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

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:21 pm 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.

MoiDo you really care in what pigeon hole Pluto was shoved? It is still a planet. (And we allready have giant planets).

As for the six-shooters - are you really sure that it was not a Mauser C96 with 40 round magazine? .

Moi! Do not remind me of B/W tube TVs. With only 3 channels (or was it 2?). Oh, and with external antenna on a 5 or so meter mast, that needed to be turned just right, for the TV to work. (I have spent summers as a kid in a remote village).

And modern TV? No, sorry, do not even have a TV at home. You know, no good content, and the amount of advertising...

I grew up in rural, northern Canada. At the time, it seemed we were twenty years behind the rest of the world.

Black and white TV with a wonky aerial? Check.

Was my computer a typewriter? Check. (Don't make an error because Liquid-Paper wasn't invented yet. Mess up? just XXX it out.)

Look something up on the computer? HAH! Try a trip into town to research the twenty year old encyclopedias at the library.

Cordless phones and Cellphones? The closest we came to that, was Agent 86's shoe phone in 'Get Smart'.

Air-bags and seat-belts? Nope. Just the back of Mom's arm when she hit the breaks. There were no baby-seats in cars. You just crawled around or laid out on the back dash.

People smoked in public. In malls and restaurants, and no-one complained.

Dishwashers? That's what my Dad called my sister and I.

Microwave? Science fiction.

Portable GPS in the car??? Nope. Just my mom in the passenger seat with the map so unfolded my dad couldn't see out the windshield while he drove.

Most of the things we take for granted have happened in just the last 20 to 25 years. If you had described to us how we'd be living today, we wouldn't have believed it. Who could have imagined a computer in every home? It would have seemed impossible.

Of course we fully expected to have flying cars by now. Come to think of it, where is my flying car? I'm pretty sure I was promised a flying car.

fhunter wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:46 am Do you really care in what pigeon hole Pluto was shoved? It is still a planet. (And we allready have giant planets).

As for the six-shooters - are you really sure that it was not a Mauser C96 with 40 round magazine? .

Moi! Do not remind me of B/W tube TVs. With only 3 channels (or was it 2?). Oh, and with external antenna on a 5 or so meter mast, that needed to be turned just right, for the TV to work. (I have spent summers as a kid in a remote village).

And modern TV? No, sorry, do not even have a TV at home. You know, no good content, and the amount of advertising...

fhunter.

You are in Russkyland, previously Sovietsky although I see little difference except they shoot dissident reporters rather then sending them to a gulag.

River and I grew up in TV-land. He was remembering B/W BTW, not Moi. But, y'know the shows were better without violence or sexually explicit.

River and I had the three national networks, ABC, CBS and NBC - who always seemed to get the channel 4 position where ever you were.

We also had independent Channel 5 KTLA the first to put a TV camera in a helicopter and covered the Griffith Park fire. They were threatening to shoot the animals they could not evacuate at the Griffith Park zoo, the old one was best - remember River, and on live TV was the DC-3's extinguishing the fire.

We also had four other independent channels for a total of 2, 4 , & 7 - the networks and

5, 9, 11 and 13 the independents. All from Hollywood or beautiful down town Burbank, the Gem of the Not LA cities.

Reception was generally the same for all being broadcast from one of the nearby high peaks.

fhunter:

What did you have? News with current crop reports and educational programing full of concerts, and left over glories of the peoples' socialist republics organized as soviets? Thanks. Now we have a bunch of Nation States that were never in history were nation states.

At least in the cold war, you knew who the bad guys were and dissidents were kept in order by the uber-powers.

Those were the days.

I also remember an earthquake in LA in 72 when the only channel that had anything going was KTLA owned by Gene Autry and the only TV station in LA with a color chopper in the air. They had just hired a new guy from NY first week on the job I think and he kept talking about the earthquake and the crack in the Van Norman Dam, NOBODY knew where this was until several hours later when Tom Snyder said, OH you guys call it the reservoir where LA gets all of its water. NOW I was concerned, my uncle and grandmother lived just down from it, and were evacuated for a week while they drained the reservoir that we finally found out what the real name of its was.

BTW within a couple months all the major networks had choppers in the air and Tom Snyder went on to bigger and better things and sometime in the late 70's I got married and finally got my first color TV and a push button phone.

But they were not the good old days, I can't wait to see what happens next year, we went to space, we landed on the moon, life is good lets go have Sushi and get on with life.

River

Rocky Road Ice Cream. Hard to find. Substituted with moose tracks, and such but none with marshmallow.

And why cookie dough in the ice cream. Cheaper to make then real, Chocolate Chip?

Moi

<sigh> Better days behind. Better flavors too.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:27 pm Rocky Road Ice Cream. Hard to find. Substituted with moose tracks, and such but none with marshmallow.

And why cookie dough in the ice cream. Cheaper to make then real, Chocolate Chip?

Moi

<sigh> Better days behind. Better flavors too.

It's called the Stockholm syndrome where the abused prisoners identify with their tormentors and end up with nostalgia for their incarceration. The world you are describing sounds like hell.

gareth19 (imported) wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:39 am It's called the Stockholm syndrome where the abused prisoners identify with their tormentors and end up with nostalgia for their incarceration. The world you are describing sounds like hell.

YOU having been born in 1989 forty years too late, cannot understand

anymore then the Charlton Heston character in Soylent Green could understand the world that the Edward G. Robinson character remembered.

Sure a world without cell phones may sound like Stockholm Syndrome to you, you know no other.

Those of us who do may believe it was a less stressed out time, maybe it helped not being "connected" every moment.

And the reliable flavors were, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, Neapolitan, chocolate chip, coffee, and of course, Rocky Road.

If you needed more there was Baskin&Robbins for Burgundy Cherry, Wil Wrights, but you could count on Rocky Road at the grocery store. Some years ago Strawberry disappeared. It has since returned.

Those were the days! & ! Born in 1948.

Moi

Imagine a cell phone free society.

Can't?

Try Whirled Peas.

As someone born in 75 i can its my opinion that while choc chip is ok cookie dough kicks its ass all over the place. Love cookie dough.

Cookie Dough rocks! I was born in 1972 and love the variety of ice cream that is available.