In the North we were lucky, we got CBC too which meant Hockey Night in Canada, Mr. Dress Up and sometimes late night movies with boobies.I remember when Fox was “the fourth network channel”. I think we had ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and PBS May have been channel 26 as well
Shortly after we moved into our house 34 years ago, I found a few ~1950/1960'ish girlie magazines on top of the duct work in the basement. These were old enough that the, um, good parts were hidden by rectangular black boxes. And yes, those magazines are still there.Dirty, sticky porn mags hidden under a rock in the backyard. Finding and hiding good material was hard back in the day. Now you just open your browser or phone.
Duck and cover.and the top of the desk would protect you from a nuclear bomb
Lot of good ones, but the Warner Bros and Walter Lance productions were my favorites.Saturday morning cartoons
One ring hang up that you arrived somewhere safelyMaking a collect call from a pay phone as a signal for you parents to come pick you up from somewhere. They wouldn't accept the call, and you would just hang up.
It was a leap in technology when you could just drive through and they'd send it out to you in the suction tubes--after you wrote them a check.Having to go to the bank and wait in line for a teller...just to get cash. Pre-ATM days.
Watching a football game and there were 44 players on the field depending on ther reception.Having a TV antenna before cable and getting maybe 5-6 channels. We were high tech and had a rotor on the antenna and a small control box on the end table next to the couch. Come home from school, turn to the channel you wanted, and fine tune the picture by turning the antenna with the control box.
I would respond to this post, but first I have to find a phone. My beeper just went off.Not even that long ago. But no one's mentioned "beepers" yet.
5318008I would respond to this post, but first I have to find a phone. My beeper just went off.
How about when they finally came out with tape decks that could play both side of the tape without you having to flip it yourself? And record players that you could stack up the records to play one after the other?Fast forwarding and rewinding cassettes over and over to get to the song you wanted to hear
Personal grooming styles were a lot different back then.Shortly after we moved into our house 34 years ago, I found a few ~1950/1960'ish girlie magazines on top of the duct work in the basement. These were old enough that the, um, good parts were hidden by rectangular black boxes. And yes, those magazines are still there.
It's like those women used rectangular cookie cutters.Personal grooming styles were a lot different back then.
This is the best sentence I've read all day. Not to mention the most accurate.Dirty, sticky porn mags hidden under a rock in the backyard.
In the late 90s 16 year old me went to Portugal in the summer. Met a French girl. Fell in love. We wrote to each other and i would tell her what time and date i planned to call her. I would save up money for the call and had about 6 weeks of preperation before calling.I was thinking about how we used to pay for long distance calls. As kids, you weren't allowed to make them unless it was an 800 toll free number. Or, you had to wait until a certain time and then it would cost less. And, IIRC, that first minute was always more expensive than the others.
What are some other quirky things from growing up you remember that don't really exist anymore?
Checking the TV tubes at the machine in the supermarket. The last time I saw one of those was in about 1975.I remember having only 3 channels (ABC, NBC, CBS). And your dad made you get up and go turn the channel knob. Cable and the remote control were a huge break through.
Also remember the tv being out and the repair man came to get behind the big cabinet and try to fix it. Could be 3 days without the tube unless you heard the dreaded: "Gotta send off fer a part."
Took me three days to get "COME ON FEEL THE NOIZE" without the DJ talking over it.Waiting for a song I really liked to play on the radio so I could hit record and get it on the blank cassette I had all ready to go.
Only to be foiled by the DJ talking to long on intro or too early at the endWaiting for a song I really liked to play on the radio so I could hit record and get it on the blank cassette I had all ready to go.
The fall preview TV Guide was the best. I also remember looking at the TV Guide every week, starting at Thanksgiving, looking to see when the Christmas specials were on.We used to get the TV Guide. That's how you knew when shows were on. That, or the newspaper. There was no "guide" on the TV.
And answering machines were a big deal. Who got to check the messages when you got home. Did you rewind the tape before you left?
Trying to listen to other phone conversations by picking up another phone in secret. Except it always made a click.
Best day ever was when I found an 8 track converter tape you stuck your cassettes in for sale so I could finally listen to cassettes in my first car.How about when they finally came out with tape decks that could play both side of the tape without you having to flip it yourself? And record players that you could stack up the records to play one after the other?
I remember in college (late 80s) having a card (from Sprint) with an number 800 number and an account # that I would call in order to get long distance calls charged back to my folks. That's how I would call them.I was thinking about how we used to pay for long distance calls. As kids, you weren't allowed to make them unless it was an 800 toll free number. Or, you had to wait until a certain time and then it would cost less. And, IIRC, that first minute was always more expensive than the others.
What are some other quirky things from growing up you remember that don't really exist anymore?
How about a driver made from wood?The sound of metal golf spikes on asphalt and concrete.
Articles like this, too!!!Waiting for the morning paper to get scores/stats. I remember vividly wondering as I went to bed, and rushing the next morning to find out who won the ‘83 batting title that came down to the last day between Mattingly and Winfield.
Helms Bakery TruckWhat about the Charles Chips truck driving through the neighborhood, dropping off potato chips at your front door in the big tin? Like the milkman and the ice man.