Originally posted by xrtoronto
Ya...lots has changed.
I Love Lucy was in it's first showings. So was The Honeymooners. Captain Kangaroo was great...along with Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. Back then we had channels 2-13? Now it's digital HD with surround sound and hundreds of channels.
No snow blowers...you had to shovel that chit!
Music was something else back then too. The Beatles, Stones, Zepplin, Who, Jimi, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin were all in there 20's and writing their best stuff. (compare that to today)
But the big difference is PC. If you were 12 yrs old and mouthed off to someone older you got your arse kicked. Nobody thought anything of it. Now you can't do or say much that doesn't seem to offend someone to the point they use terms like 'descrimination' or 'abuse' etc.
You're damn right...kids today have it easy!
Yup pretty much the same here. "The Flintstones" was a weekly show, As were shows like "F-Troop", "Combat", "Rat Patrol", And "Land of the Giants"," My Favorite Martian" And "Rowan and Martins Laugh In"
And anyone remember "My Mother the Car"?
There there were the shows our Parents (usually our mothers cause dad was always working late) used to torture us with "Dr Kildare", "Julia" And Frikken "Marcus Welby MD"
And if we spent the night over our grandparents house it was even worse with Shows like "Lawrence Welk "
There was no "TV in the other room" There was one TV in the entire house usually onlly in Black and white. And being a kid usually ment you were low crap on the **** pile as to who got to watch what.
There was No "Nickelodeon" let alone "Nick at Night". Or "Cartoon Network"
You wanted to watch Cartoons, During the week there was usually 1 station that would show Kids shows. Our was hosted by "Capt. Jack Mcarthy" for like 2 hours a day between 3 and 5:00 where we got to watch "the Little Rascals, Popeye, Magilla Gorilla. Speed Racer And the most High Tech show was a robot named "Gigantor"
Other then that if you wanted to watch Cartoons, you had to wait for Saturday Morning. Sunday morning the only shows on was flipping"Gumby" and/or "Davy and Golioth"
I HATED Davy and Golioth!
and Channels? You have several hundred now. Back then I had channels 2,4,5,7,9,11 & 13. half of which only came in OK a good deal of the time. There was hardly ever such a thing as a clear picture And 13 was the flipping PBS station.
though sometimes. if the ionosphere was jussst right, you could pick up one or two stations from some far off place on the UHF channels
Remote controls. Yea there were Remotes back then. And there was no loosing the remote. You know why? Because usually the remote was me.
"Tom (my real name) turn on channel 4"
Friday nights was usually at leat a decent night. We got to watch such ground breaking shows as "Lets make a Deal" "the Partridge Family", "The Brady Bunch:", And last but far from least "Love American Style"
Oh and the closest thing we had to a video game was "Winky Dinks"
and Damn Straight about PC. Back then you ddint dare mouth off to an adult, ever.
Cause they would whack you. And if you did you prayed that your parents ddint find out cause if they did, THEY would whack you for it too!
In fact, you didnt even dare telling your parents so & so whacked you cause they would still whack you because "You must have done soemthing to deserve it" And they usually would have been right.
and there was none of this hanging out in the house all the time. We had to be, usually by order of mom. "OUTSIDE"
Didnt matter if the temprature was 20 or 120 we were "outside" Till the firehorn blew which told us it was 5:30 and time to head home for dinner.
If we heard the Churchbells ring we knew it was 6:00 and thus were were in trouble cause we were late for dinner.
Yanno what we got when we came home "late fore dinner" too many times?
We got "NO dinner"
Thats right, No dinner, no snack, no desert. You went to bed hungry and crying.
But you damn well made sure you came home on time for good while after that.
Oh and there was no Cell phones. Mom didnt call you on your cell and tell you to come home.
Mom told you to come home by standing on the front porch and yelling your name. It always astounded me how far a mothers voice can travel cause I used to hear her loud and clear from 5 blocks away.
And whoa be it to you if you didnt hear her.
and while outside if you wanted to have fun you had to figure thigns out for yourself. You wante to play "Army/solder/war/combat" there was no first person shooters. and often we didnt even have toy guns. Amazing how a broken tree branch can become a Thomson Sub machine gun with a little imagination. And "Dirt Bombs" make dandy hand grenades.
then there were the neighborhood Kickball,baseball,football games. and Stoopball (which drove my mother absolutely insane) OR whatever other kind of games we made up.
Then thee was the allmighty Bicycle, which could be turned into anything with a little imagination. It was your horse for games of cowboys & indians, Or your horse when playing King Arthur. Garbage can lids made great sheilds and broomsticks great lances for jousting (its amazing nobody got seriously hurt)
They also made great airplanes for dogfighting.
Man I could go on for a week
