Remember When..................

[arhaney]

Just got through looking at Resq14's thread named Attention Forum Participants:

http://cms.firehouse.com/forums2/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65340

The load page on the website linked reminded me of the times when:

Television went off about 11:00 PM and came back on at 6:oo AM

Cartoons were only broadcast on Sat. morning!

What can you add?

[FlyingKiwi]

Milk was 5 cents a Pint

[PFire23]

Stores and businesses closed at 5 and were not open on Sundays

Tampons and womens bodily functions were not the subject of every other commercial

Viagra and ED's were NEVER discussed especially on tv

Sex and swearing were VERY taboo on television and in movies

It was safe for kids to play outside, unsupervised in their neighborhoods.

[SAFD46Truck]

You had a bank book and had to go during "bank hours" to make a withdrawal?

[stm4710]

We only feared a Nuclear Holocaust by the Russians. :)

And "Googleing" it was something done by strange men that got arrested in the park.

:eek:

[Bobble7]

Wasnt alive for these but I wish they would come back. Athletes were good role models and didnt do drugs or cheat. When people cared about people. When criminals were punished and not victims. I could think of a bunch more but I feel out of place as it is posting on this topic. Sorry if I took it more serious than expected. Its past my bed time

[NJFFSA16]

They tested sirens for Civil Defense. Monthly, we would leave our classrooms and kneel down in the hallways, with our coats over our heads.

Your milk was delivered overnight, and put into a small box on your front step or porch.

[ffexpCP]

Civil Defense sirens would blow for fire calls.

[E40FDNYL35]

Real leather helmets and rubber boots.;)

[42VTExplorer]

Originally posted by ffexpCP
Civil Defense sirens would blow for fire calls.

Still does. :Cool:

Along with the HUUUUGE airhorn. :Cool:

[protomkv]

Only three TV channels, all in black and white, and you had to get up from your chair to switch channels.
No VCRs.
8mm cine cameras.
School teachers were respected.
The word 'Gay" had an entirely different meaning.
You could walk most inner city streets without getting mugged.

[arhaney]

Originally posted by protomkv
Only three TV channels, all in black and white, and you had to get up from your chair to switch channels

Hey, that's how many channels we had! (with the weather just right and the TV antenna pointed in the right direction!) ;)

[Dave1983]

We rode on the tailboard of the engine.
There were no seatbelts in the rigs.
You didnt use SCBA for car fires.
The only medical gloves were in the OB kit.
Had one radio channel for everything.
If you neded mutual aid, you had to call them on the phone.

Boy, I sure miss the old days:p

Dave

[gracie449]

There was no DH rule in baseball!

(Thirty-some years later and I'm still crabbing about it! :p )

[coldfront]

Remember when

First responders were not targets for terrorism.

Homeland (de-fence) was a yard fenced to prevent our childern from playing in the street.

The FBI,CIA AND ATF played on different fields,but for the same team.

We two young america kids said, I-Rack, it was during game of pool, not to describe where next year of there life will be spent.

Bob hope would sing thanks for the memories.

Those were the days!

[StayBack500FT]

Pop was served in glass bottles and you had to have an opener to get the lid off...and you could actually return the bottles for $$$.

With all the recycling stuff, you'd think those bottles would come back.

[Steamer]

Pull tabs on cans.

Funeral homes doing ambulance service (That always seemed a conflict of interest to me :eek: .)

EMT training was only 60 hours, and paramedic training was 96 hours on top of that (in Ohio anyway)

[superchef]

Telephones were the main means of communication at work. (and no not cell phones!). Now I come back after a few days off to have 187 emails in my inbox. :D

We actually used to have human to human relationships (as opposed to the now more common human to email, human to cellphone voice mail, human to online ....).

[ullrichk]

At one time the old Beetle WAS the New Beetle.

CocaCola came in one flavor/formula.

Space-Age was an effective marketing tool.

Miniature electronic calculators (LED ones, mind you) were desktop items and cost hundreds of dollars.

The best video game at home was pong. If you had access to a really slick university setup you might get to play lunar lander.

[FlyingKiwi]

A real live person answered the phone when you called.

Have to agree with Cheffie.

The local Police were respected, and more often than not, young offenders were given a good telling off and a box around the ears.

[GeorgeWendtCFI]

As far as the bank...when you could get a personal loan from the branch with one signhature and a handshake AND there was no questiont hat it would be paid back.

That "universal precautions" meant wearing a condom.:eek:

[E229Lt]

SCBA masks had two eye holes.

There was no Positive Pressure in the masks or the ventilation.

Cops told you to drive straight home or walk.

WONDERAMA

Officer Joe Bolton and Capt. Jack McCarthy

78 and 45 rpms.

Wetsons.

Chug a Mugs.

$.40 for a pack of smokes

Barbie Benton

Cartoons before the movie.

Landing on the Moon (not personally)

JFK, MLK, Bobby.

CUBA

And my first hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[len1582]

Orange Fireball gloves for the engine

About 1am the last program on T.V. was over, the station played the National Anthem and went off the air unitl about 5 or so.

