When I was a kid...

[Hotwire]

When I was a kid we were stuck in traffic somewhere in the Bronx and we watched the original Star Wars on a drive-in screen that we could see from the car until traffic started moving again. We couldn't hear it, but it was still awesome.

Got me by a couple years.

 

[Mace Dolex]

You could buy comics at a Toy-R-Us or local supermarket.

Ahh yes I think supermarkets and drug stores were carrying comics up until the mid-90's.

I've actually seen Toys'R'Us sell comics again but their mostly old stuff from the 80's, 90's.

 

[wiegeabo]

The first comics I bought were mixed packs from Toys'R'Us. Got some Death/Funeral/Return of Superman and Knightfall among others.

 

[antsman41]

I remember buying some issues of Knightfall at gas stations even...

-Snick (Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Pete & Pete, and All That)
-Saturday Morning re-runs on USA Network
-MMPR!
-Sega Game Gears
-Weekday Afternoons = BTAS, Boy Meets World, Brotherly Love, and Smart Guy
-Saved By The Bell before school...
-Jeep Wranglers came in every color mix-match ever known to man...
-Casey Kasem ruining Nickelodeon once a year.
-Family Matters, Home Improvement, and Step By Step sandwich
-RUGRATS, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butt-head, and Animaniacs
-Summer Sanders

Life was awesome...

 

[SonOfCthulhu]

When I was a kid, Marvel comics came three-to-a-pack. They were packaged back to back with one sandwiched in the middle. You could tell two of the issues you were getting but the third was a mystery until you opened the package. Pure excitement when you opened those packages.

 

[wiegeabo]

When I was a kid, Marvel comics came three-to-a-pack. They were packaged back to back with one sandwiched in the middle. You could tell two of the issues you were getting but the third was a mystery until you opened the package. Pure excitement when you opened those packages.

Holy crap, I remember that now.

 

[Diamondhead]

I love to draw stick figures on the "black board" we had in our house
i would spend time looking at the needle of a clock moving
love to draw two cirle on a paper when i was bored, then i was so thrill when i discoverd how to draw 3d cube
love to draw geographic maps
spend time looking at flowers growing and that's when i realised that everything was growing (expention of the univers)
started to notice women when i was six
left my native country around eight
I discovered comic books when i came to canada
and start bying them around nine

 

[Diamondhead]

hey!
I had no TV untill i came to canada
i have never even seen a cartoon before
just imagine the first movie i saw on the Tv was sinbad
and wrestling was a little bit scary but i could'nt get enough of it
and all those cowboy movies on the tele
Wow !.. that's was paradise

 

[UltimateJustin]

hey!
I had no TV untill i came to canada
i have never even seen a cartoon before
just imagine the first movie i saw on the Tv was sinbad
and wrestling was a little bit scary but i could'nt get enough of it
and all those cowboy movies on the tele
Wow !.. that's was paradise

What was scary about wrestling?

 

[Axl]

When I was a kid at 10pm my parents knew where I was.

When my Dad found pot in my room and asked me where I learned about it I reminded him that "I learned it from you Dad!!".

When I was a kid to see a preview for a new movie you had to watch it in a theater, see it on Entertainment Tonight or the trailer show (I cant remember the title but it was a half hour show that showed about 6 movie trailers) on E!

When I was a kid things just seemed simplier despite having a crappy childhood. I remember when there would be a snow storm warning at night my mom would always get the candles out and ready. And me and my brother would stare out the window waiting for the snow. We'd have to look up at the street lights to see if any flurries were falling yet.

When I was a kid we actually listened to the radio to hear our favorite songs if you didnt have the album yet.

When I was a kid just two dollars could buy you a ton of candy to get you through the school day.

 

[Marx]

When I was a kid...

When I had a school project or paper to do, the library was THE place to go to. I would spend hours there flipping through the card catalogue to find out where a particular book was. Once I found all my books, I would sit at the table with stacks of books around me looking for the information I needed to put into the project.

There were no instant search engines on a computer to use. It was all done by hand...and it was actually kinda fun.

