Larry Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I've got a feeling that I've seen this mentioned. Film. Y'all heard the song of the overanxious photographer, "Some Day My Prints Will Come"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 The Price is Right with Bob Barker. Poor kids today have to deal with Drew Carey. I grew up on that. I used to stay at my great grandma's house on 12th Street and she'd ONLY watch channel 9. It was, literally, the only station she'd watch (apart from switching over to channel 7 to watch Wheel and Jeopardy). She was fixated on CBS (hell, the only radio station she'd listen to in the house was WTOP). Every day I'd stay with her, I had to watch all those wretched talk shows and soap operas, but I'd always look forward to watching Price is Right. She would always get so excited when someone won a big prize, It was the funniest thing. > Candy Cigarette (How did anyone ever think that was a good idea?) You can still get them if you know where to look: Candy cigarettes Did anyone here ever have those chocolate cigars? When I was in the first grade, one of my best friends' mom had a kid and to celebrate the birth of his baby brother, he handed out chocolate cigars. Mind you, this was in 1998. Frankly, I'm surprised he was able to get away with that as late as that. Those suckers were good, though. You can still get those too: At Sees: http://www.sees.com/prod.cfm/new_baby_gifts/celebration_seegars'>Chocolate cigars and here: http://www.amazon.com/Novelty-Indulgence-Milk-Chocolate-Cigars/dp/B0009T8C0C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Metal toothpaste tubes. My grandparents told me stories about WWII all the time, and one I'll always remember was the country's first real recycling program...you had to turn in your old tube in order to buy your new one. And that little "key" thing that kept it rolled up tight, so you got all of it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I have all of them on DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I have all of them on DVD. That's awesome. I still remember songs from that show and haven't seen it in 18 or so years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Does anyone else remember having to use one of these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabSkin Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Does anyone else remember having to use one of these? Yes. We had one of those. Wasnt it for Intellivision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Late night horror movies on TV, Friday and Saturday night. Castles and vampires. Christopher Lee. Often with goofy or campy hosts. ...and Friday Night Videos and Dance Connection with Moon Man Bacote. And along those lines... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM72 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I have all of them on DVD. That's awesome. I still remember songs from that show and haven't seen it in 18 or so years... It's on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaught76 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 The 3 Stooges Lawn Darts Real Muscle Cars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I have all of them on DVD. That's awesome. I still remember songs from that show and haven't seen it in 18 or so years... It's on youtube. True. You can get most anything on Youtube, but they'll never see it on Saturday Mornings between cartoons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Conjunction junction...what's your function... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Conjunction junction...what's your function... My favorite was about the pronouns. Rufus Xavier Sasparilla. That song moves so fast. Because saying all those nouns over and over can really wear you down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Lawn Darts AKA the do it yourself kiddie lobotomy set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskin4ever Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Does anyone else remember having to use one of these? Yes. We had one of those. Wasnt it for Intellivision? It could be used for all kinds of video games at the time. I think we even had our cable box hooked up to it. It's funny looking back at that switch and thinking of all the ways we used to switch between the TV and video games. These switches, different switches, the A/V setting on the TV, running it through the VCR. Now, it's just a button on the remote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostyj Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Does anyone else remember having to use one of these? Still have mine attached to our original Atari 2600. Think we got it when I was 7 or 8 '83 or so. Same time we got one of these monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB452 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Looking in the newspaper to see where the movie you want to see is playing and at what time Mimeograph copies Carbon copies USA dominating the Olympics in swimming No pros in the Olympics No baseball in DC Redskins home games blacked out in the DC area EROL's Betamax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Looking in the newspaper to see where the movie you want to see is playing and at what time Mimeograph copies Carbon copies USA dominating the Olympics in swimming No pros in the Olympics No baseball in DC Redskins home games blacked out in the DC area EROL's Betamax If you didn't get a paper, you could call the automated movie recordings with the time. I don't remember any Redskin blackouts, but I started watching them in 76. Must have been before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 That intro always creeped me the hell out. Plus I think this may be the show where I saw a naked woman for the first time (must've been like 5-6 years old) HBO was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 All the video store nostalgia just reminded me that we didn't even have a VCR for about half of my childhood. So, I'll see your EROLs and Blockbuster and raise you a "having to wait until a network channel decided to air a movie". Now, we can pretty instantly watch whatever we want. Earlier in my life, that was not the case. It really is amazing when you think about it. I "played" Star Wars everyday by replaying the movies with friends or action figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabR Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 Ice skating on the C&O Canal. In the 60's we used to skate on the C&O canal. Played hockey there and I think a hockey sticks cost 2 dollarsThe park service would scape the ice at certain locations. we would build fires and stay for hours upon hours. It was really fun at night people would bring coleman lanterns. .I do not know when the canal last froze over enough for skating. Do they even allow it anymore on the canal on reflecting Pool ? I met my first wife ice skating on a frozen pond near Centerville. Both are gone now The W-L caves on the potomac near Windy run. Tight squeeze but is was cool. I understand they blocked the entrance years ago someone mentioned weather phone # mine was WE6 1212 time was TI4-2525 no zip code on letters no area codes for phones all long distance was by operator B&W TV How could I forget lawn darts i hit the Neighbors kid in the face. It was a accident but he come close to losing an eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabSkin Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Outdoor well pumps. My grandmother and uncle had these on thier propertys. Some state parks still have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 All the video store nostalgia just reminded me that we didn't even have a VCR for about half of my childhood. So, I'll see your EROLs and Blockbuster and raise you a "having to wait until a network channel decided to air a movie". Now, we can pretty instantly watch whatever we want. Earlier in my life, that was not the case. It really is amazing when you think about it. I "played" Star Wars everyday by replaying the movies with friends or action figures. Speaking of VCR's, even I'm old enough to remember not that long ago, when it took like 6-8 months for a movie to come out on VHS. Now they come out so fast it's like they were barely even in the theater. You'd always get hyped whenever you walked into a video store and saw those "Coming Soon" posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSkins0721 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Looking in the newspaper to see where the movie you want to see is playing and at what time Mimeograph copies Carbon copies USA dominating the Olympics in swimming No pros in the Olympics No baseball in DC Redskins home games blacked out in the DC area EROL's Betamax If you didn't get a paper, you could call the automated movie recordings with the time. I don't remember any Redskin blackouts, but I started watching them in 76. Must have been before that. Not sure when the blackouts were lifted for teams that sold out at home. But we used to go to Uline Arena to watch the games on closed circuit TV. This was the only place to go (that I can recall) to see the Skins home games. I forget how many it held (8-10,000?). But as I recall, it was always packed. We would take the DCT over there to watch the games. Fun times.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 That intro always creeped me the hell out. Plus I think this may be the show where I saw a naked woman for the first time (must've been like 5-6 years old) HBO was awesome. I must be old, I remember the pre-cable days when you just had ABC, NBC, CBS, and then some channels like channel 20, where you'd get things like this: And no remote for the TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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