OT : Silly things you remember but are now long gone
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I think it’s probably still done but when I was a kid watching hoops, just about every player coming into a game would give a towel to the player being replaced. Probably still done here and there but nothing like back in the day.
For $.10!!!!!!!!Getting a coke in a bottle out of a machine.
For @LionJim, the wonderful tradition of the streamers after the first basket of Big 5 games.
I've heard it said that the beginning of CNN (which was the beginning of 24 hour news) was the beginning of the death of news.
TV stations would play the National Anthem at the end of their broadcast day, at 1-2 am, and then all you'd get was static or a test pattern until they returned to the air at 6 am or so.
I still have one of those old milk boxes by my door. Gotta be close to 60 years old. Paper boy uses it now. Had to take it to a local metal shop to get the rusted out bottom replaced a couple years back.
I do remember the milk man delivering milk in glass bottles to my parents house back in the ‘60s.
In New Jersey they pump your gas. There is no self serve.
Slide rules - My father had one for his job. He taught me how to use it but by the time I was old enough calculators were coming into existence. They calculated how to build rockets and fly to the moon with those things![/QUOTE]
Ah yes.....Still have my Aristo from my "Freshman Kit" in 1967, along with the CRC Tables and Mechanical Drawing kit. Log tables and scientific notation were a way of life; along with the 20 lb pull on the metal survey tape LOL (Good Grief...)
Ah yes.....Still have my Aristo from my "Freshman Kit" in 1967, along with the CRC Tables and Mechanical Drawing kit. Log tables and scientific notation were a way of life; along with the 20 lb pull on the metal survey tape LOL (Good Grief...)
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I thought it was awesome when I got one with auto-reverse.
As I remember it, our first VCR had a remote control that plugged into it with a 20 foot cord.
And speaking of VCRs, how about having a separate device for quickly rewinding your tapes to save wear on the VCR’s motor?
Zinkoff would also say “times out remaining” instead of timeouts. I often wondered which was the correct terminology.
Seeded watermelons that were actually sweet and juicy....with a paper cup to spit the seeds in.
The seedless ones we get today are crap.
The seedless ones we get today are crap.
Styrofoam containers for McDonald’s burgers. The one for the short-lived McDLT was ridiculously huge.
And here's a couple from the late 50's into early 60's... my mother laying out certain clothes and sprinkling with water and placing in the refrigerator before later taking out and ironing.....still don't get it. And , my older sister wearing those huge curlers in her hair to bed at night...I hope it was worth it...
And the clown eating all those snacks on the big screen during intermission at the drive-in theater.
And the clown eating all those snacks on the big screen during intermission at the drive-in theater.
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Anyone want a nice slide rule along with a beautiful holder, looks brand new, unused for 50+ years, make me an offer! 
It’s in my basement and I think I can find it in under an hour!
It’s in my basement and I think I can find it in under an hour!
So is it wrong of me to want to take a rifle and blow the f'n speaker that plays that God awful annoying music?...asking for a friend.
The Cleveland Browns used to host a preseason doubleheader. My Dad took me a couple times. It was actually pretty good football....or seemed like it to an elementary school kid.
You can still get Tang.
How about the cool toys that used to come in a box of cereal.
Speaking of cereal how about the 45'rpm that were on the back of the cereal box that you could play like a record.
common sense and a work ethic.
that reminded me of "Klackers" 2 glass balls on a sting that you could strike back and forth. I think it was a take off of the Spanish bolo weapon.
These would be soooo illegal now. LOL.
We have an ice cream man come thru our neighborhood at least 2-3 nights a week all summer. Pretty cool.
Or the rototenna that would automatically turn the outside antenna so you would get better reception.
Waking up on the couch to that test pattern after you had fallen asleep watching a late night show (like Kolchak: The Night Stalker).
I remember:
1. Sticking your left arm out the car window to signal a turn.
2. The Coke and other vending machines would jam half ( most) the time. Had to have correct change.
3. The door to door guys...umbrella repair, knife sharpeners, encyclopedia salesmen, Etc.
4. No high school sports teams for girls. Many had Girls Athletic Clubs but few schools in Western PA had girls sports teams.
5. Pay toilets (10cents) in the department stores.
6. PA “Blue Laws”. Baseball games had to end by 6:00 on Sundays.
7. Dressing-up (coat and tie) to dine at “fancy” restaurants.
8. Balata golf balls that would cut if you looked at them wrong. Wooden woods (and baseball bats). Metal spikes in golf shoes.
9. Water boys would bring a bucket of water on to field. Everybody would take a drink from the same bucket with the same ladle. Water well pumps where you had to manually “pump the handle”.
10. S&H green stamps.
11. Ban-Lon shirts and Sans-a-Belt slacks. Double-knits.
12. Buster Brown and Hush Puppy shoes.
1. Sticking your left arm out the car window to signal a turn.
2. The Coke and other vending machines would jam half ( most) the time. Had to have correct change.
3. The door to door guys...umbrella repair, knife sharpeners, encyclopedia salesmen, Etc.
4. No high school sports teams for girls. Many had Girls Athletic Clubs but few schools in Western PA had girls sports teams.
5. Pay toilets (10cents) in the department stores.
6. PA “Blue Laws”. Baseball games had to end by 6:00 on Sundays.
7. Dressing-up (coat and tie) to dine at “fancy” restaurants.
8. Balata golf balls that would cut if you looked at them wrong. Wooden woods (and baseball bats). Metal spikes in golf shoes.
9. Water boys would bring a bucket of water on to field. Everybody would take a drink from the same bucket with the same ladle. Water well pumps where you had to manually “pump the handle”.
10. S&H green stamps.
11. Ban-Lon shirts and Sans-a-Belt slacks. Double-knits.
12. Buster Brown and Hush Puppy shoes.
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Tudor Electric Football
Bob Prince doing a Pirates game on the radio
Harry Kalas doing a Phillies game
Bob Prince doing a Pirates game on the radio
Harry Kalas doing a Phillies game
Wow...you must have been rich !!!
Just kiddin’.... but those were pretty rare in our neighborhood. The doctor who lived down on the corner was the only one who had one of those.
LOL, I think we got it in the early-Mid 70's...about the same time we got a color TV. For a long time I never knew Wizard of Oz was actually in color.
