For those born in the 60's or earlier

That is sooo funny some one was just saying to me the other day how when we sold girl scout cookies they were 50 cents a box v. the $4 a box

the line about determining your fate at the princpals office. I know that and i wasn;t even in trouble....just being called there!


Party lines. Whenw you tried to dial out and you hear other ppl talking...too funny!


That brought back many wonderful memories of growing up in the 60s and some of the 70s....Wonderful thread!

[Rudey]

Did you drink malts and wear a cool leather jacket Fonzie?

-Rudey

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Funny you should ask. No.

But I was the president of the Radio (broadcasting) Club and did the morning announcements on the PA system as well as being the announcer for the Marching Band. Also announced for the Public Schools FM station and hosted a Junior Achievement radio program on a local commercial station. Worked for the local rock station answering the phones after school during "Beatlemania."

There is a Bob Greene book called "Be True to Your School" which talks specifically about the stations I worked for and some of the personalities I worked with. Greene graduated from a high school about ten miles from mine the same year. The book is a expansion of a diary he kept the second half of his junior and first half of his senior year. I don't know that I ever met him, but was undoubtedly at some of the street and "open house" parties he mentions. And I later directed the Ohio State Basketball games with the TV announcer he talks about.

STDs were with us back then, but they were treatable and not as likely to kill you.

One high school I attended was about 50/50 white and black and there was some racial tension, but we generally got along. I do remember a knifing at a football game, and "rumbles" (gang fights) did happen -- but were probably more the stuff of legend than reality in many cases.

And, of course, thanks to the Beach Boys, every teenager wanted to live on the California Beaches.

Let's hear it for White Levis!

(we've had 10 number local dialing here in Denver for several years.)

[LXAAlum]

Geez - flashback city!

I remember the old version of the "remote control" for the TV - it was my dad making ME get up, walk over, and turn to the correct channel (of which there were only a total of 13 available to choose from, of those, only 5 were channels we actually received a signal on!) And of course, the fine tuning of the rabbit ears depending on which channel - that always took time to get right.

I remember our FIRST microwave in 1979 - way before microwaved dinners or even microwave popcorn came out (and, for those of us fogies, remember the first brands of microwave popcorn had to be stored frozen until ready to pop!?)

We used to have a three-way party line at our house in Montana.

Never had cable until a Junior in High School. First saw cable in 7th grade, and HBO was WAY different - just a carrier signal between movies (no special filler segments, fancy introductions, etc... -just a blank screen with a text announcement of when the next movie would be shown).

Wow - I just don't FEEL old anymore, now I know I AM old!

[Sister Havana]

"Be True To Your School" is a wonderful book. I can't tell you how many times I've read it.

I was born in 1973 but I can still relate to a lot of those things! We didn't have the five digit phone numbers here but at IU if we lived in the dorm and wanted to call any campus number (855- or 857-) we just dialed the last five digits. My gym classes in grade school and junior high were coed (although in junior high we started wearing uniforms) but were single-sex in high school. I remember when Girl Scout cookies were $1/box. Now they are $3-$3.50 around here. I too had a ton of 45s and the plastic thing that went in the middle.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by Sister Havana
"Be True To Your School" is a wonderful book. I can't tell you how many times I've read it.

There is a guy named Tom Williamson who is mentioned a couple of times in the book. He was the best man in our wedding.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by Rudey
Did you drink malts and wear a cool leather jacket Fonzie?

-Rudey

Yes on the malts -- if you mean malt liquor. No on the jacket. Never combed my hair in "duck tails" either.

[justamom]

EDITED for crummy spelling!
All your posts are really revving my memory.

Delt Alum, you may appreciate this!
I remember one moment in particular when I felt so darn stupid.
I asked someone-"What's FM?" HAHAHAHAHA! Can anyone beat THAT!

The BEST radio station we could get-had to be a cloudy night-was out of OK 101. Otherwise, we got the Farm Report and Lawrence Welks' greatest hits!

[sigtau305]

Originally posted by Sister Havana
"Be True To Your School" is a wonderful book. I can't tell you how many times I've read it.

I was born in 1973 but I can still relate to a lot of those things! We didn't have the five digit phone numbers here but at IU if we lived in the dorm and wanted to call any campus number (855- or 857-) we just dialed the last five digits. My gym classes in grade school and junior high were coed (although in junior high we started wearing uniforms) but were single-sex in high school. I remember when Girl Scout cookies were $1/box. Now they are $3-$3.50 around here. I too had a ton of 45s and the plastic thing that went in the middle.

Born in 1964 and I can relate to most of the stuff that was mention. I collected a whole bunch of 45's and 33 1/3 albums. I also remember when Comic Books used to be 25 cents back in the early 70's.

[justamom]

Fountain cokes were the best. A&W Drive Ins and rootbeer floats.
The drag. Did you all call them hoods-skanks or scuds? What was the motorcycle crowd called?
What was the last movie you saw at the drive in?

Another stupid move!
Choice-
Tom Jones-"What's New Pussycat"
The Stones-"Satisfaction"

Guess which one I bought!