The preconnect was a 3/4" booster

Kids would go home for the night when the streetlights went on.

SCBA's (with the 2 eye holes Lt) were in a suitcase not a bracket

4 or 5 of us would ride around in a parents car half the night, throw in a buck a piece and fill the tank

cops rode around wearing their hats

police cars had mechanical sirens

going to rehab didn't mean getting a drink at a staging area

[arhaney]

Forgot one, laying on the rear shelf of dads big buick while going down the road!

[backdraft663]

Im only 18 and all I can remember are those little glass bottles I think 16oz that pepsi had. You can still find them around sometimes.

[WTFD10]

Toledo had white apparatus, SCAT Mini-pumper "A" Units, big Step Van Rescue Squads, 7 digit emergency numbers, open cab apparatus, one of the first Life Squads at Station 25, Dispatch sending "18 Pumper" to a "Regular Alarm at Box xxxx.", REMSNO, red Life Squads.

[PFD109NFD107]

Originally posted by WTFD10
REMSNO Ahhhh REMSNO

Floppy Discs were indeed floppy. 5 1/2" or something like that.

The only remote control in the house was me. My dad would yell for me to change the channel even if I was 3 rooms away.

[CaptainGonzo]

Sex was clean and the air was dirty!

Rocky and Bullwinkle (if it was aired today, it would be poltically incorrect)

Seeing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on the Ed Sullivan Show.

The highest price concert ticket went for $7.50 at the Boston Garden.

Muscle cars.

[Weruj1]

beer pop can pull tabs, the open backed plastic booster car seats, phone calls were a dime, candy bars a quater or cheaper, gas was 50 cents a gallon, baseball card collections meant something, cadilac ambulances, sand lot baseball, .................ah those were the days ...........wait ..no PLASTIC pop/soda bottles they were all glass,

[ullrichk]

Originally posted by PFD109NFD107
Ahhhh REMSNO

Floppy Discs were indeed floppy. 5 1/2" or something like that.


5 1/4, and 8 inch if I remember correctly. :eek:

Anyone recall what the capacity of the 8-inchers was?

Remember when computer memory was quoted in K, not Gig?

[Weruj1]

Commodore 64 !!!!!!!!

[LFD2203]

A pinball game costs a nickle, and you got to play 5 balls per game.
Class came to a halt when the teacher rolled in the television to watch the launch or splashdown of a space mission. World Series games were played in the afternoon, and we got to watch them on TV at school too. The first FM radio "format" programming I remember was "Hit Parade 71". We got 12 channels on the local cable TV,and my parents paid $5.00 every two months for it........Not all shows were in color. AM radio played music, except for Sunday when it was filled with "deep breathing" preachers. I spent all day in the summer riding my bicycle around my little home town, but, as previoulsy posted, had to be home when the street lights came on.

[blueeighty88]

In "small town USA"... We say

Remember When:


We were in the city and every store didn't close at 4:30pm and wasn't closed every sunday.

We had more bars than churches

The firehouse was the only bar open on sunday

Flatlanders did have computerized maps, and we could direct them 20 miles into the middle of a vast wilderness on purpose and wait till they came back to tell them they screw up b/c they didn't carry guns to "bust a cap in our ass".

The town cop let the fugitive prisoner out of his cell to eat lunch with him and he took the cop hositge with a toilet paper holder, tried to steal the cop car, but realized it was just for looks and hadn't run in 20 years...

Everyone wanted to be firefighters

[GeorgeWendtCFI]

I remember Coors cans (there was no light) had two tops that you pushed into the can with your thumb.

Jet Axe

Gasoline spills were handled with a "wash down"

Jack McCarthy did the broadcast for the St. Patrick's Day Parade

Soul Train

American Bandstand

Dance Fever

Name That Tune

Who was hotter? Susan Dey or Maureen McCormick?

Who was hotter? Wilma, Betty or Jane Jetson?

[Rayr49]

Warning lights on apparatus consisted of a "bubble gum machine" on the cab and maybe an "888" light on the grill.

Siren was the "Q" or a cheap imitation.

Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody on Saturday mornings.

National news anchors who had integrity and reported news not network policy or opinion.


Stay Safe
IACOJ

[CaptainMikey]

The first apple computer. What a little box.

[spearsm]

Going out for supper meant heading out to the garden or pantry. :D

[StayBack500FT]

Remember when your Aunt Thelma beat you with yer own fishing pole at the family reunion for looking at yer cousin Daisy Mae flounce about in her shortpants...

****enter crickets****

Oh.....that...must have....been....just....ummm.. ....me.

***period of uneasy silence***

:)

[backdraft663]

Spankings at school!!!!!!!!!!

[pete892]

If you wanted to talk to your parents on the phone while they were at work, you just picked up the phone and said: "I need to talk with my folks". The operator new you and them and always connected.

You could also do call forwarding by telling the operator where you were going to be.

In today's world I have to live with my NEXTEL 24/7.

