Who is is old enough to remember...

[Taverner]

Saturday morning cartoons that ran part of the morning, until ABC Wide World of Sports came on (and usually we were all bummed)?

When Scooby Doo was a cartoon, not a CGI?

45's that needed that extra attachment to play them on a regular turntable?

When AM radio had bad music, not bad people?

When remote controls had 3 functions - change channel, change volume and off/on?

When a TV dial was a wheel, not a button?

Magazines like "Dynamite" and "Banannas"?

The older neighbor kid with the kickass GTO that we always swore we would have, one day, once we got our license (no WAY we'd have one of those station wagons like mom!)?

When video games came out, how we thought games like "Asteroids" and "Space Invaders" could NEVER be surpassed?

I'm feeling old all :)

[bruce21040]

1. Magazines like "Dynamite" and "Banannas

Does not ring a bell to me.
other than that,,,, I too am suffering from A.G.E.

Remember when a frozen hot dog took more than 30 seconds to cook?

[skooooo]

52. Oh I remember Dynamite!

Used to get it at school, maybe a few times a semester -- 4th and 5th grade. Those things were so fun, and made you feel SOOOOO cool to have.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. PONG

The virgin mother of all video games.

[charliebrown]

We had an atari16 puter.

You had to buy a computer magazine and type in game programs(Basic language) if you wanted games. We thought it was the shit!!!!..lol.

[ironflange]

33. My cousins across town had Pong

I couldn't wait to go visit so I could play.

[Wilber_Stool]

41. The first time I played pong

was in a bar. I think they were arcade type game befor they were on consoles. I could be wrong.

[Hand]

79. Same here...

Aggh, sweet memories. The last time I played pong in a bar was in December 1973... the same night the red-haired barmaid pulled me off my stool and took me home for a tender night of none of anyone else's business.

Ohhh, man... now I'm getting sentimental. Also horny.

[Arugula Latte]

38. We had that when it first came out

The home edition. My grandpa, a gadget guy, sent it. That was the last time I was on the cutting edge of technology.

[DS1]

3. You mean the thick adapter for 45s?

Yeah, I remember those, we didn't have any GTOs on the block but there was a nice Datsun 250Z. I also remember the punch-button car radios being an optional feature for more money, and vinyl seats you instantly stuck to in summer.

I also remember rooting for Nikoli Volkoff and The Iron Sheik. I guess that makes me hate America, but I'm not American, so I suppose I should pack my bags now :hi: bye

[Taverner]

10. OMG PUNCH BUTTON CAR RADIOS!!!!

Youd hit a button and it would shoot the dial to some random station that may or may not come in!

I feel old...

[TreasonousBastard]

15. and no FM....

stereo? Didn't even have that at home.

[solinvictus]

4. Saturday Cartoons

Yep, I was up at 7AM on Saturdays for "Super Friends" and the 2 hours of Warner Brothers cartoons. I hated Scooby Doo because if you watched the show once, you got the entire schtick. I mean, even then, I thought the kids were stupid because it was never a real supernatural menace.

On edit: Who here loved "Shazam" and "Isis"? I loved those shows! Remember "Ark 2" and "Land of the Lost"?

[BiggJawn]

5. "Space Invaders"? No, "Tank" and "Pong" were Da Bomb!

I have trouble believing that we actually thought "Tanks" was cool...Well, it DID have sound and 2-D grafix...

Remember when TV's only had channels 2-13? if you wanted to watch that new "UHF" stuff, you had to get a Blonder-Tongue, and no, that is NOT what you get when you pleasure someone who douches with Clorox....

When Popeye's arch rival was called "Bluto", not "Brutus"?

A show called "Sunrise Semester"? (you ARE old if you remember that one!)

[carols]

6. I remember when all phones had cords

And all appliances came in white, Harvest Gold and Avocado.

And my Dad climbing on the roof to adjust the TV antenna.

And "rabbit ears" on the portable TV.

And everybody's mom wore shirtwaist dresses.

Carol

[xray s]

7. and...

Rotary dial phones and party lines.

McDonald's 19 cent hamburgers. A treat you had maybe once a month.

Gas was 29 cents a gallon, with a free 6-pak of Coke with a fill up, and a kid pumped the gas in your car, and checked your oil and tires.

