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(Message started by: DonnaHar on Aug 2nd, 2006, 7:51am)
Title: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 2nd, 2006, 7:51am
what was the "other name" for the jukebox?

Who knows what  "Bosco" is?

Anybody rent a TV , for the home, that required a coin to play it?  Before the middle class could afford to buy one.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Charlotte on Aug 2nd, 2006, 8:13am
Bosco was the mix for chocolate milk.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Paul98 on Aug 2nd, 2006, 9:26am

on 08/02/06 at 07:51:13, DonnaHar wrote:
what was the "other name" for the jukebox? Wall Box

Who knows what  "Bosco" is?  Chocholate drink mix, right up there with Fizzies Tablets   ;;D

Anybody rent a TV , for the home, that required a coin to play it?  Before the middle class could afford to buy one.
 No, but I remember the round cathode ray tube that used to pass for a TV screen and the morning farm reports that used to be broadcast out of NYC just after the start of the broadcast day.  It followed the National Anthem.

-P.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Mattrf on Aug 2nd, 2006, 10:32am
I remember paying over $700 for a microwave, and the same for a VCR and the first year of MTV and that they actually played music, I have not watched it in years now.

I remember getting our first color TV
I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV :'(
I remember my mom having a beehive hairdo [smiley=laugh.gif]
I remember the 5 and dime store and all the candy you could get for a quarter
I remember dodge ball :)
I remember getting gas for the mower for 35 cents a gallon
I remember going to the neighbors and collecting coke bottles so we could use the money for candy.
I remember if you liked a girl you gave her a saint Christopher medal to go steady
I remember the coolest pants where giant bell bottoms
It was cool for a guy to ware a necklace oh wait that one came back [smiley=laugh.gif]


Matt
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by vietvet2tours on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:05am
This is Bosco. Mouse eater,porcupine biter,chicken herding,skunk fighting,ankle biting toughest ranch dog in the world.http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/vietvet2tours/DSC03245.jpg
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by imnotbub on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:56am
Here's old.

My baby pictures are in black and white.
I rode a stingray bike with a banana seat.
I bought baseball cards for 10 cents a pack, and got gum.
Comic books were 12 cents.
Player autographs were FREE!
My first dozen cars (yea, dozen, I have had a lot of cars) used leaded gas @ less than 50 cents a gallon.
I watched Captain Kangaroo
Sonny Fox was the star of Wonderama
The Mets were an expansion team
The Jets were a team in the AFL
White castle hamburgers were a dime
Men wore fedora hats to work
The subway was a dime
Life was good



Steve
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by TxBasslady on Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:46pm
I remember Drive In Theatres.

I remember Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Clanton, Everly Bros., Duane Eddy & Ritchie Valens.

I remember  when  Dadddy said no, I did not have the right to ask  "why or why not".

I remember when I paid 19 cents for a gallon of gas for my '57 Chevy.

I remember Princess Drive Inn (best hamburgers around)

I remember the day JFK was asassinated, I was in high school, in Art class.

I remember the Pinkie Lee Show....

I remember when Roy Rogers was my hero     ;;D

I remember Viet Nam    :'(


OK...Wurlitzer comes to mind on the juke box....Bosco was a staple at our house....No coin TV, that I can remember   :D


Jean
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by BobG on Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:10pm
I didn’t know there was another name for Juke Boxes. But, I do remember most restaurants had the playlist and coin slot on each table.

I remember Bosco. Never liked it. Hershey’s syrup from a can, opened with a church key, mixed in the milk was best.

I can remember coin TV’s in motel rooms but never knew anyone that had one at home.

I remember the day JFK was assassinated, I was in high school, in history class. And I remember the day Elvis croaked.

I remember Viet Nam. Got to spend 23 months visiting the Southeast Asian War Games ’66-’68.

My first car was a 1947 Ford that I bought from my father in 1963.

Pharmacies had soda fountains and Cokes were 5 cents.