What fun,

Pete

[backdraft663]

Buying BB's from the store when you were 7 or 8 without getting ID'ed

Getting up early on Sat. and watching the Indian pattern on TV before the cartoons started.

[LadyCapn]

Remember when computer memory was quoted in K, not Gig?

Remember when the computer took up an entire room? Grade 10 computer class........binary cards and the computer took up most of a 20x15 room.:(

[Ladder8]

Johnny and Roy!

[hwoods]

Double Jacket Cotton Hose with Brass couplings, a 50 ft section of 3 inch weighed about 5,000,000,000 pounds. (or so it seemed) Hardee Gun Booster Nozzles, Hose Jackets, Hand Rewind Booster Reels, Wheat Lamp Handlights, Navy Nozzles, Indian Can backpack pumpcans, Wife says dinners ready, I'll think of more.

[Dave404]

Originally posted by Weruj1
Commodore 64 !!!!!!!!

This thread is hilarious! Commodore wasnt bad but before that was the powerhouse VIC20, not to be out done by "PONG"

Hey Hwoods - isnt that standard equipment???:D

[Dave1983]

Well since this is still going, here are a few more...

-Cars with tailfins.
-Ice cube trays with pull handles.
-Toasters that you set on a burner with the bread clamped on the outside.
-Makeing popcorn in a pan on the stove.
-A soda, candy bar and pack of gum for $.50.
-Your parents never locked the door, and you never had a bike lock.
-Your favorite shows included The Beverly Hillbillies, Andy Griffith and Dragnet.
-Ginger or Mary Ann.

Dave

[Weruj1]

forgot about the popcorn ........also along the same vein ......hows aobut the the ol' "hot air" popper?

[Dave1983]

Originally posted by Weruj1
forgot about the popcorn ........also along the same vein ......hows aobut the the ol' "hot air" popper?

Ah yes. I think I may still have one in the attic:p I always liked Jiffy Pop best.

Dave

[ROOKIELZ]

Cashiers had to remember and manually ring in the price of your purchases.

Beehive hairdos, poodle skirts

sports with little if no protective gear and reasonable salaries

personal letters in the mail

family suppers and get-togethers

[FlyingKiwi]

Still have one in working order down here, restored it a few years back.

Also we have, an original (including chrome) Milkshake blender, the stand up type with the metal milkshake containers for it.

And a restored valve radio provides background music while cooking.

[blueeighty88]

Double Jacket Cotton Hose with Brass couplings, a 50 ft section of 3 inch weighed about 5,000,000,000 pounds. (or so it seemed) Hardee Gun Booster Nozzles, Hose Jackets, Hand Rewind Booster Reels, Wheat Lamp Handlights, Navy Nozzles, Indian Can backpack pumpcans

Last time I seen those was... about an hour ago. Some of the old things are the best!

Still have some cotton jacket w/ brass couplings
Still have a removable hand-crank for the booster reel on the rear of a truck. Of course we don't use the truck so it doesn't matter.
Still have navy nozzles, on the unused trucks
And use indian tanks on pretty near every brush fire where air support isn't justifiable and the hose won't reach.

But our booster nozzles are those kick-ass new pistol grip TFT Nozzles.

[hwoods]

Originally posted by blueeighty88


Last time I seen those was... about an hour ago. Some of the old things are the best!

Still have some cotton jacket w/ brass couplings
Still have a removable hand-crank for the booster reel on the rear of a truck. Of course we don't use the truck so it doesn't matter.
Still have navy nozzles, on the unused trucks
And use indian tanks on pretty near every brush fire.


FANTASTIC. Proof that President Reagan's Trickle-Down Economic theory works. :eek: :eek: I do feel for those who have to rack that old hose though, That stuff is HEAVY, and making a fold is like bending a Tree Limb. Anybody still use "Horseshoe" or "Accordion" hose loads?

[LeuitEFDems]

We just got rid of our rubber jacketed 4" hose a few months ago and upgraded to 5" fiber hose...thank god, it's a LOT easier to load on the truck with the forward lay we use for our LDH. We had 2 wheat lights buried in the engineers compt on our oldest truck, which we replaced in '01. There's still a rack full of the metal indian tanks sitting in the firehouse to use as backup. As for the bright orage rubber fire gloves. I had them when I was a probie and couldn't do any fire attack.

[firefighter26]

Originally posted by hwoods
Anybody still use "Horseshoe" or "Accordion" hose loads?

Our main hose lay on our old pumper used to be a Horseshoe lay... it was an art form to get all 1200+ feet back in perfect order and ready for deployment (I doubt there are more than five of us left that remember putting it all back on the truck... doing it the rain was always fun!)

Originally posted by Weruj1
Commodore 64!!!!!!!!

