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!

[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.

[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.

[bambu101]

Getting up from the chair to change the channel on the TV.

[Selkie]

People focused on the road when they drove their cars instead of talking on cell phones or texting;

You could walk in a store/restaurant/etc. and not have to hear someone's phone conversation (why do people on cellphones have to talk so loud?);

An attitude of entitlement was more the exception than the rule and was seen as a negative trait;

When I could dance at punk/new wave clubs until 4:00am, sleep a couple hours, then go to work feeling fine!

[sfa]

(why do people on cellphones have to talk so loud?)

I know this was a rhetorical question, but there's a real answer--cell phones have no feedback while regular phones do. When you talk on a regular phone you hear your own voice, but you can't hear it when you talk on a cell phone so you talk louder trying to compensate and end up just looking/sounding like an idiot.

Sarah

[shootingstar]

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

And his songs came on those little vinyl records. The high school sock hops.

I remember the big song hit, 'American Pie' and 'American Woman'.

Being taught in primary school to sing, "Born Free".

The TV regular shows, "Flipper" (the dolphin), "Lassie (border collie dog), Batman, The Avengers, Mission Impossible, Mod Squad.

When our co-ed public school allowed us to wear jeans --1976. They decided it made sense, the temperatures were dropping below -25 C degrees.

Hey crazycanuck, the 25 cent phone booths still exist. One just has to look around harder.
I remember Rick Hansen, the Canadian paraplegic guy who went around the world in a wheelchair. One of his last stops when returning to Canada, was in Toronto at the hospital for spinal cord injured hospitals where I worked. All hospital staff and patients were in the gym when he rolled in. The newspaper press were not there. There was alot of cheering and tears. For the patients who were recently paralyzed for life, it was something that they needed...so much.

I remember the days of conducting business, fax only. No email, Internet. Mid 1980's

[Selkie]

I know this was a rhetorical question, but there's a real answer--cell phones have no feedback while regular phones do. When you talk on a regular phone you hear your own voice, but you can't hear it when you talk on a cell phone so you talk louder trying to compensate and end up just looking/sounding like an idiot.

Sarah

It was rhetorical but because I use my cellphone only once in a blue moon & for short conversations, I never noticed that I couldn't hear myself.

[papaver]

Remember when Miami Vice was cool.

[Biciclista]

remember when we used shoe polish?
I found a bottle of white children's shoe polish in the far back of my bathroom cupboard this morning!!!


remember when we thought the resources of the earth were unlimited?

[Reesha]

I remember piling into the car to go to the drive in-- $8.00 for a carload for a double feature! And then passing out before the second, more adult movie started.

I remember asking permission to ride my bike to downtown Francestown, NH as a young teenager... already loving the rides!

I remember riding up Crotched Mountain with my dad-- he taught us to traverse the road as it got steeper.

I remember building the most incredible forts out of the birch logs that were left in massive piles after we built our house. We'd build log-cabin style structures adjacent to giant, car sized boulders. Then we'd get on top of the boulders and play pirates, throwing pine cones, acorns and birch bark rings stuffed with red pine needles at each other.