I am forty years over the age of 30, and the only reason I have tins full of buttons is because I inherited them from my mother.
Even back in the 20th century, there were quite a few of us who didn’t sew; though I remember one young man back in the 1970’s who was quite taken aback when I refused to fix his clothes for him on the grounds that I didn’t know how.
Weird. My closest bank has the ATM on the outside lane – no human intervention needed – and the three inner lanes all tubes. Even the one next to the building is a tube instead of a teller with a window and drawer.
Sorry if these have been said already, but I am only about a quarter of the way through the thread…
There was only one major company that made baseball cards, and the supply was actually limited
You could find fields full of milkweed where you could collect monarch caterpillars
There were nine planets and three taxonomic kingdoms
Cars with chrome bumpers with slots in them. the slots were for the bumper jack. This was in improvement from the earlier bumper jack that grabbed the whole bumper.
When my dad was in WW-II he got a jeep unstuck by lifting the whole front end up and pushing it off the jack toward solid ground and repeating it on the back until it was out of the mud. He did the same thing 30 years later to my Pinto when I got it stuck an hour away from home.
Along with Sammy Terry, everybody my age from central IN will understand if you drone the word nooooo-body! Bob Catterson sure left his mark.
Sammy Terry (said real fast). LOL
Thanks for the laugh. That reminds me when I lived in Bellevue, NE in the 1970s we had a show called Creature Feature. I think it was on Saturday nights. The host was Dr. San Guinary.
oh and janie… that show ran until the mid 80s or so
MTV got rolling in 1981, but if your house didn’t have cable then the next best thing was Friday Night Videos, which started broadcasting on NBC a couple of years later. The early years of the show were just before the advent of stereo sound in television broadcasts (and TV sets with decent speaker systems), and one of the coolest parts of FNV was that the audio was simulcast on local FM radio stations. So way past your bedtime on Friday nights, you’d get your stereo dialed in, and your TV dialed in, and be able to watch 90 minutes of music videos with good quality stereo sound.
at one-time music videos were on almost every pay movie channel because their parent companies also owned record companies and even Disney got in the act
Yeah, I remember him, too.
“If you don’t have a Bob Catterson price, then you really don’t have a price.”
“Ol’ Dave needs the money!”
Mentioned this in another thread. There were wage and price controls in effect. You couldn’t get a raise at your job. You could get a raise with a promotion or a change to different position already paying more. And companies couldn’t raise the price of the goods they sold. Sometimes they made things bigger in order to charge more.
I think every town/city with a TV channel had a Creature Feature show. I know in L.A. we had a whole slew of different ones over the decades…beginning with the original – Vampyra.
We had Count Gore de Val on WDCA in DC. He was (and still is) played by Dick Dyszel. Dick was also the kids show host as Captain 20, since this was on UHF channel 20. I remember him more as Captain 20 since I was still a child. He had on Spock ears and a Spock haircut and would make the Vulcan hand sign from time to time.
New York’s John Zacherley was well known but started after Vampira. Later in Philadelphia we had Dr. Shock who did the horror movie thing in shows with different names. Eventually it turned weird when he featured his 9 month old daughter on the show and called her “Bubbles” to promote his sponsor, a local soda company. He was a professional magician that I met several times at a local magic shop. Very nice guy. Just found out he passed away from a heart attack at age 42. I knew he wasn’t as old as he looked in make-up on the show but he must have been even younger than I thought, only about 35 when I met him.
Not really a childhood thing but a thing from the past that is never done these days. Babies were put in their crib and then covered with a blanket and more than likely they were put down on their stomachs. In fact, I remember that it was said that a baby that sleeps on its back too much will develop a flat head!
Nowadays, for safety reasons, there are no blankets in the cribs and babies are always put down on their backs.
No blankets, no bumpers, no pillows and put to sleep on their backs - but tummy time is now recommended , in part to avoid flat spots.
We didn’t stay watching a movie on HBO through the credits because there was an end scene, but because we were hoping that HBO was going to fill the 18 minutes until the top of the hour with some good music videos. More likely it would be a 10 minute making-of piece on the Terry Fox story.