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[celinedionsfan]

Hey Brenda... Hey Steve... and anyone who is at least a forty-something... thought we could have a little fun stumbling down memory lane...  Steve and I have done this while playing The Person Above Me

so I'll get us started....

I remember when Batman, starring Bruce Wayne and Burt Ward, was on Tuesday and Wednesday nights!

[ByuSmurf]

I remember waiting for Wednesday nights to watch CHARLIE'S ANGELS @ 8pm

Farrah Fawcett - Jaclyn Smith - Kate Jackson!!

[celinedionsfan]

And remember Bewitched... Elizabeth Montgomery was, without a doubt, the prettiest witch!

[stevethefan]

I remember when I watched TV that there were only THREE main channels in the U.S. and they were
FREE. None of this cable/satellite nonsense. Free as TV should be! I think this is stated in the US constitution somewhere: "An ye shall have the inaliable right to have free television in these four score and..." I think it's in Article III.  

The channels were CBS, NBC and ABC with maybe a few other local channel but THAT WAS IT. None of these 10,000 mostly useless channels. This was all you got and you accepted it!

Also, if you needed to change channels you actually had to get up out of your couch and go up to the TV and turn a rotary dial on the TV. None of this remote control laziness. Hey you got free exercise when doing this.

But the scariest revelation about TV way back when is that I DO remember having only black and white TV. Color was a new luxury only dreamed about.  

[celinedionsfan]

PBS was the other station...

and we actually played albums on record players.  And when the needle started to wear down, the rocker arm slid across the record and if the record had a scratch in it, then it skipped  

[ByuSmurf]

I remember when...
Our telephones were rotary and we had "party" lines.

I STILL have a record player!!  To play Céline's 12" singles & albums!!

Edited by ByuSmurf, 01 November 2007 - 08:10 PM.

[stevethefan]

I remember....

The "Pet rock" and "mood ring" craze in the '70's.  

[celinedionsfan]

Saturday mornings... the Banana Splits...

And I was a member of the Banana Splits Club

One Banana, Two Banana, Three Banana, Four.....

[ByuSmurf]

On Saturday mornings I liked to watch the MONKEES!

Hey, Hey for the Monkees!  

They actually had pretty good music at the time!

[celinedionsfan]

Yeah but they weren't on Saturdays in my area... Space Ghost was on and the Jetsons.... remember Speed Racer... "There he goes, there goes Speed Racer"

[stevethefan]

I was definitely a Banana Splits and Monkees fan!

I remember one of the weirdest Saturday morning shows ever:

HR Puffenstuff! (Note the name "Puffenstuff" in the '70s and aimed at children?)  

[celinedionsfan]

I love Hr Puffenstuff... "whose your friend when things get rough"  

And Josie and the Pussycats and ScoobyDoo!!!

[ByuSmurf]

How about Sigmund the Sea Monster?

[celinedionsfan]

Yeah... wasn't Johnny Whitaker from Family Affair on that show... and speaking of Family Affair... we all remember that one, don't we?

[celinerific]

Hey look! It's the old farts' thread!
I'm kidding. I love you all!   

[Krys]

LMAO E!

[celinedionsfan]

Well... cheesewhiz... shoulda known these two spammajammas would find something to post here!!!  

[celinerific]

Oh yes. We'll be invading from time to time. Don't mind us!
Keep talking, drinking your tea, and shuffling the mahjong tiles!

[Krys]

shuffling mahjong tiles... aiyayai!

[stevethefan]

celinerific, on Nov 1 2007, 10:39 PM, said:

Hey look! It's the old farts' thread!
I'm kidding. I love you all!   

Hey! You CAN'T say that!

Don't worry...YOUR time is coming too...although lucky for you it won't be for awhile!  

But if I ever make it to eighty or ninety years old I hope to NEVER say this:

"I'm ninety-years young." That expression drives me crazy.  

[celinerific]

LOL. Hey grandpa, I think you dropped a tile.
Tell me a story of when you were in World War I.



I'm sorry, I'll stop.   

Edited by celinerific, 01 November 2007 - 08:51 PM.

[celinedionsfan]

Okay... back to the topic... remember the metal roller skates that attached to your shoes... and had 4 wheels per skate ... 2 in front and 2 in back...

[celinerific]

Oh my god! My friend has some of those! I tried them on, stood up and flipped over.

[celinedionsfan]

And then Xanadu helped push the roller skate craze along ... I had blue sneaker style roller skates - yeah still the four wheel type --- way before inline skates... unfortunately I could never do much more than go forward and stay upright!!!  

[stevethefan]

I remember when the first cell phones came out and they were so big that it looked like you were carrying a brick around.  

[celinerific]

Believe it or not, I remember those cell phones.
I was watching 'Friends' and Phoebe had one in her purse.
Rachel was holding her small one, and then comes Phoebe carrying this brick.

Edited by celinerific, 01 November 2007 - 09:09 PM.

[celinedionsfan]

I remember when Schwinn made the bicycles with the banana seats... my cousin had one in green... with a hand brake and gear shift.  Then Huffy started making them... not as nice or as expensive as the Schwinn bikes.

[celinerific]

Remember the bikes that hurt your a$s?
Those were the days...

[celinedionsfan]

Ah remember the energy crisis... we got an extra week vacation at Christmas to conserve fuel... long gas lines... people could only get gas every other day based on the odd/even system...

[winforlife]

Great thread  

I remember:

TVs with antennas. Watching Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969-memorable day!

Did anyone watch  Zoom, The Archies or Flipper?
  The first year of Saturday Night Live- Killer Bees  and Samurai Bar Mitzvah sketches
6 Million Dollar Man with the sound effects, Super Woman...



My parents thought the  Schwinn bike with the banana was unsafe so I rode the typical bicycle     The roller skates that needed a key  
My room was filled with flower power stickers, ant-Vietnam war slogans , and Peter Max posters-I threw out all of them...found out a few years ago, many of his posters are worth quite a bit of money