OT : Silly things you remember but are now long gone

[psu_1294]

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.

In the 50’s/60’s, I remember the interference from mom’s vacuum, an airplane flying over, the ham radio guy down the block, etc. We only got the three network stations and the Pittsburgh educational station, channel 13!

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Cherokee Red pop at the concession stand after every little league game.

Regular (leaded) or Unleaded gasoline at the pump.

Football was HS on Friday night, College on Saturday afternoon, and Professional on Sunday afternoon (and one game on Monday night).

Halušky at HS football games and sports banquets.

HUGE neck rolls on football players.

Picking up (or dropping off) somebody right at the airport gate.

AstroTurf

Burger Chef and Jeff

JC Penny and Sears Christmas catalogs

Wooden Stereo and TV consoles that were actual pieces of furniture.

Penny candy

 

[AWS1022]

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.

We had one and we could pick up a couple of channels from Canada. The best thing about that was Canada showed movies with skin on the weekends. My buddy would come over frequently so we could stay up late and see some boobs.

 

[mrtailgate]

The 24 second clocks that were little digital boxes that were on the baselines.

Rick Barry and Wilt shooting underhand free throws. I could swear there was another guy on the Cincinnati Royals who did the same.

The clock at the old Boston Garden that you needed to be from Nasa to understand how much time was left - I can never understand how they allowed it.

A good movie one - those machines where you put your money in, took a bag and placed it near the bottom for it to be filled.

Balconies at movies.

 

[PSUinMICH]

People respecting each other's opinion.

 

[SLUPSU]

Jarts

 

[Fac]

Mother Freedom
I wanna make it with you

Diary

 

[Fac]

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.

Same for me -

 

[colt21]

The Good Humor man coming through your neighborhood selling ice cream treats from his truck.

we didn’t have The Good Humor man we had Mr Softee.

but I also remember the Charley Chip guy coming to refill our tins of pretzels and chips - those chips were the best

we also had a guy come around in an old VW van making donuts - not sure if that was done anywhere else

locally we had the barker bakery truck too which was awesome

 

[Fac]

Monday was dollar day at Putt-Putt 9am to 6pm we had a A&W next door for lunch.
We would ride our bikes to get there and stayed all day. Parents knew where we were but had no direct communication

 

[Fac]

Playing with neighbor kids every night from kickball, to kick the can to dodgeball- many many more

 

[colt21]

Playing with neighbor kids every night from kickball, to kick the can to dodgeball- many many more

for us we We’re out and about all day but when the 9:00 whistle blue you KNEW you had to be back at the house - only to get another game going with all the neighborhood kids from 9-10

remember parents on the porch looking out for all the neighborhood kids and also watching for (and stopping) cars when sleigh riding down 3rd St Hill

 

[LionJim]

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!


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...)

I remember in my high school junior year when Matt Bahr showed our physics class the first TI calculator we’d ever seen. That was a big day.

 

[PSUTENN1]

Not silly - but Ritchie Ashburn and Harry Kallis calling a Phillies game.

 

[Ward Hog]

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.

I remember pulling off the paper caps of those glass bottles and when they made the switch to plastic milk jugs.

 

[psuro]

Hitchhiking safely

The excitement when my dad had an 8 track player installed in the car.

The jingle “The Optical department at Sears”

 

[bkmtnittany1]

rotary phones!

 

[Nitt1300]

You may not believe this but when I was a teenager we had these vinyl discs that had groves on them. You took this disc and put it on a thing called a turntable that went round and round. Now here is the best part. As it went round and round you could hear music coming off it! Like magic!!!
Ah man. It was really something!

buying expensive turntables and expensive cartridges for them to connect to expensive preamps, power amps, and tuners

 

[katchthis]

rotary phones!

The frustration when you fat finger the last digit , and get to start all over .

 

[AlienWedge]

front window wing vent - they could be turned-around so as to scoop air into the interior which was great before most cars had AC

 

[katchthis]

Cherokee Red pop at the concession stand after every little league game.

Regular (leaded) or Unleaded gasoline at the pump.

Football was HS on Friday night, College on Saturday afternoon, and Professional on Sunday afternoon (and one game on Monday night).

Halušky at HS football games and sports banquets.

HUGE neck rolls on football players.

Picking up (or dropping off) somebody right at the airport gate.

AstroTurf

Burger Chef and Jeff

JC Penny and Sears Christmas catalogs

Wooden Stereo and TV consoles that were actual pieces of furniture.

Penny candy

I remember when the double buckle chin straps came out. Also the transition from suspension helmets to water helmets to air helmets.

 

[Nitt1300]

front window wing vent - they could be turned-around so as to scoop air into the interior which was great before most cars had AC

Caddys had power wing vents- you knew you had arrived

 

[katchthis]

front window wing vent - they could be turned-around so as to scoop air into the interior which was great before most cars had AC

Dads used to flick their ashes from the cigarettes out them. I also remember getting "car sick", but I think it was mostly from 2nd hand smoke.
Lap seat belts, wedged between the seats if you could ever dig them out.
Riding in the back bed of a pick up.

 

[marshall23]

1 telephone, hanging on the kitchen wall. It was a "party line" to boot. Ring once....don't touch, 2 rings, don't touch, 3 rings, the call is for us. Pick up the phone, another party is talking. Hang up, give them a chance to finish their conversation and try again later.

