I'm so old that I remember when......

[Mtbrncofn]

Man, you guys are in OD's category.

[Hogan11]

I remember when the Montreal Expos were in the NLCS.

[Old Dude]

Originally Posted by Big Guy

Yep
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Practicing what to do in school in case of a nuclear attack rather than a gun attack by some psycho

I remember that whole duck & cover drill. We had it every day during the missle crisis.

I remember wondering even then what good it would do against an H-Bomb.

[Old Dude]

Originally Posted by gunns

...
A bag full of candy for a dime.
...

I remember when you could find a couple of used pop bottles, turn 'em in for 2 or 3 cents each and walk out with a handful of candy treasure. Covered with germs, probably, but treasure nonetheless.

[Rocket 7]

Originally Posted by Old Dude

I remember that whole duck & cover drill. We had it every day during the missle crisis.

I remember wondering even then what good it would do against an H-Bomb.

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

In grade school we had desks with ink wells - but we used pencils and Big Chief tablets.

I remember thinking my first Bic pen was an incredible advance in technology.

[Old Dude]

Speaking of pens, remember those buckram binders? Very fine threads. Most pens had a metal tip on top. We used to sit around in the cafeteria, during some of the bigger classes, running those pen tips back and forth and back and forth across the binder. Seven, eight, sometimes twelve of us at once.

You had to do this when the teacher had her back to us. Zwit, zwit, zwit, zwit, zwit. As soon as she turned around, we'd all stop. She probably figured we were abusing ourselves, or something, and always gave us this strange look.

Anyway, we kept rubbing the pen tips back and forth until the friction made them really hot.

Then you'd reach over and brand some poor schmuck on the back of his hand.

The poor schmuck, most of the time, was me.

Still got scars from that invention.

[Rohirrim]

I remember the first song that I ever heard that really opened up the whole incredible world of music for me. It was "Runaway" by Del Shannon.

I remember slot cars. I had a tackle box with numerous chasses, bodies, wheels, motors with names like Mitsubishi and Pittman, and controllers. I could build a new car on the spot. You'd take your car to the slot car center and race other kids for as long as your quarters held out.

I remember a place where we went and jumped on huge trampolines. There were two rows of four trampolines. You paid so many quarters for so much time. They had loudspeakers on poles playing rock and roll while you jumped.

I remember floating in the ocean below the Redondo Pier with other boys, all of us wearing our masks and snorkels and fins. People up above would toss us down quarters and we would race each other to the sandy bottom, chasing the gleaming coins.

I remember my teacher coming into the classroom crying and telling us that President Kennedy was dead. She sent us home. I remember walking down the hill, looking at the ocean, walking in a large stream of quiet children. I remember spending the weekend watching the services; The horses, the caisson, Jackie Kennedy in her veil, and John John's salute. My mother weeping.

I remember when Martin Luther King got shot. I refused to go to school because I knew the black students would be jumping the white students. I was right.

I remember standing in the sun in the TRW parking lot in Redondo Beach listening to Robert Kennedy give a speech. I have never been so politically inspired. I have never felt so hopeful for my country. I remember on the next night, my birthday, watching Robert Kennedy get killed at the Ambassador Hotel in my hometown.

I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV every night.

I remember when I got my draft notice.

I remember my mother driving me to the Army pick up point and waving goodbye as I got on the bus. I remember her handing me a little sack and saying, "I packed you a lunch."

[Sassy]

Originally Posted by NYBronco

My Uncle had an aluminum Christmas tree with one of those color wheels that would spin and change the color of the tree.

Banana bicycle seats.

Hey...I had a bike with a banana seat. It was yellow flowers and bright green and white. My dad taught me how to ride in the post office parking lot...which was right next to our house.

[REB]

Hey those banana bicycle seats were a lot more comfortable then the ones they use now. Am I right Sass?

