Internet Time Machine

[Teresa]

After watching Andy do Elvis on Carson, I watched SNL's Gilda with pyramid hair, then the Beatles sang Yesterday. 

 

Buffy clung to a spectacled Mrs. Beasley after the initial kaleidescope swirl, the "Everyone wants a Slinky..." walked magically down stairs, St. Joseph's Children's Aspirin was a kid's #1 fever relief and heaven was a scoop of orange sherbet from Ashburns on Rosedale Avenue. 

 

Fort Worth's Harold Taft of WBAP's Channel 5 slapped magnetic arrows on a weather map, Miss Mary Lynn talked to Magic Mirror on Romper Room then showed kids how to make stilts with empty cans and twine.

 

Phone numbers began with letters on a slow rotary dial, dishes were washed by hand with Joy, Charlton Heston was Moses and Judy Garland was Dorothy Gayle.

 

Fort Worth's Berry Street was paved in bricks and bubble gum was a penny when Jerry Haynes was "Mr. Peppermint".

 

Before its humming slumber, the big box TV said to all, "It's ten o'clock...do you know where your children are?"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS9uojwaN7E

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Handley]

I miss a lot of that stuff. Some not so much. But youtube rocks. Once I start, I'm there for at least an hour, clicking away and remembering good times past.

Regarding Toonification, the Saturday morning crowd didn't stir my loins. However, Vampirella always raised my hem.

[Jared Handley]

I grew up in a house where not knowing 60s and 70s pop culture--even if one was born in the 80s--demonstrated a lack of proper raising. I love youtube and the idiotnet in general, because I have now watched almost every episode of Laugh In, among others that were previously just rumors of a time more awesome. I know I'm still missing something, but it's the closest we're coming to a time machine for now. Enjoyed this one!

[Kristine_ES]

you brought back so many memories, don't know where to begin with this one.

romper room, man!  anybody else remember seymour? and st joes aspirin, dissolving orange tablet in a teaspoon?

flashbacks, man! :)

[Robert Crisman]

Yeah, I hear you. Toons. Inter-species at that. I think we're boldly going where no man or woman has ever gone before... 

[Teresa]

@Crisman ~ You know you're a freak...;-)  So am I.  I was in love with Disney's Peter Pan, totally, as in I thought he was a hottie.  A cartoon!  I was into the bad boy stray cat in Aristocats, too.  Sounds like a pattern.   

[Robert Crisman]

God. To think that I was once in love with Annette Funicello... And then Lady and the Tramp on Disney: I thought Lady was kind of cute. Does that make me a freak?

Yes.

[bolton carley]

i never thought of it in terms of all the people being gone in 100 years.  wow.  i hope we have something to show for it.  hope the next generations love retro like i do! :)

[Teresa]

Thanks.  This didn't turn out like I wanted but...  I watched a lot of YouTubes yesterday, fun clips from my favorite comedians and such.  And I was SHOCKED at how many are dead!  And I remembered something I said to Beast last week at an intersection, "See all these people sitting behind the wheel?  In one hundred years they'll all be gone.  The world will be filled with all new people."  And it struck me while looking at vintage toys, clothes and beauty treatments, old TV shows and stars, that life is so pffft!  Then gone.  But we love it so much.  I mean, we hate it, but we love it.  We'll miss it.  Like we miss anything that's gone.  I was feeling pretty sentimental.  Think of 6S.  In one hundred years... 

[Gita]

Canadian tv developed more slowly than American tv did. I recall hours and hours when only a test pattern showed up on the screen. We started getting some U.S. shows after a couple of years and I watched Davy Crockett and had a crush on Fess Parker (which is weird cuz I was around 7 years old and he was 40).

St. Joseph's Children's Aspirin was a kid's #1 fever relief  -- before anyone knew what Reye Syndrome was, right? Fun six.

 

[bolton carley]

okay, i was a little after you, but we only had 3, 6, and 7.  i love channeling the old days.  you do it so well!