Do you remember not owning a VCR and renting it when you rented a movie?

Jul 19, 2017
6:22:55pm

Tricky All-American

The video stores rented them in large padded carriers so you could watch the videocassette you were renting at the same time. It was years after VHS tapes were available before my family bought our own VCR.

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Author

Time

Age test

thaws Good Guy Idiot

7/19/17 11:52am

All of the above

CopperLix

7/19/17 11:53am

All of the above

Mathew

7/19/17 11:53am

Only the first one.

Six Foot Seven

7/19/17 11:54am

your mom reaching across your body to "save" you when she has to stop quickly

smokymountainrain

7/19/17 11:54am

That's my move!!!!

Tabernacle Tech

7/19/17 12:41pm

Co-Stanza!

DK-

7/19/17 12:49pm

Can't Stand ya

Tabernacle Tech

7/19/17 1:25pm

atari, record players

DK-

7/19/17 11:55am

We got a used Atari when I was 7. I was amazed that I could control stuff on TV.

EpicAccountant

7/19/17 11:57am

WE had pong machine first. So cool you could play --- tennis. That is it. Tennis.

thaws

7/19/17 12:01pm

We had Pong

BYULAWGUY

7/19/17 12:57pm

Add: typewriter, party line for telephone, car without seat belts

Hinta

7/19/17 11:55am

Boy party line is ooooold.

SandYFan

7/19/17 11:56am

we never had one, but my grandparents did. Wierd you could hear somone else's converstation

thaws

7/19/17 11:58am

CB Radios in the farm trucks and a CB radio at home base

Mathew

7/19/17 11:55am

Party line on your phone

CopperLix

7/19/17 11:55am

all except the 8 - track for me as a kid.

indocoug

7/19/17 11:55am

none of the above

Ulysses14

7/19/17 11:55am

all of them and a party phone line.

Belboz

7/19/17 11:56am

we had an 8 track in the house for a bit, but our cars had them, too. Our truck had it where you

thaws

7/19/17 12:00pm

Rotary phone and dimmer switch yes. Why don't they use the floor switch anymore?

Ycrazy

7/19/17 11:56am

Just a guess

bluegato

7/19/17 12:23pm

That is one thing that I would bring back on cars...

ToonArmyCoug

7/19/17 1:09pm

i don't remember the dimmer switch on the floor board or the 8 track, but i'm

smokymountainrain

7/19/17 11:57am

Dimmer = hi beam / lo beam switch - our station wagon had that on the floor

Tricky

7/19/17 1:04pm

Yes....and we had a party line

DodgerMike

7/19/17 11:57am

Transistor radio; no TV with remote; 45rpm records;

Monomachos

7/19/17 11:58am

My mom had some 78s mixed in with her regular 33s.

Belboz

7/19/17 12:03pm

wow...you are young, i can still remember the tube radio in the living room

Nat Gas Man

7/19/17 12:03pm

All of the above minus the party line.

Kama'aina

7/19/17 11:58am

For me it's more of a poor test not an age test. All those listed are still valued commodities on my home reserve.

JohnnyComeLately

7/19/17 11:59am

All except 8-tracks; my family skipped straight from records to cassettes.

fredgarvin

7/19/17 11:59am

I always preferred the actual album because of the packaging.

Belboz

7/19/17 12:02pm

Nat Gas Man

7/19/17 12:00pm

All of the above

bluegato

7/19/17 12:00pm

That was before my time.

thaws

7/19/17 12:01pm

Grew up in Utah with a coal-fired furnace as our primary source of heat until I

basman

7/19/17 12:01pm

Yes on all of the above plus....

BigYfan

7/19/17 12:01pm

Yeah- the remotes with a cord were funny. Most of my growing up - I was the remote with my dad telling me to change

thaws

7/19/17 12:03pm

Ever had one of these?

Thrill

7/19/17 12:03pm

NOt the two player version- but had a football and a baseball one

thaws

7/19/17 12:04pm

Same--we had one like this. I think my parents still have it

fredgarvin

7/19/17 12:08pm

That's it!

thaws

7/19/17 12:10pm

I spent hours playing that thing...

silk

7/19/17 1:22pm

I had that exact one. My brothers and I probably wore out the buttons.

Tricky

7/19/17 5:03pm

I wasn't rich enough for head to head

Belboz

7/19/17 12:10pm

Yes! How 'bout the NFL Electric Football game with the vibrating field?

Hawk in the 303

7/19/17 12:22pm

I had that. Booring.

eddog

7/19/17 12:43pm

I forgot about hand held video games. I had a few of those.

eddog

7/19/17 12:44pm

i thought it was gonna be a coleco or intellevision

pegushin

7/19/17 1:34pm

Yes plus intellivision, pong, cassette phone answering machine, and sore fingers from Manual typewriter.

zephyr

7/19/17 12:10pm

I loved the Intellivision football game.

Belboz

7/19/17 12:12pm

Before my time, but I remember shortly thereafter doing stuff like

IndependentGeorge

7/19/17 12:14pm

Yes to all

Frank Castiglione

7/19/17 12:15pm

The craziest, old tech we had when I was a kid was a Coleco Adam computer

Frank Castiglione

7/19/17 12:53pm

For me, VCR is the old technology I remember when I was a child.

Jezza

7/19/17 12:18pm

Bunch of oldoes on here

Ulysses14

7/19/17 12:20pm

None

byupacker

7/19/17 12:20pm

Regular Nintendo, Walkman, VCR, my grandparents only had 3 channels,

eddog

7/19/17 12:25pm

Do you remember not owning a VCR and renting it when you rented a movie?

Tricky

7/19/17 6:22pm

Yes I do remember that. I'm old.

eddog

7/19/17 6:35pm

Yep

Frank Castiglione

7/19/17 7:13pm

Yes to all.

jdub

7/19/17 12:34pm

I'll say "yes" to all and raise you a BetaMAX.

Bert609

7/19/17 12:34pm

don't forget the slide projector

warp

7/19/17 12:47pm

I'll add CB Radio. We had one of those in our full sized van.

Y'zcrack

7/19/17 12:46pm

Nice, except CB isn't that rare. You'll most likely find one in any

Bert609

7/19/17 12:55pm

Awesome. I didn't realize they were still so common.

Y'zcrack

7/19/17 2:12pm

I would put it as a "niche" market now, not necessarily common.

Bert609

7/19/17 3:06pm

Our first videogame was Pong

SoCalCoug

7/19/17 1:01pm

A few more...

MenloCougar

7/19/17 1:01pm

NEver had reel to reel- a friend of mine did, though. Had flash bulbs and polaroid though and my FIL still

thaws

7/19/17 1:05pm

Shag carpet; bike with a banana seat, huge sissy bar and center bar shifter...

ToonArmyCoug

7/19/17 1:15pm

Yup all of that. Add clock radio where the readout was not LED

BYU Grounds

7/19/17 1:10pm

What about a Merlin tic tac toe game?

Captain Stubing

7/19/17 1:21pm

Watched BYU v. Navy for Holiday Bowl I on a 13 inch B&W TV

Captain Stubing

7/19/17 1:22pm

Lawn Darts!!!

silk

7/19/17 1:29pm

No floor dimmer but did have a Bronco with the high beams switch on the floor

byuTX

7/19/17 5:53pm

Anybody remember what this is?

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