Nickel candy bars.

Mitch Miller's bouncing balls.

Baseball players that signed autographs before and after the game.

The kid in the neighborhood who's dad was killed in the war.

Nuclear war sirens and drills at school.

Wrestling on UHF stations in black and white.

Sting Ray bicycles with sissy bars.

Schwinn 5-speeds when you grew up.

Having to install seat belts in your car.

Howard Johnson highway "waysides".

Army convoys on the interstates on the weekends.

[carols]

11. My Dad had a "how to build a fallout shelter" pamphlet

I used to look at it for hours and worry about how I could get my pets in the public air raid shelter. And there were tests of the Emergency Broadcast System and "Duck and Cover" drills in school.

I had totally forgotten party lines. Wow - that really takes me back!

And then there was the free flatware or glasses you got with every fill up at the gas station - none of which were self-serve!
Carol

[BiggJawn]

14. Schwinn THREE-Speeds!

And the quiet college guy down the street who had this thing called a "derailleur" and a skinny leather seat on his bike.

"Baron Von Rasche" and "Dick the Bruiser".
"Slammin' Sammy Menacker".

[xray s]

16. The Baron had "The Claw"

And the tag team Of Dick the Bruiser and The Crusher "Here come da judge!"

Really bad used car ads broke up the action. "Ben's Auto Sales" in Chicago. "We Ben over to make you a great deal!"

[carols]

17. And don't forget "Sam Steamboat" and "The Great Malenko"

May Gordon Solie RIP.
Carol

[DBoon]

24. Remember the Schwinn Va-room "engine"

A big plastic noise maker you attached to the rear of the bike?

Of course an old playing card attached with a clothespin did just as well.

And skateboards were made out of old wood planks with roller skate wheels attached?

[BiggJawn]

65. Mattel made the "Va-ROOM!"

I think all Schwinn dealers had them, but I don't recall Capt. Kangaroo with a Va-ROOM motor.

We used penny balloons tied to the forks and stays. Deeper tone...:-)

[Career Prole]

21. Party lines!

Our "ring" was two shorts and a long. I've got three phone lines at the house now. Back then there were three families on one line. I don't know how we did it.
Oh yeah...now it comes back to me...we visited. Quaint.:)

[RebelOne]

56. Oh yes, and what fun to eavesdrop.

[maveric]

45. You have to be my age. Born in 1956?

I remember all those. And:

Not being able to eat meat on Friday

Water Wiggles

Milkman delivering milk and other dairy products to your home

Breadman delivering bread, cakes, pies...to your home

Doctors making housecalls

Doctors smoking in their office during a visit

Five cent coke machine when the cup came down, then ice, then the coke

25 cent saturday movie matinee

Polio vaccine clinics in parking lots

[skooooo]

53. i was born..

....1963 and remember everything mentioned in the original post.

[WillParkinson]

57. 64 here...

And I remember most of it.

[Hand]

80. Hah! You cherries...

Try 1949... I don't remember any of these things, however, since I can't remember what I had for breakfast, of course... (creak) (dodder).

:hippie:

[FDRrocks]

8. When remote controls were attached by cords.

I'm only 20 but I remember our first VCR had a remote attached by a cord that couldnt have been more than 3 feet long. And yes, it did pretty much have only 3 buttons, max. 5.

[immoderate]

77. "Space Command" remote control...

You had to aim it at the sensor.

And Sylvania "Halo Light" around the TV screen.

--IMM

[solinvictus]

9. Comics

And when comics were in every convenience store, drug store, and supermarket? When I started collecting them, new comics were $.25 each, treasury editions $1.00, and 80 page giants from DC were $.50-.75.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. The Indian Head television test pattern

[skooooo]

51. I remember that!!

funny how these images get burned in your brain..

[gmoney]

13. 45s and such

I remember when the corner drugstore had a little box of 45 records... they were "off the chart" singles and I think they were like 19 cents each.

I remember 16 ounce deposit Pepsi bottles in six packs.

I remember when there was only one kind of Cap'n Crunch. And one kind of Coke. And once kind of Pepsi.

I remember that corner drugstore would also let me buy cigarettes for my Mom if she wrote me a note. Viceroys. (Dammit Mom, why did you smoke those things all those years?)

