Remembering Things The Way They Were....

VamPyroX said:
I remember the closed-captioning machine. Boy, those things were HUGE! We had one at school and it was brown with a huge black dial on it that made loud clicking noises when you turned it.
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OH YES!!! I do remember that!

I do remember some old tv shows,

I have always love that grizzly man with big bear with dumb ass donkey w old man... I can't remmy that name of show.

I remmy old cars, GTOs, mustangs and all. My parents used to play in band, drum looking w cymballs around the drum was popular that time, (okayyyyy). I remember kitchen was all one color coordinated, mine was yellow (yellow oven range, hood, refrigrator, and other things), my friend's was olive green. How gross is that, the colors were yellow, olive green, orange, and red, brown. YUCK! :-o

I was born in '74. Aww damn...
 
gnarly....I think you mean FraggleRock.....
I don't remember the closed captioned machine, but I do remmy when Bush signed ADA and made CC mandatory on TVs.
Remmy the HUGE auditory trainers/FM devices with the harness? UGH? HATED THOSE! (and they were SO FUCKING pointless too!)
 
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i was born in 1971,
and most people are mistaken here.....
we had a vcr in 1974.....it only cost more more than new car....my foster dad had a cell phone.. big as a brick(navy officer)...as well as many other toys that did not hit the main steam until the price came down.
the remote control was around in the 60's...just so damm big and costly....the same goes for microwave ovens and other goodies.
 
I remember the way things were.

The 1970's and 1980's was when everyone used outdoor clotheslines to dry their laundry. Nearly 100% of all babies wore cloth diapers, rubber pants, and safety pins. Leaded crystal ashtrays could be found in every household. Diaper Service trucks roamed the streets of neighbourhoods, picking up and dropping off diapers for mothers.

Ah yes, those were the good years!
 
Earliest memories

I'm closer in age to Reba so I can remmy Charlie's Angels, Dukes of Hazzard, and SWAT as TV shows.

LBJ and Truman both died about the same time when I was in 7th or 8th grade.

The earliest big news event that I can remmy is a bunch of men in suits sitting around a huge table talking about plumbing leak. I thought that they should just fix it. I wanted to watch Popeye cartoons after school.

I also remmy awful looking soldiers coming off a plane, kneeling down to kiss the ground and THEN kiss their wife and kids.
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The men in suits were testifying at the Watergate Hearings.
The awful looking soldiers were POWs returning from Vietnam.
 
vfr said:
i was born in 1971,
and most people are mistaken here.....
we had a vcr in 1974.....it only cost more more than new car....my foster dad had a cell phone.. big as a brick(navy officer)...as well as many other toys that did not hit the main steam until the price came down.
the remote control was around in the 60's...just so damm big and costly....the same goes for microwave ovens and other goodies.
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You are correct that many of those "gadgets" existed; they just weren't "mainstreamed" in the general public. Like you posted, the cost was very, very expensive, and the options were limited.

I remember the big, bulky vcr's that cost at least $1,200, and we had to do all the settings manually, including tracking. Only two heads, and they had to be kept clean. Not many movies were available on tape at the beginning, and some were Beta, some VHS.

"Mobile" phones had long antennas, and usually came with a bag for portability. Car phones had to have exterior antennas attached. They cost BIG bucks!

Microwave ovens were huge, no rotating plate, and the timers were twist dials, not digital. If you wore a pacemaker, you had to stay out of the room when the oven was used.

My in-laws had a remote for their Zenith TV. The volume went from soft to LOUD, and the channels had to be clicked thru in sequence, one at a time.

When I got my first hand-held calculator in the early 70's, it was a Casio with just basic math functions, and it was expensive.

No one had a calculator in high school (I graduated 1969). We did have slide rules (I still have mine; geek treasure).
 
retromom said:
I remember the way things were.

The 1970's and 1980's was when everyone used outdoor clotheslines to dry their laundry. Nearly 100% of all babies wore cloth diapers, rubber pants, and safety pins. Leaded crystal ashtrays could be found in every household. Diaper Service trucks roamed the streets of neighbourhoods, picking up and dropping off diapers for mothers.

Ah yes, those were the good years!
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My daughter was born in 1973. I used cloth diapers at home, and disposable ones for travel and day care. I had a diaper service for the cloth diapers because I didn't have a real clothes washer at home. The cloth ones were also great for "burping" or "spit" cloths, and dust rags. The disposables were awful. They weren't as fitted or as absorbent back then, so they leaked often. No elastic edges.

Diaper service was nice. Leave the dirty bag outside my door on my way to work. I come home in the afternoon, and a bag of nice clean diapers is waiting for me. :)
 
ITPjohn said:
I'm closer in age to Reba so I can remmy Charlie's Angels, Dukes of Hazzard, and SWAT as TV shows.
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Yeah, I remember those too. :)

LBJ and Truman both died about the same time when I was in 7th or 8th grade.
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Truman was President when I was born. When I was a baby, we lived in Key West where Truman had his vacation home. We got to see him there once (of course I don't remember that but my mom told me).


I also remmy awful looking soldiers coming off a plane, kneeling down to kiss the ground and THEN kiss their wife and kids.
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Yes, the POWs returning from Vietnam. That was a very emotional time.

I met a few of the Navy POWs after. ADM Jeremiah Denton was assigned to the same command where I was stationed. Another one was Captain of one of my Hubby's ships.
 
Ummmm, let me see...

I remember Yogi Bear, Flintstones, Robert Kennedy's & Martin Luther King's assasinations, Apollo 11, Vietnam, My Three Sons, Disney movies, Riots of 68, peace signs, hippies, cateye glasses (I see they are in vogue again) and it goes on and on.

I was five when JFK died which happened to be a month after my father's death...the 60's left a big, big impact on me.

Whew...that was a long time ago....
 
God, I don't remmy big news events from the early 80's.....i remmy reading about them thou (through Bloom County) I don't remmy Challenger, but I do remmy stuff like the San Franciso earthquake, Jeffery Dahmer, Jim Henson and Roald dahl dying and things like that.....
 
I was born in 1973... Nancy and other 70's kids, I chuckled at all the stuff I remembered from your lists....

I used to love all the popular 70's tv shows... 6 Million Dollar Man, the Bionic Woman (I had a Bionic Woman Halloween costume), Wonder Woman, Hawaii 5-0, etc...

We grew up in a very small rural town, and in the 70's we still had a milkman who would come and deliver our milk to our house.

I attended pre-school on a big blue bus...

It was wonderful being able to play outside, roam around the town on my own, ride my bike wherever I wanted to without a stupid helmet or having my parents accompany me. We kids used to play "journey" where we would spend all day tramping around through the forest, playing with "swords" (big sticks from trees) and discovering all the plant, wildlife, and different bugs that lived under rocks and logs.

I remember much more from the 80's too... same as what others had on their lists... I remmy before I lost my hearing, I was about age 7 and I had just woken up and was getting ready for school. My mom had the TV turned on to the "Today" show and I remember hearing the announcement that John Lennon had been shot and killed.
 
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