Tell us something that dates you

I know you. You that fat girl. And you that fat girl's friend.

I went to school with Mrs. Beasley.

My first car had a manual choke. I knew how to work that bitch to match every weather/driving condition. I weirdly miss it.

I never saw a color television until I was in 6th grade.

My pussy didn’t stink till I was 13.

Jeff Stryker on Betamax.

Is Square Pegs not a pricey dildo company?

I can sing the my buddy commercial song.

My first rock concert was Jimi Hendrix

I watched Marilyn Monroe sing happy birthday on Tv...

I watched Evel Kineval jump the Grand Canyon

I was alive when the Edsel made its (short-lived) automotive debut.

I remember when you wanted to talk to someone you actually had to walk over to their house

I've never seen a Pixar movie or listened to Lady Gaga. The most recent music I listen to is Radiohead.

I snacked on SpaceSticks and 1-2-3 Jello.

I remember when milk and shampoo came in glass bottles.

R16 I remember when milk was delivered every morning. In glass bottles. That you put out empty on the door step. At night. So they could be replaced. With milk.

I remember Captain Kangaroo. I loved Captain Kangaroo.

I remember when you had a 50/50 chance of going home bloodied and mangled after a day on the playground.

I think Cyndi Lauper is gonna be real big, but Madonna is just a fad.

“Ancient Chinese Secret, eh?”

“You’ve got mail.”

I was born in 1968.

Bruce Jenner was a sex symbol

I enjoyed a Libbyland frozen dinner from time to time, even though they were inedible!

I remember when a McDonald's hamburger, fries and a coke was UNDER a dollar!

I know who Norma Zimmer, Joe Feeney and Bobby & Cissy are!

I remember National Guard tanks patrolling Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.

I had a Myspace page.

For our friends Up North, we got The Friendly Giant on ch 13 PBS in New York (way) back in the day.

I associate SJP primarily from Square Pegs.

"Plane tickets" were multi-part carbon vouchers (by hand on most cases!) pretty much only available from travel agents.

I waited in a line around the block to see the first Star Wars movie, We didn’t know at the time that it was actually the fourth one.

I remember when cars’ red tail lights were made of red glass rather than red plastic.

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80.

I know the names of character actors on the original Twilight Zone & Afred Hitchcock Presents episodes. I can rattle them off as soon as I see them - Nehemiah Persoff, John McGiver, Craig Stevens, Howard Duff, Joyce Bulifant, Jack Weston, Barry Sullivan, Colin Wilcox, Mildred Natwick, Gary Merrill, Robert Morley ....

I'll see your Barry Sullivan and raise you Fritz Weaver.

The Jumbo Jack is too big-a-eat.

I remember Dick Clark's Steer Inn hamburger joint. Hamburgers were 25¢ fries were 15¢, soda was 10¢ It was a block away from my house & we were thrilled. It was the first fast food franchise in our town. It went out if business really fast, like within months. When I was in high school you could get a burger fries & coke at the diner for $1.25. If you didn't have much money, you and a friend could each chip in a quarter and share a huge plate if fries for 50¢.

I remember Bicentennial Minutes.

I was watching television on November 22, 1963 when Walter Cronkite interrupted to announce that President Kennedy had just been shot.

I still buy CDs.

I used a slide rule to do calculations when I was a chemistry major. I asked a co-worker’s son if he knew what a slide rule was, and he guessed it had something to do with baseball.

I don’t mind watching good, old movies in black-and-white.

I remember wanting to go into the city to see the Tall Ships for the bicentennial so bad, but neither my parents or my friends wanted to go because the local news was predicting horrible traffic, terrible congestion, apocalyptic crowding in NYC. They made such a big deal out if it that very few people traveled into the city to see them. The turnout was shockingly low.

I once bought a birthday present with H & H Green Stamps.

I know what a WIN button is.

I used to keep these in the same drawer where I keep the extra batteries.

I remember my 13 year old nephew complaining that he had to watch a black & white movie in school. He said he couldn't figure out what was going on because he was so distracted by the age of a black and white film. It was impossible for him to take it seriously.

^^^^

It was the 1980s

R43, I t would date you better if you had used S & H Green Stamps....

My first computer was an Apple IIe.

I remember when everybody and their mother smoked like chimneys, and they smoked everywhere they went in public.

My first computer had a 256K hard drive.

I saw Judy perform "live" on Boston Common in 1968.

Wait . . . It was 1967.

The McDonald's sign said, "Over 3 Million Served"

A slice and a coke cost 35 cents at the pizza place next to Woolworth's.

I remember a pet monkey for sale in the local department store pet department.

I saw Judy perform live on Boston Common in August, 1967. It was the start of Labor Day weekend. 100,000 people. She lived in Boston then, briefly, in the then-new Prudential Center Apartments.

I remember when "Walkmans" were all the rage and retailed for a "steep" $300 in Canada but you could buy them in N.Y. for $99.

I remember when Bo Derek was a huge media sensation in her skimpy swimsuit and beaded hairstyle.

My parents let me stay up to watch both 1960 conventions (watched as much as I could before falling asleep) and I followed the election results in November. I was six at the time.

"We can rebuild him. We have the technology."

The only kids show on Sunday mornings was “the magic door” and it sucked balls.

This meant something awesome was about to come on.

My first computer was an abacus, you one-upping bitches.

I remember where I was when Lincoln was shot.

I struggle to resist the urge to pogo when punk rock music plays as background in public places.

We went to my grandmother’s house to watch the moon landing because she was the only one with a color TV.

I remember...

having to walk over to the tv to turn the dial to change the channel.

making phone calls at public phone booths that had doors and tiny little seats inside.

seatbelts that only went around your waist (i.e., no over-the-shoulder strap) and they weren’t retractable.

when people asked for “Sanka” in restaurants, not decaf (and they gave you a little packet of instant Sanka with a silver pot of hot water).

when mailboxes (for sending mail, not receiving) were or at least seemed to be on every other corner and they were tiny compared to today’s mailboxes and they were attached to rough stone (cement?) posts.

Thom McAn shoe stores.

Sorry for the bad link. Trying again.

I used to record TV shows with an old tape recorder. It was long and flat and you had to push pay and record at the same time to start recording. I recorded several episodes of Charlie's Angels. Kate Jackson's voice used to turn me on.

I remember when cars had tail fins as a style element.

I remember when friends or family could walk you right up to the departure gate when you were flying. And how you could wait at the gate to pick them up on their return.

Should have said, “....and they could wait at the gate to pick you up on your return.”

I watched this live as it aired , tuned in because I was a Witchiepoo and Wicked Witch of the West fan, then became obsessed with this new band.

Mixtapes

I remember the outrage when the price of a pack of cigarettes became a dollar. I also remember the incredibly luxury of having a remote control for the television: a long cord that stretched from the TV to the sofa.

I first tasted an eggroll at the 1964 NY World's Fair.

R43, I still HAVE a"WIN" button from back in the day. Red with white lettering.

R26, And I share a birthday with Myron Floren!

The eraser on the end of my pencil in 2nd grade was W.C. Fields from Fritos

I still buy CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays.

The following program is brought to you in living color . . .

Everyone in my neighborhood had large antennas on their roofs for their TV’s.

I'm starting to see the occasional antenna again in my area and I know what they are ... kids don't!

I had one of these.

I know what A/S/L means.

American Sign Language!

Age sex location, r86.

I never saw the purpose of buying DVDs and blu rays. I skipped from DVDs to Netflix.

I remember when gas was .35 a gallon and the outrage when the price jumped to .40.

We didnt get a computer at hone, until 1997.

Blockbusters!

One of my favorite kids TV shows was Wishbone.

My first computer had a 175 mb hard drive which was considered huge at that time 1992.

I remember what it was like to see a movie in the theater and then realize you won’t see it again until one of the tv networks buys the rights to it.

I know how it feels to break a floppy disk in half by accident.

