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I remember when I was in junior high, my bedtime was 9:30.  So, I'd turn on the black and white 9" TV we had on a hutch in the kitchen, pull up a wooden chair, and watch the game which started at 8.  I always prayed for a quick half so I could see the highlights of all the Sunday games before I had to go to bed, because there wasn't really any other way to see them easily.  Seemed like there'd always be about :45 seconds left in the half when my mom called up that it was time for bed, and I'd always beg to stay up 10 more minutes and get shot down.  

I won a small Donkey Kong console video game out of a cereal box when I was about 9.  I still have it, and I gave it to my boys a few years ago and they try it occasionally.  They still can't believe I got that from a cereal box.  

 
JamesonSkittles said:
Going to video stores on a Saturday night and renting new releases, nintendo and sega games.  The movies and games were due back Monday night.  Always crowded at the store, but when I got my movie/games.....jackpot!!!!!!
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Hell yes!

Gary’s Home Video in Blaine.  He would say what new movies were scheduled to come in on what date and when he opened up at 11 AM on Friday, I would drop a dime in the payphone between classes at the Roosevelt Junior High and reserve a few movies because we had already told mom that on Friday night so and so was sleeping over and we wanted Stouffer‘s French bread pizza and a couple movies 

 
El Floppo said:
Having to go to the bank and wait in line for a teller...just to get cash. Pre-ATM days. 

Was just telling my kids about that...and also needing to research something meant going to the library, not googling.

And of course- you had to go when they were open (bank or library), which meant having to schedule and wait...two skills that have disappeared.
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in the same talk, I explained about not having cell phones. 

you had to make a plan to meet friends/family at a certain place at a certain time- and stick to it; because there was no way of letting the other person know otherwise. 

making plans, scheduling things in advance and sticking with them- all seem, for better or worse, like things that aren't part of this younger generation's skill-set. I"m sure there are positives that are a result- more flexibility, more spur-of-the-moment thinking... but the impatience and inability to think and plan longer term are troubling.

 
Walking Boot said:
Funny, the first remote control we had in the house had a cable. It was literally wired to the VCR. It was not infra-red or any of this other newfangled nonsense. 25 foot rubber cord from the device to the couch, six buttons, pretty dope.
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It was awesome though, wonderful tech at the time.  No longer had to get up and change the channel by hand.

 
Spike said:
Skin-a-max

You got news from the newspaper or the tv

Mother’s didn’t work
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did cinemax go under? 

the news one is huge- this rapid/rabid information shouting can be useful, but is often times not. 

my mom worked and still works at 85. she loves it. 

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Calling 844-(any four numbers) to get the time (can still call the navy to get time at 202-762-1401)

Also calling the local weather... forgot the first 3 for that one 

OK this thread is just sad and depressing now. We’re you’re a bunch of old people reminiscing. Eeeew!!
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Use to call 765-1313 to get the sports scores. On the weekends it always took a while to get to the west coast scores. I think the scores would update every 5 minutes. Would also get the following days odds as well. Of course with all of this you had to listen to a bunch of ads for handicap services.

 
Ben & Jerry's said:
Having to take naps on Monday evenings so my parents would allow me to stay up for Monday Night Football (mid 70's)

Watching Howard Cosell's "halftime highlights" on MNF of every game from Sunday (In glorious fashion I might add)
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I would stay up for Cosell's halftime, then go to bed. It was the only time we'd get to see most of those teams play.  We had the Packer game, maybe one other, and MNF.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
Ben & Jerry's said:
Having to take naps on Monday evenings so my parents would allow me to stay up for Monday Night Football (mid 70's)

Watching Howard Cosell's "halftime highlights" on MNF of every game from Sunday (In glorious fashion I might add)
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I would stay up for Cosell's halftime, then go to bed. It was the only time we'd get to see most of those teams play.  We had the Packer game, maybe one other, and MNF.
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I didnt nap- but yeah. other than whomever the niners or raiders played (which did cover a lot of teams), this was the chance to see the rest. 

and loved half. time. highlights. with howard. 

and will never forget him announcing john lennon's death. 

 
El Floppo said:
I didnt nap- but yeah. other than whomever the niners or raiders played (which did cover a lot of teams), this was the chance to see the rest. 

and loved half. time. highlights. with howard. 

and will never forget him announcing john lennon's death. 
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Amazing how Howard has stuck with many of us.  

 
I also stayed up just for the MNF highlights.  Howard's voice is unforgettable.  

HIghlights from 1977

Check out the hit on Bradshaw at the ~40 second mark.  No flag.  Lots of great names from back in the day on this.  

 
Ben & Jerry's said:
Walking along the country roads near my house looking for glass pop bottles that could be returned to the store for money. (mid 70's)

Having to take naps on Monday evenings so my parents would allow me to stay up for Monday Night Football (mid 70's)

Watching Howard Cosell's "halftime highlights" on MNF of every game from Sunday (In glorious fashion I might add)

Spending hours/days pouring through the JC Penny and Sears Christmas catalogs.
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At least in MA, you still have to pay a deposit ($0.05 for cans, $0.10 for bottles). This was a way to stimulate recycling. When I last lived in MA, in the early 2000s, in Charlestown, we used to have a group of people that would go thru your recycling for returnable items when you put it out on trash days.
 

El Floppo said:
did cinemax go under? 

the news one is huge- this rapid/rabid information shouting can be useful, but is often times not. 

my mom worked and still works at 85. she loves it. 
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Still around. Not as much 'Skin-e-max' anymore.

 
jomar said:
manual windows on cars, do they have those any more?
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We bought my daughter a used 2006 Saturn Ion with crank windows. I know someone else who has a 2011 something with crank windows.

