Foosball?
vivalostwages - Kinda makes you feel old, huh? I know I do!
Foosball?
vivalostwages - Kinda makes you feel old, huh? I know I do!
Remember when every drug store used to have a tube tester? The TV would blow a tube, and before we spent jillions of dollars on a TV repairman, I (as the resident family geek) would take the back off, remove every damn tube in sight, and either walk or have my mom drive me up to the drug store. There I would stand in front of that tube tester and test every one of the damn things until one or more tested bad. Then we would buy that tube (they were in a cabinet that the tube tester rested on) and drive back, put all the tubes back in (and you damn well had better have drawn a sketch of where each tube went), switch on the TV, and pray!
And most of the time it actually worked. Last year I couldn’t even spell enjineer and now I are one!
Then, of course, there was the time I grabbed the back of the picture tube before it was fully discharged. Whooo!
Reminds me of the time I grabbed a soldering iron by the tip. Until then, I didn’t know how hot heat could get.
Do you remember nagging your mom to get a particular kind of cereal because of the toy inside? And then getting home and digging around in the brand-new box for it? Cracker Jacks boxes had real toys in them too.
I remember getting on my bike on Saturday morning and going somewhere with my friends and not coming back until dark, and my Mom not worrying about us.
Oh, and do you remember going to the shoe store and sticking your feet in a floroscope(?), I forget what it was called, and looking down at the bones in your feet on a little green screen?
Having to skip school to watch the World Series on TV.
The now delightfully archaic phrase, “You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.” (BTW, kids get as many if not more shots nowadays they we did, especially since there are now vaccines for things like measles.)
The “ching” of a cash register, especially those in a supermarket.
Buying an item and not paying sales tax.
Cigarette ads on TV.
18 year old chiming in here. I have seen a dial telephone. It was when I was in 1st grade and I needed to call my parents from the principal’s office for some reason, they handed me this phone and I couldn’t figure out how to ‘dial’ the number.
I myself was shocked to learn that kids today aren’t familiar with Inspector Gadget, trapper keepers, and the original NES.