How did you manage that, r94? They’re floppy, after all.

R94 Was just about to mention floppy disks too...

I remember when loading the Internet made noise. You also couldn't use the Internet and phone at the same time. What a savage era.

When they asked you to do research at school and you had to head to the library to research books.

I remember when Burton & Taylor were the hottest thing in filmdom.

ATwater 2-3405

R97 Yes it was war. When you had to get your sister off the phone if you wanted to go on the internet. Also calling your friends' landline and having to go through their parents to talk to them.

I remember when you had to dress up for work, suit, tie and nice shoes.

This marvel of technology: the minitel

I remember when texting could result in hundreds of dollars extra on the phone bill.

I remember my grandparent's home had a telephone that looked like this and it weighed a ton:

Lincoln Logs

Back when I was in school, peanut allergies didn't exist.

I remember when kids had beepers instead of smartphones.

Back in my day, I had all the schoolboys wanting to get into my bloomers.

Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.

I was 10 years old when I saw Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead on live TV.

I remember when Long Distance calls had day, evening, and night rates.

My mom could send 9 year old me to the store with a note that gave me permission to purchase her Benson and Hedges Menthol Ultra Lights. I was able to use the change to buy a Charleston Chew and Tangy Taffy. I also remember when "TV dinners" were packaged in foil containers.

My long distance carrier was MCI.

The Merchant's Limited before Amtrak. It was the fast train to/from NYC from Boston. Trains left both cities at 5 pm and arrived in the other one at 9:15 pm: faster than most of the trains on that route today.

A complete dinner, cooked to order in the dining car, cost anywhere from $3.95 to $4.50. The apple pie was amazing.

Downtown (South Station) to mid-town (Grand Central), no traffic, and no TSA.

I worked for Sprint when it was still part of Southern Pacific Railroad.

[quote]I've never listened to Lady Gaga.

r14, that doesn't date you so much as mark you as a person of better taste than most on Datalounge.

I co-wrote “Running with Dinosaurs.”

The Beatles released a new album in America in each of my teenage years.

When I was in the eighth grade my friend wanted to keep coming over to my house because I was one of only two kids in my class who had Internet at home and she wanted to use it.

r120, you're a baby.

This was my first grade lunchbox.

^^^ This was mine! I almost corrected to say Kindergarten, but then realized I come from an era of half day Kindergarten when we went home at lunch time so the second group could come to school. So it was a big deal in first grade to get your lunch box.

I like to sing-a About the moon-a and the June-a And the spring-a

White dog poo.

This. When tv programs were signing on for the day. Ditto at night for sign off.

I remember when these came out

I remember telephone party lines you could pick up the receiver and listen to your neighbors conversation.

I remember my dad taking the tubes out of the tv to take to Thrifty's. He'd stick them in a machine to figure out which one needed to be replaced. I would get a nickel ice cream cone.

Popsicles sold for 5 cents circa 1965.

I remember Gee, You Hair Smells Terrific! and Prell.

Our first computer was a TRS-80

[quote]I was watching television on November 22, 1963 when Walter Cronkite interrupted to announce that President Kennedy had just been shot.

Why weren't you in school or at work, bitch?

I was Olivia DeHavilland's babysitter.

R133 I actually was home sick from elementary school. I remember Cronkite breaking down on live TV.

Being carted around by my mom in a 1968 Rambler American.

my boyfriend.

My first job, I was paid $3.45 per hour. The minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. I felt special that in my first job, I was getting paid more than minimum wage.

[quote]I like to sing-a About the moon-a and the June-a And the spring-a

"I Like to Singa" is actually a parody of "The Jazz Singer" which seems obvious but not to a child, I guess.

John Taylor is hotter than Nick or Simon.

R15 Space Sticks!! (Did you grow up in Houston?)

The Friday night line up of The Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple and Love American Style.

I remember when $12,000.00 a year was a middle class income.

I remember when McDonalds had on their sign an actual number. Over 500,000 sold!

Shrinky Dinks and Shake-a-Puddin'

I can now officially play a grandpa on a CW show.

With a quarter from both me and my friend Bobby O'Neill, we could buy a pack of Winstons and two pieces of Bazooka bubble gum and go smoke at Turner's Pond.

I remember when Wednesdays were Prince Spaghetti days.

R147 and threw something off the Tallahassee Bridge.

I remember watching Betty White on tv before she appeared on Golden Girls.

[quote]Why weren't you in school or at work, bitch?

To be fair, he was long since retired by the time Kennedy was killed.

I still tuck my shirt in

Time to stop, R152. My father does too. In jeans. With a belt. I beg him not to, and he won't listen.

I used to have a clock radio. With fluorescent hands that could show the time in the dark.

Lunch was a gay old time.

I remember Betamax as a teen.

My first crush was Christopher Reeve in Superman. Eight year old me thought he was beautiful.

My favorite tv show as a kid was The Bionic Woman. My favorite toy was Jamie Sommers and her mission purse!

Frozen Crisco

I had a Hair Bear lunchbox. My cousin had a Julia lunchbox. I wish I had both of them now because I would put them on Ebay and retire.

My mother would give us kids a buck to go to the store and get her cigarettes (Pall Malls?), and we'd get to keep the change.

I was born during the Korean War.

You handed your money to the NYC bus driver to pay your fare and he would give you the appropriate change back. Later, they made the fare boxes that would give you change from a chute.

Though born later that year, I was still just a future egg coming down the pipe when Diana Ross left the Supremes.....

I remember when the Space Shuttle blew up.

My mom dressed me in fashionable clothes like this.

R153 - my very cool 30-something sons are now tucking with a belt!

[quote]my very cool 30-something sons are now tucking with a belt!

Are they transitioning? Tucking is so much easier now than it was in my day.

I watched Fonzie jump the shark.

R138 I could have written your memory! Did we work at the same place for a first job? Showbiz Pizza for me (now known as Chuck E. Cheese).

Also, I made mix tapes.

When I was a kid, we had a party line.

I had a crush on John Taylor (Duran Duran).

I can remember when cities had zones, pre-ZIP code.

Example: Memphis 6, Tennessee.

I can also remember 4¢ first class stamps.

R170 I still do.

R163: Challenger.

I remember it, too. I remember realizing we were watching our explorers die on live TV.

It may have made me extra emotional this past weekend about the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing. Remembering Challenger made me realize how dangerous Apollo 11 was.

R168, I think we need a mixtape thread...

I remember buying airmail postage stamps.

Our phone number started with DRake 6- (and could be dialed with a pencil.)

R175, How about when people sent Air Mail letters written on onion skin paper to keep the postage lower?

Mom used to give me 10¢ to go buy some penny candy. I would come home with a bagful.

I remember when you could buy a new Ford car for under $2,000. Granted it was a Pinto, but still listed for $1,999

My first 'real' job was as a paperboy. The weekly subscription for delivery to your front door was $.90, and the Sunday paper was an additional 40 cents.

Our TV had a rabbit ear antenna.

I still prefer a land line, given the choice.

I watched The Sonny and Cher Variety Show when they used to bring Chastity out at the end to sing I Got You Babe with them. My favorite sketch they did was Cher laying on a piano singing "She's a scamp and a camp and bit of a vamp, V-A-M-P, VAMP. One season it was on Friday nights opposite The Brady Bunch so I sat in front of the tv (no clicker) and kept switching channels back and forth during commercials so I could watch both.

I remember when Patty Hearst was kidnapped.

I remember when Elvis died, I was high school, summer break working at Sears in the Shoe Dept. Sears at the time had a nice candy counter and a restaurant.

I remember when Buffy from Family Affair died (Anissa Jones).

I remember when Andy Williams ex wife, Claudine, was on trial for killing her lover.

I remember when celebrities could take a shit without announcing it on ever possible media source.

R182 my mother has video of 6 year old me doing a perfect lip sync of [quote]"She's a scamp and a camp and bit of a vamp, V-A-M-P, VAMP. I even did the end part when all of the characters would come out.

