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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:29 pm
I remember Sean Cassidy. I remember having a party line on the phone. This meant 4 neighbors shared one phone line. I remember 5 channels on tv. I remember learning to program a computer in fortran....with punch cards you had to feed into the main frame at the computer center.
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Ktbb
Member
08-10-2003
| Monday, September 28, 2009 - 10:36 pm
I remember getting our first color tv.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, September 28, 2009 - 10:39 pm
I do too KTBB. IIRC, I got it for the family using my first ever tax return check. Do you remember which show we watched in color as our first ever color TV viewing experience? Wasn't that the little 13" tv I ended up giving you, then you gave it to AJ for his games?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, September 28, 2009 - 11:17 pm
OK, I'll go ahead and answer. Just chatted with KTBB on FB. She seems too busy playing YoVille and stuff. Anyway, the first ever color tv viewing experience we had was....Fantasy Island.
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Monday, September 28, 2009 - 11:22 pm
I remember SEEING color TV for the first time: on the streets of New York through the open doors of a bar. The color TV was perched up high above the bar, and a soap opera was on. My mother and I stopped and just stared and stared. The odd thing is, that I remember this experience so vividly, whereas I am not sure what the first show was that I ever saw in black and white. (We didn't have tv for a long time, so must have been at a neighbor's house--either Howdy Doody or Peter Pan or a show where they got married on the air.)
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, September 28, 2009 - 11:58 pm
I remember (before we got that fancy 13" color TV), we had to view TV the hard way. We didn't have a single tv that worked properly. We had two tv's that were hand-me-downs from (I think) people my grandmother knew. We had a console tv, and another smaller one sitting on top of it. One had no picture, but had sound. The other one had no sound but had a picture. So we used them in tandem with each other. And speaking of TV, I remember those little stations at the grocery store where you could bring in your tv tubes and test them to see if there were any good.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 12:25 am
The first colour TV we got was the day before Neil Armstrong landing on the moon and we laughed at my Dad and told him he was crazy for spending all that money on the huge console TV to watch something that was going to be mainly in black and white! LOL! Well okay Walter Cronkite was in colour however, the whole footage of the moon landing was indeed in black and white and Dad was rather peeved (I think more so at us for teasing him) Oh well.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 3:30 am
Bobby Sherman!!!!!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 3:41 am
Running boards on cars. Giant steering wheels in cars
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 3:51 am
The antennae dials on top of the console televisions - you'd turn the knob to set it to the direction you wanted the antennae to face, and then it would click for a couple of minutes while the antennae on top of the house rotated.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 4:27 am
Just chatted with KTBB on FB. She seems too busy playing YoVille and stuff. Hahaha! A girl after my own heart!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 4:37 am
Dogdoc, i still have running boards on my SUV! LOL this is probably geographical but we had was as called Texas Blue Laws. Stores could only sell what was considered 'necessities' on Sunday's.(milk, bread, eggs, some produce and canned goods) I can remember going into Kmart and seeing sheets covering certain aisles in the store (toys for example..i always thought they were necessities! LOL)
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 4:43 am
I remember that our big black and white blonde-cabinet tv actually had a remote control feature that my dad disabled because he was convinced that flipping through channels would wear out the tv. I also remember watching that same tv and a notice coming on saying that my favorite program was going to be "in living color" and how disappointed I was when it didn't appear that way on my screen.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 5:27 am
I remember: Gassing up my VW Beetle (an orginal one, not the new ones) for about $3 and being able to drive two weeks on that tank full. Dark Shadows (can't wait to see Johnny Depp as Barnabas in the remake) When "stereo" meant a huge piece of furniture in your house that played vinyl albums (Records) Playing PacMan on the TV set Taking a bath in a bathtub - a shower was light rain outside Red Skelton & Ed Sullivan had the most popular shows on TV (at least for our house) My family's first car with an "automatic" transmission. It was a Ford. When we kids were safe playing anywhere in the neighborhood - we didn't come home until Dad blew the "bull horn" (we lived in one of the first outside-the-city developments that was just starting)
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 5:28 am
We had blue laws in Virginia up until when I was in college. Places like the mall were closed on Sundays.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 5:44 am
I don't remember playing PacMan on the TV set. Lucky Jeep! We had to go to video arcades to get any decent video games. I remember loving Dig Dug, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Mrs. PacMan, Q-Bert and Galaga.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 5:59 am
Hey Hermi, I was living in VA when they had the blue laws. It was ... umm ... interesting 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 6:06 am
So funny, Ladytex. I remember being vaguely alarmed that the blue laws were being repealed, as if God would smite us for it. I've changed a lot since then! 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 6:08 am
Jeep, my little brother LOVED Dark Shadows! He would race home from school to watch it, but it scared him so he made my mom stay nearby with him! LOL
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 7:10 am
Scout, we had a regular knob on our TV, and my dad always yelled at us for turning it too fast to skip through channels because he said we would break it. When I got married, I used to yell at my husband for doing the same thing - especially the day the knob came off in his hand! I also remember stopping at my friend's house on the way home from school so we could watch Dark Shadows!
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 7:48 am
I remember BEING the remote control for our family since I was the youngest! LOL! Thank goodness when tvs started coming with remote controls. Microwave ovens that were huge monstrosities (sp?)and Mom made us leave the kitchen while it was running. Sitting on Mama's washing machine so it wouldn't walk across the floor. Cartoons only came on tv on Saturday morning and then we had to let my older sister change the channel to watch American Bandstand. Coffee percolators Land Yacht cars that had trunks as big as a whole car nowadays and you could lay up in the rear window area and watch the stars at night.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 7:52 am
Oh BEACH!!! ME TOO!!!! Were you also the Ice maker?
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 7:55 am
I remember thinking that VCR's were the greatest technological invention of the last century. Being able record a program and have it forever? The awesomeness of that for a tv-lover was staggering. Not having to choose staying home if you're favorite show was on, watching one show and taping another. I bought one of the first ones when it came out for my family. Cost me nearly a month's salary, and I remember worrying did I make the right choice - beta or VHS. I also remember that the first tapes were really expensive - around $20.00 each and when they first started producing movies, Star Trek cost $165. A sci-fi friend bought it and thought it well worth it.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 8:02 am
I can remember our first 26' tv that dh and i bought cost almost $1,000!!! we swore to never tell our parents we spent that much.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 9:14 am
Hey Beach! I still have one of those BIG microwave ovens. It's 29 years old and still going strong! LOL It hasn't killed me yet!
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