I'm so old...

[spinbaby]

...I owned a slide rule and knew how to use it.

[Haole Girl]

1. Your post reminded me of this scene from Witness

I'm old, too. ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_tvjqSrBk

[elifino]

30. I am so old I remember listening to

The Green Hornet and Sky King

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. I'm so old...

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I don't pass gas. I pass dust.
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Ancient... ... primeval... ...Crustaceous Era... ... dust.
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[Zoigal]

5. Love your dusty comment...z

[edbermac]

3. I'm so old that when I went to school...

...they didn't have History.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Me, too, except I'm so old I've forgotten how to use the slide rule

which I once knew how to use --and did --for college exams!

[spinbaby]

6. Me, too

I had a circular slide rule, too--it was a cardboard sort of wheel.

[gratuitous]

7. NERD!

All the Kewl Kidz called it a slip stick. We'd have ripped the protector right off your pocket.

[Ptah]

8. I'm so old ...

... I remember Sputnik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFz-6bQC0-M

[elleng]

33. Heck, I was in the air for Europe with Mom, Dad and kid Brother

Oct 4, 1957!!!!

[elocs]

9. I once had one, but I'm not sure if I ever learned to use it.

I pretty much avoided math whenever possible.

About 16 years ago I had to take a Statistics class and I was shocked when I was told that I could use a calculator. Even with a calculator I can only use it in the most basic way.

[Iggo]

10. ...I got a black & white TV for my 12th b-day...

...and my friends were jealous!

[kentauros]

11. I have an inking and drafting set I know how to use, too

:D

[MiddleFingerMom]

38. I had one of those, too!

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But I never did know what it was.
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I used to use it to play "Gynecologist".
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As I'm sure you can understand, no one would ever
play "Gynecologist" WITH me, so I ended up playing
with myself.
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Um... ... ... ...
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[kentauros]

41. That's just the laugh I needed

before I go clean the cat box :rofl:

:thumbsup:

[ashling]

47. I took drafting in Jr High

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. I'm so old I still own a slide rule and still use it.

I also remember garter belts and nylons with seams up the back, dial telephones, and TV sets without remotes (you actually had to get up off your chair and walk across the room to the TV set itself in order to change the channel!! And there were only 3 or 4 channels!).

[kentauros]

16. And they all signed off at some time just before or after midnight.

Some went to a "test pattern" and others turned off the signal entirely. Ever stared at static and watched the swirly patterns emerge? :P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Oh, yeah. First there would be a picture of a flag, and they'd play

The Star Spangled Banner. And then the test pattern would appear.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. They played a special arrangement of America the Beautiful

That famous conductor Carmen Dragon arranged.

In high school, at music camp, I played under him for a week. He was a wonderful, kind man. We were all afraid we wouldn't play well, because it was the first week of music camp, and he was really wonderful. And we played the Finale of Shostakovich's Fifth quite well!!!

I have that arrangement on CD and it's really a nice reworking of an old saw.

[rurallib]

31. ooh! ooh! didja ever stay up in the summer trying to catch 'bounce'signals

from the big cities where the TV didn't go black at midnight?
guven the right circumstances us Iowans could get Louisville, New York, St. Louis, Seattle and some we never identified.

[kentauros]

39. It seemed like the stations we picked up the most in Houston

were from Mexico. But, also from Dallas and San Antonio :)

[ashling]

48. WOAI radio in San Antonio

one of the clear channel stations

could even pick it up on a crystal set in Galveston sometimes as I recall

[rurallib]

56. I meant TV stations - after ours went off the air

on a clear night the TV signals would bounce all over.
We would sit in front of our old B&W and slowly turn the dial from 2 to 13 and back over and over until we'd hit some fuzzy signal from above.
Our parents didn't give a crap what we did, so we did this all summer.
As for radio stations, I had a little transistor that I would plug in my ear at dark and surf the country
- NYC, Pitt, Philly, lots of Chicago, Denver, San Anton, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit etc.
We still get these stations but almost all are RW talkers now, so why bother?

[pintobean]

34. We called the static

ant races.

[kentauros]

40. Someone gave me a static-screensaver once

but I can't find it anymore. It was pretty decent at making ant races :D

[pintobean]

52. Thanks for the tip

I found one here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Screensavers/StaticTV.shtml

[kentauros]

63. Thanks! I'll try it out in a little while.

See how well it does on this 24" LCD ;)

[Maine-ah]

53. ok, I am only 35 and had to do that.

I remember when you only had to dial 4 numbers to call someone.

