I remember when there was . . . .

[CO Liberal]

(A companion post to the "I remember when there was no" thread that RebelYell started last night.)

Tail fins on cars
Brand new Studebakers, Packards, Edsels, Nashes, and Hudsons
Air raid drills in schools
Saying the "Lord's Prayer" just before saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Cigarette ads on TV

[Insider]

1. shoe shine parlors

8 track players
45 rpm vinyl disks
five & dimes
penny candy
smoke on buses

[CO Liberal]

4. Remember Color-Coded 45s??????

Back in the '50s, childrens records were pressed out of yellow vinyl, classical records were red, and I think jazz records were blue....

ON EDIT - found the following thru Google:

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The initial 45s were issued using a colour coded system: red for classical, midnight blue for light classics, green for country-western, yellow for children's music, sky blue for international, and cerise (orange) for R&B. Traditional black wax was kept for money-spinning pop. By 1952 all RCA records were black, apart from special promotional pressings.

http://www.altculture.org/ccult/ccult77.html

[Insider]

9. only yellow

now that you explain it, i remember having some yellow ones we played on that box in the bedroom. the box with the top that snapped closed LOL and the little discs that had to go in the center...and the nickle taped to the arm...and we grabbed th handle and carried it from room to room, and house to house

it must have been "the hokie pokie" on the yellow record

[Old and In the Way]

2. I remember when women "disappeared" for a couple of weeks.

I guess the families knew, but no one talked about it.

I can remember an Eastar day brunch my folks had with all the relatives. I was about 11 or 12, I think. I had a aunt who was single at the time that and had taken a sudden trip to Canada and had returned the day before. At dinner, I pestered her with a bunch of questions about where she went, what she did, did she take pictures, etc. She suddenly got up and left the room crying. My dad gave me a kick under the table and later pulled me aside and told me to mind my own business. That was the last time it was mentioned....but I'll never forget wondering what I had done to make her cry. I think I know now.

[Insider]

3. slap me

"young and in the way"?

:dunce:

[CO Liberal]

5. Evening Edition Newspapers

They were killed off by television. In the '60s, evening papers either switched to mornings (like the "Morris County Daily Record" in my native New Jersey) or disappeared completely (like the "Newark Evening News").

[Zuni]

6. The Far Side in every evening paper....

sorry. I am not that old.

[CO Liberal]

7. 15-Minute Network Newscasts

They went to 30-minute newscasts around the time JFK died in 1963.

[China_cat]

19. Yeah

and soap operas were only 15 minutes, too.

[CO Liberal]

30. That Was a Carry-Over From Radio

Many old radio shows were only 15 minutes long.

[The empressof all]

35. But remember when

They were on for an hour! Not so long ago

[CO Liberal]

8. Afternoon TV Shows for Kids With Live Hosts

I grew up in New Jersey. On the New York stations, we had hosts like Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, Captain Jack McCarthy, Officer Joe Bolton, Beachcomber Bill, Chuck McCann, Claude Kirshner, and the three Freds - Fred Hall, "Uncle" Fred Scott, and "Uncle" Fred Sales (no relation to Soupy).

[Politicub]

40. I was born in the early 70's

And I remember afternoon cartoons and the Three Stooges. Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry. And Saturday morning cartoons, too.

[short bus president]

10. Er, only one button on a video game controller?

Sorry - I'm just not that old, I guess. :D

[Dukakis88]

11. 3-D movies on TV for Halloween -- cheap 3D glasses sold at local stores

I used to love this. It happened in the Portland, OR area. Don't know if it happened elsewhere.

[Dukakis88]

12. drive-in movie theaters

I love, love, loved them.

[CO Liberal]

20. We Still Have One!!!

The Mesa Drive-In in Blende, a small town just east of Pueblo on Business US 50. It's doing so well, they added two more screens a few years back.

[Dukakis88]

23. That's great!

Gives me hope.

[CO Liberal]

26. Here's a Picture of the Mesa Drive-In's Marquee

It looks like there are still a lot of drive-ins in Colorado:

http://www.driveinmovie.com/CO.htm

[Dukakis88]

13. Star Spangled Banner, then static when TV stations shut down each night

Or test-patterns. Now, every station is 24 hours, even if they only fill up the space with infomercials.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. I called those patterns "esperador"

Because that's what was there when we waited for the programs to begin.

Sometimes, as a child, I'd stay in the living room, just listening to the music that came along with the pattern. Yep, there was a time when I like d to wake up very early.

[shayes51]

14. Seinfeld

I quit watching network TV when it went off the air.

