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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:32:03 GMT
TV and MoviesThere was basically no home video. If you missed a movie in the cinema, you couldn't see it unless it was later broadcast on tv (and you happened to be home for the broadcast) or was brought back to the cinema for a re-release. (Classic films might periodically be shown in cinemas on special occasions.) There were no Marvel Universe movies, no Pirates of the Caribbean live-action movies, no CGI animation like Shrek. For that matter, there weren't really any superhero movies yet (except for mid-1960s Batman and earlier movies with Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Aladdin, etc). The highest-grossing films weren't films that were targeted to teens and kids. (1970 had Love Story and Airport; 1971 had The French Connection, Fiddler on the Roof, and Diamonds are Forever; 1972 had The Godfather; and 1973 had The Exorcist and The Towering Inferno.) Lucas and Spielberg hadn't re-defined the meaning of blockbuster yet. In the US, in most areas there typically just 4 or 5 tv channels. You had to fiddle with the set-top antenna to get decent reception, and many houses and buildings had larger antennas on the roofs. (Not many people had cable tv.) Stations only broadcast until around midnight (or maybe 1:00 or 2:00am). There was no such thing as CNN and 24-hour news. And it took a lot longer for movies to get from the theater to the TV. (Maybe a year.)
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:36:01 GMT
TV and MoviesThere was basically no home video. If you missed a movie in the cinema, you couldn't see it unless it was later broadcast on tv (and you happened to be home for the broadcast) or was brought back to the cinema for a re-release. (Classic films might periodically be shown in cinemas on special occasions.) There were no Marvel Universe movies, no Pirates of the Caribbean live-action movies, no CGI animation like Shrek. For that matter, there weren't really any superhero movies yet (except for mid-1960s Batman and earlier movies with Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Aladdin, etc). The highest-grossing films weren't films that were targeted to teens and kids. (1970 had Love Story and Airport; 1971 had The French Connection, Fiddler on the Roof, and Diamonds are Forever; 1972 had The Godfather; and 1973 had The Exorcist and The Towering Inferno.) Lucas and Spielberg hadn't re-defined the meaning of blockbuster yet. In the US, in most areas there typically just 4 or 5 tv channels. You had to fiddle with the set-top antenna to get decent reception, and many houses and buildings had larger antennas on the roofs. (Not many people had cable tv.) Stations only broadcast until around midnight (or maybe 1:00 or 2:00am). There was no such thing as CNN and 24-hour news. And TVs had no remotes. You had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:39:05 GMT
FoodVegetarians were considered weirdos. "Vegan" was practically non-existent, and there was no "gluten-free" (outside of a tiny group of medical patients). There was no such thing as "organic" in the average person's vocabulary. There were no GMOs. Pesticides were used, but nowhere near as intensively as today. Food was generally a lot healthier. But you couldn't get fresh produce flown in from half-way around the world, so no watermelons or strawberries in the middle of winter. American-style "Chinese" food was about as exotic as food got in restaurants. Haute cuisine in a restaurant meant a narrow-range of heavy, and very expensive, old-style French food. Nobody ate sushi--most Americans had never heard of it, and most considered the very thought of eating raw fish revolting. Most families did not have microwave ovens. High-tech was an electric percolator coffee-maker or a food-processor. "TV dinners"--frozen meals in aluminum trays that you would heat up in the oven--were a big thing. And nobody including the medical community knew about the benefits of fiber. Most foods were low fiber and processed. Constipation, and stomach problems were common.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:42:13 GMT
InternationalEveryone in the US lived in fear of the constant threat of a nuclear attack from the Russians. It wasn't something the average person thought about every day, but the perceived threat was still there. Starting at age 18, all men had to register for the military draft. (The US was still at war in Vietnam.) If your lottery number got called, and you couldn't weasel your way out of it like wealthy families did, you would be drafted and possibly sent to fight (and maybe to die) in the war. Grandparents could remember having lived through the Great Depression and fought the Nazis or the Japanese (or, if they were older, they might even have lived through WWI). Before the mid-1960s, US law barred most immigration from Asia and Africa. Most Americans, especially outside the largest metropolitan areas, had very little or no experience interacting with immigrants from Asia or Africa. "Racially mixed" or "interracial" usually meant something involving whites and blacks (called "Negroes" or "colored people" then--there was no "African American") in most parts of the country. Interracial marriage had been illegal in some states until 1967 when the Supreme Court struck down those laws. There was no TSA (airport security theater). Friends and family who didn't have plane tickets often accompanied the departing passenger all the way to the gate at the airport, and met returning family at the gate when their flight arrived. There were metal detectors, but the screening was much lower-stress and the lines were a lot shorter. Flying commercial was way more pleasurable back then. Considered a luxury. No long wait times. No security. Big roomy seats. Good meals in flight.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:43:37 GMT
TechnologyThere was a lot less plastic everywhere. When you bought groceries, you were given paper bags to carry them home in. Meat was wrapped in butcher's paper. Electronics came in cardboard boxes, not hard plastic cases. Only wealthier families could afford "central air-conditioning" that covered all the rooms in a home. Slightly well-off folks could manage to get window air-conditioners that would just cool a single room. Everybody else just suffered through the heat until the fall came, wearing lighter clothes, using electric fans, and going to the beach or pools. Some 2 out of 5 (40%) homes did not have a washing machine, and 3 out of 5 (60%) didn't have a clothes dryer. Milk delivery was common back then. Hence the term "milkman".