And it still pisses me off that the Dodgers left Brooklyn.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by LadyLuv on Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:11pm
Not that I remember this ::) ::); not that my Great Aunt had one in her basement or anything like that ;) ;).. but I remember seeing this big box and it was called a "Seeburg"...

Bosco was like a chocolate syrup..

LadyLuv
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:48pm
Good job, peeps!

I'm waiting for Charlie's answer before I give the jukebox answer......but

doesn't anyone remember Theresa Brewer singing about puting another nickle in the --------?
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:08pm
nickelodeon
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Mattrf on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:11pm
What the heck was the name of the space food bars? I remember them the where about 4" long and round, they where individually wrapped and they said the astronauts ate them in space. I also remember they tasted like crap. [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:41pm
I think those were just called space food bars. I loved them. We used to have Tang with them because that's what the astronauts ate and drank.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:44pm
Well then, who remembers Wings and Avalon cigarettes?
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Mrs Deej on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:30pm
WOW!!   :-X

...no comment!   ;;D

[smiley=hug.gif]

The youngin   :P
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by cathy on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:34pm
I remember when I could remember!!!
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by TxBasslady on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:34pm

on 08/02/06 at 14:08:38, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
nickelodeon



This is it!!!!    ;;D

Jean
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by TxBasslady on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:36pm

on 08/02/06 at 15:30:45, Mrs Deej wrote:
WOW!!   :-X
...no comment!   ;;D
[smiley=hug.gif]
The youngin   :P


Aw Steph.......you're just a "babe"      8)

Jean
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Mrs Deej on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:43pm
LMAO!!!   [smiley=laugh.gif]

Well, look on the bright side of having a "babe" married to the Boss, I can keep y'all up on the "now"!  ;;D

Love you woman!!
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by TxBasslady on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:49pm

on 08/02/06 at 15:43:33, Mrs Deej wrote:
LMAO!!!   [smiley=laugh.gif]
Well, look on the bright side of having a "babe" married to the Boss, I can keep y'all up on the "now"!  ;;D
Love you woman!!



[smiley=bow.gif]  Yes ma'am     :-*



I love you back... ;)

Jean
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:04pm
You got it EEB....nickelodeon.

Now, what kind of dog was associated with the RCA Victor record player?
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Gena on Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:08pm

on 08/02/06 at 14:08:38, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
nickelodeon



Isn't that a cable network for KIDS??
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Paul98 on Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:22pm

on 08/02/06 at 16:04:58, DonnaHar wrote:
You got it EEB....nickelodeon.

Now, what kind of dog was associated with the RCA Victor record player?


He was a purebred Hintz-57 ;;D Named Nipper.

-P.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by drivin_blind on Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:36pm
I remember selling gas for 30 cents a gallon and people would drive all the way to Grand Rapids (50miles) during a gas war (remember those?) to buy it for 28 cents a gallon. That was my first job. 75 cents an hour and my boss hated anyone just standing around. I had to wash the windshield, check the oil, ask how the tires were and ask if there was anything else. What I hated at the time and never see anymore is someone counting your money back. O.K. let's see. That was two forty, so you gave them 60 cents and said there's three and two ones make five, the amount they originally gave you. When's the last time someone did that for you? Not at McDonalds I can guarantee!
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Charlie on Aug 3rd, 2006, 1:56am

Quote:
Bosco was the mix for chocolate milk.

Kids always parodied the Bosco commercial: "I love Bosco. It's rich and chocolatey. Mommy puts it in my milk when she tries to poison me."

People still called juke boxes Rockolas for a time.


Quote:
And it still pisses me off that the Dodgers left Brooklyn.

My mother went nuts. If she lived in Brooklyn, she would have been jailed for assault. No one was a bigger Dodger fan.


Quote:
Well then, who remembers Wings and Avalon cigarettes?

I remember Wings. They were nearly a thing of the past but were revived in the 1960s for a time.


