IBM never made typewriters?

[hurricane]

The incoming class of 2012 knows some of the following:

1. Jay Leno has been the only host of the Tonight Show.

2. IBM never made typewriters.

3. Pee-Wee never had a playhouse.

Check out the others here -- goes back to the Class of 2000...

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php

-- Hurricane

[Matusalem]

This made my morning, thanks!

Some fact they don't know:

1. Milk delivered to your doorstep.

2. rolling around in the back of the station wagon with legos and barbie, long before madatory seatbelts, child seats, and dvd players.

3. All the neighborhood dogs roaming your streets doing as they please....no leash laws.

4. Cars had vinyl woodgrain on the sides. Tho my dad as a teenager had a real '49 ford woodie wagon.

5. Eastern Airlines, TWA, Western Airlines, Piedmont, Allegheny, National , Pan Am. ...full course meals while riding in coach class.

You recieved your tickets either through the mail or from a ticket agent. The tickets were unreadable because of the red print was so illegible.

6. Eddie Murphy, Michael Jackson (during the Thriller years), Van Halen, U2 before Bono wore sunglasses, Jerry Springer.

oh, I could go on....

[Red-Handed Jill]

Heck - I remember when flying, it was a big deal to be almost a mile and a half up and San Francisco to Montreal took two flights and two days. And flight attendants - excuse me, stewardesses - came by with silver trays with fancy candies on them.

Nowadays, passenger planes fly at 37,000 feet up and you're lucky if you get tossed a packet of pretzels to go with the glass of water that you had to pay $2 for.

[Raphael Misson]

1. Milk delivered to your doorstep.

Wow...you remember that? I only know it from movies... Although I've seen it as a contemporary reference in UK movies made during my lifetime.

[Graydog]

Yea and IBM never made M-1 carbines either.

[Matusalem]

QUOTE (Matusalem @ Aug 19 2008, 06:35 AM)

1. Milk delivered to your doorstep.

Mission:

Wow...you remember that? I only know it from movies... Although I've seen it as a contemporary reference in UK movies made during my lifetime.

We had a galvanized steel box that could fit 4 1qt. galss milk bottles inside. Every monday morning a guy in a Divco truck would pick up the empties and replace them with 4 fesh milk bottles, complete with the paper cap. This was circa mid 70's.

I still remember the jack kramer wooden tennis raquets that needed a wooden frame to keep the raquet from warping. tennis balls were always white.

We got our color tv in 1969, but we had 2 black & white ones, one which I had to watch Neil Armstrong land on the moon...yep, I'm that old.

Budweiser beer cans came in steel cans. My grandfather's Buick Electra had 5 ashtrays, each with electric cigarette lighers (all 4 doors plus the center console). Homework assignments were issued on paper that came out of a hand-crakned mimeograph machine and the text was the same purple you see stamped on meat. Sesame Street was the greates program befor e the introduction of Elmo. Every kid knew who Morgan Freeman was because he was the coolest cast member of the Electric Company.

[count de monet]

i guess the list is funny... i dunno.... can't read it without my recently purchased reading glasses......

well... made it to 44 without needing them

donny and marie, sonny and cher, and my fave--- carol burnnet (sp ?)

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

CLOTH Diaper washing and delivery services?

Jewel T man every thursday?

My doctor made house calls.

.10 cent candy bars and cokes?

Movies downtown ...for three bucks we could see a new movie, have popcorn, coke and a candy bar.

Now I'm getting depressed.

Bo

[TheBlackFox]

Our first "color" TV was this piece of clear film that was blue for the top third (sky), pink in the middle (faces) and green for the bottom (grass). Dad got us a color TV the day prior to Batman's premiere.

I remember the guy with the cart of local vegetables and was the knife sharpener screaming as he walked it up the streets of the neighborhood. Sometimes he had blue crabs (DC suburbs).

A rotary phone in our house and a crank phone in my grandparents' up in Jersey. (early 60s even!)

lastly. . . the dog chewing the hands and feet of every G.I. Joe. . . . it did mark the first time I put a pirate hook on an action figure. . . a bit of foreshadowing m'thinks.

[Red-Handed Jill]

Bo - THREE BUCKS??? Was this at some fancy theatre or something? When I was a kid a double feature plus cartoon cost 75 cents (and we're about the same age.) And a fairly large bag of candy cost a quarter. But you had to smuggle it in, since they DID NOT like you bringing in your own snacks. Until the 70's, some theatres had folks who patted you down to look for contraband incoming snacks.

I remember being teased by a cashier upon paying for a candy bar that it would cost me a quarter. And recoiling in horror - at the time they were a nickel and the thought of paying twenty-five cents for just one candy bar was unthinkable...

[William Brand]

I remember The Pop Shoppe drinks. Of course I grew up near Canada.

I also remember the soccer craze in the mid 70s. Knee high socks and Pelé.