[Sassy]

Originally Posted by REB

Hey those banana bicycle seats were a lot more comfortable then the ones they use now. Am I right Sass?

Yep!

[BroncoBuff]

I remember - just barely - when McDonalds had only hamburger, cheeseburger, filet-o-fish, and one size fries. The fries were 30 cents. The Big Mac came out when I was in the 2nd grade.

[gunns]

I remember my teacher coming into the classroom crying and telling us that President Kennedy was dead. She sent us home. I remember walking down the hill, looking at the ocean, walking in a large stream of quiet children. I remember spending the weekend watching the services; The horses, the caisson, Jackie Kennedy in her veil, and John John's salute. My mother weeping.

I remember when Martin Luther King got shot. I refused to go to school because I knew the black students would be jumping the white students. I was right.

I remember standing in the sun in the TRW parking lot in Redondo Beach listening to Robert Kennedy give a speech. I have never been so politically inspired. I have never felt so hopeful for my country. I remember on the next night, my birthday, watching Robert Kennedy get killed at the Ambassador Hotel in my hometown.

I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV every night.

I remember when I got my draft notice.

I remember my mother driving me to the Army pick up point and waving goodbye as I got on the bus. I remember her handing me a little sack and saying, "I packed you a lunch."
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Those were such confusing times. Standing in line to go to the cafeteria for lunch and being told that Kennedy had been shot. My mom being so upset. Going to my grandmothers with all of the extended family to watch the funeral. It was surreal weekend.

And with King, my friends didn't seem to care, but I understood the significance. We had no black kids in our school but my mother had taught me about their struggles as my paternal grandfather was a horrible racist.

My mother worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign. We were getting ready to go to California to visit my aunt the day he was shot. After 3 shootings this big my view of the world became quite jaded.

Sitting there with my boyfriend watching the draft lottery praying his number wasn't in the top 100. It wasn't. Then getting with a guy whose was and marrying him and he ended up in Vietnam.

Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and then running down stairs with my cousins to pretend we were them. I always had to be John Lennon when I wanted to be McCartney. Devasting times yet the best of times.

[bronclvr]

Celebrity Lanes Slot Car Track
Playing Cards in Bicycle Spokes
G I Joe
Howdy Doody

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

I think us old folk should have our own forum where we can discuss out aches and pains, our medications and reminisce about the old days.

[Rohirrim]

I remember thinking Elvis was the coolest guy on the planet. I really liked Roy Orbison and Ricky Nelson too. I went and saw Elvis' movies and thought, "That's the guy I want to be." Then, surf music came out and here I was living right on the beach in Hermosa. Couldn't have been a cooler time. They made those faux surf movies with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon which were so lame, you just had to laugh at them. There wasn't a good surf movie until Bruce Brown came out with The Endless Summer. All of a sudden, Elvis wasn't so cool anymore. Then, the Beatles came out and completely blew my world apart. I remember the old folks making fun, going, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoooooooo." Making fun of their hair. The first girl I ever kissed was named Michelle. "Michelle, my belle." Reminds me of the words in that Dave Matthew's song, "First time I kissed you I lost my legs."

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV (black & white of course). In one episode that I always remember, two farm brothers are working with the cattle when one is gored by a bull. When the other tries to get him to the hospital, the road is blocked by a traveling salesman (I believe played by Hitchcock) who keeps blocking every attempt to pass. The guy dies and the doctor and of course the doctor says he would have survived if they had gotten to the hospital a couple minutes earlier. The rest of the story is about the surviving brother's attempt at revenge on the salesman.

[dbfan4life]

He Man and the Masters of the Universe, British Knights, Ocean Pacific, Parachute Pants, folding the bottom of your jeans up was cool.

[NYBronco]

The Denver Rockets playing in the Denver Auditorium Arena.

[Jana®]

Originally Posted by ant1999e

We must be the same age. Z. Cavaricci was it. I was stylin.

Me too. Lovin the Cavaricci's!

