Things of The Past!

[Jamie123]

I remember movies being free at the base in Kodiak, Alaska. Popcorn was .10 a bag

Cinemas were totally different in the old days. You just paid to get in and could watch the movie over and over all day if you wanted to - so it didn't much matter if you missed the start - you could catch it again next time around. (I remember doing that with The Land that Time Forgot!)

Also, you got 2 movies in those days - the A movie and the B movie. And usually a Bugs Bunny or a Daffy Duck too.

[Hemidakota]

Yes...I clearly remember "Swiss Family Robinson" where I stayed and watch it twice. Man...that was so cool.

The flat rectangle cherry sticks were the old Jolly Ranchers. They cost around a nickle.

[Guest]

Voltes V

Star Rangers

Pacman

Galaxian

Remington Steele

Shaolin Temple

KungFu Shoes

Chinese Garter

"Takyan"

Duran Duran

Rick Springfield

Boom Box complete with cassette tape player and manually set equalizer

Tights and Leg warmers tucked into pink Converse high tops

"Big" hair

VHF radio (walkie-talkies - our equivalent to cellphones)

You probably won't recognize these... they were from my Filipino childhood.

[pam]

Tang

[pam]

Paint by numbers on black velvet

[marshac]

Laser disk movies

[Traveler]

Cinemas were totally different in the old days. You just paid to get in and could watch the movie over and over all day if you wanted to - so it didn't much matter if you missed the start - you could catch it again next time around. (I remember doing that with The Land that Time Forgot!)

Also, you got 2 movies in those days - the A movie and the B movie. And usually a Bugs Bunny or a Daffy Duck too.

This is interesting – I remember while serving in the army that many soldiers would go to whatever the base movie was to see a Road Runner cartoon. When the cartoon was over ¼ of the theater would up and leave.

The Traveler

[Boris_natasha]

Slang expressions: see you later alligator, after awhile crocodile; peachy keen jellybean; how now brown cow; solid; keep on truckin'.

[pam]

Now I still say peachy keeno

[pam]

I should quit posting. People are going to start thinking I'm really as old as BenRaines and Palerider make me out to be. :)

[Traveler]

Or matchbox car for .23 cents. A movie for a dime (Air Force Base).

I remember when admission at the Varsity Theater (BYU) was $.10

This also reminded me of drive in theaters. We use to get a paying couple to drive in acting very interested in each other with bodies hiding where-ever a place could be found in the car.

The Traveler

[Boris_natasha]

Popular, yet questionable characters: Amos and Andy, Steppin Fetchit, Hop Sing, Speedy Gonzalez, "cowboys and indians.

[pam]

Mandatory bedtime at 8:00. Wow haven't see that in years. But my parents were very strict about it for the longest time.

[Boris_natasha]

Now I still say peachy keeno

my family often says "golly gosh wow!" You don't hear much of that either. LOL!

[pam]

I'm not sure I've ever heard that one. :)

[Boris_natasha]

"Good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy", "Slime in the ice machine", "Texas has a wh---house in it", "It's hell to grow old". All said by the same Texas legend, and repeated often in Houston, pre-1995.

[Moksha]

Deseret Alphabet

I think you can still find this in use during the Librarians annual Christmas party at BYU.

Hope this helps.

[miztrniceguy]

I currently have Tang in our cupboard.

I remember going to the school office to run off copies om the mimeograph...with the drum and the carbon paper and the handle you had to turn cuz it wasn't electric.

And the little white handheld football game with the red dots for players.

[miztrniceguy]

How many remember that you could only get a phone from the phone company? In Calif it was the GTE Phonemart, and you paid about $6 a month for the phone, added to your phone bill.

[pam]

Must have depended on where you lived in California. In San Diego, they had Pacific Telephone and had little branch stores.

[pam]

What about actually having to keep your own score when bowling instead of the electronic boards most bowling alleys have?

Or sports events where they had the flip thingys for the scoreboard?

[miztrniceguy]

Yes Pam, it did depend on where you live for phone service...but you still rented the phone.

[dazed-and-confused]

test patterns on TV

farmer brown cartoons (they were silent cartoons)

ed sullivan

news on TV reported by reporters instead of "news personalities"

news on tv that was actually news instead of mindless banter between news personalities

the american dream

segregation ( a bad one)

school desks with ink wells

[Traveler]

... "Texas has a wh---house in it", ...

Some years ago Mary Kay built an automated factory and warehouse in Texas where I did some consulting. Everything was painted pink. We call the place the best little warehouse in Texas.

The Traveler

[the Ogre]

I currently have Tang in our cupboard.

I remember going to the school office to run off copies om the mimeograph...with the drum and the carbon paper and the handle you had to turn cuz it wasn't electric.

And the little white handheld football game with the red dots for players.

A couple of weeks ago, the YM borrowed the old buzzing football game from the bishop and had a play off night. It was loads of fun, but the guys were dumbfounded that people actually liked it before.