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Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 04:18:23 PM
Subcategory: News and Entertainment

Walter Cronkite. Carol Burnett. Bob Newhart. M*A*S*H. Monty Python.

Chicago. Elton John.

Young Frankenstein. Life of Brian.


- Stephanie

Quote from: Lady Lisandra on January 11, 2018, 04:16:57 PM
What about inkwells and blotting paper?

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 04:19:03 PM
Or taking an old pair of roller skates, hammering them down and attaching them to a board to make a skate board. Or Swanson tv dinners in metal trays.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 04:47:56 PM
Frozen dinners with metal trays........ok, how could they have metal trays? That would wreck the microwave.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 04:25:22 PM
And a shooting star was a meteor or meteorite, not a part of skylab coming down :)

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 04:42:47 PM
Prices:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/melismashable/now-and-then-20-prices-that-will-blow-your-mind?utm_term=.isgvPgR2e#.cbM28QLZx

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 04:48:41 PM
Computers were something mysterious that took up entire rooms.  The only time you saw one was on science fiction TV.


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Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 04:49:44 PM
Microwaves were unknown.  Everything went in the oven or on the stove and took a long time.


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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 04:50:09 PM
Skylab?  Do you mean the international space station? Why would it ever crash down?

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 04:55:55 PM
We used slide rules to calculate the math in physics class.

They are actually pretty fast once you learn to use it.


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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 04:51:28 PM
Oh. Well that sucks.  The main reason to make a frozen dinner is because it's fast.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 04:52:25 PM
Skylab was the United States' first and only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.

Also, as I recall, it crashed in Australia.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:00:06 PM
Didn't have microwave popcorn back then.  Two ways to have popcorn; grease in a pot and kernals in and you stood there shaking the pot, or Jiffy Pop which is still around.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:00:43 PM
Oh wow. I didn't know they had space stations back then. How cool! Well except for it crashing into earth. Did it kill a lot of people?

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:02:21 PM
S&H Green Stamps or Blue Chip Stamps - When you purchase stuff at a store or bought gas you could or would get these stamps which were placed in a booklet.  Once the booklet was filled you could exchange them for merchandise at either the S&H or Blue Chip Stamp Stores.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:03:47 PM
I've seen that popcorn you set on the stove and the wrapping blows up full of pop corn. I always thought that looked cool. I didn't know they still made it though.

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 04:55:55 PM
We used slide rules to calculate the math in physics class.

They are actually pretty fast once you learn to use it.


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Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:09:08 PM
Please enlighten Julia as to what a sliderule is.  My experience was limited to hitting people with them :)_

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:13:14 PM
I googled slide rule. But I still dont understand it. It's just a ruler, it has no electronic parts so how could it possibly calculate anything??

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 05:23:49 PM
In my schools... teachers were free to hit you with yardstick rulers and some carried custom made "swat paddles"... These days kids would be on their cell phone to their lawyer!!!

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:25:01 PM
Corporal Punishment!!!!!

Got swatted in 8th grade PE.  Had an out of body experience :)

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 05:27:39 PM
I was in a military school for 6th and 7th grade and they ran a tight ship!!!! 😀

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 05:30:31 PM
Playing jacks.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 05:23:49 PM
In my schools... teachers were free to hit you with yardstick rulers and some carried custom made "swat paddles"... to beat sense into you!!!...These days kids would be on their cell phone to their lawyer!!!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 05:32:58 PM
Shooters and agates?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 05:36:14 PM
At one point in my long and storied life, deposit bottles would have been on this list. But if you tell people nowadays that we just threw away all our bottles and cans, they look at you like you're dirty.  :laugh:

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:31:33 PM
Good one!  Also, Marbles -  can you remember their names?

Quote from: Anne Blake on January 11, 2018, 05:37:35 PM
Don't forget the cateyes marbles, they are around here somewhere. I still have a slide rule around that I use when I don't have a calculator or spreadsheet close at hand. And don't forget the 22 cents a gallon gasoline.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:38:21 PM
LOL.  Yep.  I remember it being a source of income as a kid.  I knew one guy who would steal the bottles from the store's storage area and then cash them in only to keep doing this.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:44:10 PM
I heard about that from my grandma. She said soda bottles used to be made of glass and you paid a safety deposit for them when you bought soda. If you wanted your money back you had to haul them back to the store and that they got mad if you didn't wash them out before you took them back. What a pain! It's so much easier to throw plastic bottles in the recycle bin.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:44:10 PM

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:38:21 PM
LOL.  Yep.  I remember it being a source of income as a kid.  I knew one guy who would steal the bottles from the store's storage area and then cash them in only to keep doing this.

I heard about that from my grandma. She said soda bottles used to be made of glass and you paid a safety deposit for them when you bought soda. If you wanted your money back you had to haul them back to the store and that they got mad if you didn't wash them out before you took them back. What a pain! It's so much easier to throw plastic bottles in the recycle bin.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 05:43:54 PM
While we're here, who's made a potholder on a loom? Played with gimp? Chinese checkers? Magic 8-Ball?

Quote from: Cindy on January 11, 2018, 05:47:35 PM
I heard about that from my grandma. She said soda bottles used to be made of glass and you paid a safety deposit for them when you bought soda. If you wanted your money back you had to haul them back to the store and that they got mad if you didn't wash them out before you took them back. What a pain! It's so much easier to throw plastic bottles in the recycle bin.


That has come full circle. We pay a deposit on all bottles, glass, plastic, paper and if you want to get your money back you take them to a recycler. There are no bottles on the streets as people collect them for the 10cent deposit.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 05:23:49 PM
In my schools... teachers were free to hit you with yardstick rulers and some carried custom made "swat paddles"... to beat sense into you!!!...These days kids would be on their cell phone to their lawyer!!!

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 05:59:42 PM
When I was in 5th grade the assistant principal has a canoe paddle with holes drilled in the paddle part for giving those that needed it a good beating.  Fortunately for me I never experienced it first hand.


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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:49:07 PM
I've heard of the eightball. My dad had one when he was little. I know what Chinese checkers are. But what's playing with a gimp?? I googled gimp but the only results I got was a derogatory term for a handicapped person. And why would anyone want to make a pot holder?? I'm sure you could buy them back then.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:36:40 PM
Teachers could hit you?? That's crazy! It's totally illegal now.  When I was in fifth grade a teacher lost her temper and slapped this kid in the face. She was arrested and hauled away right from the school. I'm totally sure she got fired. We never saw her again.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 05:49:07 PM

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 05:43:54 PM
While we're here, who's made a potholder on a loom? Played with gimp? Chinese checkers? Magic 8-Ball?

I've heard of the eightball. My dad had one when he was little. I know what Chinese checkers are. But what's playing with a gimp?? I googled gimp but the only results I got was a derogatory term for a handicapped person. And why would anyone want to make a pot holder?? I'm sure you could buy them back then.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 05:31:33 PM
Good one!  Also, Marbles -  can you remember their names?

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 06:15:00 PM
Aggies, catseyes, and steelies .


- Stephanie

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:21:13 PM
We're going way back now!

https://www.amazon.com/Schylling-Metal-Potholder-Loom-Set/dp/B0019FJEZM

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 06:25:37 PM
Gumby and Pokey.

Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent and Beanie.

Huckleberry Hound.

Popeye and Olive Oyl.

Captain Kangaroo, Bunny Rabbit, and Mister Green Jeans.


- Stephanie

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 06:33:29 PM
Waiting for picture to be back at a !!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotomat

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 06:30:54 PM
Magnilla Gorilla, Wally Gator, Snagglepuss, touche' turtle......

Hobo Kelly, Bozo, Chucko......

The Pancake Man - IHOP tv show

Sky King

Lassie

Rin Tin Tin

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:23:43 PM
Obviously, we all survived Lawn Darts.  :laugh:

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 06:35:18 PM
Good call on Pancake Man!!!! 😀 It was on after Romper Room!!'

How bout Johnny Quest?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:36:42 PM
We won a case of orange Zarex on the Rex Trailer show.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 06:38:05 PM
Shrinky Dinks.

Easy Bake Ovens.

Creepy Crawlers.
These were the among the worst in terms of danger. You got little aluminum molds of bugs and other such things (and the "Girl's Set" had flowers) and squeeze bottles of "Plastigoop".  Fill the molds with the colors of your choice, or mix them if you're feeling daring, and put them in an open-top very hot oven thingy. Time it closely. Too short and they came out gooey. Too long and they'd burn. They put out a god-awful smell while cooking, and I can't imagine how many kids got 3rd degree burns. After they cooled you picked the things out of the mold and put the rubber cockroaches, etc. in your sibling's sandwich.


- Stephanie

Quote from: DawnOday on January 11, 2018, 06:11:47 PM
Skate boards were just that. Old skates nailed to a 2X4
I used to deliver news papers. Do I have to explain what news papers are? To the Metropolitan State Mental Hospital which is where mentally disabled were taken care of before Reagan put them on the street talking to themselves.
Stereo was called a reverberator. Hell with 8 tracks. We had reel to reel. I owned one of the first color video cameras in 1980 I bought my first PC in 1987. I missed the draft by 6 numbers. Instead of video baseball we had something called Bop Baseball. Kids would play outside from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM under the street light. Favorite game was "Over the line" consisting of a batter a pitcher an infielder and an outfielder.  We didn't worry about getting shot, assaulted, kidnapped. We had very little adult supervision and because there were so many things to do we didn't get into much trouble. One of my high school teammates, John Urrea played for St Louis and then San Diego. Steve Garvey ended his career by accusing John of throwing at him when he was with the Dodgers and now they were teammates. Bands actually played live music. Vegas were not sin city they were the crappiest cars ever made. Say what you will about the Pinto and Corvair. I am still in contact with many of my kindergarten classmates from 60 years ago. About the Paddles. Mr. Bertelson had one too and he would come up behind you and say. "Grab your ankles"  Soda was 10 cents a bottle. i liked to get yoohoo's.Collecting bottles was how we got money for movies etc.  Oh the first interactive game we had was SIMON anyone else remember that?

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Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:36:42 PM
We won a case of orange Zarex on the Rex Trailer show.

Sounds like a chemical weapon.  What is it?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 06:40:55 PM
We get a newspaper.  It's a total waste of paper and obsolete.  You can get up to the minute news from the internet. I've told my dad that but he says he doesn't want to get the news from the internet.  He likes a newspaper.  Not even 40 yet and already acting lime an old guy who's set in his ways. I do know what a Simon is. My dad had one when he was little. I've heard about the toys he had. He explained how the Simon worked. It sounds about as interesting as reading an instruction manual. One interesting thing he told me about his childhood was that his friends who had sisters would steal their Barbie dolls so they could play with them. By play with them they meant melt the faces off of them or tie  firecrackers to them and blow them apart. Boys are so mean and rotten.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:41:44 PM
Sounds like a chemical weapon.  What is it?


A chemical weapon A drink concentrate.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 06:45:07 PM
Cali!... Good call on Hobo Kelly too!!!...on KCOP!!!

Saw here in Hollywood at the Santa Claus Lane Parade down Hollywood Blvd!!!... My best friends were Art Linkletters grandsons and we got cooll seats to watch!!!

So Cal memories!!!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:39:46 PM
Nominated for Best Costumes and Special Effects: Lost In Space.  :laugh:

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 11, 2018, 06:50:12 PM
Cooties: not just a thing boys get.

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Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:21:13 PM
We're going way back now!

https://www.amazon.com/Schylling-Metal-Potholder-Loom-Set/dp/B0019FJEZM

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 06:25:29 PM
Floppy Disk. And the punch tool to make them double sided...(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/832db070b62486c0c71d0ad028b1473d.jpg)

Quote from: Dena on January 11, 2018, 06:53:51 PM
Captain Kangaroo (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=captain+kangaroo) (no, it was an US show) and a local favorite Wallace and Ladmo (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wallace+and+ladmo+show)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 06:55:35 PM
That's interesting, was it supposed to be like a flash drive for back then?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 06:49:30 PM
I know lost in space. I came across it on the channel that shows old TV shows. I had heard of the movie but I had no idea it was once a TV show. It's so totally over the top corny and stupid that it's fun to watch. My brother and I always watch it if it happens to be on. I like that robot better than any sci-fi robot I've seen. The girls clothes on that show were actually pretty cool. I am really surprised they would have such an obviously gay character as Dr Smith on a show way back then. I need to find the movie and see if it's as corny as the TV show.

Quote from: DawnOday on January 11, 2018, 06:58:23 PM
If you think that was cheesy look up. "When things were Rotten"  and "It's about Time"  Or get ahold of an airing of Uncle Milty in drag. Or maybe try Flip Wilson in drag. This is what being transgender was portrayed as.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 06:59:44 PM
Stingray bicycles.

Hula hoops.


- Stephanie

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 06:43:03 PM
Us old folks like the feel of dead trees between our fingers as we read the newspaper, magazines or a good book.  If an EMP hits, that's what we'll all be doing :)

Quote from: DawnOday on January 11, 2018, 06:58:23 PM
If you think that was cheesy look up. "When things were Rotten"  and "It's about Time"  Or get ahold of an airing of Uncle Milty in drag. Or maybe try Flip Wilson in drag. This is what being transgender was portrayed as.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 07:04:13 PM

I've seen its about time. Same oldies channel lost in space comes on. It's not even cheesy it's just totally stupid! I check out the oldie channel because some of the old shows are cool. But some are just idiotic. A flying nun. What's that even supposed to be? Really stupid. I'm surprised people would watch the really stupid shows.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 07:01:33 PM
Hoola Hoops have come back.  Stingray - always wanted one with Banana seat!!!!!

