Who here remembers...

[CornField]

... having to wait on the television to warm up?

... laundry detergent had free glasses, towels or other sundries inside the box?

... buying items from the store without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison strangers?

... only dialing the last four digits of a phone number? Party lines?

... heading downtown to buy the lastest 45 record?

... when the worst thing that could happen to you for having sex in the backseat of your boyfriend's car was crabs or pregnancy?

... when war was a card game?

... a president speaking of "freedom" and it was understood that he meant first the American people, then the rest of the world?

[Huckebein the Raven]

1. I do remember war the card game

played it all the time in grade school during indoor recess

[On the Road]

2. I Actually Remeber These

... only dialing the last four digits of a phone number? Party lines?

I think my family had a party line when I was very young. I do remember the first two digits of the number being given alphabetically (KIrby9-6542 or AXminster7-1928).

... heading downtown to buy the lastest 45 record?

My first record, a 45 bought when I was 11 years old, was Herb Alpert's "Spanish Fly."

... when war was a card game

I taught my cousin's adorable daughter to play War a couple of years ago. They live in Beligium. When the same two cards came up, she would throw her hands in the air and yell: "C'est la guerre!"

[slackmaster]

3. All of the above

And you could buy blasting caps at the local hardware store.

[ewagner]

4. Yes on all of them

I'll go one better for you...

in rural Florida in the mid 50's there were no locally available tv stations...so tvs were worthless...listened to radio.

Lone Ranger, Sky King, Dragnet, the Shadow....all favorites

my Mother was addicted to Authur Godfrey on the radio..

Within a year or so, TV became available and everything changed.

[CornField]

6. I remember only getting one station

ABC... and that was only if my dad was able to smush the tin foil on the rabbit ears just right. :)

[Mary in KC]

17. Oh yeh - the tinfoil on the rabbit ears. We did that, too.

When I was little there was only one family on the block with a TV. We would go over on Friday nite and watch. We listened to all of the radio shows at nite - on a great big radio with tubes that sat on the floor.

Then my grandmother and uncle got one at their house. Friday nite was great. Life of Riley, Jackie Gleason, Amos and Andy.

[zann725]

28. I remember the tin-foil too! Maybe that's how 'tin-foil' hats started?

"B.C."..."before Cable"...constantly getting up to re-adjust the rabbit ears. And all those rolling/rippling pictures, and crackling audio. Wow...the good ol' days.

That's why we pay $50+ per month...for a clear picture. Almost forgot.

[NoSheep]

5. I remember. Also:

Nickle Nips, Push-ups, cola in glass bottles, Dark Shadows, push button transmission, tube radio, dial phones, things have changed so much.
We used to beat our TV to get it to work, and it did. And it was free!

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Cola in returnable glass bottles (2 cents refund)-- 10 cents

Dark Shadows-- it always seemed to be on my friend's TV when I went over to his house during summer vacation. Barrrr-na-bassss!

Tube radio-- My brother had a tube shortwave in '68, but the tubes burned out before the year was over

Does anyone remember those goofy car cards? There were some really unusual "models", like "Chevy Eater" and "Bonzai Bomb"

[NoSheep]

20. I remember the cards-

Didn't they come with gum? I also had gum cards with "wacky" products like "Crust" instead of Crest etc

[Art_from_Ark]

22. Yeah, they came with gum

I used to get them at Warehouse Market, a downtown supermarket which has gone the way of the dinosaur. They had so many neat things in that store, including the highly addictive Sunshine Yum-Yums, Pixie Stix, peanut butter logs, and Sergeant Toppit whipped-cream-in-a-can.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Television ( black & white) warm-up-- check

Free glasses in laundry detergent-- check (I always wanted to open the box)

Party lines-- shared a line with the neighbors across the street

Being taken to Wal-Mart to buy 45 records (back when there was only ONE Wal-Mart store, so it was considered Mom-and-Pop)

Played war (the card game) all the time

[luvLLB]

8. I remember, does that make me old????

[GOPBasher]

9. I only remember a few of those. Actually, I play war with my 3-yr old,

but we don't call it "War"; we call it, "Which One's the Biggest?" She's three and she knows which cards beat which.

Sorry, this was way off topic for the thread. I don't remember most of those, but I do know that there was a time when crabs or pregnancy were the worst things that could happen when teenagers had sex.

[cleofus1]

11. yes i remember all those things

i was just a child but the memories seem crisp and clear...innocent smiles in black and white kodak technology

[Wapsie B]

12. I remember Porter Waggoner

selling detergent with towels on his TV show.

[flamingyouth]

13. I was just thinking of the safety cap/hermetic seal thing the other day

I was desperately trying to open some cold medicine and was nostalgic for those days. :D

[Mary in KC]

15. Remember when you could get codein over the counter?

I do. Red codein cough syrup.

[hfojvt]

25. the child safety caps are older, from the mid 1970s

the Tylenol thing was from 1985 or 1986.
It used to be a joke that the child proof bottles were so hard to open that you had to get your kids to help you.

[Mary in KC]

14. God, I'm getting so old. I remember all that stuff.

We used to send away for stuff that was advertised on the back of the cereal box. Then we would get so excited when we actually got mail.

[cleofus1]

16. we used to have the local dairy deliver milk

in bottles with aluminum foil covers...

the breadman would drive by everymornig with fresh bread...

jack rabbits roamed the hills and pollywogs lived in puddles...





forgive me, but i just got a scanner :-)

[CornField]

18. I adore old photographs & that one is exceptional!

Look at the way that stroller is made -- almost all metal! LOL!!

[cleofus1]

19. just got a scanner and I'm out of control....

got some real old pics of my childhood...damn...I am really old:P

anyone remember washing machines with open tops and wringers?
how about clothslines...

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Yes to both. Which one of those is you, Cleofus? n/t

[cleofus1]

30. i'm the classy kid

at the right side...leaning against the stroller...1963-4 or so...

[thecai]

32. ADORABLE Picture!

How sweet, Cleofus1

Does anyone remember "Walnetto" candy?
(I remember everything on that list, and more).

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Yep, To All

The Professor

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Oh, I remember all of those...

DAMN, I'm OLD!!!!

[MrScorpio]

26. Yes I do

Motown on the radio

Hanging out at the rib joint

Dems with balls

[barackmyworld]

27. wow! I didn't know any of this existed

except War, people still play that. Explain this TV thing...so you would turn it on and WAIT? And wouldn't a towel get messed up in a box of detergent?

[solinvictus]

29. Party line..

My Granny had one up until I was about 7-8 years old. I remember my dad having to go outside to adjust the tall antenna above our mobile home. Here are some memories from the world of comic books:

http://www.tomheroes.com/Comic%20Ads/comicads.htm

I remember MEGO action figures, Hostess advertisements that featured comic characters, and all the neat junk, like army playsets, that used to adorn the back of a comic book.

[Robeson]

31. Count me in. I do.