I was doing one of my typical "Wikipedia crawls" when I came across a classic piece of the 1970's: McDonaldland.

So here is a list of things that I remember friom that era.  And it is obviously something you can only remember if you were alive then.  How many other such memories are out there?

You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese
Traveling McDonaldland
Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers"
When the most popular radio stations were all AM stations
When parents though "The Who" was junk music
A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room
"This show brought to you in color" was still something amazing
Most of the evening news broadcast was a narration, with few video or film clips of the actual event
The weather was normally given on TV by a cute gal with no meterological education, who stood in front of a map and moved things around on it
Ciggarette commercials on TV shows
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soap operas started
There were only 3 Broadcast networks, plus PBS
You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics"
You know who "The Hudson Brothers" are, and loved their "Razzle Dazzle Show"
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Teniele, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell
Hardly anybody ever died in a "Crime Drama" tv show
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt
You had a flashlight that used a "Lantern Battery"
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster
The collest bikes had 5 speeds and a "stick shift"
Bananna seats and sissy bars
Those orange flags that went on your bike so nobody would back over you
Baseball card "clickers"
"Pitch In"
"I Found It"

omg the magnetic weather map!

someone kill me. kill me now.

how about the wonderful world of disney? folks were all on about the disney channel and was it as good as it used to be and i'm all, oh, i liked it when it was wonderful world of disney. and everybody looked at me like i'd dreamed it.

or... mutual of omaha's WILD KINGDOM! if you remember that, you're basically dead.

how about when american cars ruled, and japanese cars were crap? i guess that's the same as the electronics thing.

how about when you had to wait years for a movie to make it on the TV movie of the week?

I was doing one of my typical "Wikipedia crawls" when I came across a classic piece of the 1970's: McDonaldland.

So here is a list of things that I remember friom that era.  And it is obviously something you can only remember if you were alive then.  How many other such memories are out there?

You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese
Traveling McDonaldland
Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers"
When the most popular radio stations were all AM stations
When parents though "The Who" was junk music
A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room
"This show brought to you in color" was still something amazing
Most of the evening news broadcast was a narration, with few video or film clips of the actual event
The weather was normally given on TV by a cute gal with no meterological education, who stood in front of a map and moved things around on it
Ciggarette commercials on TV shows
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soap operas started
There were only 3 Broadcast networks, plus PBS
You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics"
You know who "The Hudson Brothers" are, and loved their "Razzle Dazzle Show"
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Teniele, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell
Hardly anybody ever died in a "Crime Drama" tv show
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt
You had a flashlight that used a "Lantern Battery"
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster
The collest bikes had 5 speeds and a "stick shift"
Bananna seats and sissy bars
Those orange flags that went on your bike so nobody would back over you
Baseball card "clickers"
"Pitch In"
"I Found It"



HEY MUSHROOM!!

AWESOME LIST AND AN AWSOME THREAD!!

or... mutual of omaha's WILD KINGDOM! if you remember that, you're basically dead.


Your mention of that, just reminded me of Daktari. I don't remember alot about it except for Judy the chimp, and Clarence the lion.  :)

I was doing one of my typical "Wikipedia crawls" when I came across a classic piece of the 1970's: McDonaldland.

So here is a list of things that I remember friom that era.  And it is obviously something you can only remember if you were alive then.  How many other such memories are out there?

You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese
Traveling McDonaldland
Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers"
When the most popular radio stations were all AM stations
When parents though "The Who" was junk music
A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room
"This show brought to you in color" was still something amazing
Most of the evening news broadcast was a narration, with few video or film clips of the actual event
The weather was normally given on TV by a cute gal with no meterological education, who stood in front of a map and moved things around on it
Ciggarette commercials on TV shows
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soap operas started
There were only 3 Broadcast networks, plus PBS
You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics"
You know who "The Hudson Brothers" are, and loved their "Razzle Dazzle Show"
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Teniele, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell
Hardly anybody ever died in a "Crime Drama" tv show
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt
You had a flashlight that used a "Lantern Battery"
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster
The collest bikes had 5 speeds and a "stick shift"
Bananna seats and sissy bars
Those orange flags that went on your bike so nobody would back over you
Baseball card "clickers"
"Pitch In"
"I Found It"



HEY MUSHROOM!!

AWESOME LIST AND AN AWSOME THREAD!!

This represents some of what I would like to see here besides the usual, mundane, unintelligent,  and retarded "What Song R U listening To" list.
This is a "Pop Culture" website; lets talk about things other than music!!

Mush- what about Sid and Marty Crofft? ... "Whitchepoo", "Lidsville", "Hand Rolled Puff - N - Stuff", "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters", "Land of the Lost", "Buggaloos", "Far Out Space Nuts", etc............
Plus, other 1970's favorites: Match Game with the three homosexuals: Gene Rayburne, Richard Dawson the washed up wife dyke wife of Jack Klugman, Brett Sommers.

Let's see what others from our generation remember....................................

Thanks, Mushroom, for reminding me of my age.

Great list - NOW I feel old. . .  :)

What makes me feel old is I can now say this type of sentence..."Thirty years ago I was______________".

