Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

My father-in-law responded "I'll decorate the ladder"

 

The genesis of Team America (from the UK)!

 

How about just A BETTER COUNTRY?

 

Anyone remember fried bologna sandwiches?

 

...feeding punch cards into a reader to run a Fortran program.

 

Then waiting 2 hours for it to compile, only to have an error, that in another 2 hours you figure out is a missing comma on card 296 of 423.

 

We still eat them in Ohio.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/240/1137398/restaurant/Ohio/Marion/G-R-Tavern-Waldo

 

Still being served in some bars in the area.

 

Within the same timeframe as the key punch FORTRAN programming was Texas Instrument's very first digital calculator. $89.95 with nothing but +-*/. To calculate square root required a complex string of calculations to extrapolate a close answer...and it didn't fit in a pocket.

 

Antenna Rabbit Ears with tin foil at the end for reception.

 

Your grandkid can name the band members from KISS & Rolling Stones.

 

Sears sold Silvertone radios.

 

... and guitars and amps

 

You remember Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" on your grandmother's radio.

 

Followed up by a Philadelphia Flyers game with play by play by Gene Heart.

 

Hell, I can't even name 'em all...

 

If you can remember getting the Sears (and "Monkey Wards") catalogs in the mail. Man, did everyone go crazy on those days.

 

Spent a lot of time pouring over the Christmas catalog when we were kids.

 

We went crazy all right. Besides being incredible wish books, getting them in the mail meant we had toilet paper in the out house for a few more months!

 

When Sears (Cushman) made a motor scooter.