What We Have Seen....

Hello erthomp143,

Since I was born 3 years before you, my list is the same as yours. I still got all my vinyl records and my wife still has her console record player and one heck of a collection of 45's. Not long ago, my daughter had a friend over while we were listening to our 45's. The kid looked into the record player and stated..."Look how big your mommy's CD's are!". Took a while to stop laughing .

You know, the same goes for rotary phones. All the kids and young adults have only had push-button phones. As for remote controls for the TV? I was my father's remote control! And I better not have turned that dial too quick, or I got a hollar at! hee hee

Mark

All of the same things as the Posts above talked about "PLUS."

The Great Depression of the 1930s, Bad Times for all.

The First Showing of the Film "Stagecoach" at the Old Fox Theater in Phoenix, Arizona with my Grandmother in the Late 1939.

The Start of World War 2, and Pearl Harbor was on the Radio, and again at the Old Fox Theater a week later on the News Reals. This was way Before T.V. and the Computer. The End of W.W. 2 , And on the Radio Heard the First and only Flight of Howard Hughes Spruce Goose.

And in the Late 1940s watched the Making of the Films "The Angel and the Badman," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "Rio Grande" and "Broken Arrow" because I was there.

In the early 1950s in the Korean War, Saw North Korea from 31,000 Feet in a B-29.

The First of the Space Age, Sputnik, First Man in Space, and then Allen Shepard the First American in Space.

Then in the early 1980s the Launch of the First Space Shuttle "The Columbia" at Cape Kennedy and then after I had Flown home to California, the Landing of the Shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base. I had a V.I.P. Pass from a General Friend of mine that was my Aircraft Commander in the Korean War.

Chilibill

How could you forget the "pet rock" in the seventies and the "mood ring" and did you get your "Apollo Space Lunar Module" kit? I didn't own the first two listings.

Let's see, what else did we break into in my childhood? Color TV? Well, we didn't get ours until the late 60's and I think that TV shows were black and white until 1966, and they would say a show like "Bewitched in Color." transistor radios, compact calculators in the 70's (I know, I bought one with 12 function and paid for it $69.95 {YUK!}), Stereo Units.

As a small child I remember party lines on the telephone. Now that was a trip. We also started to see A/C's put in Cars for most people. It was there earlier for those who could afford it, but it became more available to most people by the late 60's early 70's.

The British invasion was a culture change in the world of music. Woodstock changed the way we viewed concerts since that time. Especially the outdoor ones. And who could forget the antiwar songs of that period. I guess it was the first time that style of music talk against war.

The introduction of "The Pill" was early in my life. Not a popular one but one that made a drastic change in my life time.

Cheers B)

Hi all,

I go along with all the things from the 50s, onwards.

But some things things that stand out for me were,
the troubles starting in Northern Ireland, the troubles
ending in Northern Ireland, (I hope for ever).

The Beatles, that's when music came alive for me.

Who can't remember kissing a girl for the first time

Emmanuel.

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Originally posted by Emmanuel@Oct 10 2006, 12:36 PM

Who can't remember kissing a girl for the first time

Emmanuel.

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I do too, and it's been darn expensive ever since!!!!!

well as im a 1965 child i remember

hippies and the song puff the magic dragon
vietnam war
cyclone tracey hitting darwin
the floods of '74 in brisbane
radio grams with record players in them
platform shoes, flared pants
didnt see man walk on the moon as didnt have a tv
colour televison coming in
the space shuttles
the first mobile phone
phones where you had to dial not push buttons
buying a full bag of lollies for 20 cents
buying a redskin icecream for 5 cents
beta tapes

this is to name a few i do remember the first time i saw moving stairs and fell up them it was the first time in the big smoke when i did this and the big smoke was townsville north queensland.

smokey

From 1966 on I repeat everything except 8-tracks I'm not familiar with.

Besides I've experienced Soviet Union, Soviet states Estonia, Latvia and Georgia (Grusia), devided Germany, socialist Poland, country called Czechoslovakia, crossing borders from NATO to Warsawian Union, European countries with their own money, like Finnish markka.

