ole heads will feel this ....

OrigamiTulip · #1 03-28-2007, 04:26 PM

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

ladygreek · #2 03-28-2007, 05:13 PM

Black and white TV only.
Rotary phones and party lines.
Broadcast day ending with the national anthem.
No cable at all.
One TV and one phone and everyone fought over both.

luvmypearls · #3 03-28-2007, 05:42 PM

I could remember when television would go off. Man, you knew you were in trouble when you heard the Star Spangled Banner and you were not ready to go to sleep.

As for the telephone, I know what it is like to have to answer telephone and take your chances with whomever it was that was calling at the time. Let's just say that I only answered the phone one time saying "my mommy said that she is not here" and I never made that mistake again.

I thought having a pen pal was the greatest thing. I mean loved to meet people with the hopes of having someone to write. As a kid, I loved getting mail.

I remember when there was no cable, but my aunt had HBO and Prism. I remember sneaking and watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious and being scared out of my mind watching Tales from the Crypt.

I remember being told that I was running up the electric bill because I was looking in the refrigerator. I also remember recording music from the record player and the song would make those cracking sounds when you would play it back.

On Saturdays, after the cartoons went off, I loved watching roller derby. Heck, I wanted to being in the roller derby. Then soul train was my everything when I was in junior high and high school. Heck, I went to junior high, now there are only middle schools where I live.

Man, those were the days...

tld221 · #4 04-20-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

Black and white TV only.
Rotary phones and party lines.
Broadcast day ending with the national anthem.
No cable at all.
One TV and one phone and everyone fought over both.

OK i just heard about this "party line" mess back in the day on I Love the 80s and im like "what the hayle??? so its a chat room on the phone? that is soooo wack, running up the phone like that!"

(yeah, showing my age, but i can relate to some of the stuff here - like clean up saturdays... our house it was sunday tho. couldnt watch TV until homework was done... and we didnt even have no AC. we just sat in the window hopin for a breeze to come by

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pinkies up · #5 03-28-2007, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

Happy Birthday!!

Anybody used to illegally turn on the t.v. when you got home from school, and your mama would touch the top to see if you had it on?

Obsession8 · #6 03-28-2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I "joined the club" last year (will be 31 in Sept.). Like everyone else, this post brought back memories, some fond (i.e. Saturday morning cartoons) and some not (i.e. moms listening in on calls, Sat. as clean up day, etc.).

These chilluns today just don't know...

BlueReign · #7 03-29-2007, 01:14 AM

I can't imagine how I EVER lived without caller i.d. From bill collectors, to people I don't want to be bothered with, ex-boyfriends, etc. We had to answer that phone back then and not have a clue who was on the other end!

The "tv-going-off-song" had to be the saddest sound in the world for a night owl like me.

There was NEVER any sleeping late on Saturday mornings cause you didn't want to miss your cartoons.

I think the worst thing I can remember back then was missing out on a well-paying assignment with a temporary agency. They told me they called all day and couldn't get through cause my line stayed busy!

StarFish106 · #8 03-29-2007, 08:53 AM

Even though it comes on boomerang why can't they put on the Buggs Bunny Road Runner show back on from 9-11 on Saturdays?? sigh...thems some good cartoons..these kids don't know what they are missing.

mulattogyrl · #9 03-29-2007, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by StarFish106

Even though it comes on boomerang why can't they put on the Buggs Bunny Road Runner show back on from 9-11 on Saturdays?? sigh...thems some good cartoons..these kids don't know what they are missing.

I could not agree with you more!!

jojapeach · #10 03-29-2007, 12:34 PM

^^^ I didn't appreciate those cartoons until I was a teenager, and my older brother (RIP) watched some with me and was rolling from laughing so hard. Most cartoons are not as funny as some classing Bugs, Daffy, or Tom and Jerry. They used to come on starting at 6 AM. Now, they've replaced cartoons with mostly news and infomercials. What crap! I'm

for the kids...who can TIVO any cartoons they want.

TIVO??? What was that? If you want to watch something, you better be home to catch it, or you might have to wait a whole lotta weeks for the rerun.