Post evidence of how old you are...

[cheeses_h_rice]

My family had a black & white TV.

Our big color TV was the size of a large freezer and did not have a remote control.

My mom saw Frank Sinatra perform at the Chicago Theater when he was still in his 30's.

I used to go to Cubs games with my family when Wrigley Field was less than half full on the weekend.

I remember watching the Ernie Kovaks Show.

I got boners to Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Tiegs and Suzanne Somers.

I used to take the El before the various train lines were labeled by their colors.

I saw jazzster Stan Kenton perform at some mall in the northern suburbs.

WGN radio farm report guy Orien Samuelson's first wife was my nursery school teacher.

[zmz]

I didn't know who coached the 85 Bears until I was 13 :omg: :o

[TeeDeeGee]

The greatest movie of all time, Transformers: The Movie, came out before I was born.

[Myrtle]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was my favorite TV show when I was a kid and I watched it every day when I got home from school.

Full House was also another childhood favorite of mine...

:shrug:

[Doug Simpson]

I used to walk to change channels on the TV

[TeeDeeGee]

The first videogame system I personally owned was a Nintendo 64.

(We had an SNES, but it was my brother's)

[Myrtle]

I remember seeing two Sox parks adjacent to one another


Just cause I'm cool:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/myrtle72/AlexatComiskey.jpg

PS. I'm the blonde with the boy-ish haircut. :(

[Myrtle]

The first videogame system I personally owned was a Nintendo 64.

(We had an SNES, but it was my brother's)

Wow, you make even me feel old.

[SoxFan76]

Wow, you make even me feel old.

No shit, mine was the original Nintendo, and even before that there were many systems.

I had to really think about this one, but when I was a kid I wore short shorts with striped tube socks pulled up as far as they go.

[cheeses_h_rice]

Wow, you make even me feel old.

I'm slow. Exactly how old (roughly) does that make TDG?

FWIW, my family had the Atari 2600 system, a godsend in the year 1979.

[StockdaleforVeep]

I saw jim abbott warm up in the bullpen as a California angel and olde comiskey and being creeped out by the nub

My mum let me skip school so i could see TMNT the first movie

I saw land before time in the theatres,

Before we had cable we had a crappy tv antennae on the roof

my area code was 312 on the southside of chicago

i was a hulkamaniac and still have a postcard from him when i wrote him a get well card after bein crushed by earthquake on brother love show

I went to the ROSEMONT HORIZON for various wwf events, some being mr perfect vs hogan, ultimate warrior vs the undertaker

Stu Grimson made a stanley cup playoff game

kung fu, spy hunter, pro wrestling for nintendo

three stooges were on 3 hours on sundays on wpwr channel 50

on friday nights, rich koz used to have a late night show where he played three stooges, back then 11 am was so late for me

[TeeDeeGee]

I'm slow. Exactly how old (roughly) does that make TDG?

FWIW, my family had the Atari 2600 system, a godsend in the year 1979.

Oh, I've got another one.

My car, the famously awesome Camaro, is older than I am.
:cool:

[Timmy D's]

When I started smoking in 6th gradeish, smokes were 65 cents a pack.

I have a bunch of 8 track tapes I bought new.

I remember my dad got an "ON TV" pirate box for us for Christmas. This was like a pre cable tv service. We got to watch the Hawks games was the main draw.

I got a 1.2 mile long skitch(neighborhood record at the time) from a squad car 2 days after the blizzard of 78'. They tried like crazy to lose me by fish tailin', and spinning snow from the drive tire at me, but I wouldnt have any of it, I wasnt lettin go, not that day at least.(that was my 15 minutes)..

I'd been pulled over in my teenage years when drunk to the point I literally couldnt stand, and it was really no big deal to the cops, who would either follow me home safe or make me sleep it off till their shift was over at 8a.m.

The summer drought of 85' had nothingto do w/ lack of rain. Concerts just werent as fun that year.

My brand new "green Machine" got stolen when I was 7 years old. My grandfather found it the next day(although I suspect he stole someone elses for me.)

Some pop machines still gave out bottles when I was little. If you bought the bottle back, the machine would spit out a nickel.