When did I grow up?  LOL!!

or... mutual of omaha's WILD KINGDOM! if you remember that, you're basically dead.


Hey, Wild Kingdom was one of my favorites!  Wow!  ;D

But I refuse to use that "o%%" word!  ::)

I was doing one of my typical "Wikipedia crawls" when I came across a classic piece of the 1970's: McDonaldland.

So here is a list of things that I remember friom that era.  And it is obviously something you can only remember if you were alive then.  How many other such memories are out there?

You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese
Traveling McDonaldland
Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers"
When the most popular radio stations were all AM stations
When parents though "The Who" was junk music
A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room
"This show brought to you in color" was still something amazing
Most of the evening news broadcast was a narration, with few video or film clips of the actual event
The weather was normally given on TV by a cute gal with no meterological education, who stood in front of a map and moved things around on it
Ciggarette commercials on TV shows
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soap operas started
There were only 3 Broadcast networks, plus PBS
You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics"
You know who "The Hudson Brothers" are, and loved their "Razzle Dazzle Show"
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Teniele, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell
Hardly anybody ever died in a "Crime Drama" tv show
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt
You had a flashlight that used a "Lantern Battery"
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster
The collest bikes had 5 speeds and a "stick shift"
Bananna seats and sissy bars
Those orange flags that went on your bike so nobody would back over you
Baseball card "clickers"
"Pitch In"
"I Found It"



Hmm...how old would you have to be to remember all of these? 34? I'm going to be doing one of these in the 2020s... ;D

  Okay, it's late, I'm bored so I'll go through these one by one...


You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese Remember that...
Traveling McDonaldland Remember that...
Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers" Survey says..!  X
When the most popular radio stations were all AM stations Remember that...
When parents though "The Who" was junk music Remember that...
A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room Remember that...
"This show brought to you in color" was still something amazing Remember that...
Most of the evening news broadcast was a narration, with few video or film clips of the actual event Remember that...
The weather was normally given on TV by a cute gal with no meterological education, who stood in front of a map and moved things around on it Remember that...
Ciggarette commercials on TV shows Survey says..! X
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones Remember that...
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soap operas started Remember that...
There were only 3 Broadcast networks, plus PBS Remember that...
You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics" Remember that...
You know who "The Hudson Brothers" are, and loved their "Razzle Dazzle Show" Survey says..! X
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running Survey says..! X
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were Remember that...
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Teniele, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell Remember that...
Hardly anybody ever died in a "Crime Drama" tv show Remember that...
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk Remember that...
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule Survey says...X
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt Remember that...
You had a flashlight that used a "Lantern Battery" Remember that...
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600 Remember that...
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster Survey says...X
The collest bikes had 5 speeds and a "stick shift" Remember that...
Bananna seats and sissy bars Remember that...
Those orange flags that went on your bike so nobody would back over you Remember that...
Baseball card "clickers" Remember that...
"Pitch In" Remember that...
"I Found It" Survey says...X

  I'll wrack my brain to think of some more...

Haha, nice to see I am not the only old person in here.  And yea, there is a lot I forgot (or did not put into) the list.

I probably should have put in "Wild Kingdom" by saying something like "You remember when Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdon came on right before The Wonderful World of Disney".

And here is another list to make us feel even older:

You know you are old when you remember saying:

Far Out
Groovy
Right on
Sock it to me
Here comes de judge
Goodnight John Boy
Let's book
Keep on trucking
Up your nose with a rubber hose
Zoinks
What's happening
Dynomite!
Well Exxxx-cuse me!
Jive Turkey
Honkey
Trippin
Stone cold fox
Square
Discoteque
Smooth Move Ex Lax
Sit on it
Smoking
Shine it
Peace
Peace and Love
Peace, Love, and Reproduction
Nanno Nanno
Mellow out
Take a chill pill
Hip
Gimmie some skin
Gimmie 5
Gimmie 10
Fuzz
Whirlie Pig
"Chips"
Bears
Funky
Funkadellic
Funkenstein
Freak out
Dude
Dudette
Can you dig it?
He's such a Kunta

Whoo-hoo!
You know you're old when you remember:

Little glass bottles of milk in the school lunchroom, with the cardboard tops, and the regular CRASH of somebody's milk bottle busting on the floor.  (school kids, glass bottles, concrete floor...bad idea?)

Marbles, hopscotch, jacks, tiddly-winks, red rover, tetherball.

25 cents=25 pieces of candy.

Calling "O" for operator, and asking her to cut into your friend's line, because you keep getting a busy signal, and you have some gossip you just have to tell her RIGHT NOW.  But of course, you use your best "grown up" voice and politely tell the operator that it's an emergency.  Because there's no such thing as call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, or even answering machines.  And the phone had a dial.  And a real bell inside.

If you missed your favorite tv show, you had to wait for summer re-runs to see it. 

If you missed a movie, you would have to wait approximately 10 years for it to be shown on tv.

Grocery and dime stores with wood floors that creaked, big ceiling fans, and screen doors in the summer.

Going on family trips in the car, sitting in the back seat with no seatbelts, no a/c, windows open, stopping at a picnic area by road.  Having cold fried chicken and potato salad and deviled eggs and iced tea that momma made and brought just for the trip.  There were lots of picnic areas, and they stayed busy during the summer.

