Remember when?

[marv2]

YOU KNOW GANG,INNOCENCE IS A WONDERFUL THING AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAD AS KIDS THAT SWEET WONDERFUL TIME WHEN WE JUST WENT OUTSIDE AND PLAYED AND WE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT[WORRY]HELL I DON'T THINK I EVEN HEARD THE WORD UNTIL I WAS A TEEN,OUR FOLKS MADE SURE THAT WE KIDS DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH ANYTHING EXCEPT KIDS STUFF[HOMEWORK-CHORES]...[and that cute girl down the street-hehehe]WHENEVER I WANT TO ESCAPE THE MADNESS I COME TO THIS WONDERFUL POST AND BE A KID AGAIN!

I totally agree JAI. This thread is also one my very favorites.

[robb_k]

This thread has literally died since Marv has left us [[may he rest in superb peace). It won't be the same without him. I'll try to keep it going, but it just won't be the same.

[arr&bee]

this thread has literally died since marv has left us [[may he rest in superb peace). It won't be the same without him. I'll try to keep it going, but it just won't be the same.

robb,you're absolutely right,but we'll keep in going in marv 's memory.

[ralpht]

Robb, after reading you for the past couple of decades, I can't think of anyone better to keep the thread going. I'm sure Marv would approve.

[lakeside]

Boy, I had no idea this thread would still be around almost 461,000 plus posts later. I
was blueskies back then when I started it. Yes, Marv added a lot to this thread. I sort of ran out of steam and Robb, Marv, arr&bee and Jerry [[among others) have kept things interesting and moving along. Thanks guys.

[robb_k]

I'll start off this thread's "Marvin Davis Memorial Era" with the following "I'm So Old" post:
I'm so old, that when I was 5 years old in 1951, my 104 year old aunt, born in 1847 [[14 years before the start of The US Civil War), told me about her youth in Hungary, when she was 10 years old, and The Hungarian Government sent representatives to all the small towns and villages, to assign family [[last) names to families. Before that time almost everyone had NO last names. My fathers' parents were the first generation born having last names, and they also had a marriage arranged by their 2 families, and the district's official Jewish Matchmaker. My grandfather moved to Liege [[Luik) Belgium, in 1875, to work in the mines, and on to Antwerp, Belgium 2 years later, and on to Den Haag, Holland, in 1882, which is how my family ended up in The Netherlands. All true. People don't realise that our "modern World" is very, very recent.

[Boogiedown]

Wow Robb that is incredible !!!!

Time moves on and things change almost without our being able to see it.
I was just this morning realizing how in a very short time , music had changed in all ways imaginable . When my brother and I were teenagers we were going to rock concerts , some in stadiums.

I don't remember my Dad , a WWII vet, once being staggered by it . He never once said wow this rock music you guys are into is "---?---" .... !!! Not one way or another did Alice Cooper move him ! lol!

I texted my brother about this this morning and he answered back,
"Ya, you're right. All I remember him saying was that close-up The Andrew Sisters were ugly !!"

!!! LOL!!!!!

[robb_k]

Wow Robb that is incredible !!!!

Time moves on and things change almost without our being able to see it.
I was just this morning realizing how in a very short time , music had changed in all ways imaginable . When my brother and I were teenagers we were going to rock concerts , some in stadiums.

I don't remember my Dad , a WWII vet, once being staggered by it . He never once said wow this rock music you guys are into is "---?---" .... !!! Not one way or another did Alice Cooper move him ! lol!

I texted my brother about this this morning and he answered back,
"Ya, you're right. All I remember him saying was that close-up The Andrew Sisters were ugly !!"
!!! LOL!!!!!

I agree with your dad that Alice Cooper was ugly, and I didn't like his singing, either.

[arr&bee]

i agree with your dad that alice cooper was ugly, and i didn't like his singing, either.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! !

[arr&bee]

boy, i had no idea this thread would still be around almost 461,000 plus posts later. I
was blueskies back then when i started it. Yes, marv added a lot to this thread. I sort of ran out of steam and robb, marv, arr&bee and jerry [[among others) have kept things interesting and moving along. Thanks guys.

lakeside,i had no idea that you were once[bluskies]i wanna thank you for starting this classic post which makes me think about good golden days of childhood.

