Watching the original Star Trek and Wild Wild West! Had a crush on Robert Conrad. 
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Mighty Mouse cartoons, Popeye (Whimpy, "I'll glady pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.")
Interactive tv in the early 50s. There was a cartoon show that sold you a film like thing and a marker you could place on the tv screen. Then they set up senarios like a character crossing a stream. He would walk up to the stream then stop and ask you to draw a bridge. You would put a line across the stream then he would walk over it.
Interactive tv in the early 50s. There was a cartoon show that sold you a film like thing and a marker you could place on the tv screen. Then they set up senarios like a character crossing a stream. He would walk up to the stream then stop and ask you to draw a bridge. You would put a line across the stream then he would walk over it.
Falling asleep listening to superman radio shows in the car on the way home from Albany to stephentown.
Riding in the back of the back of the pickup truck to take the milk cans to the co-op in town. Farmers painted the tops of the cans in different colors so that when the cans came back out of the plant he could identify them as his own. Those cans were heavy. These days if you don't have bulk milk set up for pickup you can only sell your milk at a lower price for non human consumption. Those cans were heavy and the milk was kept cool in the spring house. The spring house was fed by a spring water pond where trout were raised. A stick, string and safety pin, a grass hopper for bait were all that were needed to catch a trout downstream from the pond. Out of that little stream was a pipe standing about three feet tall and four inches in diameter. Water poured out of that pipe all the time. It was the coolest, freshest water on a hot summer day. The pipe had thick green moss growing on the top of it where the water flowed.
"This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs" commercials
Licks with various sized and shaped paddles, right in the very front of a whole class (and then more licks when you got home, because news traveled fast on those party lines!)
Square bales of hay (and being strong enough to toss them over my head back then)
Pasture parties and Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill
M.Tv first coming out and actually being about music
Friday Night videos, followed by Tales of the Darkside and Twilight Zone
Getting in trouble for peeking around the corner to get glimpses of The Benny Hill Show
Parachute pants and lots of AquaNet hairspray
Mullets were cool
Licks with various sized and shaped paddles, right in the very front of a whole class (and then more licks when you got home, because news traveled fast on those party lines!)
Square bales of hay (and being strong enough to toss them over my head back then)
Pasture parties and Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill
M.Tv first coming out and actually being about music
Friday Night videos, followed by Tales of the Darkside and Twilight Zone
Getting in trouble for peeking around the corner to get glimpses of The Benny Hill Show
Parachute pants and lots of AquaNet hairspray
Mullets were cool
I remember when HBO first came out. It wasn't on 24/7. It came on around 5PM and went off around midnight.
Midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show when everyone dressed up, took props and and yelled the *talk back* lines to the screen.
My first car was a '62 Biscayne with a 3-on-the-tree. The linkage was wonky and I had to drive a couple miles in reverse one night to get home. I carried a hammer after that.
Back when I was a computer operator, I used to come home with a wrist-full of rubber bands from all the card decks. We used to have one guy who would roller skate back and forth between all the tape drives to mount tapes.
metal popcorn poppers with the top that slid to pour in the kernels.
I found one a while back...my grandkids are fascinated by it,lol.
I found one a while back...my grandkids are fascinated by it,lol.
Making copies with a machine that used ink on rollers! Had to do the original on a special paper. Turned a crank to make copies. What a freaking mess it was!!
Sky King on Saturday mornings.
Little turntable in a box for 45's. The arm had a speaker built in. Changing the little needle, turned a screw and took it out and put in a new one. I remember red 45's which were very old. Mostly all childrens songs.
Installing a 8 track player in my first car, a 1971 Camaro. Later came the CB, got the registered name Mellow Yellow for the car color!
Sitting in the front seat holding my newborn for the ride home. No car seats. My kids did use seat belts when they were old enough to sit in the back.
When I was a kid we traveled across the country from CA to Fl, and CA to Ohio. Back seats down and we just sat or laid in the big space. One trip the car blew a tire, rolled over and landed on the top. I was in the back asleep. Woke up to find the cooler open and ice and food all over. My first trip to the ER in an ambulance. I had a crush injury to my chest. Nothing serious, or broken.
Sky King on Saturday mornings.
Little turntable in a box for 45's. The arm had a speaker built in. Changing the little needle, turned a screw and took it out and put in a new one. I remember red 45's which were very old. Mostly all childrens songs.
Installing a 8 track player in my first car, a 1971 Camaro. Later came the CB, got the registered name Mellow Yellow for the car color!
Sitting in the front seat holding my newborn for the ride home. No car seats. My kids did use seat belts when they were old enough to sit in the back.
When I was a kid we traveled across the country from CA to Fl, and CA to Ohio. Back seats down and we just sat or laid in the big space. One trip the car blew a tire, rolled over and landed on the top. I was in the back asleep. Woke up to find the cooler open and ice and food all over. My first trip to the ER in an ambulance. I had a crush injury to my chest. Nothing serious, or broken.
First off, BEST THREAD EVER LOREN. I'll read it shortly.
Whats the name of that machine, looks like a video poker machine, had big plastic punchcards you inserted, I remember we had to use it in elementary school to test if we were idiots. Big clunky pushbuttons infront of a screen. Dangit, now it'll be on my mind all day.
RHP
Whats the name of that machine, looks like a video poker machine, had big plastic punchcards you inserted, I remember we had to use it in elementary school to test if we were idiots. Big clunky pushbuttons infront of a screen. Dangit, now it'll be on my mind all day.
RHP
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