Quote:
I remember the day JFK was asassinated, I was in high school, in Art class.

I was 17 in high school woodshop. I'll never forget that the school halls were dead silent the rest of the day.

I remember the McCarthy hearings. I didn't know what they were though. I was about 5 or 6.

You Bet Your Life. The little duck that "came down" and paid you $200 dollars, etc.

Ah me.... http://www.smileygenerator.us/sets/temp/HIPPY/wacko.gif

Charlie
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by BarbaraD on Aug 3rd, 2006, 6:41am
Of course they were juke boxes. Never called them anything else.

I was sitting at home watching "Divorce Court" on TV when JFK was assasinated.

Bosco was yukey. Nestles was the "very best - chocolate".

The Lucky Strike Hit Parade on Saturday night. Huntley and Brinkley WERE the news people.

McCarthy had us all scared of communist. We all Liked IKE! (Lord! I even remember when Mamie Eisenhower got a new hairdo - it was all over the news that night).

Guess I'm just older than dirt.......

Hugs BD
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Mrs Deej on Aug 3rd, 2006, 9:04am

on 08/03/06 at 06:41:33, BarbaraD wrote:
(Lord! I even remember when Mamie Eisenhower got a new hairdo - it was all over the news that night).

There is one thing about being older than dirt people  ;;D...at least when you were kids you had "good" news reported at night (most generally).  Growing up, things reported on the news on a daily basis just kept gettin worse!   :'(

What is this world coming to?

Wishing it was the good 'ol days again,
Steph
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by jimmers on Aug 3rd, 2006, 10:01am
I was the waiter at the "Last Supper" :D

St. James
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 3rd, 2006, 10:02am

on 08/03/06 at 10:01:37, jimmers wrote:
I was the waiter at the "Last Supper" :D

St. James



So you may know my twin brother Mathusala???
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 3rd, 2006, 10:09am
I do too, Steph.  I remember, as a kid, hearing about a child that had fallen into a well.  It was so traumatic that I had nightmares and thought about it all day long.  Today, we are so conditioned to the killings, rape and violence that the "shock value" is almost  nil.

Give me back the good 'ol days when we played in the dirt and made mud pies, jumped in puddles and rode our imaginary horses throught the woods.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by LadyLuv on Aug 3rd, 2006, 11:03am
Donna,

 I'm sorry that you only had an Imaginary Horse:'(. Not me,  I had a real one. It was the coolest chocolate brown Palomino on the block (mom's cloth line pole ::)) I even had reins on it (where mom had put in a nail to push the cloth line up once she put the clothes on it. [smiley=laugh.gif]

Being the TomBoy the that I was, I always carried around a bag of marbles looking for some little boy that thought girls couldn't shoot and win all his marbles... [smiley=smartass.gif] I had my favorite green cateye that I only pulled out if I started to loose, I thought of it as the luckest marble in the world.  

Mom forbade us to listen to one of Ray Charles Record because it said "Baby Shake That Thing"
[smiley=crackup.gif] [smiley=crackup.gif]and mom said that was a filthy record and would not be allowed in her house..

Yes what happened to the good ole days?

Peace & Blessings
LL
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 3rd, 2006, 11:30am
There's a little old house sitting on the edge of a 130 foot ravine.  In the yard sits an ancient oak tree that I used to climb, get way out on the end of a limb and scare my self nearly to death trying to get back before my arms got so tired that I couldn't hang on any longer .

Under this tree is buried a hugh treasure that I planted about 60 years ago. It took me a couple of years of running down to the creek, panning for (fools) gold, placing the sparkling nuggets in jars and burying these jars all around that tree.  I was planning to be soooo rich someday on that gold.  Me and my Daisey no caliber BB gun were always on guard.

It is still buried and the tree still stands.  Won't some contractor be surprised someday when they excavate that old property?  I don't know how many jars are there, but I'd guess no less than 2 dozen.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Charlotte on Aug 3rd, 2006, 1:49pm
I used to love to climb trees & swoop down hills at a run.

