Kasey Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 WINKY DINK !!!! I never had it, BUT would tape wax paper on the screen and PRETEND ! How's that for pathetic ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Sorry....double post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted February 1, 2006 Author Share Posted February 1, 2006 Just wait till you read this one..... I remember when the elementary school I attended for the first three grades had a coal stove in each room. The boys would take turns bring in coal for each morning. I'm really not as old as Abraham Lincoln!!! This school was a little school in the Applachians. We did have electricity...lol. There was a coal furnace in the basement and a stove in each room, as the furnance couldn't really warm all of the two story building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 OK, Ann, not as old as ABE, huh ? How about Laura Ingles ~ Little House in the Appalachians ! I DO believe YOU win the prize so far ! Love you anyway Kasey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundrop1964 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I remember when we watched filmstrips at school.. and it was quite a priviledge to be asked by the teacher to turn the knob & advance each frame.. sometimes there would even be a record to match the filmstrip.. and it would beep each time it was time to advance the film !!! I also remember the ditto sheets.. is that what they were called? The teacher would pass out the fresh "run offs" and everybody would be inhaling the ink as the sheets went back.. the ink would still be wet. In 6th and 7th grade my math teacher had his own "run off machine" in the back of the room.. I can still see him cranking each page out.. one at a time. I remember when having to stand in the corner was a standard punishment... and if you turned your head the teacher would yell "keep that nose in the corner!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 The NBC Peacock Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundrop1964 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Waiting for the TV to warm up. Portable TV's on the TV stands TV Repairmen Fireman not Firefighters Gaucho Pants Rolled Up Jeans Calvin Klein Jeans & Brooke Shields Farrah Fawcett Hair (the flip out wings) Dorothy Hammill Hair and Short and Sassy Shampoo "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" Shampoo "Pong" video game IBM Selectric Typewriters Manual Typewriters Library Science and having to learn the "Dewey Decimal System." 110 Film for cameras and the Flip Flop flashcubes Watching the Gong Show and actually thinking it was funny Getting the smallpox vaccination.. and my mom telling me my arm would fall off if I scratched it. Penny Candy When the TV stations signed off after the Tonight Show and everything turned to "snow." Holding the microphone of my taperecorder next to the radio to tape my favorite songs on AM radio. Eight Track Tapes 50's dress up days in middle school When Gone With the Wind had its TV premier (1976?) Watching Guy Lombardo on NYE Watching The Lawrence Welk show & Hee Haw FotoHuts? - The place to drop off film to be developed. Homemade Wine Coolers When you actually had to spit in the dentists bowl (not the little suction thingys. Home Economics for Girls and Shop for boys Cartoons before the movie Drive-In Movies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanie55 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Maryann, Remember when the NBC Peacock was the only thing in color on the color TV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 There is not mentioned so far that I don't remember Ok here goes Wood stoves, out houses,Beanie and Cecil, When INTERMISSON came on the tv screen, Spin and Marty,gas wars when you could get gas for 16 cents a gallon, MCDonald's 15 for a dollar hamburgers,riding in a convertable with the top down, Puddle skirts and neckerchiefs and cardigan sweaters worn backwards buttoned up the back, 5 cent cokes in the little bottles you returned for the deposit, saddle shoes, school nurses who made sure you ate all of your lunch, passenger trains with chefs and meals made fresh, baby asperine. I could go on all night but boy does it make me wish some of these things were still around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Kasey, the Winky Dink screen never worked that good anyway Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyoung20 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 What about: parachute pants, MC Hammer pants, Tight-rolling jeans, Really tight jeans--(the tighter the better), you could buy Charles chips from the truck. BIG hair( the bigger the better). (The eighties were a big influence obviously) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I thought of some more! Station wagons, Hudsons, Studebakers, going to the movie and staying all day when you saw 2 or 3 movies, a news reel and several cartoons and it only cost about 80 cents.Going shopping when there were no big malls and you walked from store to store dodging the rain and listening to the Christmas music that played so loud you could hear it everywhere you went. Everyone said Merry Christmas and no one thought about telling you that it was wrong. Making mud pies and playing cowboy and indians using sticks for rifles and hatchets. Flash Gordon and Roy Rodgers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I see my name as the last one to post yet neither of my posts are here and I had some good ones I'm sure a lot of you will remember. I promise they were not naughty. What happened to them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 this is crazy now they are here. I know they weren't a minute ago. Boy I must be loosing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted February 2, 2006 Author Share Posted February 2, 2006 My older cousin used to be my babysitter. She saved her babysitting money and bought the most beautiful poodle skirt you could ever imagine.....and a big petticoat to go underneath!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Lilly, I rememeber the Sat. mattinees (sp ?). My mom gave me 50 cents, for the movie, pop corn and a drink. Used to spend all my Sat. afternoons there. Wow what a memory.. I rally like Flash Gordon, Could you believe how phoney it would look today? Clutch Cargo, was really dumb with the moving mouths Always like Star Trek and the Next Generation Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanie55 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I remember the "matrons" at the movies with their flashlights. I remember pizza and a coke costing 25 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C. Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Geri, Don't laugh, but in 2003 it cost me less for better food for two people than now for one person, inflation???? Remeber some prices of the old days after all I'm 78, for $1.00 you got 1 bread i dozen eggs 1 quart of milk 1 pound of butter I remember the price of beer at $6.99 for 24 poor Frank he was too young top drink in those days. Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaffie Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I remember 10 cent pay phones I remember 5 cent candy bars I remember going to the "little" store, getting bread and milk and saying put it on my dad's tab. I remember getting 50 cents worth of gas and it would actually get you some place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaffie Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I remember 5 cent candy bars I remember 10 cent pay phones I remember when 50 cents worth of gas gt you some place I remember going to the "little" store down the street, getting bread, milk and mom's cigarettes and saying put it on dad's tab. They sold cigarettes to anyone back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Hi Joanie, We did't call them matrons here we called them ushers. You made me laugh when I remembered the flashlights. They always found a seat for you. Made people move over. Did you every listen to your party line? We had phone numbers begining with letters. Ours was Saratoga 5, and Cumberland 9 Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmm17 Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I guess i'm a lot younger than everyone else. I dont remember any of this stuff. Here's what my generation probably remembers. POGS, the new kids on the block tapes, wind pants, huge barrettes made out of shoe laces, watching the Gulf War on the news, the OJ verdict,bubbletape gum,and Titanic the Movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Wow I couldn't find this and thought I had really lost my marbles I see some of the responses seem to have gotten lost in the transfer. Anyway I have a few more to add. wringer washers wash boards cloth diapers wood cooking stoves 15 minute soap operas like Valiant Lady Search for Tomorrow Love of Life Old show Hop Along Cassidy Radio soap Helen Trent Amos and Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvmydog2 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 While growing up I remember watching the train go by. we would count the cars on it. My biggest memory of all this was to see new automobiles that were on the train to be delivered. You know those little name tags that the dealer puts on the trunk lid. They used to be made of metal and had 2 screws that held them on. Anyway, I used to think that the car came from the factory with them so the train station would know where to deliver the cars to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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