How's This For Nostalgia?

Do you remember when?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?


It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?


Nobody owned a purebred dog?


When a quarter was a decent allowance?


When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?


No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


If you can remember most of these things, then you were probably born before 1955.

Well it Good to know that somethings stay the same

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races?

I was born in 1957 so some of this stuff is before my time.

When I was in grade school in the 60's the girls gym uniforms were still ugly.

My father owned a 57 Chevy that looks exactly like the one in the pic, except it was a hardtop. Yes it's one of my dream cars.

I notice that some of the older guys I see at cruises and shows do leave the keys in the ignition. I could never do that. I put my keys in the same pocket everytime and check to see it they're still there 20-30 times. Yes I'm that anal.

Ha!
I'm not even sure if anyone here even knew what submarine races are.

George

OK...so do any of you remember when the local store sold candy cigarettes to children?



How about driving to a diner for dinner?


Anyone remember when the milkman delivered milk to your house?


Remember rotary phones?


Remember when you could spank your children?



And lastly do you remember vinyl records?

Yes I remember all of them well. I love music and play the drums so I still have my vinyl records I collected when I was young....

Here's a few.

When Aerosmith first released Dream On in 1973, it wasn't a big hit. I liked it the first time I heard it, so I bought it. They released it again in 1976 and it was a huge hit.





Here's a cool record. Both the album and 45 came in yellow vinyl. If IIRC Grand Funk Railroad's next album came in red vinyl.

Do you remember the very first Atari Pong Video game?



Do you remember the the Cabbage Patch Kid craze?



Do you remember the first Nintendo game station?


Do you remember the first IBM PC?



Do you remember the very first analog bag mobile car phones?
They transmitted at 4 watts and were later banned from use.



Do you remember ten cent pay phones on every corner?

Martin wrote:Nice......some before time...but nice

How about ALL before your time (Kid)

WarbirdTA wrote:Ha!
I'm not even sure if anyone here even knew what submarine races are.

George

Well I do remember spending a lot of my weekend summer nights on the beach with my Girlfriends at the Submarine Races.

I remember...
having to get up to change the TV.
my Mom giving me money and a note to buy her cigarettes.
when cars had nice steering wheels without those bulky air bags.
a time when if you spilled hot coffee on yourself you weren't awarded $400,000.
when the filling station pumped your gas, cleaned your windshield, and checked your oil.
when grocery stores carried your groceries to the car for you.
when not wearing a safety belt was not the equivalent of bungee jumping.
hurricanes and other natural disasters before global warming was invented to cause them.
when no one cared what movie stars thought about political issues.
when American cars outsold imports.
when a Honda was a motorcycle.
when Japanese cars were considered lower quality.
walking to school in a blizzard, up hill both ways.
when a neighborhood kid didn't want $50 to mow your lawn.
when you didn't have to call India to get your phone fixed.
never having to pay late fees after 3 weeks.
when a credit card was not given out to deadbeats.
when their were cigarette commercials but there were no ads for viagra, cialis, rubbers, or vibrators.
who shot JR.
putting a man on the moon and still having a balanced budget.
when people got mad when their taxes went up.
riding in the back of a station wagon.
people bought trucks because they needed them, not because they just like trucks.
China couldn't afford a nuclear submarine, now they can spend $4 billion on the Olympic opening ceremony.
you could go somewhere where your phone wouldn't ring.
when you could see dolphins at the aquarium.
you ordered pizza because it was a special occasion.
when doctors made house calls.
you could buy firecrackers.
fried chicken was good for you.
fruit was cheap and Ring Dings were expensive.
Johnny Carson...heeeeere's Johnny.
Gunsmoke and My Favorite Martian. Mary Ann was hotter than Ginger.
you could put a penny in the gumball machine.
when cars were cool.