A few memories from days gone past

[Jimbuna]

There must be some nostalgic memories for everyone here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=HeEWtNaW6KE&app=desktop

WARNING: there are a few 'adult' words if you listen carefully.

[vienna]

Very, very clever. Thanks for sharing. I noticed it was a British view of the 70s/80s, but it is very interesting how many of the items metioned cross over between the US and UK. Considering I recall events/people/places/things from the 50s/60s, I am indeed a very old "git"...


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[Rockstar]

Said video not available for my device.<------- iPad :hmmm:

[Aktungbby]

Very, very clever. Thanks for sharing. I noticed it was a British view of the 70s/80s, but it is very interesting how many of the items metioned cross over between the US and UK. Considering I recall events/people/places/things from the 50s/60s, I am indeed a very old "git"...


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I recall the '50's too! Dinner was an adventure!:Dhttp://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/sauropods/tstand.jpg

[Wolferz]

Said video not available for my device.<------- iPad :hmmm:

Time to regress a little.:yep::03::haha:
I raised kids during the 70's and 80's.

[Oberon]

Remember:

1981 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhVMVnUvPmM
1986 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDOF4WER5ag
1990 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCeESZhmHsM
1994 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aym2uzc2u4Q
1997 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtmGwxbIq0
1999 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glM0LgjCOY
2002 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bORRM0LNa6s
2006 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZB4e4-2io0

[AVGWarhawk]

I was a teen in the 80's. I would live it all again. :yep: I like the video!

[STEED]

Best TV before it went all to pot, just glad I was around to view the 70's & 80's.

[Jimbuna]

I was a teen in the 80's. I would live it all again. :yep: I like the video!

I'm unwilling to point out just how much of it I can relate too :smug:

[Ducimus]

There must be some nostalgic memories for everyone here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=HeEWtNaW6KE&app=desktop

WARNING: there are a few 'adult' words if you listen carefully.

Seems UK specific, but there's a lot in common with the US that I remember quite well. :up:

Remember:

1981 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhVMVnUvPmM
1986 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDOF4WER5ag
1990 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCeESZhmHsM
1994 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aym2uzc2u4Q
1997 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtmGwxbIq0
1999 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glM0LgjCOY
2002 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bORRM0LNa6s
2006 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZB4e4-2io0

NICE! :up:


I miss the late 80's and early 90's. :O:

[Rhodes]

Nice! 80's rules!

pa: the casio calculator watch is back in fashion...

[Admiral Halsey]

I was born in the 90's and the only thing I really remember from it are the great cartoons that used to be on Nick. Also Animaniacs was the best show during that decade.

[Penguin]

Pff, typical sentimental nostalgia of old geezers...oh, wait a minute...:oops:

Of course we had ipad-like devices in the 80s, one is shown at 2:55. The more sophisticated Casio's were able to show the time, calculate and store phone numbers - without being able to actually make a phone call; sounds a lot like the ipad today :03:

What I find interesting is that the Brits have fond memories of the 1/2 p coin, while us German obnoxious kids loved the Shilling/5p coin. It had nearly the same dimensions and weight as the 1 Mark coin while having only 1/6th of its value. Worked great on the older vending and cigarette machines here. So late apologies to the UK for exporting many of your coins to Germany, leaving you unable to play at the penny arcade. :D


Very, very clever. Thanks for sharing. I noticed it was a British view of the 70s/80s, but it is very interesting how many of the items metioned cross over between the US and UK. Considering I recall events/people/places/things from the 50s/60s, I am indeed a very old "git"...


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Get off my 70's/80s lawn, kiddo - the original Billy Joel song was already dedicated to you! :O::D


Remember:


And for the even older Brits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NPxbKMvn9w :smug:

[Oberon]

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday :dead:
I remember the Berlin wall coming down, Teenage Mutant Hero/Ninja Turtles, Cabbagepatch dolls, Transformers, X-men, Dallas, The Sweeney, Minder, Bread, Highway to Heaven, and all the others. There's a lot of things about the 1980s that make me nostalgic, the electro-synth music wave, the fonts, the derelict underdeveloped docklands of London (the difference with today is astonishing), old rattley slam-door trains, cars with angles and minimal electronics, phones that weighed almost the same as a car battery.

