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I'm only 22, but I do this a lot so I'll partake and in a sort of off-topic way...

$.99/gal gas. Seemed like pumping was going to take FOREVER.


I think back a lot to the things my home town had that are gone...areas that used to be woods, roads that weren't there. I look back a lot in nostalgia at going to my grandmother's. A few acres can seem huge when you're that small.

Remember when we were kids...and I don't know about you, but my parents told me I had it great. Boy do I wish I'd lived it up. Debt and bills suck.

When it starts getting dark earlier, and the weather turns cold...I think back to my first love. I don't know why.
 
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TVs didn't have remotes.

Well, I don't remember that completely. My grandparents had a TV with one of the first remotes.....a big hunk of metal that weighed 5 lbs, and sent a weak signal to the rotary dial on the TV that flipped between 2 and 13. (mid-60s).

Remember VHF vs UHF, and how UHF always had the crappiest signals.

Remember when you might wait for hours on Sunday to get the late Saturday college football scores because the newspaper went to press early.
 
Growing up in the 70s, I was the remote for my family. The designated channel changer.:)

There were 4 channels: abc, cbs, nbc and pbs.
 
Jack Bourbon said:
Remember "taking the phone off the hook?"

lol you can kinda do that now but they are still into you
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Remember when your loved ones could wait for you at the gate at the airport.

When you didn't have to remove all items of clothing and submit to a full cavity search and background check every time you went through airport security?
 
I remember when Saturday afternoon sandlot football games were interrupted in order to get home and watch the game on TV. (Now, of course, one can watch 12 hours of football live on Saturday, and a game on most other nights of the week...is this a great country, or what? ;))

Here's one I've discussed w/ several around here. (context: the H'burg area is waaaaaaaay out of control about little league baseball. Absolutely off the charts crazy!) I'm so old that I remember pickup baseball games down at the park where you shared your glove with the guy on the other team playing your position. Where right field was closed because there were only 8 per team. Where you always invited Johnny, because he had a nice bat he'd bring (nobody liked Johnny much, but we liked using his bat...). Now we're living in the days of 3-year-old allstars & 6-year-old 9-month-season travelling teams. (I exaggerate, but only very slightly around here)

I remember those vents cars used to have on the front part of the windows. Even in the NW FL heat, one could be comfy with those vents open. This is a good thing, because I also remember relatedly when many cars didn't have air conditioning. One wonders how any of us ever landed 2nd dates back then! :biggrin:

I remember when the exiled house actually had a landline phone! (wait...that was less than 2 years ago...:))
 
I never even owned a cell phone 'til last year. Didn't want one. To me, having a phone at home was bad enough. A girlfriend talked me into getting one, and now I don't know what I'd do without it. Just that fast.

Can remember the black and white TV we had when I was a kid, and when cable was a new thing, when ESPN and MTV first came on the air.

In high school I had a car (a '63 Falcon) that my grandma gave me. It was 24 years old by the time I was driving it. It had manual choke. Along with AM radio and a necker knob. I never see manual choke anymore.

My first computer was an Atari 400.
 
rolltidescott said:
TV video games had just been invented... remember 'pong'? :)
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I remember when we got our first computer. It was a Radio Shack TRS-80. We got the one with extended memory...32K.:eek2: It hooked up to the TV (instead of a monitor) and it used cassettes to store information, instead of floppy disks. It didn't have actual Atari games, but it had ripoffs of them. I remember that we had a Pac Man ripoff called Megabug.
 
Not to out do anyone but I remember when the family car was a 1939 Chevrolet and gasoline was 16 cents a gallon. In a few years it went up to about 22 cents and everyone was complaining about run a way prices. Only a very few short stretches of paved road in the entire County and if it rained you had to get out and check to see how deep the creeks were before crossing. But those old cars were pretty good, it took quite a bit of abuse to stop them. They also had a hand crank for starting them if the battery was weak. :)
 
I remember heading 'to town' to go to Piggly Wiggly, or Bargain Town, or the bank, and we didn't bother locking the doors if we weren't going to be gone long.

We also rode around in a '72 ( I think) Plymouth Grand Fury. that thing was gargantuan.
 
I remember the first fax machine I saw - 1989 - and wondered "what in the world is that thing?" That was short lived technology. I rarely see a fax these days.
 
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