[ChiSoxGirl]

The first computer in my house was a Commadore 64 and we had the greatest game ever on it- Frogger!

[StockdaleforVeep]

oh, we had two station wagons growing up as the family cars, one was blue and had all of my dads baseball coaching equip(skummy bags that that the bats, balls and batting helmets) and the other was dark green

when we finally got a computer, it was some 2400 bps modem and prodigy online network but all i played was wolfenstein and hitlers gatling gun hands

[StockdaleforVeep]

http://oceanlink.island.net/workexpaug2004/useable%20otter%20pics/exxon%20valdez%20tanker.jpg

[Unregistered]

My first gaming system was Intellivision

I got a NES for my birthday in 8th Grade

I had a White Heat and my friends were envious:
http://www.mqtcty.org/departments/Auction/Images/Choc/ctpd%20003.jpg

[itsnotrequired]

I eat chicken and drink wine for dinner.

[cheeses_h_rice]

I eat chicken and drink wine for dinner.

Burnsauce.

:cool:

[StockdaleforVeep]

So did I and so were they. Man Huffys were pieces of shit. By 1993 that thing was a fucking chore to even ride it was so broke down. Some clown actually stole it. Good riddance to bad rubbisch.

Remember the Sonic 6 bike? It had this neato shifting "stick" like a car on the neck and was 6 speeds. It was cool because it was like a BMX bike that could change gears. My friend had that.

I had one of those, worst bikes ever

but cant find a pic of it

I used to pretend the shift stick was a firing console, and the sonic six shield made me indestructable

[Timmy D's]

I had a White Heat and my friends were envious:
http://www.mqtcty.org/departments/Auction/Images/Choc/ctpd%20003.jpg


Dammmmnnnnn, I envious even now!!!

[itsnotrequired]

I had one of those, worst bikes ever

but cant find a pic of it

I used to pretend the shift stick was a firing console, and the sonic six shield made me indestructable

Can you pee on it?

[StockdaleforVeep]

Can you pee on it?

I rmemeber the first time i played with my penis

Watching playboy centerfolds 5 thru the spice channel scramble

I also watched sex trek 2: the wrath of bob

[StockdaleforVeep]

CROSSFIRE!
YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE...
CROSSFIRE!

[Unregistered]

I remember the White Heat commercial...

Huuuuffy's got what's hot now
Huuuuffy's got White Heat

I think it was made to sound like Hangin Tough by NKOTB. :eek:

No, dude - it was "We Will Rock You." Although, I can see why you'd mix those two up. They are basically the same song. :hello:

[Unregistered]

CROSSFIRE!
YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE...
CROSSFIRE!

Cross-Fiyuh! :rock:

4M-WmQWEJRo

[StockdaleforVeep]

nickelodeon used to be a show about kids and not dumbening cartoons

[StockdaleforVeep]

Cross-Fiyuh! :rock:

4M-WmQWEJRo

the kid with a glove looked like such a fag

[itsnotrequired]

nickelodeon used to be a show about kids and not dumbening cartoons

grumpy olden mann

[StockdaleforVeep]

I was here for birthdays before it was chuck e cheese, i also have a token from show biz
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[StockdaleforVeep]

They sure dramatized those board game commercials. I personally never rode a hoverboard to play Crossfire in some kind of post-apocalyptic setting with a bunch of raving kids.

Remember the old Simon commercial where some kids cheer the bad ass intellectual kid who beats the game, then I think his girlfriend put his leather coat over his shoulders and he walked away from the game forever.

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[idseer]

My family had a black & white TV.

Our big color TV was the size of a large freezer and did not have a remote control.

My mom saw Frank Sinatra perform at the Chicago Theater when he was still in his 30's.

I used to go to Cubs games with my family when Wrigley Field was less than half full on the weekend.

I remember watching the Ernie Kovaks Show.

I got boners to Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Tiegs and Suzanne Somers.

I used to take the El before the various train lines were labeled by their colors.

I saw jazzster Stan Kenton perform at some mall in the northern suburbs.

