CB radios were an important safety device on the road prior to cell phones, particularly for women traveling alone. When I was 18yo and my VW Superbeetle(!) broke down on a deserted, dark highway far from home, I used my CB radio to connect with a nice trucker who found someone on a home base who called the state police to come and help me. It could well be those kind people saved my life-at the very least they were certainly reassuring voices when I was very much alone. Thank you to all kind truckers who help stranded motorists!
I remember when CB radio caught on here in Australia. I never got into it but a few of my friends did. It was funny how despite being Aussies, they all became Texans when they got on the radio, calling each other "good buddy" and saying stuff like "Tha's a big ten-foah!" There was a hit song called "Convoy" on the radio at the time, shortly followed by a movie based on the song (and another movie, "Smokey and the Bandit") which popularized CB culture, as well as the lingo and (in our case) the misplaced accents which went with it 😁
I installed a quadraphonic AM/FM 8 track floor mount tape deck in my 1958 Eldorado Brougham 45 years ago And it is still there! Partially because the round cylindrical magnetic key to unlock it from the center floor hump mounting bracket was misplaced many years ago! It still works and speakers were installed externally to be removed if no longer wanted with no holes cut in door panels etc. the quad 8 tracks are hard to find these days but every once in awhile i do find another. It plays normal 8 tracks just fine also.
I once bought a used car that had a 8 track tape player. The problem was that the previous owner had a tape stuck in the player and it couldn’t be removed. I didn’t even like the music on the tape. The car was a beater and it wasn’t a big deal to not be able to use the radio.
I remember all of these. My mother still has her 8-track player, and tapes to go in it (Tony orlando & Dawn among others). I still us tv tables, and i still have an old CB. Yes, I'm old.
I was a teenager in the mid-70's - made a HUGE amount of money (typically $300/mo) installing CB radios and/or 8 tracks. Charged $10 for CB's, 8 tracks (with a FM converter) cost a bit more because I would have to run wires and mount speakers. For a buck more I'd mount the speakers so you could pull them out and set on the roof for music at a "field party".
I remember the following items on your video: 1. CB Radio ( although I never used one) but heard conversations on a scanner. 2. 8 Track - dated guys who had 8 tracks in their car's 3. Dinner Trays. My parent's had aluminum TV trays with some pattern on them. 4. Swanson TV Dinners - My mom/dad bought them all the time. I remember we mostly ate the fried chicken dinner or Salisbury steak ones. Good deserts, especially the brownies. I was too old to ever tried Nerds cereal by the time they came out mostly geared for kids in the 1980's but the cereal bowls sound very unique. Wonder if anyone kept the bowls and still have it today?
My parents created a conversation pit that centered on the old stone fireplace built in 1801. My father later removed it, but I have so many memories that centered on that room that it would take hours to share them all! Not many folks these days remember them, but I loved ours.
I used to get on the trucker's channel (19?) and ask for a (if I remember correctly) 10 36 in a sexy southern accent. I'd have guys wanting to know where I was. I'd never tell them. My friends and I would be dying 😂
My Dad had a CB radio in the car. I remember he let me use it on trips. Back then, people were nicer-truckers got a kick out of my young self using handles and talking the "CB talk". I remember connect 4, but chess was always my game. I think I played it with my brother a few times, but it didn't do much for me. So neat to see these blasts from the past. But yes, it IS a reminder of my age (I'm pushing close to 50)
@@StevenWood1210 I actually did too. This was in the early 90s, so it was towards the end of this era. I remember taking a road trip with some friends (we were in 2 cars-there were 6 or 7 of us). We didn't see a sign to turn off CBs as they were blasting the mountain. The police were pulling over trucks left and right until they realised it was us (We got a telling off and a warning)
I still have my Schwinn Stingray bike I got new in 1967, I was 10 years old now 67, it's campus' green. Still have 8 track tapes and have tape players in 2 of my cars
Fun Fact: the 8 track came from the radio industry. The had a similar cartridge to pre-record (say commercials, or news, etc.) The difference being the radio version had a round indente underneath to accommodate a drive wheel. The public version was flat underneath and was driven by the tape itself. Also remeber seeing them blowing in the wind on the side of the road. Players had a bad habit of eating the tape.😂
I remember most of these. I am one of the few people who actually got a CB license - KTF4294. Still have it, along with a ham and GMRS license. "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end, we'd sing and dance forever and a day, we'd live the life we'd choose, we'd fight and never lose,...
Still have a copy of my old CB license KMK 2994, those were the good old days, today I operate on the HF HAM bands as well as two meters (KD6VKJ) yeah both CB and ham can be fun both have a useful place. A few of the CB radios they showed I actually have sitting in my shop at this time, and they still work.
@@mysticwolf2842 Hey good buddy, thanks for the reply. My GMRS is WRXN479 and ham is N7PTC. I lived north of you in Yuba City for 20 years. I loved CA, but not the politics. 73.
Canadian here. We had three cbs - my father had a mobile one in the car; my mum had one with a mic gain in the bedroom; I used one in the livingroom - each of us had our own individual cb license. I remember applying for it when I was 18. Had to pay a fee of course. Was so proud of it when it came in the mail.
I’ll go further back. I had a Craig 4 track in the early 60’s. You had to put the case into the machine and had to engage the roller manually to make it work. This was the precursor to the 8 track.
