English is a foreign language

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by Duende

Originally posted by Ebonbuddha
I also remember dial phones.

So do I! And they used to have cords too!

Also the television only had about 13 channels and to switch between them, you actually had to get up, approach the TV and turn the knob by hand! Those were some tough times...

To quote Dave Barry:
When I was your age if you were away from home and had to make a phone call you had to walk literally Yards to find a payphone.

 

[supervike]

I can vaguely remember the names for part of the phone numbers...That was being phased out, but I can remember people calling ADAMS 48485 or whatever.

People still had \"party lines\" (and not the 900 number ones) when I was growing up. Party lines are where you shared a phone line with several other families. Want to make a call, pick up the phone, only to find Becky Anderson from two miles down is still on it with her boyfriend...lol

My daughter recently asked me if it was hard to learn how to dial a rotary phone....I about fell over. Then I said, its as about as hard as falling over...

13 TV Channels? Wow, that seems like a lot. Before Cable TV we only had 4 channels, but one of those was PBS, so no one watched it....

I do remember our first \"remote control\" TV. Is still had the bulky channel knob, but it had an eight foot wire connected to a little box. You could only change the channel, up or down...no sound control.

It\'s amazing what has changed is a relatively short period of time...What will the next 30 years bring??

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Yeah. I also rememberwhen arcade games were just a quarter.

2 games for a quarter. 10cents for a phone call in a phone BOOTH. A penny for the parking meter. Only a black and white TV with 13 channels. Gas for less than a dollar. Movies for less than a dollar (actually, sometime 2 movies AND a cartoon). Full service when you came to a gas station for a fill up. Milk being delivered in bottles. Having to get up to change the channel. Having to get out of the car to open the garage door. Having to do the dishes by hand. Smoking indoors (still have mixed feelings about that one). No stop and go traffic on the freeway...EVER.

Sometimes people will talk about how rough it is to just keep up nowadays. \"I dont remember my pa having to work so hard just to make ends meet\"! We EXPECT so much more than there was not so long ago.

 

[Einion]

Ah, nostalgia. I think I\'m remembering these correctly:
food from street vendors, a couple of bucks was enough to fill you (that\'s ~20p);
calls from a public phone for 10c (edit: ~1p!!);
tram rides as a student for 20c, as far as the line went;
cross-harbour ferry ride for 50c;
cinema tickets for two or three bucks... any wonder I saw 52 movies one year.

My mum used to tell us about peanut brittle in the shops when she was a girl - piece the size of a large chocolate bar for a ha\'penny.

Einion

 

[vincegamer]

Cursed British Slangers!

I try to find some good quality pictures of athletic apparel as source material and all I get is porn!

Knickers = knee-length sports pants

But don\'t expect to find that by doing a Google image search for it.