I remember movie theatres that just had ONE screen -- a big, glorious screen.

I remember our local grocery sponsored kids movies during the summer at one of those theatres -- free admission -- classics like "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "Fantastic Voyage" -- that same theatre showed "Billy Jack" forever it seems.

I remember when the best music station in town was AM for top 40... my little portable radio keeping me company while I delivered my morning paper route.

For that matter, I remember when kids delivered paper routes, and I'd have to go around and collect every week or so.

I remember when each item in the supermarket was stamped with a price... used to be directly on the item in purple ink (made with grape juice) ...then a little later there were the little stickers.

I remember when there was only one company making baseball cards, and they were issued in "series" of 132 cards, several weeks apart... if you were lucky, you got your hands on some of the fifth series so you had a fighting chance of finishing the set.

I remember my sister making her own clothes, spreading out fabric on the living room floor and pinning pattern paper to it to cut out... I wonder if people still do that?

I remember there were at least two local talk/variety shows on during weekdays -- I'd end up watching them if I was home sick. There were also several locally produced kids shows on TV... one earlier in the morning for younger kids, one at about 3:30 for older kids -- sort of like the Krusty the Clown show on the Simpsons. Does anyone still do that?

Sigh... never thought I'd long for the simpler days of the Nixon administration.

[Melsky]

18. Dynamite and Bannanas

I have not thought about these in years, but totally loved both of them. I read them at the library.

For people who missed them, they were humor magazines aimed at kids. Dynamite was for younger kids, and Bannanas was for 12-14 year olds.

[Taverner]

20. Humor, and an introduction to gossip mags if I remember correctly

I used to get these every month! I remember cleaning out my stuff at my parent's house a few months back and I stumbed onto a few. One of the covers had "THE FONZ" on it - the epitome of coolness for an 8 year old.

SIGH...

BTW...I like your art :)

[justgamma]

19. I remember

going to the furniture store with my folks just to see Bonanza in color.

Chocolate pop

WLS from Chicago was THE rock and roll station to listen to.

Going to the hat store with mom.

Watching for Burma Shave signs.

When White Rabbit and The Funny Farm were banned from the radio.

They're coming to take me away. Haha.

[pscot]

22. I remember that Howdy Doody sucked

and that Buffalo Bob was the first Dork, though we didn't have the word yet. I remember stopping in town after church and while my folks shopped I slipped into the drug store and and bought a Mad Magazine-2 bits- and a classic comic to hide it in. "Look, ma, I'm readin' Lorna Doone". I remember laying in the back seat of our '51 Mercury while my mother was in the grocery store, with the radio cranked up and Chuck Berry following Maybelline over the hill. I remember a girl named Judy teaching me to dance to Elvis in her garage. And I look around me now and say "What the fuck. How ever did we get from there to here?"

[frogbison]

29. Clutch Cargo

Anybody but me remember "Clutch Cargo," who talked but his mouth didn't move?

Burger, fries and a pop were 60¢ (Burger 25¢, Fries 25¢, pop 10¢) Nickle candy bars. 19 ¢ gas wars. Movies were 50¢ for adults and 25 for kids...

[bill grasso]

37. speaking of "Clutch"..

how about "Steve Canyon"? "Terry and The Pirates"? "Sky King"? I believe those shows and the John Wayne flick "The High and The Mighty" destined me for a career in aviation..

[doubleplusgood]

44. check this out

for "lost" cartoons: www.toontracker.com

[trof]

64. The lips DID move.

But the facial expressions didn't.
Somehow they superimposed human lips on the cartoon characters.
Probably a lot cheaper than doing the animation.
I always thought it was "fakey" looking.

[Loco_moco]

23. Remember having Lunch with Soupy Sales?

:hi:

[bill grasso]

36. can you still do..

..the soupy shuffle?? ..or remember the lyrics to the song..

Did you send him the green things from your parents' wallets when he asked you to..??

[charlie]

25. It was a minor disaster

when you unpacked the sodas, beer, pork and beans, fruit cocktail for a cookout... and found you forgot to bring a churchkey.

[Maestro]

26. I remember well

You must be in your late 30's or early 40's.