Seems like a different world when comparing now and then. :hmmm:

Get off my 70's/80s lawn, kiddo - the original Billy Joel song was already dedicated to you! :O::D

I prefer Ultravox's version... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-NHTW2-Ps) :03: Although it still doesn't sound right to me without a crackling and popping in the background from the needle against vinyl. :haha:

[Penguin]

I prefer Ultravox's version... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-NHTW2-Ps) :03:

I thought he spent his time in the 80s on the phone: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1wycb_falco-vienna-calling_music :smug:

[vienna]

Get off my 70's/80s lawn, kiddo - the original Billy Joel song was already dedicated to you! :O::D


Damn disrespectful whippersnappers. Go out back and cut me a switch...


Something else to make some of us feel older:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJOX4xiygk



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[vienna]

Just to show I'm not old fashioned, here's a picture of my keyboard:



https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=0356c02f89&view=att&th=1446506c7047a374&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_142f77a56eba6f5c&zw&atsh=1



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[Jimbuna]

Pff, typical sentimental nostalgia of old geezers...oh, wait a minute...:oops:



That last bit saved you :)

[Rhodes]

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday :dead:
I remember the Berlin wall coming down, Teenage Mutant Hero/Ninja Turtles, Cabbagepatch dolls, Transformers, X-men, Dallas, The Sweeney, Minder, Bread, Highway to Heaven, and all the others. There's a lot of things about the 1980s that make me nostalgic, the electro-synth music wave, the fonts, the derelict underdeveloped docklands of London (the difference with today is astonishing), old rattley slam-door trains, cars with angles and minimal electronics, phones that weighed almost the same as a car battery.

Seems like a different world when comparing now and then. :hmmm:


You're from 1984? Thought you were older then me!

Forgot of Knight Rider and MacGyver!

[Jimbuna]

You're from 1984? Thought you were older then me!

Forgot of Knight Rider and MacGyver!

ABBA even :sunny:

[Ducimus]

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday :dead:


I got ten years on ya i see. Thirty ain't so bad. Hell, I wish i was thirty again. Now forty, I'm none too happy about. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. I'm sure there's somebody here who's fifty who can say the exact same thing to me.

[Sailor Steve]

I've gone beyond that. I wish I was fifty again. I wouldn't cry about being sixty again. :dead:

[Ducimus]

See Oberon, what did i tell ya?

Thirty ain't so bad. :O:

[Wolferz]

Even the guys who made the "Kids react" segment couldn't get the name right for a rotary dialed phone.:hmmm: They were called pulse dialers. The predecessor to tone dialers. Imagine one from the really early days with the crank and then you have to tell the operator what exchange you want.:haha:
Texting was done with pen, paper, envelope and a stamp.:D
Facebook was a photo album.
Twitter was only done by birds outside your window.
You tube was just a television and some faceless twit decided what you could watch. You had three channels to choose from.
The TV remote had arms and legs and was much younger than the TV owner.
Whichever kid was closest to the set got his button pressed to change the channel.:haha:

I still remember my kids (born in 78 and 79) freaking out about a TV program that was filmed in black and white. They thought the TV was broken.

[nikimcbee]

Was that Steed in in apple nappies?

[Sailor Steve]

Even the guys who made the "Kids react" segment couldn't get the name right for a rotary dialed phone.:hmmm: They were called pulse dialers.
I grew up with them and I've never heard that term. We just called them "telephones".

[GoldenRivet]

clever - brought back some memories lol

thanks for sharing:D

[nikimcbee]

aahhh, 1986.:up:

[Tango589]

Thanks for sharing, it bought back a lot of great memories, especially watching Roland Rat on Saturday mornings, or Wacaday during the school holidays. Also, he missed out the best comics: Beano, Dandy, Wizzer and Chips, Funny Fortnightly.:yeah:

[Oberon]

Wacaday during the school holidays.