My best friend had the first Atari in the neighborhood.

The last Apollo mission happened at the beginning of my life.

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

Jill, same thing then as now, the MOVIE was .75, but the snacks were overpriced, and we still had .15 cents left out of the three bucks too.

I was remembering driving great grampa's two morgans to town and picking up a box of dynamite from the hardware store for clearing stumps when I was about ten. Grampa sent a note with me. The clerk went to the same church and he put it in the wagon for me in a straw nest grampa made, and off I went back up the hill. Used to buy my own ammo there too, long before I was 18. .45 cents for a box of 22's, and 1.50 for a box of shotgun shells. Small town and everyone knew everyone else and who to go to if you were seen doing something you shouldn't. Didn't matter where you were, if you screwed up, the story would beat you home!

Wow, I love these nostalgia threads!

Thanks hurricane for the prompt. Sorry for the hijacking.

Bo

[Red-Handed Jill]

It was the same in my neighborhood. Everyone knew everyone else and we knew all of the local business owners (no chain stores, ya know...) And you couldn't get away with anything - not only did you get chewed out by a neighbor or local business owner, but your parents would know when you got home exactly what you had been up to. And this was in San Francisco's Outer Mission district, not a small town. Things have definitely changed...

[Red Cat Jenny]

Well don't go feeling too old...

Consider

The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995.

Clunky and overpriced?

Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

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Now 2008 the iPhone 3G $199-

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Microwaves become a household appliance in the 80's

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1983 - Microsoft announces windows

Now part of everyday life

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1994 the zip drive arrives from iOmega

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and now car paint that heals itself

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2007...tches-heal.html

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a lot has happened in under 30 years

[DocF225]

1. Milk delivered to your doorstep.

Wow...you remember that? I only know it from movies... Although I've seen it as a contemporary reference in UK movies made during my lifetime.

Not only milk twice a week, but eggs weekly (on Fridays). We even had a Pepperidge Farm guy who came by twice a week with bread, cakes and pies.

[Iron Jon]

The first phone number I remember having back in the 60's started with a 2 letter exchange instead of the normal 3 digits.

I still remember it, it was TF-6-0931.

[Iron Jon]

I also remember riding 15 miles or so to my cousin's house on my bike...

... with a shotgun and 22 rifle strapped to the handlebar and sissy bar and nobody ever stopping me or even thinking twice about it !

[Lily Alexander]

I also remember riding 15 miles or so to my cousin's house on my bike...

Was that up hill both ways Iron Jon

(Sorry, couldn't reist)

I remember when you could smoke on airplanes. ahhh, the good ole days.

How about those little doors on the oustide of the house that the milk man used to put his deliveries in? It was also a wonderful place to hold puppet shows for the neighborhood kids, when not in use.

Going on a class field trip to Eastman Kodak to see a computer (which happened to take up an entire room, lol)

Air raid drills and sonic booms.

Being forbidden to take a calculator to school. Oh the horror of having to do math with paper and pencil. Even worse, in your head.

My favorite, when they changed the dress code so females could wear pants to school.

[William Brand]

The book mobile was a much bigger deal way back when. I loved the book mobile.

[Ransom]

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The Helms Bakery man, with that wonderful truck. He would open the back door, and pull out trays of donuts, jelly rolls, pastries....

OMG, I had forgotten all about the Bookmobile! I LOVED the Bookmobile!

Saturday at the movies, where you got a double feature and cartoons — for about 65 cents.

Town air raid siren tests every Saturday at noon.

Air raid drills at school — shove all the desks away from the windows, crawl under them, and curl in a fetal position, covering your head.

Ah, the good ol' days!

[Silkie McDonough]

West View Park ...I grew up in the subburb of Pittsburgh called West View. When the trolly use to run ...when I was VERY young it was the end of the line on this end. There was an amusement park there. The rides were ticked and you could get into the park for free. There was a large hall there called Danceland, my parents met there. There was an ampatheatre where unknown bands use to play. Bands like The Rolling Stones. I spent most of my summer there. We would stand at the exit gate at the end of the day and people who were there just for the day who had tickets left from the one day they wouod spend there would give us theri remaining tickets ...enough to ride all day the next day and be at the exits just in time to collect for the following day ...it was great to be a local!

It is a strip mall now.

I remember Jewel Tea & Fuller Brush.

Delivered milk. ...had the galvinized box also.

I remember when having a microwave was something only the rich had.

I often think about what my grandmother who was born in 1903 and passed in 2003 (one day after her birthday) had witnessed in the onehundred years of her life. The electric toaster was invented that year. (couldn't find a photo dated 1903 easily but I did find this one dated 1909 ...and since researching that photo I may be under the wrong impression that it was 1903, it may have been earlier but ...well you get the idea of the advances in technology she had seen.