Fast food was a very occasional treat. (probably less than once a month)  Usually it was hot dogs or hamburgers.

Daytime tv was either soaps, or game shows.  There were a few talk shows like Dinah Shore.

Dialing for Dollars at 3:00.

At night, tv and radio stations signed off, and in the morning they signed back on with The Star Spangled Banner.

The best part about being a kid back then...summer!  Leaving the house to go play with friends in the morning, and not coming back home until lunch- then back out 'til dinner, then back out 'til dark.  We went EVERYWHERE on our bikes.  Creeks, roads, backyards, schoolyards, the grocery store for a pop, the movies, the library, etc, etc.  Our parents didn't worry about us, and for the most part, we stayed out of trouble.

I'm glad I was a kid back then.  I don't think it would be nearly as much fun now.

But....I'm OLD!  :o

Tinkie

Home computers in the latter 70s were actually quite advanced - this was before the Commodore 64, early IBM/Apple Macs.etc, although of course very few people owned them.

Daytime tv was either soaps, or game shows.  There were a few talk shows like Dinah Shore.


So true.  We also had Mike Douglas (which I loved), and Merv Griffin.


The best part about being a kid back then...summer!  Leaving the house to go play with friends in the morning, and not coming back home until lunch- then back out 'til dinner, then back out 'til dark.  We went EVERYWHERE on our bikes.  Creeks, roads, backyards, schoolyards, the grocery store for a pop, the movies, the library, etc, etc.  Our parents didn't worry about us, and for the most part, we stayed out of trouble.


Got that right too.  I remember that in the summer, I was almost never at home.  When I lived in Idaho, I rode my bike everywhere.  It was not unusual to find me from 5-10 miles from home, having ridden to go see a friend or watch a movie.  I still remember riding my bike 20 times in 1977 to see Star Wars.  And each time I saw it it was a 6 mile trip each way.  And I thought nothing about it.

When I was living in Los Angeles, it was fairly similar.  In 1982 I walked about 10 miles from the 101 and Alvarado to Exposition Park.  Today nobody sane would walk that long through that part of town.  Of course, nobody sane did it back then either.  :P

In the 1970's, normal daytime tv was like this:

7-9am: Morning news shows
9-12pm: Game shows
12:30-3pm: Soap operas
3-5pm: Talk shows or syndicated reruns (My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, etc)

On PBS, it was a bit different:

7-10am: Sesame Street
11am-3pm: Educational documentaries (NOVA reruns, Bread & Butterflies, Inside/Out, Mulligans Stew, etc)
3PM: Electric Company
4pm: Zoom
5pm: Various educational shows

And of course once a month or so you had the "ABC Afterschool Special".

let's see, we had i love lucy at 9 and then i think again at 9:30, love boat at 10, fantasy island at 11, and then a bunch of crap like green acres that i hated, and then the cartoons started up around 2:30 or so.

or... mutual of omaha's WILD KINGDOM! if you remember that, you're basically dead.




It always cracked me up how Jim Fowler would do all the dangerous stuff and Marlin Perkins would sit very safely in the studio. "Now Jim will put his head in the lion's mouth".




Cat

Do any of you remember "Freakies" cereal.  My brother and I loved that stuff.  There was also a cereal that had a King on the box - but I can't remember it's name. Anybody?

Not to pop you bubble or n/e thing, why did you have to create a new thread
"You know your old when you remember..." when there was already a
"remember when thread" I guess you had to make a new thread to feel big,
and to get credit for some one else's idea.

dag, jerky, that's kinda harsh, don't you think?

i don't believe he knew about the other thread. the duplicate thread nazis around here are getting a few too many of our tax dollars, if you ask me.

   Similar, but not the same...

   "Remember When" is wholesome general random nostalgia goodness with twice the flavor and half the fat of most other threads...

   "You know your old when you remember...", is...

   

   ...you kinda had to be there to understand, ya know..?  And, hell, I b-a-a-a-a-rely remember most of those listed...

From my preteen years -

Rowan & Martin's Laugh In  ;D

Who can forget that memorable cast?

There was also a cereal that had a King on the box - but I can't remember it's name. Anybody?


Could it be King Vitaman?

I'm old because I used to make a phone call at a pay phone for a nickel
In some places back in the 60's doctors made house calls. I was reminded of this watching a rerun of the Brady Bunch & I'm sure my mom had a doctor visit once in our home.
soda pop was sold in glass bottles
the day we got our first color TV
the civil rights movements of the 60's, we were young kids in a small town and had visions of hoards marching into our little residential neighborhood.
McDonalds hamburger cost .15 cents
watched the news of both John & Robert Kennedy being assasinated
corporal punishment in schools was acceptable
beer was .39 cents for a quart  8)
there was no sex on tv, until about 67-70, and then I remember my brother & I sneaking to watch a show at 11pm called for adults only which would be totally lame and funny today. 
Hugh Hefners show Playboy After Dark soon became the late night event  ;D

There was also a cereal that had a King on the box - but I can't remember it's name. Anybody?

http://freakpowertix.buzznet.com/user/video/play/30666/

if you remember this, you're basically dead.

http://tulsatvmemories.com/realaud/gcc.mov

here's a url where you can actually download it. that's so awesome it totally deserves 3 megs on my hard drive.

http://freakpowertix.buzznet.com/user/video/play/30666/

if you remember this, you're basically dead.

