Are you old enough to do these things?

OhLook wrote in post #18663335
Some ate off TV trays

Swanson TV dinner: https://youtu.be/MPyIe​S6SPGM
The lucky housewife

A little off topic, but why are all videos over 20 yrs old or so made to look older than they really are? The videos from the mid or late 60's onward should still look pretty good. Especially those from the late 70's and later. I saw an interview with Trump taken in the 80's they made look like it was VERY vintage. I wish they'd stop that.
Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
We now resume the program that's in progress....

OhLook wrote in post #18663335
Come on, that's not old. I think of those devices as modern luxuries. People planned their evenings around the broadcast schedule. Some ate off TV trays.

Remember not watching TV at all?

A party line was cheaper than a private line. Some households in the country didn't even have phones.

And thanks to telemarketers scammers, I'd like to give up the phone.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18611986
Most of the shows that were on in the 1970's I had no idea were in color.

During the early 1970s color television in North America outsold black and white or monochrome units.
With the 3rd season (1966-67) of Bewitched (Samantha Montgomery) they switched to color broadcast
Ed Sullivan announced he would switch to color after 1965.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18663360
The first VHS home recorders became mass market around the mid to late 1970s. That's about 40 years ago, or more.
Depends on age. For some the pre-recording era was a long time ago.

I remember eating tv dinners when the tray was made out of aluminum (before micro-wave ovens). Now they are made from plastic.

I think I have always watched tv growing up. But my parents placed limits on tv watching. Me and my sisters could pick out a few of our favorite shows
to watch. But excessive tv watching or binging was not allowed. I've been a big book and magazine reader all my life.

I remember watching Hogan's Heros on a B&W TV and eating from an aluminum TV dinner tray. Man.. those were the days! Simple things like that were really appreciated. Now a days, people get grump when there 4G drops signal.

Andrew

We moved into this house 34 years ago and it was on a party line, stayed that way for years. The neighbour teenagers hogged the line.

Anyone remember watching "The Quatermass Experiment" series on B&W TV in the UK way back in the 50's? There was only one TV on our RAF station at the time and some of us gathered once a week to watch it. This was scary stuff at the time.

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18630122
I carried a pocket knife in elementary school, 5th and 6th grade.

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In 11th grade, I would bring a 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun to school. . I kept it in my locker until after school, when my friend (he drove) and I would go hunting.

By time I was in 12th grade, I drove myself, so I would keep the shotgun in the trunk of my car during the school day - there was no need to bring it into the school building anymore.


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Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18663319
Remember visiting Blockbuster video stores? Now there is only one left, in Bend, Oregon after 2 stores in Alaska said they would close.

Blockbuster closed its last few hundred corporate-owned stores in 2013 but privately owned stores that license the Blockbuster brand, like the one in Oregon, have remained.

I remember going to Blockbuster, first for VHS or Beta tapes, then later for DVDs. I stopped going when Nexflix offered DVD rentals via the mail.

I also remember watching tv when there were no home recording devices, VHS or DVD. If you missed a favorite show you were out of luck. Maybe see it during the summer reruns if you were lucky.

A friend of mine from high school opened a video rental store shortly after we graduated in 1985. It was a bit of a dream job for movie nuts like us. I used to spend a lot of time just hanging out, and of course had access to all of the new releases as soon as they hit the shelves!

It was Blockbuster (and Major Video) that put him and all the other good independents out of business,. the circle of retail life.

drifter106 wrote in post #18663323
old enough to remember my grandmother, who lived in the country, had a phone. It was such that it was called "party lines". You could pick up the phone an hear the conversations of your neighbor. There was usually 4 or 5 people who shared the same line....you could listen in on what was being said.

OMG, my grandmother as well. At her summer place in Georgian Bay.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18663360
The first VHS home recorders became mass market around the mid to late 1970s. That's about 40 years ago, or more.
Depends on age. For some the pre-recording era was a long time ago.

I remember eating tv dinners when the tray was made out of aluminum (before micro-wave ovens). Now they are made from plastic.

I think I have always watched tv growing up. But my parents placed limits on tv watching. Me and my sisters could pick out a few of our favorite shows
to watch. But excessive tv watching or binging was not allowed. I've been a big book and magazine reader all my life.

I miss the REAL Hungry Man dinners that took 45 minutes in a real oven

icopus wrote in post #18663379
A little off topic, but why are all videos over 20 yrs old or so made to look older than they really are? The videos from the mid or late 60's onward should still look pretty good. Especially those from the late 70's and later. I saw an interview with Trump taken in the 80's they made look like it was VERY vintage. I wish they'd stop that.
Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
We now resume the program that's in progress....

Well, I watch very few movies. But a couple of years ago I bought the 1971 movie Evil Knievel with George Hamilton on dvd.
The video quality was very poor, even though the dvd & case appears to be legit and not bootleg.

Is this what you're speaking of?

Btw, the movie is silly and over-acted.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18664152
Well, I watch very few movies. But a couple of years ago I bought the 1971 movie Evil Knievel with George Hamilton on dvd.
The video quality was very poor, even though the dvd & case appears to be legit and not bootleg.

Is this what you're speaking of?

Btw, the movie is silly and over-acted.

Indeed it was!

No, I'm sorry. I was talking about news reels mostly. I should have said that.
When they show videos clips in documentaries or recapping an event, the clips seems to have aged beyond the period in the clip. I've seen clips that were taped in color, even from the 80's, converted to black and white with graininess added just for the age effect.
For me, it decreases the credibility of the report, update, documentary, etc.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18663319
Remember visiting Blockbuster video stores?

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That doesn't seem very long ago at all. . I think they were still pretty much commonplace just 10 or 20 years ago.


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drifter106 wrote in post #18663323
old enough to remember my grandmother, who lived in the country, had a phone. It was such that it was called "party lines". You could pick up the phone an hear the conversations of your neighbor. There was usually 4 or 5 people who shared the same line....you could listen in on what was being said.

Yes. grandparents had the same in Ohio in the early 60s. I would sneak in and pick up the phone, ever so quietly, I thought. We had a three digit phone number. One would pick up the phone, the operator would answer, and would be given the number to which one wished to be connected.