Blast from the past! Remember when..

[applepansy]

I saved for one of these so I could listen while I walked. I used it for years.

[slamjet]

Lmbo!

Fine, Slam, lemme in on it.

When Burger King started letting people have it there way, Mcdonalds was still pre-making their burgers, lettuce and all, and sliding them under a warmer. So you would order a Big Mac and they would grab one of 6 or 8 already made, ready to go, and the lettuce nice and warm and wilted. To try to compete, they did this "warm on one side, cool on the other" contraption of an oven where the meet part was in the warmer, and the lettuce and tomato part was not:

(can't find a picture of the warmer, sorry)

Literally, the veggie part was out there with only the meat part in the warmer. Well, that didn't last long at all. That's when they started to change things to keep up. Now the meat and eggs and such are kept warm in steam trays, waiting to be assembled.

Edited August 27, 2012 by slamjet

[slamjet]

I remember paying this when I first started driving:

[Vort]

When Burger King started letting people have it there way, Mcdonalds was still pre-making their burgers, lettuce and all, and sliding them under a warmer. So you would order a Big Mac and they would grab one of 6 or 8 already made, ready to go, and the lettuce nice and warm and wilted. To try to compete, they did this "warm on one side, cool on the other" contraption of an oven where the meet part was in the warmer, and the lettuce and tomato part was not:

(can't find a picture of the warmer, sorry)

Literally, the veggie part was out there with only the meat part in the warmer. Well, that didn't last long at all. That's when they started to change things to keep up. Now the meat and eggs and such are kept warm in steam trays, waiting to be assembled.

The McDLT was, quite simply, the best sandwich McDonald's ever made. It was not merely edible; it actually tasted good.

[bcguy]

1969. It was a nice warm july down in portland. I was very little and buged my mom and dad if I can used the new "cordless" tv remote control. It was big it was clunly with three big buttons sticking above it. It did not use batteries. Instead, it used air bellows technoligy that emited a ultra sound to the tv that had only 4 mabey 5 active tv stations.

I asked dad to turn it on and both parents said ookay. they sat down, turned on the tv and the next thing we saw, was the Apollo LEM "eagle one" lander on the moon with Neil Armstrong stepping on the surface of the moon. He made the famous statment "One small leap for man....one giant leap for mankind." After the news concluded dad yelled "THEY DID IT" and pointed up to the celing! then said WOW.

Ohh we did not have cell, computers, CB, back then. It was either FM,AM or TV with four channels :)

[bcguy]

I think the cigs in the sleaves was 1950s or 1960s?

[bcguy]

ohh yea, the 45 lp record. fun to see those and regyular records. I remember the Reel to Reel tap at some homes. Then the eight track tape. Then the casete then the CD for playing music.

I remember in gradeschool we had a projector that was reel to reel and if you were assigned to run it, you were considered special. Ohh, I was the only one to sneek cherios in a small bag in my desk to much on when the teachers back was to me

Youngsters...

[slamjet]

Ohh, I was the only one to sneek cherios in a small bag in my desk to much on when the teachers back was to me

You evil child

[pam]

ohh yea, the 45 lp record. fun to see those and regyular records. I remember the Reel to Reel tap at some homes. Then the eight track tape. Then the casete then the CD for playing music.

I remember in gradeschool we had a projector that was reel to reel and if you were assigned to run it, you were considered special. Ohh, I was the only one to sneek cherios in a small bag in my desk to much on when the teachers back was to me

I also remember spelling, spelling tests and spelling bees.

[Guest]

I remember the day John Lennon died.

And watching E.T. at the theater.

[Vort]

I remember watching Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin dance around on the moon, and thinking how much I wouldn't like to be Michael Collins. I was six.

[Guest]

I remember paying this when I first started driving:

This was the price of gas in Georgia in 1994.

[Guest]

Remember when

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[Vort]

Remember when

was

...not the slightest clue...

[Guest]

And I remember this guy -

I can't believe he just celebrated his 63rd bday...

[Iggy]

He made the famous statment "One small leap for man....one giant leap for mankind."

Actually the correct quote is: One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind.

One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind Sound Clip , Quote, MP3, and Ringtone - Hark

[Vort]

Actually the correct quote is: One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind.

One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind Sound Clip , Quote, MP3, and Ringtone - Hark

According to Armstrong, and supposedly verified by NASA based on minute examination of the audio record, he said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

[Iggy]

According to Armstrong, and supposedly verified by NASA based on minute examination of the audio record, he said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Where is your link to prove your statement? I provided an audio link.

[Vort]

Where is your link to prove your statement? I provided an audio link.

One small step for man, or a man? Armstrong said his famous words from the moon were misquoted - The Washington Post

[Bini]

One small step for man, or a man? Armstrong said his famous words from the moon were misquoted - The Washington Post

★☆

I just saw this on TMZ! Yes, not the most worthy sources for accurate information but.. Yes, apparently "a" was misquoted. Wow, how many decades has it been, eh?

[beefche]

Armstrong admitted that even he had a difficult time hearing "a" in the audio recording of it.

[Wingnut]

And watching E.T. at the theater.

I saw E.T. in the theater, though I don't remember it. I was less than two years old, and my grandma took me to see it (against my mother's express instructions). It scarred me for life. No joke. The last time I watched it, I was 18 or 19, and my then-boyfriend decided that I was big enough to get over my fear of it (and it had been several years since I'd tried watching it, so though I did protest at first, I thought it was possible he might be right, though I seriously doubted it). It did not bode well for him. I cried through the whole movie, terrified.

[Guest]

I'm not laughing off your fear, Wing! It's probably something serious for you. I hit the laugh button because I was teased for a long time for being so scared when ET popped his head up when Drew Barrymore entered the room that I fell off the theater chair!

[pam]

I actually can understand fear of something after seeing a movie. I saw the movie Jaws when it came out in 1975 when I was attending Ricks College. The opening scene with the couple going out to swim and the girl swimming out to the buoy seemed like something that really could happen.

To this day, I won't go out into the water at a beach more than about thigh high. And this is coming from a girl that lived close to a beach and used to go body surfing all the time as a teenager.

[Misshalfway]

I remember when we got our first microwave. I was 8. We made hot chocolate and thought we were living like Star Trek.

I remember those first early Mac computers and those floppy disks we used to use. I got a C in my computer science class cuz most of it was over my head.

And I remember when my hair looked exactly like those pictures of DuranDuran.

I also remember when everybody in my grade had a pillow case with Shawn Cassidy's face on it. Everybody but me. I thought he was weird looking.