What are you old enough to remember?

[RedAngie]

State of the art when I was a kid.

TV dinners were always a treat. My favorite was turkey and stuffing. Somehow a pea or two always found their way into the mashed potatoes or dessert when the foil was peeled back.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Does anyone remember those jukebox-looking machines in record stores where you could choose songs and make your own mixtape? I think each song was like 80 cents, and then you waited for a while for the salesperson to give it to you. You got a cassette with a cover of your choice and whatever you named it printed on it.

 

[PigletsPal2]

I remember the fisrt televisions available for the home. The screen was about 7" diagonal, black and white (naturally) and the console was huge. Famly lore has it that I was watching some fram program where the farmer was feeding a baby goat with a bottle. I looked at the screen, looked at the bottle in my hand, made a disgusting sound and promptly threw my bottle across the room, nevert to be drunk from againl I was about 2 years old.

 

[Lumpy1106]

.....roller skating with 4 wheels [two in front, two in back] BEFORE in-line skates came around.

I assume you are talking about the metal wheel ones you attached to your tennis shoes with a skate key, right?

 

[Lumpy1106]

State of the art when I was a kid.

We never went out when I was a kid, but every once in a while we'd get TV dinners as a treat meal. The desserts never tasted as good as they looked.

 

[kimmar067]

I assume you are talking about the metal wheel ones you attached to your tennis shoes with a skate key, right?

....I was all-out fancy-schmancy....I had skates that were boots [look like figure skates] with wooden wheels and pom-poms.

 

[kimmar067]

Does anyone remember those jukebox-looking machines in record stores where you could choose songs and make your own mixtape? I think each song was like 80 cents, and then you waited for a while for the salesperson to give it to you. You got a cassette with a cover of your choice and whatever you named it printed on it.

....I still have one!

 

[kimmar067]

Beatles coming to America - 1964

....I remember watching the Rolling Stones in black and white on the Ed Sullivan show....I thought they looked SO SCARY!

 

[Diznotyzed]

State of the art when I was a kid.

Another fun old thing in this picture is the price stamped on the box!

 

[kimmar067]

That’s why I never bought 8-tracks. A friend had Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell on 8-track and it changed right at a good part of a song, maybe You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth.....

...

 

[kimmar067]

I lived in NYC....Good Humor ice pops cost $.07...

..I remember the Good Humor man...with his white uniform and the white truck....that bell ringing....

 

[TheFloatingBear]

Since today is the 41st anniversary, I will say watching the "Miracle on Ice" with my parents and my brother (hockey player) in my basement.

(392) Final Minute of the "Miracle on Ice" - YouTube

 

[kimmar067]

....remember Witchie Poo?

 

[DisneYE]

Smoking in airplanes. I was a kid and my mom a heavy smoker.. I was with my mom several times on those last 4-5 rows in an airplane (when my dad couldn't travel -he didn't smoke).. smoke everywhere. I remember seeing other kids as well and the cloud of smoke...Horryfying, I know. Late 70's, early 80s.
In fact, I remember smoking was allowed everywhere. Some restaurants didn't even have smoking sections, it was ok to smoke everywhere. Only in the late 80s did they start having smoking areas.

Anyone know if cruises allowed smoking inside the staterooms? I remember smoking in the verandahs, I actually sailed when it was still allowed. But not inside.

Appalling times.

 

[scrapquitler]

I remember watching Richard Nixon's resignation speech

 

[RedAngie]

I remember watching Richard Nixon's resignation speech

My mother was upset that the Watergate hearings pre-empted her soap operas and game shows. “Why can’t they just show it on PBS?”

 

[kimmar067]

My mother was upset that the Watergate hearings pre-empted her soap operas and game shows. “Why can’t they just show it on PBS?”

...how about Roots?

 

[KayMichigan]

I grew up during the 70s. No home VCRs so if you missed a show on TV, your only hope was to wait for the rerun during the summer. And if you missed a live program you were out of luck.

I remember eagerly anticipating the yearly showing of "The Wizard of Oz" because I loved that movie and it was the only time of the year when I could watch it.

 

[billlaurie]

Maybe stuff that's vehicle related.

I'm old enough to remember color-coded flags placed at gas stations to mark how much fuel they had available. I'm too young to remember the original Arab Oil Embargo, but I do remember fuel shortages of the late 70s. That, tuneups, bias ply tires, and leaded gasoline.

I remember the shortages, rationing, and long lines for gas. My brother worked in a gas station and he would sneak my mother in to get gas so she didn't have to wait in the long lines.

 

[billlaurie]

I remember coming home from school and watching the Mike Douglas show.