I used to have a good ol' C-64! Had a C-128 as well, but it spent most of its time in 64 mode so that the games would run better... in fact, I still have some of original games, including boxes and manuals around...... Red Storm Rising... Sid Meyer's Pirates... Might and Magic (the original 1D-text scrolling version!)... Ultima... Bard's Tale... Space Rogue (well ahead of it’s time. I still see so many of its’ concepts used in the newest games out today!) Railroad Tycoon... Test Drive...!
Damn, it almost makes me want to see if I can get the old thing running again!

load "*",8,1 :cool:

[spearsm]

Well....eraumm.....yeah, we still use it. Matter of fact, we just reloaded the tanker with a flat lay. Gee, let's try something new:D

[martinm]

...When a cup of coffee was just that and not a skinny decaff latte...:rolleyes:

[arhaney]

Scanners were 8 or 10 channels with real light bulbs and a push button for each channel. (my dad had one of these)

[GeorgeWendtCFI]

Originally posted by arhaney
Scanners were 8 or 10 channels with real light bulbs and a push button for each channel. (my dad had one of these)

Going to Laffayette Electronics to buy crystals!

[spearsm]

Just dawned on me this sounds like a Tim McGraw song. "Back when":D

[SAFD46Truck]

Remember when Big Macs came in styrofoam boxes and Chicken McNuggets were the latest and greatest?

[Weruj1]

Pepsi Light (it wasnt diet)

[LeuitEFDems]

Originally posted by Weruj1
Pepsi Light (it wasnt diet)
That stuff was nasty!
Speaking of soda-How about "new Coke"? or Tab?

[jsdobson]

Soupy Sales

Rescue 8

Fireball XL5

There were only 4 college football bowl games

Coke in a bottle was a dime

Hershey bars were a nickel

[StayBack500FT]

Plectrons.

[FFTrainer]

Buying BB's from the store when you were 7 or 8 without getting ID'ed

Heck buying BB's at all and even better, being able to use them. My brother and I had a whole range setup in the woods behind the house... cans hanging by fishing line in the trees, etc. :D

George you beat me to it on crystals for scanners.

As kids we could leave the house in the morning, play in the woods all day and come home when you heard dad whistle from the back deck.

Your parents never worried about where you were during that time and you didn't come home covered in ticks like you would today! :mad:

Students were afraid of their teachers not the other way around.

If someone (teacher, principal, whoever) said "I'm calling your parents" you were seriously scared.

[Res343cue]

Originally posted by arhaney
Scanners were 8 or 10 channels with real light bulbs and a push button for each channel. (my dad had one of these)

OMG!

I have an old Regency just like that one. Still works, when it's "cold". As soon as it warms up a bit, it shuts right back off. Time to get a pager, and fix my radio!

[Dave1983]

All this brings back a funny moment. We had a new volunteer who had just turned 20. One night at the station I was fixing some Jiffy Pop (I had finaly found some:D) and the new volly askes why I'm fixing popcorn on the stove. I said thats how we used to do it, before we had microwave ovens. She looks at me and says "what do you mean before microwaves?"

Man, did I feel OLD :p :p :p

Dave

[Gooseneck]

Sorry if these are repeats;

- Slide-rules
- Fraggle Rock
- Public hangings
- Shag carpet
- Wired remote controlled cars that only turned left
- Prayer in schools
- 14" in wheels

[hwoods]

Originally posted by jsdobson
Coke in a bottle was a dime


In a Bottle was the only way to buy "Coke"

You drank Coke, not sniffed it

Coke was a dark Liquid, not a white powder

You could ask for Coke in a bad part of town, and still get Soda....

Guess I'm outta "Coke" things....

No, Wait! Remember looking at the bottom of Coke Bottles to see where they were from?

[Gooseneck]

.....or when the drink Coke actually had the drug coke in it.

[Weruj1]

slingshots and glass marbles ? ..............fire ball gloves ........open cab apparati !

[pfd3501]

I can remember when a piece of "penny" candy was only a nickel

[lieutleroy140]

OK, I'll throw some of these against the wall to see what sticks..... Running to the end of the driveway to see Pops go by on E-3, an open cab ALF 900 gas job (Continental J-Engine) with the Sirenlite screaming. Now we all like Federal Q's, but there was something distinctive about an ALF sirenlite. I will never forget how those particular mechanical sirens sounded. Coming home from church on a Sunday morning and watching an "Abbott and Costello" movie on Channel 11. Calling up some of the guys, saying "meet me at the park, we will play a game of football/baseball/basketball. Riding my Schwinnn Stingray around the block until the streetlights came on. Weighing 180 pounds and being 6-3, and able to dunk a basketball with 2 hands. (Ancient history....LOL) Watching the Yankees for free on Channel 11, with Frank Messer, Bill White and The Scooter. King Kong movies all day on Thanksgiving on Channel 9. Bugs Bunny on TV after school. Fat Albert was a cartoon, not a big-budget movie. Mom made "supper". Gotta go for now.