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 07:01:33 PM
Hoola Hoops have come back.  Stingray - always wanted one with Banana seat!!!!!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 07:04:13 PM
I've seen its about time. Same oldies channel lost in space comes on. It's not even cheesy it's just totally stupid! I check out the oldie channel because some of the old shows are cool. But some are just idiotic. A flying nun. What's that even supposed to be? Really stupid. I'm surprised people would watch the really stupid shows.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 07:07:25 PM
Laurie explained hula hoops to me. Did you say there was a show called my mother the car?? I'll bite, what was it about? Surely it can't really be as stupid as it sounds.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 11, 2018, 07:09:20 PM
Maybe we should all get together and watch the Howdy Woody Show, or The Mickey Mouse Club, with Annette Funicello.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 07:07:25 PM
Laurie explained hula hoops to me. Did you say there was a show called my mother the car?? I'll bite, what was it about? Surely it can't really be as stupid as it sounds.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 06:55:35 PM
That's interesting, was it supposed to be like a flash drive for back then?

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 06:57:09 PM
Exactly and then was replaced by the 3" floppy.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 07:01:33 PM
Hoola Hoops have come back.  Stingray - always wanted one with Banana seat!!!!!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 07:03:39 PM
Clackers.

Quote from: Faith on January 11, 2018, 07:12:53 PM
Weeelll ... mine ran off it, no internal drive. run a command, "insert disk #3"

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 07:13:12 PM
Banana seats, sissy bars (I was sensitive about that), and ape-hanger bars with steamers. Playing cards in the spo


- Stephanie

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 07:06:45 PM
Oh, Julia....I was there. I have no idea why we got the flying nun, either.  :laugh:

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 07:11:39 PM
Jerry Van Dyke starred in a tv series where his mother (Ann Southern) was reincarnated into as a1928 Porter.  Each week she'd give him advice and problems while he kept her being a car a secret.  The theme song explains it all.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iry-fullyhosted_003&hsimp=yhs-fullyhosted_003&hspart=iry&p=my+mother+the+car+theme+song#id=1&vid=da52d01b845de8cc163db47568a35599&action=click

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 06:30:54 PM
Snagglepuss

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 07:18:57 PM
Yeah, it can be as stupid as it sounds.  Lol!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 07:17:11 PM
My dad has taken me down memory lane with him about his favorite shows when he was growing up. Knightrider, the A team, 21 jump street which I thought was a new movie, buck Rogers ( he totally had a crush on one of the women on there. Lol) and Mcgyver which I thought was a new show. He also watched reruns of stuff like  bionic man and wonder woman  after school. And when he was little there were cartoons on Saturday mornings.

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 11, 2018, 07:33:20 PM
With some of the toys we had I amazed so many of us made it through our childhood...

Water wiggle - a hard plastic dome that you attached to the end of a water hose. It forced the water through a small nozzle that caused the dome to fly around (while still attached to the hose) with quite a bit of force. Getting hit by a water wiggle was not fun, but it really was!

Lawn Darts were awesome. Take a regular dart but make them about a foot long with sharp metal tips. Now throw it up in a high arc to get it to land in a circular target (like a hula hoop on the ground). Sounds like fun, until they land or a head or a foot.

Clackers. I still have one of these. Two hard acrylic balls about 1.5 inches across attached at opposite ends of a string with a small ring dead center. Holding the ring you could get the balls to bounce off of each other. With a little patience and coordination you could go fast enough so the balls would clack together below your hand, and as the balls parted you would quickly move you hand through the gap between the balls and get them to clack together above you hand. Made a lot of noise, hurt like heck if a body part got between them just before striking each other, and sometimes the string would break sending the hard acrylic projectile flying off somewhere with enough velocity that it was guaranteed to damage something.

We only had three TV VHF channels, maybe a fourth on one UHF. Remote controls? Nope. If you wanted to change the channel or adjust the volume you have to walk over to the TV set and manually change the settings.

Cars did not have power anything. Windows used a hand crank attached to the doors. You had to use a key to lock and unlock the doors.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 07:37:00 PM
Forgot a lot of these.  There was also that rocket that you used the hose to fire.  Not sure if it used baking soda or not.  And there was Estes Rocket Company that I think was in New Mexico and they'd send free sample rockets (you got your own power source).

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 11, 2018, 07:27:36 PM
Julia...

At the same time it is sad you didn't experience all this stuff and in other ways... you are lucky that you didn't!!! The stuff you have in your life right now will someday be just as remote and archaic!!!!

The age of quantum computers is upon us... everything is changing every day... make good memories today... Love and laugh and keep going forward with a curious mind and an open heart...All will be well

Onward we go little sister!!!

Ashley 😀🌻❤️

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 07:33:03 PM
That would have been Erin Grey.  She did have a sexy walk in the space suit holding that laser rifle.
https://cityjackdaw.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/erin-2.jpg

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 04:50:35 PM
Very true.  I was working on a computer merit badge and visited the local IBM company.  Not only did they take up an entire room, they were heat sensitive.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 06:57:09 PM
Exactly and then was replaced by the 3" floppy.

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:06:55 PM
What the... this thread is out of control, 8 pages already?

Well, how about this thing:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/VHS_tape_rewinder.jpg/1200px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpg)

My grandfather worked on a huge old school warehouse computer back in the early 50's or so I think. I have no idea in what capacity, probably managerial, I don't think he was an engineer. My mom got to see it when she was really little, but didn't have details, and everyone that would have known what the deal was passed away before I was born. May have actually even been the 40s. I think it was something to do with Navy contracting but I really don't know for sure.

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 08:10:54 PM
Where it get's interesting is that a single cell phone picture today would require about 10 of those to be saved...

Insert disk 3/10...

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:12:18 PM
I give up roll. What is that thing??

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 08:10:54 PM
Where it get's interesting is that a single cell phone picture today would require about 10 of those to be saved...

Insert disk 3/10...

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:14:18 PM

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:12:18 PM
I give up roll. What is that thing??

You put VHS tapes in it. It rewinds them. That's it. Brilliantly versatile piece of technology.

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:14:18 PM
You put VHS tapes in it. It rewinds them. That's it. Brilliantly versatile piece of technology.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:15:43 PM
Well since those ginormas computers didn't have as much power as my iPhone what was the purpose of having them at all? I mean what could you even do with them?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:15:43 PM
Well since those ginormas computers didn't have as much power as my iPhone what was the purpose of having them at all? I mean what could you even do with them?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 08:18:59 PM
And a brilliant way of only telling one third of the story! See, those tapes took forever to rewind, and you had two other movies to watch that night and have back at the video store the next day or pay an extra fee. If you didn't rewind them, you had to pay an extra fee.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:12:18 PM
I give up roll. What is that thing??

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 07:38:45 PM
Don't forget Mr. Ed the talking horse.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mr. Ed.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 08:18:59 PM
You put VHS tapes in it. It rewinds them. That's it. Brilliantly versatile piece of technology.


And a brilliant way of only telling one third of the story! See, those tapes took forever to rewind, and you had two other movies to watch that night and have back at the video store the next day or pay an extra fee. If you didn't rewind them, you had to pay an extra fee.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 11, 2018, 08:25:12 PM

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 07:38:45 PM
Don't forget Mr. Ed the talking horse.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mr. Ed.

Ohhhhh, Wilburrrrrrrr. Why can't I have my own phooooooonnnne? (And it was a dial phone, too.)



- Stephanie

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 08:22:52 PM
First, we didn't look at the technology that way because it was "New Technology".  Secondly, if it weren't for those computers there wouldn't be any today.

While I had a Texas Instrument computer and when Coleco made the Adam Computer, they were limited use computers.  My first desktop was a 486 and the memory and other stuff was let than 1/2 gig as I recall.  I bought the computer and within a year's time it was as if it were from the stone age as technology continues to grow. 

Though, sometimes I feel or believe that the technology is held bad for financial gain.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:26:14 PM
That's so weird. I figured they just went back to the beginning when they ended like a DVD. My dad told me about this thing my grandparents had called a laser disk player. He said it was kind of like an early DVD player only the disks were as big as one of those LP records and that half way through the movie it stopped and you had to turn the disk over. He said that thing never worked right. I've never seen it but I'm sure my grandparents have it stored away someplace because they never throw anything away. Even stuff that needs thrown away like the apple green shag carpet in their living room. Ugh.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:31:40 PM
I know they had home computers a while before the internet. But why?  Without the web a computer is nothing but a paperweight. You couldn't do anything with it without the internet so why buy one? I'm sure they were very expensive.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:26:14 PM
That's so weird. I figured they just went back to the beginning when they ended like a DVD. My dad told me about this thing my grandparents had called a laser disk player. He said it was kind of like an early DVD player only the disks were as big as one of those LP records and that half way through the movie it stopped and you had to turn the disk over. He said that thing never worked right. I've never seen it but I'm sure my grandparents have it stored away someplace because they never throw anything away. Even stuff that needs thrown away like the apple green shag carpet in their living room. Ugh.

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:35:32 PM
Beats a type writer.

Though really, even pre-modern internet it wasn't like computers were incapable of communication. For years there were BBSs(who wants to explain those?), local intranets, and more.

For me though personally? VIDEO GAMES!

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:38:57 PM
Speaking of LaserDisc (well that is a weird sentence)...

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computercloset.org%2FPioneer_Laseractive.JPG&hash=d3ae0ed7064f8c786c05c69511c0c87110781f9e)

If anyone can identify that monstrosity (that's only like 1/4th of the modules shown there) you win.

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:38:57 PM
Speaking of LaserDisc (well that is a weird sentence)...

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computercloset.org%2FPioneer_Laseractive.JPG&hash=d3ae0ed7064f8c786c05c69511c0c87110781f9e)

If anyone can identify that monstrosity (that's only like 1/4th of the modules shown there) you win.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:42:23 PM
It looks like part of a surround sound set up. Is that it?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:44:01 PM
It also looks like my DVR converter box except it's not close to being that big.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:42:23 PM
It looks like part of a surround sound set up. Is that it?

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:52:53 PM
Okay so. Laser disc. Was super huge record sized CDs basically. Completely obliterated by DVD, and also because it was stupid. So along comes Pioneer, with an absolutely staggeringly brilliant idea:

Pioneer Executive 1: "Let's release a series of giant boxes that all hook together and get up to 2 feet tall with a bizarre combination of functionalities no one ever needed in one machine, and each module should cost several hundred dollars. Also, let's create our own proprietary video game console and include it as part of this."
Pioneer Executive 2: "And we will use laser disc as our medium!"
Pioneer Executive 1: "You, sir, have read my mind."
Pioneer Executive 2: "And also have giant proprietary karaoke albums on laser disc for four time the price of a regular album!"
Pioneer Executive 1: "You're stark raving mad, and I LOVE it."
Pioneer Executive 2: "And we'll only make about 1,000 of them for the entire country!"
Pioneer Executive 1: "I'm glad sexual harassment isn't a big deal yet, because I am about to make out with you so hard."
(4 hours of Pioneer executive sloppy make-out session later.)

... *Ahem*. Anywho. It is called the LaserActive. It was released piecemeal as individual modules that included multiple video game consoles (which, honestly was kind of cool), a CD player, a tape player, I'm pretty sure a VHS player, a karaoke machine, the proprietary LaserActive game console module (I think it was the main one you had to have maybe), etc. A local place actually had one that had about 4 of the better modules and was selling it for $1100, and to my knowledge never sold. The system... did not succeed.

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 08:49:54 PM
In another 10-20 years I wouldn't be surprised if video technology had advanced so far as creating something like the hollow-deck on Star Trek where you view a movie as a holigram.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:57:15 PM
That's.....different.  Expensive too.  One more question, why do you still have it? Isn't it obsolete?

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 09:00:05 PM
I wish I had it. That is just some picture I pulled off google. It would cool to have as a collector. (Well, if I weren't selling everything to help cover transition costs. :D)

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 08:38:57 PM
Speaking of LaserDisc (well that is a weird sentence)...

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computercloset.org%2FPioneer_Laseractive.JPG&hash=d3ae0ed7064f8c786c05c69511c0c87110781f9e)

If anyone can identify that monstrosity (that's only like 1/4th of the modules shown there) you win.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 11, 2018, 09:40:54 PM
I recently sold a stereo that size, but topped with a 100 disc CD carousel / changer. I needed a pretty good amplifier to use the 12 inch woofer to go with the Bose speakers. These days, you can get the same effect with a cellphone and a bluetooth speaker.

Quote from: Laurie on January 11, 2018, 09:25:03 PM
Julia, The robot in the original Lost in Space was named Robby the Robot IRL and was an experienced actor having gotten his start in 1956 in the classic Sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet long before Lost in Space. He appeared in quite a few movies and TV shows. On November 22, 2017 Robby was sold for 5.6 million dollars.

Laurie

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 10:03:01 PM
The crazy thing is that this isn't even anywhere near full size. But yeah, those huge stereos are another great thing Julia would love to be baffled by. My dad had a really expensive one that was in this wood cabinet which stood about, uhhh, I want to say about 4 feet with only a tiny portion of the bottom being storage. Even at the time it was way, way too big. I had a far more reasonable one like....

Wow, actually, I just googled 90's stereo and my exact one popped up. This is what I had:
(https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDQ5WDgwMA==/z/o58AAOSwFc5XwswN/$_86.JPG)

NOSTALGIA!

