I can remember when..................................

[Perknose]

My first flatbed scanner cost over $1,500 and was a genuine HOT DEAL, the absolute best price available.

My first Postscript printer was a cobbled together Canon engined laser box with a seperate HP controller and only cost about $1,000 total, which was an incredible bargain, as that same controller alone had cost $2,400 all by itself when it had first come out less than a year before.

Going back further, the Saturday kiddee matinee at the Manor theatre cost $.25, $.35 if it was a Disney movie, and we kids were lined up all the way around the building at least a half hour before. No butting-up in line!

They had, I'm not kidding or bs'ing, 8-10 adult ushers to TRY and keep a lid on the kiddee anarchy. Popcorn fights, taking your cardboard popcorn box, flattening it and sailing it at the screen, and general hooting and hollering ruled!

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Perknose
My first flatbed scanner cost over $1,500 and was a genuine HOT DEAL, the absolute best price available.

My first Postscript printer was a cobbled together Canon engined laser box with a seperate HP controller and only cost about $1,000 total, which was an incredible bargain, as that same controller alone had cost $2,400 all by itself when it had first come out less than a year before.

Going back further, the Saturday kiddee matinee at the Manor theatre cost $.25, $.35 if it was a Disney movie, and we kids were lined up all the way around the building at least a half hour before. No butting-up in line!

They had, I'm not kidding or bs'ing, 8-10 adult ushers to TRY and keep a lid on the kiddee anarchy. Popcorn fights, taking your cardboard popcorn box, flattening it and sailing it at the screen, and general hooting and hollering ruled!

damn perk how old are you?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: waggy
damn perk how old are you?

WHAT? (Cups ear and creakily leans forward.)

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: waggy
damn perk how old are you?

WHAT? (Cups ear and creakily leans forward.)

lol bastard.

if going to the movies was .25 you gotta be old! don't think i have ever gone for that cheap.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: waggy
damn perk how old are you?

WHAT? (Cups ear and creakily leans forward.)

lol bastard.

if going to the movies was .25 you gotta be old! don't think i have ever gone for that cheap.

Lol, even in the mid '70's when I lived in LA you could take in a near daily changing double feature (2nd run, but recent) for 99 cents at the Fox Venice in, well, Venice. Plus, with your stub, you could amble out and accross the street and buy good cheap food at either the Mexican place, the Veggie Place or the burger place.

The Fox Venice was HUGE, and they had taken out the first 15-20 rows of seats completely, so you could bring your own blankets and pillows and get cozy. And yes, there was a certain unmistakable smell in the air, too.

 

[Twofootputt]

• Buying gas for $0.23/gal
  Six digit phone numbers
  Programs on punch cards

Geezed out.

 

[waggy]

heh i used to go all the time when movies were $1-1.50 i would go to a movie nearly every weekend.


one thing i wish is that drive-ins were still around. i remember going and laying down in the back of the station wagon and watching all the driffrent movies even without sound.

 

[bobsmith1492]

I saw gas for $.64...

 

[nanette1985]

Are you a turtle?

 

[IronWing]

Do you remember when we used to sing,
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da?

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: spacejamz
children actually had respect for their elders (they would even say please and thank you)
no one was killed over a pair of shoes or an ipod
kids didn't go skiing off the roof of their house in a shopping cart or hit each other with metal folding chairs to impress their friends
there were no car deaths or accidents because of texting and driving
schools didn't have metal detectors and students didn't have to wear ID Badges
we actually got paddled if we got in trouble at school

You sound like a grump.

Originally posted by: Foxery
When black singers actually sang. With real notes!

And you sound like an asshole.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I told my friend to drive 2 blocks out of the way to get gas at Shell because it was $2.68 instead of $2.75 at most other places. This was post Katrina when gas backed away from 2.99.

Ok, but I remember gas being $1.09. I just can't put a date to it.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: spacejamz
children actually had respect for their elders (they would even say please and thank you)
no one was killed over a pair of shoes or an ipod
kids didn't go skiing off the roof of their house in a shopping cart or hit each other with metal folding chairs to impress their friends
there were no car deaths or accidents because of texting and driving
schools didn't have metal detectors and students didn't have to wear ID Badges
we actually got paddled if we got in trouble at school

You sound like a grump.

Originally posted by: Foxery
When black singers actually sang. With real notes!

And you sound like an asshole.

You sound like a smart-mouthed, know-it-all PUNK !
Now get off my yard!

 

[glenn1]

.... we kids were the remote control.
.... cars had wing windows instead of air conditioning.
.... soda didn't come in a diet version and used sugar rather than corn syrup.
.... people collected S&H green stamps.

 

[DomS]

I remember being like 4 and gas was .89 I was fascinated by prices of that stuff

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: glenn1
.... we kids were the remote control.
.... cars had wing windows instead of air conditioning.
.... soda didn't come in a diet version and used sugar rather than corn syrup.
.... people collected S&H green stamps.

...let's not forget "church keys" to open soda/beer back before there were pull-tab tops.

 

[Swagman]

My dad brought home a selsyn synchronous motor pair from the army surplus store, and rigged them up on a 10(?) foot tether to change tv channels on the rotary tuner.

The first commercially available tv remotes changed channels by pressing a large button that propelled a small steel slug into a floating metal plate that gave a tone that the set could hear. But not knowing that was how it worked until discovering that it was the vigorous horseplay with the dog that rattled its collar chain enough to change the channels, too.

A&W rootbeer could be bought in a quart waxed-cardboard cone . . . for 15 cents.

Heathkit sold a Thomas Organ kit . . . and you could sit there pounding your organ, with headphones on, until you reached the final crescendo.