Mr Mallet! Mr Mallet! :haha:

See Oberon, what did i tell ya?

Thirty ain't so bad. :O:

True, but it's no twenty. :03:

[Jimbuna]

I got ten years on ya i see. Thirty ain't so bad. Hell, I wish i was thirty again. Now forty, I'm none too happy about. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. I'm sure there's somebody here who's fifty who can say the exact same thing to me.

Probably me...and retired to boot.

[Ducimus]

Probably me...and retired to boot.

At least you can retire! You can legitimately say, "I do what i want, when i want", aside from any differences in opinion your Mrs may have . :O:

[Jimbuna]

At least you can retire! You can legitimately say, "I do what i want, when i want", aside from any differences in opinion your Mrs may have . :O:

True that :)

[AVGWarhawk]

I've gone beyond that. I wish I was fifty again. I wouldn't cry about being sixty again. :dead:

One year shy of 50 here. The 80's was dead center of my teens. Graduated HS in 84. Graduated University of MD in 88. Would do it all over again! Good times. The police have pictures to prove it.

[swamprat69er]

Graduated HS in 84.

I left HS in 1964, I guess I am a little bit older than you.:D
I may grow older, but I will never grow up! I still play with trucks.

[Wolferz]

I left HS in 1964, I guess I am a little bit older than you.:D
I may grow older, but I will never grow up! I still play with trucks.


Older? You're practically ancient.:03::O: Like me. :up:
I escaped from high school in 1972, with my common sense intact and my brain relatively unwashed, despite their attempts to scrub it into conformity. :know: Then the school of life took over.:arrgh!:

"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education"
~Mark Twain

[AVGWarhawk]

I left HS in 1964, I guess I am a little bit older than you.:D
I may grow older, but I will never grow up! I still play with trucks.

1964 I was just a gleam in my old mans eye. Born in 1965. Truth be told I still play with cars. All be it more expensive Franklin Mint die cast. And my other toy car is a 1954 Buick. I'm not much for growing up either. Since I was born in 65 that but me in the 80's at the years one is most impressionable and being molded by my surroundings. It was a good decade to be a teenager. I would live it again in a heart beat.

[swamprat69er]

1964 I was just a gleam in my old mans eye. Born in 1965. Truth be told I still play with cars. All be it more expensive Franklin Mint die cast. And my other toy car is a 1954 Buick. I'm not much for growing up either. Since I was born in 65 that but me in the 80's at the years one is most impressionable and being molded by my surroundings. It was a good decade to be a teenager. I would live it again in a heart beat.

I remember $0.359/Imperial gallon for gas. Americans would come up here raving about Canadian gas and getting so much more mileage out of a gallon of gas than they did in the 'States. NEVER realizing that the Imperial gallon (160 ounces) was larger than the American gallon (132 ounces).

[Wolferz]

I still remember when you could get a bottle of Coca Cola for a nickel ($0.05). It was only 6 ounces, but what the hey... moderation in all things.:D Saner times in those days.

[swamprat69er]

I still remember when you could get a bottle of Coca Cola for a nickel ($0.05). It was only 6 ounces, but what the hey... moderation in all things.:D Saner times in those days.
and 2 cents deposit on the bottle.

[Jimbuna]

One thing for sure...if you can still remember the memories, your still not old enough :03:

[vienna]

Wait...what did I come here for?....



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[Sailor Steve]

Wait...what did I come here for?....
You came here to repay the $40,000 I loaned you back in '83. :D

[vienna]

And who are you, again?...


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[Sailor Steve]

And who are you, again?...
Don't tell me you've forgotten when I got you a date with Connie in high school, or the time I kept you from joining that gay biker gang?

No, don't thank me. It's what friends are for.

[vienna]

Nope, still don't remember you...

In fact, I don't remember 1983...was I there?...


Hey, wait a minute...aren't you the guy who dated RuPaul?...