TV Dinners and Jiffy Pop Popcorn were there for me. Some people put record players and "Reverbs" in their cars, look out for RR Teacks! One lady hid her 8 track tapes in a throw pillow case with a zipper closure, neat and hid the fact that she had an 8 track player to steal. (Detroit MI)
I remember going to visit older relatives out in the country, and the upstairs rooms had a big square of linoleum, usually with a floral pattern, in the center of the room, to within two or three feet of the walls. The part of the wooden floor not covered was painted in a neutral color. These older aunts and uncles still had outhouses recently converted to tool sheds because they had just recently gotten indoor plumbing. The electrical systems in these old homes had the plug outlets on the floor, usually only one per room, as electricity was a luxury back then, and all you needed was one outlet for lamps or an old, giant wooden radio.
I had a Panasonic home stereo, AM-FM with 8-track, AND an 8-track player in my car with Craig 6x9 co-axial speakers in the back and 5" speakers in the front, plus a cool selection of 8-track tapes. That was some serious sound back then. To this day, I have no idea what happened to my 8-track collection.
I had a Craig Power Play cassette deck back in the 70s...that was a real high powered unit...a whopping 12 watts per channel! Only a 2 channel system, but back then, it was an impressive unit. It had a slide-in under-dash mount, so you could take it out of the vehicle so it wouldn't get stolen. The "Craig" logo on the volume knob would light up red when you hit peak power! LOL!
Of course I remember Connect 4 from the 80's, but I also remember seeing kids choose it during board game activities at an elementary school just a few weeks ago.
I remember when a glove box full of 8-tracks would lead to heartache and frustration, after being in a closed car after several hot summer days , and opening said glove box to pull out one of your fave 8 tracks just to find that the splices had let go from the heat, or worse yet the cartridge was warped and partially melted. and unusable .hell, they were just $8-9 bucks back then, so you could just cruise on over to Sam Goodie and pick up a replacement.
I remember chatting with a co-worker one morning on the way to work,when I got to work my co-worker's were laughing at me"you should hear Vince on the CB he sounds just like himself "duh, well excuse me for being straight forward instead of a cowboy trucker.
I remember all those things except the Nerds cereal, I don't ever recall seeing that in any grocery stores in my area, they must have been a here today, gone tomorrow fad.
@@MemoryManor The Flooring Pattern was so UGLY but COOL LOOKING but the Memories are priceless and Thank You for Bring back those Memories and Polyester Leisure Suits were GD ugly but you looked COOL wearing them and the women were 100% erotic looking
What's ironic is that there were old people when I was young. Now I'm getting old and it's Natural.. What's stupid is the young think they won't get old. Be proud of getting older, most won't have that luxury. 💪
I remember the hot CB craze back in the day. I had many friends who were really into it at the time. But the thing that led me to the video was the picture in the listing thumbnail of the lovely lady with the CB mike to her ear. It has been a long time since I have seen or heard of model and actress Rene Russo, but I remember her well from the many magazine covers and the movies she starred in. Her I remember quite well.
I remember and I owned the game connect four, though I played with the pieces more than I played the actual game. Are used to stack them, flip them, and all kinds of fun stuff.
I had a Panasonic portable 8-track player that I carried with me E V E R Y W H E R E. Both of our family cars had 8 track players so that worked out great for me too.
I was house-sitting for some wealthy people once, and they had a "sunken living room" which was a bit bigger than the "conversation pits" shown here. I had my mother over briefly to enjoy a small portion of the fancy house I was looking after. We ate lunch in the kitchen and were retiring to the sunken living room to merely sit in the opulence of such a nice house. I sat down and settled into my comfy seat just in time to see my sixty year-old mom step into and fall two feet down into the living room. She landed on her entire frontside as even her face hit the tile floor. Miraculously, she wasn't hurt. Sunken living rooms are like skydiving : you gotta carefully watch that first step.
I'm too old for Nerds cereal. If I did my math right, they came out the year I got married... CB radio was big when I was in Jr. High and High School. Damped out a bit when I got to college. Never played Connect 4, but in the early 2000's my daughter got a similar game called "Ducks in a Row" for Easter. Small and cheaply made in pastel colors, she and my wife played quite a bit for a few weeks, and then sporadically thereafter. My Dad got a car in the early 70's with a built-in 8 track player. Shortly thereafter, we got a new fancy stereo console that had a radio, turntable, and 8 track player. I've had TV trays as long as I can remember. Both the old-fashioned metal ones, and a newer wooden sets like the one I just bought a couple months ago. We use them for more than just eating, though. The first house I bought was built in the 50's and had the original speckle-pattern linoleum floor. We replaced it with vinyl a couple years before we sold it. Prettier and easier on the feet. I saw a lot of pictures of conversation pits, but we never had one ourselves...
I had a Craig 8 track. I thought 8 track was the thing, that was until the tapes wrapped around the capstan, the foil splice would break, the foam buffer the tapes rode on disintegrated. Nothing but pains in the ass.
Not just that, but the way they would cut off a song for what it seemed a lifetime, because it was switching tracks! Iron Butterfly's "In a Gadda Da Vida", I think was broken down into 3 or 4 sections. I much preferred 4 track.
The ass with Linoleum is the real deal materials not the Vinyl style but the other is the tiles had to be glued down so removing them is a nightmare as in most cases every inch had to be glued down. This is why in my house from 1960 a similar early Linoleum like material that is in bigger sections is staying becuse it is glue to the subfloor is fixed in such a way that a tiny bit of the subfloor will come up with the early Linoleum like material and this is the early version is odd so it chips like the old stiffer plastic countertops when removed to do a cheaper re-lamination with wood or the plastic resin material used on tops of them now.