... wait, did I just call this thing reasonably sized?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 10:10:55 PM
I've seen forbidden planet. The special effects were really good considering when it was made. Robby robot was cool too. I just like the lost in space robot waving his dryer vent arms around yelling danger will Robinson. It's funny.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 10:15:16 PM
My grandma has one of those huge things. It's a huge wooden cabinet. The top lifts open and there's a turn table, radio and some sort of other thing. The front slides open and it has this big round looking TV screen. The TV doesn't work anymore but she still plays records with the turntable part. This is what I mean when I say she doesn't ever throw anything away.

Quote from: Roll on January 11, 2018, 10:36:04 PM
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/egamia/images/7/7c/Atari2600sixSwitch.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081220220526)

Remember when wood paneling was so classy they even put it on state of the art electronics?

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 10:27:55 PM
The breadbox computer...

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/694d82a447cdce0d785bf32dbd259e5f.jpg)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 11:08:20 PM
That's a computer? Where's the screen?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 11:08:20 PM
That's a computer? Where's the screen?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 08:28:56 PM
Ohhhhh, Wilburrrrrrrr. Why can't I have my own phooooooonnnne? (And it was a dial phone, too.)



- Stephanie


I'm going to apologize first and then earn it.  >:-)

Can you imagine the selfie Mr. Ed would be using on Craigslist?

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 12, 2018, 12:16:17 AM
Hay! I'm manely looking for some tail. Have my own pad. Can put on a good feed. Sometimes silly, but generally stable. Built like a hoooooooorse.

Have own phoooooone. If someone called Wilbur answers, hang up and call back later. Hoof it over any time.

- Mister ED (not an acronym)

Quote from: Cali on January 11, 2018, 11:14:35 PM
wires connected to a pair of sunglasses.  Seriously, I believe these types of computers connected to televisions.

Quote from: BeverlyAnn on January 12, 2018, 01:02:36 AM
Typing out teletype traffic onto a punch tape and feeding the tape into the transmitter.  We still used this in the airline industry in the 1970s.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 11:08:20 PM

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 10:27:55 PM
The breadbox computer...

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/694d82a447cdce0d785bf32dbd259e5f.jpg)

That's a computer? Where's the screen?

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 10:20:22 PM
Computers nicknamed breadbox and games stored on cassette tape would be another one...

Oh... this was my first cellphone 25 Years ago... 12 lbs and it could not even text...

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/e420780a7ef3e919115dc283c1da4619.jpg)

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 11, 2018, 06:23:43 PM
Obviously, we all survived Lawn Darts.  [emoji23]

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 12, 2018, 08:12:26 AM
I was big into laserdiscs! They were great for anime (not that there was all that much released back then) because they had 2 audio tracks on them, so you could have subs & dubs on one disc.

Speaking of anime, to get our hands on any we had to share vhs tapes. If you were lucky, you'd know someone who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone else who might have had a series you'd heard about and wanted to see. We'd get an address for this person, send an actual physical snail-mail letter, asking if we could get a copy. Eventually we'd get a 12th-generation copy that's barely watchable (if you squint just right...), but we loved every minute because it was the only way we could see it.

Oh, and when US companies finally started bringing anime over on VHS we'd happily pay $40 for a single episode.

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 04:55:55 PM
We used slide rules to calculate the math in physics class.

They are actually pretty fast once you learn to use it.


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Quote from: sarah1972 on January 12, 2018, 06:01:35 AM
Technically you could dial into a BBS system, which was almost like a forum. There was a modem you could plug your phone headset into and it would connect to a central server. Then you could read and leave messages for other people. I never had that, I did not start getting into this stuff until a few years later on my first PC.

Quote from: Roll on January 12, 2018, 08:29:40 AM
I had my always up to date Ranma 1/2 collection (of course, OF COURSE, it was Ranma)

Quote from: Roll on January 12, 2018, 08:29:40 AM
At one point I had this great idea I'd get a laser disc player and buy every single anime released on it. In retrospect, that was surprisingly feasible (maybe not for a 14 year old, but in general) and I have had far more anime vhs and dvds than I would have had even owning every laserdisc. ;D

And VHS anime sharing... oh wow. I remember that the only other person around me that was really into anime aside from me and my friend was the manager at this video store. He used his position to create a nice little stock of anime at the store and ordered a few titles for me that were out early in the rental catalogs they used for stock before the wider releases. A little bit past the vhs trading only days, I had my always up to date Ranma 1/2 collection (of course, OF COURSE, it was Ranma) and I would let him borrow them to copy them, and because I couldn't find anything else to carry them in I took them to him in easter baskets. It was really weird in retrospect and I don't know why that was the only thing I could find. Not grocery bags, not a cardboard box... an easter basket. He had been involved in the VHS trading for years (since he was a 20 something year old anime fan in the early 90s, had to be) and hooked little kid me up with some of them. :D In that vein, I still remember getting my first little cheaply printed Rightstuf catalog and being amazed at the dozens (... dozens...!) of titles.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 12, 2018, 08:39:55 AM
OMG, Ranma 1/2. I haven't thought of that in years. I've never been into anime, but when I heard of Ranma I had to check it out. I dreamed and wished and prayed that something like that could happen to me. Serious, soul-crushing dysphoria, though I didn't know what to call it back then. I finally had to leave it alone and suppress it before it drove me nuts.

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 12, 2018, 08:12:26 AM

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 11, 2018, 10:20:22 PM
Computers nicknamed breadbox and games stored on cassette tape would be another one...

Oh... this was my first cellphone 25 Years ago... 12 lbs and it could not even text...

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/e420780a7ef3e919115dc283c1da4619.jpg)

My dad had a carphone in the late 80s, it was gigantic, bigger than a car battery, and probably heavier.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 12, 2018, 08:48:01 AM
I've never understood the big deal about anime. It's just Asian cartoons after all. But people are nuts for them. There were some people in school who were all into anime but they were labeled poindexters and were kind of outcast from the popular kids.

Quote from: Deborah on January 11, 2018, 11:38:38 PM
The first computer I used in college had no screen.  We had keyboards to type in Fortran programming line by line and everything came out on a dot matrix printer.  I was lucky though because the year before they were still using punch cards.


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Quote from: DawnOday on January 12, 2018, 09:48:54 AM
I remember waiting for hours for the dot matrix printer to print out a report at a blazing three minutes a page. I created a 600 page product manual using my duel disk IBM AT. Took a year. I could do it now in maybe a day.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 12, 2018, 10:18:33 AM
It's amazing how things have advanced.  My neighbor once told me she worked for a big office building during the holidays to make extra money. She said she was PTX operator. Every call that came into the building went to this....console I guess you would call it. She said it was a big wooden thing with cords sticking out of it. She had to plug this cord in to answer the calls and then plug another cord into an outlet to send the call to the office it went to. All the calls for the entire building came in through that console. Sometimes it amazes me that the world could even  run with such a lack of technology.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 12, 2018, 10:18:33 AM

Quote from: DawnOday on January 12, 2018, 09:48:54 AM
I remember waiting for hours for the dot matrix printer to print out a report at a blazing three minutes a page. I created a 600 page product manual using my duel disk IBM AT. Took a year. I could do it now in maybe a day.

It's amazing how things have advanced.  My neighbor once told me she worked for a big office building during the holidays to make extra money. She said she was PTX operator. Every call that came into the building went to this....console I guess you would call it. She said it was a big wooden thing with cords sticking out of it. She had to plug this cord in to answer the calls and then plug another cord into an outlet to send the call to the office it went to. All the calls for the entire building came in through that console. Sometimes it amazes me that the world could even  run with such a lack of technology.

Quote from: Cali on January 12, 2018, 10:21:57 AM
"Ya Can't Miss What Ya Don't Have".

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 12, 2018, 10:18:33 AM
It's amazing how things have advanced.  My neighbor once told me she worked for a big office building during the holidays to make extra money. She said she was PTX operator. Every call that came into the building went to this....console I guess you would call it. She said it was a big wooden thing with cords sticking out of it. She had to plug this cord in to answer the calls and then plug another cord into an outlet to send the call to the office it went to. All the calls for the entire building came in through that console. Sometimes it amazes me that the world could even  run with such a lack of technology.

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 12, 2018, 10:25:12 AM
Oh yes... but that was even before my time. My grandma was a long distance / international phone operator on one of these consoles. One of her main tasks was to establish regular calls for international trade companies. She actually made friends and became pen pals with some of them around the world. When she passed, we found a stack of letters she exchanged with a phone operator in Japan. Keep in mind, that was in the 1920's and 1930's and they stayed in touch all those years.

She pretty much had her schedule what calls to establish when and a few minutes prior to the call, they would get in touch with the operator at the other end of the world. When it became time for the call, she connected the local office to the long distance line and disconnected herself...

It still amazes me that in these times, they could already make calls around the world. No Operator today... FaceTime and off you go...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/d3/84/81d384a8060ccf91e24e66ed1ae34493.jpg

It's amazing how things have advanced.  My neighbor once told me she worked for a big office building during the holidays to make extra money. She said she was PTX operator. Every call that came into the building went to this....console I guess you would call it. She said it was a big wooden thing with cords sticking out of it. She had to plug this cord in to answer the calls and then plug another cord into an outlet to send the call to the office it went to. All the calls for the entire building came in through that console. Sometimes it amazes me that the world could even  run with such a lack of technology.

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 12, 2018, 10:25:12 AM
Oh yes... but that was even before my time. My grandma was a long distance / international phone operator on one of these consoles. One of her main tasks was to establish regular calls for international trade companies. She actually made friends and became pen pals with some of them around the world. When she passed, we found a stack of letters she exchanged with a phone operator in Japan. Keep in mind, that was in the 1920's and 1930's and they stayed in touch all those years.

She pretty much had her schedule what calls to establish when and a few minutes prior to the call, they would get in touch with the operator at the other end of the world. When it became time for the call, she connected the local office to the long distance line and disconnected herself...

It still amazes me that in these times, they could already make calls around the world. No Operator today... FaceTime and off you go...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/d3/84/81d384a8060ccf91e24e66ed1ae34493.jpg

It's amazing how things have advanced.  My neighbor once told me she worked for a big office building during the holidays to make extra money. She said she was PTX operator. Every call that came into the building went to this....console I guess you would call it. She said it was a big wooden thing with cords sticking out of it. She had to plug this cord in to answer the calls and then plug another cord into an outlet to send the call to the office it went to. All the calls for the entire building came in through that console. Sometimes it amazes me that the world could even  run with such a lack of technology.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 02:12:40 PM
And the phone thing was just sad. It would be awful having to stay in one spot to talk on the phone. And the phones didn't even do anything else. You could only use them for talking. Ugh. Lots of times I want to talk to someone without actually speaking to them. Without texting you couldn't even do that. And it would be so dangerous to leave home without a phone. What if something happened?  You couldn't even call for help. That's awful. I just really can't imagine how people got along without a phone.

QuoteYou can't do ANYTHING without a phone, tablet or laptop. You couldn't look stuff up or anything. I don't know how people even learned anything back then. Very very sad.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 11, 2018, 08:15:43 PM
Well since those ginormas computers didn't have as much power as my iPhone what was the purpose of having them at all? I mean what could you even do with them?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 12, 2018, 10:18:33 AMShe said she was PTX operator.

Quote from: Anne Blake on January 12, 2018, 11:43:46 AM
At Christmas time when we wanted to call grandma back east we would have to ring the operator, request the call, hang up and then wait for the operator to put it through when a line opened up. It would sometimes take half an hour.

My partner used the old crank phone and let the operator put through any call. But that was on the farm and they had the choice of using the outhouse or on really cold Iowa nights, the chamber pot. Bathing was in a galvanized tub in the kitchen with water heated on the wood burning stove.......and not a computer in the house.

Tia Anne

Quote from: KarynMcD on January 12, 2018, 11:31:50 AM
It's amazing that humans have survived has long as we have.

There were these things called "books" and they were kept in a "library."  Millions of trees died so that these books could exist. You would go to the library and you would look through a huge index called a "card catalog" where you would flip through cardboard cards to search for the topic you were interested in. That card would tell you where in the library the book would be. You then walked to the location and take the book with you. Then you manually read through the book to learn about things. If you were lucky, there was a comprehensive index in the book to point you to the correct pages to read.
Most of the books you could take home for free to do your research. Some books had to stay in the library though. You had to read them there.

You know they took us to the moon and you're iPhone was only released 11 1/2 years ago.
If you haven't seen the movie "Hidden Figures (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1)," watch it. It came out in 2016. It shows some of the original "computers" in it. I think HBO has the streaming rights to it.


Nit pick: PBX or Private Branch Exchange.

Do you know what a "nit" is and why you would "pick" it?


Now let me tell you about a "phone book"....

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 12, 2018, 11:55:12 AM
And don't forget the fear of having to take out a loan if a long distance call went too long!!!

My dads side of the family was from Iowa too Tia Anne!... Galva in NW Iowa and I lived there in Ames for a couple years in the early 2000s

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 12, 2018, 09:01:04 AM
What is really scary is that my modern day smart phone has about the same battery life than that box. And the call quality today is a lot worse than back then. Rarely had any dropped calls.