And that naive, sweet woman was still shocked when I came out to her almost two decades later.

I was on top of the piano and everything.

Using carbon paper to make copies of personally written or typed correspondence. And, when I was very young now that I think of it, cuneiform-engraved tablets on some occasions too.

My Aunt used to send me as a kid to the corner store with fifty cents and a note for a pack of cigarettes, Salems.

I miss Burger Chef.

One of the mall’s shoe stores had a talking mynah bird in a cage.

My dad sent my Walkman back to Japan for repairs.

The first computer game I wrote was stored on a cassette tape.

Atari and Coleco Vision. Donkey Kong.

I remember the Joan Davis show.

The first year I went to Ptown, you could just dial 4 digits to get another number in town.

My mullet, but I love it and will never change it...it varies a bit in length, but essentially the same style for the past 30 years.

I don't like using my debit or credit cards for purchases under $30 or so. I like to use cash, still, for smaller purchases. Except on the airplane when I'm buying mini bottles of vodka and Pringles and they only accept credit cards. Then, I will gladly use my credit card.

You, bitches. You date me.

[quote]My mullet, but I love it and will never change it...it varies a bit in length, but essentially the same style for the past 30 years.

You're a lesbian, right?

Snoopy tennis

I still have a pong game hooked up to my console TV.

Not really old but I miss this phone.

R49 Yeah everybody smoked everywhere and no one thought anything about it. It was just normal. And they smoked on television too. Newscasters on TV reporting JFK’s death while sucking on cigarettes. Johnny Carson interviewing guests with a cigarette in his hand and a big old ashtray on his desk. And the guests all smoked too.

"Bobbie joined a new wave band, changed her name to Bobbysox...."

I remember the summer when [italic]this[/italic] song was the hit everyone danced to.

Taking a deep whiff of freshly mimeographed paper

"Sun In, and sun light, and you'll be blonder to- night"

Transistor radio hanging on the handlebars of my bike - and the beige ear plug -- only for one ear!

Raking the living room shag

Waiting for the tubes to warm up before the tv picture appeared.

I remember when people would write letters to each other, in longhand, and send them in the mail.

[quote]I remember when Andy Williams ex wife, Claudine, was on trial for killing her lover.

"I'm afraid Helmut Kindel is out of this race; it appears he has been accidentally shot by Claudine Longet!"

I remember when the first movie was just called "Star Wars". And it still is, as far as I'm concerned.

My first phone number was 2 longs followed by 1 short.

I remember when standard equipment in a new automobile was an AM RADIO (no FM, no Cassette, no CD) and air conditioning was about an $ 800-1,000. option,

R206, standard with ashtrays and cigarette lighter

When did cars stop having small vent windows on the driver and passenger doors?

Avon necklaces and bracelets for men.

I remember putting those little colored rubber stoppers in Coke , Fresca and Tab bottles. To keep them fresh in the fridge.

Buying a parakeet at Woolworths.

Shopping in Downtown Macon.

Paying a dime to pee in Newberrys.

I remember diving under desks in elementary school as part of regular disaster preparedness and was no big deal.

An attendant pumped your gas , cleaned your windshield and checked your oil. Plus , gave me a piece of gum.

The dry cleaners did home delivery

In a nice restaurant or bar , all the ladies drank Tom Collins . Kiddies drank Shirley Temples.

Women had their hair SET , once a week. My grandmother's hairdresser was a male and STRAIGHT .

An attendant pumped your gas , cleaned your windshield and checked your oil. Plus , gave me a piece of gum.

The dry cleaners did home delivery

In a nice restaurant or bar , all the ladies drank Tom Collins . Kiddies drank Shirley Temples.

Women had their hair SET , once a week. My grandmother's hairdresser was a male and STRAIGHT .

Duck and cover. Generic solution for avoiding injury from falling debris due to earthquakes or nuclear war.

[quote]My grandmother's hairdresser was a male and STRAIGHT .

Heh. Okay.

Thanks bitches. I really miss the 60's and 70's.

I remember when Belinda Carlisle went solo, changed her look, and lost weight. Everyone lost their shit. Okay maybe it was just David Letterman. She wasn’t even that big before by today’s frau standards.

Second Lunchbox. Still have the thermos

1st lunchbox.

FUCK, I had A LOT of lunchboxes

TV being interrupted because of the Regan assisantion attempt.

Smoking in grocery stores

The USSR/Nuclear war hysteria and that movie I was afraid to watch because of the constantly running promo of this robed, white lady walking out to get her paper and 3 missiles flying above her house. I can’t think of the name...but it scurred me shitless. STILL gives me the chills.

^^assassination^^

My social security number is 4.

My first phone number was POmpeii III - CDLXI

My first phone number was POmpeii III - CDLXI

I remember when total tops were called do-me queens.

[quote]Taking a deep whiff of freshly mimeographed paper

I think you mean DITTOed. That was the stuff that printed in purple and had that chemical smell. Mimeographs didn't have a distinctive odor.

When my Lesbian Great Aunt by marriage , was whispered about. They always stopped when I entered the room .

My first job out of college as an entry level Federal employee paid $8,055/year. And my first apartment, in San Jose, CA, was $125/mo. (1 bedroom.)

I used “International Male” magazines to jack off.

People insisting that Liberace wasn't gay; that he was simply "rather colorful."

I remember the Dalmatian on Wheel of Fortune.

R231 I had an aunt and uncle who went to Vegas twice a year to see Liberace for decades. My uncle was a cop and he swore Liberace wasn't gay.

My mother, his brother, wondered how a cop could be selectively deaf and blind.

I watched TV commercials for Bucky Beaver and Ipana Toothpaste. I also "wondered where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent."

I watch the original Leave it to Beaver, The Nelsons, and American Bandstand.

I saw the debut episode of ⏳ DOOL !

The neighborhood Greek diner featured Greek dogs, burgers, fries, and chili @ 3 items for $1.00.

You walked to school @ St. Anthony's. Public schools only picked up student who lived over one mile from school.

Coca Cola came in glass bottles with metal caps that had to be removed with a bottle cap remover.

I remember oozing to life out of the primordial soup. I was all alone.

I remember enjoying the opening of The 4:30 Movie" in New York.

I remember when Keith Richards looked only half-dead.

R212 That was our version of "active shooter drill" in schools today. I remember reading a sociologist's assessment that the explicit threat of nuclear annihilation of the whole world affected kids deeply, and fueled the embrace of the "counterculture" by the mid-late 60s. If so, I wonder if there'll be some similar society-wide impact by "shelter in place" experience by kids.

I got a Nehru jacket. I must have been in 4th or 5th grade. I wore it with a white turtleneck. It was thrilling to me. Honestly, I had no clue at the time why other boys in class teased me or worse.

I had a Dr. Ben Casey white shirt.

I thought I was so cool!

Saddle Shoes and Suede Bucks.

I wore a Don Johnson Miami Vice white suit to a school dance! I thought I was such hot shit!

I remember when Bob Barker hosted "Truth or Consequences."

I mortgaged everything I had to purchase front row tickets to Judy at Carnegie Hall.

My dream was to be a Solid Gold dancer...

I remember when men's briefs only came in white.

I remember when power steering and windows weren't standard equipment on every car. I was only a kid back then but I still remember it.

[quote]My mother, his brother, wondered how a cop could be selectively deaf and blind.

Wait. You mother was his brother?!

[quote]I thought I was such hot shit!

You were. And you still are today.

R248 … and the surgeon looked down at the table and said, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son."

I watched Kaptain Kangaroo.

I remember when car radios were AM radio only, and there would be all kinds of static and interference when you drove under a power line.

And no sound at all when you drove under an overpass, r252.

R248: my bad: "My mother, his sister"

These guys date me.

I watched The Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

And I do remember where I was when Kennedy was shot.

I owned a red 1977 Mustang with an eight-track tape player.

