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OT: Once Upon A Time or Do You Remember When?

and one said:
Aw man, how could I forget WOR?

Someone earlier in this intermatable thread mentioned as an old timey thing having to physically change channels and adjust volume. I don't remember when remotes became a thing, and I must have walked to the TV to do whatever a million times, but for the life of me I have a hard time remembering actually doing it. I guess like pain you remember the concept better than the actual experience. How did we put up with it? Or go without AC, car and home. I was in high school before living in an apartment that had a few window units. Prior to that going to the movies was about the only way to get into AC.
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WOR was the Mets and WPIX was the Yankees. Do you remember when some movie theaters were " air-cooled" not "air-conditioned"? Fans instead of air conditioning.
 
JordyG said:
The channel you've forgotten was channel 5, which Merv Griffin ultimately dominated and took over.
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Which beer was advertised on the Yankee games on Channel 11 and which beer was advertised on Channel 9 for the Mets games? We changed the first few lines of the opening Mets jingle to- "Meet the Mets, Greet the Mets, Step right up and beat the Mets." Casey Stengel and who was on first?
 
BBallF said:
WOR was the Mets and WPIX was the Yankees. Do you remember when some movie theaters were " air-cooled" not "air-conditioned"? Fans instead of air conditioning.
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and one said:
Aw man, how could I forget WOR?

Someone earlier in this intermatable thread mentioned as an old timey thing having to physically change channels and adjust volume. I don't remember when remotes became a thing, and I must have walked to the TV to do whatever a million times, but for the life of me I have a hard time remembering actually doing it. I guess like pain you remember the concept better than the actual experience. How did we put up with it? Or go without AC, car and home. I was in high school before living in an apartment that had a few window units. Prior to that going to the movies was about the only way to get into AC.
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You always had a TV guide or TV section from the Sunday paper by where you sat because you had to stand to channel surf! The only surfing we knew about was what they were singing about in California.
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One final thing. When we flipped baseball cards, if you got a "topsie" I think you got to keep the card under but if you got a "leaner" what did you get?
 
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veryolddog said:
Does anyone remember "Secret Decoder Rings"? I had one or two but I cannot remember for what. But when I decoded the the secret it was a let down as it was an advertisement for a product.
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Yes. I remember a secret decoder for Ovaltine. They did a take off on it in the movie "Christmas Story". The secret message was usually about drinking Ovaltine or watching the show.
 
BBallF said:
Yes. I remember a secret decoder for Ovaltine. They did a take off on it in the movie "Christmas Story". The secret message was usually about drinking Ovaltine or watching the show.
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Jean Shepherd, the man behind "Christmas Story" had a nightly show on WOR, including a Saturday night show from the Limelight. He was among the great storytellers and I must have caught hundreds of his broadcasts.
 
Husky fanatic said:
Champion,Trigger, and Topper were their horses
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When we decided to buy horses, I just had to get a Palomino with a white Blaze. Mission accomplished. Unfortunately, she passed 4 years ago last week.
 
Something that I remember about my Grandmothers and their Sisters - they always wore dresses, never saw any other type of clothing on any of them. No pant suits, skirts with blouses, etc. In the summer, they wouldn't also be wearing a sweater, but most every other season, in MA, a sweater was around their shoulders.
 
BBallF said:
Which beer was advertised on the Yankee games on Channel 11 and which beer was advertised on Channel 9 for the Mets games? We changed the first few lines of the opening Mets jingle to- "Meet the Mets, Greet the Mets, Step right up and beat the Mets." Casey Stengel and who was on first?
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Budweiser and Schaefer right? Kranepool?
 
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BBallF said:
One final thing. When we flipped baseball cards, if you got a "topsie" I think you got to keep the card under but if you got a "leaner" what did you get?
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A do over? No, you got the card and an extra flip? I was a city boy and we played a lot of Crack Tops (spinning tops and trying to crack your friends spinner) and Skully where you set out a large numbered box in the street with chalk and while using the tops of soda and beer bottles we shot them around the box knocking out other players while gathering points.
 
and one said:
Jean Shepherd, the man behind "Christmas Story" had a nightly show on WOR, including a Saturday night show from the Limelight. He was among the great storytellers and I must have caught hundreds of his broadcasts.
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He was mesmerizing. I remember one story about catching crappies(fish) at a lake he used to go to as a kid but I can't remember the name of the lake.
 
JordyG said:
A do over? No, you got the card and an extra flip? I was a city boy and we played a lot of Crack Tops (spinning tops and trying to crack your friends spinner) and Skully where you set out a large numbered box in the street with chalk and while using the tops of soda and beer bottles we shot them around the box knocking out other players while gathering points.
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I think you might have won all the cards with a leaner that had been flipped but I am not sure. You never risked your Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays cards.
 
BBallF said:
He was mesmerizing. I remember one story about catching crappies(fish) at a lake he used to go to as a kid but I can't remember the name of the lake.
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His stories tended to revolve around his childhood in Hammond, Ind (cue The Music Man) and his army days. You got to know and love a large cast of characters (in both senses of the word) that somehow were a lot like the people we all grew up with.
 
