I'm so old I Remember when:

[R2elk]

I remember when the flag only had 48 stars.

 

[sourland]

I remember when if the police caught you in a minor transgression they warned you and threatened to tell your parents if you were caught again. Happened to a friend.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Remember watching the Newlywed Game, the Dating Game, the Ed Sullivan Show, Soul Train, the Mickey Mouse Club, PeeWee Herman (before he was caught mast**ba**g in an adult theater and ruined his career bwaaaahhhh!!!), Bozo the Clown, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color every Sunday at 7:30pm (never missed an episode), Dark Shadows, The Monkeys, The Addams Family and The Munsters, Petticoat Junction, oh I could go on and on......

 

[casportpony]

Ahhh teenage heartthrobs! Mine was David Cassidy. Dreamy!

I had a crush on him too!

 

[sourland]

Remember Dad listening to Amos and Andy and Jackie Gleason on the large living room radio. Remember when we got the first television in our small town and all the kids would gather to watch it while I was outside doing 'something'.

 

[casportpony]

The Jetsons

 

[BarnyardChaos]

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I remember my first Brownie camera! Used the heck out of that thing. Oh, and my first Polaroid camera - how amazing for it to spit out a photo right after you took the shot, and watch it develop before your eyes. Such innovation!

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I remember the house of one set of grandparents had no electricity and an outhouse. No indoor plumbing at all. Drinking water was a bucket on the back porch with a gourd dipper. There were no electric lines and no telephone lines. Light at night was from kerosene lanterns.

I have a friend who lived like that with her husband until he died a year ago. Waaaay out in the boonies, no electric, no plumbing, no gas. Pot-bellied stove for heat, wood-fired cook stove, oil-filled lamps, outhouse, wringer washer, water from a well pump in the front yard. House is still there, the widow lives in town now, but is making some 'upgrades' to the country house so she can move back out there. (Upgrades, as in fixing a leaky roof, replacing the door on the root cellar, and patching walls. Still doesn't plan to get electric or water. SMH.)

 

[DLA]

So you remember when we got to the moon?

I remember watching the first alleged moon landing on tv and how they used to show the casualty figures from vietnam on the evening news. I had a pair of bell bottoms with flowers on them that my aunt the hippy sewed for me. Those were strange times to grow up in even by today's standards.

 

[Evadig]

This is the most interesting thread on this forum!!

I’m only 22 so I don’t remember any of this except the etch a sketch…