[quote]I remember when Bob Barker hosted "Truth or Consequences."

I remember when Jack Bailey hosted [italic]Truth or Consequences[/italic]—and Ralph Edwards before that.

[quote]And I do remember where I was when Kennedy was shot.

It's okay, buddy. No one's blaming you for it any more. They caught the guy who did it.

I remember when the bakery truck made the rounds in our neighborhood. The man would come to the back door, and drop off bread ("Pullman loaves"), donuts etc. He would run back to the truck to get other items that weren’t part of your regular order if you asked.

....

This was our bakery.

I remember when car radios only had one speaker in the front premium car radios had a second speaker in the back.

Extra points if you know the lyrics to the theme song.

The milkman delivered milk and juice in glass bottles on Monday and Thursday. We had a silver metal milk box with a lid, and some type of white insulation padding. It was probably asbestos.

But did they catch the real killer r258 ?

Our milk box was wooden with a metal lining. In winter, you had to bring the milk in pronto or it would freeze.

I remember the birth of our universe. It was dark. Then, it was bright and very hot and buzzy and tingly.

And, here we are now.

Can't say I'm pleased with the progression

My mom had floral bubble bath that was powdered and came in small white envelopes with pictures of flowers representing the fragrance.

Why yes, of course I used it. Along with the pretty bar of sweetheart soap.

I remember when HR was the "Personnel Dept" and when you could get hired for a basic job on the spot without having to be investigated like you were applying to be a CIA Agent.

I remember when Trump wasn't president, just another ridiculous idiot.

I did the Happy Dance on the day that we had two flushing toilets installed at the Darfur Orphanage.

My God, that was six years ago. Where does the time go?

R268. Jesus. I remember those. "Honeysuckle"

I remember when sliced bread was invented. We were so astonished and thrilled! In fact, they even held a parade in sliced bread's honor a year later.

My dad took me to Freedom in the Bronx. Twice!

My dad also took me to Yankee Stadium on October 1, 1961 and we got to see Roger Maris hit h is 61st home run which was a really big deal back then.

I frequently ate at the Automat and Chock Full o' Nuts and remember when all food was real food, even Twinkies.

I had both Barbie and GI Joe original dolls and wondered how I could get them to have a combo baby doll when neither had genitals. I thought maybe the baby doll could come out of Barbie's boobs.

I remember when Michael Jackson was a black man.

I remember when Michael Jackson was a black boy!

I remember when Disney World opened in 1971. My family didn't go until 1974. It was just the Magic Kingdom and the Contemporary and Polynesian Hotels. I grew up in NYC so was used to elegant hotels but taking the Monorail through the hotels was the most elegant, futuristic thing I experienced in my 8 year old life. We didn't stay at either hotel, rather, the Best Western in Kissimmee.

I remember...

The World Trade Center being built

Coming home from grade school and my Mom watching the Watergate hearings

Watching Operation Sail from a balcony off my Dad's office in Lower Manhattan

Going on family trips in one car and three brothers (four of us in the backseat and a trunk full of suitcases and other paraphernalia for a month in the summer). On the same note, I can remember riding in the front seat between my parents with no seatbelt on. Also on the subject of cars...what a big deal it was to get a car with FM, as well as AM.

Getting dressed up to take a plane trip. If someone were going abroad, it was a big deal.

Dressing up in a jacket and tie, if we went out to a restaurant for dinner. Getting a new suit/jacket and tie for Easter

Not watching tv for most of the summer

Rotary phones, telephone exchange names (TE6-xxxx), not having to dial area codes, not dialing the first three numbers if you were making a call to a number in the same town, getting busy signals, calling long distance, person to person, or collect.

Going to department stores with your mother's charge plate and a note from her allowing you to use it. Getting dressed up to go shopping at department stores.

Matrons in movie theaters for Saturday afternoons.

No ATMs...you had better have known a store that would cash a check for cash if the banks were closed.

Milk in a bottle...the little silver/metalic box at the backdoor the Milkman delivered the milk too.

Diaper service

I remember when McDonalds only sold various types of hamburgers, french fries, shakes and soda. I remember when the Egg McMuffin was introduced and still remember all the words to the jingle from the commercial set to the tune of "Carolina in the Morning."

[quote]Our milk box was wooden with a metal lining. In winter, you had to bring the milk in pronto or it would freeze.

Our box was all metal, no lining. In the winter, the lid would freeze shut and we would have to bring it in and warm it up to open the lid to get the milk. It was like metal ice cube trays. They would stick to the bottom of the freezer and we would have to pull on them to get them out.

Once milk was no longer delivered, we used that box to sit on, used it to get up to the porch instead of the stairs, used it as home base for ball games. I wish I had that metal milk box today! Once milk was no longer delivered by mother would buy bags of milk in the store. We thought bags of milk were weird because milk was supposed to come in cartons.

Shag carpet

[quote]Tell us something that dates you

Anything with fifty bucks.

The 8th floor men's room at Macy's and the one on the furniture floor at Bloomingdale's

I remember when blacks used to behave and there were no thugs driving around listening to rap music.

[quote]These guys date me.

Meh. I've dated worse.

I remember when Helmut Berger was hot.

[quote]I remember the Dalmatian on Wheel of Fortune.

I am NOT Dalmatian!

R230 for the memories.

Fizzies.

For fellow Canadians, I remember the October Crisis.

I'm familiar with the word "Dashiki"

You whore, R289! I remember Fizzies.

Would have been even better if I knew what vodka was back then!

Cool and Creamy pudding in a tub, like Cool Whip, also by Bird's Eye. How something as delicious as that pudding could fade away in a few short years and something as disgusting as Cool Whip would still be around about 50 years later is beyond me. Must have been the pudding cost too much to make and CW could probably be made for a couple of cents worth of chemicals, even today.

I had Byrds glasses. And it took me forever to find them.

I remember when Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. I also remember my Nonna from the old country called Jackie a "puttana" for marrying him.

We had a milkman, too. Mondays and Thursdays. With the metallic, insulated box somebody upthread described.

I watched the Huntley–Brinkley Report at 6PM with my parents, including graphic footage of the Vietnam conflict. I was five. For years, I awoke with night terrors after dreaming of being there.

R295 Was that because she wasn’t Greek?

McDonald's is your kind of place.

They serve you rattlesnakes.

Hamburgers up your nose.

French fries between your toes.

The last time that I was there.

They fried my underwear.

I really didn't care.

It was a dirty pair.

And how about those frosty shakes

Made from polluted lakes?

McDonald's is your kind of place!

Pixie Sticks

Pop Rocks

Atomic Fireballs

Frozen Milk Shake Candybars

Pixie Sticks

Pop Rocks

Atomic Fireballs

Frozen Milk Shake Candybars

I remember when people used to say "This place is so restricted" when talking about certain buildings on the UES and places like Bronxville or New Canaan.

I remember when the candy Pop Rocks killed the Mikey kid from the Life commercial.

Bullshit R302, he died in Viet Nam!

I'm old enough to remember when "balling" was slang for sex and not for however it is used now.

[quote]I remember when HR was the "Personnel Dept" and when you could get hired for a basic job on the spot without having to be investigated like you were applying to be a CIA Agent.

OMG me too!

I remember using Vaseline and lotion for butt sex before we had fancy water-based lube.

r304 What does "balling" mean now?

R307 - I think it means black people playing basketball.

Here you go, R307

I got points for penmanship.

r310=Claude Daigle

[quote]I'm old enough to remember when "balling" was slang for sex and not for however it is used now.

I remember when "making love" didn't refer to sexual intercourse.

We were a young girl when Paris was liberated. It still makes us sad.

R311 I'm old enough to know who Claude Daigle is.

My first telephone had a rotary dial and it was on a party line with a dozen of my neighbors.

I ordered the hot wheels set from Apple...but, it’s only for show!

[quote]I remember when "making love" didn't refer to sexual intercourse.