[Jana®]

Originally Posted by dbfan4life

He Man and the Masters of the Universe, British Knights, Ocean Pacific, Parachute Pants, folding the bottom of your jeans up was cool.

Tightrolling! I remember that! We used to tight roll our pants and then wear two different pairs of socks, different colors. Layered socks. bunch of weirdos we were...

[BroncoBuff]

Originally Posted by NYBronco

WOW!

What a cozy place. I saw alotta games there ... every year I bought the May D&F Kids Package - 6 game tickets, Maxie the Miner tee-shirt, bumper sticker, schedule - all for I think just $10. I saw Mike Green, Ralph Simpson, Mack Calvin, Roland "Fatty" Taylor, Jan van Breda Kolff, Byron Beck, Claude Terry ... but then things really took off when Larry Brown, Doug Moe and Carl Scheer took over in I think 73. Then they built McNichols in, what, 75?

In the late 60s, though I never saw Dave Congden in person, I remember when he made a hail-mary shot from beyond the opposite foul line - right there on that court. Saw lots of great visiting players there too - Dr. J, George McGinness, Moses Malone, George Gervin, and Dan Issel - who was on the Kentucky Colonels with Artis Gilmore and Louie Dampier.

I do remember that right next door adjacent to that Auditorium Arena was the Auditorium Theater. One year I was atthe game, and my parents were watching the Nutcracker ... anyway, the game ended, I watched Mike Wolf do the postgame on KHOW 630 Radio, and then went next door and waited on a couch outside the theater .... when the crowd came out, Governor Lamm walked by, and I perked up, "hey!" He smiled real big and waved.

Memories. What good are they, anyway?

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by BroncoBuff

Memories. What good are they, anyway?

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

[Old Dude]

Originally Posted by Big Guy

I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV (black & white of course). In one episode that I always remember, two farm brothers are working with the cattle when one is gored by a bull. When the other tries to get him to the hospital, the road is blocked by a traveling salesman (I believe played by Hitchcock) who keeps blocking every attempt to pass. The guy dies and the doctor and of course the doctor says he would have survived if they had gotten to the hospital a couple minutes earlier. The rest of the story is about the surviving brother's attempt at revenge on the salesman.

It was always spookier in black & white, huh?

I remember a traveling salesman episode on Thriller (hosted by Karloff, I think) where this guy got attacked by two crazy old hatchet-wielding women while he was dozing on a couch.

Still gives me the creeps.

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by Big Guy

I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV (black & white of course). In one episode that I always remember, two farm brothers are working with the cattle when one is gored by a bull. When the other tries to get him to the hospital, the road is blocked by a traveling salesman (I believe played by Hitchcock) who keeps blocking every attempt to pass. The guy dies and the doctor and of course the doctor says he would have survived if they had gotten to the hospital a couple minutes earlier. The rest of the story is about the surviving brother's attempt at revenge on the salesman.

I remember that one. It was called "Road Hog." The road hog was played by that actor who made a living playing evil Sydney Greenstreet types on TV, Robert Emhardt.

At the end of that one, he's having a heart attack and runs out of his glycerin pills so he's driving down the road to the hospital when... guess who's driving in front of him?

My favorite Hitchcock episode is the guy who comes home to discover his wife has been raped. She's beaten up and incoherent. So he's asking her, "Do you know who did this?" She's nodding her head. So he takes her in the car and starts driving around. Then, there's this guy getting out of his car with a bag of groceries and the wife starts pointing wildly at him. The husband says, "Is that him? Is that the guy?" And she nods violently. So he jumps out of the car and follows the guy into his garage carrying a tire iron.

The next scene, he's sitting in the car, covered in blood, panting and sweating. He nods to his wife and says, "I took care of him. Let's get you to the hospital." So they're driving down the road and suddenly, she sees this guy mowing his lawn. She starts pointing violently and shouting, "There he is! There he is!"