Talking about feeling old....

[Bon Bon]

BIG combs sticking out of your back pocket

Blue eyeshadow

Big earings

Sadie Hawkins dances

Playing "tin can alley" or "kick the can"

Praying in school

 

[ragdoll]

Going home from school for lunch because very few mothers worked outside the home back then. This is a great thread. It's fun to reminisce. Does make me feel old though!

Just thought of a couple more...milk, bread and eggs being delivered to your house. The paper/rags man. Anyone remember him? He would drive down the street in an old truck yelling for people to bring their old papers and rags to him. Jeez, I'm old!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Waiting for the Sunday paper to get the tv guide so you could read what would be on the next week.

The once a year movies that you would be so excited to see - we used to schedule around Wizard of Oz, too.

and I remember Pong - loved that game

Phonographs that came in cases you'd take out & play one at a time

When record stores had .... records

Wallaby's & platform shoes

POW & MIA bracelets

Neon paint - when it first came out

My cousin trying to grow his hair long (it was to his collar) so he could be a "hippie"

Using your taperecorder to tape songs off the radio

big wheels (always wanted one when I was that age)

Life without Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers

It was Sheriff John, Bozo the Clown, Hobo Kelly

Saturday mornings and Wonderama (Does anybody here have an aardvark?)

The Gong Show

Prime Time had family shows like the Partridge Family, Brady Bunch, Starsky & Hutch, Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, then 8 is Enough ....

Gay was happy

soda in bottles that you'd get from a machine

phone calls for a dime

home movies on an 8 millimeter film

Going to the movies for 3 bucks - and that inluded double features & sometimes a cartoon

Drive-in theaters

Dress code in school - girls had to wear dresses, and on special occasions could wear a pantsuit

in LA we had Marineland - before Sea World existed

I remember clackers, too. We used to clack those things all day - and we could take them to school and play with them

 

[Pin Wizard]

Clackers? Ours were called Click-Clacks.

Plaid stamps...this was how I got my Spalding tennis racquet!

Spree

Pop Rocks

Cheerleaders wore saddle shoes and the skirts had to be finger tip length...hmmm...they look a lot shorter now. LOL!

Booby Trap...loved that game!

Necklace candy

Pixies

Candy cigarettes

Manual typewriters

Carbon paper! LOLOLOLOL!

Mimiograph machines

 

[Bacrd]

This thread is making me feel REALLY old !!

How about:
playing Jax
Making a tent over the clothesline with blankets
and White Go-Go Boots

 

[wuv tigger]

My employee: Boy all the problems in the oil countries makes me worry about gas prices, etc.

Me: Yeah, remember when we had the oil embargo (1973) and you could only get gas on odd days or even days depending on your license plate number.

My employee: Huh????

Me: What year were you born?

My employee: 1975

Me: Never mind

I also miss my 8 tracks and my beta tapes. I always choose the wrong technology.

David

 

[GeorgeG]

Or when... uh... hmmm... it was so long ago I forget! Oh... I know...

Watching Dad set up that first TV where the box was huge and the screen was tiny until the big bubble got hung over it to make the picture bigger, but distorted... well, more distorted than before. Then, you sometimes got to stay up late and stare at the test pattern after the National Anthem was played.

Let's see:

Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
Farmer Grey Cartoons
Hopalong Cassidy

and all rated G!!!!

 

[philaround]

Serials at The Saturday afternoon movie matinee. Went in at 1 got out at 6. 2 or 3 cartoons, a serial episode, a double feature and only 1 coming attraction.

White buck shoes.

Holiday dinners with the whole family [3 and sometimes 4 generations] in the same house at the same time eating for at least 4 hours, and the "funny' uncle was the one that kicked his shoes off and fell asleep after the turkey.

Baseball cards in the bicycle tire spokes. How many Mickey Mantle rookie cards got destroyed this way?

Lincoln logs, erector sets, and Lionel & American Flyer trains.

I'll be back if I come up with any more.

 

[Bacrd]

Originally posted by philaround

Baseball cards in the bicycle tire spokes. How many Mickey Mantle rookie cards got destroyed this way?

How funny is that !!! I could have put my kids thru college with the baseball cards I ruined on my bike!!!

I remember my Uncle's old American Motors (?) Rambler that had push buttons.

 

[Melora]

On thing that I wrote yesterday and accidently erased was remembering our giant TV with metal cabinet on skinny legs.

We never had cable when I was little.. we got 13 channels and maybe not all of them. We had an antenea. OOps gotta adjust the the rabbit ears.

I also remember that during Christmas it was REALLY REALLY important to make sure that you were home on the nights of those great Christmas shows or else you missed them for the whole year. My girlfriend and I taped the songs one year on cassette so we could listen to them.

My girlfriends mom got a VCR and the first tapes she bought cost over $100 each!

 

[philaround]

I don't know how I forgot this and I don't know how common it was. In my family Santa not only brought all the gifts on Christmas Eve but also the tree. When the kids went to bed that night there was NOTHING anywhere to show it was Christmas Eve. When we got up in the morning, usually before sunrise, the tree was up and decorated, the wreaths were on the doors, the mistletoe was hung up at every entry door, and the candles were in all the windows.

How did our parents manage to survive our childhood?

 

[Byrd]

My first car was a push button Rambler... My father had an American Motors dealership. I couldn't wait to drive any other brand.
What makes me feel old is teaching the children of students that I taught when they were in the primary grades. Some of those former students are paying for the things they tried in their youth. LOL
I do remember my white GoGo boots. Now why did I ever wear thoses?
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! School is out Wednesday. I'll miss them but it will be nice to cook a relaxed big meal from scratch!
Byrd

 

[KathyFP]

Wearing Angora yarn on your boyfriends ring (putting it in the freezer the night before to make the yarn grow)

 

[DisneyObsessed]

Byrd, I had those same white go-go boots. Can you imagine? We used to think we were all that in those things

Kathy, I remember the yarn, but I never knew to put it in the freezer. I missed out on that one.

 

[Dixielady908]

Round panasonic radios with a chain/they came in different colors and in am only..


Denise