Who remembers?

[cellboy]

Just a thought.
How many readers and local Bay Area readers, that are old enough (or young enough) to remember these things:
- Milkmen delivering milk to your home
- Going to the hardware with a bag of TV tubes, to test and replace as needed.
- Having your TV repaired, at home, by your friendly TV repair man. Note: Our TV lived for over 15 yrs until the picture tube really hit bottom.
- Going on the roof to adjust the TV antenna. And if you were lucky you received 40 stations.
- Taking your small appliances to a repair shop to repair, instead of just throwing out and replacing. I think we were less of a disposable society then.
- We wore cotton. No synthetics, or very little. Guess we thought green then too.
- The front door of your home, was rarely locked

- Seat belts? What's that? And metal dashboards?
- The small front car window that cranked open to let the smoke out
-Gas 25 cents per gallon?
- No McDonald's. Just real coffee shops.
- Candlestick Park - When the Beatles played there
- Beanie & Cecile
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Sky King & and his daughter Penny
- The Gale Storm Show
- Rin Tin Tin
- Donna Reed
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- Leave it to Beaver. I had a crush on Wally.
- Elvis Presley's first movie. I went with my sister
- You could bring your own food into the movie theater.
- Drive-ins. Not many left
- Marilyn Monroe dying
- Pres Kennedy assassinated
- Vietnam
- First Landing on the Moon
- Walter Cronkite
- Sniffing Pam Spray (through a toilet paper cardboard roll, stuffed with Kleenex. Get very high. I did not do it but my friends did.
- A lid of pot was $25 sometimes less.
- Smoking pot with your ceramic teacher (during class). Hey this was Palo Alto.
- Strict parents. Yes I got spanked. And no, I did not sue them over it
- Mad Magazine.
- Led Zeppelin
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Janis Joplin
- Fillmore West
- Winterland
- Woodstock
- The City of Paris Dept Store in SF
- Blums - SF' s best ice cream ever
- Six Flags Marine World (the original in Redwood Shores (Redwood City) - Now site of Oracle
- Frontier Village in San Jose
- Masturbating repeatedly, and cuming for days. That woke you up!
- The Winchester Mystery House, when it was only $1 to get in. And it was shabby then
- The Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) covered in a carpet of flowers, and blooming orchards. This also applied for much of Orange County
- No interstate 280. And a very narrow hwy 101
- No large hwy 80 to Lake Tahoe. Just a 2 lane road. Then, todays four hour trip took 6-8 hrs, depending on weather
- Highest building in SF was 40 stories. Until the Bank of America was constructed in the 70's
- The old Dumbarton Bridge. They filmed Harold and Maude there.
eep! Is that how old I am!! Damn!

I remember this and much more. All memories in my frame of time and space

Comments

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

Gas? 29.9. But, that was up at that one gas station over the border in Wisconsin. Otherwise, it was 32.9.

And, television channels? 40!?! Try 5. Channels 2, 4, 5, 9 and 11. And, our TVs did channels 2 through 13, with that "mystery channel" "UHF". No UHF tuner mind you. Just the placeholder. (WBKB-TV Channel 4 moved to Channel 7 and became WLS-TV. )

And, at night, the TV stations went off the air after playing the National Anthem?

Or, the Nixon-Kennedy debates?

First Landing on the Moon? Try the X-15 and the Mercury flights!

How 'bout when you wanted to see the sights and went to the Prudential Building in Chicago at 41 floors!

[cellboy.livejournal.com]

I forgot about UHF and VHF. Thanks.
I should of remembered the X-15.
And speaking of space, there used to be some really weird children's show, one space, and one where the spaceship/car went underwater. Maybe one in the same show. The characters were string puppets. Was pretty bad.

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

Was pretty bad.

Bad!?! Those were science fiction classics!!! Depending on the year, that could have been Supercar, Fireball XL-5, Stingray or Thunderbirds. (Fireball XL-5 depicted in the userpic.)

And, before the cartoons came on, you'd have to wait through "Five Minutes to Live By", "The Big Picture" and "The Farm Report".

[cellboy.livejournal.com]

I remember Supercar (I Googled it, but nothing found). Ahh. Fireball XL-5 was my favorite. I should of remembered that. But then again my memory is going with age :)

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

Try searching for "supercar anderson" instead. It'll bring up a bunch if you put it in context.

By the way, I have the Fireball XL-5 theme as an mp3.

I wish I was a space man.
The fastest guy alive.
I'd fly you round the universe,
In Fireball XL-5.
Way out in space together,
Compass of the sky,
My heart would be a fireball,
A fireball,
Everytime I gazed into your starry eyes.

We'd take the path to Jupiter,
And maybe very soon.
We'd cruise along the Milky Way,
And land upon the moon.
To our wonderland of stardust,
We'll zoom our way to Mars,
My heart would be a fireball,
A fireball,
If you would be my Venus of the stars.

[cellboy.livejournal.com]

Wow! Now the theme I truly don't remember. Thanks!