Cars without seat belts in the back; when cycling helmets were unheard of; when sofas were not wearing a patch "this material is not match resistant"

Radio licence!

I remember 78 rpm records, open reel tape decks and hoola-hoops as well as tinker toys, erector sets and log cabin building blocks .
Cheers - Jay

Not to sound too cynicle but, some of the firsts I have seen since I can remember are:

The hijacking of passenger airplanes.
The use of passenger airplanes to destroy buildings for the sole purpose of killing innocent people for a VERY sick cause.
School shootings.
Home invasions.
Road rage.
Sniper killings on highways.
Roadside bombings.
Homicide bombers.
Drone Aircraft.
Humvee vehicle.
Abrams tanks.
Harrier Jet aircraft.
Stealth Bombers and Fighters.

Hmmmm......................definately not a very rosy picture.

I grew up in a family that owned several guns. I never thought of doing any of those things and never got into trouble with any of them either. My father took us out hunting, targetshooting many times. We learned how to handle guns correctly, from an early age.

Case in point about the home invasions. Just yesterday morning, in one of the two most wealthiest neighborhoods here in Corpus Christi, there was one that happened.

Kid gets sick at school about 9 am. Calls his mother to get him home. They get home and the kid goes to his room. The mother needed to get some meds from a store--goes-shops and comes back home. Well, while she was gone, some guy broke into their home, surprises her, ties her up and shoves her to the ground. The guy is armed with a large knife. Somehow the lady gets free and runs to where her teenaged son is and they lock the door. The lady was chased by the knife-weilding jerk who tried to stab her but, she was able to close the door to her son's room as he stabbed at her.

The son had managed to grab a pistol from his fathers room and was going to try to help out his mother. The burgler, tried breaking through the door to his room by stabbing the knife through it many times. The kid fired the pistol hitting the burgler--and killed him.

The Police arrived and it was deemed that that kid was justified in the use of deadly force. Today that kid is a hero--not only for saving his mother and self, but killing a violent intruder.

This kid is 14 years old and the son of a prominate Doctor.

As per the words from our Police Chief: "If an uninvited person enters ones home and uses a certain amount of force against you. You DO have the right to use the exact same amount of force to protect yourself." This means, if that person tries to harm or kill you, that you are covered by the law, to harm or kill that intruder.

This is why I keep a Walther P-38 9mm, loaded as well as an extra magazine loaded and within reach.

By the way, it turned out that this intruder that was killed, was a Hurricane Katrina "victim" and who was also given (GIVEN) a 2 bedroom house to live in as well as donated furniture and a donated car.

Gosh, Ringo, you sure know how to put a damper on things . . . <_< .

Off the top of my head, I can't remember anything right this second, but I might revisit this topic later with other thoughts.

As for the Mrs., one thing she remembers is our IBM Selectric typewriter - a real dinosaur by today's standards, but the cutting edge of technology when we got ours brand new (you could change the typing element to change font or type size - ooooh!). It cost as much as a computer does nowadays, and all it could do was type!

And I guess in our life time, there were first car phones, and then mobile phones (big giant clunkers) to today's real slim, computerized, camera, MP3 playing cell phones!

And how about computers?? Our kids ask the Mrs. what computer games she liked as a kid, and she tells them she didn't have a computer, and they stare in disbelief. The younger kids have never lived without a computer in the house.

Interesting topic!!

Chester

Hi all,

Smokey mentioned radiograms, I remember when
I was just about 5 years old, my mum and dad were
taking my sister, my brother and myself to see Father
Christmas in one of the large shops in the centre of
town, it had 5 or 6 floors. As we were making our way
towards the Santa house, we had to pass the sales
room in which were displayed over 20 of these marvellous
contraptions. For the younger ones reading this, a radiogram
is similar to your everyday Hi-Fi, only in a coffin size box.
The radio took up half of the box, and the record player took
up the other half, and they were build to last, that thing was
in our house right up to the mid 70s.