[arr&bee]

Remember when being a[boy scout]was an honorable thing?

[Jerry Oz]

Huh?! Marv died? I wondered where he was but had no idea he passed. Is there a thread anywhere on SDF about it?

[calvin]

Huh?! Marv died? I wondered where he was but had no idea he passed. Is there a thread anywhere on SDF about it?

Yes.

https://soulfuldetroit.com/showthrea...Marv-davis-rip

[arr&bee]

Remember when teen girls wanted to be[pretty]? Before it all went to hell?

[Jerry Oz]

Remember when teen girls wanted to be[pretty]? Before it all went to hell?

I remember when you could tell the 16 year old girls from the 40 year old women. Now, the teenagers want to look like adults and the adults want to look like teenagers.

[9A]

When I was a teenager in the later Fifties and early Sixties, my father wouldn't let me go to school without wiping off my eye makeup. Also, one time he wouldn't allow me at the
dinner table with blue nail polish. And we were liberal in most other respects --- I think.

[[Wish Marv could see me now. Heartbroken.)

[arr&bee]

Remember when the family all sat down for dinner together?

[9A]

Remember when the family all sat down for dinner together?

And we all ate what was served. No moaning and groaning.

[robb_k]

And we all ate what was served. No moaning and groaning.

We HAD to eat all we were served, because there were people who were starving in other places across The World, and/or, because some of us had to eat grass and dig up tulip bulbs and eat them, when The German Army took almost all the food out of the country in late fall of 1944.

[robb_k]

Remember when the family all sat down for dinner together?

Even if we wanted to some of us couldn't, because of The Covid-19 Virus. Some of us are on the wrong continent, and can't get back until there is a vaccine, and/or the virus is contained quite strongly.

[9A]

Even if we wanted to some of us couldn't, because of The Covid-19 Virus. Some of us are on the wrong continent, and can't get back until there is a vaccine, and/or the virus is contained quite strongly.

Ralph and I have not dined with other family members since the original shutdown last March and they all live nearby. We agreed not to accept Thanksgiving invitations this year either. So sad, but we are willing to make sacrifices to stay alive.

[Jerry Oz]

Ralph and I have not dined with other family members since the original shutdown last March and they all live nearby. We agreed not to accept Thanksgiving invitations this year either. So sad, but we are willing to make sacrifices to stay alive.

Amen. Even as there are a bunch of selfish oafs who refuse to take necessary steps to get this thing in control. It doesn't matter if one state does everything right because there are always people who push against the common good because of "individual liberty". I live in Ohio, where we tried to keep it in check but border Indiana and West Virginia, where they aren't. It's like smoking, you can't have a non-smoking section in the same room, right next to a hookah bar.

[Jerry Oz]

Even if we wanted to some of us couldn't, because of The Covid-19 Virus. Some of us are on the wrong continent, and can't get back until there is a vaccine, and/or the virus is contained quite strongly.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I asked my mom what the holiday plans were because she told me that this year, we couldn't have our traditional family dinners. Some of the youngsters might be unhappy but I wear a mask continually when I visit and don't want to risk my parents' health. With that being said, my brother and sister-in-law are flying out from Vegas for some reason and I hope they're not trying to convince the folks to have a get-together.

[9A]

We are the at-risk elders now and don't trust our family members to
honor all the recommended [[by the scientists) safe measures . I have only
seen my brother once all summer and that was outside with masks on.
Now they are fixing to drive from Michigan down to Florida for the winter -- fools.
I am somewhat relieved that my parents never had to live through these times. They
never made it to experience America's World Trade Center, et al, attack, either.

Jerry, we are your Michigan neighbors, and we are surrounded by the spiking states.
We aren't allowed into Canada, either.

[9A]

This is a very relatable thread. Thanks for perpetuating it. It is fun to go back and read previous pages. How many of you remember the song "Remember When" by the Platters in 1955? I know this is not "Word Association," but I associate.