Might not have been all that healthy, I carried it in a backpack and it had 8W transmit power. You would literally get grilled while making a phone call :D

Quote from: Roll on January 12, 2018, 09:11:01 AM
Story wise is often the big one that drew/draws people to anime explicitly. Ever tried to watch an old US TV series? Even the dramas are almost to a last very episodic, with little to no continuity or overarching stories. They were designed to be viewed one episode at a time, and if you missed an episode, no big deal. Anime was overwhelmingly the opposite, and would usually feature robust and well developed storylines spanning the duration of an entire series. Certainly episodic comedies and shows in general existed, but they were largely the exceptions. In other words, it has always been more like western television is now. (Which because of on demand viewing, concerns about missing episodes has largely evaporated and TV execs became far more willing to green light such serial story telling.)

Quote from: Roll on January 12, 2018, 09:11:01 AM
Today it continues to be popular because of the nerd cache it developed previously, coupled with that there are still many themes and genres that aren't considered marketable to western TV execs, but people still want to watch. (Giant robots for one.)

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 12, 2018, 12:59:20 PM
Seriously though, if you want an idea of just how amazing anime can be, check out movies from Studio Ghibli. I personally recommend Laputa (Castle in the Sky).

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 12, 2018, 09:01:01 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180113/d4159701d3ab0e2892d4b1983a91308d.jpg)

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 13, 2018, 12:18:49 AM
I won't take long for the D-Wave Quantum Computer to be as antiquated as the TRS 80...

Onward we go...

Quote from: Laurie on January 12, 2018, 11:55:45 PM
Oh yes the Trash 80

I waited until PCs came out and bought a Sperry Univac  8088 IBM PC clone made by Mitsubishi It cost me $2400.00 and that was a bargain because I worked for Sperry Univac. It came with 16k memory and two 5 1/4  floppy drives  disk, a keyboard and a green display. State of the art stuff back then. I bought more memory chips and a memory card to upgrade it to 64K. I later was able to add a full height 5 MB hard drive.
  Favorite text game at the time was text version Bards Tale. Mapping out the different level on desk blotter sized graph paper.

Quote from: Laurie on January 12, 2018, 11:55:45 PM
  I waited until PCs came out and bought a Sperry Univac  8088 IBM PC clone made by Mitsubishi It cost me $2400.00 and that was a bargain because I worked for Sperry Univac. It came with 16k memory and two 5 1/4  floppy drives  disk, a keyboard and a green display. State of the art stuff back then. I bought more memory chips and a memory card to upgrade it to 64K. I later was able to add a full height 5 MB hard drive.
  Favorite text game at the time was text version Bards Tale. Mapping out the different level on desk blotter sized graph paper.

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 13, 2018, 07:28:47 AM
I have been around for quite a while, and you (Julia) would have been considered beautiful in every decade. Some things are quickly destined for the dust bin of history, while other are timeless. Typically things that are simple (I am not calling you simple!) yet elegant will stand the test of time. Hairstyles, clothing, and makeup fads will change over the years, and many times they will come full circle - things that may be fading out now may came back in style 20 - 30 years from now. A simple pair of blue jeans has always been acceptable casual clothing in every decade, but mini skirts have come and gone several times over the last 50 years.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 13, 2018, 07:09:44 AM
I have to say the 1980s had the most hideous hair, clothes and makeup! One picture of my grandma comes to mind from the 80s. She's wearing this butt ugly puffy blouse with huge shoulder pads that make her look like a football player, her hair is kind of big and puffy and she's wearing these super huge square glasses with a small silver J on the corner of the lens.

Quote from: Dena on January 13, 2018, 09:44:23 AM
Come on!!! My avatar was taken in the very early 90s with the style I was wearing in the 80s. In addition, those blouses where perfect for me. I would pull the shoulder pads out of any new blouse and the blouse would still fit perfectly. Now I have to be careful with a new blouse as there might not be enough room in the shoulder area. If I find one that has shoulder pads in it today, I shouldn't have fit issues.

Quote from: DawnOday on January 13, 2018, 10:09:54 AM
Here is one that kept me from making the company millions of dollars. Disk space. I needed 20 - 25 gb to manipulate the Bills of Material.. At the time the price of one gig was in the area of $250,000. These servers took up whole rooms. Now look down at your laptop with 1 terabyte of disk space for about $800. Just think. We put a man on the moon with less computing power than your cell phone. Think about that for a minute and how they were able to survive Apollo 13 where the spacecraft was damaged by an oxygen tank explosion. If the solution was not exact the chances for it's return was nil.

As to ugly women in the 70's 80's. OMG  I looked at my yearbook and there were maybe five attractive girls in my class of over 400.  I looked at my sons yearbook from a few years ago and it was like the complete opposite. The hair and eye makeup of the 80's were hideous. And I was supposed to impress them while wearing polyester. eww.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 13, 2018, 11:25:30 AM
Yeah it's weird. I've seen old movies from the 50s and I did a search on Pinterest once for 50s style hair and clothes. OMG, every woman had the same old lady hairdo! Even the teenage girls back then looked 40. Awful!  But some of the clothes, hair  and make up from the 60s was really cool. I came across a picture of my grandma when she was young and I was just amazed. She had on a miniskirt and these really cool white boots that laced up the front. She had this weird double eyeliner with white in the middle thing going on but it looked really cool. My grandma was beautiful when she was young.

Quote from: Laurie on January 13, 2018, 01:29:13 PM
That sounds like the Jane Fonda Nancy Sinatra look from her song "These boots were made for walking"

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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 13, 2018, 07:09:44 AM
I always find it weird how everything changes from decade to decade. Something state of the art quickly becomes obsolete. It's not just technology that changes it's style and even attitudes. I've seen a lot of my grandma's picture albums. I have to say the 1980s had the most hideous hair, clothes and makeup! One picture of my grandma comes to mind from the 80s. She's wearing this butt ugly puffy blouse with huge shoulder pads that make her look like a football player, her hair is kind of big and puffy and she's wearing these super huge square glasses with a small silver J on the corner of the lens. Wow! Talk about UGLY! I asked her why there was a J on the glasses and she said it was the initial of her first name. She said it was a thing for a brief period back then to have little silver or gold initials on your glasses.  Ok.........  Then I saw a picture of my dad as a teenager and didn't even recognize him. When I saw the picture I asked him who was that slob and he told me the slob was him. His clothes were ratty, he had a face full of scruff  and his hair was shaggy and looked like it had never been brushed. He looked like a homeless person. I asked him why he looked like that and he said it was called grunge and it was the thing at that time. That's crazy. I've never seen my dad with anything but buzzed or semi buzzed hair and clean shaven. As hideous as people looked in past decades 20 or 30 years from now someone will probably  look at a picture of me from 2018 and think I look stupid and awful.

Quote from: Dena on January 13, 2018, 02:10:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 13, 2018, 02:31:40 PM
Thank you Dena. That was kind of cute. But I couldn't help laughing at their dance moves. Lol!

Quote from: Anne Blake on January 13, 2018, 04:55:39 PM
Laurie, if you are going to bring up the Jane Fonda reference you will need to include her infamous movie, "Barbarella" (1968).

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 13, 2018, 07:02:05 PM
Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 13, 2018, 07:02:05 PM
Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 13, 2018, 07:18:43 PM
That's hilarious. Lol

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 13, 2018, 07:02:05 PM
Wow it takes a while to catch up on this thread. Hope I am not duplicating here. Back when Laurie and I were 18 years old, Julia, they had this thing called 'Prohibition' where drinking was actually illegal. We drove around in cars called 'Model T's which had no brakes, so we stuck our feet through the floor with our bare feet to stop the car. We would walk to and from school in the snow, 3 miles uphill both ways. We had our music though, there was this rock star, a real 'hottie' named Lawrence Welk. Unfortunately, the blight that was slavery was still present back then, especially at NASA in Coco Beach, where the astronauts had scantily clad young ladies cross there arms and blink and do incredible acts of debauchery. Oh yes, I had a neighbor who had a pet dinosaur named Spot who they kept under their stairs.
Moni
Your alternate  universe correspondent.

Quote from: sarah1972 on January 13, 2018, 07:47:16 PM
Did we already mention Jane Fonda workout videos? https://youtu.be/deKHYCsjseg

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 13, 2018, 11:25:30 AM
But some of the clothes, hair  and make up from the 60s was really cool. I came across a picture of my grandma when she was young and I was just amazed. She had on a miniskirt and these really cool white boots that laced up the front. She had this weird double eyeliner with white in the middle thing going on but it looked really cool.

Quote from: big kim on January 14, 2018, 01:54:36 AM
There were 2 TV channels in the 60s
Music was listened to on black plastic discs
You had to wind up car windows by hand
Motorbikes had a kick start, they would kick back & it hurt
You could buy other British motorbikes beside Triumphs
As a 14 year old I took part in an organised mass brawl between the 15 best fighters from my town's schools & 15 from another town's school. Today there'd be a police helicopter & it would be all over the  newspapers.
You didn't need all manner of rod licences, permits etc to go fishing

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 12:09:40 AM
I went down a weird word association Rabbit Hole and wound up at a great summary of pop culture covering the decades before Julia was born for this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3V-7DEAgdc

Worst Michael Jackson song ever? Check.
Weird cameos from a disturbing number of major celebrities who were at the height of their careers? Check.
Insane ending to a terrible music video that is an absurd waste of talent all around? Triple check.

So here is the big question, is there anyone in this video the current generation would for sure recognize? :D Maybe Weird Al and Whoopi(if they ever walk in on their mom watching daytime TV)? Dan Akroyd perhaps but probably not by name, Ghostbusters and all that. (Assuming also they don't know what Steven Spielberg looks like even if know who he is.)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:04:16 AM
I know who whoppi Goldberg is. She's on a daytime talk show. Everyone knows who Steven Spielberg is. What he looks like? ...no. And of course I know ghostbusters! I love Melissa McCarthy!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 08:59:44 AM
What do you mean roll up car windows?

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 09:20:07 AM
They were not electric so you rolled them up and down with a hand crank on the door.  Door locks were not electric either so you had to manually push down each one to lock the doors.


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Quote from: Dena on January 14, 2018, 09:15:44 AM
You young thing. The original Ghost Busters was in 1984.

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

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:04:16 AM
And of course I know ghostbusters! I love Melissa McCarthy!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 08:59:44 AM
What do you mean roll up car windows?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:55:35 AM
Oh ok, another remake movie. I thought it was a new movie. It seems like every movie and TV show I see has an older version.

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 14, 2018, 10:42:09 AM
OMG, I only just found this thread.  14 pages in 4 days?!!  So much fun!  And, Julia, I love your responses!   :D

My first computer didn't even have a floppy disk.  It used paper tape to store programs.  My first floppy disk held 64K.  It was a major upgrade when I got a 10Mb hard disk.  The drive was 18 inches wide, 24 inches deep, and weighed 100 lbs!  I used punched cards and 10-character-per-second teletype machines to communicate with the lab computers in university.

Remember film?  It was expensive, so you might only take 12 pictures in an entire vacation.  And if the pictures didn't turn out well, you couldn't do a darned thing about it.  You couldn't photoshop uncle Bob out of the picture: you had to use scissors.

My first car had a tube radio that you had to warm up before you could listen to it. 

We didn't have a TV until I was about 15, and even then, it was black-and-white.  And it had to warm up for a minute too.  If you wanted to adjust the volume or change channels, you had to get up and walk across the room to do it.  The TV set only had 12 channels, and you were lucky if there were two stations in your city.  Of course, you couldn't pick up TV signals from anywhere else except your city.

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 11:24:02 AM

There was no real concerns about kids outside either.  We went out, went wherever we wanted to go, and pretty much stayed out all day until it was time to eat.

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 11:24:02 AM
TV didn't get good pictures back then.  But we didn't watch much TV either.  During the day, other than Sat morning cartoons we never watched it.  In the evenings we might watch it for an hour or two.  Recreation, for me anyway, was mostly swimming, playing outside, or reading books. 

There was no real concerns about kids outside either.  We went out, went wherever we wanted to go, and pretty much stayed out all day until it was time to eat.


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Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 11:41:21 AM
The scariest movie I ever saw was on one of those old TVs.  I think the black and white made them even scarier.  It was around 1964 and the movie was "The Haunting".  It scared me so bad I threw up twice during the movie.  It also gave me almost nightly nightmares for over two years.

To this day I have the scenes burned into my mind and refuse to ever watch it again.


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Quote from: tgirlamc on January 14, 2018, 11:31:06 AM
Don't forget putting foil on the rabbit ear antennas to get it to come in better and the rolling picture when the horizontal hold was out of adjustment! ... When remotes came out, it made a big KER-CHUNK!... When the channel changed

Ahhh.... Simpler times 😀

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 14, 2018, 11:31:06 AM
Don't forget putting foil on the rabbit ear antennas to get it to come in better and the rolling picture when the horizontal hold was out of adjustment! ... When remotes came out, it made a big KER-CHUNK!... When the channel changed

Ahhh.... Simpler times 😀

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 11:43:28 AM
Oh wow. You didn't worry about perves snatching kids back then?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 12:11:23 PM
What does a rabbits ear have to do with antennas? And I don't understand what you mean about the remote. A remote is silent. How could it go kerchunk?????

Quote from: Dena on January 14, 2018, 12:04:07 PM
I have always lived in the city but us kids would range as much as a mile away from home. We had set times we needed to be home by and often it was dusk or after it was dark. We were told as young as 6 or 7 years of age to watch out for strangers however there was never a problem with this. Maybe one of the advantages of living in a bedroom community.

