| Author | Message | ||
     Dynasport |
I was the antenna turner at my house. Not fun in the rain or winter, but the only way to kinda pull in the ABC station in the next state. I remember watching Monday Night Football and having a hard time seeing the football for all the snow (and I don't mean the cold kind) in the picture. But my grandparents were high tech. They had a box on top of their TV with a knob on it that you turned and an electric motor moved their antenna. Now that was uptown. My grandparents also let me start driving their big Bonneville as soon as I could reach the pedals. All over Alabama I drove and no one thought anything about it. But my RM75 was the greatest Christmas present I ever got. I rode that bike everywhere. It got me a ride to the hospital once for about 50 stitches, but it also gave me my love for two wheels. I miss that bike. | ||
| Pammy |
I remember that my parents got a microwave while I was gone one summer. When I came home my parents were out and there sat a cool new gadget. I immediately emptied a can of chili into a sauce pan and proceeded to microwave. Wow! The fireworks were spectactular! I quickly cleaned up the mess(from the implosion) and pretended that I didn't notice the new appliance when my parents arrived. I remember winning an 8 track tape player for the grand prize in some contest at school. The 'drive' belt would get hot if you played it too long and Fleetwood Mac would sound like you were listening to them during some acid trip. I remember when my Dad had to drive to Washington (DC) to an Army hospital from Dallas Ga. to take my younger brother for some sort of bone growth exam. The total trip cost $13.05 in gas. I remember when gas went to an astronomical .69 cents per gallon, I thought my dreams of owning a Jeep were over. Jlnance...I make no claims ;0) I remember feeling sad for the 'old' folks...How could anyone not want to watch cartoons...sad SNL favorite = LAND SHARK and what about those wild and crazy guys interested in the great American breasts...ha ha OMG a high tech 8088 Leading Edge, IBM clone. Took 45 minutes to boot up. All those floppy discs and no hard drive to speak of. I'm with DD, I like 2008, in spite of the high gas prices better. Oh, and I sacrificed my 2 piece roller skates to make a skate board for the neighborhood amusement. A piece of discarded plywood with my skates nailed to an appropriate distance for maximum velocity(we lived on the biggest hill) and all the neighborhood kids had an equal opportunity for death and/or dismemberment in the name of good clean fun... | ||
| Jlnance |
I remember winning an 8 track tape player for the grand prize in some contest at school. The 'drive' belt would get hot if you played it too long and Fleetwood Mac would sound like you were listening to them during some acid trip. [snip] Jlnance...I make no claims ;0) Oh, you just answered my question. ;) | ||
| Kyrocket |
I found, in my grandfather's basement the other day, a "brand new" unopened, wrapped in plastic, box of floppy discs. Not the 3 1/2, the old school 5 1/4 vinyl. I left 'em where they were, maybe I need to go back and hide them for posterity's sake. I love these posts although I have to kindly disagree with some. Things may be more technologically advanced but somehow I don't see that as "better". | ||
| Etennuly |
I recall my favorite TV show being Johnny Carson's Tonite Show. As a little kid I wasn't allowed to stay up that late and watch "such filth", but I usually got caught watching from the dining room when something was too funny and I laughed out loud. TV was actually LIVE then, and I was watching when Ed Ames did his infamous tomahawk throw. Were you watching the news programs when President Kennedy was shot? The casualty reports from Vietnam, the Space race, REAL NASCAR with real showroom cars? Walter Conkrite? I really did walk up hill both ways to school in the foot deep snow with the wind blowing at thirty miles per hour and the temperature was 0 degrees F. School didn't close for the weather or ice until at least three busses were stuck or wrecked. No cell phones, so we walked the three quarters of a mile to the bus stop, then waited twenty minutes for a no show bus, and then we were granted the day off. Weather men were predicting the weather for ten hours into the future. The first satellite links from "half way around the world" with a two minute delay. Big city smog, Highway departments dumping "used oil" on dirt roads for dust and weed control. | ||
| Darthane |