[PFD109NFD107]

There was life without cell phones
Gas under $1.00
LifePak 5's
Glass IV Bottles
Isuprel
The Looney Toons
Cars
The Thing
Yugo
Delorian
Datsun

[GeorgeWendtCFI]

Originally posted by lieutleroy140
OK, I'll throw some of these against the wall to see what sticks..... Running to the end of the driveway to see Pops go by on E-3, an open cab ALF 900 gas job (Continental J-Engine) with the Sirenlite screaming. Now we all like Federal Q's, but there was something distinctive about an ALF sirenlite. I will never forget how those particular mechanical sirens sounded. Coming home from church on a Sunday morning and watching an "Abbott and Costello" movie on Channel 11. Calling up some of the guys, saying "meet me at the park, we will play a game of football/baseball/basketball. Riding my Schwinnn Stingray around the block until the streetlights came on. Weighing 180 pounds and being 6-3, and able to dunk a basketball with 2 hands. (Ancient history....LOL) Watching the Yankees for free on Channel 11, with Frank Messer, Bill White and The Scooter. King Kong movies all day on Thanksgiving on Channel 9. Bugs Bunny on TV after school. Fat Albert was a cartoon, not a big-budget movie. Mom made "supper". Gotta go for now.

How about Sunday afternoon "Bowery Boys"?

High School Football Ch. 11 on Sat. AM with Marty Glickman?

Gas at less than .50 a gallon?

Life before "playdates"?

[scfire86]

Segregation

Civil Rights movement

Watergate

A person's private life was theirs.


Aaahhh the good ole days.

[scfire86]

And straight ahead field goal kickers.

[MIKEYLIKESIT]

Like this guy?

[jsdobson]

Gas at 29 cents per gallon.

:)

[scfire86]

Originally posted by MIKEYLIKESIT
Like this guy?

Great kicker. But I was a Ram's fan back in the 60's. This is the guy I remember.

[firemedic53]

Metal dashboards and no seatbelts

"3 on the tree"

Manual chokes on cars

"All in the Family" appeared on TV and didn't spawn 30 lawsuits, a couple of legislative reprimands and an FCC fine.....

Penny candy was a penny, and you could walk to the store and buy it without worrying about being on the next episode of "Americas Most Wanted"

[Gooseneck]

- Handlebar Mustaches
- Solid rubber wheels/tires
- Whiskey was the only bar liquor

[scfire86]

Green and Blue Chip stamps.

[LaFireEducator]

.......... Johnny & Roy.

.......... Reed & Malloy.

.......... Kojak.

.......... Open cabs.

.......... Baseball playoff games in the daylight.

.......... Drive-Ins

.......... Led Zepplin, Aeromith & the Doobie Brothers

.......... Backsteps.

[CaptainMikey]

When TV was actualy fun to watch and reality tv was not even a thought in some minds. Now tv is full of crap.

[ROOKIELZ]

rotary dial phones

party lines

you knew all your neighbours and you got together on a fairly regular basis (I don't necesarily mean a block party...)

passenger trains... (I havent seen one here in the Prairies since I moved here 13 yrs. ago.)

vegetables came from your own garden or at least a farmer's market. I still try that route whenever possible.

[arhaney]

Your parents would take you for a Sunday afternoon ride after church.

[GeorgeWendtCFI]

Originally posted by arhaney
Your parents would take you for a Sunday afternoon ride after church.

Your parents WENT to church.

[arhaney]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH........... .....Good one, GeorgeWendtCFI

[FlyingKiwi]

vegetables came from your own garden

Hmmm. Went for a quick fish this afternoon, Snapper for dinner.

Along with...

New Potatoes
Peas
Lettuce
Tomatoes

From our garden.

The fish guts and carcas are already buried in the garden for compost.

[MIKEYLIKESIT]

Wearing blue jeans AFTER school.

[ROOKIELZ]

Remember when Rock was rock; country was country, and rap, hip-hop and grunge weren't being touted as forms of music?

[DennisTheMenace]

Originally posted by ROOKIELZ
Remember when Rock was rock; country was country, and rap, hip-hop and grunge weren't being touted as forms of music? Thanks goodness grundge is dead, and hip hop has gained the legitamacy it deserves.

[DennisTheMenace]

you thought beer tasted like crap

[ROOKIELZ]

Thanks goodness grundge is dead, and hip hop has gained the legitamacy it deserves.

:eek: I suppose that's what makes the world go around:)


Blizzards and snowstorms seemed worse when you were a kid, hence Adults telling their children, "When I was your age, it snowed up to the eaves of the house and still we had to walk a mile to school...":D

[DennisTheMenace]

Originally posted by ROOKIELZ


:eek: I suppose that's what makes the world go around:)


Blizzards and snowstorms seemed worse when you were a kid, hence Adults telling their children, "When I was your age, it snowed up to the eaves of the house and still we had to walk a mile to school...":D when your dad told you that when he was a kid the snow was so deep it was up to his knees, as the snow feel into your boots because it was up to your knees!:D

[CaptainGonzo]

Thanks goodness grundge is dead, and hip hop has gained the legitamacy it deserves.

Oh yeah...songs about cappin' yo enemies, slappin yo hoe biatchs around deserves legitimacy...:rolleyes:

[DennisTheMenace]

Originally posted by CaptainGonzo


Oh yeah...songs about cappin' yo enemies, slappin yo hoe biatchs around deserves legitimacy...:rolleyes: I listen for the tune and the beat 90% of the time. You blanketly reject all of it because of some of it. Will Smith has never rapped about that crap, neither have the Beasty Boys, RUN-DMC either. Most I don't like, but a lot I do, it is legit music. The lyrics of a lot of rock is not exactly wholesome, country either, so why does that get credit, but hip-hop doesn't?