I remember using Dinner Trays on special occasions. The one I remember the most is when King Kong came on TV in 3-D. We had to get the glasses at McDonalds (or some other fast food place) and then watch it. It wasn't too impressive, but the idea of it, and I think we had a bunch of my friends over (I remember Brian and Deanna at least-there were probably more) made it neat. (I don't think Brian had a colour TV yet, so it was really cool for him) EDIT: I just looked it up-it was "Revenge of the Creature", not King Kong. Wow-that was back in '82!
I wouldn't offend the content creator but I will say that at 34 years of age I "remember" most of these, like connect four. However the dinner tray? My aunt and uncle still use them, my grandparents use these things. I have sat in the living room using these things to put my laptop on to work while watching TV.....it's not a forgotten thing, it's still used, at least for me.
My Mom bought dinners as a special treat...we ate them off TV trays in front of the TV set...They were delicious. Nothigl iike them today..up until 7 years ago I worked as a dispatcher for a delivery company. dispatching trucks over a CB radio..I also remember 8 track cassettes and still have a box of them in my basement along with a track four game...
I remember circa 1960, the coal truck backing up to our cellar window and via a ramp, dumped our delivery of coal in the coal room. From there we would shovel coal into the furnace to heat the 4 bedroom, two story house.
I know, my 10 year old granddaughter has a Connect 4 game. Poor old gal, I'll have to get her a cane. Still like the channel though. He's trying and like all old things he'll improve with age.
My first exposure to CB (citizens' band) radios was at the tender age of ten, when my Dad put me to work (parttime) as a dispatcher for his taxicab company in 1968.
My CB radio helped me to get emergency help. After I rolled my CJ5 Jeep down a steep hill. Totally destroyed that Jeep. I also remember what was before 8 Trac tapes. Real to real tape player and Cassette players. Then there were the record players. How many people out there remember listening to the 45 records, or watching American Bandstand?
The metal tv dinner trays were reused in my home. My mother was oldest daughter in a family of 14 and cooked big meals eve tough there was only 5 of us. She started making up her own tv dinners from our meals. She wrote what was in each meal and froze them. Then if something came up where she couldn’t cook we could get a meal from the freezer and heat it in the oven. Still had a healthy balanced hot meal. I still do this because they now make freezer to microwave divided dishes with covers.
I remember most of these. I was a teenager in the 80s. I loved Nerds candy but don't remember trying the cereal. Never saw a conversation pit either. My favorite Christmas gifts were Superstar Barbie and her Corvette which had 3 tiny 8 track tapes in it. I think they got lost within a day. I believe that was 1978.
In the late 1990's and early 2000's there was a few of the Healthy Choice TV dinner or the Weight Watchers one that had to be recalled and I know exactly why they gave people some issues like my dad. Still nothing to the Foxy brand lettuce or other veggies from Foxy brand mainly the Carrots in the 2010's not knowing if that was going to cause bathroom issues or worse both bathroom issues and vomiting.
Our first record player had a crank on the side and you set the record speed with a small lever by the turntable. The vinyl records were like a quarter inch thick.
That very first linoleum picture with the lady mopping was the pattern we had in the kitchen in the house we lived in when I was in the third/fourth/fifth grades.
I remember buying our 1st new car. It was a 78 Buick Regal and I was 10. To close the deal my dad insisted they remove the cassette stereo and put in an 8-Track. He was convinced cassette was just a fad.
CB radios were popular with truckers and other drivers because the speed limit even on freeways was 55mph. Drivers used them to tell each other where the police were.
OMG! Linoleum was the successor for rubolioum used aboard the 1936 Queen Mary in social areas. It was linoleum plus rubber plus cork for comfortable walk. Oddly, women used to dig into the floors with his heals during bad weather leaving holes in the florors still there today In Long Beach, CA today where not restored.
When I saw the CB in the thumbnail, I immediately heard: "Yeah, breaker 1-9, this here's the Rubber Duck. You get a copy on me Pig Pen, c'mon." If you know, you know.
CB radio’s we’re killed by the movie, Smokey and the Bandit. We needed channel 10 to contact other drivers. Then base stations started running power and wouldn’t shut up. Cursing and just being a jerk (radio Rambo), is common in the northeast. 8-track players are great. One of my sons asked me to get rid of it and get a cassette player. I told him, they don’t make your music on 8 track. When you buy your own car, you can put in whatever you want. I didn’t know linoleum is out of style. I guess the drop living room is too? Now I feel old. I still have and use all this stuff.
2:53 is that Rene Russo?... Anyway in 1973 I got my first car, a 1957 Chevy 4 door station wagon. My uncles next door neighbor tried to convert it to propane but gave up on it. So the deal was made that if I could get it, and all the spare parts, out of his sight in a weeks time, he would hand me the pink slip. Even though I was only 13, that car, and all the parts was in my backyard in 5 days. I started tinkering with it and with the help of my uncle(who also gave me a job at his service station so I had money for the repairs) when I got my learners permit at 15 1/2 I was driving that wagon. I had put a 8-trac player in it and to make a longer story short, I accidentally super glued the tape "Telstar" by the Ventures into the tape player, I listened to that tape for a year or so until I was able to get another tape player. I never had the nerve to cut the dash up so the decks were always in the glove box. It's got a CD player now, someday i'll have to up-grade to some kind of Bluetooth thing.
