Do You Remember?

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  1. Shirley Martin

    Shirley Martin Supreme Member
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    We still had party lines in the 1970s. I don't remember what year we got a private line but it was in the mid 70s.
     
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  2. Hal Pollner

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    I remember THEM ALL, plus 78 RPM records, which were easily shattered because they were so brittle.

    Hal
     
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  3. Hal Pollner

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    You mean them THAR hills, Bill! ;)
    Hal
     
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    Of course.
     
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    Yes we had a party line until the early 70's too.. that was in the city and then when we moved to the country in '74 we had a personal line...
     
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    Yeah, I remember them all plus I even remember when we had NINE planets In our solar system.
     
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  7. Mikhail Bulgakov

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    I remember all but the party line. I knew people who had them, I just never had one. On drive in movies. Your friends or yourself would cram themselves into the trunk, as extra people in the car were charged per head, and unload once inside. I remember "spot" or "spotlight" tag. Spot lights on a vehicle were not illegal then, and everyone had one. Before anything started on the screen, the shine from a spotlight would appear on the blank, unlit, screen, then two, then three. Then a regulation "tag" game would ensue. One light, being "it" would touch another, and so on. The movies would be interrupted by a break, when you could "Go on up to the snack bar," went the ditty at break time. You had to remember to unhook your speaker from a side window when you left.

    Makes me wonder what you could or couldn't remember if you lived several lifetimes, like a vampire or something supernatural. I read a "letter to the editor" fifty years or so ago. It was from a modern American philosopher named Alan Watts. Cryogenics was in the news then, whole bodies, or parts were to be kept in cryonic suspension, to be revived later by what means no one was sure, and Watt's letter was partly a response to that idea. He wrote that if people actually lived more than a lifetime, they would, in his words, be like the turtles and tortoises of the Gallapagos island. They'd have so many memories they would hardly be able to move or think straight. Some of that idea was reflected in the movie, "Interview With A Vampire," where the older types would just sit in a rocking chair in the dark, nothing left to do, or think. I remember that.
     
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    I recall putting those 78 RPM records in hot water til they softened , then would remove it and shape it into a bowl then let it cool to that shape then paint them too sometimes.

    I remember party lines too and we would listen in on conversations. lol
     
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    I remember most of them. But, what I also remember is having the music tape from an 8-track or cassette tape get stuck in the player. On the cassette, push a button to eject the tape, it would come out part way. You'd go to pull it completely out and the tape part would get stuck inside. Pull the 8-track out and the same thing could happen. So, you'd have to buy a new tape player and new tape. Very aggravating when that happened.
     
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  11. Holly Saunders

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    Yes the eight tack was a real PITA for being stuck...

    I remember playing 45's over and over again when I bought them so I could learn the lyrics... and recording the week's chart hits on Cassette tape rather than having to buy the records, then after a couple of plays the tape would get snagged, and unravel, and I'd have to stick a pencil in the cassette to try and roll the tape back up...
     
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  12. Hal Pollner

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    I liked the reel-to-reel tape decks best. Ampex was a real nice machine!

    Hal
     
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  13. Ken Anderson

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    I thought I'd bump this one up for consideration, since we have some new people here since February of 2019.
     
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  14. Von Jones

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    So I'm getting there but what's it gonna take for me to be 'older than dirt?' :D
     
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  15. Bobby Cole

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    Remember? Yes, I do vaguely remember Feb. 19. 2019 like it was 424 days ago or at least, I think I remember it. Yes, I Do remember it because I woke up thinking that I needed to make a pot of coffee. Strange but I believe I also woke up on the 20th thinking the same thing. And the 21st-22nd-23rd.....
     
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