I say all us older folks have a thread about things that only we will remember

[TomCat]

Star Wars came out in 1977. The same year Elvis died. I went and saw it in the theater as often as my mom would give me the money to go and let me cross the busy intersection on my bicycle.

I was 7.

[Charles_Foster]

Learning the Dewey Decimal System.

[Pandy]

Ahhh!! Yeah! Card catalogs!

[firemonkey]

My parents had several Tom Lehrer LPs.‘Poisoning pigeons in the park’ is another great one of his.

[Bowens]

[ThePickinSkunk]

@Bowens

I saw it at the drive in

You are so lucky to have experienced that. I’ve always wanted to go to a drive in. Maybe like vinyl records they may come back.

[Bowens]

I could just go on listing endless things in this thread. lol.

[Pandy]

@ThePickinSkunk

I’ve always wanted to go to a drive in.

I saw the movie Grease at a drive in in 1978!

[ThePickinSkunk]

Now I definitely remember the card catalog. It took forever for my local library to transition to digital.

[Wave]

[ThePickinSkunk]

@Pandy

I saw the movie Grease at a drive in in 1978!

That would have been so awesome. Actually I am a little envious. Been two decades since I have seen Grease so Travolta has been active for a long time.

[Pandy]

[Bowens]

Cabbage patch kids dolls

[Pandy]

And a pre-digital answering machine:

[Charles_Foster]

Candy Cigarettes:

[Pandy]

They used to actually put the word “sugar” in the name of a cereal, and call it “nutritious”, with those 10 essential vitamins and minerals.

[ThePickinSkunk]

@Bowens

I could just go on listing endless things in this thread

Go for it bud. I am having so much fun seeing all this stuff. My whole family is antique and vintage crazy. Totally diggin it.

[Pandy]

Are Saturday morning cartoons still a thing?

[Pandy]

I’m so ashamed of forgetting about this until now!!

[Bowens]

Garbage pail kids that came with chewing gum I think.