You know that you're old school if you can....

Joey Heatherton's White Owl cigar commercials.

Jaaayyyybbbbuuuuuuussssssssss.

 

Double bonus points if you can remember the song she sang.

 

When SportsCenter had sports news as a lead-in.

 

"The minute you walked in the joint, (ba-dum) I could see you were a man of distinction, a real big spender ... good looking, so refined..."

 

That was out of the musical "Sweet Charity"

 

You know you're old (school) if you can remember ...

Bruce Boisclair
Horace Clarke
Bill Mazer
Tuesday Weld as Thalia Maninger on "Dobie Gillis."
Dancing close to "In The Still Of The Night" by Fred Parris & the 5 Satins. Or "Since I Don't Have You" by the Skyliners.

 

Casty, I KNOW you remember Horace Clarke. Hey, you know that you're old if you can remember actually talking to Walt Alston or Leo the Lip.

 

It was better at Yankee Stadium. At Yankee Stadium, the general admission seats for $1.50 were in the last three or four rows of the lower deck. So the challenge was to see how far you could get down without getting thrown out of the seats by the ushers. We learned if we didn't act too rowdy, we could move to the field boxes, which was pretty cool. Another thing was to go behind the home plate screen, because a lot of those seats were for wives and scouts and other semi-official types.

I remember the PATH train from New Jersey was 30 cents and the subway was something like a quarter and the city bus was probably 15 or 20 cents. We would bring sandwiches with tomatoes on them so they wouldn't get too dry, and maybe get a soda.

I would leave with five dollars, and could get home with $1.50 left.

 

Damn. Gotta admit ....very enjoyable thread. One of the better ones in recent memory IMO.

 

...remember when there were cartoons on Saturday mornings.

...use a slide rule (my father, who was a surveyor, used one until he retired 10 years ago).

...remember your mailing address did not have a street, but had RFD #1 instead (let's see if the younger members of the board can figure that one out)

...remember phone numbers were listed as TU9-4544

...played with Tonka trucks that were made of metal, not plastic like they are today.

...remember someone driving an AMC Gremlin or Pacer, and not because of necessity.

 

Not only dial phones and GE8-5892 phone numbers but .... party lines!

 

The games were longer than the pre and post-game shows.

Actors and singers were famous for their work, not for who they were screwing.

To get a book deal, you had to have something meaningful to say, not just a venue (ie cable news show) on which to hawk it.