Parents tend to be a little overprotective these days and in a way I think it prevents children from developing proper judgement. Consider I received my first pocket knife about age 9 and I didn't need to ask for it as it was given as a present. I was pretty old before I received a key to the house because the house wasn't locked until bed time. In Arizona, we slept with the windows wide open because we use a cooler to maintain the temperature during the summer and they required outside air flow to operate properly. Before they had coolers, they would put blankets on the lawn and sleep outside. It was a much different world in those days.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 10:39:30 AM
We had three national channels to my knowledge in the late 50s & 60s in Los Angeles County; CBS (2),NBC (4), ABC (7).  There were also local channels also; KTLA (5) and KCOP (13) and one other which I don't off the top of my head remember but was Channel 9 in LA. 

And these channels would sometimes buy a movie and play it. 

When pay tv came in it was the promise of uninterrupted tv without commercials, yeah promised. 

Now there are so many channels that in order to watch certain shows you would have to spend a fortune.

Quote from: Dena on January 14, 2018, 12:15:30 PM
Rabit Ears (https://www.amazon.com/RCA-ANT111Z-Durable-Antenna-Rabbit/dp/B000HKGK8Y) they still make them and they still work. As for the TV making noise, the remote activated a motor in the TV which turned the knob for you and that made the noise.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 12:29:13 PM
Ah, the antenna was called rabbits ears. A motor that turned a knob. Wow. Tvs weren't at all electronic were they? That's so weird.

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 14, 2018, 12:43:24 PM
Well, they WERE electronic, but I suppose you could say they were 'analog', compared to today's 'digital'.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 14, 2018, 12:31:31 PM
When I went to high school, we were able to have parents sign a note, allowing us to go to the "smoker's lounge" which was a small area outside the school building. We were also able to buy cigarettes at age 15.
We were also permitted to work at county parks at the age of 12, mostly mowing lawns.

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Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 12:51:53 PM
(In carnival barker type voice) Why, let me tell you about this marvelous new invention called the transistor! Tired of having to replace those cumbersome vacuum tubes? Find your domicile becoming just a tad too warm for comfort? Well, ladies and gentlemen, the transistor is for you! Fellas, your sweetheart will be over the moon when she unwraps one of our new transistors for that special anniversary. And ladies, there is no surer way to a man's heart than through a transistor!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 12:54:49 PM

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 12:52:35 PM
Sounds like something Lorena Bobbit would do.

No, just his tongue not his junk. Knowing him he would rather loose his tongue than Mr. Happy. Lol

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 12:58:23 PM
OMG!!! Smoking at school????? That's like illegal now. Buying cigarettes at age 15!!!!! The world was insane back then!

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 01:00:16 PM
In Texas, everything is legal except Pot for minors :)

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 12:47:08 PM
Worked in a tv repair shop in high school.  TVs back then had "Tubes" in them.  A smart person could get a trouble shooter book and then take the tube out and go to a drug store; Thrifty's, etc. and buy a replacement tube. 

Not all antennae were rabbit ears, some had to be placed on the roof and aimed at whichever direction the tv signal came from.  What was fun was the fact that remote controls were in their infancy and some tvs would change channels when you jingled your keys :)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:01:33 PM
Tubes?? Ok.....  Ok, I don't understand. How could jingling keys possibly cause a remote to change channels? You're just messing with me aren't you??

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 12:58:23 PM
OMG!!! Smoking at school????? That's like illegal now. Buying cigarettes at age 15!!!!! The world was insane back then!

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 01:03:08 PM
Yeah, I was smoking and drinking when I was 14.  I don't think there was any restriction on buying cigarettes although I was 16 before I looked old enough I could buy alcohol without an ID.  Before that we just found random people and paid them to buy it for us.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 01:04:48 PM
We use to call that "Pimp'n for Booze".

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 01:03:08 PM
Yeah, I was smoking and drinking when I was 14.  I don't think there was any restriction on buying cigarettes although I was 16 before I looked old enough I could buy alcohol without an ID.  Before that we just found random people and paid them to buy it for us.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 12:58:23 PM
OMG!!! Smoking at school????? That's like illegal now. Buying cigarettes at age 15!!!!! The world was insane back then!

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 12:59:59 PM
It's a crossover episode!

Over in my thread this just happened:
No, just his tongue not his junk. Knowing him he would rather loose his tongue than Mr. Happy. Lol


Score one for Julia on knowin' the oldies. ;D

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 01:07:18 PM
When I was a kid we would just rob the store with makeshift prison style weapons to get what we want, asking an adult for help? Pft, didn't need them. Except we weren't there for the booze. We were TicTac Heads. Our breath was so fresh you have no idea.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:08:10 PM
Oh yeah, I know about Lorena Bobbit. My dad told Tyler and I about that. Tyler squirmed in his seat with a pained expression. I laughed about it. She was kind of stupid. She threw his cut off junk in the trash and they put it back on him. She should have put it in the garbage disposal. Good luck reattaching it then.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:08:10 PM
Oh yeah, I know about Lorena Bobbit. My dad told Tyler and I about that. Tyler squirmed in his seat with a pained expression. I laughed about it. She was kind of stupid. She threw his cut off junk in the trash and they put it back on him. She should have put it in the garbage disposal. Good luck reattaching it then.

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 01:10:22 PM
Fun fact. Later, John Wayne Bobbit did porn. (For a super niche crowd. Re-attached severed penis fetishism has to be one of the rarest.)

(CALI BEAT ME TO IT BUT I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING TOO!)

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 01:10:22 PM
Fun fact. Later, John Wayne Bobbit did porn. (For a super niche crowd. Re-attached severed penis fetishism has to be one of the rarest.)

(CALI BEAT ME TO IT BUT I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING TOO!)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:24:46 PM
I didn't know he did porn. His willy actually worked?? I figured they just put it back on for psychological reasons. I didn't think it would actually work. It must look awful. Ewwwww!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 11:13:02 AMWithout the remote you can't even do anything with our TVs.

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 14, 2018, 01:26:24 PM
There wasn't anything you could do with the TV except change the channel or adjust the volume.  Well, adjusting the rabbit ears.  And adjusting the horizontal and vertical hold.

Dress rules at school didn't allow boys to wear jeans or girls to wear pants of any kind.  Girls had to wear skirts, even when the temperature was -20!  Eventually, the school board was convinced that that was stupid, so they allowed girls to wear pants to and from school, but they had to change into skirts during classes.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:08:10 PM
Oh yeah, I know about Lorena Bobbit. My dad told Tyler and I about that. Tyler squirmed in his seat with a pained expression. I laughed about it. She was kind of stupid. She threw his cut off junk in the trash and they put it back on him. She should have put it in the garbage disposal. Good luck reattaching it then.

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 12:51:53 PM
(In carnival barker type voice) Why, let me tell you about this marvelous new invention called the transistor! Tired of having to replace those cumbersome vacuum tubes? Find your domicile becoming just a tad too warm for comfort? Well, ladies and gentlemen, the transistor is for you! Fellas, your sweetheart will be over the moon when she unwraps one of our new transistors for that special anniversary. And ladies, there is no surer way to a man's heart than through a transistor!

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 14, 2018, 01:38:12 PM
Actually, if memory serves... She threw it out the car window on the freeway... 😀

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:44:18 PM
She threw his severed wiener out the car window on the highway?????? OMG, that is HILARIOUS!

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 01:03:08 PM
Yeah, I was smoking and drinking when I was 14.  I don't think there was any restriction on buying cigarettes although I was 16 before I looked old enough I could buy alcohol without an ID.  Before that we just found random people and paid them to buy it for us.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 01:42:37 PM
I googled transistors and know what they are though I still don't really know how they work. They had a long technical explanation I didn't read. Technical stuff is totally boring, but I know they replaced vacuum tubes. Ok, those vacuum tubes look huge. Electronics must have been really big to use those big things. No wonder old time tvs were so big and clunky looking. Ugh.

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 14, 2018, 01:26:24 PM
Dress rules at school didn't allow boys to wear jeans or girls to wear pants of any kind.  Girls had to wear skirts, even when the temperature was -20!  Eventually, the school board was convinced that that was stupid, so they allowed girls to wear pants to and from school, but they had to change into skirts during classes.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 01:54:25 PM
You do know that she was from South America and was slightly crazy?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 02:14:17 PM
Oh. Well slightly crazy people are funny. Look at Roll. Lol.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 14, 2018, 02:18:27 PM
When I was in 8th grade... The kids who smoked had a "sit down strike" blocking the school parking lot entrance for a bigger and better smoking area!

Quote from: Roll on January 14, 2018, 02:23:33 PM
I'm even from south America! ... You know, with a lowercase s. The south part of America the country!

(This is where a group of elderly British gentlemen with handlebar mustaches and top hats tell me what a great spot of wit that twas.)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 02:24:54 PM
A smoking area at school for the students. That's just so crazy! At my school there was no smoking anyplace on school grounds for anyone, including teachers and staff.

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 14, 2018, 03:10:58 PM
Today whenever you buy something at a store they just wave it over a scanner or point a little 'gun' at it to scan the UPC (Universal Product Code) and record the price. Before the use of UPC every item had a price tag on it, like a tiny post-it note. The cashier had to manually enter the price for each and every item you were buying. If there was no price tag the cashier would have to call for a price check. Needless to say checkout time was substantially longer back then.

Using the bathroom at my grandparents house at night required shoes and a flashlight. It was a wooden structure over a small pit in the backyard. Out of toilet paper? Well that was another use for the old Sears catalogs. Taking a bath usually meant a #3 washtub and cold water on the back porch. There were no neighbors around, so we were not worried about peepers.

I remember before the age of 10 I would walk by myself down to a forested creek and hike around for hours. I would just tell my parents that I was going to the creek. My parents could not see me from the house, and there were no cell phones in those days so they really had no way to find me or contact me if an emergency came up.

We never had adult supervision. In the winter we would sled down ice covered roads with traffic, on the 4th of July we would play with small explosive devices (throwing them at each other on many occasions), even using small caliber firearms (.22 caliber) in remote areas. I guess this was Darwin's Theory at work. If you were too stupid you did not survive long enough to pass your genes on to the next generation. Maybe that explains a few things today...

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 14, 2018, 03:10:58 PM
Today whenever you buy something at a store they just wave it over a scanner or point a little 'gun' at it to scan the UPC (Universal Product Code) and record the price. Before the use of UPC every item had a price tag on it, like a tiny post-it note. The cashier had to manually enter the price for each and every item you were buying. If there was no price tag the cashier would have to call for a price check. Needless to say checkout time was substantially longer back then.

Using the bathroom at my grandparents house at night required shoes and a flashlight. It was a wooden structure over a small pit in the backyard. Out of toilet paper? Well that was another use for the old Sears catalogs. Taking a bath usually meant a #3 washtub and cold water on the back porch. There were no neighbors around, so we were not worried about peepers.

I remember before the age of 10 I would walk by myself down to a forested creek and hike around for hours. I would just tell my parents that I was going to the creek. My parents could not see me from the house, and there were no cell phones in those days so they really had no way to find me or contact me if an emergency came up.

We never had adult supervision. In the winter we would sled down ice covered roads with traffic, on the 4th of July we would play with small explosive devices (throwing them at each other on many occasions), even using small caliber firearms (.22 caliber) in remote areas. I guess this was Darwin's Theory at work. If you were too stupid you did not survive long enough to pass your genes on to the next generation. Maybe that explains a few things today...

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 04:55:36 PM
The entered all the prices manually? ? How did they deduct coupons without a scanner? Oh, did they have coupons then? How did they know if something was on sale?  Someone had to remember everything that was on sale? That's awful! Grocery shopping must have taken forever!  And washing in a tub of cold water every day. That's so sad! Outhouses are like ports potties, right? Having to go outside to potty is just...nuts! What's a sears catalog? Like newspaper inserts or something? It must have felt great wiping with that. Ewww!

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 05:03:59 PM

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Quote from: Dena on January 14, 2018, 05:09:55 PM
They had coupons but the casher would enter them just like purchased items. Grocery shopping wasn't that much slower if you had a well trained casher as their hand would fly over the keyboard. What was bad is if you were unfortunately to get the new casher. As for Sears (and JC Penny's) catalogs, most of the catalog was news print however the center contained the glossy images much like in magazines. My mother said it was pretty bad when all the news print was used up and all that was left was the glossy section. However as my mother lived on a farm, when the catalog was gone, all that was left was corn cobs.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 05:12:21 PM
I obviously know what a catalog is , I look through them all the time but catalogs are online. I didn't think about it being an actual book made of paper.  I thought you were talking about like the sale inserts that come in the paper. So I guess you had to shop from a paper catalog by phone? But did they have debit cards then? How did you pay for the stuff you bought?

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 05:15:47 PM
Credit cards came out in the 60's as far as I know with Diner's CLub being first, followed by American Express, MasterCard and Visa.

Debit cards are relatively a new thing having come out in 1984.  AND, we didn't have ATMs until that time.  If you wanted cash you went to your bank or wrote a check at your local grocery store.  We were sooooo primitive :)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 05:17:42 PM
Well if there were no debit cards and credit cards only came out in 1960, then how could you buy anything from a catalog??

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 05:18:25 PM
Usually C.O.D.  Cash On Delivery.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 05:19:25 PM
Oh ok. That's still weird though.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 04:55:36 PM
The entered all the prices manually? ? How did they deduct coupons without a scanner? Oh, did they have coupons then? How did they know if something was on sale?  Someone had to remember everything that was on sale? That's awful! Grocery shopping must have taken forever!  And washing in a tub of cold water every day. That's so sad! Outhouses are like ports potties, right? Having to go outside to potty is just...nuts! What's a sears catalog? Like newspaper inserts or something? It must have felt great wiping with that. Ewww!