What did it mean?

R317 is was the classy person's way of saying "pitching woo".

My first TV crush, except he was in B&W at the time.

I remember when you had to write a note with a quill pen, and then ring for the servant to hand carry it to someone's house.

As a very young child I vaguely remember Michael Jackson’s original nose and skin color in that Thriller video that they played over and over again. Because when Bad came out I also distinctly remember MJ looking very different from before.

[quote]I remember when you had to write a note with a quill pen, and then ring for the servant to hand carry it to someone's house.

You had to ring? Oh my, how gauche. Must have been like ringing the dinner bell on a ranch for heavens sake. I can hardly imagine anything more revolting.

Why was he not standing by? If you’re penning a letter, surely he must know it has to go to post at some point. Darling, you need better help.

I remember helping mommy stamp handwritten Christmas cards.....a hundred of them.

R322, I was up in my room, and the servant was below stairs. One never has men servants attend one in their rooms. Surely you know this is not done. Just because the rumors are floated that we are penniless is no reason to lower standards.

[quote]One never has men servants attend one in their rooms.

Ain’t that why they there for?

Miss Dashwood, as a gay man you’re creating confusion for me. I think I’m in love with you.

I remember when everyone wanted to get AYDS!

Judy Garland would have been a great Ayds spokesperson,

Rock Hudson was a WONDERFUL Ayds spokesperson.

My favorite kids' show was Shari Lewis and Lambchop. But I also loved the Captain, Mr. Greenjeans, Bunny Rabbit, and Dancing Bear.

I used the original Herbal Essence shampoo.

The Soupy Sales Show was one of my favorite shows.

R331 Faberge Organics Wheat Germ, Oil and Honey Shampoo: Totally Ruled 1977.

Breck Basic Texturizing Shampoo

I am so old:

More than one Christmas receiving this. I think I wore it once... maybe 14 years old?

I remember when I first started having sex with men, some of them had huge cans of Crisco on the nightstand. I thought that was really weird.

To add to the novelty shampoos of the 70s I present Body on Tap, made with real beer- but don’t drink it!

I remember when Miss Lily Elsie caused a scandal when she hiked up her skirt and revealed a bare ankle.

I witnessed the murder of Desmond Taylor.....

I witnessed Tara burning to the ground.

I remember this entire jingle (and not because I looked it up on youtube).

You've got the look, I want to know better You've got the look, that's so together Working Playing Day or Night Jordache has the fit that's right The Jordache Look

When it says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label, you will like it like it like it on your table table table

I saw "Mary Poppins" and "The Music Man" in the movie theater on their first run.

R311

R314

Thank you for the riddle.

I have a smallpox vaccination scar.

The first time I flew anywhere, it was on Braniff Airlines.

I remember when...

Beijing was Peking

Guangzhou was Canton

Chongqing was Chung King

Mumbai was Bombay

Kolkata was Calcutta

Chennai was Madras

Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon

I can diagram sentences.

I remember some of the clues that [italic]proved[/italic] Paul was dead. 1. He's barefoot on the cover of Abbey Road.

I can watch a great old movie or TV show that has fine acting and writing etc and not be put off by any un-PC content. Now that's rare these days.

I taught Prissy how to birth babies.

LOL! Me too, R343! We were on vacation. I think watching me watch The Music Man was the moment my mother "knew."

right there with you, R335. And Jade East soap on a rope was the other entry into teenage fragrance. From 13 to 18 this stuff was in the Christmas stocking every year. Perfect how it coincided with the testosterone explosion.

R348, me too.

The scent that all the preppy kids liked at my high school, was Canoe. Anyone remember it? And I Remember when the highschool girls all started wearing men's cologne.THey thought it was cool.

I remember three of my great-grandparents. They were born in the 19th century.

Hai Karate, be careful how you use it.

[quote]My favorite kids' show was Shari Lewis and Lambchop.

You have kids old enough to have liked Shari Lewis?

Can you Canoe?

[quote]The scent that all the preppy kids liked at my high school, was Canoe.

My most pretentious preppy friend (a girl) not only loved and wore Canoe, she insisted we pronounce it KAH-no-way'.

Oh Jesus, Jade East was a cheapish, citrus-like scent. Canoe was upscale in packaging, but unpleasantly sweet. Hai Karate was like dishwashing soap. Brut? Cheap, musky, manly.

How did we survive? (This is survival, right? Right?)

R361 With Aramis.

I bought Aramis because the second guy I had sex with wore it, and I liked it on him. This was my freshman year in college. When I went home for the summer, my father wouldn't let me wear Aramis in the house. He really meant it. He made me take a shower anytime I put it on, and threatened to change the locks unless I gave him the bottle.

Years later, I can smell how awful it smells.

R341 Did all commercials in the '70s have the production values of local cable access?

my mother was a "Breck Girl."

R363 I worked on the Aramis brand when I worked for Estee Lauder I never wore it, I found it was effective at keeping the pigeons off my city terrace when I sprinkled a few drops in the places they would land.

What does that mean, exactly, r366, "worked on the Aramis brand"?

I mixed baby oil and iodine together for sun tanning.

R367

Maybe that he is René d'Herblay?

Watching "The Price is Right" and "The Joker's Wild" as a four-year-old with my grandma in the mornings before she's go to the hair salon and take me to the Kmart to ride the mechanical horse and get an Icee. That is, until one morning, on the way out when I tripped and fell off her porch into a cactus garden, brutally spiking my little hands and knees, and had to be more or less baptized in iodine.

Braggi was a better fragrance r363

I don't remember that one, r371. Not even the name.

I remember the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

[quote]That is, until one morning, on the way out when I tripped and fell off her porch into a cactus garden, brutally spiking my little hands and knees, and had to be more or less baptized in iodine.

Wow. All of my great-grandparents (two of whom I knew) were born in the nineteenth century, and my dad's parents were both born in the year 1900.

I don’t remember what I did last night, but I remember every detail of the appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, 1964. I was 8-years-old at the time and that Sunday evening couldn’t come fast enough for me.

It was later on as an adult that I came to appreciate their appearance giving a much needed boost to a country recovering from the assassination of JFK.

Zimm Zamm

I watched Zoom and I can speak Ubbi Dubbi.

^ I watched Zoom, too. And the Electric Company when Morgan Freeman was a player.

I knew Ninbanda when she was Banda from Shruppak,

I’m not going to say how old I am, but I’ll just say that Methuselah dude was an asshole.

Talk about the “get off my lawn” type.

I was put on restrictions for hiding my older sister's Lydia Pinkham pills.

I loved to play "Jacks".

I'm old enough to know who Witchiepoo is.

Bonus point for remembering that she rode around on her Vroom Broom.

R384. I loved those shows! I got thrown out of a business meeting once for making a reference to how gay they were. Everyone. Running around trying to blow Freddie the Flute.

Whamo

[quote]I loved to play "Jacks".

And I like to play [italic]with[/italic] Jacks.

I'm old enough to know that Billie Hayes, who played Witchiepoo, also played O'Reilly, Robert Scorpio's assistant in espionage on General Hospital in 1981.

I was a kid during that Witchiepoo era, too. Didn't Granny Moses from BHB play in one of those kid's programs back then?

Witchiepoo and Wicked Witch of the West

Witchiepoo and Wicked Witch of the West

Billie Hayes also played Weenie the Genie in Lidsville.

[quote]Didn't Granny Moses from BHB play in one of those kid's programs back then?

No, Irene Ryan did NOT appear on any of those Sid and Marty Croft kids shows.

Although Irene with her oddball looks would have fit in on those shows nicely.

I remember watching Richard Simmons TV show and getting up and exercising with him. My father quickly put a stop to that because boys don't exercise.

Charles Nelson Reilly as Hoodoo the evil magician.

Witchiepoo meets Hoodoo

I remember Soupy Sales telling us kids to go into our parents wallets and send the green pieces of paper.