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I remember dish night at the local movies,moms that collected the dishes gave us kids the fare to go to the movie and bring a dish home for them. Same theater charged a quarter admittancesat. Afternoons for kids.
snow brought out the town trucks to spread coal clinkers onthesnowy roads thereby making them useless for sledding. Penny candy. Dining counters in the local 5&dime.
Bus fare was a nickel and you could ride all over town!, even get a transfer free. Even take you to the beach. Buy a used car for $75, but it needed brakes. Lemon ice and a small bag of fresh popped pop corn loaded with butter for $.20 across the st from the movie.
 
uconnell said:
I remember dish night at the local movies,moms that collected the dishes gave us kids the fare to go to the movie and bring a dish home for them. Same theater charged a quarter admittancesat. Afternoons for kids.
snow brought out the town trucks to spread coal clinkers onthesnowy roads thereby making them useless for sledding. Penny candy. Dining counters in the local 5&dime.
Bus fare was a nickel and you could ride all over town!, even get a transfer free. Even take you to the beach. Buy a used car for $75, but it needed brakes. Lemon ice and a small bag of fresh popped pop corn loaded with butter for $.20 across the st from the movie.
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Penny candy! So great. Squirrel nut zippers, Mary Janes, those little dots on paper that you had to bite off,etc. I remember comic books like The Green Lantern or Batman or Superman for 10 cents and then they were raised to 12 cents and then to the exorbitant price of 15 cents. Real lemon ice, not like this fake stuff now.
 
Once upon a summertime, just a dream for yesterday, a boy and his magic golden flute heard a voice across the bay. Come and play with me Jimmy come and play with me and I will take you on a trip far across the sea.......
 
Centerstream said:
When we decided to buy horses, I just had to get a Palomino with a white Blaze. Mission accomplished. Unfortunately, she passed 4 years ago last week.
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Besides a Clydesdale, there is no prettier horse than a golden Palomino with a white blaze.
 
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1. Scribners
When books mattered

2. Shopping for used books in Barnes and Noble on 5th avenue at the corner of 18th street.

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JordyG said:
Anyone remember triple features at movie theaters with cartoons, newreels and an intermission?
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We had double features with cartoons. We thought we were watching current movies but years later found out they were at least seven to eight years old. One of my favorites was the Bowrey boys with Huntz Hall.
 
JordyG said:
Scribners and Daltons. Thank goodness Strand bookstore on E12th and Broadway still exists.
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On Saturdays once every couple of months, in the 1970s and early 80s, I walked out of Penn Station thru Gimbels (remember it?) en route the B&N store on 5th Avenue and E 18th st. I would spend the entire day walking up Manhattan to Columbia University dropping into bookstores on the way. My son will inherit my library. But he never learnt the pleasure of the chase.
 
donalddoowop said:
This is something to help take our minds (us older people) off all the negative stuff going on at this time. Actually, anyone who can think of something is invited to add to this list.

Once upon a time:

Telephone numbers had prefixes ( Jefferson, Colfax, Evergreen)
Live telephone operators connected one number to another; there were party lines, you may pick up your phone and hear someone not from your house talking and you could listen to their conversation; you could not use your phone until they finished talking and hung up their phone
Elevators were operated by real people and were not automated
Gas cost 20 cent a gallon, service station attendants pumped gas for you and cleaned your windshield, you did not have to get out of your car
Stamps cost 3 cent
Students walked almost eveywhere they went, except to the drive inn
Back seats of cars were very popular
Many cars had fish tails

Do you remember when:

Personality Dee Jays ruled the airwaves ( Jocko, Magnificent Montague, Alan Freed, Murry the K ) There were many more
Hardly anyone listened to FM radio
Rhythm and Blues (of which Doo Wop was a part) and Rock and Roll could be heard all day and everyday and was the most popular music among teenagers
Your Hit Parade was popular with Snookie Langston (I think his last name was Langston). The show faded when Rock and Roll became popular
Stores shut down on Tuesday Night so people could watch The Texaco Star Theater Starring Milton Berle (Uncle Miltie)
There was television character named Princess Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Groups of teenage boys could be found on the corners of city streets harmonizing. They could also be found in stairwells and restrooms harmonizing, looking for an echo.
Children answered grown ups by saying yes mam, yes sir, or no mam or no sir
Your neighbor could scold you if they caught you doing something wrong and when your parents found out, you would get another scolding or even a whipping
Your teachers could whip you for causing problems at school and you'd get another whipping when you got home
Your parents made you go outside and get a switch and bring in the house so that they could whip you with it
The salary of baseball players was so low that they needed jobs during the off season

That's enough from me. I hope there are those of you who will add to this list. I'm from the Midwest and knew very little about about the East or West coasts. I'm sure there are things you remember that I don't know about.
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VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.
 
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