You Know You're Getting Older When...

[Drac]

Super 8 movie cameras, just tell them TVs use to be ONLY black and white

Yep...We didn't have a color TV until my Mom and I pooled our finances and purchased one, much to the dismay of my Dad..

 

[Arizona Angel]

Yep...We didn't have a color TV until my Mom and I pooled our finances and purchased one, much to the dismay of my Dad..

Our idea of color tv was hooking an Apple computer monitor to a VCR (which was all the rage of the time), to watch movies.

 

[Seeking Zen]

The cartoon G-Force...

 

[Seeking Zen]

OHHHH! Potato Chips that came in a really big bag with three plain smaller white bages inside. Like bags of milk now!

Ahhhh here is one!!!! AM Radio!

 

[morph4me]

When you hear your mother come out of your mouth in response to a smart aleck remark by your child. Then you look in the mirror and see her! Ahhh!:erg:

Wait until your smart aleck child answers you with your own words, now that's an interesting experience:uhyeah:

 

[morph4me]

You can finish the following:

Winston tastes good......

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz....

Schaefer is the one beer to have ......

It takes a licking and ......

 

[Drac]

You can finish the following:

Winston tastes good....

Like a cigarette should...A lot of them find it hard to believe that cigarette commericals were an every day occurence..The Flintstones had Winston cigarettes has a primary sponser...

 

[Arizona Angel]

Wait until your smart aleck child answers you with your own words, now that's an interesting experience:uhyeah:

Lol, refusing to let my kids grow up!

 

[Drac]

I remembered this from my Jr High days..Try explaining that back then if you didn't wish to be just another face in the crowd you had to fit into 2 classifications Greasers or Collegents..

 

[bydand]

I remembered this from my Jr High days..Try explaining that back then if you didn't wish to be just another face in the crowd you had to fit into 2 classifications Greasers or Collegents..

Too good! Because I started school late 60's we had added a third group to that as well, Hippy. Then came the mid to late 70's and we added Stoner and dropped Hippy. Glad to say, I didn't really fit any of the groups and could pass freely between all of them. Had good friends in all the groups.

 

[Drac]

Too good! Because I started school late 60's we had added a third group to that as well, Hippy.

There were was Mod too..Mod was for those that dressed in the trendy fashions that were all the rave in London..Me I hated ALL these labels..

 

[Arizona Angel]

Like a cigarette should...A lot of them find it hard to believe that cigarette commericals were an every day occurence..The Flintstones had Winston cigarettes has a primary sponser...

You use to get cartons of Winston cigarettes when you went to Nascar races. That wasn't that long ago...

 

[bushi jon]

When your dreams are dry and your farts are wet

 

[Andy Moynihan]

Sex was safe and Racing was dangerous.

 

[Arizona Angel]

Sex was safe and Racing was dangerous.

Amen to that one!

 

[Drac]

Amen to that one!

Ditto...

 

[Drac]

Sex was safe and Racing was dangerous

Amen to that one!

Ditto....

 

[g-bells]

when you fart and sneeze at the same time and it hurts:uhyeah:

 

[Drac]

We are getting of topic here...The idea was someting that you took for granted as an eveyday occurence you now have to explain to those much younger...

Example: Flash Cubes

 

[Xue Sheng]

AM radio use to be the ONLY thing you listened to.

There were only about 3 TV stations to watch, not meaning only 3 good stations.... meaning only 3 stations

You had a record collection made up of 45s

Or you had a record collection.

And you rode in or drove a new VW Beetle... the rear engine one.