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Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#150re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:39pm
Growing up in Washington, DC during the Cuban missle crisis, our teachers made us learn all the location of the fallout shelters in our neighborhood. To this day, when I see one of those old signs on a building, I make a note of the location.....just in case. Talk about growing up paranoid.
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 12:39 PM
#151re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:41pmduck and cover!
PED
#152re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:41pmthat, and it's the best place to score a hit in the District.
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#153re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:43pmOr buy a.....nevermind.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#154re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:53pm
Ducking and Covering!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#155re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:58pm
Little black and white square shaped television screens - all powered by vacuum tubes that had a tendency to burn out just when your favorite show came on. Of course you only had 3 channels to choose from (NBC, ABC, and CBS) and they only came through periodically. It wasn't at all uncommon to find a test pattern on your screen
with the words "We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Please Stand By" superimposed on the image. My sister and I would immediately jump up and stand on either side of the TV and laugh hysterically at our wonderful sillyness.
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#156re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:00pmUHF
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#157re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:08pmTom Terrific, Manfred the Wonder Dog and Crabby Appleton
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#158re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:08pm
ODD-OGG, ODD-OGG Half turtle and half frog! It was a toy from the early 60's.
I went to school with a girl named Debbie Ogg, poor thing, she suffered mightly because of this toy. Recess was filled with the chant of "Debbie Ogg, Debbie Ogg, half turtle and half frog."
#159re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:09pmHow about when TV statios "signed off" for the evening and played the national anthem?
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#160re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:19pmOh yes! With a picture of a flag waving in the breeze. Later on that was replaced by Air Force jets flying by. (I don't know why they always signed off with the Air Force). There was no TV at all until they signed on again the next morning.
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#161re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:23pmto be fair, there WAS a TV, there just was not anything airing on it at the time.
PED
#162re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:24pmThat is it Mamie! , USAF Thunderbirds (in the Super Sabers!) super imposed over the flag, while a military band plays. My lord no wonder why I am so warped!
#163re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:31pm
Spirograph and Spirotot
Klik Klaks
Davey and Goliath
Hot Wheels orange track
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 01:31 PM
#164re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:35pmSOMMSy, you played with Skippos?
#165re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:36pm
yep, I was always a little light in my loafers. 
#166re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:38pm
I use to call the Footsies! (But I have a feeling you like to play footsie as well!)
#167re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:39pm
Hot wheels orange track, with the purple connectors!
I thought those skippy things had bells on the end.
Sermonettes.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#168re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:41pm
I am going to be so sorry I typed this... but here goes...
The little bells are in the balls.
#169re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:43pmyes, they are mom. ding dong.
#170re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:46pmKnew I'd be sorry!
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#171re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:52pmHow about TV before cable and before Fox. Channels 2, 7 and 10 and 10 was fuzzy because the transmitter was 60 miles away.
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#172re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:59pm
We had channel 9 instead of 10.
In the early 60's we had Educational Television - now known as PBS. In DC the call letters for channel 26 are still WETA - Washington's Educational Television association. I think it only aired a few hours of programming a day.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#173re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 2:03pmWe also had channel 12 - PBS.
#174re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/19/07 at 2:06pmWGBH ch 2 Boston, Maggie and the Beautiful Machine (an exercise program for moms) aired just before Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood. (I still mourn this mans passing!)
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