I remember way back when... (not RR, but could be)

waxjunkywaxjunky 1,848 Posts
edited August 2006 in Strut Central
There were no ATM machines. People went into the banks and had a little book stamped with deposits and withdrawls. Analogue banking. Crazy.Froot Loops had just three colors: orange, red and purple. That's it. No greens and blues in the mix, like you see now. I'm still eating them though. And remember when Gatorade was either green or orange? No frost, or ice, or wacked out flavors.There were no remote controls. My grandfather would make me change the TV channel because we didn't have remote control at our house. Luckily (?), we only had like 12 channels. More choices now, but still seems like there's not too much to watch. My uncle had a top-loading VCR with a control that was on a long wire. Remote, by definition I suppose, but not really cutting it.Taco Bell hot sauce came in little peel-back containers. Just like McNuggets sauces still do (I think). And there was no "Fire" sauce to complete the trio. We choose between hot or mild. But when we got superhero collectors glasses, they were actual glasses. Still got a set. Got all 12 Star Wars BK glasses as well.Restaurants used to offer smoking and non-smoking sections. I even remember people smoking cigs in line at McDonald's when I was a kid. No repurcussions or sideways looks. Mind blowing.Okay old heads (especially my over-30 brothers and sisters), what do you remember?
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  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    There were no ATM machines. People went into the banks and had a little book stamped with deposits and withdrawls. Analogue banking. Crazy.

    Froot Loops had just three colors: orange, red and purple. That's it. No greens and blues in the mix, like you see now. I'm still eating them though. And remember when Gatorade was either green or orange? No frost, or ice, or wacked out flavors.

    There were no remote controls. My grandfather would make me change the TV channel because we didn't have remote control at our house. Luckily (?), we only had like 12 channels. More choices now, but still seems like there's not too much to watch. My uncle had a top-loading VCR with a control that was on a long wire. Remote, by definition I suppose, but not really cutting it.

    Taco Bell hot sauce came in little peel-back containers. Just like McNuggets sauces still do (I think). And there was no "Fire" sauce to complete the trio. We choose between hot or mild. But when we got superhero collectors glasses, they were actual glasses. Still got a set. Got all 12 Star Wars BK glasses as well.

    Restaurants used to offer smoking and non-smoking sections. I even remember people smoking cigs in line at McDonald's when I was a kid. No repurcussions or sideways looks. Mind blowing.

    Okay old heads (especially my over-30 brothers and sisters), what do you remember?


    PRE-MTV

    BetaMax

    Climbing trees instead of doing it in a video game

    records/8-tracks/cassettes

    Smoking Section on airplanes (?!)

    Pliers to change the channel on the TV once the knob broke

    scrambled porn

    "hi-tech" was looking through the head of the Six Million Dollar Man


  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    Pliers to change the channel on the TV once the knob broke

  • GnatGnat 1,183 Posts
    Dood. I hate the 8-trak to cassette converter. You can't really fuck with that.


    Also, see my flowbee post...they still sell that!



  • There were no remote controls. My grandfather would make me change the TV channel because we didn't have remote control at our house. Luckily (?), we only had like 12 channels. More choices now, but still seems like there's not too much to watch. My uncle had a top-loading VCR with a control that was on a long wire. Remote, by definition I suppose, but not really cutting it.

    Hehhe, yeah even the cable boxes had a rotary dials. We used to rent a VCR beta to watch conan, logan's run etc., that was on some special movie party schitt. The suitcase it came in probably weighed 50 pounds when packed. Commodore 64 was the newest pc. We rocked a heavy black rotary phone pre call-waiting.

    Record players with the metal arm-guard and stacking mechanism, in a long all-in-one cabinet (what else?)

    Pouring gas then paying.

    Recordable cassettes, using the pause button.

    No "squeezable" grocery condiments outside of lemon juice, syrup, and the honey bear.

    Hot wheel tracks and that little shack that spit the cars through. Micronauts. Stretch Hulk. Pitfall, Donkey Kong. Yea're (sp?) Kung Fu.

    KTEL. Am radio. Huffy bikes. Making ramps out of plywood.
    Girls wearing satin embroidered "Sean Cassidy" jackets. Roller skating to "Angel In a Centerfold".

  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    Making ramps out of plywood.


  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts

    Restaurants used to offer smoking and non-smoking sections. I even remember people smoking cigs in line at McDonald's when I was a kid. No repurcussions or sideways looks. Mind blowing.


    This is a big one for me - I don't smoke anymore, so I am actually
    glad people can't smoke anywhere now, for selfish reasons, but it
    blows my mind to think of how accepted smoking was in society less than
    20 years ago, and all the places one could smoke, where now it would just
    be so shocking ... and I wonder if in other parts of the country it still
    is that way. People used to smoke in offices, shopping malls, sports
    arenas, airports, hotel & movie theater lobbies...and even in places
    it was banned, like subway stations, people did it all the time anyway,
    whereas nowadays it would be a huge deal.
    I remember smoking fairly often on the back of buses, out the window!
    I mean, it was obnoxious even then, but it wasn't like it was my idea,
    you saw it happen every day - now it just does NOT go on.

    Also, and this may be a regional thing, but I remember there
    being lots of businesses that had been around since the 60's
    or 50's or even 40's...restaraunts, corner stores, record
    stores...AKA what is now my local Starbucks, Buritto Max and
    urban mini-mall...

  • GnatGnat 1,183 Posts
    We used to rent a VCR beta to watch conan, logan's run etc., that was on some special movie party schitt.

    That's my shit!!!! peaceful, you're the man for pulling that one out.

