For the Over 30 Crowd...

[Schecky]

Yeah, football was probably best - but Star Wars was coveted!

PS-

[Liquid55]

What was cable, I grew up in the sticks (Ohio) we had the antenna on the roof with a rotor box. You had to turn it to get a clear channel.

Had a 25 ft line not the coil a regular line on our rotary phone. I thought touch tone was the coolest thing when my parents bought one.

Video games? We had board games, no flashing lights or sounds. The only time I played inside was when it was night time, rain and snow didn't stop us.

You had to run every computer program off MS/DOS, it took days to get a mouse or printer to work.

[OMR]

Originally Posted by bighit8

OMR did you have tv's in youre day?

As a matter of fact grasshopper, I was brought up with radio. However, we were the first in our neighborhood to have a black and white 12" RCA TV. Yeah, we had the same antenna that was 35 feet high and you had to turn it with a hand cank to line up the best stations.... which you could bearly make out through all the snow on the TV. There were 5 and all went off the air at 12 midnight. True!

[Jman]

That stuff is classic the Commodore Vic 20 ruled....Load"Asteroids",8,1 hahaha

[OTHRIDER]

I grew up in the sticks (Ohio) we had the antenna on the roof with a rotor box. You had to turn it to get a clear channel.

Thankfully, I grew up in Anaheim and all that was required was the standard rabbit-ears. Anyone remember turning the ears one way to catch the Lone Ranger on KTLA and then twisting them back to watch Hobo Kelly on CBS? It was amazing how we KNEW exactly how to turn 'em for a perfect picture every time.

And who knew we were getting the short straw without R/C cars? My old Cox Funny Car would rip down the cul-de-sac on a piece of kite string and wait for me to pick it up. That was fun!

[jeffj]

I'm sure OMR and a few others here can do a little better, but here goes.

We had TV, but prime time was still in black and white. Gilligan's Island, Lost In Space, Beverly Hillbillies. Rabbit ears, no remore controls, when it quit working, you'd take out all the tubes and go down to Thrifty Drug store and test the tubes in the machine they had and then buy the replacement tube from them.

The very idea of paying for cable TV was outrageous. The first remotes I remember used a mechanism that would strike tuning forks to make the different tones.

My mother drove me to school on the first day of kindergarten. From then on, I walked unless it was really raining. We carried our books in our arms. Kids with book bags were... fair game. On my first day of high school, a girl in my spanish class got sent home for wearing a shirt that exposed her belly button.

I remember being 8 and my dad sending me to the store on my bicycle about a mile away with a note saying it was OK for them to sell me a couple packs of cigarettes. We thought nothing of riding in the bed of the pickup truck. My dad's ‘56 Ford had a small shell on it , so he hooked up a buzzer in the shell to a button in the cab. He used it to communicate, mostly to warn us to "knock it off".

The milk man would come inside your house at 5 or 6 in the morning and put your milk into the fridge for you. Milk was sold in thick glass containers and there was cream on the top. Milk at school cost $.02 for the small carton and $.03 for the tall carton. Hot lunch was $.25, including a small carton of milk.

Push button phones did not exist, nor did calculators. It was adding machines and manual (not electric) typewriters.

Electronic games consisted on Operation and those football games where you had plastic players and the football was a small wad of cotton. The field vibrated and the players would scatter in all different directions and hopefully the ball carrier would go in the right direction. Ooooooooooooooooooh.

We did shoot the bow and arrows at the traditional round hay targets in our tract house backyard in La Mirada.

My mother was Miss La Mirada… as a married woman with children. They allowed that back then.

We did have pinball machines at bowling alleys and drive-in theatres… aaaah yes, drive-in theatres.

I remember gasoline at around $.20 per gallon. You didn't pump your own gas and quarts of oil came in cardboard cans and most everybody used straight 30 weight.

I started waterskiing at age 5. I was the late bloomer and didn't ski on a single ski until I was 10, the same age I was allowed to drive the boat (that would do over 55mph)... by myself. Sometimes my dad would take off early from work and take us skiing at Puddingstone (now known as Bonelli Park). There was no park, no Raging Waters, just a launch ramp and crappy dock.

There were many things that were different than they are today. On the other hand, as a kid that was a teenager during the early seventies, there are some things that I regularly hear people say are worse than ever now. I won't go into details, but we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Now, it’s OMR’s turn to make that look like the space age. Aaaww crap, too late

[OTHRIDER]

Sometimes my dad would take off early from work and take us skiing at Puddingstone (now known as Bonelli Park).

Jeff, how funny you brought that up. My son just bought a 550 Jet Ski and couldn't wait 'till River season. We went out to Puddingstone on Monday, braved the cold and wind and had a ball!!!





Hopefully he remembers our time together like you did

[el_d00der1n0]

Originally Posted by katonk

I never understood how the character was just a huge square, but you'd have to carry around a key that actually looked like a key.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE6MSXqouSk

cause you had to fit in that square dragon stomach.

that vid brings me back. man i loved that game. diablo didn't have anything on adventure!

[back_of_the _pack]

Originally Posted by Jman

That stuff is classic the Commodore Vic 20 ruled....Load"Asteroids",8,1 hahaha

And the tape drive in the garage

[OMR]

Originally Posted by jeffj

I'm sure OMR and a few others here can do a little better, but here goes.

