Remember when...

[crazycanuck]

I thought I might start a thread about memories of things we miss in society or events we remember etc...

I remember when it was cool to hang out at WEM (that's west ed mall in Edmonton) & the waterpark was new...

[Mr. Bloom]

I remember when...life was simple

But more seriously, I remember reading the posted grades one semester in my Jr. year of college and realized that I had just raised my GPA to exactly my goal...with a nearly perfect semester at 3.97GPA.I floated out of the building to go home for Christmas! This was one of my early milestones/turning points in life.

I also remember when Silver was on the phone trying to reconcile a $5 discrepancy in a famous music star's tax return while I was timing her contractions with SilverDaughter...and also the 2AM phone call to say SilverSon was coming early but I was in Nashville and she was in Memphis...yep, I averaged 100mph on the drive west and arrived just in time for the epidural to wear off!

[bacarver]

We must be on the same wavelength. The thread I just started is my future "Remember when . . . ".

My current remember when takes me back to my childhood when I would get dressed up to go see a movie at the theater. It was important to look nice when you were sitting there in the dark for 2 hours (?!)
Barb

[cylegoddess]

I recall when having coloured hair( pink, red or blue) was so important and even worth the huge yellinng fit my dad had, when he saw it!

[crazycanuck]

I remember when Gretz broke the hearts of every edmontonian & moved to LA *sniff*

When it was .25c to use a phone booth!

$2 nights at the movies!

Our first vcr..a beta & thinking ooo when VHS came out.

Rick Hansens Man in Motion tour.

The challenger disaster live..

Getting up at 3am to watch Live Aid from the very start
Much Music being launched & it was cool. The first music videos

Mr Dressup.. (I visited the CBC in T.dot a few years ago & my camera died when I was about to take a photo of his treehouse . I did get a pic of me in Peter Mansbridge's chair though )

The Beachcombers, Kids of Degrassi street, Degrassi Jr high, Silver Spoons, Different Strokes,The Facts of life, Barnie Miller, Mcgyver were on for the first time..not reruns..

Barbara Frum passing & Pierre trudeau

[OakLeaf]

I remember when each new Michael Jackson song was debuted with great anticipation and fanfare on radio station KYA.

Carefully sewing the 30th patch into my favorite pair of jeans.

Buying cough syrup with codeine over the counter with less to-do than it now takes to buy decongestants.

Pulling taffy by hand, and burning my hands every time.

[shootingstar]

I remember:

Trudeaumania-- Canada's sauve Prime Minister when he was a bachelor, had screaming women meeting him, rumours who he was dating, etc.

When Canada celebrated its centennial as a country in 1967, the children in our school were taught the theme song, there were sport activities which we were given special 100th birthday ribbons

When Neil Armstrong planted his foot on the moon in 1969. I stayed up to watch tv at approx. 1:00 am.


When Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for 1972 Canada-Russia hockey games. Our entire school was allowed to watch this in the gym. OUr cheering could have lifted off the school roof.

The reaction of Canadians to the Vietnamese boat refugees.. there was furor in the press across Canada, both wanting to welcome the people, but also some who didn't want them..more foreign faces..

When the Berlin Wall was pulled down peacefully.

The headiness of getting onto the Internet from home computer --approx. 1992.

The first computer I requested for my dept. I did have to submit a business proposal for hardward & for software. It was a super big deal, since it was the 2nd computer granted for a dept. for a govn't agency I worked for. This was 1988. I used DOS commands, it was so easy to solve operating systems problems. Entire library database of 3,000 records plus software only took up 30 megabytes. Then Windows software blew apart the computer memory requirements.

[Serendipity]

oh, my goodness, I remberm all of those!

I remember:

Trudeaumania-- Canada's sauve Prime Minister when he was a bachelor, had screaming women meeting him, rumours who he was dating, etc.

When Canada celebrated its centennial as a country in 1967, the children in our school were taught the theme song, there were sport activities which we were given special 100th birthday ribbons

When Neil Armstrong planted his foot on the moon in 1969.

When Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for 1972 Canada-Russia hockey games.

Shootingstar, do you remember the Centennial Train that went across Canada? Also remember dressing up in period costumes for the celebrations!

And....

Creamsiciles - they were soooo good and only 7 cents

buying bottles of pop - Orange Crush, I thjnk - from one of those vending machines that was actually bottles sitting in some sort of metal chest full of cold water...???
Can't remember how much it was, tho'!

[shootingstar]

oh, my goodness, I remberm all of those!



Shootingstar, do you remember the Centennial Train that went across Canada? Also remember dressing up in period costumes for the celebrations!

I remember this Serendipity, going inside the Centennial Train looking at the historic educational exhibits, the Centennial fake coin as a memento, and the Centennial song with the guy on TV in commercials, who played some sort of Pied Piper role by leading chanting children singing in unison, 'CAAANADAA, one, two, three, happy Canadians. We love thee....' I was taught this song during that year. I genuinely felt patriotic at that time.

I was also taught in school, the pacifist song, during the Vietnam War era: "How many times must..." Written by aboriginal (native Indian) singer, Buffy Saint-Marie, later popularized by Bob Dylan.

[shootingstar]

Walking to school all the time. In primary school, I walked back home for lunch. And back to school again. I had to cross 3 busy traffic light intersections. And was required to accompany younger siblings on these journeys to school. I began this responsibility when I was 10 yrs. old. (No, it's not unreasonable. I also had a default person, my next sibling after me. )

I was never driven from kindergarten right through to end of high school. Never. High school was 1 km. away.

Walking to the store and buying bread on my own for 25 cents/loaf. I was 9 yrs. old.

Oktoberfest festivities in our school. (Well, it was a German-based community). The polka dancing, oompah-pah music, etc.

Watching Sonny and Cher show. Baby Chastity was real cute.

Playing double dutch with double length skipping rope and contests we had for jumping the longest and most skips.

Hula hoops were really in when I was around 11-12 yrs. old.

[Tuckervill]

I remember being able to walk into any store and buy cigarettes for my mom. I remember walking to the 5 & 10 in Joplin, MO, to buy my grandfather some snuff when I was only 8. I remember, when I was 16, BEGGING my mother to let me go get her some cigarettes, so I could drive there!

I'm glad my kids don't have to do that.

Karen

[sundial]

I remember when gas was $0.34 cents/gallon. I also remember buying Coke in those short little glass bottles and watching my parents return the glass bottles at the grocery store for $.

[OakLeaf]

I remember 6-speed freewheels, Reynolds 531, the very first Terry saddles, natural chamois, cleated shoes for toe clips, down tube shifters, Bell "Biker" helmets, tan grids from mesh back gloves, and the day Greg LeMond raced in our little town in his rainbow jersey.

I remember when Cannondale was a luggage company. And when they were a motorcycle company.

[Brandi]

Ahhhh roller skating rinks!

[solobiker]

Gas prices under $1.00

leaving food out on the counter to defrost ( pre-micowave)

Using the Card Catalog at the Library..The good ole days