The only time sports was on TV was on weekends. And ABCs Wide Work of Sports on Saturday evening was the most important then the only source of track news, except for Track and Field News.
The only time sports was on TV was on weekends. And ABCs Wide Work of Sports on Saturday evening was the most important then the only source of track news, except for Track and Field News.
The only time sports was on TV was on weekends. And ABCs Wide Work of Sports on Saturday evening was the most important then the only source of track news, except for Track and Field News.[/quote]
USA vs USSR trackmeets!
The smell of model airplane glue
Slide rules
Corny ghouls hosting corny horror movies on tv
Songs with lengthy guitar, drum and bass solos
Concept albums
Vacuum tubes glowing in the back of TV sets
Gramps wrote:
The only time sports was on TV was on weekends. And ABCs Wide Work of Sports on Saturday evening was the most important then the only source of track news, except for Track and Field News.
Ah yes..."The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat"
Full bush
Prizes at the bottom of cereal boxes. Saving up box tops or coupons on cereal boxes to send in for a prize.
plog wrote:
pubic hair, 2 Germanies, phosphates, acceptable bigotry, pay phones, red pistachios, pagers, 3 TV Channels, men on the moon and lawn darts.
Why is this thread still going? Should have ended on page 1. We have a winner!
Sea monkeys.
Tube socks before fleshlight.
HRE how old? wrote:
HRE wrote:Milk being delivered to your house in bottles. left in a milk box, and leaving empty bottles in the box that the milk man took away.
A train being pulled by a steam locomotive, a real train, not a tourist attraction one.
A "rag man," a guy who went from house to house with a horse drawn wagon filled with rags he'd gotten from people that he sold to some place that made the rags into "new" material.
TV stations signing off at night with the national anthem and coming back on the same way.
Getting only one TV channel.
Heating the house with a coal furnace.
Doctors making house calls.
Geezus how old are you?
I remember wall the things HRE does plus watching the debuts of Sky King and Roy Rogers TV shows on our new RCA black and white TV
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-RCA-6T76-16in.JPGBeing born before the transistor was invented makes my old fashioned things very old fashioned.
One of my earliest sad memories is when the couple upstairs from us got notice their son had been killed during the Korean Police Action.
My childhood zip code was New York 21,NY and the north side of my street was in zip code 28,
I was out of high school before the non-mandatory 5 digit code changed it to 10021.
Oh and I remember celebrating the 20th anniversary of my 50th birthday
Eisenhower
the world does progress wrote:
Communists.
Both the real ones (e.g. old union members) and the fake ones (young good-for-nothing windbags). They all died out with the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin wall.
Dude, go on Reddit. You'll find thousands of entitled millenials who think socialism is the answer to their dream of living a life of leisure without working.
Roy Rogers was my first hero. Sky King was not on the one channel we got but we'd visit relatives in Pittsburgh and my cousin there loved it. I remember seeing it once or twice but that's all.
lipstick on a pig wrote:
The smell of model airplane glue
Slide rules
Corny ghouls hosting corny horror movies on tv
Songs with lengthy guitar, drum and bass solos
Concept albums
Vacuum tubes glowing in the back of TV sets
Model cars. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/selvedgeyard.com/2009/08/12/ed-big-daddy-roth-rat-fink-king-of-south-cali-kustom-kar-kulture/amp/Carrying one of these on all my runs.
Carrying this in my other hand during 10 milers in the country.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/474x/b2/8c/90/b28c90f5b06ea778b4484ae021d8e168.jpg
In the old days people would argue for years about facts you can now verify in seconds with device in your pocket.
-Dirt bomb fights
-Egging houses
-Ring and Run
-Peeping through the bedroom window of the neighborhood geek's hot older sister as she got changed. Thank you, Colleen.
-Marco Polo used as a means to grope older girls (your pal would swim behind the hottest girl in the pool and make a lot of noise so you could reach out and grab her "accidentally")
-Jailbreak
-Streaking
-Skinny dipping
-Shasta Root Beer
-Doritos
-Fudgecicles
-Pop Rocks
-Salt Water Taffy
-Truth or Dare
-Spin the Bottle
-Mopeds
-No seatbelt in the back of the station wagon
-Drive in movies
-Sleeping in a tent in the backyard and reading comic books like "Werewolf By Night"
-the remote was me... change the tv volume or channel
-a big comb to part my longish hair in the middle
-Henry Rono was the GOAT
-Michael Jackson was black and Livin off the Wall
-I could almost break 2 for the 800
-Fallout shelters might be necessary
-Penthouse aroused me
-High school would never end
-I liked running, some things haven't changed
