THE GOOD OLD DAYS (or the golden oldies!)

What memories do you have of the "Good Old Days"?

I remember when there was only 3 channels on the TV. They only broadcast during the day time and one of them did not start to broadcast until the evening.

Also there was no such thing as a remote control, you had to actually get up and press buttons to turn the TV on, switch channels etc.

We had a black and white TV, only people who were really well off had a colour TV when I was a child.

And now...everybody from workng class to millionaires has the same technology! I'd call these the good days.

Do you remember the days when no one had a mobile phone!
When people got on a bus they spent the journey staring out of the window. Now most people have their heads bowed (not in prayer) but staring at their mobile phones...LOL

Does anyone remember sherbet fountains and sherbet dips (I'm not sure if they had them in other countries).

Sherbet fountains were basically a tube of sherbet and they came with a stick of liquorice which you dipped in the sherbet.

Sherbet dips were similar but instead they came with a lolly on a stick to dip in the sherbet.

The lolly/liquorice usually got eaten first, so then you had to resort to sticking your fingers in the sherbet! Ah those were the days lol

I remember when no one had ever heard of a non-denominational church, and hardly anyone had ever heard of speaking in tongues or even being saved. We went to Catholic schools with 18 classrooms and 50 kids in each, and had 6 masses each Sunday with 800 people at a mass. They were in Latin. Ministry to the homeless was a special calling for very few, and if someone got healed, he was a saint. For that matter, if someone wrote a Christian song, he was almost a saint, because God simply did not raise up people like that. And there were almost no parachurch ministries.

I'm surprised no one else posted a Christian response, but so I don't feel left out with the other responses, I remember listening to the Lone Ranger on radio. I love the old radio shows; they are free on Internet now. Way less sexual and way less swearing than much of television, and shorter commercials. I've recommended them and the old movies to Christian friends, and they like them. Look at archive.org if you care.

I remember...

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers!

Wow 6 masses, was there enough hours in the day (thinking about my own church services which are
1 1/2 hours long)

I remember when the only musician in the church was an older lady playing on a plinky plonky piano. lol

Miri, masses are "ex opere operato". That fancy Latin term means the priest does not have to do a good job, because the saints did a good job a long time ago. A Sunday mass was long at 45 minutes. Old schedules used to run 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12:15. I have seen daily masses done in 20 minutes. In the 1950's daily schedules used to be 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7:15, 8. And in my experience, that was an old man on the organ - same thing, I guess. And I would question if some of them were truly musicians? I'm glad God showed me there was more to His Kingdom before I became that old man!

Ah your not an old man - see Gen 6 v 3 you are barely middle aged

Miri, but I would have been if I had stayed there. Gen.6:3 is one of the rules of GOD'S kingdom.

Saturday night, when I was young, my dad would have me polish my dress shoes for Sunday morning mass. I have not done that in a long time. When I was in Catholic grade school, we had to wear button down shirts, dress pants and dress shoes. We were not allowed to wear tennis shoes unless it was gym class.

I was an altar boy. I remember getting up early in the morning during the summer to help serve mass at 6:00 am. Actually, I liked it. I remember large crowds at church. If you did not come a little early, you would not find a seat. You had to stand in one of the aisles on the sides of the main body of the church. There were hundreds of people at each mass.

Although there are many things I do not like about the Catholic church, and many things which I know are not biblical, I still sometimes miss the services.

I do believe the eucharist is the body of Christ. I support this fact since I met a wiccan who told me some of them steal the blessed host for ceremonies. If the enemy believes, then I surely must believe.

Praise God! I love the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for the memories.

I remember back in the good ol' days when I used to watch videos on VHS tapes. Sometimes I watch those old videos and notice how terrible the video quality is, but back then I thought it was superb:


Cassette tapes...and its problems...



Fads of the 1990s for kids: Bill Nye the science guy, Goosebumps books, board games, Nintendo gameboy, tamagotchi and giga pets, trading cards, hopscotch, yo-yos, Elmo, etc.
Now: ipods, ipads, blackberries and iphones (some kids can text on these phones with their eyes closed while their parents are still learning how to use them lol), texting, X-box 360, Nintendo Wii, Justin Bieber T-shirts, the word "belieber", the hunger games, tumblr, angry birds, YouTube, etc.

I remember at school we had a teacher who use to throw the black board rubber at you if you were not paying attention. Many of his pupils came out of the
Classroom covered in white chalk marks. I can't imagine something happening like that today!

What about the cane. I never had it but I know of a few that did in my school.

My mother and I would occasionally rent a vcr machine for the evening (in the same manner one would rent the videos).

I owned a walkman (Do the youngest members here even know what that is?)

isn't today, tomorrow's "good ol' days"?

MacGyver still airs here from time to time I wouldn't say it's for kids though

I have cassettes with my favorite children's author's books on them, read by the author herself. She died a few years ago
It's almost like I lost someone I knew, I grew up having her books read to me very often.

Starfield: I still have a few goosebumps books

Nice! I lost the ones I had. I used to rent like 6 of them at once from the library to read neglecting the fact that I had textbooks to read and homework. Haha. They were so captivating I couldn't resist the urge.