Post by codystarbuck on Nov 8, 2022 13:47:25 GMT -5
T recall:
Party lines (my paternal grandparents had one, on their farm)
78 rpm records (we used to play our Disney 38s at 78 rpm)
Milk in bottles (delivery & store)
refundable deposits for glass bottles (especially soda pop)
Double Features as a regular thing, as well as cartoon shorts with a feature
black & white telly.
Now, color tv was available in the US; but, we had a black & white tv until I was in high school. I only saw color at friends' houses or relatives (some of them). When I hear people won't watch black & white movies or tv, I shake my head; every tv show and movie I saw (except in theaters) was black & white, until about 1982.
I can also recall.....
Picking out my own soda flavors at the local Vess Soda Bottling plant
Sandy's hamburger restaurants (Midwest, especially Illinois, chain, started by some McDonalds exiles)
Topps Big Boy restaurants
Shaky's Pizza Parlor, with showings of Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy shorts and sing-alongs
Pneumatic tubes in department stores to send receipts to the office
Credit card imprinters
Full Service Gas Stations
The Volkswagen Squareback (my Dad had one, bought new and sold in 1989, with over 200,000 miles on it)
Drive-In movie theaters being a standard thing, not a specialty
Joyland Amusement Park, in Decatur, IL
Family-owned farms, instead of corporate farms
Whitman comic book 3-packs
Smurf toys in highway tourist shops, before the Hanna-Barbera cartoon debuted
Evel Knievel jumps on ABC's Wide World of Sports
ABC's Wide World of Sports
Mark Spitz winning his 7th Gold Medal.
Olga Korbut winning her Gold Medal
The Apollo Space Program
Illinois governors not under indictment
Room 222
Mark VII TV shows
The Brady Bunch in prime time
Space Angel broadcasts, weekday mornings, along with Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and Rocky & Bullwinkle
Batman cartoon segments on Sesame Street
The debut of Sesame Street
Morgan Freeman, Irene Cara, Bill Cosby and Rita Moreno on The Electric Company
The Midnight Special
Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
The Doubel-Deckers, on NBC Saturday Morning
Only one Scooby Doo cartoon show
Jonny Quest uncensored
Dairy Queen having real hot fudge
Batman & Robin punching and kicking villains on Saturday morning cartoons
HR Pufnstuf
The Three Mousketeers comic, from DC
Star Trek in syndication, only
Star Trek on Saturday mornings, in cartoon form
Saturday morning Fall Preview Specials on the Friday before the season began.
The debut of Multiplication Rock
Nixon re-elected
Nixon resigning
Watergate hearings interrupting my viewing of Space Angel
Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News
Barbara Walters on the Today Show
Let's Make A deal
Jeopardy, with Art Fleming
The Dating Game
The Newlywed Show and wondering what "whoopie" was....
Gentle Ben
The American Basketball Association
Kentucky Fried Chicken, when it was edible
The Johnny West series of dolls/action figures
GI Joe with a red beard and afro
Evel Knievel, starring George Hamilton
Willy Wonka, coming to theaters soon.
E Ticket Rides, at the new Walt Disney World
Ramada Inns, with red furniture in the lobby
International House of Pancakes, without initials as a logo
Sambos restaurants (yep............it was a real thing)
Coke machines dispensing soda in glass bottles
Generic packaging for food and beverage items, in stores.
Balconies in movie theaters
Party lines (my paternal grandparents had one, on their farm)
78 rpm records (we used to play our Disney 38s at 78 rpm)
Milk in bottles (delivery & store)
refundable deposits for glass bottles (especially soda pop)
Double Features as a regular thing, as well as cartoon shorts with a feature
black & white telly.
Now, color tv was available in the US; but, we had a black & white tv until I was in high school. I only saw color at friends' houses or relatives (some of them). When I hear people won't watch black & white movies or tv, I shake my head; every tv show and movie I saw (except in theaters) was black & white, until about 1982.
I can also recall.....
Picking out my own soda flavors at the local Vess Soda Bottling plant
Sandy's hamburger restaurants (Midwest, especially Illinois, chain, started by some McDonalds exiles)
Topps Big Boy restaurants
Shaky's Pizza Parlor, with showings of Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy shorts and sing-alongs
Pneumatic tubes in department stores to send receipts to the office
Credit card imprinters
Full Service Gas Stations
The Volkswagen Squareback (my Dad had one, bought new and sold in 1989, with over 200,000 miles on it)
Drive-In movie theaters being a standard thing, not a specialty
Joyland Amusement Park, in Decatur, IL
Family-owned farms, instead of corporate farms
Whitman comic book 3-packs
Smurf toys in highway tourist shops, before the Hanna-Barbera cartoon debuted
Evel Knievel jumps on ABC's Wide World of Sports
ABC's Wide World of Sports
Mark Spitz winning his 7th Gold Medal.
Olga Korbut winning her Gold Medal
The Apollo Space Program
Illinois governors not under indictment
Room 222
Mark VII TV shows
The Brady Bunch in prime time
Space Angel broadcasts, weekday mornings, along with Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and Rocky & Bullwinkle
Batman cartoon segments on Sesame Street
The debut of Sesame Street
Morgan Freeman, Irene Cara, Bill Cosby and Rita Moreno on The Electric Company
The Midnight Special
Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
The Doubel-Deckers, on NBC Saturday Morning
Only one Scooby Doo cartoon show
Jonny Quest uncensored
Dairy Queen having real hot fudge
Batman & Robin punching and kicking villains on Saturday morning cartoons
HR Pufnstuf
The Three Mousketeers comic, from DC
Star Trek in syndication, only
Star Trek on Saturday mornings, in cartoon form
Saturday morning Fall Preview Specials on the Friday before the season began.
The debut of Multiplication Rock
Nixon re-elected
Nixon resigning
Watergate hearings interrupting my viewing of Space Angel
Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News
Barbara Walters on the Today Show
Let's Make A deal
Jeopardy, with Art Fleming
The Dating Game
The Newlywed Show and wondering what "whoopie" was....
Gentle Ben
The American Basketball Association
Kentucky Fried Chicken, when it was edible
The Johnny West series of dolls/action figures
GI Joe with a red beard and afro
Evel Knievel, starring George Hamilton
Willy Wonka, coming to theaters soon.
E Ticket Rides, at the new Walt Disney World
Ramada Inns, with red furniture in the lobby
International House of Pancakes, without initials as a logo
Sambos restaurants (yep............it was a real thing)
Coke machines dispensing soda in glass bottles
Generic packaging for food and beverage items, in stores.
Balconies in movie theaters