I'm so old I remember... (New Orleans, how many, buying, furniture)

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by brokencrayola

Soul Train with Don Cornelius

American Bandstand where they rated songs and always said they rated it so-and-so because it was good to dance to.

Boxed spaghetti (like mac and cheese)

Appian Way Pizza (boxed)

When they said John Lennon was dead because it said so when you played some song they did backwards.

Black lights at parties

Boones Farm Strawberry Hill Wine (do not recommend getting drunk on this crud)

Those were called transmission tubes

[mkfarnam]

I remember the country school I went was 1 small building, 1 room, 6 classes and 1 teacher and an outhouse. With a paddle on the wall that said on it "THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.......TO THE SEAT OF UNDERSTANDING".

[AksarbeN]

I'm so old when I went to school they only had two R's to teach. It wasn't until years later that they got the 3rd one for teaching the 3 R's.

[mkfarnam]

I'm so old there was a time when I used a Microfich machine in my business.

[AksarbeN]

The radio sets that were around before tv were solid state crystal sets no vacuum tubes.

[njmike]

Originally Posted by brokencrayola

TV's with all kinds of bulbs inside them

Soul Train with Don Cornelius

American Bandstand where they rated songs and always said they rated it so-and-so because it was good to dance to.

Boxed spaghetti (like mac and cheese)

Appian Way Pizza (boxed)

When they said John Lennon was dead because it said so when you played some song they did backwards.

Black lights at parties

Boones Farm Strawberry Hill Wine (do not recommend getting drunk on this crud)

I remember all of these, especially the "effects" of Boone Farm Strawberry Wine as well as Ripple and Thunderbird.

[AksarbeN]

Remember the copy machine used to be a Mimeograph copy where you typed or printed all the information on a blue sheet of waxy paper known as a stencil that ran through the machine and allowed ink to come through onto the white paper to provide the text print.

Otherwise you used carbon paper between sheets of blank white paper.

[Sweetie Pie]

I remember fastening a playing card on our bike spokes with a clothespin, and pretending we were riding motorcycles. Heck, I remember "pretending"!!!

[njmike]

Originally Posted by Sweetie Pie

I remember fastening a playing card on our bike spokes with a clothespin, and pretending we were riding motorcycles. Heck, I remember "pretending"!!!

I had streamers on the handle bars as well. It was the "cool" thing to do.

[mkfarnam]

I remember when the STINGRAY bikes came out and that's what all the kids wanted