Do you remember....?

[Goober57]

I've been posting wisecracks lately but this is on the lighter side, for the older VideoHelp members!

http://www.boomwithaview.squarespace.com/journal/2004/11/5/do-you-remember-when.html

That webpage is amusing to me because times have REALLY changed. Yep, I had candy cigarettes, but I've never smoked. Do they still sell those? (also had toy guns but I've never shot anybody!)

Home milk delivery? Yep, it was called cream-top milk. It looked like phlegm in a bottle.

I also remember when you didn't have to keep holding that safety lever on the lawnmower to keep it running. If you cut your fingers off you made sure you didn't do it again.

Yikes, I'm starting to feel like Al Bundy!!!

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[ViRaL1]

It's all foreign to me.

[Goober57]

It's all foreign to me.

That's why I said it's for the older members!!!

I'm feelin' worse by the minute

[ViRaL1]

Define older.

[Goober57]

WOW.....I think this was a mistake!!!

[ViRaL1]

In terms of computers, video and electronics, I'm not exactly young.

[Goober57]

Most of the stuff in that webpage is from the 60's! It was amusing to me, and probably ONLY me!!!

Oh well.

Click to the next subject

[ViRaL1]

60s might be a little before my time. I think I'm somewhere in the middle of the age bracket here.

[Goober57]

HEY.........where's all the old timers??? Aren't ya'll gonna help me out here?

Oh, it's 9:00, so they're probably sleepin'! They'll never read this anyways.

[fritzi93]

WOW.....I think this was a mistake!!!

Nah, I'm with ya.... unfortunately. Candy cigarettes, thought they were cool, for some reason nothing else tasted anything like them. (No, they didn't taste like tobacco). Yeah and Howdy Doody, Ernie Kovacs, etc., on the tube. Consumer electronics were primitive, to say the least.

Enough of that. How about how freaked everybody was over Sputnik? Everything was "nik" for a while. Our dud rockets were flopniks, kaputniks, Khrushchev was a no-goodnik. Weird now I think about it.

Oh well, good and bad, just like now in that regard. Hope you get some responses.

[Goober57]

WOW.....I think this was a mistake!!!

Sputnik

SPUTNIK?????? This was for the older members but not THAT old!!!

[888888]

Bart comes home and mutters angrily.

Homer: Hey, when I was your age, fifty cents was a lot of money.
Bart: Really?
Homer: Naah.

Ah, the various age gaps.

[fritzi93]

WOW.....I think this was a mistake!!!

Sputnik

SPUTNIK?????? This was for the older members but not THAT old!!!

Hey, it was only 1957, not the Upper Paleolithic! BTW, I still like Ike.

[Goober57]

WOW.....I think this was a mistake!!!

Sputnik

SPUTNIK?????? This was for the older members but not THAT old!!!

Hey, it was only 1957, not the Upper Paleolithic! BTW, I still like Ike.

I was born in '57!

Ike??? Oh yeah, I like Ike and Tina Turner too! Good music.

The doctor said I was getting better. He's a LIAR

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[kiki]

Bugger. I remember ALL those things.
Time for my Geritol and hemmoroid cream.
Thankful that I am a well preserved fossil.
If you take a look in the dictionary under "codger"
You will find MY picture. LOL

kiki

[Goober57]

If you take a look in the dictionary under "codger"
You will find MY picture. LOL

kiki

My dad's picture too. He said that word all the time and the youngins' thought he was nuts. :P

[fritzi93]

Sheesh, no, not that Ike! Eisenhower. You're messin' with me, right?

Kiki, yeah man. Me too. Never really believed I'd ever get hemorrhoids.

[makntraks]

Do you remember when....?

-- all the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
Yes

-- it took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Yes

-- nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
No

-- all your male teachers wore neckties
Yes

-- laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
On the fringe... my Mom would (screw you who think I'm a momma's boy)

-- stuff from the store came without safety caps because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
Yes

-- Nancy Drew?
Ehh

-- The Lone Ranger?
Yes

-- Hula Hoops?
Yes

-- Candy cigarettes?
Yes

-- soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles?
Yes

-- home milk delivery?
Yes

-- telephone numbers with a word prefix?
Just before my time...

-- peashooters?
Yes

-- Howdy Doody?
reruns

-- Lincoln Logs?
Yes

-- 15 cent McDonald's hamburgers?
Most def, although we usually went to Henry's

-- 5 cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab bubble gum?
Not a collector

-- decisions were made by going "eeny - meeny - miney -- moe"?
Yes

-- Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30 minute commercials for action figures?
Yes

-- war was a card game?
Yes

-- it wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends"?
So true...

Do you remember when you never thought you'd grow up to be old enough to say "Do you remember when..."?
No, ... but I talk about it with my kids every time I'm with them so they know their lives are really no different from mine...
In a GOOD way....

[SquirrelDip]

I recall about 90% of them... Yep, feelin' pretty old over too.

One thing that wasn't on list and is probably my earliest (significant) memory is that I recall watching the first steps on the moon. I was about 4 or 5 and many family members were huddled in front of my uncles tv.

[glockjs]

nuuupe, dont recall any of it. not a single thing. think that cause my dad was a kid back then

[budz]

candy cigarettes that i used to blow on and think it was smoke coming out but it actually was powdered sugar! soda pop in a bottle cost about 10 cents!!!!! Actually I remember all of those things. back then real cigarettes cost about 30 cents a pack.
nah. were not old, we're still YOUNG AT HEART!

