http://www.oldiestelevision.com/
If you want to go down memory lane Click the link

TLC1ST wrote:

http://www.oldiestelevision.com/
If you want to go down memory lane Click the link

I am so nostalgic...LoL!

Here's another:

If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what
with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill...
Barefoot...BOTH ways. yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how
hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look
around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean,
compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've
got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to
know something, we had to go to the library and look it up
ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a
pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in
the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10
cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a
matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to
kick our rears! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music,
you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ
would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no
CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape
and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone
rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

We didn't have fancy things like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

There weren't any cell phones either. If you left the house,
you just didn't make a call - or receive one. You actually had to be
out of touch with your "friends". OH MY!!! Think of the horror...
not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah,
right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had
no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss,
a bookie, a drug dealer, a bill collector,the collection agent...
you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances,
mister!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square!
You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple
levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could
never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster.

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
You were lost when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your
rump and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh,
no, what's the world coming to?!?!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on
Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK
for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had
to use the stove! Imagine that!

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh,
no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside...
you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung
on.

If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the
last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the
dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first
place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it
too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five
minutes back in 1980 or any time before!

Things have changed a lot in the last thirty years. I come up when you had to carry your water from a spring and you had to build a fire in the cook stove to cook your food,Oh and there was that little house at the end of the well worn path.I will be 67 the 30th of this month,and all those days gone by, are looked back on, with very fond memories.

Women used to get up, make the bed, bring in the firewood to heat the stove, make breakfast, clean the house, go outside and hoe in the garden while it's still cool in the morning, come in around noon and make lunch - carry water to do the laundry and hang it out to dry- do some canning or freezing- then come in and cook supper.

Afterwards they would quilt or sew until it was bedtime. Aaand they still had time to go visit their neighbors and/or lend a helping hand when needed.

I'm kind of torn if those were the good old days -

I'm glad that I don't have to carry water or firewood - I would certainly miss my electric stove, heat, washing machine and dishwasher - but I do wonder why people don't have time to visit or help their neighbor or get things done like they used to.

I'm up at 4 am, to work by 6, off work at 3:30 - home by 4:30 or 5 depending on traffic or if I have to stop by the store - cook supper, clean the kitchen, feed the dogs and horses and then I am usually exhausted by then and in bed around 8 pm.

I feel like I'm on a merry go round and if it ever stopped - it would sling me off - LoL!!!