Let's play a game! Memory Lane... I'm so (old)(young) I remember...

[KyndCulture]

Pick the one you are feeling like tonight - old or young... and post a pic of something you remember from your youth...


I'm so OLD I remember:

Romper Stompers


and

The good captain (before I discovered Cap'n Morgan hahaha)

[ChoralScholar]

1. I'm so old I remember watching

Cronkite


And these various shows
Alice (kiss my grits, Mel)


One Day at a Time


WKRP in Cincinnati

[SeattleGirl]

26. Me too! n/t

[caty]

96. Fizzies!

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/fizzies.htm

[lpbk2713]

2. I'm so damn old I remember Milton Berle

Jimmy Durante

Jackie Gleason

Lucy


I remember when we got our first TV.

[China_cat]

45. Me too.

First tv in town. 5 inch round screen in this HUGE cabinet.

[RoyGBiv]

3. I'm so old ...

This was my first computer ...



Specs

And I owned some romper stompers. :-)

[ChoralScholar]

4. Aaah.. the original CoCo

I owned all three models.

Brings back memories.

10 X=RND(255)
20 SOUND X,1
30 GOTO 10

:)

[lpbk2713]

7. I did something similar to that inTI-Basic

on my TI-99/4A.

[ChoralScholar]

13. oh yeah...

probably looked more like this on the TI

10 LET X=RND*10
20 IF X<110 THEN GOTO 10
30 IF X>44733 THEN GOTO 10
40 CALL SOUND 1,X,10
50 GOTO 10

Gosh.. I loved that machine too.. we had those in my elementary school. I played the hell out of some hangman back in the day.

OH EDIT: What the hell is wrong with me? I remember TI-BASIC code from 20+ years ago, but I can't remember if I brushed my teeth this morning.

[RoyGBiv]

9. Ohdearlord ...

What's scary is, from somewhere deep from my memory, I *heard* that. :-)

A fuse in my CoCo's power supply burned out once. Fixed it with a paper clip.

Remember Rainbow magazine? (note the nick)

[ChoralScholar]

14. I remember

we had a BASIC programmers group here that I got programs from.

Did you ever spend time typing in those programs in the back of the user's manual?

My brother and I took turns spending about 3 hours typing in the code for Blackjack. When the first RUN produced an error, he got mad, typed NEW and stormed out of the room. I could have killed him.

Those were the days.

[RoyGBiv]

18. Yup ...

How badly I wanted to play a game in those days depended in large part on how much time I wanted to spend typing in commands from a blurry piece of papers, then error checking. For Christmas one year I got a book of adventure games ... not a disc or a tape, but a book. Typed every one of those things in. What sucked was that by the time I had done a few, I had learned to "read" the program and already knew the entire story when I got done typing.

I might have been tempted to delete my brother if he had done that.

It was cool, though ... precursors of OpenSource in an age when I actually understood the programming languages. You could take a program from a book or magazine and modify it to do something specific you wanted. As you say, those were the days.

[Pithlet]

73. I remember those

My parents bought one when I was 7 or 8.

[democracyindanger]

5. I'm so old

this was my first computer



and I remember comic books when they were 35 cents off the carousel rack

AND I had to walk to school barefoot, uphill both ways.

[KyndCulture]

6. Loderunner was the COOLEST game ever!

damn I feel old!

[democracyindanger]

10. Not as cool as

the FIRST Castle Wolfenstein!

[RoyGBiv]

11. It was!

It is! I played that for hours on end in the school's "computer lab," all Apple II, and IIE's.

Found a port of it to a IBM-PC. It sucked.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. I'm so old I remember 15 cent gasoline

It was a time a penny actually bought you something. It was a larger, simpler, saner world then, and I remember it.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. I'm so old I remember The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz

It was the first program televised Saturday morning after the test pattern was retired for the night. Mmmmm, TV, cold cereal, milk, and sugar....was America great, or what!!!

[VolcanoJen]

34. I'm sorry, but that's kinda creepy.

wtf...?

[BrotherBuzz]

68. Well, WTF, it was the only thing on TV that time of the morning!

The program was the creation of Ralph Chessé and it was about ecology, only we hadn't invented that word yet. The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz was sponsored by the Lathum Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education. This was the first children's television program to deal with animal life and environmental issues. I learned well, and still champion the ideas that Ralph Chessé introduced me to almost fifty years ago. I've seen a lot of creepy in my tumultuous life, but Brother Buzz wasn't one of them.