I guess I'm not dead yet, whew!  :D  Was that played in the theater before a movie?

I guess I'm not dead yet, whew!  :D  Was that played in the theater before a movie?
well, how do you think i feel? not only do i remember it, i remember getting sick of seeing it!

yeah, they had one for before the coming attractions, and another one for before the movie started. there's a theater near where i live that does another title clip like that, totally ancient -- but i can't find that one online anywhere.

well, how do you think i feel? not only do i remember it, i remember getting sick of seeing it!

yeah, they had one for before the coming attractions, and another one for before the movie started. there's a theater near where i live that does another title clip like that, totally ancient -- but i can't find that one online anywhere.

I know I'm older than you, so you shouldn't feel old! Anyways, we mostly went to the drive in when I was a kid, so I guess that's why I don't remember it.

That's it!  Yeah!

I was doing one of my typical "Wikipedia crawls" when I came across a classic piece of the 1970's: McDonaldland.

So here is a list of things that I remember friom that era.  And it is obviously something you can only remember if you were alive then.  How many other such memories are out there?

You know you are old if you remember:

A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room

There were mainframes as with IBM?

There were mainframes as with IBM?


Yep, pretty much.  The "Home Computer" only came about in the last quarter of that decade.  Back then, they were expensive, and you could not do much with one.

The first mass produced Apple was the Apple II.  It came out in 1977, and at the time cose $1,300 ($2,700 if you wanted a floppy and 48k RAM instead of 4k RAM).  And other then Zork, there was not much home software available for it.

I started playing with computers in the early 1970's, but those were all mainframes.  My mom was a programmer, so I spent a lot of time growing up working on those monstrosities.  80 column keypunch cards and paper printouts.  Oh man, those were the days!

That's it!  Yeah!


Well, they actually still make King Vitamin!  It is still made by Quaker Oats, so ask your local grocer.

Here is what the newer box looks like though, so you will recognize it.  I think it looks better, that old King they had always kinda creeped me out.

Well, they actually still make King Vitamin!  It is still made by Quaker Oats, so ask your local grocer.

Here is what the newer box looks like though, so you will recognize it.  I think it looks better, that old King they had always kinda creeped me out.




I have not seen King Vitamin around here since the 70's.  I wonder if they only sell it in certain states.  I think I may just have to contact Quaker Oats.  :)

I have not seen King Vitamin around here since the 70's.  I wonder if they only sell it in certain states.  I think I may just have to contact Quaker Oats.  :)

I live in Ohio, and we still have it here.

I live in Ohio, and we still have it here.


I have seen it in a few stores when I lived in Los Angeles, and have seen it at Win-Dixie stores here in Alabama.

It probably depends more on the store manager then anything else.  With only a certain amount of shelf space available, stores frequently have to leave off some brands in favor of others.  Often if you ask a manager (and get your friends to ask also), they will carry the lesser known brands.  After that, if they keep them in stock or not depends on how well they sell.

It is the same with soda.  With the hundreds of brands out there, there is only room for a handfull of the most popular ones at most stores.  That is unless you are talking about a store like Galco's in Highland Park, California.  They have everything from Pepsi to Moxie and Nesbitt.

I have been to that sotre a few times, and it is always an adventure.  The "soda isle" covers about half of the floor space of the store, and is probably 7 or 8 full isles.  They were one of the last places I was able to get my RD Draft cola.

http://www.sodapopstop.com/

I know when I a old for I have now forgotten...

I know when I a old for I have now forgotten...


You know you're old when you forget how to type!  ;)

You know you're old when you forget how to type!  ;)
Yes!

Are you as old as...



http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:mi3FPGlLcu9HtM:stc.sc.edu/pictures/aug01/Dirt%2520Pile%2520Moved%2520to%2520Allow%2520Primary%2520Power%2520Conduit%2520Installation.jpg





Cat

Watching the first moon landing as it happened
Quisp and Quake
"Kiss my grits!"
collecting baseball cards for fun, not profit
fallout shelters
Tubular Bells

and of course,

"I would gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today."

You're old when you remember when 1/2 of television programing was westerns: Rawhidw, Have Gun Will Travel, The Monroes, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Bonanza, etc.................

Watching the first moon landing as it happened
Quisp and Quake


Then you might actually be old enough to remember:

Major Matt Mason!
Whee-Lo
Whizzers
Whamo Water Wiggle
18" GI Joe figures
Inchworm (riding toy, you bounced up and down to make it go forward)
Slotcars
Funny Face drink powder
"Space Sticks"
Slime! (and the ones that followed, like Slime! worms, Slime! eyes, etc)

Watching the first moon landing as it happened
Tubular Bells


Please add England's World Cup win in 1966.

You know you're old when you forget how to type!  ;)


Heh, nope not that old yet. 

--
Dave.

Watching the first moon landing as it happened



I'm not old then!  The moon landing was about a month before I was born!!

