"Do YOU Remember ?"

Crybaby wrote:Louisiana was the last state to change its drinking age to 21 -- and that was only because the Feds were going to withhold federal highway funds.  It's still kind of a joke as you can get INTO a bar at 18 but you can't drink until 21.  Well, you know others in the bar buy drinks for the ones under 21.  We also STILL have drive-thru frozen daiquiri places.  You can't get cited for drinking in the car if the top is still attached to the to-go cup you're given containing the daiquiri.

When I was young, you could drive at 15, too (now it's 16).  When I was in sixth grade, there was this guy Ronald who was 15 and still in the sixth grade.  He used to drive to school!  No lie!  That was in the days where they didn't call on the really dumb people or those with a speech impediment.  Shameful.  But Ronald was a big wheel of sorts, I guess, because of that driver's license...

bethk wrote:I'd buy Meranda a bus token....ah, I know it's not her fault, but some kids attract trouble as if they are a magnet.  

NormM wrote:I remember at 12 pm, some guy sang the Lord's Prayer and TV shut down for the night.  Came back on in the morning but before that, there was just the test pattern.   I remember watching the Mickey Mouse club before Annette joined, then every boy fell in love with her.  I remember Soapy Sales but not Rex Trailer.  Andy Devine had a kids show with Froggie who was kind of scary.

I remember when the TV stations had to broadcast their station FCC call sign. Then they played the National Anthem before signing off for the night.

Andy Divine was my favorite. Loved his raspy distinguished voice. Froggie too, and the black cat that played the fiddle.

Saturday was morning cartoons till about 10 30, and mom let us alone to watch....but as soon as they were ended....it was,"OK Boys...time for work!" Get outside Jimmy..."I want that Garage cleaned out, and all those old cans of paint and tires, take them down to the river in your wagon, and dump them in the river!"

Yep, and no one cared about the environment back then.  

NormM wrote:I remember at 12 pm, some guy sang the Lord's Prayer and TV shut down for the night.  Came back on in the morning but before that, there was just the test pattern.   I remember watching the Mickey Mouse club before Annette joined, then every boy fell in love with her.  I remember Soapy Sales but not Rex Trailer.  Andy Devine had a kids show with Froggie who was kind of scary.

NormM wrote:WDAF was the only station we could get at first and I remember they played the Lord's Prayer at the end of the day.

Bugster2 wrote:I went to 9 different schools from kindergarten to 12 grade and I think I missed half of my school days due to illness. My education was really bad. I went to some Catholic schools and had to wear uniforms. Public schools never allowed us to wear pants or jeans to school until my last 2 years of high school. Even then I never wore them because I could never find them small enough to fit. I liked wearing uniforms because I never had to think about what I was going to wear. My sister married a Jewish man and they raised their kids as Jews. They went to Jewish schools that were very conservative. The girls had to wear skirts that came down to mid-calf and the boys were separated from the girls.

My DH and I only watch TCM but don't do much of that any more because we have seen most of what they air. I own about 2500 classic films myself. The biggest thing we have noticed between the classics and modern films is that with modern films, you only want to see them once. Many classic films I can and do watch over and over.

When our TV went off the air at night, the station always ended with a poem (Longfellow?) that starts off like "Oh, I have slipped the surly bounds of earth and captured the skies on -----wings" or something like that. Then the test pattern with that infernal ringing sound.

After school we would watch Sea Hunt and then the Early Show movies if we weren't outside playing. Saturdays were War Zone, Chiller, Strange Tales of Science Fiction, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone. I recall watching The Millionaire, Bachelor Father, December Bride, I Married Joan, Mr. Ed, The Real McCoys, The Loretta Young Show. We loved Dragnet, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The FBI, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Monkeys. Then there were the music shows: Hullabaloo, Shindig, Soul Train. I couldn't stand Get Smart, Laugh-In, Batman.