[struggle4progress]

55. Do you know where I can get a pocket protector?

[trof]

13. OK, but did you have that cool leather s/r scabbard that strapped on your belt?

Those were the guys who always buttoned the top shirt button, too.
And had adhesive tape on the nose bridge of their glasses.
Them wuz the days.
:eyes:

[trof]

14. I'm so old...

I used to come home from school and listen to the radio.
NOT rock 'n' roll.
That hadn't been invented yet.
(And we didn't have a TV until I was 11 or 12.}

I listened to SHOWS!
Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders
The Lone Ranger
Superman!
Gene Autrey at his Melody Ranch
Gene chewed Doublemint gum.
So did I.
:-)

Sky King
I sent off for his glow-in-the-dark ring with the secret compartment.
woohoo
:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[kentauros]

17. "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

(after cracking a secret code)
Ralphie: (Reading it) Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

:P

[old mark]

42. I have some Ovaltine in my kitchen right now! Chocolate!

With actual vitamins! mmmmmmmm......
62 and never grew up... and don't want to start now.

mark

[GoCubsGo]

64. Yes, but did the milk man bring your milk?

I remember the milk box on the front porch. The milk man would leave a half dozen bottles of milk in it once a week. I don't recall what happened during the winter when it got so cold the milk might freeze. I was about 5 or 6 when the dairy stopped home delivery.

[Ptah]

65. My uncles were the milkmen

[kentauros]

66. Did they drive "milkfloats"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MUz0rhBews

Unless your uncles were The Dead Milkmen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYjr-vUKZM ;)

[old mark]

67. Nor for a long, long time.....I remember when we stopped getting it in glass

and started getting it in waxy cartons from the new supermarket....


mark

[tigereye]

15. me too!

:hi:

[Skittles]

19. I'm so old

I remember nearly putting myself through the windshield the first time I used power brakes :o

[Ptah]

20. I'm so old . . .

. . . I can't remember if I posted in this thread yet.

[pink-o]

21. I'm so old....

I remember moaning about having to turn the record over when Side One was finished.

[texanwitch]

22. I remember when we didn't have 24 hour a day tv.

I had my own personal b&w tv when I was a kid.

Most homes only had one tv in the house.

[sarge43]

24. I'm so old I remember when no one had a tv.

when the newspaper was delivered to your house.

when a long distance phone call was an event.

when we played 78s on phonographs the size of Stonehenge.

when 50 cents could buy a Saturday afternoon double feature with News of the Day, two cartoons and all the popcorn (real butter) a six year old could hold.

[texanwitch]

25. The Yale Theater charged kids 35 cents for 3 movies and a cartoon.

I had $3 to spend, that went a long way.

[sarge43]

26. $3 would make you queen for a day. n/t

[ashling]

49. I remember the Yale theater

great for an all day Saturday -

trying to remember some of the films I saw there:

Crack in the World

I Saw What You Did, and I Know Who You Are

[texanwitch]

61. The Yale theater was great.

Saturday at the Yale in the 60's, great for kids.

Remember the hamburgers, they somewhat expensive 35 cents.

Popcorn was about 15 cents, large drink about 25 cents, candy bars about 10 cents.

The stage show was fun.

Good times.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

69. oh, you mean in the Heights.

Heights Boulevard and Yale, two one way streets that eventually turn into Waugh Drive, and then Yoakum as you go south.

I grew up in Pasa-Git-Down-Dena and went to the Capitan, in the old north part of town.
I think it was 25 cents on Saturday.
My mom dropped us off, me and my big sister. I was 2 or 3, she was 9 or 10.

I saw lots of movies that scared hell outta me because I was way too young to see them.
The Blob, Mothra, The Incredible Shrinking Man.

[texanwitch]

71. That is the place.

It was an old when I was little.

The place was full on a Saturday.

You can pictures of it on the internet.

We would walk there and take the bus back home.

Kids had more freedom back then.

[ashling]

58. long distance phone call was an event

When my dad called my aunt we all lined up to get our 30 seconds on the phone

[kentauros]

23. This thread make me want to watch Rodney Dangerfield!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPv2toi5og

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. I remember duck and cover...

[sarge43]

28. Yeah

I remember the news reels of the tests -- mock up houses being shredded like tissue paper. Then, at school played duck and cover under the desk. Right, that'll work. It's pretty bad when you're cynical at eight years old.

[AllenVanAllen]

43. "I remember duck and cover..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbw6Nxf8dYU

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. Thank you! That was hilarious!

[DuckBurp]

29. Isn't a slide rule one of those new-fangled things ...

that whippersnappers use?

I remember getting indoor plumbing.