We eat at the kitchen table, not in the living room, on TV trays. Mom wouldn't allow food in the living room. Plus, she cooked every night, a full meal. And we didn't talk crazy at the table. I did eat some TV dinners, usually fish sticks and Mac n Cheese. But, the Salisbury Steak, or sliced beef, in gravy, was much better tasting then. Mom would occasionally fix me a hungry man, but that was too expensive. As for the Conversation pit, that's something I dont remember much. Ours was gathering around the TV ,
A cereal memory from back in the day, an offering from Post (General Foods) that was quite tasty, but most unfortunately named; it's no wonder it was so short-lived, "Crispy Critters" (sounded like victims of a forest fire).
Right after I got my call sign the fcc, (uncle Charlie) dropped the license requirement for CB had a great little portable 8track player in Jr high school (middle school for you kids) but the nerds, that came out when my daughters were little , now I feel really old
not really Trix in the 1990's was more like the small fruit shaped candy that Wonka company came out with in the 1990's before the big push in 1997--1998 for the company. The Shapeless Balls they became was later in the 2000's around 2007--2008 about the time the mini depression first hit. No wait this is Kix cereal I am thinking of that I hated becuse they had one with no flavor even though it was supposed to be some kind of Honeydew melon but tasted like pure sugar.
"Nerds Cereal"? Never heard of it. CB Radio? I remember it, but I didn't have it in the car . Radio and Cassette tapes were more my thing. Connect Four? I only saw TV ads for the game, 8 Track? By the time I bought a car to put an AM/FM/Cassette player, 8 Track was passe. TV Trays? I recall the family did use them to watch TV or for guests during holiday seasons. TV Dinners? I did have some of those, fresh from the oven back then. Linoleum Tile? I walk on those every day. Conversation Pit? That was for Rich Folks.
CB radios were an important safety device on the road prior to cell phones, particularly for women traveling alone. When I was 18yo and my VW Superbeetle(!) broke down on a deserted, dark highway far from home, I used my CB radio to connect with a nice trucker who found someone on a home base who called the state police to come and help me. It could well be those kind people saved my life-at the very least they were certainly reassuring voices when I was very much alone. Thank you to all kind truckers who help stranded motorists!
I remember when CB radio caught on here in Australia. I never got into it but a few of my friends did. It was funny how despite being Aussies, they all became Texans when they got on the radio, calling each other "good buddy" and saying stuff like "Tha's a big ten-foah!" There was a hit song called "Convoy" on the radio at the time, shortly followed by a movie based on the song (and another movie, "Smokey and the Bandit") which popularized CB culture, as well as the lingo and (in our case) the misplaced accents which went with it 😁
The sad thing is, no one communicates anymore. Everyone lives in their phone from early on. We have truly "progressed" into a cultural abyss.
agree wholeheartedly
I installed a quadraphonic AM/FM 8 track floor mount tape deck in my 1958 Eldorado Brougham 45 years ago And it is still there! Partially because the round cylindrical magnetic key to unlock it from the center floor hump mounting bracket was misplaced many years ago! It still works and speakers were installed externally to be removed if no longer wanted with no holes cut in door panels etc. the quad 8 tracks are hard to find these days but every once in awhile i do find another. It plays normal 8 tracks just fine also.
I once bought a used car that had a 8 track tape player. The problem was that the previous owner had a tape stuck in the player and it couldn’t be removed. I didn’t even like the music on the tape. The car was a beater and it wasn’t a big deal to not be able to use the radio.
I remember all of these. My mother still has her 8-track player, and tapes to go in it (Tony orlando & Dawn among others). I still us tv tables, and i still have an old CB. Yes, I'm old.
No you are not old your a guy might think you're old but you're NOT ... CBs Radios 8 Track players and a lot of other stuff is still selling today
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You’re Ancient 🤣
I was a teenager in the mid-70's - made a HUGE amount of money (typically $300/mo) installing CB radios and/or 8 tracks. Charged $10 for CB's, 8 tracks (with a FM converter) cost a bit more because I would have to run wires and mount speakers. For a buck more I'd mount the speakers so you could pull them out and set on the roof for music at a "field party".
I remember the following items on your video:
1. CB Radio ( although I never used one) but heard conversations on a scanner.
2. 8 Track - dated guys who had 8 tracks in their car's
3. Dinner Trays. My parent's had aluminum TV trays with some pattern on them.
4. Swanson TV Dinners - My mom/dad bought them all the time.
I remember we mostly ate the fried chicken dinner or Salisbury steak ones. Good deserts, especially the brownies.
I was too old to ever tried Nerds cereal by the time they came out mostly geared for kids in the 1980's but the cereal bowls sound very unique.
Wonder if anyone kept the bowls and still have it today?
My parents created a conversation pit that centered on the old stone fireplace built in 1801. My father later removed it, but I have so many memories that centered on that room that it would take hours to share them all! Not many folks these days remember them, but I loved ours.
Definitely the best spot in the house to hang out with friends and family
I Remember then and the conversation was the Bomb back then i would love to see the pit come back with the Shag Rug
Conversation pits were a hazard and the source of more than a few lawsuits, which is why you don't see them anymore.
@@rhinehardt1 not in this photo but a Lot of Conversation pits had Decorative Railing around them just for that reason
Can you imagine a conversation pit today? Everybody sitting facing each other staring at and talking into or typing into their mobile devices??
8:33 A surround sound conversation pit... what a brilliant way to use a quadraphonic sound system!
CB radio was all the rage, had great fun with my friends annoying others.
same here! oh the joys of simple times am i right?
What was your call sign?
@@aussie8114Fireman Freddy, KATR 3523.
Met a lot of friends on the CB.