[Taverner]

28. Actually - mid 30's....

As most x-ers did, we looked at the 70's teens with awe

[historian]

27. saturday afternoon movies

Flash Gordon, Lone Ranger etc

[frogbison]

34. Saturday Mornings

Roy Rogers, Fury, Mighty Mouse, Sky King...

[LastDemocratInSC]

30. I remember all of the above except for the 70s - I was high that decade

Steve Lundy and John Records Landecker on WLS (yes, Records truly is his middle name).

Joe Pine as the first ascerbic talk radio host.

The Apollo astronauts who brought us our greatest moments.

And maybe a few more significant things like hope in the future based on an understanding that liberty and education would open all doors.

[greendog]

31. 8 track tapes....

...that changed tracks in the middle of a song.....and you didn't complain. And cars that got 6mpg...but gas was less than 40 cents a gallon.

[ronzo]

32. Me! Me!

Sounds like we're in roughly the same demographic.

Who remembers "Wacky Packages"?

:toast:

[Arugula Latte]

40. OMG! Wacky Packages

Hadn't thought about those for years.

38-year-old here. :hi:

[Mikimouse]

35. How about push button on/off switches on RCA black and white TVs...

Ruff and Reddy cartoons (Moonie Moolahs beware!)

Beaney and Cecil

Fireball XL-5

Industry on Parade

The Big Picture

Radios that were pieces of furniture

Kaiser autos with the fold down armrest in the back seat

The original Dick and Jane readers

Manual feed slide projectors (with bulbs that were guaranteed to destroy the slides if they were left in too long

Rin Tin Tin

Corky the Circus Boy

No cable TV

K-tree Jamboree (Nacogdoches/Angelina Counties, TX)

Living on the grounds of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston while my father was in grad. school (house is no longer there, it was torched and torn down in the early 1970s)

Yeah, I know, some of these things re too specific, but that's how old I am-but then again, you are only as old as you think!

[Arugula Latte]

39. How about

ditto paper (purple ink) for school papers (no copiers in the schools)

no ATMs, no CDs, no VCRs

station wagons with backwards-facing seats (loved those!)

later ... bubble vans (70s cool)

the Pachinko craze (we had one)

[FireHeart]

42. I remember all of that

and a whole lot more. Most of which I prefer to forget! :)

[shanti]

43. you must be a boomer...

am i right?

[RoyGBiv]

46. Memories....

I'm old enough to remember the episode of the Gong Show in which every contestant but one sang that horrid song.

My first video game machine was Pong. I played it on a B&W television. :-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

47. I STILL don't think Asteroids has been surpassed. Still play it, on

MAME emulator on PC. And I'm a total PC game person too. But Asteroids rules...

[ikojo]

48. I remember fondly....

Listening to Larry Lujack on WLS Chicago while delivering newspapers in the early hours of the morning. He had a spot where he did weird/strange animal stories. Loved it!

Watching Cubs games in the afternoon on WGN when it was called Channel 9. Dave Kingman was on the Cubbies team then. I was watching the Cubs when they announced that Elvis had died...ticked me off that they interrupted the game for that.

Riding all over Springfield, IL on my bike...practically LIVING at Shadid's book mart during the summer. They knew exactly which new Star Trek book I wanted. Being able to buy FIVE paperback books for $5.00 INCLUDING tax.

Seeing Star Wars for only a buck.

The original first issue of Starlog magazine when it was more fan oriented. I stopped reading it when I got older and it seemed they praised anything as the best sci-fi movie ONLY because it was sci-fi, whether it was good or not.

OMNI magazine.

Star Trek Poster Magazine

Star Trek communicator walkie talkies

I LOVED ice cold Pepsi in a bottle. My sister would save the Pepsi bottles for times when she was flat broke and then turn them in.

Wrestling at the Chase: it was on EVERY Sunday morning.

Dragon's Lair and the shock I felt when I had to put TWO quarters in the machine to play it. But it sure was cool!

Playing D&D until the wee hours of the mornin' and trying to convince my mom that there was nothing satanic or evil about the game.

The Bay City Rollers...one of my friends was a definite Rollermaniac and put plaid on as much clothing as she possibly oould.