[CaptainGonzo]

Originally posted by DennisTheMenace
I listen for the tune and the beat 90% of the time. You blanketly reject all of it because of some of it. Will Smith has never rapped about that crap, neither have the Beasty Boys, RUN-DMC either. Most I don't like, but a lot I do, it is legit music. The lyrics of a lot of rock is not exactly wholesome, country either, so why does that get credit, but hip-hop doesn't?

Will Smith: class (you forgot his partner DJ Jazzy Jeff!)

Beastie Boys: rock

Run-DMC: other than the cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way", I don't know too much about them.

It must be a "generational difference" ... hip hop is hardly original, as a vast majority of the "music" in hip hop is sampled from other artists work, ie, Sean Puff P. Diddy Daddy's use of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir". MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This", a blatant cover of Rick James' "Superfreak", etc.

This Crusty grew up on Motown, Blues, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Deep Purple... as well as Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Loggins and Messina, Eagles, J Geils, Jethro Tull, Aerosmith,( I saw them when they were a bar band!), Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, U2 etc. etc.

My son has me listening to Green Day, Offspring, Creed, Nirvana, Franz Ferdinand, Jet, etc. ... and I like it! :D

Crap, if I saved half of the money I spent on albums and going to concerts, I'd be freakin rich! :D

[ROOKIELZ]

I think I touched a nerve with the music post:(

Anyway...I also listen for the tune and beat but the lyrics are important too. I don't support artists who endorse activities that I don't think are quite "cricket." That said, I can usually find at least 1 song on every CD of my daughter's that I can deal with.

From Pavarotti to Good Charlotte and NOFX: Proof that Mother can be taught!!

"An open mind can find things it likes"--my Dad, Frank Webb

[hwoods]

MUSIC is spelled

B-L-U-E-G-R-A-S-S

Any more questions??:D :D :D :D :D

[explr985]

When you had to tell computers what to do, and they made a funny sound when it tried to compute something.
Bugs bunny was THE cartoon (to me at least)
The screens were black and green
You HAD to go to the computer lab to use them, never thought of having them in or classroom (second grade)
You actually got to play during recess, if your class made the teacher mad, it got taken away from you
You had to wear you "Sunday Clothes" to church
Sunday lunch was cooked, not bought
Going to the station with daddy for Sunday standby was a big thing.

I like the one about popping popcorn on the stove, we still do it that way.

[hwoods]

Originally posted by explr985
When you had to tell computers what to do, and they made a funny sound when it tried to compute something.
Bugs bunny was THE cartoon (to me at least)
The screens were black and green
You HAD to go to the computer lab to use them, never thought of having them in or classroom (second grade)
You actually got to play during recess, if your class made the teacher mad, it got taken away from you
You had to wear you "Sunday Clothes" to church
Sunday lunch was cooked, not bought
Going to the station with daddy for Sunday standby was a big thing.

I like the one about popping popcorn on the stove, we still do it that way.


THE Cartoon was/still is - The Roadrunner. (Beep Beep):D Weren't those Computers called "Commodore 64s"???

[ROOKIELZ]

B-L-U-E-G-R-A-S-S


Any more questions??

Uhhh, yeah, isn't grass green down in your part of the world?:D Sorry bro; I'm being silly tonight:eek: :p :D

[Ladder8]

Originally posted by ROOKIELZ
I think I touched a nerve with the music post:(



At least nobody has mentioned missing disco...:)

[arhaney]

Or the BEE GEES :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
(my wife used to like them):rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[hwoods]

Grass IS blue, sometimes, somewhere. THE Group that started the music form that became known as Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys,(and later incarnations of the group) hailed from Kentucky, The Bluegrass State. And The Dance of the Dummies, Disco, came to be known as such by the directions of the Dance Instructor, as he pointed out proper foot placement, "Disco here, Disco there, Discooverdare":p :p :p

[arhaney]

hwoods, have you ever heard The Tennessee Gentlemen? Local group but I really like them.

[Rayr49]

We were told "Computers will make us a paperless society" as we bought our Commodore 64's and Trash-80s (Radio Shack).

Trying to find the adapter so you could play your 45's on the record player or record players for that matter.

Everyone had a CB radio.

Youu radio choice was AM(no FM or stereo) and you listened to the night clear channel stations such as WLS, WKBW, WWVA, and others that faded in and out. Local stations often went off air from sundown to sunup.


Stay Safe
IACOJ

[hwoods]

Unless I have a name confused, (happens at my age) they have a CD out on the Rebel label, a Roanoke, Va. studio...... What part of Tennessee are they based in?

[hwoods]

Originally posted by Rayr49


Your radio choice was AM(no FM or stereo) and you listened to the night clear channel stations such as WLS, WKBW, WWVA, and others that faded in and out. Local stations often went off air from sundown to sunup.


