Remember when?

[marv2]

Okay, speaking of pictures... Does anybody remember this?

Remember it? I think I got one for three Christmases in a row LOL! They had special series of picture disks as I remember.

[marv2]

No, but one of my best childhood buddies had that record-player-filmstrip combo. What I had was an actual Viewmaster product; you put the reel inside and the images appeared on a little TV screen. This must’ve been around ‘79-‘80.

So I take it you were not around when the 'Kenner Close N Play" record players were popular with all the kids?

[marv2]

I had one of these.....

[sansradio]

^ I think I caught the tail end of that era.

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,marv,you had all the goodies,my grandson has a view-master,one of the very few classic toys still around.

[marv2]

^ I think I caught the tail end of that era.

The end? Why isn't it still going on? hehehehehehehehe!

[marv2]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,marv,you had all the goodies,my grandson has a view-master,one of the very few classic toys still around.

It really was. It was simply, educational and fun. The Ohio Art Etch-A- Stretch was another of those classic toys that was very durable.

[arr&bee]

Remember when dogs were trained to do their business in a special little spot,today these mutts and their sorry owners just drop it anywhere.

[Jerry Oz]

That just dredged up memories of playing tackle football as a kid when somebody brought you down and when you stood up, you heard somebody say "uuuuuggggghhhh!" at the same time that you smelled the dog poop that was smeared on your pants or shirt.

[marv2]

That just dredged up memories of playing tackle football as a kid when somebody brought you down and when you stood up, you heard somebody say "uuuuuggggghhhh!" at the same time that you smelled the dog poop that was smeared on your pants or shirt.

I remember in college a pigeon dropped his stuff right on this guy's face near the student union. LOL

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aa!!!

[arr&bee]

Remember when[sunday]was about other stuff but no football Dad was passed out in front of the tv,westerns playing..mom was cooking dinner..we kids were outside playing football not watching...i'm starting a petition to be a kid again..who's with me?? Hehehehehehehe!!!

[marv2]

Remember when[sunday]was about other stuff but no football Dad was passed out in front of the tv,westerns playing..mom was cooking dinner..we kids were outside playing football not watching...i'm starting a petition to be a kid again..who's with me?? Hehehehehehehe!!!

I am with you. Remember then, most people had black and white TV and there were only three stations LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

Sunday was always about football. My brother and I used to stay up on Saturday nights to watch "NFL Game of the Week" and "NFL Week In Review", which showed the previous weeks highlights. The shows came on at 11:00pm and went off at midnight. I watched Monday Night Football until halftime in school nights so I could see Howard Cosell show the previous day's highlights. If we were lucky enough to avoid going to church on some Sundays, we'd watch highlights of the previous day's Ohio State and Notre Dame games, which just guy me lathered up for the Sunday pro action. It's hard to believe that I might not watch the games next season.

[Jerry Oz]

I am with you. Remember then, most people had black and white TV and there were only three stations LOL!

LOL. We had three stations [[NBC 4, ABC 6 and CBS 10). Also had a PBS station. Cable changed the game with another 15-20 stations, with no super stations or specialty networks like CNN, ESPN and MTV. The world began to change quickly after that.

[marv2]

LOL. We had three stations [[NBC 4, ABC 6 and CBS 10). Also had a PBS station. Cable changed the game with another 15-20 stations, with no super stations or specialty networks like CNN, ESPN and MTV. The world began to change quickly after that.

Boy Jerry, you guys were real modern. We didn't get PBS until 1968! But being that Detroit, Toledo and Canada were so close we got the extra independent stations in Detroit and Southwestern Ontario, which gave us a little more, but still the main 3 channels/networks were NBC 13, CBS 11 and ABC 24. We did get cable until around 1983 or so.

[Jerry Oz]

I think we got cable around 1975. We got HBO in its first form shortly after and that was great. They would start around 5:00pm and show movies until just after midnight. Their guide was a tiny little booklet that I pored over intently when it arrived with each month's bill. No boxing, comedy specials or series back then. A couple years later, we got Cinemax, which all of my class mates loved because every few weeks, a soft porn movie would pop into the lineup. To be honest, I miss the days of fewer options. I visit the folks once a week and they have more than 200 channels, yet they only watch the same local stations we always watched [[except for ESPN, CNN and which station is showing the Cavaliers game).

