The 'Remember When' thread...

I also remember listening to Dennis the Menace on 33 1/3 albums when I was a kid... I only
had 2 records, each with an episode on each side - but it worked for me. I also remember
when I got an old reel-to-reel recorder in 1979 (after we had BOTH color TV AND Showtime!)
and recorded the AUDIO to movies to play back later in my bedroom.

Remember when Showtime went 'off the air' every day?

Remember Jazercize? The ORIGINAL soft-core porn on Showtime

 

You guys are old !

 

So what do youngins like YOU remember in context with this thread... I'm really sincerely
interested. At dinner I asked the kids who are still at home:

"I remember when the only way you could buy/rent a movie was on VHS tape" (Julie, age 17)

"I remember when we got our first wireless [cordless] phone" (Sandra, age 14)

It would be fun to hear from folks who AREN'T old (ok - I'm 48) - REALLY old (70+) and
REALLY young (21 or less) would be fun too.... but anywhere in between. To me, this
is one of those 'rolling discussions' that covers whole generations.

Jedi

 

I'll be 45 on the 4th and I remember..... Oh never mind that was a dream LOL!!

 

You can still do this today.

 

I remember toys that actually had tiny parts that would shoot out of them, too many toddlers choking finished that off.

I remember when kids that couldn't or wouldn't do the work actually flunked a few grades.

One year I remember my classroom was on the other side of the principal's office (Riverdale Elementary, Germantown TN). We could still hear kids getting paddled through the cinder blocks. No discipline problems in my homeroom.

 

The sad thing is the cheapest PC available today makes that 360 look like a door stop in terms of speed.

I had a professor give my a program to write in COBOL that required using recursion. The problem is COBOL cannot handle recursion with out blowing out the stack. He figured the assignment would keep me busy for the rest of the semester. I found a work around in 3 days and had to program finished.

His response was "No need to show up for the rest of the semester you have an A+"

 

Why doesn't somebody just post the lyrics to that country song by Bucky Covington in this thread?

"It was a different life, when we were boys and girls
It was a different time, it was a different world"

Or something like that.

 

Small world, my family lives in Germantown. Are you still down that way?

 

No we moved when I was 10 to Milwaukee.

That school actually has a Ferrari tie-in for me. At that time when it was raining the oldest kids (fifth graders like myself) could volunteer to open doors for the little kids being dropped off and walk them to the awnings to go into school. One of the parents had, this was 1983, a 308 GTBi. All the boys that did the escort thing would do rock paper scissors to see who got to open the door when we saw it turn into the school and get in line. That was my first exposure to Ferrari. Even at that age I knew they were something special.

Probably why the GTB appeals to me much more than the GTS, who knows.

 

When you had to load Windows through something called DOS.

Dude! I loved that game!

Nibbles was awesome too.

Dennis the Menace was one great TV show...of course I'm referring to the black and white show.

Remember when people actually held themselves accountable?

Remember when Slip 'N Slides were just a plastic sheet?

When you spent the entire day outside, from 8am or 9am till dark. You only came in when your mom told you to come in for dinner. You ate and pissed outside.

When the older gentlemen sat on the benches in the mall smoking their pipes (one terrific smell) while their wives shopped? Everytime I smell a cigar this is what I'm reminded of.

 

I remember when.......my Transformers were made of metal, and when you smacked another kid upside the head with one, it hurt. There was a toy called the Lawn Dart. Water guns weren't flourescent orange and green. My friend and I used to dress up in full camo, dawn WWII era gas masks, and run around his high-rise with water guns that looked like real M-16s and UZIs.

 

.....when the "hard drive" consisted of a cassette tape?

 

LMAO! On all points. I think I still may have one of my transformers in my parents storage.

 

A five o'clock shadow, gator shoes and white casual pants were cool. Even cooler if you drove a white Testarossa.


oh and, remember when drinking all night didn't give me a 3 day hang over.

 

2 rear shocks and metal gas tanks.

 

Metal springs and sticks (slinky and pick-up-stix) would entertain a kid (ME!)

The school bus didn't stop at every house, not even every block

The sky was bigger

 

Amen to that brotha.

 

Not Hanna Montana, Bob Hanna!

 

I remember always riding "on the hump" between my parents in the front seat of the car. Today they would be put in jail for child endangerment.

 

I remember hearing stories of back in the day when cops would just tell you to drive safely.

I remember in 6th grade there was a certain bump where we told the bus driver, "FASTER,FASTER,FASTER" and she would do it. Riding behind the rear wheels, we would all bounce up so high and nearly (sometimes did) hit our heads on the roof of the bus. Then she had to stop because someone ratted on her. All of us in the back were so pissed off.

 

When I was small I'd fight with my brothers over who gets to lay on the rear window deck
on long drives.... talk about your child endangerment charge!

 

Ha, When I was 17 myself and a bunch of friend were partying at the park with a bunch of other people. We had a huge bon fire going. The back of the pickup was full of ice and beer. Cop's pull up. They have us pour out all the beer as everyone is under age. We used it to put out the fire. We all took a sip out of each beer before we poured it out. Then the cops tell us to beat it. We all drove home, no one got pulled over.

Another time the police pulled up to the same area, the park, we hung out a lot at the park. I am naked with this girl and they put the spot light right on us. Again they just tell us to beat it.

The world has changed a lot and the youth don't even know it as they have not experienced the world the way us older guys have. It use to be a lot more relaxed.

 

...everyone tended their own yards and took pride in them. I still do the 'fun stuff' like our large garden,
but hire out the stuff I hate - pruning the hedges and clematis and weeding out the beds. Sigh.

 

LOL...I'm probably not as quite as 'old' as you are (27), but even I had it better than the kids 10 years younger.

All of the beer stories are from my dad. When we use to go watch the illegal street racing my dad always asked why, when we weren't going a certain weekend. He use to do it too and I think he felt it was normal.

And you didn't have an HOA making up stupid rules either to keep the yards kept up.

I guess the bottom line is.....remember when people had common sense?