WGN radio farm report guy Orien Samuelson's first wife was my nursery school teacher.

we had a black phone with no dial on it. you picked it up and an operator said "number please"

most cars didn't have turn signals.

a pack of cigarettes were 19 cents.

i watched the 1959 world series.

our family owned a real woody.

a pack of baseball cards were a nickel.

i went to a mantovani concert (and loved it!)

i watched steam engines regularly pass through our town.

i was in love with annette funicello.

[cheeses_h_rice]

we had a black phone with no dial on it. you picked it up and an operator said "number please"

most cars didn't have turn signals.

a pack of cigarettes were 19 cents.

i watched the 1959 world series.

our family owned a real woody.

a pack of baseball cards were a nickel.

i went to a mantovani concert (and loved it!)

i watched steam engines regularly pass through our town.

i was in love with annette funicello.

:eek:

You win.

[StockdaleforVeep]

we had a black phone with no dial on it. you picked it up and an operator said "number please"

most cars didn't have turn signals.

a pack of cigarettes were 19 cents.

i watched the 1959 world series.

our family owned a real woody.

a pack of baseball cards were a nickel.

i went to a mantovani concert (and loved it!)

i watched steam engines regularly pass through our town.

i was in love with annette funicello.

http://www.jolaf.com/lindsey/art/fdr.jpeg???

[StockdaleforVeep]

Wow, I just thought you were in your 20s. Consider my mind blowed.

DID he see electricity at the world faire?

[idseer]

forgot one of my best ones. a guy one row in front of me caught a nellie fox foul ball. :mad:

[Unregistered]

I personally never rode a hoverboard to play Crossfire in some kind of post-apocalyptic setting with a bunch of raving kids.

Pfff... no hoverboards? where'd you grow up again?

They sure dramatized those board game commercials.

At this point, just saying that we played board games and that there were board game commercials dates us...

[Unregistered]

Frankfurters cost a nickel

[Doug Simpson]

we had a black phone with no dial on it. you picked it up and an operator said "number please"

most cars didn't have turn signals.

a pack of cigarettes were 19 cents.

i watched the 1959 world series.

our family owned a real woody.

a pack of baseball cards were a nickel.

i went to a mantovani concert (and loved it!)

i watched steam engines regularly pass through our town.

i was in love with annette funicello.

You should go lie down. You are going to die soon.

[chisoxtony]

I was in third grade when Reagan was shot..they bought a TV into our classroom to listen to it.

During 8th grade science class we heard that the Space Shuttle had exploded.

Our first video was an Atari. Rubik's cubes were popular when I was in 4th grade.

During high school I had a mohawk, spiked hair and shaved my head once. I even had a mullet. :D All the girls had bangs about 5 inches high and hair about 10 inches wide. We all wore jeans that we rolled up and wrapped around our ankles.

I remember there only being 3 major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC). I remember when must see Thursdays was on ABC (Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Three's Company and Mork and Mindy).

I remember when Fox broadcast their first two prime time shows in April of 87. Married with Children and the Tracy Ullman show. I was 15.

I started my freshman year of college during the last season of Old Comiskey.

[Timmy D's]

we had a black phone with no dial on it. you picked it up and an operator said "number please"

most cars didn't have turn signals.

a pack of cigarettes were 19 cents.

i watched the 1959 world series.

our family owned a real woody.

a pack of baseball cards were a nickel.

i went to a mantovani concert (and loved it!)

i watched steam engines regularly pass through our town.

i was in love with annette funicello.

Yeah, you win I think. Did you have a Johnny Reb Cannon????http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMf1BZeUug

[getonbckthr]

i'm the same age as Wrestlemania

[JohnBasedowYoda]

I saw Willow in the movie theater!:rock: My mommie told me it had too much violence but fuck that noise.


http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/Willow/Images/Willow-PC.jpg:rock:

[JohnBasedowYoda]

Why'd I post a picture of "Willow:The Computer Game?":shrug:

[Sir Realist]

I remember when gas cost 31 cents a gallon.

Let it ring 10 times and then hang up. They aren't home.

I remember when Bubble Yum bubble gum was made with spider eggs.

All of Cook County had the 312 area code.

First there was the National Anthem, then there was the soybean report, and after that came Ray Raynor and Garfield Goose.

I remember watching the David Letterman show when it was on during the day and he almost burned down the set on "Halfway to Christmas" day.