[VolcanoJen]

71. Oh, I'm sure it was a good show, but c'mon now....

... those pictures are just a little creepy from my perspective.

:-)

I'm just joshin' ya!

[BuelahWitch]

75. What city and who was the puppeteer?

Of course, I'm so old I remember:

[BrotherBuzz]

86. Ralph Chessé - San Francisco

Here's a photo of him at age eighty



http://chesseartsltd.com/periods.html

[readermostly]

15. I'm so old that I remember my favorite show "Winky Dink." I'm too old

to figure out how to find and post a picture!! HA!! I'm not too old to learn to post, though!!!!

[Gildor Inglorion]

59. Ha! I thought nobody remembered that show but me....

I had the plastic sheet that went over the TV screen so you could draw Winky out of danger.


:bounce:

[Fox Mulder]

16. I'm so young...

that I don't know anything of which you guys are speaking of.
:hide:

[RoyGBiv]

20. It's alright ...

They weren't really the good old days. Same old shit, different toys.

[Suich]

17. I'm so old, I remember when you could buy this piece of plastic

to put on the screen of your black and white tv...it was blue on the top part, clear in the middle and red on the bottom part. Voila! Color television!

The original Mickey Mouse show with Annette and "Spin and Marty"

Fluid-drive cars.

Sawdust burning furnaces.

[ContraBass Black]

56. Fluid drive?

[Dervill Crow]

81. I was technologically challenged back then, too.

My parents bought me a secondhand B&W set for my bedroom, and I put the plastic on sideways! Guess they were too busy watching Bonanza on their big ol' color console to clue me in the specifics.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. I'm so old I remember who came before Captain Kangaroo

"Ding Dong School" with Miss Francis. I think it ended its run at about the time Captain Kangaroo premiered in the mid 1950s. Miss Francis used to talk to the camera and pretend that the kids were answering her and I'd freak out because she'd never answer my questions.

[Gildor Inglorion]

60. "I'm your school bell, ding, dong, ding...

come with me to play and sing...ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong, ding...."

"*gasp* Good morning! I'm Miss Frances!"

[KyndCulture]

21. Gotta help my fellow Gen-Xers... I'm so OLD I remember

Tender Heart bear!

[ghostsofgiants]

22. I'm so young, that I remember...

Beastly and Shrieky being so much cooler than the Care Bears.

[suzbaby]

77. I remember the Care Bears!

Do you also remember Lite Bright?

[abbeyco]

23. A trip down memory lane....

I remember our first color TV,
the gas rationing in the 70's,
playing PONG,
toe socks, Tiger Beat Magazine and roller skating on Friday nights,
and being the first family in our entire neighborhood to get cable TV.
I remember the day that MTV first came on cable and it changed my life - I was hooked by Mark Goodman - an original VJ, he was a hottie then!

In my 42 years, I have a lot of 'remember when..' moments

[RoyGBiv]

24. Remember when moment ...

Do you remember the name of the series of documentaries that had a song called "Remember When" as a theme? :-)

[Robeson]

25. I'm so old, I used to play Jarts....

...

[VolcanoJen]

32. Jarts were fun!

I swear, my dad brought them home one day and the whole family, including, yes, us kids, played for hours.

Not even conceivable today!

[KitchenWitch]

38. Hey, I was going to say Jarts!

So mad they were outlawed...Jarts plus liberal amounts of alcohol = FUN!

[Robeson]

39. KitchenWitch....sometimes you scare me.....

...were we twins, separated at birth? Just who was your dad? I hope he doesn't have the same first name that mine does.....:yoiks:

[KitchenWitch]

41. LOL

My dad was born in Camden NJ, where was your dad born?

[Robeson]

42. He told me Tennessee.....

...but right now, I'm not sure. Next time I see him, I'm going to say "Camden, NJ!", and see if I can read his reaction....;-)

[Dervill Crow]

82. LOL - my mom-in-law still has the Jarts set in her garage.

I had never heard of them and was appalled when my husband told me about them. What a family I married into!

[SoCalDem]

91. For the right price I'll sell you Mine..mint condition originals

[SeattleGirl]

27. I'm so old I remember....

Learning to read from the Dick and Jane books.
"Duck and cover".
Black and white TV.
Cap'n Kangaroo.
JP Patches (Hi fellow Washingtonians!).
Bomb shelters.
Motown, Archie Comics, and Barbie Dolls being the COOLEST!
The day JFK was assinated. (Haunts me to this day.)
The day RFK was assinated. (NOOOOO!)
The day MLK was assinated. (NOOOO to the 10th degree).
Astroids. (The game).
Sputnik.
The first walk on the moon.
Computers that took up an entire room.
Punch cards.
Apollo 13.
John Glenn orbiting the earth.
The Cold War.
The Bay of Pigs.