Weclome Back Kotter before John Travolta became insanely famous and popular and the show "jumped the shark."

CHIPs and lusting after Erik Estrada

[pagerbear]

54. S-A-TUR-DAY-NIGHT!!!!!!

[Gore1FL]

49. I remember

"In the News" during SAturday morning cartoons.

I remember when "School House Rock" was new.

50. Any Other Los Angelinos?

I remember-

When you could look into the back lot of the MGM studio in Culver City and see the old sets. We used to try to see the house from Pyscho.

Those aweful Cal Worthington and his dog Spot (who was never a dog) commercials. "Go see Cal, Go see cal, Go see Cal!"

The POP (Pacific Ocean Park)Amusement park that sat between Venice Beach and the Santa Monica Pier.

The Fox Venice theater on Lincoln Avenue. Double feature movies, and on Halloween there would skeletons hanging from the ceiling and a crazy guy in a gorilla suit. Years later, it was the place to go for the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The Sherif John Show.

When AM Radio was cooler than FM

When the westside of Santa Monica used to be a bargain district populated by senior citizens, and the closest thing to a mall was the 2nd Street promenade.

The giant slide, the roller coaster, and the bumper cars on the Santa Monica Pier.

When Los Angeles still looked like the background city in the old Little Rascals shorts.

[Hand]

81. OMG...

Sheriff John! I haven't thought about him in... decades. He was a sweet guy. I watched him do the birthday announcements on my birthday once and was soooo disappointed that he didn't know about me.

Lemme think... the Fox Majestic may have been the one that showed all the horror movies. The Criterion showed the Disney movies...

And middle-class families (e.g., mine) lived in Santa Monica Canyon. You cna't find a house there now for less that $1.5 million. Dark days...

[RebelOne]

55. Remember it all.

Except for the magazines. Never heard of them.

[solinvictus]

58. World's Greatest Super Heroes

By Mego Toys. 8 inch super hero figures with weird little smiles on their faces. I had Batman, Robin, the Joker, and Penguin.

[MadHound]

59. Oh, I remember

Back when Harry Caray and Jack Buck were the voices of the St. Louis Cardinals, on KMOX out of St. Louis.

Back when the coolest music came over WLS, AM.

Back when having a buck was a fortune to a kid.(comic books were 12 cents, Cokes and candy bars were a dime)

Back when cars were real steel, and dented instead of shattered.

Back when the remote was sending the kid over to change the channel.

Getting up early to watch Neil Armstrong take that first step on the moon.

Back when your neighbor's college age son or daughter started smelling funny when they came home from state, and you picked up the whispers that they were "smoking rope", and wondering why in God's name would they do that.

Back when supercomputers could solve complex problems in mere days.

Back when being taught how to use the slide rule was part of your jr. high lesson plan in science class.

Back when it was not allowed for you to use one of those spiffy newfangled Texas Instrument calculators.

Back when. . .

[ikojo]

69. I remember getting a Texas Instruments calculator

and thinking it was cool to enter 7734 and then show it to your friends upside down.....

We would say go to 7734 upside down when we were mad at one another...we thought the parents had no idea what we meant...yeah right.

[liberalitch]

60. all that and....

xmas lights with big bulbs (coming back now)

teather ball

barbies dream house... and pool, the first ones

Hang Ten t-shirts (my sister and I had 1 million)

TV show.... when things were rotten.... who remembers that one?

[Burma Jones]

61. When Things were Rotten - Great Mel Brooks

I remember Gregor ripping off his beard and going "Gregor feel all soft and smoothy."

This became a catch phrase in our gang

[Ilsa]

62. What's a 45?

Just kidding. I remember everything except the magazines. Too poor for that.

I grew up on AM radio. Couldn't get much FM way out in the boondocks.

When our parents wanted the tv channel changed, they threw a pillow at one of us kids on the floor and told us to change it. "What do we need a remote for? We've got you!"

Oh yes, dials on TV and buttons on car radios.

My parents didn't get a color tv until I left home. I didn't have one for another three years. It was 1982. I was very careful with my money as I lived alone on only my income.

Wheat pennies. Mercury dimes.

Yeah, I'm old.

