You might be older than dirt if you remember..

[Bugman]

10 cent pay phones.

3 cent stamps.

Black and White TV.

Transistor radios.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Just a few to get things started. Let's have some fun with this. 🙂

 

[chicago]

I had a black and white mini Zenith with rabbit ears and dials for volume, channel, brightness, contrast, and i think sharpness? Most of the channels didn't work, but I could watch I Love Lucy and the 3 Stooges and if I went to the end of the dial I could hear people having conversations on their phone or police radios haha

I threw that thing down the stairs a few times and it STILL worked. I almost miss it. I'm not older than dirt, but that tv sure was lol

I feel like everyone's grandma has a rusty one of these in their kitchen ^^ lol

 

[Bugman]

I had a black and white mini Zenith with rabbit ears and dials for volume, channel, brightness, contrast, and i think sharpness? Most of the channels didn't work, but I could watch I Love Lucy and the 3 Stooges and if I went to the end of the dial I could hear people having conversations on their phone or police radios haha

I threw that thing down the stairs a few times and it STILL worked. I almost miss it. I'm not older than dirt, but that tv sure was lol

I feel like everyone's grandma has a rusty one of these in their kitchen ^^ lol

Haha, I grew up with a black and white Zenith TV and you couldn't kill that thing with a bazooka. It was still working when my folks got rid of it after 25 years of faithful service.

 

[Gothika]

i never had a black and white tv i did have a large heavy wood frame tv that i was able to get pay channels with by messing with the settings on the tv. cant do that these days

 

[Bugman]

i never had a black and white tv i did have a large heavy wood frame tv that i was able to get pay channels with by messing with the settings on the tv. cant do that these days

Knowing you, one of them was a porn channel. 😛

 

[Gothika]

Knowing you, one of them was a porn channel. 😛

lol yep your right

 

[Bugman]

The Mercury and Gemini programs.

Apollo 1.

Apollo 13.

Apollo 11.

 

[Gothika]

8 tracks..i belive the first one i listened to was a kiss album

records of course i remember listening to my fathers albums now i have a collection of my own

movies back in the day,they were so much better imo

apple computers

commodore 64

nintendo

ahh the good old days lol

 

[Gothika]

oh yes .. going to the store with a note from a parent to get smokes lol,i did that for my parents when i was young

 

[chicago]

Block parties

 

[milagros317]

78 RPM records. 😱
Brand new Studebakers 😱

 

[AmishTickler]

Atari 2600 😀

 

[Wolf]

Loading programs into a computer with a cassette tape.

 

[The Internet]

Here's a few!

UHF channels
The Horn & Hardart Automats
Sheet music (and people having pianos being a pretty common thing....)
People breaking into harmony when singing "Happy Birthday", "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow", etc....
Gros Michel bananas
Calling marijuana "grass"
...when there was no cursing, nudity or blood in movies
Double features
Drive-In movies

 

[chicago]

If there's someone still alive who was old enough to see the blood and gore in Griffith's Intolerance or even catch the "damn" in The Big Trail, I would be hella surprised.

 

[Wolf]

The original Dark Shadows.

 

[Gothika]

bugman as a kid 😛

 

[The Internet]

If there's someone still alive who was old enough to see the blood and gore in Griffith's Intolerance or even catch the "damn" in The Big Trail, I would be hella surprised.

I wasn't counting silent films, true.

Best cursing in a silent film: Mary Pickford in "M'liss" (1918)
go to 24:26, thereabouts.....hilarious... quintessential Mary, never a wilting violet! 😉


Almost a hundred years ago....older than dirt!

 

[Mrcool]

IN my town we still have a pay phone but the the door gets stuck alot

 

[chicago]

Cars without seat belts, cooling off by playing in open fire hydrants

 

[Wolf]

Smoking on airplanes.
Hell, smoking everyfuckingwhere.

 

[Bugman]

The assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother Bobby and MLK.

My Lai.

The USS Pueblo.

Kent State.

The Days of Rage in Chicago.

 

[Bugman]

bugman as a kid 😛

Oh very funny HAR HAR. 😛

 

[The Internet]

Smoking on airplanes.
Hell, smoking everyfuckingwhere.

Smoking in movie theatres!

 

[bethaknee]

Telephone exchange names, rotary dial phones.