I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Amy Chapmon on July 11, 2011 at 5:18pm

I remember early cable having maybe 50 channels if that and worked by hooking up a huge box onto your tv.

Also remember Hi-Fi console cabinets?  Speakers, turn table, and radio built into a side board or credenza of sorts... it was a heavy duty piece of furniture... and so was the tv!  You could get a tv that was "encased" in a wooden cabinet thingy

Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 5:05pm

oh you guys rock! i remember the first remote controls where my dog ran across the room, and the jingle from his tags turned the tv off! ;-)

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 11, 2011 at 4:33pm

and Tin Foil (not Aluminum Foil) on those rabbit ears to enhance the reception and then the poor soul who made the reception better by touching those rabbit ears and being told, "stand there! don't let go!"

Comment by Elle MacNeil on July 11, 2011 at 4:16pm

Where's the "like" button?!?  I remember most of all of what you all mentioned!  Not sure I can keep up.

 

Did anyone mention "rabbit ears" to get your maybe 10 TV channels, if you were lucky??

 

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 11, 2011 at 3:43pm

o o o and those black smudge pots on roadways used as warnings for motorist about construction

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 11, 2011 at 3:39pm

I'm old enough to remember leaving the house right after breakfast and not returning until dinner and it was not big deal. I am old enough to remember gas wars and hoping the station across the street would get the gas down to 26 cents a gallon and fill the the "bug" using the money I collected from cashing in glass pop bottles that I found along the road. :-)

 

Comment by Amy Chapmon on July 11, 2011 at 3:38pm

I remember when my sister was trying to get vegetarian fare in our town (Cincinnati, OH) in the early 90's... not only was "french fries" or some side dish the only option at every restaurant she tried, but a waiter actually believed that a cincy style chilli (with ground beef) was veggie-friendly and tried to serve it to her

Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 3:33pm

i remember when nobody ever EVER drank water from a plastic water bottle

Comment by Amy Chapmon on July 11, 2011 at 3:27pm

Yes.... those metal shoe thingies!  And it was an actual older adult waiting on you, not a student working at minimum wage while going to school

Comment by Amy Chapmon on July 11, 2011 at 3:25pm

Yes, encyclopedias! We also had to look stuff up in phone books and yellow pages.  And buy an atlas or map to go on a long trip

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