in college, my roomie and I had a neighbor who would forget to shut his TV off each night-the TV national anthem may as well have been a clock-radio alarm in our room

Wow. The idea was things that current/future generations wouldn't know about. But wow.

Squirt guns that looked like real guns except for the orange tip. I remember getting a M16 that was battery powered. It seemed so cool.

Cassettes have a cult following, they are actually still in production.

I remember my grandmother having a TV with one of those two button sonic remotes.


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Speaking of hockey and the Olympics, I saw the rink in Squaw Valley, CA where the US beat Czechoslovakia for the gold in 1960.

Candy cigarettes

With the powdered sugar so you could blow and it would look like smoke. I remember going to the drug store and always looking for them and buying them if they were in stock.

I have a collection of cassettes-would love to buy a tape recorder today, but am I too old-school for that?

My local supermarket has candy cigarettes, bubble gum cigars and licorice pipes!

Nah. I still have a VCR and small collection of VHS tapes.

I always wanted DJ's to simply stop talking just as a song began. BUT NO, they have to waste their voices. Some get caught still talking when the singer begins. To those DJ's, I gleefully say "nyahh nyahh".

I remember manual typewriters (not fondly, but I do remember them)
Watching Bugs Bunny cartoons on Saturday mornings.
Monkey bars
Describing an overly talkative person as having been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

playing in my neighborhood, no supervision, "be home by dark".

During college, I'd watch the Bugs Bunny Road-Runner hour, but only for the opening song. Then I'd head to brunch. ("Hold the.....hit the lights...This is it...the night of nights". ....)

I also remember manual typewriters. My eight grade typing class was the last class before the course converted to PC. We used a mix of manual return and IBM Selectric automatic models. Blast from the past.

Regular gas was .37 a gallon.
And my Dad never got up to change the channel. That's what I was for.
Watching the Little Rascals.
Watching The Three Stooges
There is probably more, when it hits me I'll be back.

Yea, I guess I got a little off topic, lol. I've got lots of old farm stories.

Vacuum tube test stands at the hardware store.

I always thought The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics had one of the best openings, that DJs loved to talk over. It must be in broadcasting 101 why they do it. Generally right up until the first word, sometimes a bit past.

The tracks DJs used then contained a time code on the tape. On the decks back then, there was a countdown timer for each song intro visible to the DJ. Some of this time is used as regulatory call letter time, the rest is station self promo. There is no other time for this on commercial radio, as the ad blocks are sold, and it wouldn't work to talk over the news. Basically a time and money thing. Music is only the vehicle.