And a whole lot more I cannot recall at the moment.

Oh yeah, and:
Romper Room.
Sherry Lewis.
The Rat Pack.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muhr (Muir?).
Rawhide (Rowdy!!).
Combat.
Wagon Train.
The Donna Reed Show.
Ozzie and Harriet.
Gunsmoke. (Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon! Dad's favorite show.).
Get Smart.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Avengers.
The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
The Lawrence Welk Show (so sue me).
Leave it to Beaver (You look very nice today, Mrs. Cleaver!).
To Tell the Truth.
The Gong Show.
Let's Make a Deal.

Hostess Twinkies arriving on the scene.
Swanson TV Dinners.

[VolcanoJen]

33. Very cool list.

I was actually pretty bummed when Gerry Thomas, inventor of the Swanson TV Dinner, died.

I remember being fascinated by those aluminum-foil trays. Dad would let me pop out the "pudding" dessert and eat it frozen before we put it in the oven.

This thread makes me happy. :-)

[SeattleGirl]

36. Me too!

With all the crap going on right now, it's nice to have an escape!

:P

[hippywife]

44. I couldn't have come up with a better list myself!

:hi:

How about Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap?

[SeattleGirl]

46. Good one!

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair!

[hippywife]

48. This was really a hot item at our house, too:

There was another toy I'm reminded of from when I was about 12 and I think it was made by Whamo. It was a plastic ring you put around your ankle. It had a plastic cord with a hard plastic bell-shaped thing on the end. You would put it on your ankle and get it spinning around and jump over the cord with your other foot. I can't think of what it was called. :shrug:

[Z_I_Peevey]

52. Skip It?

Something like that. I wanted one.

[hippywife]

54. Could be.

I just can't remember. It came out around the same time as the original Shoop Shoop Hula Hoop.

[ContraBass Black]

57. Yes, Skip It.

They still sell those.

[Z_I_Peevey]

63. OMG, the shoop shoop hula hoop!

I had forgotten that one.

[guinivere]

83. I had that Projector

LOL! Hours of fun for my sister and I.

I also had a ViewFinder with about 50 of the round film thingys.

I remember those Sanford tempera paints in the glass jars.
And at Christmas there was a cartoon "Hardrock, Coco and Joe".
And Topo Gigio on the Ed Sullivan Show. I hap a Topo Gigio bank.

[SeattleGirl]

47. And slinky's

and "Oh, I thought you were Dale!"

And Madge.
And "Only her hairdresser knows for sure".
And "Don't Squeeze the Charmin"
And the Maytag Man.

And Peter, Paul and Mary (and "Puff the Magic Dragon").

And Wonder Bread.

And other things I will remember later.

Gad, I'm so freakin' tired I gotta go to bed so I can get up in time for the rally/march in Seattle!

:grouphug:

[guinivere]

85. Hell yeah

Slinkys were made out of metal and actually worked.

[RebelOne]

49. You forgot Elvis Presley's first appearance

on the Ed Sullivan Show. And how they would not show him below the waist. I remember that well.

[SeattleGirl]

28. Kickin up cause I just added some stuff.

:P

[VolcanoJen]

29. Romper Stompers!!!!! I'm so old, I remember....

The Solid Gold Dancers!!

[SeattleGirl]

30. OMG!

Forgot about them! Thanks for the reminder.

[VolcanoJen]

35. Tony, the dancer second from the left, passed away 10 years ago.

AIDS-related illness, they called it. :-(

[SeattleGirl]

37. Bummer!

I remember that saying too. That aside, that's sad. I guess I could add to my list: ignorance! "Oh that can't happen to me". Sorry honey, it can. Here's to knowledge and education, because ignorance kills!:cry:

[gmoney]

31. When my corner drugstore sold 45s

Somewhere, I still have my copy of "How Do You Do" by Mouth & MacNeill that I think I paid 33 cents for...

They also used to sell me cigarettes if I brought a note from my mom... and I recall that more than once, that note also told the woman to send home some tampons with me. Nothing a young boy likes more than being mom's tampon mule.

