[TFoch]

I was wondering where all my time goes.  Back in the day we only had 3 channels (5 if you had a UHF antenna).  There were no cell phones, voice mail or answering machines.  Some of us had party lines.  If you called someone and they weren't home no one answered.  No internet.  How did we communicate??

We hung out at our buddy's garage working on each others cars, cruised the main street in our home town.  That's how you met girls, not on a website.  I worked from 7 to 3:30 and got paid overtime (time and a half) if I did any more.  Had the rest of the day to myself.

I sit here tonight wondering where all my time goes

[ghost28]

Yep simpler times for sure. You got me thinking about some of my hot rod, mostly the tri five variety. Or visualizing cruising into a park or down town lot mostly after dark, just sitting in your car or hangin out with your buddies on a weekend night watching life unfold before us, and not even thinking about becoming (ugh) adults. Man I can't wait for the car season to start up so I can make new memories although a little later in life, but memories just the same.
 Thanks Tom

[TFoch]

Ghost think about no DVR, on demand blue ray DVD's, HBO or seeing a movie at home.  You had to take your date to the local theater or better yet the drive-ins.  How cool was that?

[ghost28]

Ghost think about no DVR, on demand blue ray DVD's, HBO or seeing a movie at home.  You had to take your date to the local theater or better yet the drive-ins.  How cool was that?

  Oh yeah, don't get me started on going to the drive ins and dating.
 When My older brother got old enough to drive, my dad bought him the most butt ugly 50 olds 4 door sedan, and told me that in a couple of years I should be able to have it. Right then at that moment I decided to be creative and start looking for my own style of car and ended up with a black and white 56 chevy 2 door sedan for my first project build at 14 years of age. That oldsmobile scared the bejeezes out of me.

[sammons]

No reason to stay home for sure. It all happened on the street back then. My little town had a 1/2 mile long main street and it wasn't nothing to put 100 miles a night (@ 20mph).  Everybody cruised back then, almost everynight. Saturday night most of us would drive the 30 miles to Dodge for dinner and a movie with our dates, then cruise Wyatt Earp blvrd and meet up at Sonic(the happening place for hot rods and a cherry Coke with a colored monkey on the straw).  We dried up around here in about '85, I guess all the kids nowadays sit home on the internet. They really don't know what they are missing out on.

[EDNY]

Tom

When you mentioned "3 channels" reminded me of the TV antenna's on top of the TV's. They were huge and often had aluminum foil crimped all over the place.

[sixball]

The three channel scheme was to benefit the weather forecasts. One channel could say "SUNNY" one "CLOUDY" and one "PARTLY" so one would be right and then they would switch.

[62131]

I remember those days with three channels and the day we got the forth one we thought we had it all.

[chopper526]

You guys are bringing back some memories. We had 3 VHF channels and 3 UHF channels and I was my parents' remote control. We only had one TV back then and I remember when my parents bought a brand new color TV, and the first movie we watched on it was black and white.
When I was old enough to drive we took turns cruising around in each other's car. No drag racing for me, though, my first car was my mom's Gremlin
I did work in a Sunoco station for years and we would meet up there and hang out for hours. The cars that came in and the guys that hung out there......priceless.

[TFoch]

Ha! I took my mom's gremlin to the prom and it was purple   It did have a 304 V8 in it
Our neighbors were technologically advanced, they had a rotor on there antenna so they could get the picture to be perfect (for the day).

[EDNY]

I remember those days with three channels and the day we got the forth one we thought we had it all.

Me too...but living on the northern border...our forth station was in French from Canada.

[sixball]

Ha! I took my mom's gremlin to the prom and it was purple   It did have a 304 V8 in it
Our neighbors were technologically advanced, they had a rotor on there antenna so they could get the picture to be perfect (for the day).

I had never even heard of a TV set until my dad brought one home. I was seven (1953). We were in the Texas Panhandle and there were no stations. We lived in a two story house and from the up stairs windows you could see New Mexico, Oklahoma and two trees. Dad put the antenna on the roof so that the bottom of the pipe was outside a window. He put an old steering wheel on it so we could hunt for signals. The first thing I saw on TV was professional wrestling from Los Angeles.   It was Gorgeous George and Wild Red Berry. I guess the signal was just bouncing along the prairie. 

[themoose]

Reading all of these comments sure brings back a lot of memories. I remember the days of only three stations and I also remember that the shows on those stations were all great and the family looked forward to sitting down each evening to watch the new episodes. Now I have 200 channels and I am lucky if I can find one show a night that I can even get a little excited about...Progress??

[EDNY]

Reading all of these comments sure brings back a lot of memories. I remember the days of only three stations and I also remember that the shows on those stations were all great and the family looked forward to sitting down each evening to watch the new episodes. Now I have 200 channels and I am lucky if I can find one show a night that I can even get a little excited about...Progress??

You're right on...200 channels and still get re-runs all day long