Remember when..............................

Remember when porn was on 8mm film [ no sound ].
Remember when smokes were 35 cents a pack.
Candy bars were 12 cents.
We in PA at the time, would wear our socks up to our knees [ in the summer and shorts on ].
When drunk driving and caught by the cops, they would give you a lift home.

 

Remember when craiger rims were cool [ deep dish on the rear, with a 60's tires and 70's on front ].
Highjacker air shocks.
Sparkomatic car stereo.
Panosonic 8 track players were cool.
Primered car [ flat black was cool ].
Motor cycles -- the Kawasaki GPZ 550, 750, 1100 were in.

 

those were th good ol days.....
thats when gussie was just a young boy ------------



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Your friend's Mom would pick you up from elementary school and take you down to the basement to make sure you were clean all over.......oops, maybe that was just me.

3 channels and someone holding the rabbit ears to bring in the football game....so much snow on the screen couldn't see the players.

Watching the moon landing on a 19 inch black and white TV.

Jumping around in the family wagon, diving over the seats while blasting down the highway...

You had to wait in line to pick up your ration of the new chewing gum craze...Bubbleyum.

 

And area codes were for dialing out of state

 

Olympians were Amateurs, unless they were Commies, and the Events were truly Olympian.

Since Sugar had not been displaced by Corn Syrup, there was only one fat kid for every 100 thin ones, yet, Sears had a "Husky" section for the maximum of 2 "Husky" kids per classroom.

Unless you were "Husky" - your Blue Jeans came in 3 varieties: Lee, Levis or Wrangler.

The more patches on your jeans, the merrier, much like dethreading the hems was required. Eventually, you turned them into cutoffs.

Bell Bottoms really were.

Corduroy went "whiff-whiff" and was available in a stunning array of colors.

T-Shirts were white.

Dentists gave you a sugary lollipop after warning of the perils of sugar.

Disagreements were settled by way of the fist.

Not that you would, but, you could buy 6 Thrifty Ice Cream Cones for under a Dollar.

You learned there such things as "Seat Belts" via "Scream Bloody Murder" Ads.

"It's 11 O'Clock. Do you know where your children are?"

Stocks were nowhere near 1,000.

Soviet Grain Report was on Nightly News, nightly.

FARM REPORT

TEST PATTERNS

Sermonettes

Herman's Hermits got the girls a-squealin'

AFL

George Blanda

ABA

Dr. J

Cartoons were inked by talented people, and written by those with equal, if not greater talent, and Mel Blanc was the voice.

There was exactly 1 variety of Coke, Pepsi, RC... Bud, Coors, Miller High Life... Prell, Colgate, Crest...

The only sodas that came in a range of flavors were Nehi, Nesbitts, Shasta, and you had to open bottles with a bottle opener, same as cans were opened with can openers, which were free at the checkout, unless you used the bottle opener on the machine or by the door on the way out the store, where the floormat might be upended bottle caps.

Nacho Cheese Doritos arrived, as did Ranch Dressing, just in time to replace Fondue parties.

Chips came in scant few sizes, let alone varieties.

45 RPM

2 TV Repairmen not only competed with one another, but came to your home, and had gone to school with your Pop.

The first Honda Car.

Purchased at Grocery Store for a couple of bucks, Tennis Shoes were Black Canvas on White Vulcanized rubber, and broken shoelaces were retied and broken and retied time and again, no matter how many times the shoes were washed [despite objections]. They turned a lovely shade of gray by the end of Summer, and for some strange reason, Mom would replace them with new ones.

"Clothesline" meant just that.

Trash was hauled to the dump.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was launched.

Baseball Cards were from Topps, and a nickel a pack, with oh-so-cardboardy bubble gum.

MiniSkirts were replaced by Maxis about same time Shag hairstyles replaced Beehives.

Hot Pants. Halter Tops. Both worn by those who would, could and should.

Mercedes Benz was the car.

Reel-to-Reel.

Lawn Darts. Knick-Knacks. Mood Rings.

Paddleball, Balsa Airplanes, Paratroopers, Jacks, Marbles (see below), ArmyMen were on rotating display, which squeaked.

Marbles.

Toy guns looked like the real thing. Mostly.

Your Man From U.N.C.L.E. radio turned into a Machine Gun.

If you had Silly Putty and a Slinky, not only were you entertained, so was your friend.

