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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:28:12 PM EDT
[#1]
yep!
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:29:45 PM EDT
[#2]
Gas was leaded, cars didn't have seat belts, and kids rode bikes without a helmet.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:29:54 PM EDT
[#3]
Nope
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:30:33 PM EDT
[#4]
You mean the 70's?
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:32:06 PM EDT
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Most people went to bed after Johnny Carson? ThenThe played the national anthem and called and end to another broadcast day, the tv went to color bars, and then snow. Occasionally a late night movie. No Internet, no cell phones, no Xboxes. No 24 hour society. Everything was closed on holidays. Schools actually taught math, English, biology, history without a political agenda. You could draw guns, and war scenes on paper without being suspended, and sent to a shrink. Kids actually went outside to play. FIFY |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:32:07 PM EDT
[#6]
Yup. Sometimes I would fall asleep watching tv and wake up to the tv test signal. I seem to remember tv stations playing the National Anthem at the end of the broadcasting day.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:32:15 PM EDT
[#7]
Our television sign off was the National Anthem.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:32:24 PM EDT
[#8]
You left out a BIG one.......companies didn't have 24/7 access to employees via cell/text/email. I remember the days when I thought a beeper was a ball and chain! In my opinion, this has been the greatest detriment to my quality of life!
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:32:25 PM EDT
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Only 2 over the air TV channels then there was a 3rd.
Had to get up and change the channel on the TV. This was all in black & white, then there was color TV. Rotary dial telephones. Calling out of your local area one had to go through an operator. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:32:37 PM EDT
[#10]
Yes I do , indeed .
The Star Spangled Banner would play and then it was either a test pattern or snow till about 5 or 6 am . And NO INFOMERCIALS  |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:33:24 PM EDT
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In the summer we left home at 730, or 8 am, with a transistor radio, and a bike, and a pbj sammich. We came home at dark, and no one called the cops, or freaked out in any way.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:34:07 PM EDT
[#12]
Changing channels with Vise-Grips.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:34:08 PM EDT
[#13]
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You mean the 70's? The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. I could ride my bike to the local woods with my Model 60 tied to the handle bars and no body cared. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:35:43 PM EDT
[#14]
Saturday night and....
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. Google it young'uns.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:37:02 PM EDT
[#15]
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The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mean the 70's? The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. I was 0-10. 
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:37:18 PM EDT
[#16]
yeah, that was the good days.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:37:23 PM EDT
[#17]
All that awesomeness and yet the average life expectancy was 8 years younger. In 1970.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:37:50 PM EDT
[#18]
yep
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:38:04 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Our television sign off was the National Anthem. Ours as well. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:38:18 PM EDT
[#20]
THe 60s were better
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:38:25 PM EDT
[#21]
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I was 0-10. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mean the 70's? The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. I was 0-10. I turned 10 in '73. Miss those days now. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:38:57 PM EDT
[#22]
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Most people went to bed after Johnny Carson? Then the tv went to color bars, and then snow. Occasionally a late night movie. No Internet, no cell phones, no Xboxes. No 24 hour society. Everything was closed on holidays. Schools actually taught math, English, biology, history without a political agenda. You could draw guns, and war scenes on paper without being suspended, and sent to a shrink. Kids actually went outside to play. People were happier. Kids weren't as screwed up. You expected your life to be better and the lives of your children to be better than yours. Then the country took a hard turn to the left and it hasn't stopped being a turd sandwich since. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:39:07 PM EDT
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Most people went to bed after Johnny Carson? Then the tv went to color bars, and then snow. Occasionally a late night movie. No Internet, no cell phones, no Xboxes. No 24 hour society. Everything was closed on holidays. Schools actually taught math, English, biology, history without a political agenda. You could draw guns, and war scenes on paper without being suspended, and sent to a shrink. Kids actually went outside to play. Have gun in your car in the school parking lot |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:39:38 PM EDT
[#24]
I remember the original Skinamax, AKA, Prisim.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:40:04 PM EDT
[#25]
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Have gun in your car in the school parking lot Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Most people went to bed after Johnny Carson? Then the tv went to color bars, and then snow. Occasionally a late night movie. No Internet, no cell phones, no Xboxes. No 24 hour society. Everything was closed on holidays. Schools actually taught math, English, biology, history without a political agenda. You could draw guns, and war scenes on paper without being suspended, and sent to a shrink. Kids actually went outside to play. Have gun in your car in the school parking lot Yes! I was about to post that. In PA we even got three days off for deer season. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:40:15 PM EDT
[#26]
Remember when people carried beepers?
