The older than dirt thread.

[Laugh]

How about when you had to actually go the TV to change the channel manually?

 

[Mitchell]

The years when there were only big "boat type cars" (The 70s) instead of the various SUV's, compact cars, and high mileage vechicles that we have today. My family had a 73 Grand Prix, and when you went to close the door on that car, it felt like you were breaking your back doing it.

 

[kis123]

How about when you had to actually go the TV to change the channel manually?

Or you got to play human remote and antenna until your parents figured out how to keep the picture clear??

Or the tv that if you set it just right between the standard channels you could get the cool channels too?

 

[Mitchell]

When we first moved into our house in CT in the late 70s, we had a "mobile antenna" I guess it was. The reception in CT used to be awful until we got cable in the area in 1983, and we used to turn the antenna with a dial, in whichever direction, to try and get a better picture.

Not sure if anyone had anything like that.

 

[Mane'o]

Howdy Doody on TV
Doctors who made house calls
Transistor Radios
Tang powdered orange drink
Zorro on TV (Guy Hamilton played Zorro)
Davy Crockett hats (Fess Parker played him on TV)
Huckleberry Hound Dog cartoon show
77 Sunset Strip on TV
Chevy Corvair
X-Ray machines for your feet in the shoe department
Bosco chocolate milk mix
Buster Brown shoes
Super Balls

 

[paracarl44]

When we first moved into our house in CT in the late 70s, we had a "mobile antenna" I guess it was. The reception in CT used to be awful until we got cable in the area in 1983, and we used to turn the antenna with a dial, in whichever direction, to try and get a better picture.

Not sure if anyone had anything like that.

^That was a rotating antenna that you controlled from a box atop of your TV set.^

 

[Jagermeistered]

^That was a rotating antenna that you controlled from a box atop of your TV set.^

I remember that gadget...

 

[ChosenofMystra]

You know you're old when you remember as a child, you always wanted to stay up as late as humanly possible.....and now as an adult, you relish every hour of sleep you can possibly squeeze into the day 😉

 

[paracarl44]

Do you remember the local TV stations playing The Star Spangled Banner at the close of the broadcast day?

 

[fireguardian]

You just don't see the $2 bill as much as you did back in the day.

I have had case where cashiers have called over managers because I gave them a Susan B Anthony dollar coin and a 50 cent piece. They thought I was using foreign currency. I can't even say its because I'm all tat old. I'm 28 and tat just made me feel sad. I will admit I feel old every time I talk to my teenage sisters. No idea what cassettes are, they never knew that The Parent Trap, Herbie the Love Bug, Tge Karate Kid, and Footloose were all remakes. Gah they did even know the difference between an outfit worn in the 80s compared to an outfit worn by hippies. I cried on that one.

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

Electromechanical Typewriters
Hershey's Syrup in a can
Charles Chips truck
Hi Fi records (high tech audio before the advent of Stereo)
The Beatles' debut on Ed Sullivan
FM radio had no rock. Only "beautiful music" (what most think of as elevator music)
The assassination of JFK
Every show on TV was black and white
Referring to an African American as "black" would likely earn you an ass-kicking.

 

[mj57]

Milkmen delivering to your door.
Candy buttonjs.
Nik-L-Nips.
UHF television channels.
Rotary telephone dials.

 

[Jagermeistered]

FM radio had no rock. Only "beautiful music" (what most think of as elevator music)

-DAJT

Maybe "suicide" music for some of us.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Here's a more recent one I am so saddened to see younger generations missing out on.....traditional hand-drawn animation. That took talent to do, rather than sitting on your ass and letting a computer do 90% of the work for you. I always try to show my nephew some of the classic hand-drawn cartoons I grew up with so he can appreciate the classics 🙂

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

The original Outer Limits on ABC!

 

[Laugh]

Using the phrase "you sound like a broken record".

 

[paracarl44]

Calling a refrigerator an ice box.

 

[Wildtime]

Electromechanical Typewriters

I still have a mechanical typewriter that I used up to a couple years ago to fill out multi-copy forms. It still sees occasional use every once in a while.

 

[Mane'o]

I still have some of the super8 movies I made with my friends as a kid.

 

[C.A.B.]

A time when most technology was huge, heavy, and made to last. Actually, I should say; a time before 'planned obsolescence.'

 

[paracarl44]

Some Old Cars you hardly see anymore............................

Studebaker, Packard, Henry J, Nash, Edsel, Hudson, Rambler, Stanley Steamer, Pontiac Firebird and Motel T Ford just to name a few.

 

[C.A.B.]

Pacers, Gremlins, & Datsuns

 

[Bugman]

Pacers, Gremlins, & Datsuns

Oh lord. I hate to admit this, but I bought a brand new Gremlin. Bright orange with the white 'hockey sticks' on the sides, and a white interior. Truely hideous. No idea what I was thinking... . 😱

 

[Bugman]

Fountain pens and ink wells. Pay phones everywhere. Mail boxes on street corners. Everything on TV was in black and white. Summer nights at a Drive-in theater. A&W drive-ins.

 

[C.A.B.]

Oh lord. I hate to admit this, but I bought a brand new Gremlin. Bright orange with the white 'hockey sticks' on the sides, and a white interior. Truely hideous. No idea what I was thinking... . 😱

LOL@ gremlin one piece 'molded' back seat