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 14, 2018, 06:00:32 PM
A few more pages on this thread and Julia will be ready to go on Jeopardy. Vacuum tubes for 100, Alex!

Oh, Sears was 'Sears Roebuck' not Sears. There was also a store we called Monkey Wards (for Montgomery Wards.)

When I was a kid, my Dad had to shuffle coal into our furnace for heat. We had a coal bin in  the basement. The only heat came from holes (with grates) in the floor. My sisters' room had no hole, so they had no heat.

When I was a teenager, I worried about being drafted and sent  to Vietnam. I was lucky, the war ended before my time came. Others were not so lucky. This situation is impossible for young folks to understand now. It made so many people socially active because their butts might be on the line. Today there are such a select few that make that sacrifice to be in the military. This has contributed to so many people being self absorbed while the volunteers pay the price. Not a funny anecdote but it is a reality that you might not be aware of.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 14, 2018, 12:31:31 PM
When I went to high school, we were able to have parents sign a note, allowing us to go to the "smoker's lounge" which was a small area outside the school building. We were also able to buy cigarettes at age 15.
We were also permitted to work at county parks at the age of 12, mostly mowing lawns.

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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 06:36:55 PM
I know about the draft. We studied about the Vietnam war in school. Males still have to register for selective service. I think Tyler did but I never did. My dad and Tyler actually had a good laugh over that. I told my dad if a war broke out it would suck if the military dragged me away in the night. My dad said " pumpkin, if the military was so desperate they dragged you away to fight in a war then that war would already be lost". My brother thought that was hilarious. Then he asked my dad could he imagine me in the military? He started saying I wouldn't want to wear camouflage because its ugly and I wouldn't want to get dirty or wet and that I would be saying Ewwwww constantly and calling everything icky and and saying weapons training was a sleeping pill and telling the drill instructor to stop yelling at me and not to be so loud. Then he asked my dad could he picture me trying to fire a gun. Then they were both almost on the floor they were laughing so hard. You know, I certainly would never ever want to be in the military and I'm not the most outdoor minded person but I'm not totally useless. That was kind of mean of them.See if I save them if a war breaks out!

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 07:05:25 PM
The draft ended before I was old enough and by the time I would have been required to register I had already taken the oath of office.


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Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 14, 2018, 07:26:34 PM
If you will, imagine speed limits of 55, even on interstate highways. Imagine having only 3 television channels. If the president was on, you either went outside to play, or grabbed a board game.
When we had nothing but black and white TV sets, it didn't matter if the show was made in color, because only the ultra rich could afford a color set. Back then, my favorite shows were Gilligan's Island, MASH, and The Twilight Zone.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 07:35:46 PM
Your comment reminded me of my grandmother and I peeping tom'ing the neighbor's window to watch tv.  We didn't have one.  And when we finally got one it was from someone at the church and it only had a 9" screen.

Between 1949 and 1969, the number of households in the U.S. with at least one TV set rose from less than a million to 44 million. The number of homes with TVs increased from 0.4 percent in 1948 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and to 83.2 percent four years later.Between 1959 and 1970, the percentage of households in the U.S. with at least one TV went from 88 percent to 96 percent.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 07:49:42 PM
My neighbor said she was a teenager when they finally got electric put in their house.  Someone in her mothers family gave them a TV set. She said it barely worked and the picture was awful but neighbors all came to watch it and that it was a really big deal for country people , who for the most part didn't even have electricity. Then her mom won a vacuum cleaner in a raffle and their neighbors even came to look at that. Life was truly dull back then. Those poor people!

Quote from: Laurie on January 14, 2018, 08:42:18 PM
   Okay that's two things I got wrong Robby the robot was not the robot in Lost in Space And Nancy Sinatra did the boots song.. And yes I saw that risque Jane Fonda movie Barbarella and that other R movie Mrs Robinson.

  Crystal radios - I had a pre-made one called a satellite radio which had an alligator clip you clipped to a long wire antennae or just to your window screen ( which were made of woven wire back then).   No batteries. It had a screw sticking out of the top for tuning it to different stations. Your listened to the with an ear plug. Transistor radios came out a few years later.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 07:53:44 PM
Julia, I truly get a kick out of your comments regarding things being boring for those people.  Before electricity we could see the stars.  Before cellphones we talk to each other, before the internet we socialized.

I don't know if you've seen that movie that Bruce Willis starred in.  It was about people who were so lazy they lived in their rooms and uploaded their minds into robotic avatars that did all their work for them.  Just think what people will say about us in 20-30 years.

And I come to realize that while those weren't the best of times, I think I was a lot happier in those days

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Quote from: Anne Blake on January 14, 2018, 08:23:50 PM
OK, if we are talking neighbor stories; had a neighbor that moved into their place by wagon drawn by a mule. When they got there they had to build their cabin. They got through their first winter because the local Indians brought them food. No electricity, phone, cable or internet but they moved into their place in the mid 1890's. She never mentioned that life was boring for them.

Quote from: Laurie on January 14, 2018, 08:42:18 PM
   Okay that's two things I got wrong Robby the robot was not the robot in Lost in Space And Nancy Sinatra did the boots song.. And yes I saw that risque Jane Fonda movie Barbarella and that other R movie Mrs Robinson.

  Crystal radios - I had a pre-made one called a satellite radio which had an alligator clip you clipped to a long wire antennae or just to your window screen ( which were made of woven wire back then).   No batteries. It had a screw sticking out of the top for tuning it to different stations. Your listened to the with an ear plug. Transistor radios came out a few years later.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:15:28 PM
How could you have satellite radio when they didn't have any satellites? ? I have Sirius in my car. It's awesome.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:15:28 PM
How could you have satellite radio when they didn't have any satellites? ? I have Sirius in my car. It's awesome.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 09:21:55 PM
Please note that they are officially space junk and could return to earth like Skylab did.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:26:43 PM
Oh great, I could be minding my own business and have some old satellite fall on me. I always wanted to be buried in an envelope.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 14, 2018, 09:12:01 PM
Not to be rude but how old are you????? Log cabins and mule wagons??

Quote from: Deborah on January 14, 2018, 11:02:25 PM
I have a picture of my father when he was a kid sitting in the lap of my G-G-grandfather in the early 1930s.  My G-G-grandfather marched in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 (5th Florida Infantry Regiment).  The past isn't that far away.

When I was a kid we used to visit my G-G-aunt in north Florida.  She was born in 1880 and still lived on the old plantation.  She lived there until she was 93 and fell off the porch breaking her hip.

Quote from: Laurie on January 14, 2018, 11:15:26 PM
My Dad was born on Sept 18, 1924 and my Mom was born on Sept 18, 1926.  I was born in Sept 1952. That past is closer than you think.

Quote from: Cali on January 14, 2018, 09:21:55 PM
Please note that they are officially space junk and could return to earth like Skylab did.

Quote from: Dena on January 14, 2018, 12:04:07 PM
Parents tend to be a little overprotective these days and in a way I think it prevents children from developing proper judgement. Consider I received my first pocket knife about age 9 and I didn't need to ask for it as it was given as a present.

Quote from: KarynMcD on January 15, 2018, 05:44:52 AM
I was trying to teach my 13yo niece to cook a steak. She complains, "but I'm only 13!"
What do you mean "only 13?" I was cooking on my own by the time I was 7.

Quote from: natalie.ashlyne on January 14, 2018, 11:14:21 PM
In the medical field Wheel chairs were made of wood, Mercury was used as a cure for syphilis STD,  heroin was used to cure coughs, Trepanation (drilling holes in to a skull) was used to cure seizures,  hysterical paroxysm was a practice by doctors to massage a female sex organs to orgasm to treat these symptoms faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, bloating , shortness of breath, irritability.

Quote from: Laurie on January 14, 2018, 11:15:26 PM
My Dad was born on Sept 18, 1924 and my Mom was born on Sept 18, 1926.  I was born in Sept 1952. That past is closer than you think.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 08:59:05 AM
OMG! The Dr would play with a woman's muffin and give her an orgasm?? That's awful!  Well maybe not if the Dr was really cute.......

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 09:13:39 AM
My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago!

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 08:31:51 AM
To be fair, way too few adults know how to cook now too. ;D Personally I learned young just by mimicking Japanese steak house hibachi chefs.

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 15, 2018, 09:33:14 AM
So, you'd try to flip shrimp into people's mouths?  Just family, or people on the street, too?  :laugh:
I actually can cook (or could), but just didn't care for so long & subsisted on take out and frozen dinners. I'm wanting to start cooking again, but it'll have to wait until I have my own kitchen.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 09:13:39 AM
My parents were both born in 1978 .

Quote from: natalie.ashlyne on January 15, 2018, 09:42:44 AM
Now I feel old your parents are only 5 years older than me i was born in 1983

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 09:50:21 AM
Lol, you're not old. My dad was acting so silly about his age on his last birthday I told him if he didn't stop I was going to get him some pants that came up to his chest, bright yellow socks and some white old man shoes. My brother told him he was going to put a rocking chair out front and give him a cane he could shake at kids while yelling at them to stay off his damn lawn.

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 08:31:51 AM
To be fair, way too few adults know how to cook now too. ;D Personally I learned young just by mimicking Japanese steak house hibachi chefs.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 09:13:39 AM
My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago! My grandpa was born in 1955 and that seems like an incredibly long time ago.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 09:53:17 AM
Isn't that where they use big really sharp knives and chop stuff up right in front of the people? I can just see you as a child wielding huge knives. Your poor parents. Lol

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 10:46:21 AM
Even as a kid they didn't worry about me doing it because I was obsessively safe about everything. ;D I was safer with the knives and heat than they were. (I can't count the number of times I've yelled at people for leaving stoves and ovens on or for handling knives incorrectly. It's my santoku knife, I don't want their blood all over it.)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 09:13:39 AM
> My parents were both born in 1978 and that sure seems like a LOOOOONG time ago!

Quote from: Cali on January 15, 2018, 09:52:06 AM
Try 1953

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 10:46:21 AM
Even as a kid they didn't worry about me doing it because I was obsessively safe about everything. ;D I was safer with the knives and heat than they were. (I can't count the number of times I've yelled at people for leaving stoves and ovens on or for handling knives incorrectly. It's my santoku knife, I don't want their blood all over it.)

Quote from: Cali on January 15, 2018, 11:00:24 AM
Oh stop it, you're making me want to watch female ninja movies now :)

Quote from: Kendra on January 15, 2018, 11:16:34 AM
My high school diploma is from 1979.  That year I went into the back room of the Arlington Times (http://www.arlingtontimes.com/about/) an hour north of Seattle - traffic hadn't been invented in this part of the world.  There was a person surrounded with strange set of little metal pieces - looked like a huge board game.  He was building next week's newspaper using cold set type.  Picking each metal letter off the rack with tweezers, positioning them onto a tray which would become a page of text, carefully adjusting the space between every word for margin justification.  He had very thick glasses - a career fiddling with tiny blocks of metal to create a newspaper.

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 15, 2018, 12:30:52 PM
Unless it's one 'o them sacred knife that can't be sheathed without drawing blood!

::Puts on nerd glasses:: The term you're looking for is 'Kunoichi'. ::Takes off nerd glasses:: Sorry.  :icon_geekdance:

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 12:50:16 PM
Are you telling me they printed papers by writing out the paper one tiny letter at a time?? That is beyond crazy! I assumed they had some kind of copy technology even back then. I once had one of the older office ladies at school tell me at one time they had a "ditto" machine. A machine that used a rotating drum to make copies in purple ink that took a few minutes to dry. That's just sad.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 12:51:43 PM
There are female ninjas?? Why?

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 01:05:06 PM
Ninjas were mostly spies, sometimes assassins. Despite the James Bonds, the greatest spies in history are always women. Women were viewed as not a threat, and overlooked. Women would literally be brought in to pour tea in top secret meetings, only to report back every last bit of intel to someone else. When coupled with the fact many were able to play the role of seductress and pry information out of men in high positions, or set them up for compromising situations in order to blackmail them outright, women are far more suited to the job!

From wiki: "The eighth volume of the ninja handbook Bansenshukai written in the late 17th century describes Kunoichi-no-jutsu (くノ一の術). This can be translated as "a technique to use a female" and was employed for infiltration purposes."

Also, female ninjas are sexy.

Quote from: Deborah on January 15, 2018, 01:17:25 PM
Sometimes ninjas were turtles.


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Quote from: Cali on January 15, 2018, 01:22:32 PM
In a half shell!

Quote from: Dena on January 15, 2018, 01:00:59 PM
Until the late 70's, Typesetting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typesetting) was done by placing lead type in the proper location and making prints off it. The company I worked for produced a computer that was used in one of the early typesetting processes. Now it's a photographic process where metal is exposed to the pattern and then etched creating the printing plate.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 12:50:16 PM
Are you telling me they printed papers by writing out the paper one tiny letter at a time?? That is beyond crazy! I assumed they had some kind of copy technology even back then. I once had one of the older office ladies at school tell me at one time they had a "ditto" machine. A machine that used a rotating drum to make copies in purple ink that took a few minutes to dry. That's just sad.

Quote from: Deborah on January 15, 2018, 01:17:25 PM
Sometimes ninjas were turtles.

Quote from: Cali on January 15, 2018, 01:22:32 PM
In a half shell!

