Those Were The Days

[Dave (imported)]

On September 11. 2001, the building I worked in had no cable and pathetic TV reception.

My coworkers and I watched the events of 9/11 on channel 53 on a twelve-inch TV/VCR combo set on boxes in the window of the building lobby because thanks to the metal studding in the walls (it wasn't a wood stud building) there was no TV reception anywhere but that lobby. Channel 53 might have been FOX entertainment and they bought feed from CNN (I think) just for that morning.

So UHF had its day for me only once... and it didn't matter how ugly the picture was on that TV. There were about 2 dozen people in the lobby and we all knew what those pictures meant.

[moi621 (imported)]

2001 was hardly, those days.

If you lived in River and Moi's reception zone forty five years before 2001,

you would have seen good reception live action from the independent Ch. 5 KTLA helicopter.

In those days it could have only been done with Communist assistance. A lot different then 2001.

Moi

[Paolo]

I was one of the lucky kids in the 70's with his very own 13" BW TV!

We had 4 channels - most of the time.

UHF was something strange, where one local channel (18 miles west) was located. We could not get it.

One day, I was playing around, bored, home sick from school, and decided that there must something on the UHF dial between 14 and 83. So I wired a coat hanger onto the antenna jacks like the VHF one had. Then I connected the VHF leads to the coat hanger. Then I kept adding coat hangers. Then a few of Granny's aluminum pie pans.

By the end of an hour, I had 5 channels. Took me longer to pick and tune them in to wire the antenna array!

When Granny found out, I had a sore ass, too. No one was impressed.

[A-1 (imported)]

Oh my! Darth Holy See.

[Elizabeth (imported)]

Missing the 20th Century?

Yes I do miss the twentieth century, when Neutrinos had no mass, among other fond memories.

"Like when Pluto was a planet?

When Lassie knew where to find the red handled screwdriver in the kitchen drawer and was female?

When westerns had six shooters that shot 700 rounds never needing to be reloaded?

Where the greatest toy a kid could get for Christmas was a slinky?

And TV was in beautiful Black and White.

Oh yes, I miss those days too, were gas was 16 cents a gallon, but then again a good pay was $50 a week." River

Remember Gas Wars?

And we had "space" to be kids, not like the concrete environment kids have today.

And people had real retirement, and a fighting chance to earn a pension in private employment.

And personal morality.

I miss it all.

Moi

"Things ain't like they used to be, and probably never were" - Roy Rogers

Elizabeth

[Riverwind (imported)]

I was one of the lucky kids in the 70's with his very own 13" BW TV!

We had 4 channels - most of the time.

UHF was something strange, where one local channel (18 miles west) was located. We could not get it.

One day, I was playing around, bored, home sick from school, and decided that there must something on the UHF dial between 14 and 83. So I wired a coat hanger onto the antenna jacks like the VHF one had. Then I connected the VHF leads to the coat hanger. Then I kept adding coat hangers. Then a few of Granny's aluminum pie pans.

By the end of an hour, I had 5 channels. Took me longer to pick and tune them in to wire the antenna array!

When Granny found out, I had a sore ass, too. No one was impressed.

I see by your new avatar that you have way to much time on your hands when your home sick.

I bow to your Eminence,

River

[moi621 (imported)]

Minute steaks.

Anyone remember frozen minute steaks?

As kids my brother and I could pull some out of the freezer and fry them up, in about a minute.

But, that was late '50's - early 60's.

Moi

[Riverwind (imported)]

NO, I'm sorry never had them, I think I remember hearing about them but never had one, not sure I would have wanted one, I have never been into instant foods.

I did not like Jeffy Pop popcorn either, still don't like instant popcorn, microwave corn, it always smells burnt. I use a stir crazy and make my popcorn the old fashion way.

In the next couple days I am making my own Ice Cream, I will put some kind of fresh fruit in it before its done, its the way I do things.

River

[Paolo]

I remember when TV dinners were all the rage, and boxed mac/n/cheese came out.

No wonder I came down with diabetes...

[Dave (imported)]

I remember minute steaks -- ugly, tasteless (unless you added garlic, onion and mushrooms but if you're going to that trouble, add real steak) and minute steaks were somehow salt free and bland...

Sorry, bad memories.