Official im old enough to remember when thread.

George Grand

"PF Flyers to run your fastest and jump your highest!"

Heckyll & Jeckyll for the record. If you want to know whatever BECAME of them, I'm living with them.

RduNC

On the sports side of things: I remember the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers-Red Army Game. The game was notable for an incident where, after a body check delivered by the Flyers' Ed Van Impe, CSKA's top player, Valeri Kharlamov, was prone on the ice for a minute. When officials did not call a penalty, the Red Army coach, Konstantin Loktev, pulled his team off the ice in protest. Flyers' Chairman Ed Snider told CSKA to return to the ice and finish the game, which was being broadcast to an international audience, or the Soviet Hockey Federation would not get paid the fee to which they were entitled. They eventually complied and lost 4-1. Hard to imagine that its been 37 years since that game.

newbie308

I remember being my dad's television remote control. Dad would say, " Try channel 10, but you will need to rotate the antenna and adjust the fine tuning knob to get it in clear." I remember Saturday morning cartoons like Bugs Bunny and the great Hiawatha (totally racist by todays standards, but still funny as hell)! I remember watching Kung Foo theater after doing Saturday chores, and Abbot and Costello after Sunday Mass. I remember getting dressed up in my church clothes to go to the movies.

nooshinjohn

How about that "Miracle on Ice"... I remember this as a moment when a nation started to believe in herself again.

Herb Brooks used to run a summer hockey skills program at Aldrich Arena on the east side of St. Paul, and I was fortunate enough to be able to skate with quite a few of those players that showed up to help Herbie coach us kids in the summer of 1980.

RIP Herb, and thanks for the memories.

Tornado Red

I remember being allowed to stay up and watch Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights (east coast of Canada, on Atlantic time) at 9 pm but I wasn't allowed to watch Bonanza unless Monday was a holiday because 10 pm was just too late...

drumminman

George Grand wrote: »

"PF Flyers to run your fastest and jump your highest!"

Heckyll & Jeckyll for the record. If you want to know whatever BECAME of them, I'm living with them.

I saw some PF flyers the other day. Didn't know they still made them.

drumminman

George Grand wrote: »

"PF Flyers to run your fastest and jump your highest!"

Heckyll & Jeckyll for the record. If you want to know whatever BECAME of them, I'm living with them.

I saw some PF flyers the other day. Didn't know they still made them.

I remember when gas was 19.9 cents per gallon :eek:

jflail2

I remember when lawn darts were considered safe fun for the whole family.

Edit: Looks like I was beat to the punch.....multiple times. Still......

I also remember my first year of college, when cigs were sold in the school bookstore and cost a $1.10 a pack. I also remember when cigs were sold in convenience stores as looseys, 10 cents each, or 3 for a quarter.

When I first got my car, I remember being able to gas up (maybe not quite all the way), get a soda, and still spending less than a 10 spot.

I also remember checking albums out of the library on base, spending 99 cents on a blank cassette, and walla, a new tape in my collection, complete with the hiss/pop from my parents' cheap turn table.

mystik610

I remember when video games were played on cartridges, and music was played on tapes =P

Jhayman

remember this..
Monitor and Mouse NOT included....

cnh

How many of you remember this: Commodore PET

One of my roommates' father was the CEO of the company. He had one, of course.

cnh

dromunds

I remember when kids actually wanted to work to earn money. Now I can't even find a kid to mow my lawn because they get everything for free from their parents.

Willow

Stores were closed on Sunday
,8,1 return (for those who had C64 or C128)
video games on cassettes
making my own sound effects for toys
being able to buy cigarettes for a family member as long as I had a note signed by them
people serving me on rollerskates at A&W

Jhayman

Oh ya my Junior High had 20 of them.
I had a Commodore Vic20 and. C64 with tape drive and then got a 5 1/2" floppy very cool in those days..

cnh wrote: »

How many of you remember this: Commodore PET

One of my roommates' father was the CEO of the company. He had one, of course.

cnh

George Grand

jflail2 wrote: »

I remember when lawn darts were considered safe fun for the whole family.