I didn't stop climbing tree until I had babies in a baby carrier - for their safety I stopped.

Charlotte
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by kevinpix on Aug 3rd, 2006, 2:53pm
Was in seventh grade when solar powered calculators came out!
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Aug 3rd, 2006, 8:42pm
Remembering a time when kids could leave home on a summer morning with a packed lunch, riding their bikes and didn't come home again until bedtime unless they were cut and bleeding.

Lord, we don't dare let them out of sight now.

Going down to the river to swim with all the other kids in the neighbourhood and not having to worry about what might be in the water, other than maybe a water snake.

TV's that were black and white but we got some funny thing that went onto the screen that was blue on top, red in the middle and green at the bottom so you thought you had colour tv.

Watching Elvis on Ed Sullivan while our parents talked about how "sinful" he was if Ed had to block out his bottom half!!!!!

Hmmmmmmm - guess that means I'm older'n dirt too!

Carol
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by BobG on Aug 3rd, 2006, 8:49pm

on 08/03/06 at 13:49:42, Charlotte wrote:
I used to love to climb trees & swoop down hills at a run.

I didn't stop climbing tree until I had babies in a baby carrier - for their safety I stopped.

Charlotte

Hey Charlotte, I have a tree you can climb safely. It has steps. I drilled a couple of holes through the trunk and drove a broom handle through and cut it off so it sticks out about 4 inches on each side.
I got tired of "Grampa lift me up to the branch"
"Grampa get me down" 2 minutes later.
"Grampa lift me up to the branch" 2 minutes later.
"Grampa get me down" 2 minutes later.
;)
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by kayarr on Aug 3rd, 2006, 11:03pm

on 08/02/06 at 10:32:54, Mattrf wrote:
I remember paying over $700 for a microwave, and the same for a VCR and the first year of MTV and that they actually played music, I have not watched it in years now.

I remember getting our first color TV
I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV :'(
I remember my mom having a beehive hairdo [smiley=laugh.gif]
I remember the 5 and dime store and all the candy you could get for a quarter
I remember dodge ball :)
I remember getting gas for the mower for 35 cents a gallon
I remember going to the neighbors and collecting coke bottles so we could use the money for candy.
I remember if you liked a girl you gave her a saint Christopher medal to go steady
I remember the coolest pants where giant bell bottoms
It was cool for a guy to ware a necklace oh wait that one came back [smiley=laugh.gif]


Matt

Do you remember getting those elephant leg pants caught in the chain of your bike????? LOL
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by jimmers on Aug 3rd, 2006, 11:52pm
When God said "Let there be light" I flipped on the switch!

Jimmers
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by TxBasslady on Aug 4th, 2006, 3:59am

on 08/03/06 at 23:52:05, jimmers wrote:
When God said "Let there be light" I flipped on the switch!



::) Oh....I thought maybe you flicked your bic   ;;D

Jean              [smiley=smokin.gif]

(modified to include the smokin' dude for Jim...LMAO)
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by BarbaraD on Aug 4th, 2006, 7:39am
Good grief Carol -- I had forgotten about the colored thingy for the TV. Pinky Lee looked great with that thing on the screen.  ;;D

Solar Powered Calcultor??? I remember when the 10-Key calculators came out. Before that we had an "adding machine" with about a thousand buttons.

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. Mom gave it to me when she "upgraded". The darn thing revolutionized her accounting practice (we got rid of the "bookkeeping" machine that took up half a room).

And I had a beautiful Palamino horse.. Until Mom needed to mop the floor.  :)  We rode millions of miles over hill and dale. Geezzz, I loved that horse.

But the biggest thing we had (back in the old days) was imagination. We didn't have all the "modern" toys and had to use some creative talent to "invent" things. A cardboard box was great for building houses, castles, and caves.

