WOW WOW things sure have changed just in my liftime...WHAT do you remember.

As some of us get a little older we see a change in life just as our parents had seen a lot of changes in thier lifetimes. Well i was thinking about it one day as i realized that my daughter had no idea what a LP was...(record) for you younger folk.....but there has been so many changes and so many things that have just disappeared off the face of this planet since i was young....lets look at a couple a few shall we and se if some can add more...and this might be a ATS time capsule.

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Ahh the good old days before microwaves

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yes these were popular

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more portable music

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yes this was one of the best high fi systems to have in your home

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i used to go up the street to a niegbors to just watch the first colot tv in the area.

But let some others add some things and just to let you know when the personal PC became popular in the 80's i was using a BBS (bulletin board service) to contact my friends before the inception of the internet...and that was on a screamin fast 300baud modem....lol

but things have certainly change in my meager 48 yrs on this planet and there is soooo soooo soooo much more isn't there.....so please add all your things in whatever timespan....also i remember being allowed to stay up all night and watch the (apparent) moon landings in that same black and white philco television...i hope to so some interesting stories.

Also i would like to say that this could become a brief timecapsule in time on ATS....i breift look at history now...and maybe into the near future.

Playing Leisure Suit Larry, King's quest etc, with 5 1/2 inch floppy disks, and a whopping 40 Mb hard drive!!

(remember Prodigy?)

No seat belts, no DUI's, no helmets, no knee pads.

HA...Fisher Price Record Player

Ahhh...the good times

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LMAO i remember alll those things too...ahhh the good ole days of a decent 5"1/2 floppy and the wow a DS floppy with a massive 700kb of data....like to see programers program a game to run in that space nowadays....

I remember when you answered the phone every time it rang, because that was the only way to know who had called.
I remember when you called someone on the phone, and the first thing you said to them wasn't "Where you at?"
I remember the only 8-track tape I ever owned, it was in 9th grade. It was AC/DC's "Highway to Hell."
I remember when I was in high school, walking three blocks to the neighborhood grocery store, where you could play pac-man, defender and tron, get ice cream and mini-tacos and buy weed out back by the dumpster.
The twenty-first century sucks!!!

I remember when we first got cable TV. There was a big brown box with buttons on top and a cable that attached to the TV set. That was where you changed the channels. I think there were about 20 buttons/channels when it first came out in our area (East Tennessee) in the late 70's.

I remember my parents having a magical device called the Goblin Teasmaid which made tea for you while you slept

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Music was played through a huge badly designed contraption called a music centre

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and my dad drove around in this

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I remember when a man could order testosterone in the mail.

And he could order a radioactive brush (polonium) to get rid of pesky static electricity on whatever surface he was working with.

I remember when some smoke company made cigarette filters out of the wonder material - asbestos.

I remember man could graduate high school and then go get a job that would support his big family and get them a decent car. The dollar had value and the government was smaller.

People were much more free in those days (except for the draft... but I'm referring to the amount of regulations). Nowadays the youth don't even realize they are living in a centralized police state with a behemoth of a government, like the kind my generation was supposedly drafted to fight against.

The kids have little electronic boxes that distract them from reality and track their every move but they don't even mind. What's with that....

I remember the first computer i saw filled a room that was bigger then the four bedroom house i live in now.(by the way its the same house i lived in then)
It was a mainframe computer at a Navy Research Lab at China Lake Calif
The desktop computer i am making this post on is faster and more powerful with a lot more memory
and does not use punch cards to put the data in the computer.

From 1998 to 2003 i worked a underground gold mine.
Most of the mining equipment i used was older then i am (i am 59)
American made mining equipment that still worked fine.
The Chinese never made equipment so good.

I have hobby metal shop with a Logan lathe and a atlas metal shaper that were built in the 1940s and are like new.
They still work and could not be replaced as china does not build that is as good or as long lasting.
media.photobucket.com...

In fact i don't think anyone builds metal shapers any more. they may be obsolete. but the tooling is very cheap and that makes then perfect for a home hobby shop.
www.youtube.com...
One thing i can do is cut square holes in metal block and there is no modern machine that can do that.

I remember when the milk man would take me up on his cart to do the rounds and I'd get to hold the reins sometimes..The Ice man wasn't as friendly..
And we bought hot chips and potatoe cakes for $0.10.....
Then I could fill my car later in life for under $5.00.
Ohh and lollies tasted way better

Originally posted by backinblack
I remember when the milk man would take me up on his cart to do the rounds and I'd get to hold the reins sometimes..The Ice man wasn't as friendly..
And we bought hot chips and potatoe cakes for $0.10.....
Then I could fill my car later in life for under $5.00.
Ohh and lollies tasted way better

Oh wow! I had forgotten about the milk man. I remember when I was a kid we had Avondale milk service. The milk was in glass bottles. I still have one, which I think might be a collectible. Oh, and something else you don't hear a lot anymore is church bells ringing on Sunday morning.

I remember that back then we still have a neighborhood and cops were not aggressive as of now, and the gals were not too btchy and self-centered. (I mean no offense whatsoever to ATS female members)

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God, now I feel old but I'm only just the wrong side of 50

I think though it's what we DIDN'T have that made it so great cause we didn't miss it..
Instead of coming home from school and plugging into a TV,Xbox or Facebook, we'd get changed out of our school clothes and get out into the sunshine with our friends.
No one stayed inside because there was nothing much to do there..

So I guess what I miss most is having less........

aaaah bitter and sweet memories... I remember J-O-B opporntunities... a fat sunday paper with jobs that you called by phone to speak to someone... not post your resume online for a computer to match you to...

I remember REAL MAIL.. letters and cards from friends.... not " e cards" with lots of ads for more stuff to buy.

