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hehe..thanks Aerospace.  An apt name I might add.

Just for you Nancyg,

What a great blog.  Thanks everyone for sharing your memories.  The James Kirk photos are priceless..but didn't you miss the one with the green woman?

You would age fast too if you did this for 35 years,,,,,,

Look how Aero has aged over the years!

This was the number one artist when I was born, and Im still waiting for someone to come along who is as cool as he was,

I remember having dress codes for women that included skirts only/no slacks or pant suits.  I remember leaving my parents home early so I could get to high school and put on tons of black eye liner.  Grovey man.  I remember only 1/2 my salary applying toward our first home loan - because I was of child bearing age. 

I remember knowing all the words to every song the Everly Brothers ever released.  Hey, I remember reel to reel tape!  I remember how cool it was to call all the boys "dudes."   And, how much fun were the drive-in restuarants where we all met our friends - if dad let you borrow the Rambler!  I also had huge hair - there are pictures to prove it.  We would iron our hair to straighten it - really - same process used on your cotten white shirts.  And flesh colored lipstick. 

You have no idea how cool I was.  Hard to believe my stuffy old mom looks back from the mirror now.

As a girl, we'd sometimes get 25 cents and a Sunday afternoon.  For that we could walk the 2 miles to the theater, purchase a ticket, buy a soda and candy bar, watch two full features and about a dozen cartoons.  It was a five hour treat - and we would walk home after dark. 

tehachapichick - i forgot about my family doing the same renting a VCR at B & B and a movie and having family night.  I try to do the same with my son.  Although he does have a TV and DVD/VCR player in his room we will make it a night and rent a movie and set up the living room and watch it.  He loves it although he could do the same in his room.  We cook popcorn and sometimes make a tent with chairs and sheets in the living room.  These are the moments that are what it is all about.  Sadly, his friends don't understand the excitement and think it's no big deal....wow what their parent are missing.  My son is 7 by the way.

p.s before B&B ( or it could have been after they close and before Video Zone) their use to be a store in Mojave we had to go to and rent equipment and movies.  I forgot what the name of it was but it wasn't a chain...I think it was across from Carl's Jr.

Christine, they were 8 track tapes. I had forgot all about them. Remember if the song was too long it would have to skip to the next segment. Dang Blaze, we are getting old :)

Boy, Blaze, thanks allot, :) ....now I feel ancient. I remember listening to Neil Diamond tapes that were the size of VHS videos,in my Dad's Caddie in 1976 when he picked up up from the airport for our move to California. That was the latest and the greatest at the time before the cassette tape was even born: let alone extinct. What were those called again? I just remember they sounded weird when they got stretched out from being played too much. 

I remember my dad had a remote control (which was pretty cutting edge at the time) that had big buttons that would get stuck, and if you jingled the change in your pocket just right it would change the channels. The TV was as big as a Buick and the top opened up to the stereo unit inside, with front speakers that were covered in a lovely crushed velvet material that matched our picture of Elvis.

Then we got one of those fancy "clock radios" with cards inside that flip the numbers over, but eventually one half of the numbers would always stick so you weren't sure if it was 3 or 8 oclock.

I also remember my world revolved around music and carrying my hot pink record player case over to my friend's house to play our 45's, which cost about 50cents at the time.

Now 50cent is selling million$ of records and carrying a 45 revolver. It seems like you can't change the channel (all 500 of them) without someone, including Elvis trying to scam you out of your hard earned pocket change. At least the TV's are still big as Buick's, which is good, because I can't see the clock from across the room anymore. Is it time for "Laugh In" yet?   

What about rotary telephones that were stuck to the wall? For me as a kid it was a big deal to get the TV dinners and trays out once a week and get to watch TV during dinner normally we ate at the table every night as a family. Do they do that anymore? I remember the jiffy pop and Disney Sunday nights I looked forward to that. Aaaah the good ol' days.

How about getting up to turn a big knob that went clunk, clunk,  to change to 1 of the 3 TV channels. Or having to go up on the roof to move the antenna for better reception.  I can remember getting 5 gallons of gas for a buck. How about when the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night started broadcasting in color. We had to go across the street to the neighbors house to see a color TV in action.  Those were some of the best days as far as we knew it then!!!

Yes they still make jiffy popcorn.. They sell it at both albertson's and savemart where the microwave popcorn is. And jiffy taste soo much better than microwave... But it costs $1.59 at albertsons and 99cents at savemart, that is what it was lasttime i bought it..

 

I'd just like to point out that kids starting college this year are mostly born in 1989!
And McDonals is wrapped in paper now, it was in Styrofoam before...

Jewels -  my mom still tells me that to this day.  She also has made promise to bury her in Clean Underwear.  She says she will haunt me if I don't.  Do they still make the Jiffy Popcorn to put on the stove?  I also remember TV Dinners being in aluminum trays and put in the oven.

I remember when one of my kids found our LP collection and said "wow look at those big CD's!".

See in old age I forgot to use the SP check this time that darn phone distracted me.

THANKS BLAZE ................for reminding me just how old I am ;-) 

Not only did McDonalds bugurs come wraped in paper, but a "Big Mac" was actualy Big and tasted good. Now is when we should be saying "where's the beef?"

I remember jiffy pop popcorn was all the rave.  I also said to someone the other day "My mom always told me to wear clean underwear in case i get in an accident", and they never heard that phrase and didnt quite get it!