in....

 

[cleverclovers]

Remember when... you thought you knew it all?

 

[cleverclovers]

You didn't think you could love anyone as much as your child. The came the the first grandchild.
(Official member of the "Grandma Club 4/10/15. Still on cloud nine!)

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

Remember when... you thought you knew it all?

I still do

Remember when you didn't need coffee to wake up?

 

[focusondisney]

You didn't think you could love anyone as much as your child. The came the the first grandchild.
(Official member of the "Grandma Club 4/10/15. Still on cloud nine!)

Congratulations!!!

 

[Sgt Mickey]

When you went to the playgroud without your parents it wasn't free range it being a kid. I also always rode my bike to softball practice alone.

 

[maxaroni]

It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?

 

[SEA333]

...remember when an album didn't mean a book you kept photos in....

Remember when...people put paper photos in albums instead of paying for backup digital cloud storage??!! haha

...when all 5 kids piled into the back of a 86 Ford Escort hatchback to go to the drive in, stopping on the way to get A&W hamburgers and root beer?

....your parents didn't have to make an advance appointment for you to play with a friend?

...kids could bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for school lunch?

...you saw your kid;s first... *everything*?

 

[powellrj]

You had a party line, some of the kids had gun racks with guns on them on their pick-ups in the school parking lot, if you ate at McDonalds or Dairy Queen you had to eat in your car.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

....and they smelled weird as heck!

I *loved* that smell! Sometimes you'd get the papers when they were fresh off the mimeograph machine and they'd stain your fingers blue. And remember the teacher having to go over the paper with you writing over it in pencil because it came out blurry?

....remember when PONG was cutting edge?

We had the first video game system ever-I can't remember if it was Colecovision or Intellivsion or what. But you had two choices, Tennis Pong or Hockey Pong. I remember all the neighbor kids coming over to play. When we got our Atari 2600 it was like coming out of the stone age.

Remember having a collection of 45 rpm singles in a wire rack? With those plastic things that snapped inside the hole so they'd fit on the turntable. Even if the record cracked, you could line the crack up and it would still play without skipping.

As others have said, I remember playing on the street and being reprimanded by one of the neighbors. I mouthed off at her, and my Mom only asked "well, what did *you* do?" and then I was made to go up the street and apologize to her. Any adult could tell you off and that was that.

I remember my Mom leaving my baby sister outside of the house in her coach for some fresh air without worrying that someone was going to snatch her.

Remember *really* dressing up for Easter with a new straw hat and a little white beaded purse? I was just at the tail end of that era, and I used to *love* having my own purse.

Remember having to get off the computer so someone could make a phone call, or having your internet connection break because the phone rang? And remember getting AOL by picking up a free CD in almost any big store?

Actually, remember when computers were huge machines that spit out punch cards and nobody had even heard of having one in their house?

 

[Simba's Mom]

Chocolate candy cigarettes. My mother used to hate that whenever I went out with my grandmother, she bought these for me. They were so cool-thay even came in a plastic casse.

 

[kimmar067]

We had the first video game system ever-I can't remember if it was Colecovision or Intellivsion or what. But you had two choices, Tennis Pong or Hockey Pong. I remember all the neighbor kids coming over to play. When we got our Atari 2600 it was like coming out of the stone age....

...and the 'pong' noise that it made when you 'hit' the puck....

 

[CdnCarrie]

Dewey decimal system

Um the Dewey Decimal system is still alive and well. Are you referring to card catalogues? The numbers on the spine of the book are still Dewey Decimal. This system is used in public and school libraries. How do you think they were organized in your library? They haven't invented a new classification system. Just automated the way you look it up.