There was a no-frills bubblegum machine by every retailer's door.

Evel Knievel.

Etch-A-Sketch.

Counting VW Beetles while en route to anywhere was a competitive backseat sport.

Laugh-In. Adam-12. Dragnet. Batman. Dark Shadows. EMERGENCY!. Get Smart. Wild, Wild West.

ABC, CBS, NBC, and much, much later, PBS.

Console TVs and Stereos were furniture, as well.

Cinnamon Toothpicks.

When you lost your Marbles.

 

God...I miss my youth ... Life is good now, but my fondest memories are from grammar school...

I remember going with my dad to Walgreens to buy "tubes" for our TV...

I remember my 1st radio...hand held... ran on a 9v battery...

Running to the corner drug store to buy a kite, or a plastic sword, or baseball cards...


Later... I remember going to the cool kids house to watch cable. And my dad pointing out that they were morons to pay for tv service...

I do remember getting milk on the doorstep, in a glass container...

Playing in attics, jumping down flights of stairs...

My folks brand new Delta 88 .

Our furniture at the time... red velour...covered in plastic to preserve it... with fake plastic bricks on the wall

Good, good times... beats being an adult...

 

Rodney Allen Rippy!

He likes it, HEY MIKEY!!!

 

Jodie Foster......
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Sliding down between the up/down escalalors before everyone put in those damn "Anti-kid" flaps!

 

Going to the shoe store with your parents and a 50 something guy in a shirt and tie would get out the big metal foot sizer.

Going to Sears with my parents and our old TV tubes to check them in the tube testing machine.

Getting a hamburger, fries and a coke from MacDonalds and getting change back from a $1.00 bill. They actually had a commercial about this.

The $1.00 bill........(here in Canada anyways).

The $2.00 bill......(ditto).

Having my dad give me 50 cents and a gallon gas can and saying, go to the station, buy a gallon of gas for the lawnmower and keep the change. I could buy myself a pop and chocolate bar with the change.

Human powered rotary blade lawn mowers.

Getting your $2.00 weekly allowance and feeling rich after using said lawn mower.

When the cops caught me speeding and they all looked under the hood of my car, were suitably impressed, and then let me go.

Getting together with 100 of your muscle car buds, and street racing at 300 AM.

When your doctor smoked in the office during your exam.

My brand new reel to reel tape player.

8 mm porn movies.........

When you could sell your airline ticket in the newspaper to someone else and the airlines didn't care.

Watching TOMMY in the theatre during it's first run and wondering what all that sweet smelling smoke was and then partaking of same as it was passed along the rows.........

The Happy Hooker.

The Entebbe Raid.

Canada beating Russia at hockey in 1973.

Having a crush on your grade 2 teacher.

When the NHL had 6 teams and you knew every player on every team by face and name.

 

My Evel Knievel stunt cycle knuckle-scrape that wouldn't heal all summer

 

When your only access to "Porn" was your buddies collection of PlayBoy he stashed in the tree house!

 

You too that's awesome lol!!!! Hey remember when...........????? Sorry I got a flashback from the '70's and '80's and lost my train of thought.

 

Sizzler Fat Track!

 

What about when taking pictures of you baby in the bath tub was considered cute. Now "they" consider you a pervert.

 

Sun tan oil was oil and contained no sun blocker.

Hugh Hefner was over-the-top rich and rode around in his own stretched jet airliner with the Playboy Bunny logo on the tail.

You could "jack up" the back of your car by installing bracket extension to the ends of the rear leaf springs.

The latest James Bond movie had plot twists in it that you weren't expecting. (and 007 was only one actor ever, Sean Connery).

A&W was a drive-in hamburger restaurant that served root beer in cold glass mugs and you ordered your food through a primitive intercom system.

Bowling alleys were open for the general public to use most of the time, instead of every lane being reserved for league play.

Bruce Lee movies.

If someone mentioned the word "Cream", you're first thought was the rock band.

 

vacuum tubes in televisions.

someone already beat me with the reel-to-reel. I still have a Neil Diamond reel to reel just for posterity from my folks' collection.

 

Burger King Star Wars glasses!

 

Here's one. Burn down your neighborhood.
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how about those chemistry sets with dangerous chemicals in little glass jars? just be careful and make sure you wear your goggles...

 

Cox planes!
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HAHA! I had one of those that actually had cyanide in it!