I'm so old I Remember when:

[Miami Leghorn]

Lawrence Welk Show

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Radio Shack

 

[LTAY1946]

Has the old indoor Cinerama movies been mentioned?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama

 

[R2elk]

I'm so old I remember the classified adds in a lot of magazines and news papers for such things as "old family recipes" that were offered for a dollar. "Send one dollar and a self addressed stamped envelope to". Later SASE was used for the instructions on how to buy. Many different adds were used for a wide variety of items. I don't know if this is still used or not as Facebook Market Place has really grown as a place to sell a diverse list of things.

There were also chain letters and pyramid schemes.

 

[RoyalChick]

Radio Shack

That wasn’t that long ago. I still have working stuff from Radio Shack.

 

[Sally PB]

I remember buying cheap 35mm color film from Dale Labs. It was the leftovers from rolls that were used in shooting movies for the big screens. I would send a roll in for processing and would get a new roll back. If memory is right I could even get slides from the film I sent in with picture too.

I worked at a One-Hour photo lab. We ran a roll of that film through the C-41 processor (that was the name of the film developing chemistry) and found out that that film was not C-41 compatible. We had to dump all the chemistry and mix new. A giant headache.

TMI: the chemistry was "replenished," not replaced, so this was a very expensive mistake. What happened to that roll of film? The emulsion melted off and was all through the chemistry, on everything in the machine... and ruined other people's film.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

That wasn’t that long ago. I still have working stuff from Radio Shack.

The radio build kits were so cool. Also rummaging through transistors and resistors on the drawers they had there.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

When GI Joe had peach fuzz for hair.

 

[Canadian Wind]

The radio build kits were so cool. Also rummaging through transistors and resistors on the drawers they had there.

My first computer was a TRS-80! Complete with tape deck!

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Good Humor ice cream man would ride his bike with the cooler behind it through the neighborhood.