We had TV, but prime time was still in black and white. Gilligan's Island, Lost In Space, Beverly Hillbillies. Rabbit ears, no remore controls, when it quit working, you'd take out all the tubes and go down to Thrifty Drug store and test the tubes in the machine they had and then buy the replacement tube from them.

The very idea of paying for cable TV was outrageous. The first remotes I remember used a mechanism that would strike tuning forks to make the different tones.

My mother drove me to school on the first day of kindergarten. From then on, I walked unless it was really raining. We carried our books in our arms. Kids with book bags were... fair game. On my first day of high school, a girl in my spanish class got sent home for wearing a shirt that exposed her belly button.

I remember being 8 and my dad sending me to the store on my bicycle about a mile away with a note saying it was OK for them to sell me a couple packs of cigarettes. We thought nothing of riding in the bed of the pickup truck. My dad's ‘56 Ford had a small shell on it , so he hooked up a buzzer in the shell to a button in the cab. He used it to communicate, mostly to warn us to "knock it off".

The milk man would come inside your house at 5 or 6 in the morning and put your milk into the fridge for you. Milk was sold in thick glass containers and there was cream on the top. Milk at school cost $.02 for the small carton and $.03 for the tall carton. Hot lunch was $.25, including a small carton of milk.

Push button phones did not exist, nor did calculators. It was adding machines and manual (not electric) typewriters.

Electronic games consisted on Operation and those football games where you had plastic players and the football was a small wad of cotton. The field vibrated and the players would scatter in all different directions and hopefully the ball carrier would go in the right direction. Ooooooooooooooooooh.

We did shoot the bow and arrows at the traditional round hay targets in our tract house backyard in La Mirada.

My mother was Miss La Mirada… as a married woman with children. They allowed that back then.

We did have pinball machines at bowling alleys and drive-in theatres… aaaah yes, drive-in theatres.

I remember gasoline at around $.20 per gallon. You didn't pump your own gas and quarts of oil came in cardboard cans and most everybody used straight 30 weight.

I started waterskiing at age 5. I was the late bloomer and didn't ski on a single ski until I was 10, the same age I was allowed to drive the boat (that would do over 55mph)... by myself. Sometimes my dad would take off early from work and take us skiing at Puddingstone (now known as Bonelli Park). There was no park, no Raging Waters, just a launch ramp and crappy dock.

There were many things that were different than they are today. On the other hand, as a kid that was a teenager during the early seventies, there are some things that I regularly hear people say are worse than ever now. I won't go into details, but we'll just have to agree to disagree.

You brought a tear to an old man's eyes with that strole down memory lane. Here's a memory for you: I attended 4th grade in a one room school house (think little house on the prairie)... all 8 grades in one room.... one teacher.

[xhuskr]

Originally Posted by OMR

all 8 grades in one room.... one teacher.

poor teacher

[jeffj]

Originally Posted by OTHRIDER

Sometimes my dad would take off early from work and take us skiing at Puddingstone (now known as Bonelli Park).

Jeff, how funny you brought that up. My son just bought a 550 Jet Ski and couldn't wait 'till River season. We went out to Puddingstone on Monday, braved the cold and wind and had a ball!!!

Hopefully he remembers our time together like you did

I'm sure he'll remember those good times fondly.

I remember going to the river (Big Bend) as a small kid. We have movies of my dad putting on a wig and one of my mother's maternity blouses and stuffing a beach ball underneath. Then he proceeded to perform skiing stunts looking like a pregnant woman.

As a teenager, I remember Laughlin consisting of a two story motel/casino with a gravel parking lot.

Summertime waterski trips were the best. Anyone remember "Ski Land" in Perris?

[Permagrin]

It's interesting how some kids nowadays feel slighted if they don't have a cell phone, ipod or the most expensive designer shoes, or are apalled at what we had growing up prior to the 90's but I can truly say I understand what my mother said about appreciating what you have because some people have so little else.

I learned early on to take care of my things to make them last and to appreciate what I had. I also learned that whether you have a new designer skateboard or a plain old blue plastic banana one, you're still going to crash and burn :-).

[springrubber]

Dad used to make me get up for him to change the channel, and then stay there changing the channels so that he could surf the VHF. I prayed to god he would find something of interest because then I would drop to the second knob and surf the UHF channels for him, and since we had this HUGE antenna above the house, we could pick up a couple extra, and with me standing there I could always fine tune it in with the knob until he was satisfied.

[OMR]

Originally Posted by xhuskr

poor teacher

Dead teacher!

[bighit8]

They did not teach Spanish in school in Washington.As far as the milk goes, I remember the metal can on the front porch where milk was delivered once a week. I used to go to tomboys market in Seattle and buy my step dad beer and cigs with a note.Funny, imagine the heyday politicians would have if that was allowed now!Now I know im not real old , but I do recall when I first drove ,gas was 98 cents a gallon!

[boboso]

I go too far back!

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Originally Posted by Schecky

Yeah, football was probably best - but Star Wars was coveted!

PS-

The Splits ROCK!