I'm so old I remember... (names, women, money, popular)

[BECLAZONE]

Shame.

[rainroosty]

I'm so old I remember...being locked in a cabin on the Queen Mary with the ghost of the little girl that just wants someone to play with.

[Kevroqs]

I remember renting movies on those VHS taped. It was a pain in the neck to rewind those, as it was store policy to have VHS tapes rewinded. Okay, I'm not that old, but that was shortly before the decline of VHS tapes.

[English Dave]

^^^I-remember-when-the-first-video-renting-stores-opened!!!-It-was-in-the-late-70s.-The-first-one-to-open-was-called-a-video-club.-You-had-to-pay-$45-to-join,-then-$2.25-to-hire-each-movie-overnight.-Not-long-after-I-joined,-others-opened-with-free-membership,-so-mine-did-the-same-in-the-end.-I-was-not-happy!!!-The-first-pirate-film-I-remember-was-ET..These-days-films-open-all-over-the-world-at-about-the-same-time.-But,-ET-opened-in-America-months-before-England.-So-pirate-copies-were-everywhere.-The-video-stores-had-copies-under-the-counter!!!-By-the-time-ET-got-here,-Half-the-country-had-seen-it-already!!!

[Montana Griz]

.........I remember drag racing my 1940 Mercury against a 1947 DeSoto on a Friday night about midnight on a rural, 2 lane county highway in northern Illinois...............won $15 bucks ......1st one to reach a certain spot on the highway...... about 1 mile start-to-finish!! Crazy teen-agers....Oh Yeah

[nancy thereader]

I remember when my Dad bought our first TV. We were the first family on the block to have one and everyone came in to watch "Uncle Milty & the Texaco Star Theatre".

[brokencrayola]

I remember when lots of people could not afford a tv, so you would see them gathered around the ones in the store.

I remember when a cup of coffee was a cupp of coffee, no latte's etc.

I remember when banana splits were very popular.

I remember when you did not have the selection of glasses frames that you do now. They had those thick black ugly frames for me and the women had ones that looked a little more feminine but were still ugly as heck.

[sun queen]

Black and white floor model TVs and I was the channel changer/remote

[MsAnnThrope]

The houses in the airbase I grew up near still had blackout blinds...from WW2

[chielgirl]

Mimeograph Machines.