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:41:03 PM EDT
[#27]
I remember all of that stuff, although where I grew up, we didn't roam around with guns.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:41:40 PM EDT
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1983: Eli Lilly and Company produces biosynthetic 'human' insulin with recombinant DNA technology.
1996: Lilly Humalog "lispro" insulin analogue approved. The past sucked. By past, I mean before 1996. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:42:34 PM EDT
[#29]
Git offa my lawn!!!
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:43:51 PM EDT
[#30]
I remember when we didn't have TV and the local radio station signed off at 11.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:44:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:44:22 PM EDT
[#32]
TV shows actually ran 9 months with summer repeats. None of this 5 episode season 2.5 crap. Then wait a year for the new season.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:45:18 PM EDT
[#33]
Yep
Kind of miss those days |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:46:22 PM EDT
[#34]
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I was 0-10. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mean the 70's? The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. I was 0-10. You as well.
Shit, we're old... 
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:47:40 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
yep! |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:48:34 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The past sucked. By past, I mean before 1996. Quote HistoryQuoted:
1983: Eli Lilly and Company produces biosynthetic 'human' insulin with recombinant DNA technology.
1996: Lilly Humalog "lispro" insulin analogue approved. The past sucked. By past, I mean before 1996. You know not what you speak sadly. The American dream was alive, and well back then....now look where were at 
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:50:33 PM EDT
[#37]
Yep. And I miss most of it. Maybe it's why they call it the good old days !
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:52:12 PM EDT
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Yep. And I miss most of it. Maybe it's why they call it the good old days ! That's scary......will people 50 years from now look back at 2014 as the good ol days? |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:54:16 PM EDT
[#39]
Some stations played The Star Spangled Banner and High Flight when I was growing up.
High Flight Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:56:21 PM EDT
[#40]
you have to be an old fart to remember stuff like that. I would know.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:57:10 PM EDT
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you have to be an old fart to remember stuff like that. I would know. Just turned 50 a few weeks ago. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:57:10 PM EDT
[#42]
Sure do.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:59:04 PM EDT
[#43]
I remember stations playing the national anthem and showing an image of the flag before they shut down for the day.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 5:59:29 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's scary......will people 50 years from now look back at 2014 as the good ol day Only people who don't know any better. The nation peaked in 1984. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 6:00:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. I could ride my bike to the local woods with my Model 60 tied to the handle bars and no body cared. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You mean the 70's? The 70's ruled. I was a teenager and it was great. I could ride my bike to the local woods with my Model 60 tied to the handle bars and no body cared. ... me too. Except we had horses and dirt bikes
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Posted: 4/28/2014 6:03:49 PM EDT
[#46]
I remember them days.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 6:03:55 PM EDT
[#47]
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Nope |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 6:05:54 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Changing channels with Vise-Grips.  Getting smacked for spinning the channel knob 12 notches in under half a second.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 6:07:26 PM EDT
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Getting smacked for spinning the channel knob 12 notches in under half a second.Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Changing channels with Vise-Grips. Getting smacked for spinning the channel knob 12 notches in under half a second.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 6:09:57 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Some stations played The Star Spangled Banner and High Flight when I was growing up. High Flight Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. |
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