I remember when Britney Spears put her second album on Itunes....those were the days.

r319, is that Jodie Foster's father-in-law?

This thread seems like a good place to park the following vid....

[quote]Billie Hayes also played Weenie the Genie in Lidsville.

Billie Hayes also was a replacement cast member (Mammy Yokum) in the original Broadway production of "L'il Abner" along with....Valerie Harper! They are both in the movie version.

I remember lazy summer days playing Jarts in the backyard.

[quote] rage and retailed for a "steep" $300 in Canada but you could buy them in N.Y. for $99

I remember the hundreds of small Israeli-owned electronic stores all over Manhattan. They sold cameras, radios, mini TVs, calculators, calculator watches, calculator pens, pen and mechanical pencil sets, Walkmans, boom boxes, etc. You'd look at something in the window and a guy would come out the door immediately and say, "You like that? You wanna buy it? Come in, I give you good price. Come on, come in! Don't stand there!"

They were so pushy and obnoxious SNL made a recurring sketch about them whenever Tom Hanks was on. "Come on, you like it, you buy it! Don't waste my time! This is very good, it's cheaper model but it has Sony guts! Very good!" They expanded the sketch to "Sabra Home Shopping Network" and "Sabra Price is Right." These stores were so ubiquitous they were one of those New York things, like dirty water dogs and soft pretzel vendors. They disappeared almost overnight when home computers came along and places like Computer City and Staples opened.

Women wore size appropriate clothing. One did not see overweight and obese women flouncing around in bikinis, midriff tips and shorts that are way too short.

There's a Fatsina who gets on the bus sometimes at the same time I do, r404, whom you would loathe. Her stretch pants look sprayed on and are XXXL, as is everything else she wears, and she stinks like a French whorehouse. Truly disgusting in every way.

[quote] I remember Soupy Sales telling us kids to go into our parents wallets and send the green pieces of paper

I got smacked and yelled at for that!

My father was asleep on the couch when Soupy said to get your parents wallets and take out the green pieces of paper. I went over to the couch and tried to take my fathers wallet out of his pants pocket. He woke up with a start, slapped me and yelled. I cried. My mother came in the living room from the kitchen wanting to know what happened. I tried to explain but didn't really have a good enough vocabulary at that age. My father was very immature and behaved like more of a child than I did, pointing his finger at me and yelling that I did it, it was my fault. My mother yelled at me and I got sent to my room. They never understood what I was trying to tell them -- Soupy said so! He said to do it!

It didn't occur to them that the kiddie show host on tv with the funny tie and puppets told me to go into my father's pants pocket.

I watched Soupy Sales then, r406. I can't believe kids were that stupid.

I was 4 years old. I knew my dad kept his wallet in his pants pocket because he took a nap on the couch every evening and I saw his wallet sticking out of it and knew there were green papers inside. When Soupy said to go into the wallet and take out the green papers I thought he was going to tel us to do something really funny with the papers.

I doubt any of the money they got at the tv station was from real kids. Teens and people in their early 20s used to watch his show for innuendos. They probably sent in a few bucks as a joke.

I begged my parents to buy cans of spinach. Both my parents hated spinach so they refused. I couldn't understand why they didn't want me to grow big and strong so I could throw fat bad guys across the room and into the wall with my windmill punches.

When television stations were young, in the ‘50s, it was cool if you had your birthday party at the studios where they would show cartoons and give you and your friends hotdogs and ice cream. I wish videotape was around in those days ‘cause I would like to see 5-year-old me in black-and-white.

Pong. Loved it.

[QUOTE]Tell us something that dates you

I was in the audience the night Lincoln was shot.

During summer vacation leaving home in the morning on my bike and not coming home until dark.

That hairy arm and the voice would make me laugh until I cried, pure joy.

Ohmygawd, "Sabra Price is Right" !!!

My best friend and I still laugh at that sketch. "Schmuely Goldblatt! Come on down! Let's go, LET'S GO!!!!"

I remember watching Claire say on Another World 'Hiya, Iris!" stealing the scene, just as Harding Lemay once wrote that she did.

I watched "E/R" (1984-85) the half-hour sitcom in real time, also starring George Clooney.

[quote]I remember watching Claire say on Another World 'Hiya, Iris!"

That wasn't Ada's line?

I remember the unedited version of Battle of the Planets--barely

Martika--PRE-Toy Soldiers, Fergy--PRE BEP, Mario Lopez--Pre SBTB and Extra and Rashaan Patterson on KIDS Incorporated

Freeman and Moreno on Electric Company

Over a half century later, I still remember the alluring smell of the white paste elementary school students were expected to bring to school each year.

And I remember looking on in amused amazement as I watched some fat kid in the next row start putting small chunks of it in his mouth and eating it!

I was that fat kid, Mr. r420.

[quote]I remember watching Claire say on Another World 'Hiya, Iris!" stealing the scene, just as Harding Lemay once wrote that she did.

[quote]That wasn't Ada's line?

No, Ada didn't say that. But the character who did say that was named Clarice, not Claire. She said it when Phillip Wainwright brought her to Iris's party.

FYI: The actress who played Clarice was Gail Brown, the sister of actress Karen Black (and knowing who Karen Black is certainly dates me).

Say What ?

Two other Israeli owned businesses in NY were car services and moving companies. The car companies always had the same 7 numbers, like "Call Jerusalem car service 666-6666!" and "Good rates at Sabra! Call 777-7777!" This was before you had to enter 1 and the area code when making a 212 call. I was in one if those cars during the now-forgotten nor'easter that flooded downtown NYC & parts of the FDR Drive. People were being rescued by boat from the "East River Drive" part if the FDR. Cars were abandoned above that and their drivers were sitting on the lawn of Gracie Mansion waiting for the water to recede. You never hear if that nor'easter anymore because Superstorm Sandy caused mire flooding. I worked at NYUMC and the basements were flooded (Hell, First Avenue was flooded. Lots of our employees' cars were totaled in the parking lots along the FDR..) They had no reason NOT to expect they would flood again in a similar storm. So did they move their generators out of the basement? Nooooo. So they wound up needing to transfer babies from NICU to other hospitals at the height of Superstorm. Sandy.

Back to Israeli owned businesses. The moving companies were huge rip offs and the guys were very intimidating. No doubt at least a million people filed complaints about them with the AG's office. Nothing ever happened. My bf (now husband) is Ashkenazi Jewish and was infuriated by these guys. We moved about 6 times in 6 years until we got into middle income housing (which was eventually turned into luxury condos and we middle class people got the boot). He always swore he wasn't going to get ripped off by them, but he was skinny as a rail and there were always at least two of those guys and they would never back down. Once, he managed to steal a moving blanket from them and was proud of himself for years. We still have it.

I wonder who runs the moving company racket in NYC now.

Thanks for, uh, sharing, r424.

I guess.

Kool Ade ...... America's Favorite Drink in an Envelope !

5¢ per package. Makes 2qts.

I know what carbon paper is and what it was used for.

[quote]Kool Ade

Oh dear

King Sunny Ade

What were the dinosaurs like, r410?

And Flavor Aid.

And Flavor Aid.

I watched the first moon walk of Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin on a black & White TV

I vividly remember the bicentennial.

I have a vague memory of hearing the words "Vietnam" and "Watergate" all the time when I was a kid.

I've been a Howard Stern listener for 37 years.

r431/r432=Jim Jones

I was banned from my grossma’s room during Lawrence Welk because I danced and I may have eaten all her diabetic candy.

Where do they call grandma grossma?

I’m laughing at the irony of having candy for diabetics.

r437 It's german.

^^^ I like the Greek Yaya!

As a kid I could get $10 standing room ticket to the biggest hit on Broadway.

^^^ I like the Lebanese Dudu.

My shoes were ruined in Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

I had a Winky Dink magic TV screen.

Though I didn't’ use it very often. That show was moronic.