I remember a growing economy... real construction and boom times...

I remember money in the bank after paying the mortgage

I remember gas for . 29 cents a gallon and gas wars for 19 cents a gallon!!!!

I remember buying a weeks worth of food for $25

I remember brown hair... not grey (just thought I'd throw that in there! ha!)

I remember movies at the theater.. had real talented actors and with intelligent dialogue... the movies did not have bombs blowiing up everything and fire bombs, war... just a simple plot and love story.. the good guy wins and gets the girl without having to destroy the planet!

I remember cars were very colorful... lots of flair and style...not all same as today

I remember jute boxes for only 3 songs for 10 cents!!!

I remember REAL hamburgers.. that had food and not chemicals. ( they would mold not be preserved for 3 years like one major company that starts "Mcdon....")

I remember real music with words/lyrics happy catchy tunes....like beach boys.. ricky nelson, elvis, buddy holly... many more!

not rap animal beat of today "Mo Fo Bust a cap yo as**...fu* fu* fu* bi***ch"

Ahhhhh real music real fun!

Lots of happy memories... need I say it.... 50's 60's 70's... THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

I also remember drive-in theaters. When we were kids, I remember sometimes we would put on our pajamas and go on a Friday night. Of course we always fell asleep before the movie was over. I also remember and miss more local and family owned restaurants, not so many chain types as there are today.

i was collecting console color tv's at one time. lol. bigger the better.


i thought i was very retro.

shag carpet, filling my vw for a couple bucks. arby's had real single muscle meat.

hitch hiking everywhere till all the girls got killed by maniac's and you had to start locking the doors.

when you bought the best smoke from the older gal in school and not in the park from the dude in the top hat.


ahhhhhh, the good ol days!

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Apart from the oven at the top, I had and still have some of, those items.. .

It's funny, I was watching a tv show recently that is all about the NOW times, and one of the characters was going through a box of old things and found some video tapes...

I start thinking "Ha, as if... what are they going to play them on.." but lo and behold, they happened to have a VHS player.

Ahh never let continuity get in the way of a script, but it was still funny..

(I still have a vhs player, by the way)

Another thing I remember, the music...

It did not make me want to throw chairs at the tv on a saturday morning... I could sit there and have it in the background as I logged onto the local BBS and read my mail. oh the joys of 1200/75 baud.

I also remember my relatives coming over saturday night and screaming at me for tieing up the phone all day..

I guess that's more recent being the later 80's, but I do remember my funny contraption that DaveSpanners mentioned, for music...

Now I wanna listen to the Twillight Zone by Manhattan Transfer...

I remember when a new box of crayons was a gift from the gods.
when civics was taught in high school.
when cartoons were funny.
when cruising was legal.
when there were "party lines" on the phone and the operator was a person.
when FM radio meant something.
when Capt Kirk was a hero.
when freindship meant something.
when they held "Cold War drills" and you had to WALK as quickly as possible home FROM SCHOOL to the bomb shelter.
when food was food.
vinyl records ( and for those that remeber LP's do you remember LP stood for Long Play vs the 45's they replaced?), 8-track,cassettes, when videos were VCR's, stereo systems (and the sales people KNEW what they were talking about)....oh and I also remember that if you didn't go to the theater to see a movie when it came out you missed it for at least two years before you could see it on cable.
when you could smoke in bars, restaraunts, the bank, on the church steps....
WALKING TO AND FROM SCHOOL
when Americans were actually liked over seas.
when "Rolling Stone" was a folded up newspaper you could get at 7-11 for a quarter.
when L'Eggs nylons were sold in plastic eggs and accounts were serviced by girls with pretty legs in mini skirts.
when going to grandma's and grandpa's meant something.
when we all had the same dream and believed it possible.

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I remember nickel pinball machines
Going to the store with a quarter and getting a big Pepsi, Babe Ruth candy bar, a bag of chips and getting change back.
I remember trade ball in gum ball machines that were worth a nickel if you were lucky enough to get one.
I remember playing out under the street light and catching lightning bugs to the sound of your parents and relatives talking on the front porch in the background.
I remember walking about a mile to school and not worrying about how cold it was.
I remember sitting in the dirt and playing with little plastic army men and how fun it was.
I remember my first pair of elephant leg (big bell bottoms) jeans, boy I thought I was cool.
I remember when any parent in the nieghborhood would feed you and put a bandage on a scraped knee.
I remember collecting pop bottles in wooden crates and a wagon to get money for the movies or whatever.
I remember my mom sending me to the local store to get cigarettes and no one raised an eyebrow.
Good stuff
Seeashrink

Ahh, Memories.....

First time I saw a TV was in 1965.. and it was an awesome thing to a 5 year old.

We didn't get colour (english spelling) until 1975! Then I realised that somehow we all knew the colours even when it was grey and grey TV, lol.

When I got my first motorcycle in 1977 I could fill it up for under 40 cents.. and keep filling it up as often as I wanted to... and the bike only cost me $450!!.. quite a few weeks wages to save.

Cigarettes cost under $1 per packet in 1976. A beer was less than $1. Milk was only 30 or 40 cents, and 5 cents bought a sizeable bag of candy.

In the late 1970's it was still safe to hitchike in Australia. If a fight broke out people would pull it apart to stop it... or they would stand in a circle to make sure no one else jumped in to make it unfair.

Kids had respect for their elders and themselves back before the 80's and bleeding hearts got pester power happening.

Last year my teenage daughter asked me, "Dad, can we play one of those big black CD's tonight?" Of course she meant my old Vinyl Albums.

Lastly... Honesty... as a kid and young adult most Australians were Honest, Hard-working and happy people.. today they are brow-beaten, mostly unhappy, and everyone accepts lying as simply part of life these days.

I hate getting older!!