On radio-Battle of the Bands, Beatles, Dave Clark 5, Stones

I was living in
"Pleasantville" !

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by justamom
Delt Alum, you may appreciate this!
I remember one moment in particular when I felt so darn stupid.
I asked someone-"What's FM?" HAHAHAHAHA! Can anyone beat THAT!

The BEST radio station we could get-had to be a cloudy night-was out of OK 101. Otherwise, we got the Farm Report and Lawrence Welks' greatest hits!

JAM,

Damn, I loved 1960's AM Rock Radio.

Don't know if this is the same station, but one of the really legendary rockers of the 60's was "KOMA in Oklahoma" out of OKC.

This is from the history section of their current website:

"Throughout the 60’s and 70’s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. With the big 50,000-watt signal and the relatively few rock-n-roll radio stations across the plains, KOMA was the main station for the hits. KOMA (along with handful of other legendary stations including 890 WLS, Chicago; 1090 KAAY, Little Rock; 1060 WNOE, New Orleans; 770 WABC, New York; 800 CKLW, Windsor/Detroit (DA edit: in my opinion, CKLW was the greatest station/format in early rock and roll); and 1100 WKYC, Cleveland) could be heard on car radios, in homes, and everywhere a kid could tune in. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home."

We could sometimes get KOMA in Ohio when the atmosphere was just right. In addition, I would have to add a couple more stations to their "legendary list" including WBZ, Boston; WOWO, Ft. Wayne; KFWB and KRLA, Los Angeles; WKBW, Buffalo; and a few others.

These were the 60's "hitmaker" stations and home to some of the greatest rock jocks of all times.

There were other, lower power, stations that were local hits, but not big enough to be national powers. These include WMCA, NYC; KQV, Pittsburgh, WSAI, Cincinnati, WTVN, Columbus; WKNR, Detroit; KIMN, Denver and many, many more.

Then, of course, there was the always famous WATH, Athens, Ohio, "The Voice of the (Hocking River) Valley," where yours truly worked part of his way through college "playing the hits." I'm sure you all remember that. Right.

[rainbowbrightCS]

I just realized how much my childhood suckes. Or maybe it was just the 80's.

[justamom]

Great stuff! I can hear the commercial with the call letters-it WAS Oklahoma Ci-i-ty. (Like you know what I'm hearing in my head!)

I had a little blue transistor radio that I kept under my pillow so I could fall asleep listening to the music!

rainbowbrite-It WAS the 80's... J/J. Not a whole lot of innocence left at that time. But the music was pretty good and concerts were great!

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by justamom
Fountain cokes were the best. A&W Drive Ins and rootbeer floats.
The drag. Did you all call them hoods-skanks or scuds? What was the motorcycle crowd called?
What was the last movie you saw at the drive in?

Another stupid move!
Choice-
Tom Jones-"What's New Pussycat"
The Stones-"Satisfaction"

Guess which one I bought!

On radio-Battle of the Bands, Beatles, Dave Clark 5, Stones

I was living in
"Pleasantville" !

Damn, JAM,

I wish we could sit down over a few beers and talk about this stuff for a few hours -- or days!

Fountain cherry, vanilla and chocolate Cokes (cost a dime) A&W just down the street from the "big" drive in restaurant that everyone "cruised." (There is a Sonic near our home where a lot of "old" guys with classic cars cruise some weekends.) A quick cruise of that drive-in, a quick stop at A&W and then down to the bars at Ohio State with our fake ID's were fairly typical evenings. Always switching, of course, between some of the radio stations posted above.

The last drive-in movie I saw was probably either "The Graduate" or "Mash."

Part of my after school job was answering the phone at a radio station for the "Beatle Hour" (formerly known as Hotline Hitline until the Beatles completely dominated).

Worked there through the "Louie Louie" controversy and the JFK Assasination when many of the kids were really PO'd when all of the rock stations dropped all commercials and played old instrumental tunes during the mourning period.

[sigtau305]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Damn, JAM,

I wish we could sit down over a few beers and talk about this stuff for a few hours -- or days!

Fountain cherry, vanilla and chocolate Cokes (cost a dime) A&W just down the street from the "big" drive in restaurant that everyone "cruised." (There is a Sonic near our home where a lot of "old" guys with classic cars cruise some weekends.) A quick cruise of that drive-in, a quick stop at A&W and then down to the bars at Ohio State with our fake ID's were fairly typical evenings. Always switching, of course, between some of the radio stations posted above.

The last drive-in movie I saw was probably either "The Graduate" or "Mash."

Part of my after school job was answering the phone at a radio station for the "Beatle Hour" (formerly known as Hotline Hitline until the Beatles completely dominated).

Worked there through the "Louie Louie" controversy and the JFK Assasination when many of the kids were really PO'd when all of the rock stations dropped all commercials and played old instrumental tunes during the mourning period.

Just out of Curiosity, what was the story behind the "Louie Louie" Controversy?

[Rudey]

Remember the dust bowl?

-Rudey