They are still considered safe for everyone except the soft-skulled, and they're a bunch of geeks anyhow.

DForeman

I remember sending these offsite (and overnight) for computer programming

Willow

I also remember being able to play with toy guns without people calling the cops on us or playing in the streets or neighbourhood with out the fear of pervs snatching us up.

We also had one of these pcs along with our C64

http://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html

dromunds

Dforeman, I actually had a job punching those cards out on a stand-alone machine and then we fed stacks of those cards into a GIANT computer.

DForeman

dromunds wrote: »

Dforeman, I actually had a job punching those cards out on a stand-alone machine and then we fed stacks of those cards into a GIANT computer.

dromunds - we sure have come a long way since then. It took weeks by this method to get any simple programming done. One little mistake -i.e shading in a wrong bubble - wouldn't be discovered until the printout of the program was returned 24 hrs later.

monepolk

jflail2 wrote: »

I remember when lawn darts were considered safe fun for the whole family.

Edit: Looks like I was beat to the punch.....multiple times. Still......

I also remember my first year of college, when cigs were sold in the school bookstore and cost a $1.10 a pack. I also remember when cigs were sold in convenience stores as looseys, 10 cents each, or 3 for a quarter.

When I first got my car, I remember being able to gas up (maybe not quite all the way), get a soda, and still spending less than a 10 spot.

I also remember checking albums out of the library on base, spending 99 cents on a blank cassette, and walla, a new tape in my collection, complete with the hiss/pop from my parents' cheap turn table.

Speaking of cigs. I remember going to the store for my aunt to buy some for her when I was under 10 yrs old. My mother would get mad if she heard about it.

tonyb

Had an old Commodore 64 'puter in the crawl space for years, just threw it out about 2 years ago. Didn't realize those suckers are worth some money now, go figure.

jflail2

monepolk wrote: »

Speaking of cigs. I remember going to the store for my aunt to buy some for her when I was under 10 yrs old. My mother would get mad if she heard about it.

Yea, it was a different attitude back when. I remember my parents never, ever smoked, and still kept ashtrays in the living room in case we had guests over who did. I also remember smoking on airlines, and just about anywhere else for that matter.

Not that cigs are a good thing, but it is interesting to see the 180 in attitude.

And no cassette player was complete without a pencil handy nearby, just in case.

txcoastal1

Willow wrote: »

Stores were closed on Sunday

And we should return to those days when only groceries were available on Sunday.
One day where everyone slows down for R&R and spends time with the family....just think how much energy we would save.

tonyb

Spend time with the wife....the kids ? What are you nuts ?

Yeah man, I sure do remember those days. Grocery stores and movie theatres used to be the only things open. Funny how one certain chicken chain still adheres to that and gets knocked around pretty good for it.

We used to spend Sundays with the family, the extended family too. Was nice.....while it lasted. They say change is good, well...maybe so but not always.

headrott

Jhayman wrote: »

remember this..
Monitor and Mouse NOT included....

Hell, I remember the 80086. And, the Commodor PET:

And the Atari 800........

headrott

cnh wrote: »

How many of you remember this: Commodore PET

One of my roommates' father was the CEO of the company. He had one, of course.

cnh

Sorry! Didn't see your post until after I posted mine! I remember it though.

headrott

Willow wrote: »

people serving me on rollerskates at A&W

There is an A&W in Stayton, Oregon (about 15 minutes from me) that is a real A&W with people who serve you on roller skates. Also, if you are in the restaurant, they still have the phones at the tables you can pick up and contact the server to order your food. Unfortunately, they do not have the "fill up the bear" straws though. There are so few of these real A&W's left now. :sad:

obieone

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!"

Sharight!:rolleyes:

hertz9753

I won a Village People album when I was in grade school. I'm not as old as some of you. I'm embarrassed because I thought it was a good album at the time. :cheesygrin:

tonyb

YMCA.....YMCA.....:biggrin:

They had a few catchy tunes.