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Posted by Becky Rock on 23-04-2010 at 00:29:
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Ah, you young whippersnappers had it good in the eighties! We didn't have VCRs in the seventies- we had to use tape recorders to tape the audio of BotP episodes, when we were lucky enough to get home from school in time to record them! Heh! I had 78 of the 85 episodes on cassette! When the player finally died and I couldn't get another, I cried.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 23-04-2010 at 00:32:
What about riding in a car without seat belts? We used to pile 8-10 people into a car and go. I used to STAND on the front seat (obviously I was really little) between my parents.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 23-04-2010 at 02:32:
I have dim memories of my older brother, in the late 70s, forbidding anyone to make a sound as he recorded music (BTO, April Wine and the Police, if I recall...) off the record player in the living room using some sort of clunky, reel-to-reel tape player so that he could play it in his bedroom or elsewhere.
I think it was about 1980 or '81 -at Christmas- that my family got a tape deck that played cassettes. That was the Christmas that my brother got Jeff Wayne's musical War of the Worlds, promptly recorded it onto cassettes and then forbid anyone from ever playing the records (lest they suffer scratches or deteriorate in sound quality).
Posted by gatchamarie on 23-04-2010 at 08:37:
Thanks for sharing the piece, Amethyst! I love it ... it's so true!
I still have the cassettes on which I have recorded the opening and ending musical themes of most of the cartoons I loved way back during my childhood ... LOL I think I don't have an appropriate cassette player that functions well left at home in order to play them! We're all CDs nowadays!
The most fascinating thing that I find is that technology has made giant paces over a span of very few years (considering thirty years as a short period of time in comparision to what has been achieved out of technology). I remember trying to upgrade things and devices at a fast rate from when they were introduced, and we're still doing so!
But the memories I cherish the most are those we spent in our quality family time. Materialism is robbing much of our quality time and, unfortunately, we don't always realise the fact.
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Posted by Madilayn on 23-04-2010 at 08:57:
I know what you mean, Marie.
When I was growing up we often spent evenings playing board games (Trivial Pursuit was a favorite - however as my father read encyclopedias for fun, we all had to really study in order to have any chance of beating him!) and watching television was a real family thing.
6pm would see us sitting down to watch The Goodies (love them!! What a surprise for me when I got pay TV as an adult to find them rated for 15+!!!) followed by Dr Who and the 7pm news.
Sundays would find us scuttling around to watch Star Trek at midday then lunch and the afternoon watching a couple of movies (whilst I did the ironing...).
The funny thing was even though we had dinner with the television in front of us, we all still sat down to dinner together.
It saddens me to see families that send little or no time together - or that have to "schedule" family time!
I know of one woman who can go for 3 or 4 days without seeing her teenage children and txt's them more than she speaks with them.
Unfortuntely none of that family feel that they are in any way unusual!
I actually found the other day a cassette of mine that is cartoon theme songs. Things like BotP are there, as well as Ulysses, Children of the Sun, Secret Squirrel, Danger Mouse, etc.
I'd love to convert it to CD, but have no way of doing so. Fortunately, I do still have a working cassette player!
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Posted by gatchamarie on 23-04-2010 at 12:16:
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That would be lovely! I'd love to do that myself with mine if only I could! You know ... most of the theme songs I recorded could be found on Italian CDs even nowadays, basically because Italians use their own instead of using the original themes ... and they are very proud of them ... so proud that even on big, modern shows, the most famous singers that used to sing such themes are always special guests who tend to sing these songs to the audience in memory of the past, childhood days! But, this notwithstanding, I'd rather keep the ones I recorded even if they're not so clear, with a teasing brother of mine in the background and my beloved mum's voice calling out that dinner had been ready!
I pity that family you mentioned, Maddy! Today's life drag us to move forward with it, but it's up to us to manage time and to keep important the family aspect! For example, my very young kids will not want to eat if daddy or mummy are not around! I've always been firm on the fact that we should eat together as a family, united around the table, with or without tv. We always wait for my DH to return from work and no matter how the schedule changes, we always adapt ourselves around it in order not to omit these special moments and other ones that create our family history. I want my kids to remember the good times when they grow old like I remember mine!
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Posted by lborgia88 on 23-04-2010 at 12:28:
I've seen companies advertise that they can convert and put old family movies from reel-to-reel films or from VCR cassettes onto DVDs -for a fee, of course. Possibly such places could do something similar with tape cassettes (I'm guesssing it would require an analog-to-digital converter, and more tech savvy than I possess!)