When you bend down to tie your shoe and wonder what else you can do while you are down there  ;)

School House Rock on Saturday's
Kroft Superhouse Show
Fat Albert
Soul Train with the Same long haired lady for the longest
Maude
The Television show Marcus Welby MD
The Television show Barneby Jones, Cannon, Hawaii 5 O
Fantasy Island
8 Track Tape
Charlie Angels' Dolls
50 Million Dollar Man
Converse Sneakers
Polyester Suits
Platform shoes which has returned to style, along with espadrill sandals
hiphuggers
gouchos

Aye watching the moon landing in school was good.
Also knowing your old when you can remember watching the Banana Splits on TV, Jackson 5 cartoon, The Osmond's and their cartoon.
And lets not forget The Archie's and the Groovy Ghoulie's. I Remember my sister playing the heck out of her Archie's 45 Sugar Sugar and Jingle Jangle.

Watching the first moon landing as it happened
Quisp and Quake
"Kiss my grits!"
collecting baseball cards for fun, not profit
fallout shelters
Tubular Bells

and of course,

"I would gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today."


Oh, no!!!  I remember them all!  :o  ;D  ;D  ;D

Stores were closed on Sundays. I know this was mainly a 60s thing, not sure when that changed though.

Stores were closed on Sundays. I know this was mainly a 60s thing, not sure when that changed though.
What memories, thanks for the only shop to remain open till 3pm was around 2 miles from my old childhood home. During summer, the family would walk there and back to buy ice cream after our Sunday Lunch.

Here is one that will really show the old folks from the kids:

S&H Green Stamps, and Blue Chip Stamps.

I still remember that on our summer road trips, my parents would collect the stamps, and when we got home, I would put them in the books.  After a few years, we would go to the local S&H store, and I would trade them in.  I remember in 1975 I got my first pocket knife from them.

When we moved to Idaho, the most common stamps were regional ones galled "Gold Strike Stamps".  I remember in 1977 I had collected enough to get a metal detector, which I had great fun with on camping trips.  I found several turn of the century coins, and even an old rusted pistol with it.

For most people now, they are only a fading memory.  Today's kids only know of them from watching The Brady Bunch, where they built a house of cards to determine who would decide what to do with the stamps.

  Yeah, Blue Chip Stamps...

  Sometime in the late 70s I found a drawer full of these things while visiting my grandparents, though I never knew what they were...

  groove ;) on...

 

Ours were called Top Value Stamps and yep, mom saved those things like crazy. But, I have no memory of what she ever got with them!

Here is one that will really show the old folks from the kids:

S&H Green Stamps, and Blue Chip Stamps.

I still remember that on our summer road trips, my parents would collect the stamps, and when we got home, I would put them in the books.  After a few years, we would go to the local S&H store, and I would trade them in.  I remember in 1975 I got my first pocket knife from them.

When we moved to Idaho, the most common stamps were regional ones galled "Gold Strike Stamps".  I remember in 1977 I had collected enough to get a metal detector, which I had great fun with on camping trips.  I found several turn of the century coins, and even an old rusted pistol with it.

For most people now, they are only a fading memory.  Today's kids only know of them from watching The Brady Bunch, where they built a house of cards to determine who would decide what to do with the stamps.


Wow, S&H Green stamps!!!

I remember the kitchen junk drawer being filled with those things, some in half-filled books - and I really don't recall getting much of anything good from them...  ::)  ;D

Wow, S&H Green stamps!!!

I remember the kitchen junk drawer being filled with those things, some in half-filled books - and I really don't recall getting much of anything good from them...   ::)   ;D

We had those as Green Shields Stamps.

We saved the S&H Green stamps but I don't recall cashing them in.





Cat

We saved the S&H Green stamps but I don't recall cashing them in.


Cat
My parents always cash them in for goods, and if my remember right, when the Green Shields Stamps ceased the shops where the goods were cashed in change into Argus.

...the picture of a circle with what looked like a football in it, while some old guy said "This IHHHhhhzzzzzz... CBSssssss".
...the song "I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie" making you think of Mouseketeers
(and while I'm at it) ...Sue Ann, Cindy, Nancy, & Molly
...Dusty winning Baby Doll from Tully for 30 days
...ICW Wrestling
..."Guiding Light"'s first Dinah, Jennifer Gatti
..."Gambit"
...cola wars and burger wars
(and while I'm at it) ..."Herb"
..."It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
...the original NBC Peacock
...the first Universal production logo theme
..."NBSee Us!"
...Refrigerator door safety PSA's ("Seal the door shut, block it open, or remove it completely.")
...the PSA's for "the Franciscans and Worldwide Marriage Encounter"
...peeling the gray thing off pop bottle lids to see if you won anything
...playing card drawings on the back of Pepsi lids
...when computer "upgrading" meant switching from the TI/99 to the Commodore 64

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Cat

...the picture of a circle with what looked like a football in it, while some old guy said "This IHHHhhhzzzzzz... CBSssssss".


That was Christopher Glenn.  He is also well known for our generation for being the original voice behind "In The News".  He also hosted a kids News program called "30 Minutes" in the 1970's.  He retired a few years ago from CBS News.

That brings back more memories:

In The News segments between CBS Saturday morning cartoons.
Schoolhouse Rock segments between ABC Saturday morning cartoons (originaly just Multiplication Rock)
Alternate ABC bits included "Timer", who taught us how to make healthy snacks (It's time for Timer!  Today we are going to make - A Wagon Wheel!)

For some reason NBC never did any bits like that between cartoons.

That was Christopher Glenn.  He is also well known for our generation for being the original voice behind "In The News".  He also hosted a kids News program called "30 Minutes" in the 1970's.  He retired a few years ago from CBS News.

That brings back more memories:

In The News segments between CBS Saturday morning cartoons.
Schoolhouse Rock segments between ABC Saturday morning cartoons (originaly just Multiplication Rock)
Alternate ABC bits included "Timer", who taught us how to make healthy snacks (It's time for Timer!  Today we are going to make - A Wagon Wheel!)

For some reason NBC never did any bits like that between cartoons.

Quite a few different guys said "This is CBS". Hal Simms, the "EHHHHhhhhdge... ofNIGHT" announcer, was one of them.
NBC did start doing segments on Saturday morning pretty late in the game. "Ask NBC News" started about 1979, then there was "One to Grow On" in the mid-late 80's.

A lot of mine have already been listed but here's a few:

Riding in the back of a pick-up or in the back of the station wagon, facing oncoming traffic so you could wave at people

Derry Derring dolls (a female Evel Knievel)

Someone mentioned the Westerns, but remember all the medical shows?  Emergency, Medical Center, Marcus Welby?  HAd the biggest crush on Randolph Mantooth & Chad Everett

Shaun Cassidy, too!!

I'll surely think of more after I post.

Edited because proper spelling is important

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Cat




I guess I'm the only one old enough to remember that.  :\'(





Cat

[So here is what I remember friom your list and some more of my own memories.

You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese and the fry guys.
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soaps started
that one always got me when i was sick at home. I'd be set up on the living room sofa to be watched closely for signs of worse symptoms and   watch the soaps until it got so complicated or boring I'd fall asleep.

You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Tenielle, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600...and you were bummed that the reflection of the tv distorted the picture you tried to take of your top score before someone turned off the machine
  
Watching "The GREAT SPACE COASTER"
You waited for Saturday to see your favorite stars "in person&on stage" on American BandStand.
The Mickey Mouse club Mousketeers jumped out of the Monorail to start the show.
The Wonderful world of Disney played a disney movie in "primetime" on a weeknight and because it was good family tv you were allowed to stay up for the whole picture, which ended at 10.
There was more show to watch and fewer commercials!!
Watching 60's repeats of Scooby Doo every evening 5pm.

Going to someone else's house to watch a film or a fight because they had "ON" tv and you didn't.

...the McDonald's commercial that touted "two burgers, fries, a drink, and change back from your dollar" (later changed to "ONE burger, fries, drink, and change back from your dollar").

I was doing one of my typical "Wikipedia crawls" when I came across a classic piece of the 1970's: McDonaldland.  McDonaldland was where they made those goofy good cookies in the teeny box, right?  Those were some good cookies...


Mayor McCheese

I actually remember Mayor McCheese.  What a burgerhead :D


You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics"

All the time...those Really Rottens sure made me mad!


Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule

That lingered on for a while, then when I started middle school we were finally allowed to use calculators...when I taught high school some years later I forbade calculators on tests and the kids revolted.  So I told them "tough" :D



Bananna seats and sissy bars

Mehehe...I think my first bike had a banana seat.  Those things were annoying even back then.


"Pitch In"



On the garbage can, right?  Good slogan.

Here are some others:

You know that Maxwell Smart was a total moron, because who would ever want to have a telephone with them everywhere they went?  (I am talking about the TV show, not our own beloved Maxwell).

Telephones had a round dial that you spun to get a number, and plugged into the wass with this big 4 prong plug.

A high ended stereo had "Quadraphonic Sound".

Close & Play record players

The Cat From Telegraph Hill

Encyclopedia Brown

Whizzers

Ads on comic book pages, offering things like X-Ray glasses, magic rocks, and sea monkeys for under $1.

When a major movie would come on TV (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Wizard Of Oz, The Ten Commandments), a local FM radio station would frequently sned out the soundtrack in stereo, so you would not have to listen to it on the single horrible speaker in your TV set.

Most homes only had 1 TV set.  Any other ones were normally B&W.

Atari Handheld Football, Merlin and Simon.

Getting Biorhythm charts, and those "Star Scroll" horoscopes every month.

Everybody had either "String Art" or "Spin Art" up on their walls.

A really cool den or family room had carpet on the walls.

Balsa wood airplanes.

Aggravation, and the other board games which had the dice in a "popper" in the center of the board.

  McDonaldland was where they made those goofy good cookies in the teeny box, right?  Those were some good cookies...

I actually remember Mayor McCheese.  What a burgerhead :D


Actually, McDonald Land predated the cookies by quite a while.  The original characters (Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese, Big Mac the Cop, Fry Kids, Grimace, The Professor, Captain Crook, and the like came out in around 1970.  They also made up several Trailers, which they would tow from McDonalds to McDonalds with a "Mobile McDonaldland" inside.  I remember going to one, and it was mostly plastic trees, and some of the characters in costume.

Most of the characters were killed in 1973, when the Kroft Brothers won a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement.  Others were phased out because of Political Correctness (Big Mac, the Irish cop, Uncle O'Grimacey the green Irish uncle of Grimace, who only came around once a year to pitch Shamrock Shakes).

That lingered on for a while, then when I started middle school we were finally allowed to use calculators...when I taught high school some years later I forbade calculators on tests and the kids revolted.  So I told them "tough" :D

Mehehe...I think my first bike had a banana seat.  Those things were annoying even back then.

On the garbage can, right?  Good slogan.


I remember buying and learning how to use a slide rule, because it was all one of my teachers would allow.  I dug it out years ago, and my son had no idea what it was.  And it had been so long, I could not remember how to use it.

Actually, all of my bikes had bananna seats until around 1979, when I got into BMX.

And yea, Pitch In was part of the "Ecological Movement" of the 1970's.  You could find them everywhere until around the mid 1980's.

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Cat


Bahaha.  I'm SO SLOW!  Yes, I remember that.  Duh.

Bahaha.  I'm SO SLOW!  Yes, I remember that.  Duh.



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Cat



Im dying to know what you're talking about!!!

Oh how these bring back memories!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JgvTOdhtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUy1oMvLj8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESn5J2BNx7k

After watching these for the first time in 30 years, I can see why McDonalds got sued by Sid & Marty Kroft.

BTW, the last one was normally shown as the "intro" for when a "Traveling McDonaldland" was comming to your area.  :)

Im dying to know what you're talking about!!!




Alice's Restaurant-Arlo Guntrie




Cat.

Alice's Restaurant-Arlo Guntrie




Cat.
Was there a film with the same title?

wearing knee socks with shorts....
but not playing soccer.

oof. another late 60's early 70s fashion trend .

wearing knee socks with shorts....
but not playing soccer.

oof. another late 60's early 70s fashion trend .
I was playing football back then

Was there a film with the same title?



The film was based on the song but I didn't care too much for the film.




Cat

The film was based on the song but I didn't care too much for the film.




Cat
I never saw the film, so I cannot really comment on it.

You know you are old if you remember:

Mayor McCheese- Yes I remember him. and all the other characters too.. What the heck is a Grimace anyway??
Traveling McDonaldland- Nope, don't remember this.
Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers" - Is this in reference to fire hydrants ? I vaguely remember this, but maybe I saw it in a movie or something..
When the most popular radio stations were all AM stations- Yes
When parents though "The Who" was junk music- Yes
A computer cost millions of dollars and filled a large room-Yes
"This show brought to you in color" was still something amazing-Yes
Most of the evening news broadcast was a narration, with few video or film clips of the actual event-Yes
The weather was normally given on TV by a cute gal with no meterological education, who stood in front of a map and moved things around on it- I remember the magnets of the sun and the weather guy using magic markers drawing arrows to show which way the wind was blowing. Cute weather girls might have been before my time. They were almost always men..
Ciggarette commercials on TV shows- These might have gone out when I was a baby. I never saw them, but heard about them.
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones- Yes, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, or Lawrence Welk and "Geritol".
After the morning news shows, tv stations showed game shows until afternoon when the soap operas started- Yes, those were the days. It was fun to stay home from school sick back then.
There were only 3 Broadcast networks, plus PBS- Yes
You would watch every saturday to see who won the "Laugh-O-Lympics"-Yes
You know who "The Hudson Brothers" are, and loved their "Razzle Dazzle Show"-Yes I can even name them, Bill, Mark and Bret
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running- Yes , was this the show about the German Shepherd? I vaguely remember it. But I don't remember why he was running.  Was he a cop k-9?
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were- vaguely familiar sounding but can't pinpoint them.
You remember when almost everybody had a "Variety Show", from Donnie & Marie and Captain & Teniele, to The Brady Bunch and Shields & Yarnell- Yes, let's not forget Sonny and Cher and The Mandrell Sisters.. and Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Hardly anybody ever died in a "Crime Drama" tv show- yes.
Everybody knew that the electronics made in the USA were the best, and Japan made cheap junk- yes
Calculators were not allowed in school, but some classes allowed you to have a slide rule
The battery most radios used was a 9 volt- yes
You had a flashlight that used a "Lantern Battery" yes, In fact we still have one :P
You could not believe how cool the graphics were on the Atari 2600- I never had atari, but my friends did. We had "Coleco Vision" !  :-\\
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster- Who's Peter Maxx?
The collest bikes had 5 speeds and a "stick shift"- Hmm .. I never had a stick shift.. I guess I was deprived.
Bananna seats and sissy bars- Yes..
Those orange flags that went on your bike so nobody would back over you-Yes..
Baseball card "clickers"- Yes...
"Pitch In"- I still see garbage cans with this logo on it.
"I Found It"- What is this??

I'm pretty damn old I think...

"I Found It"- What is this??

That was a Prego sauce commercial that Clara Peller did. On the Wendy's commercials, she said "Where's the beef?", then she did the Prego commercial where she said "I found it!"
She was fired from the Wendy's commercials because of this.

You know you are old if you remember:

Fireplugs painted up as the "Founding Fathers" - Is this in reference to fire hydrants ? I vaguely remember this, but maybe I saw it in a movie or something..
TV shows normally had a "Sponsor", like Chevrolet and Bewitched, or Winston and The Flintstones- Yes, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, or Lawrence Welk and "Geritol".
You know what "Run Joe Run" was, who Joe was, and why he was running- Yes , was this the show about the German Shepherd? I vaguely remember it. But I don't remember why he was running.  Was he a cop k-9?
You know who Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo were- vaguely familiar sounding but can't pinpoint them.
Everybody either wanted or had a Peter Maxx poster- Who's Peter Maxx?
"I Found It"- What is this??


The fireplugs was a semi-regional one.  I know that they did it in Boise, Idaho, and in several areas of Los Angeles.  I have seen a few in North Carolina when I was there in the mid 1980's.  But I am sure they are all gone now.  This was done for the Bicentennial.  Different groups and organizations would "adopt" plugs, and paint them to resemble different historical figures.  Most were repained by the 1980's.

In fact, a lot of people do not realize how closely sponsers and TV shows were at one time.  The next time you watch Bewitched, listen to the theme song closely.  If you are old enough to remember the old "See The USA In Your Chevrolet" jingle, you will notice that they are almost identicle.  This was on purpose, since Chevrolet was the main sponsor of the show.

Run Joe Run was about a military working dog, who was falsely accused of attacking his handler.  Once he was sentenced to be destroyed, he went on the lam.  Each week he would help somebody, and manage to skip town one step ahead of his handler (who was trying to reclaim him and prove his innocence), and the military who wanted to see him destroyed.  Kind of like Lassie meets The Fugitive.  I really loved this show as a kid.  :)

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/rjr.htm

Freddie Frog, Charlie Owl, Henrietta Hippo, Doug, and Emmy Jo.  I guess you do not remember the "New Zoo Review".  Yet another kids "live action" type of shows, along with others like Dusty's Treehouse.

http://www.michael.mcelwain.com/wierd/nzr.html

Peter Max was an iconic illistrator of the 1970's.  His style was the inspiration to the style used in "Yellow Submarine". 

http://www.petermax.com/

"I Found It" was a "Born Again" movement in the mid 1970's.  For a few years it was seen everywhere on car bumperstickers, t-shirts, and hats.  It was supposed to imply that the person who sported it had "found" Jesus.  I think this hit it's height around 1976-77.  I know that Jimmy Carter even had one on the back of his car when he was running for President.  And along with it came the sales of "I Lost It" and "What Is It" bumperstickers.  :P

The fireplugs was a semi-regional one.  I know that they did it in Boise, Idaho, and in several areas of Los Angeles.  I have seen a few in North Carolina when I was there in the mid 1980's.  But I am sure they are all gone now.  This was done for the Bicentennial.  Different groups and organizations would "adopt" plugs, and paint them to resemble different historical figures.  Most were repained by the 1980's.




Where I was living at the time (in Conn.), they had a constest and had the kids in the community paint the fireplugs. Yes, I did painted one (looked like sh!t, too  ::) ) and I got a certificate for doing it (which I still have somewhere). What a way to save the town $$$, hold a contest and they got the fireplugs painted for free (yes, we had to buy our own paint). Of course they were stuck with some fireplugs that looked like sh!t but some were really nice.




Cat

Spiro Agnew.

Spiro Agnew.



Bahahaha.  ;D  ("Spiro Agnew" is one of those funny words, K.) (Sorry folks...sister joke).

Spiro Agnew.



He used to play golf.

yup you know your old if you remember these words. "I am not a crook."
Streaking
Roots, I read the book first.
The Rookies
Baretta and the cockatoo named Fred.
Dandy Don, Howard and Frank. Monday Night Football.
Dark Shadows(Used to run home from school to watch it)
Earth shoes.
Mood Rings.
So many memories..

He used to play golf.


Most of the Politicians (and everybody else) in that era played golf.  Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, both of my grandfathers, and just about everybody else of that generation.  I think the only President (or Vice President) I can think of that did not play golf a lot was FDR.  And I have no idea if he played before he was struck down by polio, but I bet he did play.

... those black & white weather radar films from NASA that some stations ran on their weather reports..

...everything on tv was in black & white

Most of the Politicians (and everybody else) in that era played golf.  Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, both of my grandfathers, and just about everybody else of that generation.  I think the only President (or Vice President) I can think of that did not play golf a lot was FDR.  And I have no idea if he played before he was struck down by polio, but I bet he did play.
It was just that I remember when he slice the golf ball into a crowd of people when teeing off back in the 70s.

squareboys..the snack food that originally connected me with this site!

i happened upon foods of the 70s and suggested this as an item that should be on the list..and fell on the messageboard..over two years ago  :D

ok..for all of you that will have no clue what i'm talkin' about..
graham wafer base,bumpy marshmallow on top,coated with chocolate flecked with nuts or cocoanut..individually wrapped in white plastic..sold in either bright blue or bright pink boxes of four or 6..i know..apparently my canadian family was the only family that ever bought them  ::) ;D