[NickSaunders]

I used to love those candy cigarettes. I remember my Mom buying them for me at the candy store on 93rd and York Ave in NYC and then we would smoke together...Her with her Viceroy's and me with my candy. Ah to be a kid again!!!

[Rookie64]

First off...Goober57, you're younger than Greg and Marcia Brady - that should make you feel a little better. You're not THAT old 8)

I can safely say I'm much younger than all of The Brady Bunch...and even younger than most of the Brat Pack...but I entered in the mid '60s.

I may remember some things here and there, but mostly the '60s are foggy in my memory....I Do, however, remember the '70s quite well, and a lot of these things were still around in those days as well...and some are even still around today

Do you remember when....?

-- all the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

I went to a Catholic High School...so the ugly uniforms were the things they had to wear every day in class (except the skirts were very short...so it wasn't all bad )

But their gym uniforms were quite nice actually 8)


It was us poor guys who had the ugly gym uniforms
So ugly...that I rebeled against wearing mine.
It was like no way I'd be caught dead wearing green shorts and a tank-top

After me and a couple friends got away with not having to wear those tacky things, others jumped on the bandwagon and stopped wearing theirs as well.

We weren't role models (to put it midly) - Though the public school guys managed to outdo us by parading through our school one day only wearing jockstraps....you just had to be there...was funny as hell.

-- it took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Yes

YES...even as far into the mid '70s!!

And the screen was shaped like a fish bowl...and picture tube would go bad and the whole thing would be bouncing all over the place...was like watching a basketball.
Sometimes the TV would just die altogether.


I also remember TV before cable - Antenas, rabbit ears and very snowy receptions...with less than 13 channels...no remotes...no VCRs...and turning the channel with a knob

-- nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
No

Yes....but all the kids hung out at my place

-- all your male teachers wore neckties
Yes

well...except the preists

-- laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
On the fringe... my Mom would (screw you who think I'm a momma's boy)

I remember the towels - and soap was all embedded in 'em


and remember when they used to have wacky packages/ads (those stickers kids collected) in with a loaf of bread - and some kid with dirty hands would open each loaf of bread in the store and stick his whole arm through the bread to get to the stickers...then the bread was all smushed

-- stuff from the store came without safety caps because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
Yes

Nope...I remember the Mr. Yuk stickers on stuff back then...but the toys were dangerous as all hell....especially the electric ones that would end up smoking while you were playing with 'em....and catch fire


Everything came in glass bottles back then too...and kids would easily end up making em fall and broken glass everywhere.

-- Nancy Drew?
Ehh

The TV show, yea (with Pamela Sue Martin) with The Hardy Boys...I never read any of the books though.

-- The Lone Ranger?
Yes

Yep...in reruns

And the action figure dolls.

-- Hula Hoops?
Yes

and they still make those now

-- Candy cigarettes?
Yes

Yea...they weren't good either
I went for the Moon Pies.

-- soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles?
Yes

Yes...most things were in glass bottles...and broke easily.

-- home milk delivery?
Yes

I'd see that in TV shows or movies...no milk deliveries to my home that I recall.

-- telephone numbers with a word prefix?
Just before my time...

Nope...before my time

-- peashooters?
Yes

Not sure - what is it?

-- Howdy Doody?
reruns

I know OF Howdy Doody...not sure if I actually saw the show itself...but there were a lot of references to Howdy Doody.
Especially at amusement parks when you had to be as tall as Howdy Doody to ride certain rides.
Rides I had to wait years before they'd even let me on, and now they let my 4 year old nephew ride 'em all nowadays

-- Lincoln Logs?
Yes

Yes...one of my brothers had 'em

I think those are still around nowadays too.

-- 15 cent McDonald's hamburgers?
Most def, although we usually went to Henry's

Everything was cheapr in those days.
For my area, it was Winkies or Burger Chef...McDonalds was a good 30 minute drive away, so we only ate there on special occasions (which is laughable today 'cause they are everywhere you turn now)

-- 5 cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab bubble gum?
Not a collector

Yes - and I also collected the Topps Wacky Packages...and they also had Planet Of The Apes, King Kong...then KISS, Charlies Angels and Grease trading/bubblegum cards.

-- decisions were made by going "eeny - meeny - miney -- moe"?
Yes

No one says that anymore??

-- Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30 minute commercials for action figures?
Yes

Yes they were - they had G.I. Joe and Barbie back then...In the '70s, they had Dusty Dolls, The 6 Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman...Starsky & Hutch, Batman, Happy Days dolls...and so on.

We also had Stretch Armstrong and Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots

All those board games as well.

-- war was a card game?
Yes

I remember Old Maid cards and Go Fish

-- it wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends"?
So true...

Well...AIDS wasn't an issue then

--Do you remember when you never thought you'd grow up to be old enough to say "Do you remember when..."?
No, ... but I talk about it with my kids every time I'm with them so they know their lives are really no different from mine...
In a GOOD way....

Nah...I remember always wanting to be older so I could do all the stuff I wasn't allowed to do then :P

I didn't think my 20s and 30s would fly by as fast as they did though - those years went a little too fast

[Capmaster]

Yep. I remember all of those. And I have one they could add to the list:

Remember when "gay" only meant happy?

[offline]

My favorite ice cream was called
Golden Gaytime. A butterschotch mix coated
with dark choc and coconut.

Anyone today want a Golden Gaytime?