Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/14/03 06:00 AM
Candy cigarettes.
Toy guns that looked like real guns.
Toilets with pull chains.
The Partridge Family.
Playboy magazines had staples.
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/08/03 12:00 AM
TV dinners.
Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man.
TV antennas.
Leg warmers.
The Simpsons were just cartoon shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show.
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/07/03 06:00 AM
Computers used to be marketed as "IBM Compatible".
Clocks and watches that had to be wound.
Big block V8s.
Metal lunch boxes.
Dot-matrix printers.
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/06/03 06:00 AM
Refillable deposit bottles.
Hand cranked ice cream makers.
Member's Only jackets.
Howard the Duck.
Michael Jackson before plastic surgury.
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/03/03 06:00 AM
Walking to school.
Radio Shack gave away free batteries.
Friends used to come over to the house to play Pong.
Making your kids ride in the "wayback" wasn't considered child abuse.
There were four ratings for movies (G, PG, R, X) instead of just the one (PG-13).
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/02/03 06:00 AM
Cars only had two brake lights.
Hair conditioner came in a separate bottle.
Pennies were pure copper.
All stamps had to be licked, and mailing a letter only cost 13 cents.
TV spots advertised new albums on 8-track, LP, and cassette (and MTV actually played music videos).
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 10/01/03 06:00 AM
Televisions were pieces of furniture that sat on the floor. They also had knobs and only got 3 to 5 stations.
Typewriters.
Calculators only knew how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and they wouldn't fit in your pocket. They were leaps and bounds better than slide rules.
There was no age limit for cigarettes.
Betamax.
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 09/30/03 06:00 AM
Trading cards used to come with gum.
Popcorn poppers were a home appliance.
Station wagons.
Telephones were all shaped the same, and were owned by ma' bell.
Reel to reel tape decks.
Five things I remember that make me feel old
Ravenwood - 09/29/03 06:00 AM
Toothpaste that came in metal tubes and had a twist off cap.
Professional Football's Baltimore Colts and St. Louis Cardinals.
Carburetors.
Analog cell phones.
"Disk" film cameras.
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