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Originally posted by Mad Katharine 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! -Disturbed /get off my lawn!

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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).

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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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!

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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Originally posted by Transmute Jun Of course, what would we do at night?

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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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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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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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