I remember one of the networks broadcasting “Peter Pan” every January. The version with Mary Martin playing Peter.
I remember watching a live production of this, sometime in the mid-50s.
“Ben-Hur” and “The Ten Commandments” every Christmas and Easter (and only then) - usually liberally sprinkled with commercials - dragging then out to 4 (or maybe 5) hours.
Price tags on all the products. I still remember seeing a bar scanner for the first time.
Ah yes. I remember when the first step in gift-wrapping was peeling off the price tag.
Seems like half the cars on the road, back in the day, were station wagons with faux wood side panels. The other half were VW Bugs.
Slug Bug!!
or
Beetle Bug Yellow!!
Dad had a red Bug when I was young. Not fun for our family of 5. I squeezed into the cubby-space in the rear. Not a pleasant ride for my 6’7” brother.
Heck, our old Chevy had the fill cap behind the brake light/turn signal. You had to turn a piece of the chrome trim to release it.
Does anyone remember watching the 1965 version of Cinderella with Leslie Ann Warren (Rodgers & Hammerstein musical)? That was another one that came on once a year for a while. Another can’t miss show.
I have a Mr. Yuck t-shirt and I love it very much.
Do they still have those plastic milk boxes used for transporting the bottles and cartons? Ours were blue and you could use them for years for anything.
And I remember my mother explaining to me how it was being recorded so people would be able to watch it in future years.
Yes. There are the genuine article that are actually used to carry milk (and juice) and then you have things that are colloquially caked “milk crates” that are much flimsier and used to store other things.
Don’t forget about Ziggy’s Gift
Similar to the 1954 Cadillac my father bought for no discernible reason. Push the little round reflector between the left taillight and the backup light, and the taillight pivots up to reveal the filler.
Yeah, I saw one once. I can imagine the discussion between the designers and engineers. “You wanna WHAT”?
I’ll see your fuel filler behind the tail lamp and raise you a fuel tank under the driver’s seat cushion:
it sounds like a younger person is getting educated on a lot of things!
This one is going to be different than most of the above, because it’s more of an emotion than an object:
Blushing
Nowadays, if someone is caught in an embarrassing situation, they are quite likely to get angry at the situation, or vent their anger elsewhere somehow. No one blushes any more. It is rare that someone will realize that they messed up and want to crawl into a corner for it.
“Shame” used to be a good word for what I’m describing, but now that word is associated with the victim of bullying. Of course such a victim would like to be invisible, but that’s an entirely different sort of shame. Bullies of all sorts are evil, and that’s not what I’m talking about here.
I mean where someone’s own misdeeds become public (all too common these days), but also when one is in an unfortunate situation such as a wardrobe malfunction. It used to be that the natural reaction was to run and hide, but nowadays the reaction is a defiant, “What’s your problem? What are you looking at?”
“Milk crates full of LPs” might sound a little confusing to a young person. (When did LPs start being referred to as “vinyl”? Back in the day, vinyl was what you got when you couldn’t afford leather.)