Stay Safe
IACOJ

Ray, old buddy, You struck a nerve.:D WLS, Chicago. WKBW, Buffalo. WWVA, Wheeling West Va. (Wheeling Jamboree, broadcast live on Saturday Nights, from the Capitol City Music Hall) And, The biggest of them all, WSM, Clear Channel 650, Nashville Tennessee. Home of the Grand Ole Opry, Broadcast live every Saturday night from The Ryman Auditorium. Damn, glasses are misting up........

[spearsm]

Has anyone mentioned 8 tracks Beta and the Statler Bros.?:D

[hwoods]

Originally posted by spearsm
Has anyone mentioned the Statler Bros.?:D

Counting Flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playing Solitaire till dawn
With a deck of Fifty One

Now don't tell me
I've nothing to do............

[spearsm]

..Smoking cigerettes and watching Captain KANG aroo, now don't tell me....I've nothing to doooooo:D

That was music, my friends:D

[Rayr49]

We could seldom get WSM in North Central PA. I remember a neighbor ordering a "Gaurenteeeeed bug killer, works on all bugs" from one of the sponsors of the "Barn Dance" (I think) on WWVA.

He got two blocks of wood labeled "A" and "B". The instructions said ; "Place bug on block A. Smash with block B. No warning label about smashed fingers either.:D

Stay Safe
IACOJ

[ullrichk]

There is only one Gentleman from Tennessee and his name is Mr. Daniels (and it ain't Charlie, either).

Enough idle chatter about that "other" music from Tennessee. Real Tennessee music comes from Beale Street, not Nashville! :D

[hwoods]

Originally posted by ullrichk
There is only one Gentleman from Tennessee and his name is Mr. Daniels (and it ain't Charlie, either).

Enough idle chatter about that "other" music from Tennessee. Real Tennessee music comes from Beale Street, not Nashville! :D

The Perfesser has Spoken! But then, that liberal stance is from the West Coast of Tennessee.:D :D :D :D :D

(East Coast is on the Clinch, in Poor Valley. Right Noz?)

[ROOKIELZ]

You wouldn't dream of mouthing off to your elders. It was something that you learned quickly and never forgot.

[blueeighty88]

CRYSTAL PEPSI

YECH!

[arhaney]

Forgot about this till today, those little plastic cups that came with Quaker oats.

[ROOKIELZ]

How about the old A & W restaurants
Rollerskates; the old orthopaedic surgeon's dream.
Fishing without a fish-finder

[Resq14]

Originally posted by ROOKIELZ
How about the old A & W restaurants

Those rocked!

[Res343cue]

Originally posted by Resq14


Those rocked!

Still do. Glad we have one left here in Vermont.

:D :p :cool:

[ROOKIELZ]

Actually, they were before my time-ROFL!

How about busting your axe to get a outboard motor started at the beginning of fishing season?
(no one has probably noticed that I can't wait for spring to get back to the Lake)

How about free firewood? Nowadays you have to pay:mad:

[PFire23]

Originally posted by ROOKIELZ
How about the old A & W restaurants
Rollerskates; the old orthopaedic surgeon's dream.
Fishing without a fish-finder


The old A&W's were awesome........ I would love to have a retro drive-in complete with carhops on rollerskates ........... someday!

Rollerskates with the KEY not laces, you know the kind you put on with your shoes, that were all metal.

Who uses a fish finder????

[spearsm]

Yeah, I guess firewood used to be free. Up early on Sat. morn and head to the woods. Make several trips back to the house....SPLIT all evening....Gum....Uhmmmm theres a nice piece of wood to split:D :D
Free labor:D :D
Just kidding. later in life, we visited the saw mill for the slabs.
AHHH the old butt-ugly 65 Dodge p/u Sweet memories:D

[cnylecat]

Tandy 80
Sea Monkeys
Magic Rocks
The REAL Batman and Robin
B&W Superman
Lone Ranger
The Green Hornet
Drinking Tang cause its what the Astronauts drank
Mystery Theater on the AM radio
SS Creggers with 50's in the back
Side Pipes

[snowball]

Only having to dial 4 numbers for a local call
Learning a lesson after a "whippin"
Parents not being afraid of going to jail for handin out a DESERVED whippin.
Hip huggers and bell bottoms
Kennington shirts
"Desert boots" (not the ones worn today in Iraq)
Cartoon violence was accepted
Being too young to know what hate was:(

[PFire23]

Originally posted by cnylecat
Sea Monkeys

These are apparently making a come back, my nephew just got some for Christmas.

Drinking Tang cause its what the Astronauts drank

Have you tried Tang lately????? *shudder* Sure doesn't taste as good now as it did when I was a kid.



Anyone remember Snack'n Cakes???? I think you can still buy them but not in as many flavors as I remember.

[Engine5FF]

Originally posted by PFire23
The old A&W's were awesome........ I would love to have a retro drive-in complete with carhops on rollerskates.

There is an A&W drive-in resteraunt near Cortland, NY that is still open. No car-hops, but the call boxes at the parking spots still operate.

