How to tell if you are old.......

edz · September 4

@ShawnOL said:
If youve had a b&w tv.

With 3 channels on a good day, not to mention that half of the time you were watching you were part of the antenna for reception.

OmgFrigginMike · September 4

@edz said:

@ShawnOL said:
If youve had a b&w tv.

With 3 channels on a good day, not to mention that half of the time you were watching you were part of the antenna for reception.

I'm a little too young for black and white TV but I remember our TV when I was younger and you had to smack it juuuuusssst right to get it to work. My friends tvs had to be smacked just the right way too but not the same as ours.... I could never figure out how to make theirs work.

silvermouse · September 4

Your doctor made house calls.

TRayB · September 5

Yakster · September 5

edz · September 5

Forgot all about the Rock Em Sock Em Robots. Wow , were we easy to please.

silvermouse · September 5

The Hungry Hippos, fun except for their untimely breakage rears it's ugly head. Usually a few weeks.

Yakster · September 5

We actually gave our nephew a Rockem Sokem set after he had so much fun playing with our vintage set.

edz · September 5

@Yakster said:
We actually gave our nephew a Rockem Sokem set after he had so much fun playing with our vintage set.

Our sons love to play board games (well 2 of them , one gets to board). It's sort of like the movie Field of Dreams, build it and they will come.

ShawnOL · September 5

Our first color tv had electronic buttons for the different channels. You had to go in and use the dials to program each button.

silvermouse · September 5

Remember the test signal when broadcasts stopped for the day, we had 4 channels to pick from

ShawnOL · September 5

Ask a millennial the difference between VHF and UHF. 😆

OutdoorsSmoke_21191 · September 5

ShawnOL · September 5

Just looking at those i can still taste them.

d_blades · September 5

@silvermouse said:
Remember the test signal when broadcasts stopped for the day, we had 4 channels to pick from

Was a big day, when we got the 3rd channel ABC channel 7.

silvermouse · September 5

Then they introduced uhf channels. Had to put up a uhf antenna and buy a newer tv. Improvement or planned obsolescence?

ShawnOL · September 5

Where else were they going to put Masterpiece Theater?

Wylaff · September 5

@ShawnOL said:
Ask a millennial the difference between VHF and UHF. 😆

It's all about penetration...

Yakster · September 5

@ShawnOL said:
Ask a millennial the difference between VHF and UHF. 😆

peter4jc · September 5

dirtdude · September 7

If you were vaccinated for smallpox with the jet injector gun

ShawnOL · September 7

I remember having iodine put on my cuts and scrapes as a kid. Dont know why they just didn't disinfect with alcohol.

TRayB · September 7

@ShawnOL said:
I remember having iodine put on my cuts and scrapes as a kid. Dont know why they just didn't disinfect with alcohol.

If it don't sting, it ain't killing the germs! LOL. I hated iodine.

Rdp77 · September 7

Speaking of burn…this shìt would make your sticker peck up

TRayB · September 7

@Rdp77 said:
Speaking of burn…this shìt would make your sticker peck up

Yep, I remember that bottle too.

Yakster · September 7

OutdoorsSmoke_21191 · September 8

Amos_Umwhat · September 8

^^That stuff was a life saver if you were living on C-Rations.^^.

Yakster · September 8

Your telephone had it's own nook built into the wall.

silvermouse · September 8

Fancy.. Ours was screwed to the wall

Our first phone didn't even have a rotary dial, just take it off the hook, listen to hear if anyone else was using the party line, and flip the hook a couple of times, tell the operator what number you wanted to be connected to.

How to tell if you are old.......

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