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Jul 19, 2017
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bluegato
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Just a guess
With more and more freeway traffic and less two lane highways (traffic going in opposite directions) it probably lost out.
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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
more
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?
Hinta
7/19/17 6:29pm
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