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What do you remember?

posted 7 years ago by GlenEllyn (21642)
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Depending on your current age, you'll probably remember at least some of these:

collect phone calls
getting a busy signal instead of voicemail
reel-to-reel tapes, audio cassettes, 8-track tapes
taping your favorite song off the radio on to a cassette
Scholastic book club
Weekly Reader
library card catalog
portable CD players before anti-skip technology
Pong
wired TV remote - yes, wired
typewriters
corded telephones, including desk, Princess and Trimline models
AOL chat rooms
Netscape Navigator
pagers
fiddling with the vertical or horizontal hold on the TV
snow on the TV
keypunch machines and punch cards
breadboxes
color-coordinated toilet paper (seriously)
paper drinking straws
wringer washing machines
jacks
Tonka Toys

What else do you remember from the past?

[–] yawkee24 (629) 7 years ago

the iPhone 6

[–] Kazak (2199) 7 years ago

I remember almost every one of those, except for maybe the t.p. One thing I recall fondly, do you remember when cable television was first introduced and they had those wired slide boxes?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3375/3298454963_068a3b8b20.jpg

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

No, I do not remember cable boxes like that.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I remember you needed two boxes - a converter and a decoder.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

VHS,old cellphones,the kids playing in the courtyard,now they are in front of an pc or console,black and white tv's.

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

Oh yes, what we used to call the bag phones - the phone was wired to whatever was in the bag (I never owned one so I don't remember exactly how they worked). Then came "brick" cell phones.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Ah...nokia,sony - ericsson,siemens,motorola...good old days.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

All of the above.
Also, only three TV network channels to choose from.

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

Yep, forgot that one. A lot less channel flipping in those days, particularly when you had to get up to change it - or tell one of the kids to do it for you. ;-)

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Audio - casettes,in the past kids were singing christmas carrols for tradition,now they get payed for this,book - library's...

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

Kids get paid for singing Christmas carols?

I still go to the library, usually a couple of times a week. But then, I am old-school on quite a few things.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

In these parts,they are payed yes.I used to read at least 200 pages per day.

[–] db20db (17710) 7 years ago

Duckwall's & Western Auto stores.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Woolworth's

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

My sister's first job was at the lunch counter at Woolworth's. She also did a stint as a carhop at Bridgeman's, but luckily no roller skating required.

[–] [email protected] (690) 7 years ago

There is a musical artist, Nanci Griffith, who has a song I think called "Love At the Five and Dime," and I think one of the lines is "She made the Woolworth's counter shine." It's really a lovely song, in case you are not familiar with it. Easy enough to research per NG, and I really like the live version on the album One Fair Summer Evening, iirc.
She even recreates the sound of an elevator going up, as some stores may have had an elevator between floors. Very charming.

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

I remember Western Auto but not Duckwall's.

Coast to Coast Hardware.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

Shit! I remember ALL of these. Do you remember

Party Lines
The Milkman delivering milk to your door
Snap, Crackle and Pop
American building blocks
Tinker Toys
DOS
Captain Kangaroo
Having only TWO TV Channels - NBC and CBS

😎

[–] GlenEllyn (21642) 7 years ago

Our milkman delivered milk for our Snap, Crackle, Pop, Rice Krispies during Captain Kangaroo. 😉

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

LOL, Glen! Good one!

😎

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

I remember that in the past,the kids had more respect for the adults then today.In schools they were really study,not go to have fun like these days.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I remember older folks saying that the kids of today have no damn respect for their elders.

Or was that Socrates at around 400BC?

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Maybe.