[marv2]

I think we got cable around 1975. We got HBO in its first form shortly after and that was great. They would start around 5:00pm and show movies until just after midnight. Their guide was a tiny little booklet that I pored over intently when it arrived with each month's bill. No boxing, comedy specials or series back then. A couple years later, we got Cinemax, which all of my class mates loved because every few weeks, a soft porn movie would pop into the lineup. To be honest, I miss the days of fewer options. I visit the folks once a week and they have more than 200 channels, yet they only watch the same local stations we always watched [[except for ESPN, CNN and which station is showing the Cavaliers game).

1975? Wow~ I don't think I even heard of cable TV until 1981 or around there. I remember in college I saw CNN for the first time when I worked late night at UPS.

[Jerry Oz]

Consider that most people I know pay $90-$180 per month for it. They tried to take my folks' bundle up to $220 per month [[from $160) until I called and threatened to cancel. They changed it to $130, including phone and internet. I'm a cord cutter who hasn't paid for cable for the past 20 years.

[marv2]

Consider that most people I know pay $90-$180 per month for it. They tried to take my folks' bundle up to $220 per month [[from $160) until I called and threatened to cancel. They changed it to $130, including phone and internet. I'm a cord cutter who hasn't paid for cable for the past 20 years.

They were charging my Mom $280 for cable, internet and phone. That is more than I pay in New York for the services!

[arr&bee]

Yep,but those three stations were all we needed,there were few commercials and those shows were soooooo good,well in d.c. There were four[7-9-4-5]in the late sixties we got[channel 20]and count-gore devall.

[robb_k]

I remember when no one we knew had a television is his or her house, and also, later, when The NFL only televised its Championship game. There were no regular weekly NFL games on TV. So, yes, Sunday was NOT a day of sitting home watching NFL games. I knew that because we visited family in Chicago, in December, before Christmas.

[Jerry Oz]

My Pops likes to tell the story of how he saved up money on his first job and bought his family the first TV set in the project that they lived in. He says that there would be a dozen of his friends coming over to watch it. It must have been around 1950 or so. Dad learned the virtue of hard work and saving at a young age. I did, too. It blows my mind that so many people spend more than they make and pay the consequences of it.

[arr&bee]

Because they don't listen like we did,maybe it's the times and all this technology that kids are exposed to now, we actually sat at the dinner table and heard our parents talk about how hard it was and they explained it to us so by the time we went out in the world we understood,yes we spent more than our parents but we knew how to save some for a rainy day.

[Jerry Oz]

I can't speak for others but I was never the one to run out and buy something just because it was the newer version of something that I already have. I still drive a 1991 Honda that I've been blessed to have had since it was new. Haven't had cable since 1997. I buy clothes when I need to because I still like most of what I've had for years. If I'm cheap, I also am happy that I was able to leave a job I didn't want when I was ready to because I didn't spend my overtime for 15 years. I try to tell younger folks not to spend their OT but they still budget for it and wind up owing huge bills when things slow down. I found that by saving money, I have much fewer rainy days than most.

My last bit of financial advice: If you can't afford to give it away, don't lend it to anybody. Some people think that if they spent all of theirs, then you should be happy to share what you didn't spend. Nah, brother. Don't embarrass yourself by asking.

[marv2]

I can't speak for others but I was never the one to run out and buy something just because it was the newer version of something that I already have. I still drive a 1991 Honda that I've been blessed to have had since it was new. Haven't had cable since 1997. I buy clothes when I need to because I still like most of what I've had for years. If I'm cheap, I also am happy that I was able to leave a job I didn't want when I was ready to because I didn't spend my overtime for 15 years. I try to tell younger folks not to spend their OT but they still budget for it and wind up owing huge bills when things slow down. I found that by saving money, I have much fewer rainy days than most.

My last bit of financial advice: If you can't afford to give it away, don't lend it to anybody. Some people think that if they spent all of theirs, then you should be happy to share what you didn't spend. Nah, brother. Don't embarrass yourself by asking.

I know what you mean. I would not buy a CD player until 1990!

[Jerry Oz]

LOL. One of my best friends bought a CD player for $800 in 1981. I remember asking why he paid so much for it when it would be half of that price in a year and he told me that he the loot, so he had no desire to wait a year. He was [[and is) good with his money and he loved music, so I was kind of humbled that I would even ask him about it. He was the guy who got me over my stuck up attitude toward jazz, which I didn't listen to until I was in high school. It's my favorite genre of music now.

[marv2]

LOL. One of my best friends bought a CD player for $800 in 1981. I remember asking why he paid so much for it when it would be half of that price in a year and he told me that he the loot, so he had no desire to wait a year. He was [[and is) good with his money and he loved music, so I was kind of humbled that I would even ask him about it. He was the guy who got me over my stuck up attitude toward jazz, which I didn't listen to until I was in high school. It's my favorite genre of music now.

