Without telling your age, what is something from your childhood that kids today wouldn't know about?

[Mischievous Daisy]

I don't remember that at all. Do tell? Message me if you need to.

The sides indicated whether a young lady was fast or not so much, lol

 

[indimom]

 

[Metro West]

Cassette/8-track tapes
Turntables

 

[AnnaS]

Not sure if it was mentioned - 10 pages marshmallow shoes & Keds

 

[Tattylou]

Knocking on your friends door to see if they want to go out and play

That one still happens with my 11 year old now.

 

[DeeBee3]

Blockbuster Video
Tower Records
cartoons only on Saturday mornings and for a couple of hours after school
Electric Company on PBS
Having your mom say, "Come back when the street lights turn on" when you went out to play
When banks didn't have ATMs yet and you had to go inside the bank to withdraw money
Paying for things with checks & having to bring your checkbook with you
When MTV still had music videos
VH-1's Pop Up Videos
When the Simpsons first debuted on TV
Watching "In Living Color" when Jim Carrey & Jamie Foxx were part of the cast
shoulder pads in women's clothing
jelly bracelets
pegging your pants
Z. Cavarricci pants (I'm probably spelling it wrong)
TV without a remote control
TV before cable
Having to get up to switch the cable box from "A" to "B" so you could watch all the other channels
Telephones before cordless phones
Telephones before 'call waiting'
Calling 'Movie Phone' to find out what times the movies were playing, and then imitating the Movie Phone guy's voice in order to make your friends laugh

I LOVED pop-up videos. You learned a lot of stuff!!!

 

[JoeA]

Years ago we were cleaning out the basement and my daughter found one of those little plastic inserts we used to play 45's on a turntable and asked what it was.

 

[JenLT]

Our first tv remote was attached to the tv with a cord.

 

[slo]

Playing hopscotch correctly
Chinese jump rope
Playing jacks correctly
Rotary phones with long cords that get horribly twisted up
8 Track

 

[slo]

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This is awesome!
I totally remember doing this.

 

[slo]

Knocking on your friends door to see if they want to go out and play

Yep….and no one gave you a dirty look for coming unannounced.

 

[slo]

I have another one…..

Boys I went to school with delivering the paper and then coming to our house to collect money from my parents

 

[shoney]

I have another one…..

Boys I went to school with delivering the paper and then coming to our house to collect money from my parents

we were just talking about that on thanksgiving. My husband was a paper boy and the neighbor tipped him 10 cents a week. That was cheap even in the early 80’s!

 

[macraven]

Skate keys

 

[KayMichigan]

It was before my time but I watched many seasons of this via video. I love Dark Shadows, and part of the appeal is it's imperfect quirks. They spend like a week's worth of episodes about looking for a pen!

Dark Shadows was great! I watched most of the original series. They've remade it at least once but it's just not the same.

And because they had so little money to spend on the episodes, they could only shoot each scene once, which meant that they were essentially doing the show live with no way to correct mistakes.

Because of this, you will see lots of bloopers in the show, including boom microphones dangling into the shot, the barrels with the dry ice for fog visible behind walls and columns, and various other issues.

The actors also had to be sure to remember their lines because there would be no retakes. Apparently Jonathan Frid, who played vampire hearthrob Barnabas Collins, was notorious for having a hard time with this.

 

[barb969]

A phone with no dial or buttons. The operator would say “number please”. It was a party line, which meant 3 other people shared the phone line and could listen in the others’ calls.

 

[Suprize2017]

Moon boots and bread bags

 

[Mysterian]

Dark Shadows was great! I watched most of the original series. They've remade it at least once but it's just not the same.

And because they had so little money to spend on the episodes, they could only shoot each scene once, which meant that they were essentially doing the show live with no way to correct mistakes.

Because of this, you will see lots of bloopers in the show, including boom microphones dangling into the shot, the barrels with the dry ice for fog visible behind walls and columns, and various other issues.

The actors also had to be sure to remember their lines because there would be no retakes. Apparently Jonathan Frid, who played vampire hearthrob Barnabas Collins, was notorious for having a hard time with this.

Yeah I liked the low-budget appeal of the original. Not just in the mistakes but in the set design and lighting, it gave the show a more cozy feel. Same goes for the old Doctor Who seasons.

As for remakes, there was the Tim Burton movie (meh), but also a mini-series in the 90's (just ok), and a more recent one on CW (which I haven't seen). There are STILL talks to remake it again.

One thing I give credit to the Burton film was keeping it in the 70's. It was well shot, very misty and foggy, and one scene featured Deep Purple's "Nights in White Satin", which I think would have fit the original series well. They just botched it by making it a cheap and unfunny comedy.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

At work yesterday as we were finishing up something, I said “bada bing bada boom bada beakman” because I was really little when beakmans world came on.

my coworker, who is a mere 7 years younger than me, had no idea what I just referenced

 

[TheRAEmanPTTfan]

Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre
Showbiz Pizza Place
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Cabbage Patch Kids
ETC.