Atari was a gaming system.
Heres one for you youngsters to google………Encyclopedia Britannica.
LOVED our Encyclopedia Britannica set! I remember when my best friend got an Atari. He was a town kid, so his parents cable and everything. Heck, I remember getting excited about getting Fox as a fourth channel so we could watch the Simpsons.
Remember when microwaves weren’t a thing? How about calculators? When we got our first one, took my brother and I about five minutes to spell “5318008”.
Jc Penny’s or Sears wish book catalog. Usually came in the fall
Jc Penny’s or Sears wish book catalog. Usually came in the fall
How about the blue chip or green stamp catalog?
Studebaker Lark
Rowdy Yates
The original Wonderful World of Disney
Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom
Wizard of oz in b&w
Minnesotas very own Verne Gagne
Dr. Max show
Ice fishing was with a spud bar, 5 gallon bucket, and no flasher
$40 coon (carcass) were the average
100 bushel/acre corn was a benchmark
SNL with Belushi, Akroyd, and Gang was must see TV
Sadly, iron lungs. Thankfully, polio vaccine.
Wild Kingdom i believe we watched it before Disney.I forgot about Verne.
The Jackie Gleason Show
Laurel and Hardy and All Star Wresting on Sunday mornings
Those original LED calculators ate batteries all day long. No wonder they came with an AC adaptor. Still have mine.
my son has us all beat,he said he can remember building the house he was born in 
my son has us all beat,he said he can remember building the house he was born in
ok bubba time to put the jug back in the cupboard and go lay down!!!
i’m old enough to know better….young enough to try er again!!!!!!! 
sometimes.
green acres
hogans hero’s
rowan and martins laughing
dean martin celebrity roast.
Beverly hillbilly’s
hogans heros
petticote junction
gilligans island
Mel Allen and This Week in Baseball. Caught up on the whole week of action in a half hour just before being able to watch one of the two televised baseball games of the week. Saturday afternoons game of the week and Monday night baseball.
Hunting and fishing with Curt Gowdy
Fishing with Virgil Ward
Jc Penny’s or Sears wish book catalog. Usually came in the fall
How about Spurgeons(like JC Penney) or Woolworths-a shopping store with a diner in it. All those red vinyl covered seats at the counter never forget those
When the opening day for pool 4 was always the 1st weekend in may.
Trapping gophers for the local farmers. Would get 10 cents for a striped gopher and 25 cents for a pocket gopher.
Sky King
How many remember Andy’s Gang? What other show could get you to sit in front of the TV and holler “Plunk you’re Magic Twanger Froggy”!!! 
Wide World Of Sports.The agony of defeat the thrill of victory.
Great read — down memory lane — I remember
“Counter checks” every store had the local bank’s blank checks that one could fill out to pay for the purchase. The store clerk would even fill out the check except for the signature for my Grandpa.
As a kid, you played in the neighborhood all day, probably ate lunch over at your buddy’s house and showed up at home for supper. Had to behave tho, because all your buddy’s mom were your Mom too so behave!
When my youngest son was 15, we bought an ’84 Ford Tempo ~ 1998, he went out to look at the “new vehicle” that he would potentially be driving in another year and came in befuddled and said: Dad, the radio, it’s analog! (with a rotary dial that moved a bar across the screen to change the frequency). I said: But it is AM/FM.
“Counter checks” every store had the local bank’s blank checks that one could fill out to pay for the purchase. The store clerk would even fill out the check except for the signature for my Grandpa.
Yes!!! And you also could just stick it on “my tab” to be settled up at months end.
What really makes me scratch my head these days is how few kids you see on their bikes or just out walking around & playing in the summer.
How about Mr. Ed the talking horse.
Wild Kingdom i believe we watched it before Disney.I forgot about Verne.
Marlin would watch Jim getting whupped on by an alligator!
Gilligans island
Floppy
Somebody told me the cassette was going to take the place of the 8 track, Yea right!
No seat belts or bike helmets and we lived
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House with the magic window.
Ronald Reagan as a sports announcer for WHO radio.
Playing cards attached to my bike fender bracket with a clothespin to let the spokes paddle them was kewl.
Schwinn stingray with a banana seat and sissy bar.
Motorcycles with with ape hangers.
When a 650 Bonneville was king of the track and hill climbing. HD was just strong in the track.
3rd grade it was to cold to go out for recess had an 8th grade patrol girl watching us. Told her to shut up for some reason. Sister Avila washed my mouth out with soap. Couldn’t wait to go home and tell mom so she could yell at the nun only to be told that was good for me for talking that way.
3 on the tree
When only Chinese people wore masks outside all day.
MTV coming to life on our 29” Color TV, courtesy of the 14’ satellite dish in the front yard. That was cool
Vacuum assist windshield wipers – Rambler American
Fizzies
Only 2 brands of dog food – Gaines and Purina in the back of the store
Mom darning socks
1st transistor radio
Studded snow tires
buckle galoshes
slide rules
HBO & MTV were the in thing on cable.
When MTV played music and cable had no “reality” programming.
Fishing electronics was the Lowrance green box.
Fishing lures were made out of wood.
A bench seat Lund was a fishing boat.
A 16′ bench seat Lund was a big fishing boat.
An ice auger was the Swedish Spoon.
Bird hunters used a 16 gauge for everything.
Wearing red was legal when deer hunting.
One of my earliest memories was watching the moon landing on TV.
Saturday morning cartoons
The first aluminum baseball bats
McDonalds was a treat that we got maybe once per year
Kool Aid
Gunsmoke, Beverly Hillbillies
Matinee movies- Herbie, Witch Mountain etc
Johnny Carson as Art Fern and the Matinee Lady.
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