Gettin old....

I remember that.

 

Don't forget rotary phones.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txWmtTm1PIc

 

I was just talking to my 12 year old son about growing up at his age in the 80’s.

Watching Laverne and Shirley, the Munsters, Leave it to Beaver. After school shows.

Anyone remember CHiPS? Poncharello? Baker?

Lol

Rotary phones were fading out to push button wall phones with 30’ cords. Lol

Star Wars, E.T., Poltergeist?

Anyone on here as old as me?

 

I remember Capt Kangaroo, Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and the Star Spangled Banner with the subsequent technicolor curtain. I also watched much of it on a B&W TV that was portable and had rabbit ears (we didn't get cable in the country).

So yeah old man how bout them apples?! Haha

 

My father-in-law still has a rotary phone at his cabin

 

Just watched Poltergeist 1 & 2 the other day!

 

Didn't know that!

 

60s,,,, Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom and Gilligan’s Island and Manix and Dean Martin and Hee Haw and Lorence Welk. And milk and stuff used to be delivered to the house. If you weren’t home it was put in the box outside by the door!

Dean Martin was cool!!!

simpler times back then

 

Ok boomer.



It may not be 'old' but I can assure you 46 (the age I am) is old enough for some of the dumb stuff you did as a kid/young adult to catch up with you. LOL

 

Our Milk Man had access to the house and would stock the fridge with milk and the freezer with ice cream. His name was Johnny and would come on Thursday afternoon. Man I would rush home from school to dip into the ice cream before my mom got home. We had his service until I was a senior in high school, it was devastating when he retired !!!

 

Any of you that enjoy reading books, Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon fits all these off-screen memories in better than any other book I’ve ever read. It really is the Great American Novel.

 

Or Highlights, magazines always at the doctors or dentists office.

 

We had a subscription to Highlights. Loved it. I got one for my kiddo a couple years ago and he never looked at em.

 

Highlights, weekly reader and other children’s books from back in the day. If I wasn’t fishing or mowing lawns for .25 to .50 cents I was eating breakfast watching the tube when you are 3 and 4 and 5 years old reading really wasn’t on my mind back then!! We were always outside and never had any communication until lunch then back outside tile the street lights came on!!! At the age of 4 to 7 I was fishing, playing ball, and at the swimming pool!!!


Just remembering the good old days!! I do not think most of us that were growing up back then were inside reading books!!!!

 

I’m sorry I do not remember that one at 5 years old or how ever old I was back then??? a book like that was above my attention span back then?? We also had to read before bedtime and say our prayers!!

 

"When I was a kid we used to drive passed the Mork and Mindy house on the way to school. I didn't know it then but my step dad went to Julliard with Robin Williams.
Sick claim to fame "



Ol' Kirstie Alley and I matriculated together in college.

Someone said their dad stuck with B&W TV for a long time. My dad worked at the RCA plant in Burbank & brought one home in '59. It was the only place building those things. Downside was that there were only 2 or 3 hours of color broadcasting a week: on NBC, owned by RCA, of course.

 

I still say “have at it Hoss” and nobody has any idea what I’m talking about.

 

Damn straight. Even when we lived in the trailer park, before we got 10 acres, we'd get locked out of the house and told to just be within earshot for lunch. Bike ramps with shoddy plywood without helmets and pads, pet frogs, catchin lizards, trading baseball cards, riding bikes to the Collector's Market (huge junk store with the coolest old man who held card shows on weekends)....when we moved out to the country, well......Cloud 9.

 

Damn and reading this thread makes me feel old already and I am only hitting 43 in March..... gotta run now.....

 

Um. I meant, those of you that read now.

The time it pertains to was before my childhood too, but includes much of what is described in here. The childhood before kids were allowed inside during daylight hours, when a bicycle was the most prized of all possession. And a milk man delivered to the porch.

 

^^^^^ I was all messed up!!! Was wondering why someone brought up books while everyone was remembering older days?? I’m weird!! Thank you. I’m in time out

 

Two more minutes

First opportunity I’ve had in 5 years on here, to use this emoji.

 

“Go back out and play now.”

 

RIP. I enjoyed her in Laverne and Shirley for sure. This thread is really shaking up the old brain neurons for sure. I did not see Rocky and Bullwinkle. And one of the longest running westerns Gunsmoke. Yeah, 75 is too young…. I just rolled past 72.

 

I grew up watching Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. She always seemed like a sweet lady. RIP.

 

Yeah, and when the first remote control on Zenith TVs came out it was a four button tuned metal rod thing that made a clink at a certain frequency. You could rattle your car keys to change channels. I grew up with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gabby Hayes. The Rifleman, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Wanted, Dead or Alive, Wagon Train for westerns, Waterfront, Peter Gunn, I Led Three Lives, Geez, that's just a few of them.