Randy Shaver was a fresh face sports guy on TV.
Ron Schara wrote for the newspaper.
HBO & MTV were the in thing on cable.
Mille Lacs was known as the dead sea.
Phone booths were everywhere.
Atari was a gaming system.
Cell phones were what Captain Kirk talked to Spock on.
Heres one for you youngsters to google………Encyclopedia Britannica.
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We didn’t own a computer of any kind.
My Dad listened to his records every day cause he hated 8 tracks.
The Twins still hadn’t won a world series.
There weren’t any cordless battery tools.
Mark Rosen had hair, before he lost it, then grew it back.
Oh, I had to click on this.
When the next ice age was a scare.
When MPLS had 2 newspapers.
When we had nuclear drills at school.
When the 1st man landed on the moon.
When the 1st space shuttle landed.
When Disco was the rage.
When thinking you would never see a bald eagle in the wild.
When Nixon resigned.
When we got our vaccine shots in elementary school.
When I followed my baseball team on a hand held transistor radio.
My bike had a banana seat and a sissy bar.
All my jeans had iron on patches and they never faded.
Listening to the shadow on the radio at the campsite while sitting on a case of refundable Schmidt or phiefers bottles in front of a fire.
The phrase “Be kind, please rewind”
Girls couldn’t play hockey, but we could play ringette.
Twin Cities had only one area code and it was 612. But we only dialed the 7 digit phone numbers anyway.
More car and trucks were stick shift rather than automatic transmissions.
The neighborhood ice cream “truck”, was a three wheeled bike with an ice box.
Everyone I knew watched black and white tv.
Everyone I knew had to go to the TV to change channels, all three of them.
Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Green Jeans
It’s Howdy Doody Time
I remember when phone number started with letters Like; CO-lfax, AD-ams
We didn’t have Zipcodes
No area codes either, if you wanted long distance, you went thru the “operator”.
Lily Tomlin as a phone operator “Have I reached the party to whom I’m speaking?”
The phone had a cord and a rotary dial.
Zoilo, Harmon, Tony O., Mudcat and Kaat played for the league champions. Could hear the PA from Met Stadium in my back yard.
Rod Carew stole home 7 times in one season.
Alan Page played football and was not yet a Supreme Court Justice.
I went to the park in the morning and there were always enough kids for a pickup baseball/football/hockey game.
Grandpa threw the maroon and white 10 horsepower Johnson Seahorse in the trunk of his block long Chrysler and we drove to Mille Lacs for a weekend of fishing in a rented 14 foot boat.
Boys got in fist fights and no one got shot.
The older neighbor kid drove to South Dakota and brought back Black Cats and bottle rockets for the entire neighborhood, only charging enough to cover the fireworks and his gas.
Saturday morning watching cartoons on the black & white TV.
Lunch with Casey Jones.
Captain Kangaroo & Mr. Green Jeans.
Going on the Clancy and Willie TV show for my birthday party.
anyone remember listening to Lum and Abner? I do,what about Chicken man!!
I can remember listening to him while plowing until midnight.
Jerry Clower??
when funny was funny and no bad words were used to get a laugh,and who can forget Red Skelton??.
When floppy disks could destroy or save the world on Saturday morning cartoons
I remember going on a picnic with dad and coming home with mom.
Mystery theater on am radio
.36 cents for a gallon of gas
Ford pinto
Chevy Vega
AMC gremlin
When a 10 horse outboard was the big motor most boats were 14′, but a few people had a 16′
Before the Lowrance green box
It seemed like a lakemap was an advanced way of finding a spot
Pontoons were for old people
nobody knew what a kayak was
All baseball bats were wood
wrist rockets
4wd was an extreme rarity
the only foreign cars were VW bugs
radios were AM only
cars only had a speaker in the front dash, IF they had a radio at all
The first time I heard of radial tires
My first Nerf ball!! 1970 I think
My first Nerf ball!! 1970 I think
Damn sheldon you can remember way back.
I remember when the teachers could discipline kids and not get in trouble.I happen to know some who were not afraid to lay a hand on you.Don’t ask me how i know.
We had about 6 channels to choose from on the old black and white Zenith.
Damn sheldon you can remember way back.
I remember when the teachers could discipline kids and not get in trouble.I happen to know some who were not afraid to lay a hand on you.Don’t ask me how i know.
We had about 6 channels to choose from on the old black and white Zenith.
YEOW!! you had to bring up old teachers !! cheesenrice I can feel that danged old hickory ruler across the back of my hands just thinking about it !!
if that were allowed today some pantie waist would run home to their tofu farting parents crying to momma how they was abused at school and never admit that they were in the wrong.
I will freely admit,I deserved every beating I ever got.
When I was a kid, I had to walk through eight feet of shag carpet just to change the channel. Then it was another eight feet trudging back to the couch 
The phrase “Be kind, please rewind”
Ha! Love this one!
Mad Dog
Crusher
Sodbuster Kenny Jay
We all had it coming either at school or at home later.If the teacher smacked us at school you got 2 another at home.
Rufus R Jones,King Kong Bundy.
When there wasn’t a McDonalds in every town.
We all had it coming either at school or at home later.If the teacher smacked us at school you got 2 another at home.
Rufus R Jones,King Kong Bundy.
Yeppers, pick your poison? I’d always pick home for the beating.
Was so much more humiliating to get whacked at school in front of all your classmates.
Worst was the hair grab by the 7th grade science teacher. His name was Heitkampf. And yes, he looked the part of the Waffen SS. 
Oh and say can you see, King Kong Bundy… 
All we had to worry about was if the Ruskies would blow us up.
Oh and who’s older brother or sister would buy beer. 
I remember when you could pour gas out of a gas can.
Drinking the polio vaccine in elementary school.
The high bean switch was on the floor and activated by your left foot
Windshield washer pump was on the floor and activated by same left foot (this may have been an aftermarket add on)
You turned on the tv about 5 minutes before the show so it could warm up
Bomb scares at school
When Title IX took effect the girls basketball team got the time after school to practice forcing the boys freshman team to practice before school
When Lindy Rigs and back trolling became popular
Watching all the old sitcoms in prime time
Star Trek’s original episodes
Tennis shoes were for PhyEd at school, then you could wear them the next summer
Fishing with cane poles
Gold Bond and S&H Green Stamps
It took cash or a check to buy something. Not a piece of plastic.
When there wasn’t a McDonalds in every town.
They built the first “Henrys” hamburger joint right behind the Jr. High, when I was in 8th grade. All us kids that had any money swarmed the place right after school. If you were real daring, you’d sneak over there during school hours.
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