Danzdol | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 10:33 am   I looooooooove Gone with the Wind......I made my husband sit through it when it was rereleased 3 years ago in the theaters. In high school I took a class called PC101 Personal COmputers 101.It was antiquated!!!!!!! Look at everything we do now AND for most of us it was learned AFTER we graduated HS and college!We did not have the luxury to have a Kindergarten computer! |
Wcv63 | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 10:39 am   We didn't have computer classes in HS. Hell computers were still just a gleam in Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' eyes. All research papers had to be typed (on a typewriter). My senior project (similar to a thesis or dissertation, necessary for graduation from the Honors program) was to put together, write, and illustrate a magazine. Man that would have been so much easier on a computer!! |
Jetticat | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:24 am   I remember when GWTW was first released on video. A friend of my mom's got it for me for Christmas. She bought a previously viewed copy and still spent $60 or $80 for it. It was very expensive when it first came out! It came with a booklet of info and in a nice strong box. I still have it. It's my favorite! I first read the book when I was 12. Fiddle dee dee! |
Rogue | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:28 am   I remember Pong! |
Danzdol | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:29 am   Oh Rhett! |
Faerygdds | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 12:17 pm   Better yet... anyone remember when 64K of RAM was impressive??? |
Whit4you | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 04:22 pm   Star wars was the first movie I ever saw in a theature - totally impressed me. Do any of you guys remember hearing about a hurricane when you were really young (not those who live on the coast....but the rest of you?) When I was a little kid - and first saw/heard of hurricanes - what I thought of them is something that's really hard to discribe. But sort of something on a global scale - magical almost - or like what you'd imagine the impact of a comet hitting the earth. Something like that, not just some wind and waves gone out of hand in one small area. I didn't think about it consously after that first impression but I maintained that impression up until I was in my teens - and had seen a few of them on the news. Oh remembering when I used to eat sugar cubes LOL - I loved eating sugar cubes sucking on them and letting them melt in my mouth |
Tksoard | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 04:26 pm   I had a friend that used to eat sugar sandwiches. Bread, butter and sugar!! Is that gross to anyone else? |
Whit4you | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 06:37 pm   um no TKS we used to do that all the time LOL I know tons of people who put cinimon sugar on bread/butter - it's the same thing just without the cinimon LOL |
Kady | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:08 pm   Whit....we used to put brown sugar in our mouth and spit like it was tobacco. |
Karuuna | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:11 pm   oh TKS, that was my favorite food when I went to summer camp. YOu have to use white bread and white refined sugar for the full effect!  |
Tksoard | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 09:18 pm   OK! I guess it isn't so bad. I like cinnomon sugar on toast w/butter. Maybe it was just the girl that was weird. Yeh, that's it! |
Rogue | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 07:42 am   Yeah, right, TKS, LOL! Could it be a southern things? Oops, I forgot I'm from 'Bama, hehehe... |
Tksoard | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 08:15 am   And I'm from Michigan! Go figure! |
Lobster | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 02:26 pm   I'm a couple of days late with this, but Wcv63 mentioned getting a gift from the gas station when you got a full tank. I can't remember which company had the slogan "Put a tiger in your tank," but one year when I was very little, they gave out place mats. One side had a nice scene, and on the other it said, "Put a tiger in your tank" and had a cartoon tiger face. I'm 36 now, and still have a couple of those placemats, one of which is under the cats' bowls on the kitchen floor. |
Wcv63 | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 02:33 pm   That was Exxon Lobster! |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 02:43 pm   They had some add to go along with it for awhile--"it's better to have a tiger in your tank than a pussycat in your back seat". Although it's only been 10 years, this reminds me of the Dirt Devil TV commercial that got pulled fairly quick: "The power of an upright in the palm of your hand". |
Tess | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:04 pm   Hmmm---wonder why they pulled that one?? |
Highlander | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:12 pm   Back then it was ESSO. Then there was the song You can trust your car to the man who wears the star!!! Remember when you went into a gas station and they washed your windows??? |
Tess | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:18 pm   I thought that was Texaco (at least where we lived). I remember they would pump the gas, wash the windows, check the oil and so forth. The first time I had to pump my own gas I was running emergency errands right before my sister's wedding in a strange town. My mom wanted me to put gas in her car and I got to the station and didn't understand why noone came out to take care of the car. I finally went inside and they told me it was "self-pump". I'm thinking--what the heck is that?? The guys took great pity on me and pumped my gas for the self-pump price. |
Highlander | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:21 pm   Yes Texaco was the man who wore the star. Exxon of course didnt exist then. It was called Esso then and Tony the Tiger worked for Esso |
Gail | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:23 pm   Lobster, when I was younger, the "Put a Tiger in your Tank" gift was a stuffed tiger tail with a nice blue ribbon to hang it with off of your rear view mirror. The tail was about a foot long. |
Wcv63 | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:26 pm   Shell gave away NFL drinking glasses; tall ones, short fat ones, coke shaped ones with the local team's NFL logo. We had a house full of Saints drinking glasses. Those were the "kid's" glasses and my mom NEVER got upset with us if we happened to break one (as kids are wont to do). I was about 17 when self serve made its debut in my neck of the woods. I remember thinking that it would never last. HA! |
Tksoard | Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 04:32 pm   In 1971, I worked at a Bronco Gas station (Phillip 66). We had gas wars with the Texico across the street. We had gas down to .19 a gal. I had so much fun, running from car to car to car (6 pumps and I worked alone sometimes.) I washed everyones windows, checked their oil if they wanted, and even checked batteries. One guy thought he would fool me.He had a corvette and asked to to check the battery and so I asked him to get out of the car. He was really surprised!! (Battery's in back seat) Those were the good old days!! I also drove a VW Bug. Filled up the tank for under $3. |
Lobster | Monday, June 25, 2001 - 03:08 pm   I can't believe all you guys remember "Put a tiger in your tank." If I didn't look at it everyday when I feed the kitties, I wouldn't remember it. I also can't believe that it took me another day to get back here and see all this. |