I used to get on the trucker's channel (19?) and ask for a (if I remember correctly) 10 36 in a sexy southern accent. I'd have guys wanting to know where I was. I'd never tell them. My friends and I would be dying 😂
My Dad had a CB radio in the car. I remember he let me use it on trips. Back then, people were nicer-truckers got a kick out of my young self using handles and talking the "CB talk". I remember connect 4, but chess was always my game. I think I played it with my brother a few times, but it didn't do much for me. So neat to see these blasts from the past. But yes, it IS a reminder of my age (I'm pushing close to 50)
@@StevenWood1210 I actually did too. This was in the early 90s, so it was towards the end of this era. I remember taking a road trip with some friends (we were in 2 cars-there were 6 or 7 of us). We didn't see a sign to turn off CBs as they were blasting the mountain. The police were pulling over trucks left and right until they realised it was us (We got a telling off and a warning)
Early 30's here, I owned one of those Uniden Washington's (sold it and bought a proper radio that does ham and CB) 🙂
that was timeless piece of technology! but i guess getting one that can do both is an upgrade am i right?
My "Realistic" brand CB was a lifeline that saved people during hurricanes in Florida.
My "Realistic" brand CB was a lifeline that saved people during hurricanes in Florida.
I had an 8-track in my first car, it was under the dash which means I could take it out and put it in the trunk so no one would steal it.
Probably had to since those were heabily sought after in the past
Bell bottom jeans and feathered hair was a thing the too. And BMX bikes were starting to take over for the banana seat bikes.
The 70s was super rad.
I had a high rise handlebar and banana seat bike in the 70s. Was so happy to have it. Cruised around on it a lot even at night lol.
I still have my Schwinn Stingray bike I got new in 1967, I was 10 years old now 67, it's campus' green. Still have 8 track tapes and have tape players in 2 of my cars
Fun Fact: the 8 track came from the radio industry. The had a similar cartridge to pre-record (say commercials, or news, etc.) The difference being the radio version had a round indente underneath to accommodate a drive wheel.
The public version was flat underneath and was driven by the tape itself. Also remeber seeing them blowing in the wind on the side of the road. Players had a bad habit of eating the tape.😂
I remember most of these. I am one of the few people who actually got a CB license - KTF4294. Still have it, along with a ham and GMRS license. "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end, we'd sing and dance forever and a day, we'd live the life we'd choose, we'd fight and never lose,...
Still have a copy of my old CB license KMK 2994, those were the good old days, today I operate on the HF HAM bands as well as two meters (KD6VKJ) yeah both CB and ham can be fun both have a useful place. A few of the CB radios they showed I actually have sitting in my shop at this time, and they still work.
Kbta 0402 also went on to get my general kl4gu. 73
@@mysticwolf2842 Hey good buddy, thanks for the reply. My GMRS is WRXN479 and ham is N7PTC. I lived north of you in Yuba City for 20 years. I loved CA, but not the politics. 73.
Canadian here. We had three cbs - my father had a mobile one in the car; my mum had one with a mic gain in the bedroom; I used one in the livingroom - each of us had our own individual cb license. I remember applying for it when I was 18. Had to pay a fee of course. Was so proud of it when it came in the mail.
I’ll go further back. I had a Craig 4 track in the early 60’s. You had to put the case into the machine and had to engage the roller manually to make it work. This was the precursor to the 8 track.
I still have TV trays but they are wooden, come in handy.
tv tray to put the tv dinner on
TV Dinners and Jiffy Pop Popcorn were there for me. Some people put record players and "Reverbs" in their cars, look out for RR Teacks! One lady hid her 8 track tapes in a throw pillow case with a zipper closure, neat and hid the fact that she had an 8 track player to steal. (Detroit MI)
8 tracks definitely was a prized posession back thenn
pretty smart
I remember going to visit older relatives out in the country, and the upstairs rooms had a big square of linoleum, usually with a floral pattern, in the center of the room, to within two or three feet of the walls. The part of the wooden floor not covered was painted in a neutral color. These older aunts and uncles still had outhouses recently converted to tool sheds because they had just recently gotten indoor plumbing. The electrical systems in these old homes had the plug outlets on the floor, usually only one per room, as electricity was a luxury back then, and all you needed was one outlet for lamps or an old, giant wooden radio.
I had a Panasonic home stereo, AM-FM with 8-track, AND an 8-track player in my car with Craig 6x9 co-axial speakers in the back and 5" speakers in the front, plus a cool selection of 8-track tapes. That was some serious sound back then. To this day, I have no idea what happened to my 8-track collection.
I had a Craig Power Play cassette deck back in the 70s...that was a real high powered unit...a whopping 12 watts per channel! Only a 2 channel system, but back then, it was an impressive unit. It had a slide-in under-dash mount, so you could take it out of the vehicle so it wouldn't get stolen. The "Craig" logo on the volume knob would light up red when you hit peak power! LOL!
Of course I remember Connect 4 from the 80's, but I also remember seeing kids choose it during board game activities at an elementary school just a few weeks ago.
I remember connect 4, and I remember playing John Denver on my Dad's 8 track tape player.
I remember all of these, oddly enough I'm only 75 years old.
I remember when a glove box full of 8-tracks would lead to heartache and frustration, after being in a closed car after several hot summer days , and opening said glove box to pull out one of your fave 8 tracks just to find that the splices had let go from the heat, or worse yet the cartridge was warped and partially melted. and unusable .hell, they were just $8-9 bucks back then, so you could just cruise on over to Sam Goodie and pick up a replacement.
Oh the heartbreak am i right?
There was absolutely no reason for 8-Tracks. It was an obviously inferior format, and cassette tapes existed the whole time.