 

[UltimateJustin]

- When I was a kid I used to wear a wife beater and blue shorts and pretend to be my hero Billy Kidman

- when I was a kid Captain America and the Avengers was only arcade at the bowling alley that worked

- When I was a kid I had a Game Boy Color but it didn't work even though it was still my favorite toy

- When I was a kid we all wanted to grow up and thought when we were old enough we would be able to gut hot chicks all the time

- When I was a kid everything made sense, and yet nothing made sense at all

 

[danoyse]

When I was a kid...

When I had a school project or paper to do, the library was THE place to go to. I would spend hours there flipping through the card catalogue to find out where a particular book was. Once I found all my books, I would sit at the table with stacks of books around me looking for the information I needed to put into the project.

There were no instant search engines on a computer to use. It was all done by hand...and it was actually kinda fun.

That's right! We also had to sit through entire lessons in school about how to use the Dewey Decimal system in the card catalogue because this was how we were going to do research for the rest of our lives.

Also, we watched films on a film projector in class or on filmstrips that had an accompanying cassette (it beeped when you needed to flip to the next picture). I didn't see a VCR in a classroom until the 6th grade, our school only had one, and it was a big deal when we got one.

 

[Mace Dolex]

When I was a kid to see a preview for a new movie you had to watch it in a theater, see it on Entertainment Tonight or the trailer show (I cant remember the title but it was a half hour show that showed about 6 movie trailers) on E!

Yes I remember the early days of the E! Network in which they had like only six hours of programming that was constantly shown all day. t:

They even had cool movie specials like the one for Batman Returns in which the Organ Grinder and the Mayor were hosting the hour long special.

 

[Hobgoblin]

After noon talk shows were semi respectable. They had authors and politicians as guests and people could call in from home. They didnt all feature trailer trash.

 

[wiegeabo]

Morning tv was filled with game shows. And Press Your Luck was a god among them.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Morning tv was filled with game shows. And Press Your Luck was a god among them.

Ah, yes. I remember that show. No whammies! No whammies! Big money! Big money!

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

When I was a kid TV Dinners (frozen dinners) came in a aluminum dish and you heated it in the oven.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Reaching the top of the Agro Crag was ultimate physical accomplishment.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

When I was a kid at 10pm my parents knew where I was.

When my Dad found pot in my room and asked me where I learned about it I reminded him that "I learned it from you Dad!!".

When I was a kid to see a preview for a new movie you had to watch it in a theater, see it on Entertainment Tonight or the trailer show (I cant remember the title but it was a half hour show that showed about 6 movie trailers) on E!

When I was a kid things just seemed simplier despite having a crappy childhood. I remember when there would be a snow storm warning at night my mom would always get the candles out and ready. And me and my brother would stare out the window waiting for the snow. We'd have to look up at the street lights to see if any flurries were falling yet.

When I was a kid we actually listened to the radio to hear our favorite songs if you didnt have the album yet.

When I was a kid just two dollars could buy you a ton of candy to get you through the school day.

I used to stop in at the local convenience store on my way to school and buy a bunch of those 10 cent laffy taffys and sell them at school for 50 cents.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

That's right! We also had to sit through entire lessons in school about how to use the Dewey Decimal system in the card catalogue because this was how we were going to do research for the rest of our lives.

Also, we watched films on a film projector in class or on filmstrips that had an accompanying cassette (it beeped when you needed to flip to the next picture). I didn't see a VCR in a classroom until the 6th grade, our school only had one, and it was a big deal when we got one.

I remember those old movie reels. The teachers were idiots and I was often times showing them how it worked when I was in first grade. Then when VCRs started showing up, I'd guess by about 3rd grade for me, I was showing them where the play button was.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

This song is a great way to sum up this thread.
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[Hotwire]

When I was a kid to see a preview for a new movie you had to watch it in a theater, see it on Entertainment Tonight or the trailer show (I cant remember the title but it was a half hour show that showed about 6 movie trailers) on E!

When I was a kid, E! didn't exist.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

When I was a kid, the baddest computer hacker was Matthew Broderick

 

[danoyse]

When I was a kid...

If you wanted to know what was on TV, you looked it up in the TV Guide.
Sitcoms "were taped in front of a live studio audience."