[hwoods]

When a big Flathead was under the hood, instead of behind the wheel......... :D :D

[spearsm]

Slant 6

and when you drove your car, your seat was in such a position that you could actually SEE over the steering wheel and not stare at the headliner? ARRRHHHH! :D

[ullrichk]

How about a tribute to longevity instead of nostalgia?


The leather lid is still around after all these years (not trying to provoke anything here, just making a statement.)

Coca Cola has been around a while.

Gamewell street boxes (not in my part of the world, but they're out there and serving well).

Converse All Stars

Bell bottoms and hip huggers (who woulda thought anything so ridiculous would get resurrected?)

Boy Scouts

Sesame Street

Bugs Bunny

[ROOKIELZ]

How about a tribute to longevity instead of nostalgia?

I had to stop and think about that one. How about:

pencils
antiques
the bible (which probably holds the record for most copies sold and versions available, language translations, and verifiable antiquity).

[StLRes2cue]

Canvas 3/4 coats and tin helmets.

Ok...Ok so I don't remember it. It is my grandfather (the first family firefighter) speaking though me.

[ffexpCP]

The phone and radio recorder (that’s right- the ‘ol Dictaphone) in dispatch was as big as a full size fridge.

[backdraft663]

Found some new ones on the internet.

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .."

and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives,
but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc

[arhaney]

It's Alive.........It's Alive...........:D :D

[DennisTheMenace]

Originally posted by backdraft663
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Total myth, there has been a widow or a family where the dad ran out in every neighborhood since the dawn of time. Mothers have always had to work, they just did not have to work on 1950's and 60's fantasy land TV shows.

Originally posted by backdraft663
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .."

and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Both still happen in my neighborhood, see kids doing it every summer afternoon.

[FTMPTB15]

Mothers have always had to work, they just did not have to work on 1950's and 60's fantasy land TV shows.

If you're talking only about the widows or single mothers than true, otherwise mothers haven't always had to work. Personally, after having my sister and I, my mom didn't work until I was in 7th grade.. and then when she did work, she made sure her schedule allowed for her to be home before/when I returned from school.

[pete892]

When the menu at McDonalds only had Hamburgs 15c, Cheeseburgs 19c and French Fries 10c along with Coke and Orange. There was no inside seating.

Pete

[PFire23]

Originally posted by FTMPTB15


If you're talking only about the widows or single mothers than true, otherwise mothers haven't always had to work. Personally, after having my sister and I, my mom didn't work until I was in 7th grade.. and then when she did work, she made sure her schedule allowed for her to be home before/when I returned from school.

Moms have ALWAYS "worked". What do you think doing the laundry, caring for kids, cooking supper, cleaning, looking after her husband, etc is? Mothers who work have two jobs in reality, they work outside the home and then they come home and work some more.

At the risk of sounding sexist, how many Moms do you see come home from work, crack a beer and plop their butts on the couch saying "Man it's been a loooooooong day, what's for supper?"

Just because some Moms work outside the home and some don't, does not mean that those who don't aren't "working".

[FTMPTB15]

Originally posted by PFire23


Moms have ALWAYS "worked". What do you think doing the laundry, caring for kids, cooking supper, cleaning, looking after her husband, etc is? Mothers who work have two jobs in reality, they work outside the home and then they come home and work some more.

At the risk of sounding sexist, how many Moms do you see come home from work, crack a beer and plop their butts on the couch saying "Man it's been a loooooooong day, what's for supper?"

Just because some Moms work outside the home and some don't, does not mean that those who don't aren't "working".

True.. but that's not what I understood him to be talking about because then it wouldn't matter if...
the dad ran out in every neighborhood since the dawn of time
...that would make be believe he was talking about single mothers working outside of the home.

Don't worry... I won't answer your question. I don't want to sound sexist, but let's not forget about all the times we come home to a "to-do" list.

But that's enough.. this isn't going to turn into a pissing contest. I simply understood his statement as meaning working outside of the home.

[PFire23]

Originally posted by FTMPTB15
Don't worry... I won't answer your question. I don't want to sound sexist, but let's not forget about all the times we come home to a "to-do" list.

Fair and true statement. And to be totally fair, most households in today's world are "equal" in the chore dept. I meant that statement more as an "example" than anything else.

[DepChief135]

havin a Carol's club burger after a hard day at the key punch machine generating a million key punch cards to enter into the computer. Then dropping the box and having them go all over the room. The sound the chain printer made as it raced back and forth across the paper until the sprocket got out alignment and the paper went cockeyed and ripped.... sigh....

[snowball]

Barrel of Monkeys
Lincoln Logs
Plastic Army Men
Train sets (with all metal parts)
First kiss:o
Playing War (with cards)
Dirt clod fights
Toughskins jeans (with patches on the knees)
First day of school (any grade)
Last day of school (any grade)
Grandma's cooking
Summer nights as a kid
Hot Wheels (wit the plastic tracks that your siblings whipped you with):eek:
Schwin Sting Ray's with sissy bars

I feel drained:D