How old are you people anyways?

[snackdaddy]

I'm 54. can remember that game against the Packers in the late 60's when the Rams blocked a punt late in the game to set up the game winner. Been a Rams fan since. Funny, I was so young I can't remember much else from that time but I remember that moment like it was yesterday.

 

[RhodyRams]

I remember when a news paper still cost $0.25

Used to deliver newspapers when I was 10....5 days a week was $1.00 and Sundays were .35....most customers left me $1.50 per week

 

[Ballhawk]

59 Old enough to know better but too young to give a crap!

Which childhood is this?

 

[IowaRam]

Used to deliver newspapers when I was 10....5 days a week was $1.00 and Sundays were .35....most customers left me $1.50 per week

I remember when our daily paper was $0.25 and the Sunday paper was $1.00 , but that Sunday paper was huge , granted , most of that were ads , but that Sunday paper was like a inch thick

I'm actually surprised most news paper can ever survive now days , the Des Moines Register now cost a $1.00 , just for the weekly edition , and it's only like 10 or 12 pages

Thing I'll always remember the most about the paper as a kid , was , I have two younger sisters and one younger brother , but every evening after supper , when we'd sit around the TV at night , my Dad and my youngest sister would always sit on the sofa and do the cross word puzzle together , that was their thing , the rest of us were never allowed to do the cross word puzzle.............lol

 

[IowaRam]

I'm old enough to know what one of these things was used for

 

[theramsruleUK]

im 26, but feel like im 14, act like im 12

 

[Rmfnlt]

Used to deliver newspapers when I was 10....5 days a week was $1.00 and Sundays were .35....most customers left me $1.50 per week

Boy, that brings back memories... I wanted a paper route so bad... a friend of mine had one and it seemed like he made tons of money (I was in 6th grade then).

Tried and tired, but it was hard to get a route and, looking back on it now, I think you had to have connections.

 

[Selassie I]

I'm old enough to know what one of these things was used for

What the hell is that,,, a compass for the mantle?

 

[RhodyRams]

What the hell is that,,, a compass for the mantle?

directional guide for roof top antennas goes back to the BC era (Before Cable)

at least I think thats what it is

 

[Selassie I]

directional guide for roof top antennas goes back to the BC era (Before Cable)

at least I think thats what it is

We'll need @IowaRam to confirm this. LOL

 

[IowaRam]

directional guide for roof top antennas goes back to the BC era (Before Cable)

at least I think thats what it is

Yep , that's it , back before cable , when everyone had those huge antenna's mounted on the roof of their houses , this is how we changed the direction of the antenna

We didn't do much channel surfing back then because every time we needed to change the TV channel , we had to change the antenna direction as well , it only took a few seconds , but you still had to get off your butt and get up and do it , every time..........lol

But probably just about every rural home in America had one of these on top of their TV set , or one similar

 

[blue4]

40.

 

[12intheBox]

I turn 40 this year and I'm in full on mid life crisis mode.

 

[LesBaker]

Used to deliver newspapers when I was 10....5 days a week was $1.00 and Sundays were .35....most customers left me $1.50 per week

Not surprised to hear that New Englanders were doling out shitty tips.........

 

[RhodyRams]

Not surprised to hear that New Englanders were doling out crappy tips.........

That's because they saving up to move to Florida!!!

And continue to be lousy tippers there lmao

 

[CodeMonkey]

I'm old enough to know what one of these things was used for

I can identify. Living in the ozark hills, a lot of folks tv antennas were on high poles like 50 feet. You had to get it up high to get reception. That device remotely turned the antenna up on the pole. Where I lived you switched between Springfield and Columbia.

In the city people had rabbit ear antennas that you could fine tune depending on channel.

Whether you lived in the country or the city though, there was no such thing as a remote. That's what kids are for.

And what about those early pong and Atari games that connected to the tv antenna with a tv/game switch? Ha ha. I actually have two Atari consoles (mine and wife's) every controller, and a shit-ton of games.

 

[IowaRam]

I can identify. Living in the ozark hills, a lot of folks tv antennas were on high poles like 50 feet. You had to get it up high to get reception. That device remotely turned the antenna up on the pole. Where I lived you switched between Springfield and Columbia.

In the city people had rabbit ear antennas that you could fine tune depending on channel.

Whether you lived in the country or the city though, there was no such thing as a remote. That's what kids are for.

And what about those early pong and Atari games that connected to the tv antenna with a tv/game switch? Ha ha. I actually have two Atari consoles (mine and wife's) every controller, and a crap-ton of games.

I was like in Jr High when we finally got cable , the larger towns around got cable before we did , but yea , the first 12 years or so as a kid , we just had the big ol'e antenna on top of the house and all we could get were the three major networks at the time , CBS , NBC and ABC , and we could also pick up PBS , and that was it

We got our CBS channel out of Mankato MN , and we could get both ABC and NBC out of both Sioux City Iowa or Sioux Falls South Dakota , but usually just watched the Sioux City channels because they came in a little clearer , so if we wanted to watch CBS , we'd have to turn the antenna to NE , and when we wanted to watch ABC on NBC , we'd have to turn the antenna to SW , luckily , I'm the oldest of four kids , so I had two younger sisters and one younger brother to turn the channels and the antenna

Then in about Jr High , we finally got cable , and a remote !!!!! , although we only had like 20 channels on cable , it was still totally awesome , and the great thing was, that was right about the time we finally central air conditioning !!! , talk about high society

Cable TV and air conditioning in the same year , were we ever spoiled..................lol

 

[Dodgersrf]

I turn 40 this year and I'm in full on mid life crisis mode.

Get some reading glasses and you'll be fine.

 

[CodeMonkey]

Get some reading glasses and you'll be fine.

And some Viagra!

 

[Dodgersrf]

And some Viagra!

Haha.
I'm still good with the hardware, but once I turned fourty, it seemed like my arms got too short for reading.