Blast from the past! Remember when..

[seeking_peace]

I loved my 8-track player.

[slamjet]

[Wingnut]

Bini, You do NOT remember when cigarette ads were aired on TV. They banned that whe I was a child in the 60's.

Something must have changed then, because I distinctly remember Camel commercials when I was growing up, and I was born in 1980.

[Wingnut]

[Dravin]

Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[pam]

Bini, You do NOT remember when cigarette ads were aired on TV. They banned that whe I was a child in the 60's.

Bini also didn't say she remembered then. She asked if anyone remembered them.

[beefche]

Something must have changed then, because I distinctly remember Camel commercials when I was growing up, and I was born in 1980.

Maybe you are remembering the reports of the advertising? I remember sometime around that time that Camel was coming under fire for targeting kids with the Camel cartoon. There were alot of 20/20 type reports around that time.

[pam]

Cigarette ads on tv were banned effective Jan 2, 1971. The last cigarette commercial was aired by Virginia Slims at 11:59 pm on January 1st of that year.

[beefche]

I meant the magazine cartoon advertisements. I don't even remember seeing TV ads for cigs.

[seeking_peace]

Thanks, Dravin. I was wrong. It wasn't the 60's. It was January 1971. I was off by at least two years.

[pam]

You all must be MUCH older than I am. I don't remember any of these things.

[applepansy]

They still have these...but they come with sound now. LOL

[applepansy]

I remember wearing rollers to bed because it was too late to sit up under the hair dryer.

I also remember when black and white TVs were the only choice and TV stations went off the air after the news was over.. My baby sister dropped a closed diaper pin down the back of our B&W TV and shorted something out. Mom refused to get it fixed. Instead she paid us $1 for every book we read.

[slamjet]

:o:o AAAAARRRRRGGG, NOOOOOOO!!!! GRANDMA SCARY!!!!!!

[applepansy]

:o:o AAAAARRRRRGGG, NOOOOOOO!!!! GRANDMA SCARY!!!!!!

Very scary and very NOISY

[applepansy]

https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkFmffROjIEebCESKKjfu44de9dHPtSPCj4H1R3kkTrFvj-v_EwA

I had one of these too.

https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVunBxIidCy_aFYhm4zf4u-1OCIS0Mudoqas_LMCNTHSL5YPSm8g

And we listened to music on one of these if we were not in the house or car. Sometimes you had to make sure it was in the correct position to receive the signal from the radio station.

[volgadon]

This is one of those threads where people wouldgive me blank stares were I to ask do you remember...

[prisonchaplain]

I remember my sophomore year in college, when our first computer lab opened, and we were introduced to Appleworks--a word processing program. I thought heaven had opened that day!

[prisonchaplain]

Of course, prior to Apple Works there was my old reliable . . .

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4520810270033173&id=86b0ad39a91c4a9fcb6396e58cab65a0

[Guest]

You all must be MUCH older than I am. I don't remember any of these things.

Alzheimer's?

[Iggy]

anne, did you actually wear one of these? I did, in grade school. My saddle shoes weren't white though- those are the modern ones. They were tan and brown.

Prisonchaplian, I used the IBM too, but liked the Olivetti better.

Edited August 25, 2012 by Iggy

[Guest]

Lotus 1-2-3. Enough said.

[Wingnut]

Alzheimer's?

Not a good joke for Pam.

[Wingnut]

xkcd: Forget

[Bini]

Sorry for confusion. Yes, I was referring that I remembered the cigarette commercials. My husband said that I probably recall seeing them on billboards and or in magazines but I swear that I remember seeing them ON TV. That said, it could have been that these cigarette ads were shown on television in other countries.. I spent my childhood overseas.

Remember when POGS were big? Remember slap-on bracelets?