Are you old enough to remember?

The other day someone mentioned an E-ticket, and someone else didn't know what the phrase meant. That got me to thinking of all the things that were second nature to me, that my daughter will not know. These are some that popped to mind. Maybe you have more. BKH

-E Tickets
-I'll call you on my dime
-Ski belts
-Double handle ropes
-Records, 8 track, cassettes
-Tooth powder
-Snow on the television when the networks shut down for the night.
- Waiting at the gangway for guests to get off the plane.
-Keds and PF Fliers
- Milkmen
- Dr's who make house calls
- Typewriters
- Riding in the back of a pickup
- Drive in movie theaters
- Summer vacations that actually lasted through the summer.
- Working 8-5
- Lay away
- Leather snow ski boots
- Film in the camera
- Slide projectors
- Dial telephones
- Green Stamps

ski belts   oh my

-vinyl tops
-wooden ice cream spoons
-jeans with holes that were earned
-15c burgers
-a big boat was 18'
-studded snow tires
-mullets (where are you Dude?)
-shorts that didn't come to the knees

Chuck

The Lake wrote: -shorts that didn't come to the knees Chuck

Shorts the didn't cover the bottom of your front pockets

Pintos, Gremlins
Bag phones
Reel-to-Reel
Jensen Triaxle speakers
Snurfers
Jarts
Mom yelling out the door to come home for dinner (and not wanting to quit playing outside)

We had a party line at our cottage in CT as kids and only had to dial the last number of the prefix for a local call.
Jarts, those were awesome!
Do kids still put cards in their spokes?
$30 lids, LOL
No mad killing sprees at school or work
Clickers that clicked
Free Love
Disco's
Drinking age of 18
Pee Wee Herman
Jazzercise - wasn't that the show with hot chicks exercising in skin tight suits?
CB radios
Big Wheels
Records instead of CD's and IPods
Psychedelic
The Peace sign


Tull, you forgot Pacers

Can't forget Pacers!
$30 lids, is that like 4-finger bags?

Three years ago, my father-in-law bought a triple black, 1976 Cadillac Eldorado (it only had 975 miles on it). It had an 8-track player in it, and in the trunk was an Elvis 8-track. The kids had never seen, or heard of 8-track. There's something to be said about the quality of CD's.

I'm surprised we don't have voice command TV remotes by now, or maybe they do exist and I just don't know. I also inquired about DVR control via cell phone before it was in the marketplace.

Had plenty of mullets
Watchted PeeWee's Playhouse
Still have a CB in my Camaro
Love a game of Jarts

Tooth powder? WTF

Lawn darts

LOL! Maybe that's why i never saw nor heard of them.

You guys are making me feel old. I recognize most of those.

Tull, you and are the same age, so it doens't surprise me.

Did you "get" to register for the Draft. I believe high school class of 81 was the final year.

BKH

Sanity

Speedo's? I'm leaving for the Michigan High School state swim meet at noon. There will be way too many Speedo's. I will be wearing my T-shirt that says " friends don't let friends wear Speedo's" My son who will be swimming bought me the shirt.

At least Americans stop at the Speedo level. I was in Ibiza Spain a few years ago and saw way too many banana hammocks.
I wonder if that's how Kristof hits the beach?

Cherry & Vanilla Cokes at the Pharmacy, from a fountain.
Riding in a car without a seat belt, obviously not safer, but that's how it was.
Station Wagon with seats in the way back
Full size spare tires in the trunk
Hubcaps
Acapulco Gold
Men without earings
Husbands and Wives always the opposite sex

BKH, selective service (draft) for this class of 82'

It was certain years in the 1970's that didn't have to register. I didn't in 1975.

Now, all you got to do is fill out the FAFSA and it's done automatically.

*Acapulco Gold?   ha ha ha Alaskan Thunderf**k
*TV remote that actually ran the clunky dial on the TV. My parents built this from a Zenith kit.
*Pong is a good one.
*when a dime meant $10
*Blatz Light Cream Ales (grenades)
*Toughskin jeans (my mom patched them too)
*Jean Jacket "cut" with a huge Iron Maiden patch on the back.
*When Levis were cool jeans.
*$1.00 allowance
*no mobile phones
*13 channels of *************** on the TV to choose from. To choose from.
*$6.00 concert tickets


I do remember flying Hughes Air Worst when i was a kid in Irvine.

a few months ago I got a ringtone of an actual phone. I was pretty excited about it. I went home and called my mobile when my wife and kids were in the room. Barb loved it. Neither of my kids had any idea what it was....

I am also in the process of putting my turntable back to use in my shop. kids think we are crazy for wanting to play those big black CD's.   This has actually been a bit of a pain in the ass as stereos no longer have the proper phono input on them. I have to buy a converter to adjust the gain and play correctly. Get this. It has a USB output.

Times were simpler back then.