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I remember looking down the air grill at the back of the tv when I was a kid. All the big glass valves inside were lit up. Whenever the telly broke down, the repair guy would just take one valve out, and replace it with a new one!!
I thought all those lights in our tube radio were for a ballroom for tiny people I couldn't see.
I'm so old I remember when there was no such thing as color tv.
I remember when a a child the simple things occupied us and we fun. This was long before video games and all the things kids have now to occupy them. We used to make our own paper dolls from Sears cataloges. We would even cut out the furniture and other things for our paper doll house. We would run through the sprinkler in the summer. We would play house with a doll and our siblings. We would ride our bikes or roller skate. I had the skates that were metal and had a key and opened up to fit your shoes. The problem was they would often come off.
President Kennedy's administration and funeral, Cuban Missle Crisis, b/w tv, our 63 Ford Falcon, Gunsmoke and Bonanza in prime time, bottles of Coke or Pepsi for .05 cents, penney candy, comic books for .10 cents, the milk man, wringer (sp) washers, Fuller Brush salesman, coal furnace, Edsels, dial phones that use to weigh 10lbs--made of bakelite, everyone going to sunday services dressed up their best clothes, going to baseball games with my father who used to go in a shirt and tie, everybody (for the most part) being polite to one another.
I find myself checking the ages of people in the obit section.......to see if I'm older than most of them. When that happens, I'm thinking I may have outlived my life expectancy.
I'm so old, I remember our first microwave.
I remember TV without a VCR or remote control.
I remember Pong and Atari.
I remember the Flip Wilson show and the Sonny and Cher show.
I remember when Disney was only on Sunday night at 7pm.
I remember when Happy Days, Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons were in prime time.
The first president I remember is Nixon and Watergate.
I remember when my favorite music was The Best of Bread on 8 track.
I remember Esso gas stations.
Hang on to your sneakers, I'm so old I remember: The Hula Hoop Chinese Jump Rope Roller Skates that clamped onto your shoes Penny Candy Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob I Love Lucy and also The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason Red Skelton show Lawrence Welk (gag!) The Viet Nam war Pea Green Raincoats Joan Baez Sonny and Cher show REAL bellbottom pants The first McDonald's in our town and 1.00 burgers Sock Hops Proms being held at the local High School Going steady with the boyfriends ring hung around my neck No Bullies School Spirit AND MORE cuz I am 64 years old!! Come on Baby Boomers let everyone know what being a teen use to be like!
Remember buying a piece of apple pie and a lge glass of coca cola for 0.20 cents and later on McDonalds burgers 10 for $1.00. My wife would bring our own lettuce and tomatos and the kids ate in the car (station wagon) while in the drive in theatre. (I'm 80 today and pushing real hard towards 81 in two months)
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