[Jerry Oz]

That makes me remember when I discovered my dad's records in earnest. I had already built up my own collection [[kind of) in the late '70s and '80s but I started throwing his anthologies on my turntable and just like that, my buds and I were making mix tapes with the best of the '50s and '60s to drive around to. We were so weird. We'd pop out a tape with Keith Sweat, Parliament and Lakeside on it and trade it out for one with Little Richard, Sam Cooke and the Temptaions without missing a beat.

I used to love making mix tapes. I had a cassette player in my car until it wore out sometime around 2008.

[arr&bee]

that makes me remember when i discovered my dad's records in earnest. I had already built up my own collection [[kind of) in the late '70s and '80s but i started throwing his anthologies on my turntable and just like that, my buds and i were making mix tapes with the best of the '50s and '60s to drive around to. We were so weird. We'd pop out a tape with keith sweat, parliament and lakeside on it and trade it out for one with little richard, sam cooke and the temptaions without missing a beat.

I used to love making mix tapes. I had a cassette player in my car until it wore out sometime around 2008.

hey jerry,i still love making them,i'm not a[cd]guy,give me my-albums-45's-cassettes and i'm happy!

[Jerry Oz]

hey jerry,i still love making them,i'm not a[cd]guy,give me my-albums-45's-cassettes and i'm happy!

Sorry, Homeboy. But for as much as I loved making cassettes, it took two and a half hours to make a 90 minute tape. Now? I can put 130 songs an mp3 CD that I can put in my car's stereo and drive from Ohio to Virginia and back without hearing the same song twice. And that will only take 45 minutes to collect the music, organize it and burn it to the CD.

If I don't want to use the mp3 CD, I can plug in an mp3 player to the stereo and have 10,000 songs from which to select. The only real thing that I miss from that age is the fidelity of wax as opposed to digital.

[9A]

Little Richard, Sam Cooke and the Temptations? Your dad was pretty cool, Jerry.

[robb_k]

Little Richard, Sam Cooke and the Temptations? Your dad was pretty cool, Jerry.

You guys are awfully young! My Dad had records by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, T-Bone Walker, Wynonie Harris, Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Champion Jack DuPree, The Ink Spots, The King Cole Trio, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Tex Beneke, from the 1930s and '40s, even a few from the 1920s.

[9A]

Robb, Jerry's dad must have been a contemporary of mine. That is my music of the
Fifties and Sixties -- when music was music. Rock and Roll, Doo-wop, etc., etc.

However, I love your dad's taste in music. Yes.

[robb_k]

Robb, Jerry's dad must have been a contemporary of mine. That is my music of the
Fifties and Sixties -- when music was music. Rock and Roll, Doo-wop, etc., etc.

However, I love your dad's taste in music. Yes.

He was a contemporary of mine, too.

[Jerry Oz]

Dad's record stash has a lot more than that. He's got stuff from the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers. Pops is a huge Dominoes fan and proud to remind me that one of his first cousins was a member of the Five Keys. He started buying albums in the '60s but he had 45s from way into the '50s. Even a couple of 78s. One of the things that I would fix if I had a time machine would be how the 45s were maintained. We had hundreds of them and now the few that remain are broken and scratched beyond use.

[robb_k]

Dad's record stash has a lot more than that. He's got stuff from the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers. Pops is a huge Dominoes fan and proud to remind me that one of his first cousins was a member of the Five Keys. He started buying albums in the '60s but he had 45s from way into the '50s. Even a couple of 78s. One of the things that I would fix if I had a time machine would be how the 45s were maintained. We had hundreds of them and now the few that remain are broken and scratched beyond use.

The first records my parents bought me were 78s, and the first records I bought, myself, were 78s.

[9A]

The first records my parents bought me were 78s, and the first records I bought, myself, were 78s.

And so fragile. Scratched so easily. Few younger people know what the expression "like a broken record" means.

[nativeNY63]

And so fragile. Scratched so easily. Few younger people know what the expression "like a broken record" means.

Us kids used the old 33 1/3's as Frisbees! Couldn't afford the real thing. We knew nothing of collecting.

[9A]

Do you mean 45's like these? Framed on our wall. Shameless.