9 bucks then was 'real' money 🤑.... LoL
@@Donathon-xt2nl THANK YOU for saying that $ 9.00 Bucks back in the good old days was a Lot of Money more like a weeks wages
@@rogerstlaurent8704 when I was in college I made a little bit over 3$ per hour so yeah.... you know
I remember chatting with a co-worker one morning on the way to work,when I got to work my co-worker's were laughing at me"you should hear Vince on the CB he sounds just like himself "duh, well excuse me for being straight forward instead of a cowboy trucker.
I had a CB radio -- actually, several of them between the 1970s and 1990s. 😀
I remember all those things except the Nerds cereal, I don't ever recall seeing that in any grocery stores in my area, they must have been a here today, gone tomorrow fad.
OMG! The first floor pattern you showed, that was the exact same pattern we had in our house in the 70s!
What are the odds! What memories do you have about it?
@@MemoryManor The Flooring Pattern was so UGLY but COOL LOOKING but the Memories are priceless and Thank You for Bring back those Memories and Polyester Leisure Suits were GD ugly but you looked COOL wearing them and the women were 100% erotic looking
Us too, but ours was orange and yellow.
Brady Bunch!
I moved to the U.S.A. in 1979 and that is when I first came to now about TV Diners (my favorite being the International Mexican one).
What's ironic is that there were old people when I was young. Now I'm getting old and it's Natural.. What's stupid is the young think they won't get old. Be proud of getting older, most won't have that luxury. 💪
The beauty about Nerds... They still make them!!
That's the only thing in the video I wasn't familiar with...
@@ronk9830 Same here.
I had a CB radio back then I commuted 25 miles on the interstate to the hospital i worked in. My handle was 38 special. Oh the stories I can tell.
I don't understand why you included linoleum. It was invented decades ago, but it's still in common usage today.
Linoleum has been around a long time, but mostly supplanted by vinyl in the 60s.
I was born in 1960 so I remember all of them. 😂😂✌🇨🇦👍💯♥️
Me too however nerd cereal evaded me😢
I still have, and use, the dinner tray.
I'm old and I remember all these things. Including nickel Cokes, twenty five cents gasoline a gallon, twenty five cents cigarettes, etc etc etc.
Wow.. at 05:41 that was considered a “Big-Screen” TV !!
I'm 64 and I remember all this stuff! Ha,yes, I'm a fossil and proud of it!
We all should wear our age with pride am i right?
@@MemoryManorYou got it.
Yep, im old, remember them all!! Had connect four, 8track player in my car, TV tray just all of them!! Thank you for memories! ✌️
I remember the hot CB craze back in the day. I had many friends who were really into it at the time.
But the thing that led me to the video was the picture in the listing thumbnail of the lovely lady with the CB mike to her ear.
It has been a long time since I have seen or heard of model and actress Rene Russo, but I remember her well from the many magazine covers and the movies she starred in.
Her I remember quite well.
I remember c b radio Coffee breaks were folks would meet in person to socialize 😂❤.
yes meet at Tim Hortons for coffee lol@@garymartin1956
I bought an 8 track am/fm radio at goodwill, kept it at work because who would steal it?
I remember and I owned the game connect four, though I played with the pieces more than I played the actual game. Are used to stack them, flip them, and all kinds of fun stuff.
Simpler times that brought a great amount of joy am i right?
yes@@MemoryManor
I had a Panasonic portable 8-track player that I carried with me E V E R Y W H E R E. Both of our family cars had 8 track players so that worked out great for me too.
I had a portable one also. My father had an 8 track stereo in the livingroom and one in his car in the 70s.
I remember all of these things... except the conversation pit. I don't think I've ever seen one of those!
they're pretty remarkable! would've been fun to be in one with your pals
Some cars are money pits as they age per Scotty Kilmer.
Conversation pits…. From a time when folks would actually converse face-to-face…
No ‘Face-Time’ here…
I was house-sitting for some wealthy people once, and they had a "sunken living room" which was a bit bigger than the "conversation pits" shown here. I had my mother over briefly to enjoy a small portion of the fancy house I was looking after. We ate lunch in the kitchen and were retiring to the sunken living room to merely sit in the opulence of such a nice house. I sat down and settled into my comfy seat just in time to see my sixty year-old mom step into and fall two feet down into the living room. She landed on her entire frontside as even her face hit the tile floor. Miraculously, she wasn't hurt. Sunken living rooms are like skydiving : you gotta carefully watch that first step.
i love it
I remember some of these growing up in the 90s
I'm too old for Nerds cereal. If I did my math right, they came out the year I got married...
CB radio was big when I was in Jr. High and High School. Damped out a bit when I got to college.
Never played Connect 4, but in the early 2000's my daughter got a similar game called "Ducks in a Row" for Easter. Small and cheaply made in pastel colors, she and my wife played quite a bit for a few weeks, and then sporadically thereafter.
My Dad got a car in the early 70's with a built-in 8 track player. Shortly thereafter, we got a new fancy stereo console that had a radio, turntable, and 8 track player.
I've had TV trays as long as I can remember. Both the old-fashioned metal ones, and a newer wooden sets like the one I just bought a couple months ago. We use them for more than just eating, though.
The first house I bought was built in the 50's and had the original speckle-pattern linoleum floor. We replaced it with vinyl a couple years before we sold it. Prettier and easier on the feet.
I saw a lot of pictures of conversation pits, but we never had one ourselves...
appreciate you commenting about every single sub topic!
Connect Four was called "Cuatro en raya" in México. We, my brother and I, had it around 1977 or 1978, maybe.
Those living rooms with conversation pits alone are more spacious than most apartments built today
This is amazing
glad you enjoyed Revan!