I lived in Texas before we had air conditioning.

[elleng]

32. MY DAUGHTER TURNED 25 TODAY!!!!

[Iggo]

36. Ouch. (and Happy B-day to the kidlet). NT

[pscot]

37. Remember how shocked everyone was

when Arthur Godfrey fired Julius La Rosa, right there on the radio. And poor Julius broke down and cried. Those were terrible times.

[velvet]

45. So old I had a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder

And I used it to record "Sergeant Peppers" from the radio when it came out. They played one track a day, each afternoon at the same time. Instead of my usual after-school dawdle to the train, browsing the frock shops and trying on clothes I couldn't afford, I caught the early train home and snaffled the whole damn album. Did the same with "Are You Experienced" but I missed one track.

[trof]

60. With two recorders you could make an echo chamber.

We put the 'unspooling' reel on one recorder, ran the tape through those heads into the heads of the adjoining recorder, and onto the take-up reel of that recorder.

With the recorders next to each other we got about a half sec. reverb effect. The farther apart you moved them the more pronounced the effect.
cool
:-)

[denbot]

46. I'm so old...

I remember Thrifty Mart's 5 cents for a scoop ice cream. Nummies!!!

[ashling]

50. I remember 3 cent stamps

nickel coca cola

25 cent movies

[Petrushka]

51. I'm so old, the family's doctor made house-calls but . . .

. . . the stork delivered kids at home. I remember all three of us kids (two toddlers & kindergartner) with whooping cough at the same time, and the county health department's quarantine sign on our front door. I remember other quarantine signs up and down the block where other children had scarlet fever and diphtheria. I remember caskets in front rooms atop saw-horses, the smell of death and disease and body odor. I remember, too, the smell of everyone in church on Sunday morning who had taken their once-a-week Saturday night bath with Fels-Naptha soap in a Wheeling Corrugating galvanized washtub---the same soap and washtub women used every Monday morning to scrub the laundry on a washboard.

I'm so-o old, I remember the shock of hearing the sound of a human voice coming through a confusion of wires---through a contraption called a "crystal-set" that my father put together about two years before our first radio. I remember Saturday mornings when I plopped down on a throw-rug in front of the radio and listened to "Let's Pretend". I remember the Wheeling Steel Radio Show broadcasts on WWVA. I remember the Ted Mack Amateur Hour---sort of an early version of American Idol. I remember little girls dolled up like Shirley Temple. I remember singing "You Are My Sunshine". And I remember teaching my little brother to sing, "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Yellow, red, and black, and white. They are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world." I remember being almost four-years-old.

[Turbineguy]

54. I must be really old

I listen to Mozart.

[caitxrawks]

57. errrr...I'm so old, I...uhh...

screw it. I'm one of the youngest ones here. *facepalm*

[Joe Fields]

59. abacus...beat you lol

[av8rdave]

62. me too!

I still have an old E6-B (circular aviation slide rule) or two in the attic. I can't imagine there are a lot of pilots around who can still use one of those!

[kimi]

68. I remember our family getting the first color TV in the neighborhood

Everyone on the screen had a green or orange face. And all the kids in the neighborhood sat outside our rec room windows to watch.

Cause we were too rich to let them in. After all, we had a color TV!

[azmouse]

70. I remember 29 cent/gallon gasoline.

[texanwitch]

72. I remember gas wars.

Also the station would give out plates and drinking glasses.

I don't remember the price of gas.

[Taitertots]

73. I'm not quite that old but I did:

Program games into my TI 99/4A with the cassette tape recorder
Play games on a Atari 2600
Watch a TV with no remote
Dial a pulse phone


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[blue neen]

74. I'm so old, that only the richest kids in town wore braces on their teeth.

Also, only the rich kids went to kindergarten...the rest of us started first grade without even knowing our ABC's! :)

[Petrushka]

77. "...only the rich kids went to kindergarten...."? How sad! In our Appalachian town of . . .

. . . coal miners and blast-furnace workers, it was the poor first- and second-generation offspring of European immigrants who were fortunate enough to attend kindergarten . . . at a settlement house run by two Methodist missionary spinster ladies, ladies who taught us about personal hygeine, good manners, and proper etiquette . . . as well as how to cook, sew, knit . . . and etcetera.

What rich kids had or did or knew was something I could only have seen in a movie . . . if, that is, I found a nickel to attend one of the silent movies shown at the settlement house.

:-)

[DFW]

75. I'm SO old..........

I own fossils of animals that used to be my house pets!

[Bassic]

76. I'm so old,

I have used a type writer on more than one occasion. A non-touchtone telephone too.