Anyway, it took my mum and dad over 2 hours to pick one,
we never got to see father Christmas until the next week,
there was no late night shopping in those days, and we had
to wait until my dad's next day off.

Emmanuel.

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Originally posted by chester7777@Oct 11 2006, 12:17 AM
Gosh, Ringo, you sure know how to put a damper on things . . . <_< .

Off the top of my head, I can't remember anything right this second, but I might revisit this topic later with other thoughts.

As for the Mrs., one thing she remembers is our IBM Selectric typewriter - a real dinosaur by today's standards, but the cutting edge of technology when we got ours brand new (you could change the typing element to change font or type size - ooooh!). It cost as much as a computer does nowadays, and all it could do was type!

And I guess in our life time, there were first car phones, and then mobile phones (big giant clunkers) to today's real slim, computerized, camera, MP3 playing cell phones!

And how about computers?? Our kids ask the Mrs. what computer games she liked as a kid, and she tells them she didn't have a computer, and they stare in disbelief. The younger kids have never lived without a computer in the house.

Interesting topic!!

Chester

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Sorry 'bout that Chester. Oh and an update about that intruder:

This intruder has spent well over 30 years of his 58 years living, in prison. Some of his rap sheet includes:

He started his criminal carreer sometime in the 1970's, going through the 80's and 90's between stints in prison. He was in trouble for Stealing cars, aggrevated sexual assault, aggrevated robbery with intent to kill, using drugs, spousel abuse, and other items. his criminal carreer last came to a stop when he was stopped from robbing some business and had intent to kill the employees of said business. The police arrived and had ordered him do drop his weapon (which he refused) and he was shot twice and unfortunately; survived. He was sentenced to I think about 40 years in prison for that one. Well, since the prisons are over crowded, this creep was released after serving about 6-7 years? He stopped using drugs and lived a fairly clean life from about 2000-to-sometime in 2005--when he got back into the illegal drug scene.

Nice guy?? NOT!!

Lego blocks Hot Wheels toy cars Mustang bikes with Banana seats J bars sissy bars and fat slick rear tire comics at a dime pop in bottles cola with a kick army surplus clothes and sports cards.

Has everyone here forgotten about the mullet?

I remember a hand-held calculator that did only the basic operations (+, -, x, division) cost $50+, and now you can pick them up at the dollar store for . . . that's right - $1! And for the same $50, you can buy a scientific calculator that does a myriad of things.

Anybody remember the slide rule? I owned one and used to know how to use one !

Speaking of computers, I remember the time when a computer took up a whole room, and probably had a small fraction of the capacity of today's PDA, never mind a simple desktop computer. I remember our first Packard Bell 'puter, back in '94 - it had a "huge" hard drive of 750 MB, and it cost us over $2K!

Mrs. C

Sue,
I knew how to use a slide rule as well!!

Just think, back in those days, being a Duke fan was hard,
if you missed the movie at the cinema, that was it.
No VHS/DVD, No multitude of TV companies,
showing constant repeats, that was it!

By the way, there is a slight reversal,
all collectable genres of music are now being released,
on yes good old Vinyl, with LP albums back in vogue.

CD's are not the same, clipped digital sound, and nowhere in the case
for a nice glossy book, poster and other merchandise.

However other reversals of technology,
could prove to be unbearable!

My wife and I still prefer old vinyl over CDs. She had a rather large collection of 45's and we both have albums from years past. We have an old console stereo that still works great and we'll pop some records on and take trips down memory lane. We've even been given a large collection of the old glass records and enjoy listening to them now and then. The hissing and ocasional snap-pop of the records only add to the fun of listening and remembering. My kids have grown up listening to them and a few actually want them when the Mrs. and I head off to the sunset.

Mark

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Anybody remember the slide rule? I owned one and used to know how to use one !Mrs. C

Sue - having physics as a minor in college, I certainly learned how to use a slide rule (AKA slip stick). Those dollar computers have made those items obsolete (computers are more accurate anyway since many times you could only get an approximation with a slide rule.).
Cheers - Jay