When I was a kid...

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My father was sort of hip for his day; we had a color TV by 1967.

Of course, we still had to get up to change the channels.

I don't remember the JFK Assassination. But I remember, very well, his brother Bobby's, and Martin Luther King's.

There were always 10 times more Vietcong/North Vietnamese killed than Americans every week.

I find it funny that the doctor's office is called a "surgery" in the UK and its dominions. We actually had house calls until the late 1960s.

We also got milk delivered in a milk crate every day until about 1970. Then, we got milk from the "milk machine" for 35 cents.

I spoke German until I was six years old, when English took over as my primary language.

I watched Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

I wanted to be Wolverine.

VCRs and VHS tapes really hit it big when I was about 21.

I still have VHS tapes of my favourite movies, which I watch from time to time.
One of them does this weird half green screen thing.

How about Zoom, Istomin?

Yes, I also watched Zoom and Wonderama. I remember watching all of the popular kid's shows of that day.

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I wanted to go on Wonderama and Romper Room. The kids on Zoom were too hip and smart for me.

I had to walk half a mile to school a lot because I always lost my bus pass.

When I was a kid, gas was under a dollar a gallon, the US was debt free, the internet was beginning to replace the usenet, computers took a good 5 minutes to boot into the operating system, payphones were prevalent, cellphones were simply for calls, beepers saw a fair amount of use and CDs were coming into existence.

A 'Rag And Bone Man' used to come along our street on a horse-drawn cart, collecting unwanted household junk.

Anyone ever seen Steptoe And Son?

I had party lines even in the 80s.

I used to run home from 6th grade to watch the Watergate hearings.

My mother had an electric typewriter. That was a big deal.

I thought I hit it big when I had a touchtone phone that glowed in the dark in 1981.

Local calls were 10 cents in NYC from phone booths until about 1984.

Beepers were big when I was in my 30s.

Sanford and Son was the American Steptoe and Son.