Reminds me of a punchline for our other thread "...look, it says right here... you can go swimming, you can play tennis, you can go horseback riding..."

[SeattleGirl]

40. Just realized I had another mind fart!

45's! Thanks for adding that!

[AtomicKitten]

43. 45s for a buck.

9th grade.

[Clintmax]

50. I'm old enough that I remember...

This was my FAVORITE show on Saturday morning when I was a kid! Anyone else remember this one?

[RebelOne]

51. Anyone remember this song?

Mares eat oats
Does eat oats
Little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy, too
Wouldn't you?

That was a favorite when I was a about 3 years old. If you remember, you are as old as dirt.

[gmoney]

55. I DO remember...

Someone doing it on The Gong Show and my Mom explaining the song to me. You didn't mention that when it's sung, it's more like:

Mairzydoats and dozeydoats and little lambseydivies
A kiddleivy too, wouldn't you

[RebelOne]

69. My version is the translation when it is sung slowly. n/t

[WCGreen]

58. I remember that......

And the first commercial for oldies on the TV had don't sit under the aplle tree with anyone else but me....

Dr, Suess books....

My first book, Gus the Firefly.....

My dad and mom arguing about Ethel Murman.....

[Ptah]

53. I'm so old, I used this in high school.

:codger:

I went to school in a two room schoolhouse
- eight grades in one building.

[Z_I_Peevey]

64. Alumni of tiny school too.

There were six of us in first grade, which was the righthand row of chairs in Room One. Grade Four was the lefthand row.

I was intimidated by all the big kids in grades 5-8, off in that farway upper grades room.

I learned a lot in that setting.

[alarcojon]

74. Some time after you

I was grooving with my Casio calculator

[xmas74]

79. I used one in chem and physics in high school.

I graduated in the early 90's. I couldn't afford one of the scientific calculators and our teacher preferred them over a calculator.

[Gildor Inglorion]

61. I'm so OLD, I remember listening to

"The Lone Ranger" and "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" on the radio...
:-)

[ContraBass Black]

62. I'm so young

I carry four computerized devices on my person at almost all times.

I learned to use a mouse before I learned to use a spoon.

The first toy store I remember entering was a Toys R' Us.

Older women are attractive, and younger ones are a legal risk.

I shave my head instead of combing over it.

I have never operated an 8-track.

I have never broken a vinyl record.

All of the music I own has been copied to my hard drive.

I didn't know until recently how credit cards worked before magnetic striping.

When I found one of these in my aunt's storage space,


I thought it was drop-dead funny.

I've never ridden a full-size bicycle that didn't have a transmission.

The first music I remember hearing was either Michael or Janet Jackson.

I can assemble and operate a video game console without instructions.

I've never had a girlfriend who didn't wear thongs.

I think the best cars come from Japan, and I'm not into tuning.

I've never ridden a propeller plane.

I've never used AM radio for music.

2GHz, 200MB RAM is slow to me.

I find digital cameras easier to use than standard film cameras.

I'd rather walk than wait for the bus.

I'd rather climb the stairs than wait for the elevator, unless there are more than fifteen floors of them.

When I look at myself naked in the mirror, I like what I see.

50 cents for a candy bar is normal to me.

I don't remember the Reagan administration because I paid no attention to politics at the time.

I like fast food.

Strange drunk women give me indecent proposals on the street.

I remember where I put my keys.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. I was a charter subscriber to Mickey Mouse Club Magazine

[jmm]

66. I'm so old I remember when MTV aired music videos

but I'm so young I've always had MTV

I'm old enough to remember River City Ransom or as I like to call it the rated G version of Grant Theft Auto but I'm young enough that Pac man and Pong belonged to my parent's generation.

I was born around the time Reagan's admin contemplated making ketchup a vegetable yet I'm still old enough to remember my school serving nutritious meals. However I am young enough to remember buying soda daily from the vending machine at my high school because they started serving smilk instead of milk. I also had nachos and cheese everyday except Wednesday when some fast food place would donate. Yeah they weren't trying to build a customer base they were freakin' humanitarians.

I'm old enough to buy beer yet I'm young enough to remember Care bears. If I wasn't feeling lazy I'd take a picture of the ones I still have and post it.

[calico1]

67. I am so old I remember when

if you wanted to reheat leftovers you did so in a pan on the stove. Nobody had microwaves.

I remember when you had the choice of 3 network channels and PBS and that was it. Oh, and you GOT up and changed the channel! I also remember when the picture "jumped"and you had to adjust the "horizontal hold" button.