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:46:59 GMT
Telephone answering machines were rare in homes. If someone called and you weren't home, they would have to keep calling back until they reached you. Long-distance phone calls made for an occasion. "Long distance" meant from outside your area code--it could be just a few hundred miles across the state. If someone called "long distance," everyone would drop everything and rush to get to the phone, because the calls were so expensive. In big cities in the US, public telephones were widely available. You would put coins in to pay for the calls. After every few minutes, as your time was expiring, the operator (or a recording) would ask for more money if you wanted to continue the call. And there were no touch button phones. All phones were rotary dial. Many people had phone numbers that weren't all numbers. Our number was forest23.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 17:51:10 GMT
When you wanted to get some recorded music, you went to the records shop. And all recorded music was on vinyl records. No tapes, cartridges, disk or mp3s. You neede a record player to play any recorded music. Stereo had not been invented yet. Everything was mono (one speaker).
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 15, 2019 20:13:32 GMT
When you wanted to get some recorded music, you went to the records shop. And all recorded music was on vinyl records. No tapes, cartridges, disk or mp3s. You neede a record player to play any recorded music. Well, not quite. Audiocassettes were introduced in the U.S. in 1964, and were marketed as both pre-recorded and blank for home recording. The mid-'60s also saw the very brief popularity of 4- and 8-track tape cassette players, which were most commonly used in automobiles, and the cassettes were sold pre-recorded. There were also 1/4 reel-to-reel tapes, sold both blank and pre-recorded, which had been available since the early 1950s. Stereophonic LPs as we know them today were introduced around '56 - '57. Release of commercial motion pictures with multi-channel sound began in 1952. The standard system for stereo FM radio broadcasting was approved by the FCC in 1961.
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Post by hi224 on May 15, 2019 20:14:00 GMT
interesting stats.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 15, 2019 20:20:37 GMT
Hardly any veterinarians-and they specialized in horses and farm animals. If you had a sick dog or cat--you sent them on a one way trip to the pound.
People didn't react if you slapped your child (or maybe even wife) in public either.
Slapping of women and children were still common in movies back them.
Beau Bridges, unemployed dad, slaps his kid in TWO MINUTE WARNING and wife Pamela Bellwood says nothing.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 15, 2019 20:27:45 GMT
Hardly any veterinarians-and they specialized in horses and farm animals. If you had a sick dog or cat--you sent them on a one way trip to the pound. Must've been a regional thing. Were you in a rural/agricultural area? In and around Los Angeles, veterinary clinics were plentiful.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 15, 2019 20:32:45 GMT
Must've been a regional thing. Were you in a rural/agricultural area? In and around Los Angeles, veterinary clinics were plentiful. Oh yeah regional.
Now they are all over the place but when I was a kid we'd be lucky if there is one.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 15, 2019 20:52:35 GMT
TV and MoviesThere was basically no home video. If you missed a movie in the cinema, you couldn't see it unless it was later broadcast on tv (and you happened to be home for the broadcast) or was brought back to the cinema for a re-release. (Classic films might periodically be shown in cinemas on special occasions.) There were no Marvel Universe movies, no Pirates of the Caribbean live-action movies, no CGI animation like Shrek. For that matter, there weren't really any superhero movies yet (except for mid-1960s Batman and earlier movies with Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Aladdin, etc). The highest-grossing films weren't films that were targeted to teens and kids. (1970 had Love Story and Airport; 1971 had The French Connection, Fiddler on the Roof, and Diamonds are Forever; 1972 had The Godfather; and 1973 had The Exorcist and The Towering Inferno.) Lucas and Spielberg hadn't re-defined the meaning of blockbuster yet. In the US, in most areas there typically just 4 or 5 tv channels. You had to fiddle with the set-top antenna to get decent reception, and many houses and buildings had larger antennas on the roofs. (Not many people had cable tv.) Stations only broadcast until around midnight (or maybe 1:00 or 2:00am). There was no such thing as CNN and 24-hour news. And TVs had no remotes. You had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel. Although they didn't become commonplace until much later, there were wireless TV remotes as far back as 1956, when Zenith introduced what they called the "Space Commander." Pretty heavy and clunky, and controlled only on/off, channel and volume.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 20:54:01 GMT
And all recorded music was on vinyl records. No tapes, cartridges, disk or mp3s. You neede a record player to play any recorded music. Well, not quite. Audiocassettes were introduced in the U.S. in 1964, and were marketed as both pre-recorded and blank for home recording. The mid-'60s also saw the very brief popularity of 4- and 8-track tape cassette players, which were most commonly used in automobiles, and the cassettes were sold pre-recorded. There were also 1/4 reel-to-reel tapes, sold both blank and pre-recorded, which had been available since the early 1950s. Stereophonic LPs as we know them today were introduced around '56 - '57. Release of commercial motion pictures with multi-channel sound began in 1952. The standard system for stereo FM radio broadcasting was approved by the FCC in 1961. Okay. Thanks for the interesting information I did not know. But for the sake of those who were not alive 50 years ago, its a distinction without a difference.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 20:55:08 GMT
And TVs had no remotes. You had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel. Although they didn't become commonplace until much later, there were wireless TV remotes as far back as 1956, when Zenith introduced what they called the "Space Commander." Pretty heavy and clunky, and controlled only on/off, channel and volume. Ditto ("Okay. Thanks for the interesting information I did not know. But for the sake of those who were not alive 50 years ago, its a distinction without a difference.")