I had a Craig 8 track. I thought 8 track was the thing, that was until the tapes wrapped around the capstan, the foil splice would break, the foam buffer the tapes rode on disintegrated. Nothing but pains in the ass.
You couldn't fix them. Intentionally done by design, I suppose.
Not just that, but the way they would cut off a song for what it seemed a lifetime, because it was switching tracks! Iron Butterfly's "In a Gadda Da Vida", I think was broken down into 3 or 4 sections. I much preferred 4 track.
@@diegoterneus2250 Then when you heard the song elsewhere, you anticipated the track change in the song where the 8-Track had them.
@@ronk9830 Ha, ha! I first heard it on vinyl, so that’s why the 8track version was so weird.
The ass with Linoleum is the real deal materials not the Vinyl style but the other is the tiles had to be glued down so removing them is a nightmare as in most cases every inch had to be glued down. This is why in my house from 1960 a similar early Linoleum like material that is in bigger sections is staying becuse it is glue to the subfloor is fixed in such a way that a tiny bit of the subfloor will come up with the early Linoleum like material and this is the early version is odd so it chips like the old stiffer plastic countertops when removed to do a cheaper re-lamination with wood or the plastic resin material used on tops of them now.
Now, you know you're really old when you see stuff like this showing nostalgia for stuff that came on scene after you were already grown up.
lol
I remember using Dinner Trays on special occasions. The one I remember the most is when King Kong came on TV in 3-D. We had to get the glasses at McDonalds (or some other fast food place) and then watch it. It wasn't too impressive, but the idea of it, and I think we had a bunch of my friends over (I remember Brian and Deanna at least-there were probably more) made it neat. (I don't think Brian had a colour TV yet, so it was really cool for him)
EDIT: I just looked it up-it was "Revenge of the Creature", not King Kong. Wow-that was back in '82!
I remember this! Did the 3-D effect really work for you? As I recall, it didn't do so very well here .
@@starmnsixty1209 No, but the thrill of it (getting the glasses, having friends over for a sleepover) was memorable
I wouldn't offend the content creator but I will say that at 34 years of age I "remember" most of these, like connect four. However the dinner tray? My aunt and uncle still use them, my grandparents use these things. I have sat in the living room using these things to put my laptop on to work while watching TV.....it's not a forgotten thing, it's still used, at least for me.
CB radios with only 23 channels, and the long whip antennas that often went with them…
Boy! Am I old. I remember everything. 😅❤😊
My Mom bought dinners as a special treat...we ate them off TV trays in front of the TV set...They were delicious.
Nothigl iike them today..up until 7 years ago I worked as a dispatcher for a delivery company.
dispatching trucks over a CB radio..I also remember 8 track cassettes and still have a box of them in my basement along with a track four game...
I'm 63. I remember 8-track tapes and players in the cars! I am REALLY old!!!
61 here yes both and cb sets too
I remember circa 1960, the coal truck backing up to our cellar window and via a ramp, dumped our delivery of coal in the coal room. From there we would shovel coal into the furnace to heat the 4 bedroom, two story house.
I guess I must be really old because I remember being around long before many of these things were not here yet
None of these make me feel old: they make me shake my head at how young and out of touch the child who came up with this list must be!
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Agreed!
I know, my 10 year old granddaughter has a Connect 4 game. Poor old gal, I'll have to get her a cane. Still like the channel though. He's trying and like all old things he'll improve with age.
I still have a cb in every truck plus another 100+ radios in the house
I also have a bunch of them including a couple he showed here. The Realistic TRC-427 and the President Zachary T base station.
Spent many hours trying to get someone to acknowledge my CQ CQ calls on my Xtal CB.
That's a big 10-4 buddy, QSL?
My first exposure to CB (citizens' band) radios was at the tender age of ten, when my Dad put me to work (parttime) as a dispatcher for his taxicab company in 1968.
My CB radio helped me to get emergency help. After I rolled my CJ5 Jeep down a steep hill. Totally destroyed that Jeep. I also remember what was before 8 Trac tapes. Real to real tape player and Cassette players. Then there were the record players.
How many people out there remember listening to the 45 records, or watching American Bandstand?
CB radio became less popular when it went unlicensed .
10-4 good buddy!
i got connect four in my bedroom right now and simon as well
oh wow lucky!
The metal tv dinner trays were reused in my home. My mother was oldest daughter in a family of 14 and cooked big meals eve tough there was only 5 of us. She started making up her own tv dinners from our meals. She wrote what was in each meal and froze them. Then if something came up where she couldn’t cook we could get a meal from the freezer and heat it in the oven. Still had a healthy balanced hot meal. I still do this because they now make freezer to microwave divided dishes with covers.
I remember most of these. I was a teenager in the 80s. I loved Nerds candy but don't remember trying the cereal. Never saw a conversation pit either. My favorite Christmas gifts were Superstar Barbie and her Corvette which had 3 tiny 8 track tapes in it. I think they got lost within a day. I believe that was 1978.
I don't remember the cereal either, but my Mom was big on curbing sugar, so she probably wouldn't have bought it
In the late 1990's and early 2000's there was a few of the Healthy Choice TV dinner or the Weight Watchers one that had to be recalled and I know exactly why they gave people some issues like my dad. Still nothing to the Foxy brand lettuce or other veggies from Foxy brand mainly the Carrots in the 2010's not knowing if that was going to cause bathroom issues or worse both bathroom issues and vomiting.
