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Remember when TV was broadcast "in living color?"

Remember the milkman delivering bottles of milk (then later cartons) on your porch? (that was a small town thing)

Jane2---I remember "exchanges" on phone numbers. They didn't switch until the late '60s. Our number was "VIKING 3-7802."

Addy---I definitely remember the annual event of "The Wizard of Oz" on television. Our young lives were literally planned around it. We would even take the phone off the hook (remember doing that???) during the broadcast!

I also remember gasoline at 35 cents per gallon. Movies at 75 cents for kids, and $1.25 for adults. No commercials before the movie started either. Cigarettes at 30 cents a pack. First Class stamps for 10 cents. A pack of sugar-filled gum for 15 cents.

I also remember $1,000 VCRs with no remote control, no fast rewind and they were the size of suitcase.

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I also remember "party lines" - we had one when I was little and we lived in the city. It was an option when we moved to the suburbs and my mother swore she'd never share a phone line again so we paid extra for a private line.

We had a milk man where I used to live. This was the late 1980s. We had a metal box on the front porch. Then when we moved, I didn't understand why we didn't have someone deliver it anymore.

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All we had was the Avon lady.

(and the Jehovah's Witnesses, but my mom made us turn off the lights and shut up when they were coming down the street)

Once of those clapping games...

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifty cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence
They jumped so high, high, high
They touched the sky, sky, sky
And they didn't come back, back, back
Till the fourth of July, July, July

Also remember doing cats cradle with an elastic or string loop on the school bus.

Friendship pins on my sneakers

Ribbon barrettes that you wove up yourself (Goody made a little kit)

Getting Atari and thinking I was one BAMF!

We had Atari AND Coleco, bay-bee!

My oldest sis, who had already married and moved out by then, just had Intellivision. Ha ha. That sucked. Except it was the only one that had Burger Time.

I remember my dad's office phone - the rotary dial with the one red hold button and the 4 clear line buttons at the bottom. I used to love going to his office and pretending to be a secretary, answering lines and putting people on hold...

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Updated On: 4/16/08 at 05:04 PM

NYadGal--Finally some one else who played with Tiddly Winks! I loved that game.

Remember when girls wore clogs and everyone had a metal lunchbox with a thermos? Also sticker books. You were considered 'cool' if you had the hologram or the googley-eyed ones.

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Girls wore Loves Baby Soft and Watermelon Smackers.

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Remember when the TV season started in September and ended in May/June (like school), with new episodes every week?

"Remember when TV was broadcast "in living color?"

Besty, I remember we had a black and white tv. When color tvs came out, I would stare at our black and white screen and swear I saw a hint of color coming through!

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Oh yeah, I remember that! They played the Star Spangled Banner at the end of the broadcasting day, then you had a test pattern on the screen until the next day.

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Updated On: 1/23/09 at 05:58 PM