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Remember those days
- Thread starter Richland123
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These videos are also a throw back. I was born in 1956 and was not around for some of these things; but, there are many I do remember as a kid.
I know the ones you speak of, they were really good, ashame they aren't available anymore
I remember when my dad bought a color TV set in 1960. It was very expensive and cost between $500 - $600. We were the only people in the neighborhood to have one. We were all excited to watch it and relatives and friends would come by to watch it. There were only three color TV shows on at the time - The Flintstones (which was the first color TV show I ever saw), Bonanza, and Walt Disney Presents. The TV always had problems and was very expensive to fix; so, it eventually became the TV stand for our next TV, which to my dismay, was black & white. We did not get another color TV set until the late 60s.
Yep...when you look at the percentage of annual income a color TV cost back then and look at it now it is quite amazing. Oh, and back then the maintenance cost of replacing vacuum tubes on TV's were quite high. Seems like the TV repair guy was at our house every month. Today, when something electronic breaks, most of the time it is easier to replace instead of repair.
We used to have a fast food restaurant in my town called Stuver's where you could get 7 hamburgers for $1.00. They went to 6 hamburger for $1.00 in the late 60s early 70s. They do not exist anymore.
Nope, guess I'm too young.... both of my parents have always worked, no one in my immediate family is very religious, and I am currently single.....
It was an eye-opener for me to see my teen and college-age kids get sentimental over their favorite episodes of Spongebob Squarepants. They don't make TV like that any more.
That's what I say about 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.
Yeah but you're right they DONT make anything like looney tunes anymore and never will!! What a treasure trove of pure genius...
Ren and Stimpy may have been the closest thing to a Looney Tunes cartoon in recent memory, even the animation was something akin to that classic style.
i really liked the first season of ren and stimpy, and it was obviously heavily influenced by the looney tunes/merry melodies cartoons, but ren and stimply did not have the quality of animation or animators that those classics cartoons did.
True, but I think that's the look they were going for, plus it was most likely a lot smaller operation
