Trivia Tuesday

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Just now, theprogram4 said:

Ya, we had one of those wood paneled Tvs with no remote 

That's insane..when I was a kid we had a 13" TV in the family room and a 20" TV in my parents room and the first VCR I remember loaded on top and was huge and I think like $600

[enjoralas]

Titanic popped into my head, and I talked myself into Forest Gump. Bodyguard never even entered my thought process. I mean, that song was huge, but c’mon. I would have even though Romeo and Juliet before that.

[zzslope]

34 minutes ago, Schif said:

We had a 6 disc CD changer hooked up to our gigantic wood paneled stereo system from the 70s. When I was a kid the TV was wood paneled too. 

watched black and white through most of my childhood. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 minutes ago, zzslope said:

watched black and white through most of my childhood. 

Wow just wow. Yeah you grew up during the Wonder Years. They didn't have color TV until the late 60s right. 

[enjoralas]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Wow just wow. Yeah you grew up during the Wonder Years. They didn't have color TV until the late 60s right. 

Early 50’s, although it was the early 60’s before other networks followed NBCs lead. Prime time lineup for NBC wasn’t in color until 67, not sure if they were first there or not

[enjoralas]

I remember having a tv with the Zenith Space Command remote. It had one single button on it, and each time you pushed it the dial on the TV rotated one spot.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 minute ago, enjoralas said:

Early 50’s, although it was the early 60’s before other networks followed NBCs lead. Prime time lineup for NBC wasn’t in color until 67, not sure if they were first there or not

Ok not common in households until the late 60s. I remember the episode of the wonder years where it was color TV fever and the dad was like,"son we're not getting a color TV"  I used to have a 2.3" Casio color TV..my iPhone is like 99 times better than that 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

 

My grandparents had a TV that only went up to channel 13 on the dial. Was all good as long as I could watch the Hogan Family. 

[mbike-ski]

2 hours ago, SallyCat said:

You're properly old when you've purchased a bunch of your music three times: LP, cassette, and CD.

 

4- can;t forget the 8 tracks! and itunes makes 5! I would change purchased to "obtained" lol

[rummy]

2 hours ago, SallyCat said:

You're properly old when you've purchased a bunch of your music three times: LP, cassette, and CD.

 

Hah you forgot 8 track...

Edited February 28, 2018 by rummy
Didn't read far enough

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

This is how I got started as a rapper. 

[Shadows]

Reel to reel? 

Thats still crazy to me. Forward, backward,  top and bottom. 

[SallyCat]

12 minutes ago, rummy said:

Hah you forgot 8 track...

Before my time!

Man, I feel young!

[rummy]

Just now, SallyCat said:

Before my time!

Man, I feel young!

An 8 track player and a reverb unit in a 68 Camaro, with two (stereo) speakers cut into the "parcel" shelf at the back window..... now that's an old phart!!

[antman12]

Slightly off topic but (1) of the house phones I had growing up was a wall hung rotary phone. My mom finally got rid of it awhile back but i loved that thing.

[NMSKI]

 
My grandparents had a TV that only went up to channel 13 on the dial. Was all good as long as I could watch the Hogan Family. 

We had that growing up. After 13 it was “U”, which you then used the little dial for the higher channels. We had 2 religion channels and like 5 Spanish channels.


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[SallyCat]

5 minutes ago, antman12 said:

Slightly off topic but (1) of the house phones I had growing up was a wall hung rotary phone. My mom finally got rid of it awhile back but i loved that thing.

That's all there was when we were kids. And there were five of us, so if you wanted privacy you had to stretch the cord out the back door and just deal with the weather. It literally took physical effort to dial a number. 

[SallyCat]

5 minutes ago, NMSKI said:

We had 2 religion channels and like 5 Spanish channels.

That actually a lot of choices. I miss "Wide World of Sports." Remember watching log rolling and stuff like that just because it was on, and there weren't any other options?

[NMSKI]

That actually a lot of choices. I miss "Wide World of Sports." Remember watching log rolling and stuff like that just because it was on, and there weren't any other options?

I love log rolling. Those lumberjack competitions used to be the shit.


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[zzslope]

4 minutes ago, NMSKI said:

We had that growing up. After 13 it was “U”, which you then used the little dial for the higher channels. We had 2 religion channels and like 5 Spanish channels.


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Don't remember exactly but I am pretty sure we did not have a color TV until I was a teenager. The U on a TV as NMSki said was for UHF, a TV with that was exotic, 3, 6, and 10 was it at our house. We had rotary phones for a long time, impossible to win a radio call in contest with them.

[zzslope]

Just now, NMSKI said:

I love log rolling. Those lumberjack competitions used to be the shit.


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Log rolling was cool, used to love that too.

[SallyCat]

Just now, zzslope said:

impossible to win a radio call in contest with them.

True Fact: I won a radio call-in contest on a rotary phone. Tickets to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[zzslope]

1 minute ago, SallyCat said:

True Fact: I won a radio call-in contest on a rotary phone. Tickets to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

You must have had the fastest fingers in the East.

[rummy]

36 minutes ago, antman12 said:

Slightly off topic but (1) of the house phones I had growing up was a wall hung rotary phone. My mom finally got rid of it awhile back but i loved that thing.

Our phone number was OV (overbrook) 22, on a party line...

[zzslope]

37 minutes ago, rummy said:

Our phone number was OV (overbrook) 22, on a party line...

We were DI (diamond) 3.