Things you remember but that most young folks never heard of. Pre 1980

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Federal FCC regulation wrote in the 1950s regulating commercials on TV. It was pulled in 1984 per wiki....

 

[Imp]

Black @ White TV. The programs would go off at night to the star spangled banner.

Yeah, I remember this as well. Didn't get color TV till I was about 12. It was several weeks before I could see the color. I guess my imagination filled in the color on the B & W, so I didn't notice the change.

Imp

 

[hemet dennis]

Federal FCC regulation wrote in the 1950s regulating commercials on TV. It was pulled in 1984 per wiki....

Couldn't find it.

 

[hemet dennis]

Yeah, I remember this as well. Didn't get color TV till I was about 12. It was several weeks before I could see the color. I guess my imagination filled in the color on the B & W, so I didn't notice the change.

Imp

When we got our first color T.V. there was only 1 or 2 hours of color programing. We always waited for the NBC peacock.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Cant find the actual text of the regulations but it was something about a max of 30 seconds per commercial an 18 minutes of commercials per hour.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial

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[hemet dennis]

Cant find the actual text of the regulations but it was something about a max of 30 seconds per commercial an 18 minutes of commercials per hour.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial

I'm sure that there was never a 30 sec. restriction on commercials.

 

[duckinnut]

Ahhhh the rotary phone, you had to remember someones number or look it up in the phone book and no presets either. My house had the first remote controlled TV, my father would have us get up and change the channel. You could still say God, Christmas and the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools but I digress.

 

[handyman]

I remember the milk truck coming to the house and the ice cream truck to. The Road Runner on sat. mornings.

 

[quercus21]

We had a party line with the phones; points and condensers etc in cars; Hudson River was a mess, you were afraid to go in it; shows - wild wild west, mutual of Omaha, Gilligan's island

 

[Mike Winters]

music was good back then, Beatles, Eagles, Hollies, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Rolling Stones. etc.
cartoons were good some of them maybe a little sexist and racist but never obnoxious or obsence. Looney tunes, Smurfs, Scooby doo, Tom and Jerry, Muppets