Do you remember when......

I remember:
listening to the wireless
when having a colour tv was special
when there was only two tv channels
when every home did not have a telephone let alone every person having a mobile phone
going to the shop with 2p and being able to get black jacks, fruit salads AND an ice-pop
proper unions with actual power
'music centres'
when all shops were closed on a Sunday
being able to play on the road outside the house.
when not every family had a car and those that did just had the one.
when fruit and vegetables were bought from the greengrocer and weren't all uniform colour, size and shape.
when all chickens tasted like chicken not just those that one pays a premium for.
playing outside at every opportunity
vinyl records
proper Curly Whirlies - not the half hearted fake chocolate version available now
Spangles
the Corona fizzy pop van coming round once a week
the rag-and-bone man and his horse and cart
when meals were cooked from scratch every day
free higher education
when the health and safety 'police' didn't spoil everyone's fun
when wine was considered sophisticated and 'exotic'
my Mum's Girl Guide whistle that she used to call us in from playing out. One blast for me, two for my middle brother and three for my baby brother and five for all of us at the same time.
being walked to school
standing when a teacher entered the room
not daring to misbehave in public
the local 'bobby' (policeman)
milk delivered to the doorstep in bottles

[Miss Scarlett]

I remember my parents loading up us 4 kids into the back of the station wagon and going to the drive-in movies. They'd put the back seats down, spread out blankets and pillows. We'd eventually fall asleep and they could enjoy a night out without having to hire a sitter.

[Apocalipstic]

I remember our school guards with uzis

Bombs on our street

Shortages of toilet paper, sugar and cooking oil

700% inflation

Listening to the coup on my transistor radio

Martial Law

People just dissapearing

Planes getting hijacked all over

Terrorists at the airport

"Yankees Go Home" signs

Pretending not to speak English to be safe

New Math

The Police and the Army shooting at each other in the street

Being afraid of Communists

Wondering if the German kids we knew were related to Nazi criminals and finding out some were

Short wave radios

Morse Code

The same stuff going on in the Middle East

The Vietnamn War

Watergate

Nixon

The Voice of America

[Leigh]

These are some things that I remember from being young:

~ Bad mullets
~ Spandex pants
~ Neon colors, big and bold
~ Not having to lock any of the doors and still feeling safe
~ When crime wasn't rampant in the streets
~ Guns weren't killing teens/kids every day
~ Drugs were not found on every street
~ There were no real cares in the world
~ Hair bands, aka good old fashioned rock and roll
~ Going on trips in My grandfather's truck, and wearing his work boots

[WickedFemme]

I remember when:

We had extracurricular activities after school like sports, band, skiing, tennis, etc.. and actually had equipment for these things.

Sitting down at the table at dinner time and having conversation with the parents and siblings about our days; no tvs., no phones - just the family.

Being told to go and play outside and then actually playing games outside like hide and seek, etc..

Life before cable and remote controls, computers, cell phones, texting, etc.

buying albums.

Regular gas and it being less than $1.00 a gallon.

Being taught respect and not being allowed to talk back to adults.

Being taught that it's not okay to be mean.

Being taught manners.

The list goes on....

[Dean Thoreau]

I remember when
someone walking down the street talking was thought of as crazy, not bluetoothed.

kids played outside and got dirty and did not need to be sanitized from head to toe every 30 seconds.

you could go to a grocery store and touch a grocery cart without fear of getting sick

u didnt worry when you flushed your toilet that your toothbrush (now stored in the garage) would get microscopic spray of shit on it.

you sang songs with the kids in the car not bring the television.

black and white photos were not a novelty but the standard.

you sat a table to eat dinner not in the car

eating watermelon was something you did in the summertime not all year round.

You did not need to call 20 friends while you were grocery shopping, or 10 friends while driving to work...

no one needed to be in constant contact with everyone except the president and other world leaders.

there were payphones instead of cell phones. and when you lifted the phone receiver a pretty voiced lady said "number please" When I was 3 I spent a lot of time talking to number please.

ten cents could buy a mounds bar, or make a phone call for 3 minutes, or get you a bus ride down town or a subway ride uptown, pay the toll across the bridge, buy 1/2 pound of ground beef, or a package of minute steaks, a box of frozen waffles, or a bag of apples.

a nickel could buy you a pack of baseball cards with a hunk of powdery bubble gum in it.

i remember when i thought 30 was old,,,40 was ancient and 50 was just beyond acknowledgment..now i think 30 is young 40 still to young 50 is younger than me and 60 is not going to be to bad...

i remember when dating an older woman meant dating someone that was over 30.....now when i refer to dating an older woman it is that sexy hot octogenarian down the street

I remember when i was 20 thinking i would change the world....now at 58 i wonder how everything changed so quickly and where did those 30 years go anyway?

I remember bye bye american pie...when we all drove our fords to the fiords and drank all sorts of whiskey and rye and a case of black label beer was 3 dollars....and you could get 23 cases in a 66 gto's trunk and 8 more cases in the hole for the convertible top....

i remember buying a brand new 71 toyoto corolla for 1800 dollars had to pay extra because it was an automatic.

yeah i remember when...i just forget where i put those damn keys!