I'll be 27 in a couple weeks... The first phone I can remember was a rotary dial and was large enough to kill a cougar with, if you could pick it up in the first place. My first 'internet' experience was a BB using a 1200baud modem...I think I was...13? 14? My first computer was a used IBM PS2 x286 that my grandfather got from Michigan Bell for 'only' $2K. It had a 20MB HDD and I wondered how on earth anyone could ever use that much space. I remember teaching myself DOS 1.0 and being annoyed as hell years later when my new computer came with that @#%@ing 'Windows' crap. My first television was a 10" B&W, and I was damned happy to have it. My first bike was my aunt's old one, confiscated from my grandparents' garage. It had sparkling metallic blue grips, ditto banana seat, and ape-hangers, and all my friends thought it was the coolest thing EVER. It cracks me up to see the 'low-rider' bikes that idiots spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on that look almost exactly like it. I know the majority of the BadWebbers have got my number in the race to death department, but believe me, there are plenty of times daily when I feel a hell of a lot older than I am. Even the two to three year age gap between me and a lot of my friends produces some really bizarre 'how could you not remember this?' moments. >.< (Message edited by darthane on March 14, 2008) | ||
| Jlnance |
Where's the Beef  | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
OK. Anyone remember when you used to have to kick your motorcycle to get it started? Not just when you were mad at her?   1969 R69 S modified | ||
| Aaomy |
i find my self telling the girls the "when i was a kid" stuff quite often,, we were poor,, really poor!! if you went to the store and got a pack of gum or candy that was a big deal. i could only have pet fish in my room during the summer because the tank would freeze during the winter,, no joke. Happened several times if you wanted to take a bath,, no shower,, you had to go to the basement turn on the tank,, wait for it to heat up,, go down turn the tank off, turn the water line to the bathroom on, go up stairs take you bath then go back to the basement and turn the water line to the bathroom off again!! i remember a repo guy coming to take away a car and not taking because he thought my parents car would be too much of a liability to tow away!!! heck the doors wouldn’t even latch shut. Slid off the seat and out the door going around a corner one morning,, it was ok though,, they stopped to pick my back up! all this made me work my but off so my kids would never have to go threw that.. im glad they wont.. if they appreciate it or not.. makes me feel I have the right to say ” when I was a kid" | ||
| Bott |
I recall my Dad having a cool "remote" for the tv. "see what else is on, and turn it up a little, Paul" | ||
| Slaughter |
My first job was at the glider port at age 14. Helping hand-prop the tow planes (in the cockpit) - fueling and oiling, repairing tow ropes. Working around live aircraft. I could drive the fuel truck (20,000 gallons - 1951 Chevy) before I was old enough to legally drive. ...manual transmissions? Soap Box Derby cars? Home-made skateboards? Laughing at injuries in high-school metal shop instead of SUING? | ||
| S2pengy |
Anyone else have to shovel coal into the furnace to heat the house and the coal room in the basement... | ||
| Darthane |
I still have my soap box derby car somewhere...I was so proud of that thing. It looked like SunRaycer (solar cell car that travelled across Australia many years ago). | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
OK. Let's see somebody beat this one!! Gentleman Jon on his first bike, a used Rollfast Trike. This is before the balloon tire was in wide use for kids bikes: eliminated flats. Kindly note the early version of the dropped bars. circa 1946  Was anyone else on Bad Web alive when this was taken? (Message edited by gentleman_jon on March 14, 2008) | ||
| Court |
>>>>Was anyone else on Bad Web alive when this was taken? yes | ||
| Spdkls |
i remember my dad's hifi stereo. it was a console, about 5 feet long and it was also used as a wall table. it only had a turntable and radio. but that thing was the coolest. we played his 78's on it, all elvis and hank sr. of course. it also weighed about 400lbs. vacuum tubes and all inside. but hey, tubes are making a comeback in the very high end amps now. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
My dear Court, Whilst I would be the very last person on God's green earth to question your veracity in any way imaginable, I have no such scruples about questioning your mathematics. Assuming that you exhibited greater candor in your profile than the above post, it would be another four years after this photo was taken before you would first see the light of day. Your Profile states an age of 53. Assuming that that was your age when you registered in 2003 that would make you 58 or so today. 2008 -58 =1950 your birth year. Four years after 1946. Have we erred? | ||
| Cowboy |
The 1st time I went to a movie show I had to buy the tk. with a home made axe handle. The girl in the tk. booth gave me a home made hammer handle for change. | ||
| Cyclonemduece |
i am 25 in three days and i remember alot of those things, we had a vcr that had a corded remote controll. the kind of vcr that top loaded whens the last tie you watched a vcr cassette ?. | ||
| Kyrocket |
Ummmm... less than a week ago. | ||
| Darthane |
"Ummmm... less than a week ago." Ditto! Monty Python's The Life of Brian. ...just can't bring myself to spend $30 on the DVD when I have a perfectly servicable magnetic media copy!  | ||
| Court |
>>>Have we erred? My gads yes and by a significant amount . . . the years have been far kinder to you than I. | ||
| Slaughter |
Anyone else have to shovel coal into the furnace to heat the house and the coal room in the basement... In our house in Horseheads, New York | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Staring at 40 and wondering wtf is with my childhood. Build my first computer from a Tandy 1100 kit (grandpa was a sales rep for them) We had Satellite tv but it was pirated (300 channels and nothing on) Remember when MTV played Videos All day long Got in trouble in computer class for connecting all of the Apple IIeC's to run the same program together Remember when you put the phone receiver in the modem box ala War Games to get onto BBS chat lines out of NY (sex on the net is NOTHING new) Remember having my HAM radio license suspended for Lewd and Lacvioius talk at the age of 10 (who knew) Getting a shot of booze from the parents because it would build character or put hair on your chest. Never being told to go outside and play, being indoors was punishment. Trick or Treating w/o pedo's or xraying candy. Dressing like Rambo for Halloween and bringing a Dummy M-60 for a prop (it was a wood working project from shop the semester before) Being told not to write cursive with the left hand. (stupid 2nd art teacher) And finally Recess when you got to bring your own Big Wheel or Green Machine from home to ride. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Court - You are too kind, by far. As always. Anyone else like to take a shot? | ||
| Court |
>>>Got in trouble in computer class for connecting all of the Apple IIeC's to run the same program together Or sending a stack of cards with a FORTRAN nested endless do loop with a "1" carriage control command to the chain printer of the IBM 360/50 in the engineering building and waiting down the hall for the program to run and blow the acrylic top off the chain printer. | ||
| Etennuly |
GJohn, I may not be of your vintage, but I think that about fifteen years later my dad bought me that particular split tire tricycle at a yard sale somewhere!  Remember Ked's sneekers. The only kind available anywhere, Kreske's or Murphy's had them. That rubber in the soles would make anybody's feet stink! My mother worked for J.C.Penney. The man himself, Mr, James Cash Penney, would make appearances in all of his stores until he was well into his nineties. I remember when trading collected pop bottles for a nickel to buy the then new Nestlie's Crunch Bar. And collecting Mallow cup cards. All of the old in town stores, were the only thing going, there were no malls. A shopping Plaza was the first to hit the in town stores. All of the old down town buildings had a creaking wood floor, they all had basements. Any body else use their news paper money to buy HO race cars when they first came out?(sure couldn't afford a slot car) | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Was anyone else on Bad Web alive when this was taken? Yes, that would be me. Born in the summer of 1942. and I do remember solid rubber tires on my trike, don't what kind it was, but it was a red one. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Vern and Bill, Great to know that other Buelligans got their start on solid rubber. I always keep in mind what Erik Buell told me: " You can grow older without growing up". | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Damn GJ, I ain't as "experienced" as Vern and Bill, but my first bike had solid rubber "tires". It also didn't have a freewheel hub, so you could pedal it forward or backwards. I was so jealous of my buddy down the street who had the Evel Knievel bicycle.  I still long for the GIANT Sears catalog that came out for Christmas (as well as the Sears lingerie section that came out all the rest of the time  ). Somehow the Victoria's catalog just doesn't hold the same amazement as seeing those giant, double D, steel belted, 10 clasp boulder holders. |