Heck, I bought my first VCR in 1985. It was so expensive that I had to finance it!

[arr&bee]

Hey marv,i wanted to finance my marriage ceremony...but the guy at the mall said i had to pay the two dollars up front...sigh!!

[144man]

I have no binocular vision, so when I used to look through the 3D Viewers all I could ever see were two identical photos side by side.

[Jerry Oz]

You sound like my sister. She had a lazy eye, so they cut a muscle in it and she doesn't have the ability to move her eyes independently.

[Jerry Oz]

Heck, I bought my first VCR in 1985. It was so expensive that I had to finance it!

Living in a digital age, it's hard for young people to comprehend the analog era. Consider how 8-tracks were an advancement in recording technology over reel-to-reel systems [[for portability, not sound), cassettes improved on 8-tracks, and now I can put 50,000 songs on an mp3 player that fits in my pocket and probably costs less than that VCR that you financed.

[marv2]

Hey marv,i wanted to finance my marriage ceremony...but the guy at the mall said i had to pay the two dollars up front...sigh!!

Bustin' out LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marv2]

I have no binocular vision, so when I used to look through the 3D Viewers all I could ever see were two identical photos side by side.

that must have been tough. Can it be treated or improved?

[arr&bee]

Hey,remember when there were no-plastic trash bags,and if that paper trash bag got wet...it was your problem-or your butt,haaaaaa!!

[robb_k]

Hey,remember when there were no-plastic trash bags,and if that paper trash bag got wet...it was your problem-or your butt,haaaaaa!!

I remember when there was no plastic of any kind. Toys were mainly wood and some metal.

[marv2]

Hey,remember when there were no-plastic trash bags,and if that paper trash bag got wet...it was your problem-or your butt,haaaaaa!!

Yup! Remember when the garbage cans were made out of metal and the bottoms would eventually rust out? I remember they smelled awful too.

[marv2]

I remember when there was no plastic of any kind. Toys were mainly wood and some metal.

All beverage bottles were glass at one time too.

[Jerry Oz]

I know some of you remember going to the grocery store and seeing your moms or grandmas put Collard greens in paper bags. And also when you needed to poke two holes in the top of soda cans because they didn't have pull tops.

[Jerry Oz]

All beverage bottles were glass at one time too.

There was much less litter when you had to return your glass bottles for a nickel, wasn't it?

[144man]

that must have been tough. Can it be treated or improved?

I had two operations as a kid, neither of which worked. Although I can see well through my left eye, I cannot use it in coordination with my right eye, which is the one I mainly use.

[marv2]

I had two operations as a kid, neither of which worked. Although I can see well through my left eye, I cannot use it in coordination with my right eye, which is the one I mainly use.

I am sorry to hear this.

[marv2]

There was much less litter when you had to return your glass bottles for a nickel, wasn't it?

Yes there was. One of my biggest pet peeves is litter and those who do it! It makes me crazy LOL!

[arr&bee]

Maybe i'm just getting old,but i kinda miss-adjusting the rabbit ears,actually going to the tv to change the channel.

[Jerry Oz]

I don't have cable, so I have rabbit ears on two TVs.

[Jerry Oz]

Yes there was. One of my biggest pet peeves is litter and those who do it! It makes me crazy LOL!

People who dump their ash trays in parking lots tick me off. Like the ones who toss cigarette butts out of their cars while driving.

[arr&bee]

Marv,jerry,you would love my neighbors[they are pigs]they dump thrash out their window and miss the can and yes i have spoken to them about it,being young is no excuse for being a pig.

[marv2]

Marv,jerry,you would love my neighbors[they are pigs]they dump thrash out their window and miss the can and yes i have spoken to them about it,being young is no excuse for being a pig.

Oh no, no,no, no, no! They would not be just run out of the neighborhood, they would be run out of the town here on Long Island! I can go through street after street for miles in Montreal and not see as much as a cigarette butt lying around. People like your neighbors have to be banned until they can get it together!

[marv2]

People who dump their ash trays in parking lots tick me off. Like the ones who toss cigarette butts out of their cars while driving.

I've done that, throw them out the window on the highway in my youth. Not now! I hate when people walk from a store or restaurant eating in public and through the paper and containers right down on the lawns of others. That brings RATS!

[marv2]

I was in Monroe, Michigan last summer for the Jazz festival there and the whole town is spotless, just like in Canada.