I remember when The Beatles song "Good Day Sunshine" was a big radio hit.

I remember thinking Fonzie was cool before he wore a leather jacket.

2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 32, 44, and as long as you're up, please change the channel.

[StockdaleforVeep]

I remember when gas cost 31 cents a gallon.

Let it ring 10 times and then hang up. They aren't home.

I remember when Bubble Yum bubble gum was made with spider eggs.

All of Cook County had the 312 area code.

First there was the National Anthem, then there was the soybean report, and after that came Ray Raynor and Garfield Goose.

I remember watching the David Letterman show when it was on during the day and he almost burned down the set on "Halfway to Christmas" day.

I remember when The Beatles song "Good Day Sunshine" was a big radio hit.

I remember thinking Fonzie was cool before he wore a leather jacket.

2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 32, 44, and as long as you're up, please change the channel.

Was 44 the same as 62 dependin on cable\antennae?

[idseer]

Yeah, you win I think. Did you have a Johnny Reb Cannon????http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMf1BZeUug

they had them but i was way too old for them by the time they came out in 1961. those were made for 8 year olds. i was more from the chemistry set era when you could make your own real bombs. my favorite toy when i was 8 was the family lionel train set.

this http://www.vintagecalculators.com/Addiator_1.JPG was the kind of mechanical calculator i used in 7the or 8th grade.

[Timmy D's]

Gotchya. Perhaps one of these then...............
http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/images/2006/12/atomic-energy-lab-01.jpg

[idseer]

Gotchya. Perhaps one of these then...............
http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/images/2006/12/atomic-energy-lab-01.jpg


lol
never saw one of those before. where do you come up with this crap?

[DumpJerry]

I survived the Cuban Missle Crisis.

[Timmy D's]

lol
never saw one of those before. where do you come up with this crap?


They were on a "most dangerous toy" of all time list I saw recently. I thought the, "safe radioactive materials" derscription on the box was hilarious.:rock:

[CaptainBallz]

I remember when we first got a VCR--twas awesome

I remember when we first got cable. There was this crazy thing MTV that was showing a whole bunch of Billy Idol.

I saw the world premiere of Thriller... It scared me and I was crying

My friends and I loved the Mr. T sprinkler game where you throw sponges at his face.

I had Refrigerator Perry shoes.

Beastmaster was my favorite movie

I had Intellivision and was jealous of my friends Colleco

I saw Return of the Jedi in the theater.

In 4th grade all the rich kids got Nintendo for Christmas.

Most of our furniture had sweet checker patterns

I had a bowl cut as a kid

I was jealous of my friends Night Rider big wheel

[Myrtle]

I had a bowl cut as a kid

I do believe this calls for a picture. :yup:

[LuvSox]

My first bike:

http://naphotos.nerail.org/aboutjeff/stingray.jpg

[CaptainBallz]

I do believe this calls for a picture. :yup:

Jeez... I can probably find one around here somewhere.. I'll work on it.
My first bike:

http://naphotos.nerail.org/aboutjeff/stingray.jpg

HA-- you suck.

[Myrtle]

Jeez... I can probably find one around here somewhere.. I'll work on it.

Sweet. :thumbsup:

[LuvSox]

Jeez... I can probably find one around here somewhere.. I'll work on it.


HA-- you suck.


It was stolen from our garage. Bad times, bad times.

[BFC]

I grew up playing N64.

There was a time in my life where I thought Nelly was a good rapper.

[Timmy D's]

My first bike:

http://naphotos.nerail.org/aboutjeff/stingray.jpg

Nice bike dude!!!:rock:

I saw a 5 spd(shift on the frame) orange Stingray, sell for no joke $5,000 on Ebay around Christmas. A friend of mine had the same one, I shoulda swiped it.:shrug:

[cbotnyse]

I'm 27, theres your evidence.

[StockdaleforVeep]

Gotchya. Perhaps one of these then...............
http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/images/2006/12/atomic-energy-lab-01.jpg

"SAFE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL"

[Myrtle]

I'm 27, theres your evidence.

:postsucks:

;)

(ya drunk)

[fquaye14ten]

When I was a kid...