There was a forgotten game show called "Camouflage in the early '60s, in which contestants had to find hidden objects concealed within illustrations. I had the home version, which, like "Winky Dink," came with a plastic overlay you could put over your TV screen to play along at home. I played the home game but don't recall ever using the plastic overlay when the TV show was on, probably because my parents thought I would ruin the television by drawing on the screen.

I got excited the time Miss Fran said my name on Romper Room. My brother spoiled it by saying she just says random names and she wasn't talking about me.

I used to send my drawings in to Uncle Fred Sayles on Junior Frolics.

I was picked to be "Butch for the Day" on Bozo here in Boston.

Ironic I know.

Even back then they were trying to “butch” you up.

Didn’t take, huh?

R448 as a boy

I used to rent VHS tapes of Candid Candid Camera for the nudity.

Had to re-read that, r451.

The last thing I’d want to see would be Allen Funt nekkid.

*shudder*

I watched as Moses parted the Red Sea.

Still can't figure out how he pulled it off.

I watched as Moses parted the Red Sea.

Still can't figure out how he pulled it off.

Methuselah, how dare you show your face around here! We know all about you.

Take a peek at r381.

[quote]^^^ I like the Greek Yaya!

I do too, I try to get the YaYa up the YingYang whenever I can.

I used the E ticket to ride the Matterhorn at Disneyland.

R452 Allan Funt was never the one naked

Well we can all be thankful for that.

How did you get on Bozo?

Perhaps you should rephrase that question, R460.

He was at the Cape Cod Melody Tent r460.

Was he cruising?

R462: I was on the Big Brother Club with Bob Emery on WBZ in 1955.

Not the day he said "that oughta hold the little bastards off until tomorrow" on air, though.

Frank Avruch (Bozo in the picture below) died last year at the age of 89. Clowns hang in there.

I remember the Alamo.

And I remember the Maine.

I remember Mt Vesuvius erupting.

[quote]I was on the Big Brother Club with Bob Emery on WBZ in 1955. Not the day he said "that oughta hold the little bastards off until tomorrow" on air, though.

An urban legend that's been attributed to everyone who ever hosted a children's show, first on radio and, later, television, where it makes even less sense. For many years it was attributed to Uncle Don, the host of a children's radio show, who supposedly said it not realizing his mike was still on. That seems possible on radio, but less likely on a TV show like Bob Emery's. But the consensus is that it never happened, not to Uncle Don and certainly not to Bob Emery.

I remember Caesar and Brutus.

I was friends with an old carpenter.

Assholes and alcoholics.

I waited and waited for Miss Fran to say my name and she never did. I have an unusual first name. See only say the Johnnys and Debbys and the Nancys, Bobbys, Dannys, Jimmys, Billys, Buddys, Marys....boring ass names

Most names tended to be boring-ass in the pre-Jayden days of Miss Fran, R472. Unusual first names were considered un-American back then.

I'm the same age as the hula-hoop.

Hopefully not the same shape, R474.

[quote]Tell us something that dates you

My hand.

I helped King Priam clean his dentures.

I knew old MacDonald when he was young and didn't have a farm.

[quote]Tell us something that dates you

Nobody wants to date me anymore.

I came to America on the Titanic.

The Alamo? The Maine?

I am so old that...wait, what was the question again?

Oh, that’s right, fire pits. Definitely get one, OP. They’re great to sit around at a barbecue. But if you get the Mountain Dew instead, she’ll bring it quicker.

[quote]I came to America on the Titanic.

That must have been the Carpathia. The Titanic didn't quite make it to New York.

R483, I swam the rest of the way.

[quote]I swam the rest of the way.

Crying!!!

😂😂😂

I used to hitchhike for no reason other than getting some man action. It worked.

I rarely see hitchhikers today and that makes me sad.

I remember when McDonald's made french fries with animal fat and they were fucking amazing until the vegetarians revolted and they changed to vegetable oil. Kids today will never know. Oh and the Apple Pies were fried too and crispy, not like the block of wood they sell today.

Harold Prince’s passing today means something to me.

I knew Doris Day - before she was a virgin.

For r483:

Q: What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic?

A: Halfway.

R483/84 You rock!! I laughed so hard I think I got a hernia.

I know who DON MURRAY is

For a year (1977), I was one of the little children on "Romper Room."

I remember when my family's phone was a party line.

I blew Richard Speck.

Did you punch Busy Bee, r493? Some blond kid punched him, they cut to a commercial, and then.....the kid was gone when they returned.

I was a floosy in Weimar Hamburg.

My mother took Valium.

The cave painting of me hunting my first Mammoth.

My "I Like Ike" coin purse.

I listened to WABC-AM radio on my transistor radio under the pillow. Sometimes you could even get Canada.

OK. THis time I'll be serious. When I was a little kid we used to take the bus down to the baseball stadium in the summer, when they had home games during the day. Thye games usually started at 1 o'clock. And we could get into the bleachers for .50. Fifty. Cents. This was late 50's.

I remember where I was when Hack Kennedy got it.

I'm the same age as Snoopy.

I never trust a fart.

[quote]I listened to WABC-AM radio on my transistor radio under the pillow. Sometimes you could even get Canada.

In New Jersey, late at night, I could get WLS in Chicago, but only at low volume.

I had a wtransistor radio in the 1960's, a small, bright turquoise square radio, powered by a nine volt battery. My Grampa left my Mom $400 when he passed away, a tidy little sum back then, and she went out and bought five radios, one for each of us in the family. The total cost was around $50. Batteries NOT included.

To start my car, I used to have to crank it.

What does cranking it have to do with starting your...ohhhhhhh.

To accelerate my car, I have to use my feet.

[quote]To start my car, I used to have to crank it.

To make a phone call, I had to crank my phone and ask Jenny, the town operator and busybody, to connect me to whomever I was trying to reach.

My school wasn't integrated until I was in 3rd Grade.

By “integrated” do you mean they added a second room?

I know how to quick start a car that's run out of gas by pouring gas directly into the carburetor.

I remember when girls were required to wear skirts to school.

I remember the free drinking glass in the box of Duz Detergent.

R499, Mammoth? Is that a type of leather bear?

I remember when American Christians considered Russia the enemy.

I remember watching "Mr. Ed" when Mae West was the special guest star.

I enjoyed watching "Boomtown" with Rex Trailer on the weekends. I was also on the "Major Mudd Show" which was never as popular.

I would listen to my Russ Columbo records on the Victrola.

I am undateable.

I probably watched the first episode of ATWT, but was too young to remember anything about it. My grandmother and I watched the CBS soaps before I started school. I learned to read by watching commercials.

I remember watching movies in the theater without sound.

I remembah Pepperidge Fahm!

I remember the night.

I remember when Gilgamesh left on his journey to meet the flood hero.

Carbon-14

Friday nights, I used to watch “Night Flight” on USA Network.

I remember The EDGE of Night, R525.

Rumble seats (no seatbelts)

I remember Friday Night Videos.

I saw Dave Winfield kill a Newfie chicken.

A slice and a coke cost $1.50.

Playgrounds were all cement, no padding.

The phrase "touch typing" was something to boast about.

I remember when everything at Taco Bell (except the drinks) cost a quarter.

I remember when we upgraded from an icebox to an electric fridge.

[quote]I remember when we upgraded from an icebox to an electric fridge.

Are you Alice Kramden?

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

I remember Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

In grade school I would get home from school and watch the last 10 -15 minutes of Another World (30 minute show at the time) when Robin Strasser (of OLTL fame) played the original Rachel.

Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling

Lots of drinking and, occasionally, singing back then.

I loved Space Food Sticks and Screaming Yellow Zonkers.

I voted for Eisenhower.

‘52 Eisenhower or ‘56 Eisenhower?

....

I drove this battleship to high school graduation.

Is that a 1958 Bulgemobile, R545?

I remember when the dollar and the gallon were the same number.

I used to run home after school every day to watch Dark Shadows.