I remember when soda was sold in glass bottles or tin cans and when you had to use a can opener to open the can.

I remember when baby powder came in a tin container and when almost everything came in glass.

I remember when there was no such thing as plastic grocery bags. They were all paper.

I remeber when the popcorn we made was Jiffy Pop that came in an aluminum pan with a handle and you shook it over a hot burner to pop.

[Cathyclysmic]

70. You needed one of these to play a single:

[fortyfeetunder]

72. What they were...then...

When Jim Henson was a college student making his first TV commercials using Muppets. I remember the Muppets in the commercials but it was only later I made the association.

And when Willard Scott once played Bozo the Clown and one of the first Ronald McDonald.

[BuelahWitch]

76. My Dream toy

When I was about four years old:




I was told I couldn't have them because I was a GIRL! :cry:

[Kickin_Donkey]

78. I'm so old, I remember when ...

You had to walk up to the TV set to change the channel.

Multiple party lines on our telephone connection.

You carried your grade-school books under your arm, not in a backpack.

Girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school (had to wear dresses).

Mocking the Pledge of Allegiance was funny and cool -- and accepted.

Postage for a letter was 10 cents.

Kids bought packs of baseball cards because they liked baseball and hoped to get their favorite player; they didn't buy cards on spec.

Woolworths Five and Dimes.

Blue Chip stamps.

Tattoos were strictly for sailors.

Sushi was exotic, uncommon, and generally thought of as yucky raw fish.

Raquel Welch was the Bomb.

You used one-time flash bulbs with you camera.

When you had to call customer service, you got a person directly.

When you finally got through on the phone to a real person at customer service, the staffer wasn't in India.

Republicans were sane and they loved their country more than their party.

Michael Jackson was black.

(I'm 43, by they way.)

[Arugula Latte]

80. Wow, romper stompers & the Captain! Two mainstays of my childhood

also H.R. Puffnstuff
kissing David Cassidy's picture
Wacky Packs
spoon candy
massive flare bell bottoms
45s and 8-tracks
black & white TV (we got color when I was about six)
getting maybe six channels
no ATMs

[Sanity Claws]

84. When it cost 15 cents to take a NY subway

[MarianJack]

87. A Lot of My Answers are Already Posted,...

...so I'll be general!

I'm so old that the first time my mother let me stay home by myself when school was closed, she left me $1 for lunch at the Steer Inn (a McDonald's wannabe) in Glenolden, PA.

I got 2 burgers and a coke for $.40, and then went to the Davis Trading Post in Norwood, PA for 5 comic books for $.60. Thats right, twelve cents for a comic book or a quarter for a DC 100 page giant, a Marvel Special or an Archie Giant.

My mother wanted to KILL me. She wanted to buy some cold cuts and bread with that sixty cents!

isn't it amazing how, as you get older, some of your favorite memories involve getting your ass kicked by your parents and DESERVING it?

[Iris]

88. Man - what sadist thought up romper stompers?

I busted my ass so many times on those things!

Remember Romper Room?

[ashling]

89. I'm so old I remember dirt - really

just dirt - there wasn't anything else.

[SoCalDem]

90. So old, I remember 19.9 CENT a gallon gas

dial telephones..HEAVY phones that would KILL if you hit someone with them

Push-button drive cars

Transistor radios the size of a pencil case..cost about $40 bucks

when the ballpoint pens were something to "impress your friends" with

when "feminine hygiene" products were "wingless"

when campbells canned soups were 10 for a dollar

When bread was 4 for a dollar

when eggs were 49 cents a dozen (jumbo eggs)

when polaroid cameras were the HIGHtechiest thing around Who else had a polaroid Swinger)


I'll remember more later:)

[ContraBass Black]

93. Push-button drive cars?

[Debbi801]

92. I'm so old...

I had one of these (Baby Secret)...


And played with lots of these and these (Flatsies & Kiddles):


I also used to love watching Hodge Podge Lodge on PBS, but can't find any real scoop on it.

Oh, and I had romper stompers, too. :-)

[bertha katzenengel]

94. I remember Hobo Kelly - as I'm sure anyone who was a kid in L.A. area in

the 60s remembers, too



http://latvlegends.com/HoboKelly/hobokelly.htm

[bertha katzenengel]

95. I don't remember Sherrif John, but GOD I remember this!! Check it out:

Any other So. Cali. natives remember when this was what greeted you at the Jack in the Box drive-through?

:rofl: