The Over 40s Club meeting

[Ghost07]

I LOVED Max Headroom! and his commercials, too.

 

[Star Wolf]

Listening to records (33-1/3, 45, or 78) with your friends. Better yet, getting a 33-1/3 in a box of cereal.

While I'm at it -- when cereal came with a prize in the box. My mom always made my brother and me eat the cereal and NO DIGGING. It was luck-of-the-draw that the prize ended up in one's bowl when pouring cereal.

The early days of MTV, going to a friend's house to watch videos after school or when it was too cold to go outside.

78 How old are you? in the 70s the 45s were starting to disappear in favor of 33 1/3 albums and the 12 inch "disco single". We didn't even have 78s from my father's record collection from the 50s.

 

[Captain Ice]

The School House Rock stuff above reminded me of another one: does anyone else remember "In the News", with Christopher Glenn? Little two or three minute news vignettes between cartoons on Saturday mornings. I learned SO much through those little bits. I think it's where I got my addiction to the news. I remember learning all about Watergate, the Arab-Israeli War, the Viet Nam War ..., all kinds of "adult stuff" from Christopher Glenn.

I used to love that. And I remember the music and graphics at the beginning of each segment.

Exactly! Sort of a spinning wire frame blue globe, and the music was very distinctive. I wish I could find a wave file of it somewhere. I think I'm going to be doing some Googling today.

I remember watching those.

I LOVED Max Headroom! and his commercials, too.

I remember when he first came out and was such a huge thing. Do you remember the Pepsi/Coke taste tests?

 

[trampledamage]

Listening to records (33-1/3, 45, or 78) with your friends. Better yet, getting a 33-1/3 in a box of cereal.

While I'm at it -- when cereal came with a prize in the box. My mom always made my brother and me eat the cereal and NO DIGGING. It was luck-of-the-draw that the prize ended up in one's bowl when pouring cereal.

The early days of MTV, going to a friend's house to watch videos after school or when it was too cold to go outside.

78 How old are you? in the 70s the 45s were starting to disappear in favor of 33 1/3 albums and the 12 inch "disco single". We didn't even have 78s from my father's record collection from the 50s.

I'm only 38 (not often I get to say that! ) and I remember my mum's record player would do 78, 33 1/3 and 45s. She wouldn't let us play her jazz 78s though.

 

[Captain Ice]

My Mom still has one that will play 16s.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What exactly was released at '16' speed, anyway?

 

[Captain Ice]

Mostly albums intended for the blind, books on album, speeches, etc.

Am not sure, but I think 16 was the speed for the albums for the Highway Hi-fi option from Chrysler in the late 50s too.

ED: Confirmed. Yes it was. http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html

 

[Miss Chicken]

My mother had a lot of 78s that she played a lot.

Two I remember her having are Two Black Crows in Hades and Indian Love Song.

My sister and I used to like to play Two Black Crows because we thought it was so funny. When the song Indian Love Song proved to be the saviour of mankind in Mars Attack I found it really amusing as I could believe that song would make someone head explode.

 

[John Picard]

When teachers made copies of handouts using a Mimeograph, and everyone wanted to hurry and smell the paper before the fluid dried.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Wow, what a memory that one is! I loved that smell. I sure do remember running our noses up and down the paper! Too funny!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I seem to remember those Mimeograph smells actually made me dizzy a couple of times.

So did the valve oil from my old trombone case, actually. They caught me sniffing it a few times during band practice. It would explain how I turned out.

 

[John Picard]

I seem to remember those Mimeograph smells actually made me dizzy a couple of times.

So did the valve oil from my old trombone case, actually. They caught me sniffing it a few times during band practice. It would explain how I turned out.

"This one time, at band camp..."

 

[Mistral]

Wow, what a memory that one is! I loved that smell. I sure do remember running our noses up and down the paper! Too funny!

And getting little purple smudges on the tip.

Also, paste. That crazy paste we used to use instead of Elmer's Glue. The scent means Fall and first day of school to me.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

What about the old filmstrip machines in school? Where the soundtrack was either on a record or tape and there was a "beep" when it was time to advance the picture. There was always one kid who could mimic the beep and could get the film advanced if the teacher wasn't paying attention.

 

[John Picard]

What about the old filmstrip machines in school? Where the soundtrack was either on a record or tape and there was a "beep" when it was time to advance the picture. There was always one kid who could mimic the beep and could get the film advanced if the teacher wasn't paying attention.

Yep! Or watching films on reel-to-reel and we'd all chime in on the countdown. Also the times when the teacher had to adjust the film speed when the picture fluttered and the sound warbled.

 

[KimMH]

or the film's end would flap around and around because the teacher was sleeping and no one was paying any attention to the movie anyway and throwing spitwads?

 

[TrekkieMonster]

^^^ And if the teacher was really cool, it was a special treat to get to re-watch the movie backward (instead of just rewinding it reel-to-reel).

I remember the mimeo smell, too, and the slight dampness of the paper.

And the film strips with the record. In fact, I can remember "that day" in about 5th grade when all the girls went into one room and all the boys went into another, and we all had to sit through this incredibly lame "birds and bees" film strip.

Ahhhh, good times.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I seem to remember those Mimeograph smells actually made me dizzy a couple of times.

So did the valve oil from my old trombone case, actually. They caught me sniffing it a few times during band practice. It would explain how I turned out.

"This one time, at band camp..."

Eh?

 

[Miss Chicken]

We didn't have sex education until 7th grade (first year of high school).

I went to an all-girl high school so there was no need to separate the class.

 

[Ghost07]

We never had sex ed at ALL...heck...if you said the WORD sex, you got walloped.