[Jerry Oz]

Do you mean 45's like these? Framed on our wall. Shameless.

Love it, Nina. I have a strange infactuation with 45 record labels; they bring back fond memories. My favorites are Motown, Tamla, Stax and Decca. Mostly because that's where most of my childhood's favorite music came from.

I love this for the memories it dusts off:

[9A]

Ralph's band of yore. [[RT is tall dude in back on right)

[arr&bee]

Haaaaa,hey jerry remember the old muffler commercial where the old dude said..i'd never trade annabelle...that's me with my cassettes,hehehehehehe!!

[9A]

OK, Jerry. I never saw a 45 that looked like that blue one. Ours always had that
big hole and we put an insert into it to adapt to our phonograph spindle. Does anyone know why most 45s were produced with the larger holes?

[Jerry Oz]

Hah! I didn't even notice the hole. Ours used to have the wide holes in them too. I can remember 10 singles loaded up on the console with one of these adapters:


For some reasons, it's the little things that stick with you decades later.

[nativeNY63]

I do believe that the smaller 45 hole were for jukeboxes.

[robb_k]

I do believe that the smaller 45 hole were for jukeboxes.

Right! 7-inch records that had the small 78RPM and 33RPM hole, had that because Juke boxes were first made for 78s, and, later, 33 RPM LPs were also played by some Juke Boxes. So, rather than need to accommodate a new record hole size, they just made 7-inch EPs with microgrooves and 3 songs per side, with the small hole, or singles with a small hole, to play in the Juke boxes. But, most of the US and Canadian Juke box records I remember when 78s were phased out during late 1958 through 1960, were the 3 songs per side 33 RPM EPs.

[9A]

I read somewhere in Wikipedia that the smaller 7 inch records were originally produced
for children. Perhaps the larger holes were also intended for children to manage -- like fat pencils and crayons. I realize not everything published on Wikipedia is gospel. Does
anyone know some other reason why the 45s were produced with the larger center holes?

Jerry, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how that 45 rpm adapter, that you featured earlier, was used. I do remember the cylinder-like adapter that was placed on a record player for a stack if 45s.

[robb_k]

I read somewhere in Wikipedia that the smaller 7 inch records were originally produced
for children. Perhaps the larger holes were also intended for children to manage -- like fat pencils and crayons. I realize not everything published on Wikipedia is gospel. Does
anyone know some other reason why the 45s were produced with the larger center holes?

Jerry, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how that 45 rpm adapter, that you featured earlier, was used. I do remember the cylinder-like adapter that was placed on a record player for a stack if 45s.

That disc-shaped 45 adapter was pliable, so you pushed the open ends inward to get it inside the hole, and once inside it snapped back towards the outer direction, and fit snugly inside the hole, being held fast by the edges of the record which formed the circle. It snapped into place and was held fast until the user would pop it out again. There were strong, metal discs, at first. But they would break off small chunks of the record's centre area. So, they stopped making those. That is why so many 45s in 1950s collections you find in thrift stores or used record bins in furniture stores have ruined centres. Those were generally the same people who wrote their names on the label or stuck a sticker with their name on it on the label. They were careless with their records, and so, were not real collectors. They just wanted to go home with all their own records when they brought them to parties.

[9A]

I love old fashioned juke boxes with actual moving parts. Some were works of art. Do any of you have one? I have a friend whose family still owns one that used to be in her rec room in the Fifties.

I found this interesting --

"Jukeboxes were most popular from the 1940s through the mid-1960s, particularly during the 1950s. By the middle of the 1940s, three-quarters of the records produced in America went into jukeboxes.Billboard published a record chart measuring jukebox play during the 1950s, which briefly became a component of the Hot 100; by 1959, the jukebox's popularity had waned to the point where Billboard ceased publishing the chart and stopped collecting jukebox play data."

[9A]

Most people had one flexible plastic discs for each 45 and left it in there. The metal adapters were dreadful.

[robb_k]

Most people had one flexible plastic discs for each 45 and left it in there. The metal adapters were dreadful.

I can't imagine buying over 40,000 of those!!!!

[arr&bee]

Remember when we would carry those 45's around with our little record players and poof-instant party?