    Rented VCRS!

    god damn...I also kind of remember my parents renting a film-strip from the local library for my 4th or 5th birthday. A film strip kidz. No fuckin lie. And even better than that was "Turn the page when you hear this sound....BONG"

  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts



    cold lampin with booberry


    MY UZI WEIGHS A TON






  • GnatGnat 1,183 Posts


    Don't even get close to me here. I will end you with my laser-tag game.

  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    We used to rent a VCR beta to watch conan, logan's run etc., that was on some special movie party schitt.

    That's my shit!!!! peaceful, you're the man for pulling that one out.

    Rented VCRS!

    god damn...I also kind of remember my parents renting a film-strip from the local library for my 4th or 5th birthday. A film strip kidz. No fuckin lie. And even better than that was "Turn the page when you hear this sound....BONG"

    SERIOUSLY.

    it cost NZ$20 and you had to leave a $100 deposit, we rented Porkys.

  • Porkys.


  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts
    remember the vest?


    "Tap the plate on my laser tag vest, YES!I'm strapped in tight,Cos I feel like some shit gonna happen tonight "



  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    SEARS CATALOG

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,848 Posts
    Dood. I hate the 8-trak to cassette converter. You can't really fuck with that.


    Totally forgot about those. But I do remember some computer system using cassettes as a means of data storage.

    On the computer topic, you don't even have to go that far back (well, I guess it has been 10-15 years) to remember dot-matrix printers. Super loud and of very questionable quality. Paper jams were a nightmare, and sometimes if it wasn't set up correctly, the perforations would be in the middle of the text. Still, it was satifying to complete an essay and tear the little guide strips of the sides of the paper.

  • Porkys.



    what was that ridee where the nerd got laid as darth vader?

  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts
    i think that went down in nerds the movie.

  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    Porkys.



    what was that ridee where the nerd got laid as darth vader?


  • SEARS CATALOG

    b/w

    MONTGOMERY WARDS

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,848 Posts

    god damn...I also kind of remember my parents renting a film-strip from the local library for my 4th or 5th birthday. A film strip kidz. No fuckin lie. And even better than that was "Turn the page when you hear this sound....BONG"

    Oh, hell yes. And don't get caught slipping on the film strips, or the whole class will yell at you to turn to the next pic.


  • shooteralishooterali 1,591 Posts
    http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/tandy_computers.htm

    oh wow, these old tandy Computer Models!!


  • being a virgin and wondering you're gonna get some sex.

    Hairy Bellafonte is still waiting

  • pjl2000xlpjl2000xl 1,795 Posts





    when this shit dropped i thought it was on some shit
    reminds me of this thing

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,848 Posts
    SEARS CATALOG


    This is cool. I'm almost positive I had a set of those Star Wars PJs. I would like to find some of those NFL shirts and jerseys in an adult XL today. Those sing-along Bee Gees record players are nuts! I'm surprised they didn't offer a KISS model.

  • all this shit comes rushing back all of a sudden like,
    yeah, betamax was what my parents got, and we had
    the apple IIe in the computer room but rocked the colecovison
    for the games


    we also had the thingamajig that you plugged in the front that let you play atari
    games too. ken uston's blackjack taught me all i needed to know in vegas.

    i'm thirty, almost thirty one, and i smoked on an airline flight, united from SFO to Narita
    the last fifteen rows were smoking, it was about this time of year, 15 years ago and i remember
    it being that they only had smoking sections on international flights at that time.

    my lasertag game was there as well, but i never rocked those harnesses
    i was all about the vest that i cant seem to find a good photo of.

    do you remember those remote controls that weren't infared but made a little clicking noise? shit was crazy.

  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    seeing a digital watch for the first time and almost shitting my pants.

    thinking a big mac was big

    being afraid to talk to girls

    thinking beer tasted nasty

    watching ninja movies, and seeing the bigboss talking on his mobile phone... the henchman had to carry the shoulder pack

    making throwing stars and throwing them at each other

    making nunchukas and beating my kid brother with them

    condoms were waterbombs

    getting some under the shirt, over the bra action and thinking i was the man

    firecrackers in letterboxes/dogshit/creeks

    falling off my skateboard and breaking both my arms at the same time

    turning on the B&W tv and having to wait for it to warm up

    milk in bottles

    porn in magazines

    the feeling of a bloodnose

    playing taito space invaders and somehow knowing that life would never be the same

    tape drives before floppys

    fax machines were the future

    sea monkeys

    .....

  • thinking beer tasted nasty


    .....
    word! I remember thinking how can people drink this...now I drink beer when I'm thirsty

  • Great thread:

    1. When you misbehaved on the school bus the driver would stop and kick your ass off.. "Sorry son, you get to walk home/to school from here."*

    Can you imagine if someone tried to pull that shit off today? For reals.

    2. Watching "Friday After Dark" on Cinemax (Skinemax), maybe catch a little "Young Lady Chatterly" or "Bolero" starring Bo Derek.

    3. Drinking water out of any old yard hose when thirsty.*

    4. Yard darts. Remember these things? Huge ass darts you'd throw up in the air and try to get em to stick within a certain area on the grass in your yard... huge sharp ass darts thrown up high in the air with kids around... you get the picture.*

    5. Toys in cereal. Remember you'd always get some toys at the bottom of your Cap'n Crunch?



    edit: *for midwest suburb dudes, most likely.

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,848 Posts


    3. Drinking water out of any old yard hose when thirsty.


    But waiting for the sun-warmed water to run all the way out first. That was summertime, right there.
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