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[Penguin]

You came here to repay the $40,000 I loaned you back in '83. :D

I really don't want to be pushy, but after 3 decades, I think you should use Vienna's payment to pay back a little of the money I lent you to fund your Presidential campaign when you ran against Ronnie in '84. Remember, before your sex change when you were still called Angela Davis. :D

[swamprat69er]

Ice cream cones, 2 scoops for a nickel. Cigarettes 35 cents a pack of 20, 37 cents a pack of 25. American cigarettes were the same price, even though they were stale because no self respecting Canadian would smoke them. (Said they taste like Camel dung). Canadian cigs. were the same to Americans then and now. (Taste like dog do-do).

I was the only remote channel changer in the house. If I was in the front room, I was the channel changer. Also the antenna switcher. We had 2 sets of rabbit ears set up one set in the front room window aimed for a TV station in Buffalo and the other set on top the TV for CFTO in Agincourt. We had a DPDT mini switch from them to the TV. It worked good.

1953/1954 [I think] Hurricane Hazel came roaring through and after the basement flooded (about 4') that was the end of my train set. :(
The neighbours lost a lot more, their basements were almost full.

[Wolferz]

In late '53 I became a zygote. Mid '54 I took the trip down the birth canal and here I am today. All I can say is....

WHAT A RIDE!!!:O:

[swamprat69er]

In late '53 I became a zygote. Mid '54 I took the trip down the birth canal and here I am today. All I can say is....

WHAT A RIDE!!!:O:

You are a young pup, then.:D

[vienna]

I was born in December, 1950; my hope is to make it to 100 years, just to see what the passing of a century brings. Of course, that means about 37 more years of being a "senior citizen", so there's that bit of a downside. Maybe I'll finally get a flying car before I kick...


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[swamprat69er]

It is my game plan to work until the year 2045. It is called 'Freedom 99'.:haha:
That will give me a total of 60 years working for the same company. I'm almost half way there, now.

[Wolferz]

You are a young pup, then.:D

Well, younger than you ya old dog.:03::yep: :D

I'm old enough to know better but still young enough to do something about it. Age is really just a state of mind.:arrgh!: With the state of my mind, they should call me Methuselah. Like they do Steve.:doh:

For all our resident whipper snappers who are groaning about the old farts reminiscing days gone by, remember;
"Like you we were and like us you'll be"

[swamprat69er]

Seriously speaking, there are some days I feel 21 and other days I feel 121.
Friday I felt 21, the quack gave me a clean bill of health. I get to keep my A/CDL license for another year.:)

[Sailor Steve]

Nope, still don't remember you...
Probably better that way.
In fact, I don't remember 1983...was I there?...
I know, but I ain't tellin'
Hey, wait a minute...aren't you the guy who dated RuPaul?...
See above



I really don't want to be pushy...
Sure you do. Don't lie about things like that.
...the money I lent you to fund your Presidential campaign when you ran against Ronnie in '84.
*sigh* There you go again. It wasn't like that. I ran against Ronnie Kniblitz for Dogcatcher. And you weren't old enough to lend anybody anything. And I didn't get any campaign money anyway - your dad said he'd pay me to shut up and go away.



Remember, before your sex change when you were still called Angela Davis. :D
Idiot. I wasn't Angela Davis, I was Ann B. Davis.

I was born in December, 1950
Wow! You really are a kid!

[vienna]

Wow! You really are a kid!


Tell us, Steve, what was it like growing up with Methuselah?... :haha:


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[Wolferz]

Tell us, Steve, what was it like growing up with Methuselah?... :haha:


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He can't remember.:03::D

[Sailor Steve]

Tell us, Steve, what was it like growing up with Methuselah?... :haha:
I've only got eight months on you. :O:

He can't remember.:03::D
Sure I can. I remember everything. Especially the stuff I really don't want to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6GMkguv9s

[Eisenwurst]

I'm 61. We were that poor that we lived in Black and White. And I've still got the photos to prove it.

[vienna]

Bitter words from a bitter "Old Man":


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09q04Dlh7r8


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