 

[JoeLion]

Buying an ice cold soft drink/coke out of a freezing cold water at the corner store. At this same corner store walking in with 25 cents and leaving with a bag full of penny candy. Mini music juke boxes at your booth in diners. I would get the money from collecting and redeeming pop bottles.

 

[CVLion]

we didn’t have The Good Humor man we had Mr Softee.

but I also remember the Charley Chip guy coming to refill our tins of pretzels and chips - those chips were the best

we also had a guy come around in an old VW van making donuts - not sure if that was done anywhere else

locally we had the barker bakery truck too which was awesome

Oh yes, Charles Chips! I remember them being delivered in those big beige cylindrical metal containers.

We lived in a remote rural area, and in retrospect I’ve got to wonder how much profit there could have been in driving a truck all the way out there to sell potato chips and pretzels.

 

[katchthis]

Buying an ice cold soft drink/coke out of a freezing cold water at the corner store. At this same corner store walking in with 25 cents and leaving with a bag full of penny candy. Mini music juke boxes at your booth in diners.

3 plays for a quarter on the old pinball machines.

 

[CVLion]

CB radios in cars and homes for a time

 

[colt21]

3 plays for a quarter on the old pinball machines.

we would go to Hollywood pizza and for $2 would have two slices of pizza, a coke and 6 games of pinball

another one was bowling at Route 61 lanes

again for $2 - 3 games, a drink and one of those CMPs in a cup with those wooden spoons that would make you gag !

 

[Mile High Lion]

The milk box on the front porch.

Amazingly, we can still get milk delivered to our home. I don't but I know people who do.
https://www.royalcrestdairy.com/get-milk-delivery/

 

[bdgan]

Sports related -

1- Goal posts on the goal line. Think about that for a second with the risk of injury and you shake your head that this was the way you remember it.

2- Pitcher striking out - A wonderful tradition where the opposing catcher flipped the ball to the pitcher who had just struck out for him to take to the mound.

3- You will never forget the best PA man ever Dave Zinkoff telling you that Earl Monroe was at the line shooting three for two and how the words rolled off his tongue. Ditto for him saying whoever was shooting t-eeeeeeeew.

4- The best ever tradition of the fielding team leaving their gloves on the field when they went to hit.


Non Sports Related

I can’t understand it but you youngins will never have to eat pistachios with dyed red shells and then washing your hands to get the dye off it. Just about every pistachio nut bag you could buy were red.

As a kid I remember “Japanese Apples” which became known later as pomegranates. They were garbage often given to farm animals. You could buy them for nothing at the store. Then they became a wonder fruit.

What else you got for stuff you remember that are gone or changed dramatically.

3 for 2? I remember when in colleges had freshman teams, when there was no shot clock, no 3 pt shot, and dunking was a technical foul.

 

[bdgan]

You may not believe this but when I was a teenager we had these vinyl discs that had groves on them. You took this disc and put it on a thing called a turntable that went round and round. Now here is the best part. As it went round and round you could hear music coming off it! Like magic!!!
Ah man. It was really something!

And you needed a fat spindle for the small records.

 

[bdgan]

Erections.

Those are long gone?

 

[BobPSU92]

common sense and a work ethic.

Never coming back.

 

[CF LION]

For my fellow engineers....

Huge drafting tables
Mylar
Ink pens
Pin registers

 

[mrtailgate]

3 for 2? I remember when in colleges had freshman teams, when there was no shot clock, no 3 pt shot, and dunking was a technical foul.

I’m not sure if you’re questioning, but if a team got in the penalty and committed a shooting foul, the opposing team got to shoot three free throws to make two. Those words would roll off Zink’s tongue.

Here is a good one, if you watched girls basketball, they had players who did not go past half court. Only the offensive players were allowed to pass half court. I can’t remember who was who but one of those groups (either the players who could go past half court or the others) were called Rovers.

 

[doublehaul]

8 - track cassette players
These came door to door
1. Farmer, every Friday, fresh produce, fresh killed chickens, fresh eggs
2. Beerman, beer and soda
3. Breadman, bread, pastries, pies and cakes
4. Milkman, local dairy, milk, cream
5. Icecream vendor, icecream novelties and Mr. Softie
6. Pizza truck, local Italian place had a truck with a pizza oven and went town to town.

 

[Woodpecker]

8 - track cassette players
These came door to door
1. Farmer, every Friday, fresh produce, fresh killed chickens, fresh eggs
2. Beerman, beer and soda
3. Breadman, bread, pastries, pies and cakeslkman
4. Milkman, local dairy, milk, cream
5. Icecream vendor, icecream novelties and Mr. Softie
6. Pizza truck, local Italian place had a truck with a pizza oven and went town to town.

We had a "Rag Man". As a kid, I never had a good understanding of exactly what he wanted. Rags? Was he buying or selling? He would zig-zag the alleys of my town in a beat up pickup piled with all sorts of junk calling "Rags"!

 

[Lion84]

In the 50’s/60’s, I remember the interference from mom’s vacuum, an airplane flying over, the ham radio guy down the block, etc. We only got the three network stations and the Pittsburgh educational station, channel 13!

We got 4 - 2, 5,7 and WGN on 9 to watch the Cubs lose which they did most games when I grew up.

 

[mrtailgate]

Every one of these has reminded me of great times and the thanks I have to have grown up in the time I did. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

An obvious one was those great Sunday doubleheader’s. There was nothing better than being a kid knowing that in the bottom of the 9th you were staying put and seeing another game.