[Apocalipstic]

I remember when there were no 24hour news channels to let us know every possible bad thing that can happen to us.

I remember that there have always been germs.

I remember that there has always been crime.

I remember that there have always been drugs.

I remember that people just did not talk about these things.

[Apocalipstic]

I remember when you lost a parent and no one ever mentioned them again.

I remember when someone had cancer and everyone ignored them and whispered about it

I remember when in the 60's crime doubled.

I remember when there really was not good treatment for mental illness.

I remember when people started to find out how mentally ill patients were being treated in institutions.

I remember when pregnant women smoked and weree given amphetamines if they felt tired. (most of our mothers friom that era)

I remember the kids of women who were given Thalidomide for pregnancy nausea

I remember when a woman was being abused and she was too embarrased to get a divorce

I remember when children were abused and no one lifted a finger to help

I remember photos of people from Japan who had been a little too close to Hiroshima and Nagasaki...how deformed some of them were



Back when the World was safe...

Ps. yes, I was a weird little kid. I noticed how things were.

[AtLast]

I do have to admit remembering more kindness and compassion.Well, at least from the folks that were not abusing their family members.

[Blade]

I remember Daddy sending me to the store with $1 for a gallon of lawn mower gas, a pack of Salem's, and I could have the change.

I remember Sunday evenings with Walt Disney and Wild Kingdom

I remember when a cigarette salesman would see us in the store and ask if our parents smoked and would give us sample cigarettes to take home to them. Umm no they never made it home.

I remember "be home before the street lights come on"

I remember, "the people down the street were hippies and we needed to walk on the other side of the street not on the side their house was on.

I remember vinyl records...33 1/3

I remember when I was the remote control

I remember our first experience with cable TV. There was a box under the TV and a little hand held box with a keypad they were attached with a cable like a phone cable.

I remember riding in the back of Pa's truck and driving years before I was old enough.

I remember when my Dad could beat up your Dad LOL

Jacks
Around the World (at night under the yard light)
Mother May I
123 red light
I spy
and many more

[Blade]

Do you remember when school started in September and ended in May

Do you remember Clarence the cross eyed lion

Do you remember The land of the lost and Johnny Quest

Do you remember Tom Landry and Bum Phillips

[SaltyButch]

I remember when roller skates were metal creations you strapped to your running shoes...
rubber bands tied together made many hours of fun being used as a game of limbo
a ball in Mom's old stocking was a game that you played against a wall swinging it between and around your body
Spud a game that was played with one of those balls that bounced really high and you each had a number and when it was called had to catch the ball
an imagination was celebrated and that picnic table was a ship, a car, a fort an island and many other things
4 Square was a game played at recess
tying chestnuts on a string and trying to break your opponent's was a challenging feat
throwing those collector cards against a wall was many hours of fun and I got some really cool cards
I remember when I had to get up to turn the channel on the TV...and we only had 1 TV
the short stubby bottles that pop came in and they were glass and required a bottle opener

Oh the memories.....

[musicman]

I remember when you didn't have to lock your doors at night
I remember when you knew and grew up with the same neighbors you had for years
I remember being able to go into any neighbor and ask for help if you needed it.
I remember playing with slinky down the stairs.
I remember the school allowing us to watch Canada against Russia hockey game in 1972
I remember when the local papermill blew it's whistle every night at ten pm. That was when the kids under 18 had to be in their houses.

[Apocalipstic]

I remember the monster living in my house.

[Orema]

I remember when a quarter would buy a pepsi and a bag of chips with change left over, or a gallon of gas, or a pack of cigarettes.

I remember "ladies day" at the movies and ladies would get in for a fraction of the price.

I remember my mama's friends calling her to let her know someone Black was appearing on television.

I remember when making long-distance phone calls on Chistmas was a big deal.

[homoe]

Candy bars costs a nickle (you could get a bigger one for ten cents)

Soda only came in glass bottles or cans and you'd pay a deposit and then cash them back in for money when you were truly broke..lol

[EnchantedNightDweller]

Do you remember when teachers used a chalkboard? Now they use a Promethean board - a large screen connected to a computer. It's actually amazing!

[JDeere]

Originally Posted by EnchantedNightDweller

Do you remember when teachers used a chalkboard? Now they use a Promethean board - a large screen connected to a computer. It's actually amazing!

Yep I do! One of my teachers used to scratch her nails on it, if we misbehaved!

Do you remember handwriting classes with a mandatory fountain pen in school?

I remember Mrs.Kershaw in 1st juniors (age 8/9) teaching us. Also remember getting a wooden ruler across the hand for mucking about in class.

[Orema]

Originally Posted by Daktari

Do you remember handwriting classes with a mandatory fountain pen in school?

I remember Mrs.Kershaw in 1st juniors (age 8/9) teaching us. Also remember getting a wooden ruler across the hand for mucking about in class.

Fountain pens weren't mandatory when I was a child, but on a similar note many of our desks had a hole in the upper-right corner for an ink well.





Luckily, my hand never met the ruler!