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.



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? 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.)

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: 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

What do you mean roll up car windows?

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.



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? 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.)

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, 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!

You young thing. The original Ghost Busters was in 1984.

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

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: 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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Oh. Ok. I've never been in a car like that before. I've always rolled up the window by pressing a button. So...you had to push down the locks and they weren't electric. So that means you had no keychain to open them. So you had to manually unlock them one at a time? What a pain!

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

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.

the magic window, lamb chops sing along

unlocking a car with a key, not a fob.

i miss laser disk...

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

Well now you're just being cruel.

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

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: 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.

You don't remember that all the fuss some idiots were making about female Ghostbusters was because of the earlier movie?  Much of the original cast had cameos in the new one.  I thought the new one missed an opportunity by not paying tribute to Harold Ramis by making him one of the ghosts. 

And if you want to go back and watch it, make sure you don't get Ghostbusters II.  That one was awful.

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OMG, I only just found this thread.  14 pages in 4 days?!!  So much fun!  And, Julia, I love your responses!   

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: 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!   

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.

I heard about film. I can't even imagine not being able to see a picture before you take it. That really had to be hit or miss. My grandma told me that it was a huge thing when instant cameras came out. She has pictures taken with one. They are crappy little pictures and the color is funky. The worst thing is that the pictures were all prints that you had to store someplace. My grandma has tons if albums and boxes of pictures that take up space.

TV sounds awful. I can't imagine tvs got a very good picture without cable. I've seen really old stuff from when it was black and white. It looked like moving X-rays. And having to get up to change channels would just be a pain. Without the remote you can't even do anything with our TVs.  The only controls actually on the TV is the power button.

I'm so happy we have real technology now.

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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Back when we used the 35mm cameras or the 110s, and we got the film developed, we also got the little strips called negatives. If you wanted more pics, you had to bring in the negatives.

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: 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.

That's how it was done!!! The way we were raised would be considered child abuse / neglect now!

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: 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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Oh wow. You didn't worry about perves snatching kids back then?  I was allowed to go to a friends house if it was close and if my dad knew the family. I wasn't allowed to go outside after school by myself. After Tyler got home I could go outside with him but never by myself. And forget ever going out after dark by myself. I was 16 before my dad let me walk to the store without Tyler. He wasn't as strict with Tyler about going out alone but he couldn't go anywhere he wanted without permission. At the time I got so mad about those rules. But considering all the things he's seen happen to kids I can see now why he was so anal about it.