The 70s & 80s Nostalgia Thread...

Cotton said:


Never had a beeper. I went straight from long cord kitchen phone to a bag cell phone in the car.
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I had a beeper in the late 90s because my parents couldn't get ahold of me when I was online.
 
I remember the rumors going around that a wealthy oil family in town was in trouble because they had recorded the Super Bowl on their almost mythical VCR.
 
Cotton said:
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Tom Peterson's was Portland, Oregon's version of Crazy Eddie. He was a huge sponsor of Portland Wrestling back in the 70's and 80's, so much so that when he began to fold, the combination of that and the WWF taking over pretty much crushed the PNW Territory in 1991.
 


We had a console TV. It wasn't nearly this big, but we had it for quite a few years. I remember very clearly my dad saying he was never moving it again after him and a couple of other guys got it moved into the parsonage in Blooming Grove. So, we had one until I was a sophomore in high school.
 
Cotton said:


We had a console TV. It wasn't nearly this big, but we had it for quite a few years. I remember very clearly my dad saying he was never moving it again after him and a couple of other guys got it moved into the parsonage in Blooming Grove. So, we had one until I was a sophomore in high school.
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Back in those days the TV was a big purchase. Not something you just swapped out every year. You bought it and that was staying there for a very long time. Now I feel like I want to upgrade TVs every couple of years.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
Back in those days the TV was a big purchase. Not something you just swapped out every year. You bought it and that was staying there for a very long time. Now I feel like I want to upgrade TVs every couple of years.
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Couple of years? Hell no. Im getting my money's worth. We are year 6 or longer on mine and it better make it at least 15.

I will throw out a caveat that for the last couple of year I dont use it near as much as I used to. It stays off pretty much during the week. Just weekend use.
 
Rev said:
Couple of years? Hell no. Im getting my money's worth. We are year 6 or longer on mine and it better make it at least 15.

I will throw out a caveat that for the last couple of year I dont use it near as much as I used to. It stays off pretty much during the week. Just weekend use.
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I mean a TV could certainly survive 15 years. But TV's are so cheap these days. And the picture quality going from a nice OLED in one room to a standard TV in my bedroom for example is just crazy. I don't really upgrade my TV's that frequently. I mean I have like 6 total in my house. I really only care about a couple of them.

It's also funny how buying a new one sort of shuffles all the other TVs. Got a TV for the movie room, so old movie room TV gets shifted to game room. Game room TV gets shifted to office TV. And down the line they go.
 
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