[Ransom]

I remember when TV didn't run 24/7. They would sign off at night (With a poem called "Flight"), and then sign back on in the morning. And not all stations ran the same amount of hours. What you saw in between was either static, or a test pattern with the profile of an Indian chief in the center.

Silkie, I know what you mean about what your grandmother saw. I think about mine, who went from horse-drawn buggies, to seeing man land on the moon. — on TV. Pretty amazing.

[Red Cat Jenny]

Wow..

My grandma was also born in 1903.

She passed away bless her soul at 100 years and 3 months.

I have often marveled at the fact that growing up rustic on a farm in the snowy, hilly part of Sweden she washed clothes on rocks in the stream, picked fresh berries on their property, lived by candle light, made butter, had a washtub, could slaughter dress and cook a goose..

Later coming to this country saw the Wright brothers fly and later still flew on jets to visit her family in Sweden. Saw the moon landing on tv, the end of segregation, the end of the cold war, two world wars, women go from skirts to pants. The many lengths of hair and hemlines etc etc...

Remembering her in her 90's she was quite adept with the microwave, cordless phone, remote for cable, coffee maker, and she liked to watch basketball and Johnny Carson on tv. She never did learn to drive. She'd traveled extensively by air and train, crossed the Atlantic as a divorced foreign woman (Not common at all) with the youngest twins ever to make the crossing by ship (my Mom and Aunt) to escape the war in europe.

She left this world a very well read, very self educated woman who had seen the world change in profound leaps in her lifetime.

I wonder sometimes how that much change must have felt.

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

I remembers makin' model airplane glue by dissolvin' celluloid in solvent. The planes themselves was laboriously crafted from balsa wood, old apple crates, silk scraps and painted wi' a most foul smellin' paint called (hehe) "dope". Bein' successful at flyin' R/c aircraft meant ya came home wi' a repairable pile of busted sticks, dead 67 volt batteries an a busted cr tube or two. This ya rebuilt while watchin' Bill Burrid, Art Linkletter an Red Skelton on a 10 year old telly sportin' a coathanger fer an antenna.

Me skateboard had metal wheels and twas still legal ta ride ANYWHERE. The "Crewcut" was the hairstyle 'o choice and many a night was spent campin' on the beaches between Bolsa Chica State Park and San Diego--- FREE! Try that now wi'out gettin murdered or arrested.

$5 was enough gas fer several hours 'o fun wi' 500 horsepower . Pull inta a gas station an the windows was washed, oil checked, tank filled, an change brought out without you movin' from the seat. Big Daddy was Don Garlitz or Ed Roth. Twas not uncommon ta find both at Lions drag strip. Most radio stations was still broadcastin' in mono so ya had ta mount an aftermarket reverb unit ta get a semi stereo effect. Yer home stereo unit was about 6 feet long and weighed about 150 lbs. Ya could stack up around 5 or 6 records at once and the unit would drop the next one inta place as the last one finished. 78, 45, 33.3 an 12 was the available speeds.( I hears wee ones askin' "Wots a record?")

[Lady Cassandra Seahawke]

OH ok, well me... We had wall space hearters to keep us warm in the Ohio winters. We had one in the living room, one in the hallway. The air conditioning was a fan in the window. Central heating and cooling is such a blessing.

Corner drugstore had a soda fountain with dime getting you a glass of coke. The soda jerk put the syrup in the glass then the carbonated water.

The original musketeers with their story serials on the Black & White tv. Ed Sullivan, Laurence Welk (m'mum faves) and Red Skeleton. There were the movie marathons $3.00 and you could go to the theatre for the whole day and evening. I remember the 007 Sean Connery marathon on a Saturday night, got to the theater at around 2pm and my sister came to pick me up at 11pm. LOL...The $3.00 gave you all the movies, box of popcorn and a large drink with refills.

Babysitting for fifty cents a hour and there were times when I was able to make close to $40.00 a week (yep my parents took a chunk of it ..., well such is life). Thought that was a lot for 12 year old. (yes, I babysat every night of the week and sometimes for more then one family at a time on Saturday afternoons. But, m'clients didn't mind if I did my homework after their kids got to bed).

I also remember milk being delivered to the house and the doctor made housecalls.

In elementary school a sixth grade boy hit me, the teacher saw it, to the principal office, the principal saw the area starting to bruise on my back, the principal pulled out a big wooden paddle and literally chased the kid around the desk till he caught him and proceeded to teach him via his hind end not to hit girls...especially girls that were only in 2nd grade. (no way that lesson would be given in this day and age)

Gasoline was 45 cents a gallon, first credit card issued was Diner's Club and yes it was for more then just dining out. Sears and Roebuck...Siegel Catalogs.

The blue plate special at Woolworths. Isley's skyscraper ice cream cones

Chiller Theatre...best scary movies on tv

Fritz the night owl...etc etc etc

sigh