<p>they can’t imagine writing your term paper out one sentence at a time on strips of paper. Then moving the papers around like a puzzle until you got it right before you actually started typing it out.</p>
<p>Remember when they told us in elementary school that everything we did would be in cursive writing from here on out. Um, except for a ‘cursive’ font, I haven’t written cursive in 30+ years</p>
<p>We would gather up soda bottles at a school construction site and turn them in for the 2 cent deposits, to buy another soda for 12 cents and twinkies for 12 cents. But the store wouldn’t take them if they had cement in them.</p>
<p>On cursive writing – my D ( a HS soph) tells me that some of her friends can’t read cursive writing. Amazing.</p>
<p>I can’t write in cursive much more than my signature. I haven’t really used it since elementary school.</p>
<p>ohgod- I always intend to take more notes by hand- but I can’t read my own writing let alone someone elses & it is tiring. I either print or preferably, I use my laptop :)</p>
<p>About that term paper sueinphilly, I remember writing mine on index cards, and then needing lots of those white chalk strips (correct-o-type) for the many typing errors. Oh, and remember the weight of those portable typewriters! </p>
<p>Carbon paper for copies. Those got messy.</p>
<p>“Ditto paper” in school. Our worksheets were printed with some purple smelly ink. All the kids had to smell it before working on them.</p>
<p>TV on a black and white with 7 channels (no cable).</p>
<p>I remember all the women sitting under hair dryers, rather than having their hair blown dry.</p>
<p>My brother had a huge baseball card collection. He used to throw/flip/trade them. He spent hours on them.</p>
<p>■■■■■ dolls, rabbit feet for luck</p>
<p>My grandmother still darned socks. She had some wooden stick with a kind of egg shaped ball on the end to put the sock on. I can’t imagine too many women doing this today.</p>
<p>Don’t forget the polyester leisure suit.</p>
<p>Lack of smoke detectors/alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, lack of sprinkler systems in buildings.</p>
<p>My parents had the ‘fancy’ antenna on the roof for the TV. You could move it from a ‘antenna rotator’ we had on top of the TV. The console TV itself which my S thought was cool.
He found our old record player and records from the 70’s & 80’s and actally hooked the thing up. And my 45’s. Back in that time I was really into Peter Frampton, the young Rolling Stones and Led Zepplin.
One more…when I was in college you took programing classes and did a flowchart on paper. Since there was not a computer, everything was drawn.
Remember when we carried transitisor radios around? I can’t remember what it was called but I had this ‘blue’ round transistor on a chain that was really cool at the time.
Also my sister and I had a ‘princess’ phone as an extenstion for upstairs in our house, however we had to share it…bad idea, whenever we got in trouble that was the first thing to go.</p>
<p>Oh I thought of something else…my mom used to get her hair done once a week and at night she would wrap it in something so that it would not get ruined or lose that beehive look.</p>
<p>“ditto paper” = Mimeograph.
<a href=“http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/GlossaryOfLiteracyTerms/mimeoBmp.htm[/url]”>http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/GlossaryOfLiteracyTerms/mimeoBmp.htm</a>
<a href=“http://www.irememberjfk.com/mt/2007/04/mimeograph_machines.php[/url]”>http://www.irememberjfk.com/mt/2007/04/mimeograph_machines.php</a></p>
<p>When I when to computer school (1981) we had to write our code on paper and then do the punch cards. Then take the stack to the BIG IBM machine and hope we didn’t have any errors in the code. one run per day per person.</p>
<p>yup, had the round transistor radio with the word “love” on it.
and it had a headphone - for one ear</p>
<p>sue, that’s right, it was mimeographed paper. Thanks for the link that explains how it was done. </p>
<p>That reminded me, remember the ribbons on the typewriters and all the ink that went all over your hands when you had to put in a new ribbon.</p>
<p>Oh, I owned one of those round radios too.</p>
<p>Do you remember the toy, click clacks? If they had those out today there would probably be many law suits. Click clacks were 2 plastic balls with string coming from each ball. One would click the balls together. My mother thought that I would injure someone and myself with those things.</p>
<p>Always wearing something on your head in church (women & girls). Going to confession every Saturday.</p>
<p>I still remember the priest at my grandma’s parish yelling at churchgoers for wearing casual clothes to Saturday afternoon mass following the town parade.</p>
<p>We wouldn’t even THINK of eating or drinking during class.</p>
<p>Passbooks for our bank accounts.</p>
<p>coin wrappers. I think the banks make you turn change in loose now to avoid slugs and foreign coins being inserted.</p>
<p>Nah. Our bank still asks for wrapped coins. DS’s department.</p>
<p>07 DAD – we still use coin wrappers and our bank takes the rolled up coins, no problem. DS usually does the wrapping since I let him keep half the total amount of $$.</p>
<p>“When I when to computer school (1981) we had to write our code on paper and then do the punch cards. Then take the stack to the BIG IBM machine and hope we didn’t have any errors in the code. one run per day per person.”</p>
<p>Yep, I remember… the reason I dropped out of computer programming. It was my alternative to a piano performance major, until I spent all night in the computer lab- several times. At that point, the claustrophobia of being in a basement practice room the size of a walk-in closet four hours at a whack looked pretty good.</p>
<p>I remember the clacker balls!!! :)</p>
<p>I remember doing archery during PE in elementary school. Now if that ain’t a recipe for personal injury suits, this is… we ALSO did canoeing in PE (I’m talking 9 and 10 year olds here). They put us out in the thousand islands in Cocoa Beach, and we paddled around in 2-3 person canoes- just us students. The PE teacher was there in her canoe, but if you’ve ever been in that area, it’s pretty dense. No WAY would they let kids do that now.</p>
<p>Speaking of paddles, they did that too.</p>
<p>Hey mythmom – pretty funny, we cross-posted!</p>
<p>Remember kids with orthodontia, where so many kids had wires around the outside of their faces held by some elastic gizmo that went around the back of the head/neck. I don’t see those too often anymore. Those were quite common when I was a child.</p>
<p>CBBBlinker and mythmom </p>
<p>Asked the resident expert (DW) and she said the local credit union has a sorter and requires that you use their machine.</p>
<p>BUT, I’m GLAD I’m mistaken. Some of the best memories of early childhood was rolling coins with my Dad as he checked the daily pocket change with his magnifying glass for “Our” coin collection. </p>
<p>I had not thought of that in years. He got so blind in his last years he could no longer see with the magnifying glass. At least Dad got to hold my S before Dad passed away. He couldn’t see by then, but I have a picture where Dad was holding him and MAN, could Dad still smile.</p>
<p>Thank you-- you made my day.</p>
<p>“so many kids had wires around the outside of their faces held by some elastic gizmo that went around the back of the head/neck.”</p>
<p>Medieval torture, that was. I only had to wear it at night, but sheesh.</p>
<p>07DAD: He must have been so happy with all you went through. You just made mine.</p>
<p>I have a similar memory of my D and my grandmother. She had dementia and was blind, but I know she knew a new baby had entered her family. D took her first steps the day of my grandmother’s funeral.</p>
<p>She’s the same grandmother who thought I was ignoring her on my answering machine.</p>
<p>Ewww. One thing I am glad has passed is girdles! My mom, who is still very slender at 83, swore all ladies wore them to prevent any giggling. Yuck. Destroyed stomach muscles, made organs move around, made rolls appear over the top of them where no rolls had been before.</p>
<p>In my mom’s mind age of initiation: twelve. Yuck, yuck. The sixties started for me when I said, no girdles. Come to think of it, twelve in '63, and first time I heard of the Beatles. I never connected it to the girdle revolution before.</p>
<p>This might be a little off-topic, but I have a question that I bet you guys know the answer to. My parents got married in 1984, in the middle of the [videotape</a> format war](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war]videotape”>Videotape format war - Wikipedia). I believe that their wedding video is on a Betamax tape. Does anyone know how I could get this transferred to a normal videotape or a DVD?</p>