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 01:41:02 PM
Turtle power.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 01:16:18 PM
I suppose they are considered hot. I remember once my brother and his friends were watching some idiotic guy movie and there was a female martial arts fighter who was beating the hell out of a bunch of guys. They were all talking about how hot that was. Really?? A woman beating the crap out of a group of guys is hot?? Sigh, simple minds....simple pleasures I guess.

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 15, 2018, 02:06:52 PM
On that note: Cynthia Rothrock. She starred in a bunch of martial arts movies from the 80s & 90s. Although Michelle Yeoh will always be the queen of movie martial artists.
I suppose there's the idea of having a girlfriend that can fight for you, but I imagine it's mostly the kicking (legs!) and grappling (hugs that hurt!).

Quote from: Laurie on January 15, 2018, 02:31:09 PM
Ahh yes newspapers..

  I worked at the local newspaper in Bristol Rhode Island. It was over a hundred years old back in 1969/70 when I worked there. In the basement was a hot lead vat that was used to make a lead print of ads from molds we received for them. They were put in a frame with other lead ads and print stories as Dena already described. It was then inked and printed on glossy paper, cut up and arranged  by someone like Beverly's wife to created the page layout. It was then photographed and transferred to an aluminum plate, rubbed with a red lacquer, cleaned up with a pencil eraser to remove shadow lines. From there it was mounted on an offset press on rollers two plate that printed 4 pages on one side of the paper that was sandwiched in between two rollers thus printing 8 pages at a time. The paper came in a continuous sheet in a 1000 pound roll.
  We also had what was called a linotype. It was pretty much a typewriter that instead of printing the words on a piece of paper it created lines of lead print the width of a newspaper column. Was was then arranged with the other lead items use to make the printed page I mentioned before. We also had newer methods of creating printed pages.
  I mainly worked on cleaning and preparing the printing press we used to print 4 local town weekly papers. But I did get to work almost every aspect of making the papers. I liked working in the dark room and the press most I think. but it was a pretty dirty job.

Hugs,
   Laurie

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 02:56:48 PM
Lead?? Lead is like really toxic!  It seems that not only was life harder back then but work as well.

Quote from: Cali on January 15, 2018, 03:00:58 PM
Back then even Asbestos was our friend according to a Popular Mechanics magazine article :)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 03:07:29 PM
Oh wow. How did you people even survive????

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 15, 2018, 02:06:52 PM
On that note: Cynthia Rothrock. She starred in a bunch of martial arts movies from the 80s & 90s. Although Michelle Yeoh will always be the queen of movie martial artists.
I suppose there's the idea of having a girlfriend that can fight for you, but I imagine it's mostly the kicking (legs!) and grappling (hugs that hurt!).

Quote from: Lynne on January 15, 2018, 03:39:25 PM
As I live on the eastern border of Central Europe, the timeline was little different here. People were generally poor, everything came later or was banned until the Soviets left in 1989. Life only started to accelerate rapidly after that as products from the West started to come into the country in large amounts.

My parents applied for a phone line(not mobile!) years before I was born and we got it after I started elementary school in the nineties.

When I was a kid we had a large, new 21.5 inch color TV. It could store 16 channels(digitally!) and it was plenty because there were only 4 channels.

We had playgrounds with metal monkey bars put high above fine gravel, so if you fell it hurt like hell and you learned to be more careful next time.

Nobody thought that safety equipment on bikes is needed, we got our bikes and reached more than 30 mph down the nearby hills in traffic.

It was accepted that driving a car is dangerous and if you crashed your car above a certain(not very high) speed you expected to die as the only safety equipment was the seatbelt(and people generally didn't wear them).

Before the Soviets left there were times when you had to wait more than 10 years to get a small and cheap car(Trabant for example) after you applied for one. The waiting times were so long that sometimes the car arrived around the time the children in the family got their own driver's license.

When I was a kid we had a car that had zero extras, you had to fight with the steering wheel and the brakes to get the car to steer or stop. Everything was manual, the windows, the locks, the choke, also it had 3 different keys, one for the doors, one for starting the car and one for the fuel cap(steeling fuel was quite common).

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 03:07:29 PM
Oh wow. How did you people even survive????

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 03:07:29 PM
Oh wow. How did you people even survive????

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 07:50:47 PM
1 word. Cannibalism.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 03:07:29 PM
Oh wow. How did you people even survive????

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 15, 2018, 08:50:59 PM
We rubbed sticks together for fire... threw rocks at the dinosaurs until they left us alone, and yes.... cannibalism was involved!!! [emoji3] ... never draw the short straw!!!!

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 15, 2018, 09:20:06 PM
And don't forget eating monkey brains. We had to evolve.

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Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 15, 2018, 09:20:06 PM
And don't forget eating monkey brains. We had to evolve.

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Quote from: tgirlamc on January 15, 2018, 10:47:50 PM
To this day, I still crave a good monkey brain and cheese on rye!!! 🙈🙉🙊

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 10:51:10 PM
You see, this is what happens when people are exposed to lead, asbestos and start smoking at age 12.

Quote from: Roll on January 15, 2018, 11:07:27 PM
Don't forget the kuru from all the monkey brains and cannibalism.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 15, 2018, 10:47:50 PM
To this day, I still crave a good monkey brain and cheese on rye!!! 🙈🙉🙊

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 15, 2018, 03:07:29 PM
Oh wow. How did you people even survive????

Quote from: Cali on January 15, 2018, 11:17:30 PM
Like mine with Chipoltete or however it's spelled.

Quote from: Jessica on January 15, 2018, 11:34:27 PM


A number of us didn't survive

Quote from: big kim on January 16, 2018, 02:41:37 AM
As a kid in the 50s & 60s lead soldiers were a popular toy! Not as much fun as real soldiers!
Model making using glue & no doubt toxic paint was also a popular hobby for kids.
Making arrows from a garden cane, a 6" nail & card flights was also common. Don't recall anyone getting hurt though
My first ride on a motorbike was as a 13 year old on an ex post Office BSA Bantam 150, no helmet, gloves or leather jackets round the allotments & the beach. Nobody got any injuries worse than cuts & bruises, today there'd be an outcry as we were underage with no protective clothing

Quote from: Roll on January 16, 2018, 10:03:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsdAEikjYQ

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 16, 2018, 11:29:05 AM
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.


- Stephanie

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 16, 2018, 12:10:11 PM
I don't know if I would welcome them. It would suck to be an ingredient in some alien recipe. But if they wanted us as pets that might not be so bad. My dog has a pretty sweet life. Eating, sleeping and playing. Though I don't know if guys would like being pets. It depends on weather or not the aliens neutered them.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 16, 2018, 12:25:57 PM
Ah yes. Look up the old Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.

There was also a Star Trek episode, I believe, where some of them had been captured and put into a domestic habitat to be observed like zoo animals. They didn't like it much...

Stephanie

Quote from: Cali on January 16, 2018, 12:29:12 PM
Aha, the "Cookbook" To Serve Man.  And the Star Trek episode was called a couple of things, one of which was the cage and the buttheads were in charge.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 16, 2018, 12:52:18 PM
Well... spoiler alert for To Serve Man.

The Cage was actually the very first Star Trek TOS episode filmed by Roddenberry, with a different cast. It wasn't aired until later, and was rolled into an episode with the cast we all know. I could swear there was a different one, possibly one of the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes with a different spin on it.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 16, 2018, 12:25:57 PM
Ah yes. Look up the old Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.

There was also a Star Trek episode, I believe, where some of them had been captured and put into a domestic habitat to be observed like zoo animals. They didn't like it much...

Stephanie

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 16, 2018, 12:25:57 PM
Ah yes. Look up the old Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.

There was also a Star Trek episode, I believe, where some of them had been captured and put into a domestic habitat to be observed like zoo animals. They didn't like it much...

Stephanie

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 16, 2018, 12:10:11 PM
I don't know if I would welcome them. It would suck to be an ingredient in some alien recipe.

Quote from: Cali on January 16, 2018, 12:29:12 PM
Aha, the "Cookbook" To Serve Man.  And the Star Trek episode was called a couple of things, one of which was the cage and the buttheads were in charge.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 16, 2018, 12:52:18 PM
Well... spoiler alert for To Serve Man.

The Cage was actually the very first Star Trek TOS episode filmed by Roddenberry, with a different cast. It wasn't aired until later, and was rolled into an episode with the cast we all know. I could swear there was a different one, possibly one of the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes with a different spin on it.

Quote from: Cali on January 16, 2018, 03:44:18 PM
There's an episode of the Orville where there's a zoo.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 16, 2018, 08:45:02 PM
Michael Sacks seemed to enjoy the alien zoo arrangement in "Slaughterhouse Five" when his cell mate was Valerie Perrine...

Great film, based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut, and highly recommended!!!!

I tried to link a trailer from YouTube but it didn't come through!!! 😀

https://youtu.be/DvlZtlBfCi0

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 16, 2018, 08:45:02 PM
Michael Sacks seemed to enjoy the alien zoo arrangement in "Slaughterhouse Five" when his cell mate was Valerie Perrine...

Great film, based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut, and highly recommended!!!!

I tried to link a trailer from YouTube but it didn't come through!!! 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvlZtlBfCi0

Quote from: Roll on January 16, 2018, 09:32:07 PM
The youtu.be short url doesn't embed. This should work.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 08:37:29 AM
Lol my brother has never liked clowns. We watched IT when he was around 10 and pennywise really creeper him out. I liked pennywise, he was cool. He was also afraid of Santa when he was little. My dad said when he was 3 he took him to see santa and when he put Tyler on Santa's lap he got freaked and peed himself and got Santa's lap wet. LOL god how I wish someone had gotten that on video.

Quote from: Mariah on January 17, 2018, 08:41:31 AM
Pennywise always creeped me out. Hence I don't watch that film.

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 17, 2018, 09:20:13 AM
I dated Pennywise's sister back in high school. He was a real class clown back then.
Moni

Quote from: Cali on January 17, 2018, 02:11:05 PM
I for one am certainly glad you let us know.  When I first read the title I thought wow, this one's just like the Julia one but look at all the replies - how could I have missed it.

Quote from: Laurie on January 17, 2018, 02:28:52 PM
  Yeah Cali I thought I better say something lest it confuse some of the old folks here. I can see now it was a good thing I did.

Hugs,
   Laurie

Quote from: Laurie on January 17, 2018, 02:28:52 PM
  Yeah Cali I thought I better say something lest it confuse some of the old folks here. I can see now it was a good thing I did.

Hugs,
   Laurie

Quote from: Laurie on January 17, 2018, 02:28:52 PM
  Yeah Cali I thought I better say something lest it confuse some of the old folks here. I can see now it was a good thing I did.

Hugs,
   Laurie

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 17, 2018, 02:44:20 PM
I'm confused....

Quote from: BeverlyAnn on January 17, 2018, 02:42:26 PM
Us old folks confuse easily.

Wonder what Julia and the other young'uns would think of an outhouse.  And yes, I've used one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSfwq5kjEE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSfwq5kjEE)

Quote from: Cali on January 17, 2018, 02:45:42 PM
Why confused?  She dropped Julia's name and inserted Youngins.

And did you change your Avatar?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 02:59:32 PM
I would be afraid to go in that thing. It's like in the woods. I can't even imagine the icky bugs that would hang out in that. So....if it was outside where did you go if it was raining or snowing??

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 17, 2018, 03:08:28 PM
Whose Julia... Is she my granddaughter??? I need her to fix my AOL so I get the email about bingo night...

I change my avatar like underwear my friend... I see you did as well! 😀!!!!!

Hugs!!!
Lol😂😂😂

A 😀❤️🌻

Quote from: Michelle_P on January 17, 2018, 03:10:37 PM
Oh, you don't want to use these in the snow.   Not in the Pacific Northwest, anyway. Snow crabs....  dangerous!

Once the rains start again, the tree octopi (http://www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/) take care of the crabs.


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Quote from: Michelle_P on January 17, 2018, 03:10:37 PM
Oh, you don't want to use these in the snow.   Not in the Pacific Northwest, anyway. Snow crabs....  dangerous!

Once the rains start again, the tree octopi (http://www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/) take care of the crabs.


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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 02:59:32 PM
I would be afraid to go in that thing. It's like in the woods. I can't even imagine the icky bugs that would hang out in that. So....if it was outside where did you go if it was raining or snowing??

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 17, 2018, 03:17:52 PM
What's the problem?  It's got a roof.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 17, 2018, 03:16:48 PM
When we had to use ours in the winter in Michigan we had to carry an axe for the snow snakes.

Of course, when it was really bad, and in the middle of the night when the ice badgers were out, there was always the honey pot under the bed. Guess who got to carry it out to the outhouse and empty it every morning?

Stephanie

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 17, 2018, 03:29:54 PM
Hey!... How come no one has told the story about waking up when they were 5 years old at 4AM to milk the cows and then walking 10 miles to and from school... Uphill in both directions?

Quote from: DawnOday on January 17, 2018, 03:33:44 PM
That was my parents generation. We had cars.

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 17, 2018, 03:29:54 PM
Hey!... How come no one has told the story about waking up when they were 5 years old at 4AM to milk the cows and then walking 10 miles to and from school... Uphill in both directions?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 03:13:25 PM
Crabs? I thought crabs hung out at beaches and warm places.

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 17, 2018, 03:45:38 PM
How do you milk a car?

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 17, 2018, 03:29:54 PM
Hey!... How come no one has told the story about waking up when they were 5 years old at 4AM to milk the cows and then walking 10 miles to and from school... Uphill in both directions?

Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 17, 2018, 03:45:38 PM
??

How do you milk a car?

Stephanie

Quote from: DawnOday on January 17, 2018, 04:24:14 PM
You rub it's headlights and turn on the taillights.

Quote from: Jessica on January 17, 2018, 04:22:53 PM
When I was a youngin', the third of four, my ma and pa had a flatbed truck.  No stakes, no sides.  We sat shoulder to shoulder, outside against the back of the cab as we zoomed down the road.  Think ma and pa Kettle.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 04:30:56 PM
OMG, that's totally dangerous. If my dad saw something like that the person for sure would get a ticket and knowing him he would yell at the person about endangering children. That might get a ticket too. I'm not sure.

Quote from: Jessica on January 17, 2018, 07:17:06 PM
Most certainly it is frowned on now Julia, but that was the way it was in rural Washington in the 50's.  Youngin', have you learned anything from us oldens yet?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 07:20:40 PM
I've learned life was really hard and  really sucked back then and I'm even more appreciative of technology.

Quote from: Jessica on January 17, 2018, 07:41:29 PM
It is what we knew.  I certainly appreciate the safety advances.

Quote from: Roll on January 17, 2018, 07:44:17 PM
The man who killed fun:

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/pbox.php?url=http://media.mlive.com/auto_impact/photo/9039761-large.jpg&w=1484&op=resize&opt=1&filter=antialias&t=20170517)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 03:22:31 PM
Yeah but there's a hole in the door and what looks like a big gap under the door. All kinds of bugs could get in there. How did you empty the poo once the tank got full?

Quote from: Cali on January 17, 2018, 04:23:26 PM
you forgot the three feet of snow

Quote from: Deborah on January 17, 2018, 07:52:09 PM
In bare feet!


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Quote from: Deborah on January 17, 2018, 07:52:09 PM
In bare feet!


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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 08:07:19 PM
Lol, didn't you people have any good weather back then?  Once when I was complaining about having to walk to the bus stop in the cold my dad told me I was lucky and that he had to walk all the way to school when it was cold. Yeah, nice try dad. His school was like 2 blocks from his house.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 08:07:19 PM
Lol, didn't you people have any good weather back then?  Once when I was complaining about having to walk to the bus stop in the cold my dad told me I was lucky and that he had to walk all the way to school when it was cold. Yeah, nice try dad. His school was like 2 blocks from his house.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 08:07:19 PM
Lol, didn't you people have any good weather back then?  Once when I was complaining about having to walk to the bus stop in the cold my dad told me I was lucky and that he had to walk all the way to school when it was cold. Yeah, nice try dad. His school was like 2 blocks from his house.

Quote from: Deborah on January 17, 2018, 08:31:20 PM
We lived in a refrigerator box in an alleyway.  ...

Quote from: LanaR on January 17, 2018, 08:39:38 PM
[Yorkshire accent] Luxury ... [/Yorkshire accent]  ;D

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 17, 2018, 08:28:22 PM
I used to laugh at my wife for hovering over the seat of a (nasty) port-a -pottie. After surgery, I fully understand. I was so dumb. Good thing I am smarter now. So can anyone tell me how to get to the thread where we were teaching Julia about  the old days? And can you tell me where the knob is to turn off this computer too?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 08:07:19 PM
Lol, didn't you people have any good weather back then?  Once when I was complaining about having to walk to the bus stop in the cold my dad told me I was lucky and that he had to walk all the way to school when it was cold. Yeah, nice try dad. His school was like 2 blocks from his house.

Quote from: Anne Blake on January 17, 2018, 09:53:02 PM
Back to the out house topic, I found one near the Colorado Wyoming border that was a two story job. They used the lower story in the summer and in the winter they tilted the lower story seats up and used the upper story when the snow got to the six or eight feet level. One of the worst parts (other than the smell) was the splinters we would get from the wooden seats.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 10:14:42 PM
Wooden toilet seats?? Ewww. I prefer padded toilet seats.

Quote from: Roll on January 17, 2018, 10:20:07 PM
Nope, no way, no how. Padded toilet seats are creepy. Super, super creepy. Particularly those that are like little bathroom mat rugs. Do you know how much... stuff... those things absorb?! I'll take wood over that...

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 10:14:42 PM
Wooden toilet seats?? Ewww. I prefer padded toilet seats.

Quote from: Anne Blake on January 17, 2018, 09:53:02 PM
Back to the out house topic, I found one near the Colorado Wyoming border that was a two story job. They used the lower story in the summer and in the winter they tilted the lower story seats up and used the upper story when the snow got to the six or eight feet level. One of the worst parts (other than the smell) was the splinters we would get from the wooden seats.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 03:22:31 PM
Yeah but there's a hole in the door and what looks like a big gap under the door. All kinds of bugs could get in there. How did you empty the poo once the tank got full?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 17, 2018, 10:27:49 PM
Who wants to sit on a ice cold toilet seat in the winter. I totally hate that!

Quote from: Deborah on January 17, 2018, 07:50:50 PM
We used those in the Army in some places.  Under the seat was a half of a steel drum.  Each day a Soldier was assigned to pull the drums out a small door in the back, mix diesel fuel into the mess, and then light it on fire.  Then the Soldier had to stir it with a long rod until it was all burned away.  It sent up big clouds of foul smelling black smoke. 

We were fortunate in that we had one sergeant that enjoyed doing it.  So he volunteered each time it was our turn.


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Quote from: BeverlyAnn on January 17, 2018, 11:13:32 PM
It wasn't a tank, Julia, it was a hole in the ground.  You didn't empty it, you put lime in it, filled the hole with dirt and dug a new hole.

Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 18, 2018, 08:56:20 AM
Aaaah sunny Kuwait...

We also had a guy who liked doing it because it meant he could not do other work for a while.  He also had a thing for grabbing scarab beetles and tossing them into the flames while giggling maniacally.

Quote from: Deborah on January 18, 2018, 12:37:42 AM
Try it outside at 50 below zero.  You get motivated to hold it in until it won't be held any longer.  :-(



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Quote from: DawnOday on January 18, 2018, 11:47:38 AM
I just heard on the news this morning that Siberia is at 77 below 0.  How much colder does -77 feel to -50?

Quote from: DawnOday on January 18, 2018, 11:47:38 AM
I just heard on the news this morning that Siberia is at 77 below 0.  How much colder does -77 feel to -50?

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 18, 2018, 04:13:39 PM
I don't know, when this thread was addressed to Julia, it seemed like we had a lot less talk about the potty . I do love the educational fulfillment I seem to be achieving hearing all the facts about outhouses. Can't wait for the symposium of different words for pooping. lol Guess that is number 2 on the list though.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 18, 2018, 08:08:48 PM
There was a time when you charged your purchase, your credit card was put on a flat machine with a muticopy form that had carbon paper or a carbon back side of all but one copy of the credit card transaction multicopy form.  Then the cashier would slide the machine's sliding "arm" and that would cause the numbers on your credit card to be transferred to the paper.  Then you would sign the form.

You might see the purchase transaction on the next monthly statement that was postal mailed to you, or you could get lucky and it was not on your account and not due until the next billing cycle.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 18, 2018, 08:48:08 PM
That doesn't sound like it would be a very good defense against identity theft. Without scanning your card how did they even know if it was good or not?

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 18, 2018, 08:48:08 PM
That doesn't sound like it would be a very good defense against identity theft. Without scanning your card how did they even know if it was good or not?

Quote from: Anne Blake on January 18, 2018, 09:40:43 PM
Some folks would dig through the trash to get the carbon paper from the recipes and copy your number and signature.

Quote from: Jessica on January 18, 2018, 10:28:10 PM
We used to get milk in a glass bottle and ice each day from the milk and ice man.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 18, 2018, 08:48:08 PM
That doesn't sound like it would be a very good defense against identity theft. Without scanning your card how did they even know if it was good or not?

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 18, 2018, 10:18:06 PMGuys used to ride on the back of garbage trucks, and dump your trash in the back by hand.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 18, 2018, 10:18:06 PM
I can recall the days when nobody shredded receipts or old bills, because nobody was concerned about anyone else using that information. Back then, we still used galvanized steel trash cans, instead of the big plastic roll-away minidumpsters we have now. Guys used to ride on the back of garbage trucks, and dump your trash in the back by hand.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 05:52:16 AM
People rode on the trash collection trucks and dumped the cans into it?  Steel garbage cans? Wow. Were the recycling bins metal too?

Quote from: Faith on January 19, 2018, 06:01:23 AM
no curbside recycling at all. If it had a deposit, you saved it and cashed in. If not, it hit the dump.
In our case, we lived so far out, we had our own landfill about 1/2 mile from the house. We burned what we could, the rest just sat there and rotted/rusted away.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 19, 2018, 10:06:10 AM
Children back then could actually earn some money from finding cans and bottles, and taking them to the corner store for the deposits. My adoptive mom would have a cow, since I was not allowed to have any money, and it was hard to explain how I got a Hershey bar.
We actually did fairly well for kids locked out of the house on hot summer days.

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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 10:15:50 AM
Homeless people still collect aluminum cans. We have one guy who comes into our neighborhood looking for cans in the recycle bins. I always keep the aluminum cans separated for him so he won't have to dig through the bin.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 05:52:16 AM
People rode on the trash collection trucks and dumped the cans into it?

Quote from: Deborah on January 19, 2018, 10:53:39 AM
They still do that here in Georgia.  The trash collectors are from the state prison here in town.  You can tell who they are because they wear prison uniforms, white with a black stripe on the pants.  It's the modern version of the old chain gang.



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Quote from: Cali on January 19, 2018, 12:45:38 PM
That's actually a good idea - trustees picking up trash.

Quote from: Deborah on January 19, 2018, 12:54:07 PM
They also do upkeep of all the public parks and government buildings.  It gives them something useful to do and gets them outside all day.


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Quote from: Anne Blake on January 18, 2018, 09:40:43 PM
Some folks would dig through the trash to get the carbon paper from the recipes and copy your number and signature.

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 19, 2018, 02:48:45 PM
Has anyone explained carbon paper yet?

With no computer printers and, at one time, no photocopiers, the way you made multiple copies of a document was with carbon paper in a typewriter.  Carbon paper was flimsy paper coated with carbon on one side.  You'd load the typewriter with alternating sheets of plain paper and carbon paper.  When you typed a letter the impact of the key on the top sheet of plain paper would make an impression through the carbon paper and transfer some carbon to the next sheet of plain paper.  You could write on the top sheet with a ball-point pen and accomplish the same thing.

You could make two copies plus the original this way.  Sometimes you could make three copies, but that last copy would be getting pretty fuzzy, because the intervening layers of paper dulled the impact.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 02:57:48 PM
Wow. Typewriters and copy paper. How sad. How did office work ever get done like that? 

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 02:57:48 PM
Wow. Typewriters and copy paper. How sad. How did office work ever get done like that?

Quote from: Deborah on January 19, 2018, 10:53:39 AM
They still do that here in Georgia.  The trash collectors are from the state prison here in town.  You can tell who they are because they wear prison uniforms, white with a black stripe on the pants.  It's the modern version of the old chain gang.



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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 03:12:23 PM
I thought chain gangs were just in the movies. I have seen people in orange vests picking up trash along the highway for community service. How totally embarrassing that must be.

Quote from: Faith on January 19, 2018, 06:01:23 AM
no curbside recycling at all. If it had a deposit, you saved it and cashed in. If not, it hit the dump.
In our case, we lived so far out, we had our own landfill about 1/2 mile from the house. We burned what we could, the rest just sat there and rotted/rusted away.

Quote from: HappyMoni on January 18, 2018, 04:13:39 PM
I don't know, when this thread was addressed to Julia, it seemed like we had a lot less talk about the potty . I do love the educational fulfillment I seem to be achieving hearing all the facts about outhouses. Can't wait for the symposium of different words for pooping. lol Guess that is number 2 on the list though.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 19, 2018, 10:06:10 AM
Children back then could actually earn some money from finding cans and bottles, and taking them to the corner store for the deposits. My adoptive mom would have a cow, since I was not allowed to have any money, and it was hard to explain how I got a Hershey bar.
We actually did fairly well for kids locked out of the house on hot summer days.

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Quote from: dori on January 19, 2018, 05:13:19 PM
No one ever believes me when I tell this story.
In my high school we had swimming. No one was allowed to bring in swimsuits. The girls had them provided. My sisters told me there was a mad rush to get one in your size and if there wasn't one, you made do with whatever you could get. Too big or too small. You got what you could get.
Bad as that was, the boys had no suits and had to swim naked. I'm sure it was distressing enough for most students, but if you had dysphoria issues...
I liked swimming before high school.
I've no idea if any other school did that.
Can you imagine something like that even being allowed? Ever?


Claire -

Quote from: tgirlamc on January 19, 2018, 06:37:00 PM
Good Lord Claire!!!... Terrible! ☹️

Quote from: dori on January 19, 2018, 07:10:34 PM
I had a horrible rash one time (it left permanent scars). I was soooo relieved I didn't have to swim.


Claire -

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 19, 2018, 08:42:11 PM
A sign of the times:

They used to serve whole milk for school lunches. When they started giving kids an option of the whole milk or 2%, they overwhelmingly chose the 2%. This had nothing to do with healthy choices. The problem was that the whole milk had HOMO printed on the cartons.

You can't make up stuff like that.

Quote from: Roll on January 19, 2018, 09:20:43 PM
To be fair, studies have shown that drinking whole milk does have a correlation with being homosapien.