Remembering The Past

[AzScorpion]

How about Saturday morning cartoons!

I'll never forget when we got cable tv and these guys were on. Always been been favorite since then.

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[Grumpaw]

Holy cow at the rolls of quarters I fed into those things!
We'd go to all the local convenience stores (that's where most of them were in my county) to play...for hours on end.

Quarters ??????? We used nickels !!!

 

[AzScorpion]

Quarters ??????? We used nickels !!!

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[Grumpaw]

How about Saturday morning cartoons!

For me, back then, there weren't that many cartoons....you saw those when you went to the movies on Saturday. TV was black and white, and the only cartoon I can remember on tv was Felix The Cat, in B&W.
I think the first color tv show I saw were some of the early Mickey Mouse Shows. It was fun growing up with Annette, watching her "grow up" and get boob's.

 

[ROBERTECOX]

no air conditioners but we had a big swamp cooler mounted in a window at one end of the house, opened a window at the other end. decidedly low tech but it was effective.

 

[Rhino]

man a lot of this is what i see on the history channel when they dig it up ?

 

[AzScorpion]

no air conditioners but we had a big swamp cooler mounted in a window at one end of the house, opened a window at the other end. decidedly low tech but it was effective.

With the low humidity here they work really good and they still have those in some of the older homes. My friend has a large portable one he uses outside on the patio. We were having dinner one night and it was 106 and I was cold.

 

[ROBERTECOX]

You could find a lot barracks that had them at Ft. Huachuca back in the day.

 

[AzScorpion]

man a lot of this is what i see on the history channel when they dig it up ?

One thing I can say is it did make you tougher and you had to think for yourself back then. There was no internet to look things up when you got into a bind working on your car. We used paper maps to travel and you'd better have a really good wingman if you were going long distance. No remote control was one of the worst. My dad would say "boy, go change the channel" us kids were the remote. ?

 

[Fordup]

I still have my Woody Woodpecker hat and letter from Soupy Sales thanking me for the dollar I stole from my mom's pocketbook and sent him. Our tv had aluminium foil wrapped around the antennae wire for fine tuning and when it stopped working my dad would pull out all the tubes and take them to Big Ben to test them and replace the fried one. Those were the days.

 

[Rhino]

One thing I can say is it did make you tougher and you had to think for yourself back then. There was no internet to look things up when you got into a bind working on your car. We used paper maps to travel and you'd better have a really good wingman if you were going long distance. No remote control was one of the worst. My dad would say "boy, go change the channel" us kids were the remote. ?

sounds more of a pain then anything tbh haha the only thing id want is to be able to go back and be able to buy houses when most could afford them a lot easier now days its hard for people my age

 

[AzScorpion]

sounds more of a pain then anything tbh haha the only thing id want is to be able to go back and be able to buy houses when most could afford them a lot easier now days its hard for people my age

I guess it only seems like a pain now because back then we didn't know any better. But even now there are times I'd give anything to go back to a much more simple way of life. Sometimes I think all this tech has made things worse and people much more lazy.

I do agree on the housing. My parents bought their house in 1963 for $16,000. It wasn't big I think it was 1,200 sq ft but it was in a nice town which was very safe and had a great school system.

 

[Grumpaw]

sounds more of a pain then anything tbh haha the only thing id want is to be able to go back and be able to buy houses when most could afford them a lot easier now days its hard for people my age

Bought my first home in 1970. Brand new 3 bed/2 bath with patio and car-port. New sub-division in northern part of Dade Co, Fl........$17,500.00.....less than half of what my Ranger cost.
Its since been bought up and bulldozed as property got too valuable for what was on it....but back then it was considered "the sticks".

 

[Fordup]

My dad paid 7k for our first house. I think he only Made about $40 a week take home with overtime.

 

[AzScorpion]

Bought my first home in 1970. Brand new 3 bed/2 bath with patio and car-port. New sub-division in northern part of Dade Co, Fl........$17,500.00.....less than half of what my Ranger cost.
Its since been bought up and bulldozed as property got too valuable for what was on it....but back then it was considered "the sticks".

Our old house just sold earlier this year for $465K! Granted there's been a lot of work done to it since my parents sold it 20 years ago but man, things are expensive now.

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