My grandfather "built" me some stilts (anyone remember those things) out of scrap lumber and I learned to walk on them. Don't know how many busted knees I got learning, but I finally mastered the art of "being tall".

My son was talking about spending a fortune on a swing set for our little Caleb and I just blew up and told him to go invest in some chain and find an old tire and that would work great. (ropes break, but chains hold forever). We've got a huge oak tree at the farm and it's just itching for a tire swing.

I like a lot of the "modern" stuff, but I miss the old days.

Oh welll......

Hugs BD
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by JenniferD on Aug 4th, 2006, 7:58am
wow Barb, stilts!   I had some too, made from wood then cuz I drove my folks nuts about 'em, they got me some adjustable metal ones.

You're absolutely right- the best "toys" we had were our imaginations, and a really great kickball ball, rollerskates- remember the metal ones with the key? Those sucked on an rough asphalt road and he bumping made  your feet and legs numb after about 10 minutes.

Things now are just too complicated.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 4th, 2006, 7:59am
Geez Barb.......I forgot about the old bookkeeping machines.  I was in accounts receivable operating an old NCR-3100 when the dreaded "data processing" department was built what with their new fangled key punch cards and such.

Those WERE the days.............
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by jimmers on Aug 4th, 2006, 10:23am
I remember when I didn,t have to take out a Home Equity Loan to put gas in my truck ;;D

Jimmers
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 4th, 2006, 10:46am
How about the "darning egg"?  Anyone remember what that is?

I wonder if they even sell thimbles anymore.
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by erickthered on Aug 4th, 2006, 10:47am
Ok, I must be a pup then compaired to you all.

My first computer was a Radio Shack CoCo (color computer). My dad and I would sit for days typing in Basic to get the screen to come up with a 8 bit picture of a flower or something, the keyboard was made of chicklet style keys, it had games that were in cart. bigger then the Atari 2600 ones (had that too, and went through 10 controlers playing track and field) the storage on the CoCo was a tape recorder hooked to it and we had to listen to the awfull squeel of it to go from one program to another to load the one we wanted.

I was one of the first in the county with internet, and that was compuserve on a 800 baud modem, no graphics at all, just text, and you had to know the comands to find the information you needed to look up.

Our house was the first in town to have HBO, and we went out and bought a $150 vcr just to tape the movies so we could watch them again later. I remember my brother and I setting it up to tape late night stuff and watching it when the folks wern't around  ;)
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Bethany1 on Aug 4th, 2006, 1:37pm

on 08/02/06 at 07:51:13, DonnaHar wrote:
Who knows what  "Bosco" is?


George Costanza's atm pin code.  ;;D ;;D
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Melissa on Aug 4th, 2006, 2:35pm
I used to love when my grandpa would punch 2 holes each into metal coffee cans so I could string some shoelace through them for "stilts"  

I remember the glass bottle vending machines

I remember when gas was less than a buck a gallon

I used to stay out morning till dusk and we'd play where we told our parents we were going to play.

I remember my grandpa making homemade kites and us flying them in the field next to his house

I remember riding my banana seat bike along with my mom on her Schwinn with the wire basket attatched to the handle bars

I remember going swimming at the sand pits which had some of the clearest water I've ever seen in my life

I remember 3 channels that would get in Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk and Rocky & Bullwinkle.  The best was watching Hee Haw on Sundays while grandpa had a fire in the fireplace and we'd have a Tombstone pizza for supper.

No, I'm not that old, but I really miss the way things were back when I was a young kid. :'(
Title: Re: OK, if you're so old,
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Aug 4th, 2006, 4:44pm

on 08/04/06 at 10:46:18, DonnaHar wrote:
How about the "darning egg"?  Anyone remember what that is?

I wonder if they even sell thimbles anymore.


Somewhere in my box of "sewing stuff no longer used" is a darning egg.  My Mom handknit every pair of socks my Dad ever wore so the darning egg got quite a workout.

They do still sell thimbles - they even have them in leather now too.

Carol


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