[Burma Jones]

63. I remember........ Now get me my Geritol Dammit

Tommy, The Album, not the Broadway show

The Road Runner GTO

WGN playing Garfield Goose and The Freindly Giant

Wonderrama, "Kids are people too - wacka doo wacka doo wacka doo"

Batman and the Green Hornet, back to back on Friday night

When AM radio had some good music

Schwinn Sting Ray Bikes with the Banana seat

Honda Minibikes

Bobby Kennedy getting shot, but not John.

Laugh In and Dark Shadows

When Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died

Pup Tents made of very thick and heavy canvas

Slide Rules

Gas Lines

Whip Inflation Now

The Not Ready for Prime Time Players

Monty Python when it was all new

People smoking in Grocery Stores

[kimchi]

66. Grudgingly I admit to remembering all those (except the mags)

Am I really that old?

38 isn't old, is it??????????????????

[bikebloke]

67. A Few Memories

Civil War trading cards - Like baseball cards, but with gory battle scenes. I wasn't allowed to have them, but other kids at school had them.

Giant Sweet Tarts - hard to come by when they first came out. So a grade school black market for them arose.

Captain Tug - DC area early evening show with Popeye cartoons

Balsa wood gliders - Are they still around?

[Tom_Foolery]

68. I Remember When Our Family Didn't Have a TV Remote...

My dad made me sit close to the TV, and he'd hit me with his shoe if he wanted the channel changed. Of course, he'd get pissed if I didn't hand the shoe back to him. I still love him, though.

[bratcatinok]

70. You think you feel old!

I remember getting up on Saturday morning and watching Tarzan, Sheba-Queen of the Jungle or Bomba until the parents got up.

Silver quarters and dimes.

Penny candy

Fizzies

Being in 6th grade when JFK was shot and watching the funeral on television. Learning what the word cortege meant.

Watching The World of Disney in color for the first time.

Easter hats and Maryjanes

Swooning over Ilya Kuriakin (sp)

Quaker Oats had green glasses in every box. Detergent had towels.

S&H green stamps (and there was another stamp but we didn't collect those)

All of the neighbourhood Mom's were Mrs. ____

Our dogs could play with us without having to be on a leash.

Playing cowboys and Indians, hide n go seek, red rover, freeze tag on a summer evening until it got dark.

Jacks tournaments on the playground during recess.

Homemade smocked dresses.

Keds were the only tennis shoes.

We had the run of the neighbourhood and no one worried about where we were.

Finding caterpillar eggs on leaves, putting them in an empty mayonnaise jar and watching them hatch then feeding the caterpillars.

When my sister was born I remember having to be careful using the toilet because there might be diapers soaking.

[bruce21040]

71. The way those metal rings

Used to come off the wagon wheel at the worst time?

The sound of indians fixin to attack your community as you circled the wagons.

The excitement of hearing the piano playing as you pulled into a new town, just knowing that there would be a good warm whiskey waiting for you at the bar.

The sweet smell of the barmaids.. They got to bath 2 times every month.

[livetohike]

72. Learned to drive a stick on my boyfriend's GTO

I still remember the color - it was forest green :-)

[bruce21040]

73. Forrest green

1970~1973 color.

[livetohike]

75. I seem to remember that GTO was a 1967 model

but my memory isn't what it used to be :-)

[Khephra]

74. You sound about my age.

36.

My gage is "what price were comics when you were a kid?"

My answer: $.25

[LuLu550]

76. No TV when I was REALLY little

then a small black and white with three channels and only a few kid shows, Howdy Doody, Sky King, and cartoon shows, mostly old old ones from the 1930s and 1940s....

[ScreamingMeemie]

78. We ate our cereal (Freakies) on t.v. trays in front of the tube.

:hi:

[doubleplusgood]

82. curb feelers on cars

Flavor Straws (A very small "flavor wafer" was inserted in the middle of the straw during the manufacturing process so when milk passed through it, it became flavored)

Flicks chocolate candy at the movies; came in Blue, Yellow, Red & Green carboard tubes IIRC.

Helms Bakery trucks. These came through the neighborhood (L.A.) every afternoon. At the back of the truck, long wooden drawers would be pulled out to reveal donuts, sugar cookies, etc.

Engineer Bill & Sherrif John (L.A. kiddie TV shows)