I recall when a gallon of gas and a pack of cigarettes were both 45 cents.

I watched Mr Rogers with the twins I was babysitting. Josie Carey was on with Mr R at that time.

I also watched Chilly Billy. From the Burgh , are you?

I remember when you could go to school or a movie or a bar or a nightclub or a concert or a festival and not have to worry if you were going to die at the hands of a crazed incel or white supremacist.

...or Muslim bomber or masked Antifa.

I went to go see Pussy Cow!

I remember when people would complain loudly at a change in gasoline prices more than a couple of cents per gallon.

I remember the Million Dollar Movie they would show the same movie every day at the same time I think it was 7:30 PM. I watched Jean Cocteaus Beauty and the Beast and Mephisto every night it was shown.

Pussy cow, pussy cow, pussy cow!

I remember watching first-run episodes of the original "Mickey Mouse Club."

I had to churn my own butter.

^^Are you Aunt Eller?

R554 & R557 — For the longest time, my toddler son actually thought that the car dealership owner's name was Cow Worthington.

At one time my two favorite movie stars were Jerry Lewis and Don Knotts.

Many of us have highly questionable taste when we're young, R562.

I vaguely remember Peyton Place and Dr. Kildare.

Don Knotts is still respected and revered by people all over the world.

I was born on the night Lucy went to the hospital to have her TV baby. My mom went into labor near 9 pm that Monday night and wouldn't leave for the hospital until that episode of ILL was over. My dad paid the taxi driver to just sit in front of our building from a little before 9 until my mom made it down there about 10 minutes after the show was over. I hear my grandmother who lived a floor above us was in hysterics. The nurses rushed to calm my grandmother down before they even tended to my mother. Whenever that episode came on in a rerun during the day, (my grandmother watched me during the days until I started school) she would tell me the story of the night of my birth over and over again.

A chubby Latina tranny once wanted to date me...

Great story, r566.

I remember the Watergate Hearings AND Watergate Salad.

I remember when Baltimore was about as safe as any other major U.S. city. True, that was over 50 years ago !

With each subsequent riot the blacks have inadvertently made things that much worse for the city overall. Tantrums do not pay.

[quote]Don Knotts is still respected and revered by people all over the world.

MARY!

R571 really dumbshit?

My 405 sq ft studio apt on Lake Merritt in Oakland was $280 a month when I rented it. It was gorgeous and peaceful. Now the same apt with the same square footage is a $588,950 condo and there are homeless heroin addicts that you have to step over to get to the sidewalk.

That's a '63 Chevy, 546. Wish I had it now.

When I moved into Manhattan in the mid 70s with my partner our rent on a large 1 bedroom apt was $205. a month on 112th & Broadway. When we moved Downton to 23rd St. 4 years later our rent was $420 a month and the landlord gave us a $20 discount if we paid the rent before the first of the month.

I remember the Alamo.

You too, huh, r576?

R465.

R576, R465 I remember Mama!

Exciting but honestly not very good.

Yeah R579, I never really figured out what the mysterious head of foam was made of.

I think the secret ingredient was run-off from New Jersey, R580.

[quote]Yeah [R579], I never really figured out what the mysterious head of foam was made of.

That's what I'd expect Frankie Grandé's jizz to look like.

I remember party lines

Jerry Lewis was my favorite movie star too! My favorite TV show was the Mickey Mouse Club - the original one.

In 1970 I had a friend who had a nice one bedroom, with an eat in kitchen, facing Central Park West for $174.00. It was 1 flight up. Almost anyone with a almost any kind of job could live nicely in Manhattan in those days. I was 16 and he was 34 at the time and I used to go grocery shopping with him to help carry home the bags. He would buy a weeks worth of groceries including meat, produce, desserts, household things, everything and it was always around 30 to 40 bucks. Dinner out at a nice place for 2 would be around 12 to 15 dollars plus tip and that was with appetizers, dessert, a beer or wine for him and soda for me. Sometimes he even told me to go ahead and get a second dessert. He used to take me to this French place near Lincoln Center. Oh and no, I was just a kid from the neighborhood with an unpleasant family life. He didn't go for young boys. He had a boyfriend his own age.

He directed off B'way shows mostly so he certainly could not have been well to do. In the summer I did odd jobs around the theaters and let me tell you they were dumps. One was an old converted church on 48th St. near 9th Ave and some nut came in every day screaming we were all going to hell for using a church that way. It seems that the show that was in the upstairs theater had a nude scene so I guess this guy figured everyone in the building was going to hell. We had an usher who lived down the street and would greet people while he ate raw hamburger with raw onion sandwiches with one hand and shook their hand with his other. The Winter Garden or the Palace it wasn't.

In 1973 he moved to LA and offered to take me with him but I was in college by then and on better terms with my parents so I stayed in NY and eventually lost touch with him. I wish I had the smarts to have taken over his apartment. It was rent controlled. I wonder what my rent would be today, Maybe less than 300 dollars.

R570

“The Blacks”? “50 years ago”?

Bitch, you need some Ex Lax for the back up in your pipes. When I was first stationed outside Baltimore in 1981, it wasn’t pretty at all. Rough.

We’re talking about a tremendous amount of downtown was blighted housing. The city had spent nearly 20 years redeveloping the Inner Harbor. The convention center was just getting finished and new hotels were starting to open. Over the next 15 years, there was the new Camden Yards and the new football stadium.

Johns Hopkins University has been expanding throughout downtown, buying up blocks at a time as part of the university and the hospital expansion. The city’s approach to renewal may have been a bit hopskotch: it’s encouraged builders to buy up a house or two at a time, renovate and resell. The city blames a lack of funding for community development block funds to demolish abandoned houses; developers blame the lack of funding through HUD. Maryland is notoriously difficult to do business with.

Like any large city, there are bad neighborhoods: parts of South Baltimore along E Monument, N. Charles. But you can go two blocks over and it’s one of the safest neighborhoods.

What you see on television isn’t a generalization. It’s localized to specific neighborhoods, like St. Louis.

I remember watching Johnny Carson and his sidekick Ed McMahon when they did the afternoon game show "Who Do You Trust?" Old birdie grammarians (listen up, DL!) complained and so they changed the name to "Whom Do You Trust?"

I remember watching that show, too, R586, and I even remember its original title, which was "Do You Trust Your Wife?" It was changed to "Who Do You Trust" when the contestant pool was expanded beyond married couples. However, the title was never changed to "Whom Do You Trust?" I assume you were joking.

My pet Triceratops.

I remember Mama, too, R578!

I remember when handwriting was called penmanship in school and we got graded on it. And I remember my fifth grade teacher making an example of my beautiful handwriting. Of course, that’s when the other boys in class started calling me a sissy and teacher’s pet on the playground. (I don’t remember being called fag back in fifth grade; that wasn’t until at least seventh or eighth grade.)

^^^ I’m right there with you. My mother was a 2nd grade teacher and taught the Palmer method so I had lots of coaching for good penmanship. I even became obsessed with calligraphy and did beautiful work. Then I went to college and studied Art History. Four years of taking notes in the dark ruined my handwriting.

Hey, R591! Do you remember that contraption teachers used - it had a bunch of wires and you inserted a couple of pieces of chalk into the wire holders - to make straight horizontal lines across the blackboard?

I remember those, R592! Hadn't thought of that contraption in decades.

London here.

I remember when you could still buy these cars NEW.

R592, I studied music at an arts high school. Those gadgets came with five chalk holders so teachers could draw a musical staff on the blackboard.

I can remember when you went to McDonald’s for burgers, and Tim Hortons for coffee.

[quote]Tell us something that dates you

I’m certainly dated after reading r584’s post. Jesus!

My Dad bought my Mom a car.

I was God's grandfatiher.

I remember when you could buy one of these new - my grandmother did.

Not hers below, but exactly the same colors. It could have been three-toned, but she stuck with just two colors.