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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited January 2017
    you had to leave your comfortable seat and walk or maybe crawl on your knees all the way to your tv just because you wanted to switch channel or maybe turn up the volume..
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    You had to memorize phone numbers or use the phone book.
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Annafalk said:

    you had to leave your comfortable seat and walk or maybe crawl on your knees all the way to your tv just because you wanted to switch channel or maybe turn up the volume..

    My dad was too lazy for all of that. If my mom was taking a bath, he would continue to yell for me to change the channel. My bedroom was upstairs. Across the top of the house. Much of the time he would wake me out of a deep sleep. :angry:
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    deadendp said:

    Annafalk said:

    you had to leave your comfortable seat and walk or maybe crawl on your knees all the way to your tv just because you wanted to switch channel or maybe turn up the volume..

    My dad was too lazy for all of that. If my mom was taking a bath, he would continue to yell for me to change the channel. My bedroom was upstairs. Across the top of the house. Much of the time he would wake me out of a deep sleep. :angry:
    :open_mouth::open_mouth:
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    HesCalledDyer said:

    InHiding80 said:

    There were voice overs for movie trailers not just at the theaters but on pay channels like HBO and Showtime? That needs to be brought back IN A WORLD that doesn't have it anymore. RIP Don LaFontaine.

    You should check out Honest Trailers on Youtube. Freakin' hilarious!!
    I subscribe to it on YouTube and you're right.
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    rssesq said:

    rap music was pretty good, about 25 years ago

    The millennial whoop and autotune ruined it.
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    before pagers and cell phones, when you and your friends arranged to meet up for a show or dinner or movie...they would actually show up.
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    dankind said:

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    This as far as I got through this thread before I had to reply. CRACK ME UP.

    Remember when we used to say crack me up instead of LOL.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    PureandEasy said:

    dankind said:

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    This as far as I got through this thread before I had to reply. CRACK ME UP.

    Remember when we used to say crack me up instead of LOL.
    The Bic pens worked better than anything rewinding the 90 minute tapes.

    Man... I could just get that tape spinning like mad. Tight circles not big loopy ones. You had to find a rhythm.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    This! And Herbal Essences. And Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.

    70's shampoos (and ads) rocked. Tried them all, too.




  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited January 2017
    hedonist said:

    This! And Herbal Essences. And Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.

    70's shampoos (and ads) rocked. Tried them all, too.




    Remember the old Nair commercial? Who wears short shorts?? Lmbo!

    When we were kids, my sister and I, thought we'd invented shampoo and conditioner in one.. Then we saw a commercial for Pert.. we were heartbroken... :rofl:
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Remember when
    Commercials used to tell you to ask your parents for
    Things? Or to have them call to order whatever they were selling?
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Rene when television shows were "sponsored"?
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Remember the dead screen time watching late night movies? No ad was sold so for 2-3 minutes... a landscape would be on the screen with the perfect music to put you to sleep.

    Many Planet of the Apes movies were half watched as a result.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Oh man, Tree, I remember the Nair commercials.

    TV in general used to be such a different landscape. Few shows could touch the un-PCness of All in the Family. Bless Norman Lear!
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited January 2017
    Yeah. TV was also used to indoctrinate family values, and dealing with tough circumstances... After School Specials.. etc..
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    Remember the dead screen time watching late night movies? No ad was sold so for 2-3 minutes... a landscape would be on the screen with the perfect music to put you to sleep.

    Many Planet of the Apes movies were half watched as a result.

    Remember when TV reception cut off at 12am? And you'd get the national anthem
    Before the screen was just color bars?
    ( this concludes our scheduled broadcast day, thank you and good night America!) anyone remember which channel closed their broadcast day with this statement?
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    whispering hands said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    Remember the dead screen time watching late night movies? No ad was sold so for 2-3 minutes... a landscape would be on the screen with the perfect music to put you to sleep.

    Many Planet of the Apes movies were half watched as a result.

    Remember when TV reception cut off at 12am? And you'd get the national anthem
    Before the screen was just color bars?
    ( this concludes our scheduled broadcast day, thank you and good night America!) anyone remember which channel closed their broadcast day with this statement?
    Nope, but I do remember it.
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • RunIntoTheRain
    RunIntoTheRain Texas Posts: 1,033
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    PureandEasy said:

    dankind said:

    image

    This as far as I got through this thread before I had to reply. CRACK ME UP.

    Remember when we used to say crack me up instead of LOL.
    The Bic pens worked better than anything rewinding the 90 minute tapes.

    Man... I could just get that tape spinning like mad. Tight circles not big loopy ones. You had to find a rhythm.
    Oh boy did this bring back memories!
  • RunIntoTheRain
    RunIntoTheRain Texas Posts: 1,033
    I still remember where the fade out break is to change tracks mid-song (8 track tapes) on some songs. I'm looking at you Pink Floyd and Supertramp.

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