Comments on: Those Were The Days: A Meme http://hloy.edublogs.org/2009/05/05/those-were-the-days-a-meme/ Forum to share information, books, news, technology, issues in education, .... "Whatever, Whenever!" Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:11:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Heather Loy http://hloy.edublogs.org/2009/05/05/those-were-the-days-a-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Heather Loy Sun, 10 May 2009 01:00:41 +0000 http://hloy.edublogs.org/?p=185#comment-207 MARCIA! Glad you made it over to the blog. I do remember turning channels w/ pliers. My 1st TV was a black and white model and the knob did keep falling off. My second TV was a hand me down console model whose color eventually faded to sorta a green/gray - not quite black and white OR if you moved the adjuster on the back of the TV your other choice was shades of red/pink. Needless to say, gray/green was where it stayed! MARCIA! Glad you made it over to the blog. I do remember turning channels w/ pliers. My 1st TV was a black and white model and the knob did keep falling off. My second TV was a hand me down console model whose color eventually faded to sorta a green/gray – not quite black and white OR if you moved the adjuster on the back of the TV your other choice was shades of red/pink. Needless to say, gray/green was where it stayed!

]]> By: Marcia K http://hloy.edublogs.org/2009/05/05/those-were-the-days-a-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Marcia K Thu, 07 May 2009 00:28:02 +0000 http://hloy.edublogs.org/?p=185#comment-206 Oh gosh, I didn't do the antispam word and my eloquent comment is now lost in cyberspace !! I echo a lot of your comments, Heather, including the no-selt-belts thing ... playing outside all the time, including in the street (we lived on a cul-de-sac till I was eight). My mom used to tell the story of how I clung to my dad "like a monkey," while he was driving from Cincinnati to Florida ... I was about 18 months old. Also, (I'm a bit older than you), I vividly remember NO CABLE, and having a grand total of 4 channels: the 3 major networks and one lone UHF channel with wacky programming. And how many people remember changing the channels with a pair of pliers when the channel-changer-knob came off ?? Now THAT is low tech ! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I sure enjoyed it! Oh gosh, I didn’t do the antispam word and my eloquent comment is now lost in cyberspace !!

I echo a lot of your comments, Heather, including the no-selt-belts thing … playing outside all the time, including in the street (we lived on a cul-de-sac till I was eight).

My mom used to tell the story of how I clung to my dad “like a monkey,” while he was driving from Cincinnati to Florida … I was about 18 months old.

Also, (I’m a bit older than you), I vividly remember NO CABLE, and having a grand total of 4 channels: the 3 major networks and one lone UHF channel with wacky programming.

And how many people remember changing the channels with a pair of pliers when the channel-changer-knob came off ?? Now THAT is low tech !

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I sure enjoyed it!

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