I’m so old I remember…

[Anchor10]

Erecto Sets, Lincoln Logs, Party Lines

 

[JKL123]

going to the corner store and just putting your purchase on account that (Dad or Mom) squared up each payday.

 

[willlph]

going to the corner store and just putting your purchase on account that (Dad or Mom) squared up each payday.

Also remember my grandmother sending me in to get her cigarettes

 

[PersonalFavors]

The old fashion Sunday paper with about 50 sections..including big comic strip..section...would take most of the week to read the entire paper...miss that..

Me too. The Merle Regal crossword in the Parade magazine is what took me all week. The Inquirer was written for the unions. The articles were so slanted it was more opinion than news. Didn’t take long to skim and find the two items worth reading.
By the time I moved here the Washington post had a great soduku Thursday Friday and Saturday a real challenge. Never could find anything worth reading in that paper.

 

[deft]

Lit being in black & white.

 

[PersonalFavors]

going to the corner store and just putting your purchase on account that (Dad or Mom) squared up each payday.

Oh yea! I worked at that store a short time. Mom eventually cancelled the account. Hahha. What was really handy was the sign and go at the Safeway gas station. Hard not to abuse. But I always volunteered to get gas for the boats or mowers. And top off my car while I was at it.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Ah yes the good old days....

You could leave the phone off the hook.

 

[Booboobear84]

Erecto Sets, Lincoln Logs, Party Lines

The visible V8 model

 

[CX726577]

All six TV channels going off the air at midnight. Played the Star Spangled Banner then just had a test pattern until they came back on again at 5 or 6 am

 

[Crownvic]

The roller skating waitresses at the A&W outdoor hamburger drive ins..

 

[Crownvic]

Me too. The Merle Regal crossword in the Parade magazine is what took me all week. The Inquirer was written for the unions. The articles were so slanted it was more opinion than news. Didn’t take long to skim and find the two items worth reading.
By the time I moved here the Washington post had a great soduku Thursday Friday and Saturday a real challenge. Never could find anything worth reading in that paper.

The jumbo Sunday crossword puzzle...was a favorite..took about a week...

 

[drobert44]

All six TV channels going off the air at midnight. Played the Star Spangled Banner then just had a test pattern until they came back on again at 5 or 6 am

Uh, 3 channels in Kansas............

 

[drobert44]

Black phone, 2 pieces, our number was 1419, on a party line with old biddies.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Uh, 3 channels in Kansas............

We had a few back in the 60's in Los Angeles. We had channels:

2 - CBS
4 - NBC
5 - Local
7 - ABC
9 - Local (old movies mostly)
11 - Local (Roller Derby and Lawrence Welk type stuff channel)
13 - Local (Gilligan's Island type channel)
28 - Public Broadcast channel, though no one I knew had the ability to actually GET it clearly. We had no idea what "Public Broadcast" meant. My mom thought it was the channel to go to if a bomb were being dropped during an emergency...lol

 

[Gamine67]

I remember finding out that if you hooked up that little loop antenna that came with the ultra modern TV sets you could receive a UHF television signal. New world!!!

That’s where I found a station that broadcast Japanese Kaiju films from the 60’s after school and gained my knowledge of Monster Island and the animosity between Godzilla, Mothra and the other slithering inhabitants caused by, you guess it, nuclear accidents and fallout.

The ones they showed usually had one western actor in the part of a heroic scientist who would save the day with some trickster brainyak solution.

Formula plots, mediocre acting but cutting edge special effects for the time.

 

[PersonalFavors]

I remember finding out that if you hooked up that little loop antenna that came with the ultra modern TV sets you could receive a UHF television signal. New world!!!

That’s where I found a station that broadcast Japanese Kaiju films from the 60’s after school and gained my knowledge of Monster Island and the animosity between Godzilla, Mothra and the other slithering inhabitants caused by, you guess it, nuclear accidents and fallout.

The ones they showed usually had one western actor in the part of a heroic scientist who would save the day with some trickster brainyak solution.

Formula plots, mediocre acting but cutting edge special effects for the time.

That is how we got WECT which was a satellite of the station Ted Turner bought and made TBS. All before cable.
After Cable and many years of going without I found a ring made of a coat hanger connected at the top with tin foil could be used to tune out the scrambled HBO signal. I showed my grandfather titties on TV. He sprung for the channel and dad and I trashed picked a color TV and repaired it with a tube.

 

[Taegul]

I remember seeing Donald Sutherland in Animal House and wishing he was my teacher.

RIP

 

[PersonalFavors]

I remember seeing Donald Sutherland in Animal House and wishing he was my teacher.

RIP

End of an era.

 

[Biguy77578]

8 Tracks

4 Tracks

 

[Biguy77578]

Remember the TV that you had to take the picture tube to the store and test them?

I do.

 

[Biguy77578]

Black and white photos and TV.

TV signed off at midnight with the Star Spangled Banner and a Prayer

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Old style Taco Bell with outdoor firepit...
https://preview.redd.it/taco-bell-san-anselmo-ca-java-hub-opened-in-1968-and-closed-v0-doezdbhbdofb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=86c2d990aa956155a48cfdee07cd37f536cca9cf

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

When food was delivered to your car on roller skates and the food set on your door...
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f4/1f/8d/f41f8d6cd8cf2c592125b2b6c5f837b7.jpg

 

[willlph]

Coors beer wasn’t sold east of the Mississippi River

 

[Wageslave]

I remember when the TV closed down overnight