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 15, 2019 21:24:12 GMT
Well, not quite. Audiocassettes were introduced in the U.S. in 1964, and were marketed as both pre-recorded and blank for home recording. The mid-'60s also saw the very brief popularity of 4- and 8-track tape cassette players, which were most commonly used in automobiles, and the cassettes were sold pre-recorded. There were also 1/4 reel-to-reel tapes, sold both blank and pre-recorded, which had been available since the early 1950s. Stereophonic LPs as we know them today were introduced around '56 - '57. Release of commercial motion pictures with multi-channel sound began in 1952. The standard system for stereo FM radio broadcasting was approved by the FCC in 1961. Okay. Thanks for the interesting information I did not know. But for the sake of those who were not alive 50 years ago, its a distinction without a difference. I don't know why it would be in a conversation about what did or didn't exist at a certain point in time. In 1969, we had tapes; we had cassettes; we had stereo. It made a difference to us, as I'd think it would to anyone of younger ages interested in day-to-day life before their time.
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Post by movieliker on May 15, 2019 21:42:58 GMT
Okay. Thanks for the interesting information I did not know. But for the sake of those who were not alive 50 years ago, its a distinction without a difference. I don't know why it would be in a conversation about what did or didn't exist at a certain point in time. In 1969, we had tapes; we had cassettes; we had stereo. It made a difference to us, as I'd think it would to anyone of younger ages interested in day-to-day life before their time. Okay.
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Post by Eλευθερί on May 16, 2019 1:58:05 GMT
Telephone answering machines were rare in homes. If someone called and you weren't home, they would have to keep calling back until they reached you. Long-distance phone calls made for an occasion. "Long distance" meant from outside your area code--it could be just a few hundred miles across the state. If someone called "long distance," everyone would drop everything and rush to get to the phone, because the calls were so expensive. In big cities in the US, public telephones were widely available. You would put coins in to pay for the calls. After every few minutes, as your time was expiring, the operator (or a recording) would ask for more money if you wanted to continue the call. And there were no touch button phones. All phones were rotary dial. Many people had phone numbers that weren't all numbers. Our number was forest23.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on May 16, 2019 4:24:36 GMT
InternationalEveryone in the US lived in fear of the constant threat of a nuclear attack from the Russians. It wasn't something the average person thought about every day, but the perceived threat was still there. Starting at age 18, all men had to register for the military draft. (The US was still at war in Vietnam.) If your lottery number got called, and you couldn't weasel your way out of it like wealthy families did, you would be drafted and possibly sent to fight (and maybe to die) in the war. Grandparents could remember having lived through the Great Depression and fought the Nazis or the Japanese (or, if they were older, they might even have lived through WWI).Before the mid-1960s, US law barred most immigration from Asia and Africa. Most Americans, especially outside the largest metropolitan areas, had very little or no experience interacting with immigrants from Asia or Africa. "Racially mixed" or "interracial" usually meant something involving whites and blacks (called "Negroes" or "colored people" then--there was no "African American") in most parts of the country. Interracial marriage had been illegal in some states until 1967 when the Supreme Court struck down those laws. There was no TSA (airport security theater). Friends and family who didn't have plane tickets often accompanied the departing passenger all the way to the gate at the airport, and met returning family at the gate when their flight arrived. There were metal detectors, but the screening was much lower-stress and the lines were a lot shorter. Actually, I was 16 years old then, and my father and mother both lived through the Great Depression, and my dad fought in the Philippines during WWII. This has been an interesting thread - a weird walk down Memory Lane. I remember "gas wars", where rival gas stations tried to get more customers by lowering prices. I remember a gallon of gas costing $.28. No, that is not a typo - it really was 28 cents a gallon.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 16, 2019 4:34:51 GMT
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