the good ole' days

[JanaknJanet 1]

OMG.... I remember when a pack of ciggarettes cost .50 cent .. I was in high school.. and said I would quit if and when they ever reached $1. hahahahahha

I remember standing in lines for Gas...

Remember even or odd days... when you could do you tank fill up depending on the last digit of your licence plate.

Typing class. when getting to use the IBM electric typerwriter was such a thrill

PONG.

going to the game arcade to play fooseball or packman.

Hey.. I still have my atari... and my NES.. with duck hunt paperboy and mariobros.

Watching football games on TV .. and having to wait tru comercials for the ref decisions on iffy plays. NO instant replay.. haha

before walkmans... I had my portable cassette player.. ie tape recorder... with external microphone. saved all summer for it.. cost me $29 and that was alot.

mmmm blue ink from the copy machines.. .. fighting to be teachers assistant for the day just to you can go to the memograpic room and turn that crank .. or typing the notice and having to open that can of bluing to ink up the drum before you would make the copies.

saturday mornings in front of the black & white tv.. watching Creature Feature... eyes glued waiting to see what Dracula would do next..

ahhh memories

[Mirorgate 0]

Disco still gives me nightmares.... and the stupid places around here have to try to bring it back callin it "retro"

8 track tape in my first car

then tape

first cd players were over $400

gas was about $.35 when my dad was drivin about

drinking age was 18 then 21 when my sister turned 18, but since we moved to germany where its 16... no biggie for me

fast food was a treat, not a staple

framers markets were the bong! fresh produce at good decent prices, not the jacked "organic" stuff now

Walter Cronkite

20/20 when it was actually news, not political bandstanding

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I remember the good ol' days when management trusted people like me to make the right decisions. Today, they make me get 'approval' from a board of managers, none of who have any knowledge whatsoever and therefore posess no ability at all to determine if my decision should be trusted or not. The board has never said 'no' to me, or to anyone, but they exist nevertheless. Their only reason for existence is compliance; the only purpose they serve is to slow things down.

I miss the good ol' days. The good ol' days, btw, were last year

[john_and_marlene 162]

I bought cigarettes for $2/carton

Our TV had a round screen

I had an 8 track in my first car

My first microwave (Amana Radar Range) was over $500 and I think it was 300 watts.

Legal drinking age was 18

Endured years of 55 mph speed limit on the interstates

My car insurance was once $38/year

[almaty 19]

the good ol days...most people in this country had a backbone and a clue

Edited October 6, 2006 by almaty

[one...two...tree 2,762]

mhh i never had a tv dinner, box dinners arent and never were popular in meheeco.. now i've tried like lean cuisine and stuff.. but not impressed

Even though they tasted worse than cafeteria food, they was futuristic - who needs a mom that can cook?

(Mom, don't get me wrong...your cooking was delicious...just wished you would have gone a little easy on the onions, nuts, raisons and coconut.)

[Joel Halfwassen 0]

(Mom, don't get me wrong...your cooking was delicious...just wished you would have gone a little easy on the onions, nuts, raisons and coconut.)

Nuts, raisons, and coconut? Damn hippie food! I was raised in the midwest - Meat and potatoes - both fried up!

Joel

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

(Mom, don't get me wrong...your cooking was delicious...just wished you would have gone a little easy on the onions, nuts, raisons and coconut.)

Nuts, raisons, and coconut? Damn hippie food! I was raised in the midwest - Meat and potatoes - both fried up!

Joel

you guys are nuts

[Jasman0717 9]

I remember the good ol days when Eisenhower was president and gas was twenty two cents a gallon, candy bars were a nickel and for the smokers the non-filtered cigarettes were nine cents and the filtered ones like Hit Parade were a dime. Kids could go play in the neighborhood and the neighbors would keep an eye on them and parents wouldn't have to worry about sexual preditors. Movies were a dime on Saturday afternoons and the family loved going to the drive-in and making hamburgers to eat as we watched Roy Rogers and Gene Audtry stop the bad guys. And of course, we all walked 10 miles through 3 feet of snow to get to school

[one...two...tree 2,762]

(Mom, don't get me wrong...your cooking was delicious...just wished you would have gone a little easy on the onions, nuts, raisons and coconut.)

Nuts, raisons, and coconut? Damn hippie food! I was raised in the midwest - Meat and potatoes - both fried up!

Joel

Trust me, my mom was no hippie...born and raised in Mertzen, Texas...could make the meanest homemade bread pudding...it just happened to have raisins. Or her Texas potato salad...had chunks of onions the size of teeth. She managed to use at least one of those ingredients in just about every casserole dish or dinner she made.

Edited October 6, 2006 by Steven_and_Jinky

[lak&ajm 0]

Going to the neighborhood "mom & pop" grocery store with 25 - 50 cents and buying REAL penny candy. Coming home with a nice assortment in a small brown paper bag that seemed to last forever.....

[Marc and Olga 0]

yea i remember the computers.. i went to a course, and the computers were 386, running at 233mhz, with like 56mb of ram and probly a 'huge disk' of 150mb.. lololol.. back then 486 was comming in with an unbeleivable speed of 366mhz, and there was this thing, called telnet, in which u could send emails to people..

Those are speeds those machines could never dream of, back then they were 25 or 33 mhz.

The fastest pre-pentium class was the 486 DX4 (100mhz)

MY first computer was a was a 486DX2 which ran at 50mhz, I remember playing Doom on it with my headphones on!

I built it from various parts I picked up and had one heck of a time with it because pre-plug-n-play there could be no conflicts between devices...what a pain that was!

Sometimes I miss my old 486... Soon though, I'll have my p2 laptop setup with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and with the network card I am waiting on will be surfing the web in a fashion long since gone!

[dalegg 143]

I remember black and white television... and we had to turn the channel using a dial.

AM Radio.

Kites made of paper.

Otter pops and TV dinners...

You know what though- Some of the best TV was in black & white and we didn't have to worry about remote- happy partners changing the channel just as Rod Serling was about to deliver the freaky Twighlight Zone twist.

Even in the 70's we were glued to the Little Rascals, 3 stooges, Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy. Maybe it's because we had no choice, but it didn't seem any harder to find something interesting on televsion back then than it does now with 500 choices.

[Scott & Lai 12]

The computers we learned on in high school were Apple IIs. The first computer I owned was an IBM XT "clone"....640kb memory, DOS 3.0, 30mb hard drive, 2 1.2 mb floppy drives, horizontal desktop case, a Hercules monochrome monitor, and a dot-matrix printer...didn't have a modem, but then, Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet, anyway Got the system for $1000 used from a friend; a bargain at the time

I remember a lot of the other things people have mentioned, including the blue mimeograph ink; the copies would be warm when we got them in school, and had that odor that seemed a guilty pleasure When I was a kid, cassette tapes were just coming out; people still used reel-to-reel tapes. Our tv used vacuum tubes, and would take several seconds to warm up to give a visible picture, several more to be at full brightness.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I remember black and white television... and we had to turn the channel using a dial.

AM Radio.

Kites made of paper.

Otter pops and TV dinners...

You know what though- Some of the best TV was in black & white and we didn't have to worry about remote- happy partners changing the channel just as Rod Serling was about to deliver the freaky Twighlight Zone twist.

Even in the 70's we were glued to the Little Rascals, 3 stooges, Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy. Maybe it's because we had no choice, but it didn't seem any harder to find something interesting on televsion back then than it does now with 500 choices.

Amen, brother kool-aid...AMEN!