So What Do You Remember?

Uh yeah, they could just not play music. Some stations now I've seen have a loop they will play for songs, until they are finished and then play the rest of the song.

 

Really? Is there snow where you live?

$0.10 deposit on bottles and cans here.

You guys make me feel like I live in 1953 lol

 

Nurses wearing white dresses and caps

Baskets on a rope/pulley in retail stores that traveled between the office and the cash register

Three on the tree

Nat King Cole

Octopus furnaces

Shinola

Tiger in your tank

 

Random TV memories:

Afternoon cartoons on WPIX Channel 11 with Officer Joe Bolton and Captain Jack Macarthy.
Wonderama with Sonny Fox (later Bob McAlister).
Time For Joya
The Magic Garden
Captain Noah and His Magical Ark (that one was out of Philadelphia, I think)
Jeopardy with Art Fleming (back when I could still come home from school for lunch)
Password with Allen Ludden (and Betty White)
Lassie
Flipper

Amusing gasoline commercials like the ones for Gulf No-Nox and Shell with Platformate.
Hai Karate commercials (to keep this relevant). Also, "Let Noxema cream your face, so the razor won't."

Those rare summer days when the atmosphere was just right and you could see TV from another area on one of the "dead" channels

 

I learned to drive a manual in my dad's Plymouth Duster with a three on the tree.

 

S & H Green Stamps
Blue Chip Stamps
Sears and Roebuck Catalog
Stores being closed on Sunday and holidays.

 

That's the norm here in Germany


- using printed dictionaries if you wanted to find out stuff
- I grew up in a pretty small town without a record store, so every other month my friends and I made a trip to the big city, listened to all the new music and came home with bags full of Vinyl albums.
- black-and-white TV sets, and only 3 channels to choose from
- I also remember the time when boarding a plane was actually exciting and fun

Our test pattern looked like this:

 

Running home from school to watch "Dark Shadows".

 

My father would give me 33 cents and a gas can and I would get a gallon of gas for the lawnmower.

 

Officer Joe Bolton and Captain Jack McCarthy? I almost forgot about them.

 

For those in NYC area, I remember when they finally opened the Verrazano bridge. It was a whopping 50 cents to cross. Now it's $17.

 

going past that first word is a biiiiig no-no. And they sound so silly going right up to it-they have to speed their voice, so hardly anyone understands them anyway.

 

That's when he took off his slipper and threw it at me.

 

$17. That's highway robbery.

 

Sadly those days are over, I had to be home when the street lights came on.

 

Literally.

 

The Golden Gate Bridge is $7.50, I could imagine them raising the price because of all the tourist, $17 is freaking crazy.

 

Oh and - this is what Wikipedia looked like back then

 

and let's not forget Sports Challenge with Dick Enberg.