Cable was a big deal

My grandma had a turn-dial TV with no remote

My stepdad had a vast collection of Betamax tapes

Bronson Pinchot was a big deal

We didn't always have a microwave, and when we got one it had a turn dial like my Grandma's TV

I remember seeing two Sox parks adjacent to one another

My parents saw The Guess Who unexpectedly play at a bar in Niagara Falls on their honeymoon

My parents remember the Kennedy assassination happen while they were in grade school

I am younger than MTV but older than Winning Ugly


we hooked up our apple IIc to our television set so we could have a color monitor. It was still one color but it was blue instead of green

[cbotnyse]

;)

(ya drunk)That was my mean drunk post of the night.

[JohnBasedowYoda]

I remember gas being around 89-90 cents a gallon around 1990 in Dyer, IN.

There was a brief period in the summer of either 98 or 99 when gas was crazy cheap. 89cents or so. Those were good cruisin days

[chisoxtony]

There was a brief period in the summer of either 98 or 99 when gas was crazy cheap. 89cents or so. Those were good cruisin days

I remember that too..this country (w/o getting politcal) had a brief spell of everything going right from 97 or so to about 2000 (cheap gas, low inflation....booming tech economy, budget surplus, falling crime, etc.)..

Those were the good old days..it only lasted about 2 or 3 years though....:(

[chisoxtony]

It all started with Princess Di going down. After that Titanic and Good Will Hunting were released and America was simple again.


Yeah..we have one of these about every 15 or 20 years or so..we had one in the mid to late 80's..(everything going right)..one in the early 60's (until Kennedy was shot)..the 40's right after WWI and the mid to late 20's until the stock market crash..

By my calculations our next one should be about 2015..:cool:

[chisoxtony]

It all started with Princess Di going down. After that Titanic and Good Will Hunting were released and America was simple again.

[QUOTE=chisoxtony;11003]

That's right in the middle of the big baby boomer retirement though isn't it? We could very well be fucked.

F-- ! you're right..:eek:

[chisoxtony]

Fuckin' boomerz and their drugs and their retiring and their...Emerson Lake and/or Palmer records.

and since I was born in the 70's there's almost none of us compared to the Boomers (about 5 baby boomers to every 1 Generation X) so I guess I'll be working until I'm about 85..:mad:

[Prope]

To give an example of just how many Boomers there are/were. There were two HS's in my district and back in the 60s and early 70s the two were combined as one where fresh/soph would go to one and jun/sen would go to another. When I went to HS in 96-00, there were corridors of unused rooms and lockers in hidden places. And again, all those were used for only freshman/sophomore classmen back in the hippie era. There are many areas and gyms and such that I never even saw in my time there.
Was that Lincoln-Way??

[chisoxtony]

I took some classes in high school that were cancelled because there weren't enough of us.

Some great things were...

classes were never full..about 18 students per teacher...

it was extremely easy to get accepted to most colleges in 1989 (there were so few college freshman).....

first time home loans were easier...

the job market after college was a lot less competitive...

we didn't have this whiny, self-involved media and obsession that the boomers did (except for one really lame attempt in 1994 was the classic Winona Rider/Ethan Hawke 'Reality Bites'...no one cared about us..we were kind of skipped from the boomers to the 80's babies..

[CaptainBallz]

Was that Lincoln-Way??

No, that's Burgh's alma mater.



Mine too...

Sucks to the red and black...

That is all...

[Iwritecode]

To give an example of just how many Boomers there are/were. There were two HS's in my district and back in the 60s and early 70s the two were combined as one where fresh/soph would go to one and jun/sen would go to another. When I went to HS in 96-00, there were corridors of unused rooms and lockers in hidden places. And again, all those were used for only freshman/sophomore classmen back in the hippie era. There are many areas and gyms and such that I never even saw in my time there.

It's the opposite for me. What used to be the high school in our area was grades 7-8-9 when I was there and they had built a new high school. Since then they've made it into 7 & 8 only, added onto the high school and moved the freshman into it. Now they are talking about making one school for freshman only! :eek:

We already have a single school for all the kindergartners. The grade schools are all 1-6 except one that is 1-3. Then another school for 4-6.