Yes Virginia, they do still exist.

 
El Floppo said:
my dad had a pretty reliable remote really early on- two actually- and never had to get up to change the channel by hand... my brother and I.
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My dad used to yell down the hall for me and my brother.  We'd both emerge, not sure if we were in trouble or not.  He'd want one of us to change the channel on the TV itself, and one to flick the switch across the room to turn on the ceiling fan.

 
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No cordless phones

No cable TV and when we finally got it I was the remote for my parents (get up and change the channel!) because my mom didn't want to pay $2 per month for the remote

Buying baseball cards and trading them with friends (or putting them in our bicycle spokes)

Visiting the video arcade

Playing jarts while camping or at a picnic - the real jarts with the metal spikes on the end

There was no PPV, I remember watching the original WrestleMania by going to Cobo and seeing it on Closed Circuit TV

 
I remember playing outside after school nearly every day, spring, fall or winter, with my friends.  We would break for a quick dinner and promise to do dishes later. Back outside until dark and the dishes would already be done. ;)

It's like a ghost town outside now. :kicksrock:

 
wikkidpissah said:
mmm...scrambled porn...mmm
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And the pain that came from having squinted for 3 hours just to catch a sight through the snow.

bcdjr1 said:
Saturday morning cartoons 
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Great one! Definitely remember getting up at 4:30 AM to start watchiong Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Justice League, and what I guess may have been a Canadian cartoon, Rocket Robin Hood, my fave.

Getzlaf15 said:
The Helms Bakery Truck driving through all the neighborhood with fresh, baked everything,
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I remember a knifeshapener making the rounds, ringing a bell while leading a cart with a whetstone up our street. Kinda creepy now that I think about it. I think there was still cloth diaper service when my youngest brother was born, too.

Jules Winnfield said:
2) Smoking on airplanes

5) The Pop Shoppe
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Solid! I am wary of planes I get on now with ashtrays still in the seats as those planes have to be super old by now....

This has been mentioned in some way or another but I miss simply walking out of the house after breakfast in the summer and playing outside the entire day with neighborhood kids, not checking in with the parents or coming home at all until after dark. Pickup hockey in the streets with hand-made goalie pads made out of rough twine and course foam and the inevitable "Car!" breaks. Dirt clod fights. Playing basketball or baseball at a nearby park or school.

 
Tom Skerritt said:
Putting your quarter up on the arcade console to indicate that you “next game”.
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NOICE!

I really miss the old arcade I used to hang out in with friends, and arcades in general. Yes, I know there are plenty of retro arcades that have popped up today, but they are mostly filled with hipster doofuses. I miss not only all the games (my faves being Spy Hunter, Time Pilot, and Karate Champ), but the environment -- the little things like the etiquette of putting your quarter on the console, the social aspect of it, and yes, the incredibly dank smells and sights. 

 
Beef Ravioli said:
Ditto! I remember driving down the interstate at 65-70 mph with my team. 
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Every year my friends grandparents would take all the grandkids to Kings Dominion. There would be 6-10 of us in the back of a ford pickup with a cab. So many good memories. Except for the time Kevin #### his pants at the beginning of the 4 hour ride home. 

 
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Mom's telephone book. Everyone's mom had a small 3 ring binder with hand written contact sheets, had random papers sticking out of it, old envelopes stuffed in there b/c "someone moved and she had not transferred their address yet." That thing was the family bible. 

Sneaker stores: there were stores that just sold shoes, and I don't mean Payless. Walk in and see walls and walls of beautiful sneakers, up to the ceiling—not just a section in a sporting goods store. 

Independent video stores, with 'that room' in the back. I'm sure each of us caught a neighbor coming out of those saloon doors at one point. 

Floppy disks. Pirating games with your friends, using the hole puncher to put a notch in the side so it could't be erased. C>run,8,1

The Morton Downy Jr Show. Chain smoking pioneer of Trash TV. Jerry Springer and Maury owe everything to this man. 

Everything closed on Sunday. Sunday is for the family

Those water filled bubble games. The original portable video game console.  You could sit there for hours pushing that button to make the bubbles spread little rings around just hoping it randomly catches one of those posts. 

 
glvsav37 said:
Floppy disks. Pirating games with your friends, using the hole puncher to put a notch in the side so it could't be erased. C>run,8,1
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I thought it was the other way around, the notch allowed you to put info on the disk. That’s why you cut one on the left side so you could use the back of the disk. You would put a piece of tape to protect the disc. If you remember, games came without a hole on them.

God, I feel old!

 
Mr. Ected said:
I thought it was the other way around, the notch allowed you to put info on the disk. That’s why you cut one on the left side so you could use the back of the disk. You would put a piece of tape to protect the disc. If you remember, games came without a hole on them.

God, I feel old!
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honestly I forget. But yes, I remember punching holes and using tape, just forgot which was for which. 

 
glvsav37 said:
Mr. Ected said:
I thought it was the other way around, the notch allowed you to put info on the disk. That’s why you cut one on the left side so you could use the back of the disk. You would put a piece of tape to protect the disc. If you remember, games came without a hole on them.

God, I feel old!
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honestly I forget. But yes, I remember punching holes and using tape, just forgot which was for which. 
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I was 99.99% sure, but I had to Google to be sure. I thought I remembered doing it for the back side.

 
Parrothead said:
candy cigarettes

toy guns-  I had a couple that were pretty realistic looking, and we used to run around the neighborhood playing 'war'..    :lol:
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We were at a great candy store in WI (Eagle River) this summer, and some of the kids bought candy cigarettes. brought up stories of almost everyone and their smoking.

 
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