Yeah you really just had to get lucky consuming those
Our first record player had a crank on the side and you set the record speed with a small lever by the turntable. The vinyl records were like a quarter inch thick.
the old 78 rpms I think. wow.
That very first linoleum picture with the lady mopping was the pattern we had in the kitchen in the house we lived in when I was in the third/fourth/fifth grades.
I remember buying our 1st new car. It was a 78 Buick Regal and I was 10. To close the deal my dad insisted they remove the cassette stereo and put in an 8-Track. He was convinced cassette was just a fad.
CB radios were popular with truckers and other drivers because the speed limit even on freeways was 55mph. Drivers used them to tell each other where the police were.
OMG! Linoleum was the successor for rubolioum used aboard the 1936 Queen Mary in social areas. It was linoleum plus rubber plus cork for comfortable walk. Oddly, women used to dig into the floors with his heals during bad weather leaving holes in the florors still there today In Long Beach, CA today where not restored.
When I saw the CB in the thumbnail, I immediately heard: "Yeah, breaker 1-9, this here's the Rubber Duck. You get a copy on me Pig Pen, c'mon."
If you know, you know.
CB radio’s we’re killed by the movie, Smokey and the Bandit. We needed channel 10 to contact other drivers. Then base stations started running power and wouldn’t shut up. Cursing and just being a jerk (radio Rambo), is common in the northeast. 8-track players are great. One of my sons asked me to get rid of it and get a cassette player. I told him, they don’t make your music on 8 track. When you buy your own car, you can put in whatever you want. I didn’t know linoleum is out of style. I guess the drop living room is too? Now I feel old. I still have and use all this stuff.
I started out with 78rpm records, often 12”
I love the idea of the conversation pit but I’m not sure I love the name. 😊
Don't remember the Nerds Cereal, but everything else yes and listening to Elvis on 8 track, in early 70's, London , Ont. 🇨🇦
2:53 is that Rene Russo?... Anyway in 1973 I got my first car, a 1957 Chevy 4 door station wagon. My uncles next door neighbor tried to convert it to propane but gave up on it. So the deal was made that if I could get it, and all the spare parts, out of his sight in a weeks time, he would hand me the pink slip. Even though I was only 13, that car, and all the parts was in my backyard in 5 days. I started tinkering with it and with the help of my uncle(who also gave me a job at his service station so I had money for the repairs) when I got my learners permit at 15 1/2 I was driving that wagon. I had put a 8-trac player in it and to make a longer story short, I accidentally super glued the tape "Telstar" by the Ventures into the tape player, I listened to that tape for a year or so until I was able to get another tape player. I never had the nerve to cut the dash up so the decks were always in the glove box. It's got a CD player now, someday i'll have to up-grade to some kind of Bluetooth thing.
I remember all these things and still use many of them. I'm 72! 💋💖😁🌵👵🐺🖖
Craig super tuner in my 74 mercury capri 👍🏻
3:40. Pretty sneaky, sis!
I still use TV trays daily😂
I can dig it!
We eat at the kitchen table, not in the living room, on TV trays. Mom wouldn't allow food in the living room. Plus, she cooked every night, a full meal. And we didn't talk crazy at the table.
I did eat some TV dinners, usually fish sticks and Mac n Cheese. But, the Salisbury Steak, or sliced beef, in gravy, was much better tasting then. Mom would occasionally fix me a hungry man, but that was too expensive.
As for the Conversation pit, that's something I dont remember much. Ours was gathering around the TV ,
CB is making a huge comeback....
I remember having TV Trays growing up. We were allowed to use them for anything EXCEPT dinner. We always ate dinner at the table as a family.
After watching this video I feel like I’m a day older than dirt lol 😂 😅!
rofl
We had cb’s in the truck and boat. The boat was out to lunge and the truck Georgia peach. And we used their names as our handles lol
A cereal memory from back in the day, an offering from Post (General Foods) that was quite tasty, but most unfortunately named; it's no wonder it was so short-lived, "Crispy Critters" (sounded like victims of a forest fire).
Right after I got my call sign the fcc, (uncle Charlie) dropped the license requirement for CB had a great little portable 8track player in Jr high school (middle school for you kids) but the nerds, that came out when my daughters were little , now I feel really old
Similar to Trix Cereal, if I ever got Nerds I would more likely eat it dry as a snack as I don't like fruity flavors in milk!
Funny, I thought this came out in the 90s!
i thought i was the only one!
I don’t like too many cereals. Just Grape Nuts, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat. And oatmeal. No sweetened cereals.
@@glennso47 I love Grape Nuts and Cheerios!
not really Trix in the 1990's was more like the small fruit shaped candy that Wonka company came out with in the 1990's before the big push in 1997--1998 for the company. The Shapeless Balls they became was later in the 2000's around 2007--2008 about the time the mini depression first hit. No wait this is Kix cereal I am thinking of that I hated becuse they had one with no flavor even though it was supposed to be some kind of Honeydew melon but tasted like pure sugar.
"Nerds Cereal"? Never heard of it.
CB Radio? I remember it, but I didn't have it in the car . Radio and Cassette tapes were more my thing.
Connect Four? I only saw TV ads for the game,
8 Track? By the time I bought a car to put an AM/FM/Cassette player, 8 Track was passe.
TV Trays? I recall the family did use them to watch TV or for guests during holiday seasons.
TV Dinners? I did have some of those, fresh from the oven back then.
Linoleum Tile? I walk on those every day.
Conversation Pit? That was for Rich Folks.
I did that with my Rx meds once. Just once. Never again.
Getting some retro future ideas from this video
Swanson and hungryman and Banquet t.v. dinners