My best memories of "family time" as a kid were all the camping trips and hiking and cross country skiing treks. You really bond, I guess, when you're all together in the middle of the woods!
Posted by gatchamarie on 23-04-2010 at 12:43:
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... without tv, computers, etc ... just nature!
Some weeks ago we had subsequent electricity power cuts throughout our island due to some problems at the Power Station. The first thing that we thought was how much we depend on electricity and technology and how lost we feel when we remain without them. The second thing was that we had to do what we usually didn't in order to counteract such a situation and appreciated how our ancestors lived during past times ... apart from the many things we had to adjust with, we found that we had more time to read stories to our children and cuddle up in one bed and joke. We also found some lost romance eating and living in the light of candles! And my husband reaffirmed his theory that that's why, in the past, families tended to be more numerous! You know ... I think I won't regret it a lot if another power cut were to happen in the near future!
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 23-04-2010 at 13:40:
I understand what you are saying, Marie. I live in earthquake country, and we all know that 'the big one'is coming at any time. So we all have to be prepared to live for a week or so without food or water, if necessary. And if that happens, what would we do with ourselves? Our family spends so much time each day on our computers that not having them around would be a big lifestyle change. However we all love to read (although I admit that my son has to be encouraged sometimes 
) and play board/card ganes. I suspect if we lived for a wek without power, we'd be doing a lot of that, not to mention marathon D&D campaigns!
Of course, what would we do at night?
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Posted by green on 23-04-2010 at 13:44:
OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH
No internet???
No Gatchamaniacs???
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...............!
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Posted by gatchamarie on 23-04-2010 at 16:16:
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Counting sheep?!!!!!
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 23-04-2010 at 17:00:
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If we could see them!
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Posted by gatchamarie on 23-04-2010 at 17:10:
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Posted by JohngPR on 03-05-2010 at 22:57:
LOL!
This is actually a wonderful segue to something that happened to me. A few weeks back I had to google "Telephone" so my son can see a picture of what they looked like before we had cell phones. Wow, talk about feeling old. LOL
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 03-05-2010 at 23:47:
Yes, one has to look around to find a variety of landline phones anymore. So many people have cell phones now, and the only place some people now see landline phones is at work.
[BTW, on a serious note, if any of you have elderly or disabled relatives living alone, invest in a set of cordless phones so that they can have one in every room of the house or apartment. My current security guard posting is in an apartment building that houses people who live on Medicare and Social Security. Many times, I've called up to apartments and been unable to reach people because they moved too slowly to reach a phone. You can imagine the reactions of relatives who have come to visit (and who can't go past the lobby without permission from the tenants).]
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Posted by amethyst on 03-05-2010 at 23:50:
How about a payphone. Those things are practically extinct. Next will be the blue boxes on the highways.
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Posted by littlewolf on 04-05-2010 at 12:15:
This is a thread waiting to happen
How many of us remember shows like
Monkey - with Tripitaca
The kenny Everet Video show
Danger Mouse- my favourage and a very old nickname
Kimber the White lion
Being a Farm Kid my nearest neibours were miles down the road, we made our own fun (in hindsight not always safe) sometimes we were flooded in and couldn't go to school yah!!!!)
We build go carts from scrap left around the farm, we walked miles to the bus stop, which took an hour to get into town and we talked to each other.
If our parents couldn't pick us up it was safe to go with a neighbour, and everyone knew everybody and we would help each other.
I would not like to be a child now, with all their fancy gadgets , its not always a safe world for them to grown up in.
But seriously what a great new thread - the things we remember , the shows, cartoons, 
and for those with children at various ages the comparisons would be interesting 
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Posted by amethyst on 04-05-2010 at 14:28:
Would you believe the only show I recognized, but have never seen, is Kimba the White Lion.
Of course my children think they are abused and neglected because they don't have cell phones (well my daughter does, the boys don't care) and the only iPods they have are the shuffles.
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Posted by green on 04-05-2010 at 18:35:
Kenny Everet was British, Amethyst, so it doesn't surprise me (plus it was probably more than the censorship groups in the US could handle...) that you didn't know that one...
Monkey... I still remember the theme!! Probably due to several drunken attempts to sing it at karaoke. Hmmm... a tad violent, so again, with the censorship in the US at the time... Shame you missed out though. It was real action and dubbed - a hilarious combination and a damn good show...
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Posted by amethyst on 05-05-2010 at 18:26:
Gotta love our US censors don't we. Warner Bros and Popeye cartoons are okay but everything else has to be edited to pieces or contain educational value. Yes Warner Bros has some of the most violent cartoons I've seen, not graphic, but roadrunner and coyote were violent.
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