[Dukakis88]

15. Soda bottle machines, where you open a thin glass door to get the soda...

And there was usually a place to put the empty bottles when you were done, next to the machine.

[Logansquare]

32. and little tiny Cokes in blue, battered returnable bottles

and they tasted great because they used cane sugar, not corn syrup!

[Logansquare]

33. Telephone booths everywhere, and they had phone books n/t

[Dukakis88]

16. Public schools without perpectual budget crises and lay offs

It's gotten obscene. The conservatives want to choke off the public schools so they can get kids into bible schools and force them to pray.

[jdots]

17. cream in ICE CREAM

no 75 year old women with perky breasts. (whats with the cream and breasts ) sorry

[skygazer]

18. Milkmen

Egg delivery
Shoe repair shops
Lunch counters in drugstores
Banks with cages and paper records (my mom worked in one)
Rabbit ears on tv sets
The noon whistle

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. Things Universal and Things Brazilian

Things Universal:

- Rotary dialing
- Phone numbers with only 6 digits
- Pan Am
- Mimeographs and their strong alcohol smell (see photo)
- Repairmen disassembling and reassembling the TV in your living room
- Toys made out of the discarded parts (potentiometers make good monster geads)
- Slide rulers
- Typewriters



Things Brazilian:

- B&W TVs (Color came only in 1973 here)
- Federal Censorship approval certificates before every TV program
- Ultra-cheap toy cars made of bubble plastic, sold at open-air markets.
- Beetles making up 90+% of passenger cars in the street

And many many more

[Politicub]

41. In school I used to love the

purple mimeograph copy smell. lol

[alwynsw]

24. Party lines!

I grew up in the country. We were on an 8 party line. Everyone had their own distinctive ring and special numbers to call others on the same party line because the regular number wouldn't work.

Eavesdropping was a big local passtime.

[alwynsw]

25. Heaters were an option on cars.

[alwynsw]

28. Sugarfoot, Yancy Derringer, Tugboat Annie, and three on the tree

[WilliamPitt]

27. A Boston Garden

Hallowed old dump, site of 16 championships, place where I saw 6 Dead shows.

*sigh*

[CO Liberal]

29. "Palisades Park", "Freedomland", and "Bertrand's Island" Amusement Parks

Palisades Park was torn down in 1970 to make way for condos.

Freedomland was where Co-Op City is now.

Bertrand's Island was a two-bit anusement park on an island in Lake Hopatcong in Northern NJ. I remember riding on the rickety wooden roller coaster during alrat boy trips during the '60s. My mother used to tell me that she though that roller coaster was unsafe when SHE used to go to Bertrand's Island in the '30s.

The amusement park closed about 20 years ago. Houses are on the island now.

[The empressof all]

36. I still long for Palisades Amusement Park

The huge salt water pool. The french fries in paper cones. The roller coaster that I was always too afraid to go on.

[IcyPeas]

44. Palisades Amusement Park....

swings all day and after dark....
ride the coaster, get cool
in the waves in the pool
you'll have FUN
so come on over.....

[CO Liberal]

31. Two Guys, Bradlees, Robert Hall, E. J. Korvette's, W. T. Grant's ....

And many other retailers that are no more.

[The empressof all]

37. I use to work in Two Guys

When I was in High School. I worked in Women's Clothing and made signs for them.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. "I used to work in Two Guys when I was in High School."

That didn't come out sounding quite the way you wanted to. :evilgrin:

[The empressof all]

43. Whooooops

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[MrScorpio]

34. The neighborhood number's runner

Who wore a sharkskin suit and drove a slicked out Caddy with curb feelers

"Did I hit?"

[Aristus]

38. Children's programming that didn't include fart jokes, veiled

sexual references, or smart-mouthed kids telling off their parents.

[cedahlia]

39. the agonizing choice between Beta and VHS

also Saturday Morning Cartoons (Do they even still do that?) Remember getting up early on Saturday and plopping in front of the t.v. with a bowl of sugary cereal??? Watchin' the Smurfs, Tom and Jerry, Alvin and the Chipmunks...ah, that was the life! ;-)

(Can you tell I'm an 80's child?)

[yvr girl]

45. When they introduced the NBC peacock

-And when they announced that the next show would be in colour
-A time before beta or VHS
-transistor radios were the ultimate
-the introduction of digital watches
-alarm clocks that had the numbers that flipped
-not locking the front door when you went out
-when no one but Big Bird could see Snuffalupagus
-Mr. Hooper
-Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollar