Lol, I actually had to go back and check. SMHI assume that memory has changed post #3 of this thread
OT : Silly things you remember but are now long gone
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The King Biscuit Flower Hour.....portions of rock concerts on your favorite FM rock radio station
Originally girls basketball was six on six. Three offensive players and three defensive. Could not go past mid-court. Only two dribbles allowed before they had to pass ball. Later they allowed a rover type who could go across the half court line..
Iowa was about the last to play six on six. They had girls score in the Wilt levels...80, 90, 100 points. One team could not get the ball up court, the other would steal it, pass it to the scorer and one girl might score 100 in a game.
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Whitehouse cherry ice cream from Isalys in Greengate Mall. WOW !!!
HO slot car racetracks. My buddy and I would be occupied for hours. Super long lengths of track with serpentine sections throughout. Great fun.
High school gym classes that included basketball, flag football, wrestling, gymnastics, and track and field.
Bonus Babies in baseball. If the signing bonus was above a certain amount I believe $20,000.,the player had to spend 2 years on the major league roster. The players seldom played and their development was stunted. Who can forget the immortals Mack Burk and Tommy Qualters
Wasn’t Greg Brady going to be a bonus baby in football? Speaking of that, how about watching all TV shows as a family every night?
I liked the guy that was on the station out of either WV or OH but you could get it in SW PA and his name was George something and he had black hair and a mustache and he did the sports during the news broadcast. Can't remember his last name but there was something about that guy I liked.
NHL fights. Those were some good ASS. BEATINGS. . Teams had goons whose skills were skating and boxing.
. Teams had goons whose skills were skating and boxing.
Don't forget hitting your TV to make the picture stabilize.
...ice cream cones that accommodated 2 or 3 scoops...
...boys boots that had a side pocket for your pen knife...
... kites that you made from scratch using the daily newspaper...
...jawbreakers...
...lever operated Irish mail kids cars...
...scooters made from an orange crate and roller skate wheels...
...boys boots that had a side pocket for your pen knife...
... kites that you made from scratch using the daily newspaper...
...jawbreakers...
...lever operated Irish mail kids cars...
...scooters made from an orange crate and roller skate wheels...
Thank you for the clarification. I seem to remember that one “group” wore something over their jerseys so the refs would know who was who so that a team couldn’t sneak a different player across mid court.
This is going deep into the memory banks for me. I remember the grade school had no sports for girls so I saw this just going to the high school with my buddies to see if we could shoot em up. Sometimes they would be having games and we’d watch for awhile.
Just like the (any animal) uses his skin color for protection, you need protection too. From Mutual of Omaha.
I don't remember "special" markings on the unis, but you may be right. My mother coached the basketball team of the Girls Athletic Association when I was in Jr. High. So, I went to a lot of practices but they only played a handful of games. It was so slow, even the worst refs could keep up!
I remember the pop companies offering sets of mini football helmets if you collected the caps off the bottles. I would go all over town to the pop machines with a magnet on a string to pull all the tops out of the machines.
A parent leaving their kid(s) in the car with it running so they could run into the convenience store/grocery store for a couple of items. My dad always left us with the order, 'don't touch anything'. If a parent does that nowadays, 4 squad cars surround them in the parking lot.
Someone mentioned cereal toys, etc earlier. How about kids and even those in their 20s not knowing the cereal mascots. They may know Tony the Tiger and MAYBE Toucan Sam. But they don't know Snap, Crackle, & Pop, Sugar Bear, Frank 'n Berry, Count Chocula, Sonny from Cocoa Puffs, etc etc. Cereal commercials used to be ubiquitous. Now, you can't find them on normal broadcast TV.
Someone mentioned cereal toys, etc earlier. How about kids and even those in their 20s not knowing the cereal mascots. They may know Tony the Tiger and MAYBE Toucan Sam. But they don't know Snap, Crackle, & Pop, Sugar Bear, Frank 'n Berry, Count Chocula, Sonny from Cocoa Puffs, etc etc. Cereal commercials used to be ubiquitous. Now, you can't find them on normal broadcast TV.
Needing to use a pay phone. $0.10 per call
Outdoor movie night one day per week in the Summertime in my neighborhood. Someone from the Borough staff would set up a screen (basically a large sheet) and an old projector and show classic kid-printed films - usually campy horror. Would rotate through the Borough - different place each night. Kids would show up with snacks and chairs/blankets and watch movie. Sprinkle in a little minor mayhem on the periphery of the light.
Chiller Theater. Terminal Stare attended my wedding!
Saturday Small Game hunting trips with Dad and my Uncles. We hunted Dawn until Noon. Noon to 1:00 pm lunch. 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm listen to Penn State football game (nap at halftime). Back out hunting until dusk. Drive home - stopping at Burger King for Double Whooper dinner.
Man, I’m sure we would have. My late father was notoriously resistant to adopting certain “new” things. He held out for a looooong time against going to a touch tone line so he could save the extra 45 cents a month or whatever it cost at that time. I thought it was so cool when I could make a call home from my friend’s house who had one of those newfangled phones.
My dad also never had an ATM card in his life — “The banks want to get you dependent on those damn things so they can cut out tellers and the drive-through window!” And, he was the very last person on the payroll of his large corporate employer to go to a direct deposit paycheck, when they finally forced him to do so. He much preferred the satisfaction of bringing his physical check to the bank to deposit, and getting out a wad of cash to carry around for the next two weeks. Actually, he would break it into TWO wads of cash, and carry one in each pocket — just in case he got pick-pocketed on one side, it wouldn’t be a total loss.
Yep, my dad was truly old school and set in his ways. I guess that qualifies him too as one of those “silly” things of the past that are gone now, but certainly not forgotten — and deeply missed.
Hell, now four squad cars surround you if you leave your dog in the car for three minutes. Police respond faster to that than a mugging.
Or in my case, after *missing* the Villanova-Georgetown game. I fell asleep on the couch--jet lag, as I'd just gotten back from the Middle East on Sunday. Woke up at midnight and could not find out who won until the next morning.
Especially when you were already nervous about calling a girl....
The universal fear all guys have gone through....something girls can’t relate to. How many have hung up when someone answers on the other end?
That also harkens back to times in childhood when prank calls with impunity were possible... no caller ID or *69 yet...
You could order a pizza over the phone and stick a neighbor with the bill.
Album covers - because some of them were works of art on their own.
Hey CV, do you have Prince Albert in a can???!!!!!
You do? Well let him out before he suffocates!
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Hey CV, do you have Prince Albert in a can???!!!!!
One thing we used to do... Soloflex used to advertise that you could get a videocassette mailed to you with a demo of their exercise equipment. So a few of us got in the habit of calling up their 800 number multiple times and ordering tapes under various names, which we would then record over with our favorite shows or music videos. We enjoyed making a daily call from the pay phone in our middle school lobby over lunchtime
The jig was up when the Post Office complained to my friend’s parents that “You need to inform us of all the people that are living at your address!”
