I remember.....

[dodari]

MS-dos

Hollorith cards. Punched tape. Had to make an appointment with computer administrator to try a RUN. Usually mine bombed a few times. Good thing the Russians weren't coming. (Nothing against anybody Russian for godssakes) Was a Co-op college student working at White Sands Missle Range.

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

I remember playing outside all day long, Looney tunes on Saturday morning, You could walk down the road to play with the kids next door and not worry about stranger danger . 3 on the tree pickups, riding my bike with no protective gear, chasing lightening bugs after dark, and playing in the old 2 seater outhouse. The thing I miss the most, is jumping on my horse and riding all over with out worrying about upsetting the neighbors.

 

[FeistyAlice]

Rich old ladies in church with minks, with heads, springy clips in mouths to grab other parts.

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[harley05]

I remember the cable channel changer box with a long wire connected to the tv. You would step on the wire with one foot and with your next step send that huge box on a deadly arc like a guided missile. We lost many table lamps, drinking glasses and I think several children and pets with that weapon. I believe that box was the inspiration for the T.O.W. guided missile system!!!

I also remember pop rocks, moon rocks, green stamps, slinkies and ultra mini skirts and dresses! Was the best of times!

Oh and I just have to add my fondest memory of all. Going with dad down to Thomaston to the Fullers 5 and dime, getting a handmade paper sack full of nickel candy. Then heading over to Patti's Place and climbing up on one of the huge stools (seemed 10 feet tall to a 5 yr old), then watching in amazement as the soda jerk with a paper hat created a root beer malt on that gleaming chrome soda fountain, then served it to me in a classic fountain glass with a long straw!

 

[FeistyAlice]

I remember playing outside all day long, Looney tunes on Saturday morning, You could walk down the road to play with the kids next door and not worry about stranger danger . 3 on the tree pickups, riding my bike with no protective gear, chasing lightening bugs after dark, and playing in the old 2 seater outhouse. The thing I miss the most, is jumping on my horse and riding all over with out worrying about upsetting the neighbors.

And knowing where all the neighbors' cloths line were. We played hide and seek at night bareback. How did we survive? How did our parents survive us?

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[CATastrophe]

When I was quite small our second car was a Corvair convertible. Mom would fill up on Friday evening, gas was 29.9 a gallon at the Spur station around the corner and we'd head into Milwaukee to eat at McDonald's, go shopping and maybe stop at some friends, before trying to beat my dad home after his shift.

We had a rather large yard with a firepit and we lived one block off the main street of a small town. My mom would light a fire before my dad got home about midnight and we'd roast hotdogs, marshmallows or do toasted sandwiches using the iron holders with long handles before going to bed. While I waited for him to come home, I'd swing on the tree swing he made me. It was very very dark back there by the creek behind the garage and rather spooky with the huge weeping willows looming overhead. Good times!

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

And knowing where all the neighbors' cloths line were. We played hide and seek at night bareback. How did we survive? How did our parents survive us?

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I ask myself that everyday, used to give my Dad a heart attack when I would jump on my horse Bareback with a halter and a lead rope and jump the 6 foot gate out of the pasture. I pay for it now, I have a shoulder that only has 90% mobility, knees that are shot, and a back that is bad, but I won't change the way I grew up for anything.


OOH, I miss the smell of a fresh mowed hay, and the summer days spent bailing and stacking it.

 

[CATastrophe]

I remember boating the Wolf River during summer weekends in our 18 foot wooden Cruiser with a scary Mercury outboard motor and looking for shells in the clear waters of the Little Wolf River. The motor looked like a monster head and it moved from side to side seeming to track our every move, just watching and waiting...

Yes, I watched lots of scary stuff, too, that certainly fueled my imagination. Shock Theater, Night Gallery, The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits.

 

[super_X_drifter]

When there were no helmets in the NHL. Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Jerry Cheevers.

When all mx bikes were two stroke.

Riding ATCs on the beaches in Jupiter FL.

Jupiter Florida before all the damn Yankees came down and turned it into a retirement community.

 

[karmakatie]

Playing with "Jacks"s at recess....
Pledge of allegiance every morning...
Cruising main street....

 

[karmakatie]

Hollorith cards. Punched tape. Had to make an appointment with computer administrator to try a RUN. Usually mine bombed a few times. Good thing the Russians weren't coming. (Nothing against anybody Russian for godssakes) Was a Co-op college student working at White Sands Missle Range.

I lived on the White Sands base 71-72....

 

[JC Okie]

Drive in movies everywhere

 

[dodari]

I lived on the White Sands base 71-72....

I'll be doggoned. I went to New Mexico State U. over the hill, '53 to '57 for my undergrad Eng'r degree.

We were working on the RedStone rocket back then, iirc.

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

Drive in movies everywhere

Stuffing 20 people in a car to go to the drive in movies

 

[AppleJack]

I wasn't allowed to watch Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show

 

[boilednuts]

Playin' with little plastic toy Army soldiers, tinker toys and my Roy Rogers 6 shooter and holster set. Reading 8 cent comic books were great too.

 

[bushmaster]

Points, condensor, distributer cap in that order were where you looked when your car wouldn't start. Today if it won't start, you don't even have a clue where to look. That said, I wouldn't trade our computerized ignition systems and fuel injection for the old carbureted models in a million years. It wasn't all that long ago that 100,000 miles on a car was a good lifespan. Today, the better cars are just getting their 2nd wind at 100,000 miles and can easily double that.

 

[FeistyAlice]

Real soda fountains at drug stores. All the cool pump containers for syrups and pull levers for sodas right there at the counter where you went to sit a spell.

Air conditioned picture shows when there was hardly AC anywhere else.

Plenty of hand held fans in backs of church pews.

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[FeistyAlice]

NOT THE GOOD OLD DAYS at all but I remember......... whites only drinking fountains and such.

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[clyde2801]

I remember when our first color tv with a REMOTE CONTROL-with buttons-arrived!

Before then TV's had knobs, and dials behind them that you had to use to fine tune the picture.

And the remote controls were us kids. "Junior! Change it to channel 9."