Retro Memory Thread

[Tom]

Before microwave ovens there were aluminum tray TV dinners.

The Little House on The Prarrie

Quix Cereal

13 selections on the TV with only 3 networks - ABC, CBS & NBC if you were lucky you might pick up PBS

Atari

Jiffy Pop the future of popcorn

Doritos came in one flavor - Taco

The Outer Limits

Ray Bradbury Theater

Bozo the Clown

The Banana Splits

Lucky Strike

Terryton

PBR in a paper sack

AM radio

FM Converters

Television channels went off the air at 2 am

Walter Chronkite

Howard Cosell

Bun

Mary Jane

Red Dye # 5

 

[Tom]

Fine tuning dial on the TV set

Rabbit Ears with aluminum foil

Party Line dating

3 digit phone numbers

Any call in the US for $2.47 per minute

Regular and Ethyl gas $.47 a gallon

Solid steering shafts (you got impaled in front end collisions)

4 wheel drum brakes

Automatic Transmission was a luxury (clutchfoot)

Birch Beer, Grape Nehi, MASH

Beer distributors delivered to your home

Non-filtered cigarettes (Lucky strike, Camel & Raghlie)

Sock-offs

Stove pipe pants

Pharmacies with a soda fountain

 

[Tom]

Bias ply tires

Head Shops

Rotary cut push mowers

Cobalt on the railroad tracks (got a slingshot for Christmas - I wish it was still there)

78 rpm records - one sided slate

Close n' play

8 track tapes

Laser disc movies

McDonalds lunch for under a buck

milkmen

Fuller brush salesmen

the Avon Lady came to your house

Eagles Club Christmas Parties

My classmate once brought his dad's 357 to school for a classroom presentation

A picture of a gun was not offensive

UseNet

Chatroom parties

Running the streets after dark

Slumber parties

Got a buzz from Coke

Murphy's Five & Dime

Bank accounts with toasters

Officer Bob was everyone's friend

Soldiers were a disgrace

Flower Power

The Peace Sign

Make Love not War

Waterbeds

Waterbeds without frames

Babysitters

Wringer washers

Clothesline fresh sheets

Multipart commercials

Sports coaches busted your a$$

the Rec Center

Ice Skating on ponds