Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 15, 2011

Yowzier - pre ‘80’s media! Harsh!

(insert Johnny Carson theme)

Worse yet, they’d send you back to the days of Little Orphan Annie on radio, where all the adventure you got was from book and B&W movie serials.

I’m a child of the ’60s. I thought it was great to be alive then. Had my first kiss at my ‘end of year’ formal …

“keenanthelibrarian”, you tug at my heart. Those were the best of the best years!

Ah, but on the radio dramas, the picture was better!

Ahh, those were the days.

The Stone Age!!!! Altamont CA, ‘69, the Rolling Stones FREE concert. Only about 400,000 people and not ONE cell phone.

70s non-violent Saturday morning cartoons. The ones where Jerry Mouse wore a bowtie.

^^ No cell phones and only 4 deaths. Meredith Hunter had an especially good time. That was a great concert.

Tamaqua, Pennsylvania had cable in the 1960s. All three networks and PBS out of New York, Wilkes Barre, Scranton and Philly. It was necessary because we are surrounded by nearby mountains.

Ah, radio! Terry and the Pirates, Jack Armstrong(The alll American Boy), Little Orphan Annie(Arf, says Sandy!), The Lone Ranger, Lux Radio Theater, and last, but by no means least, Mr. Keen, tracer of lost persons. Talk about a more relaxed time!

The parts of the 70’s that I am able to remember were great, and it did not have one single thing to do with TV.

The ‘80’s were NOT that bad!!!!!

Time for David and Goliath claymation in the daytime and Benny Hill at night. Nightmares of Harvey Corman and Tim Conway will seep into your subconscious and the Dick, Steve and Dean Martins will pollute the pop culture.

video killed the radio star…

The ’60s were the “stoned” age. The apostrophe goes at the front folks. It stands in for the 19. It’s plural, not possessive.

6ryph0n: Should anal retentive have a hyphen? Just askin’. And yes, I was an English/Education major, too!

The 60s were when I began wasting (no pun intended, well, maybe a little) my my life. I intend to remedy that in the teens.

How could he say that? It’s so bad to consider going back to the 90’s when there was no socialable networks besides mail.

And for many seniors on all their meds, the 60’s are a stoned age also.

And the 70’s and 80’s were a coked age. And the 90’s and early 20’s an X age and these days are a meth age. In the ‘60’s meth was legendarily evil and everyone gets to find out why today. (if some of the stuff bleeds over, forgive me for miss categorizing your decade.)

Types as well as sound systems come in stereos and both can blare at you with the same old music.

I know, back in the age when you met your mate on a thing called a “blind date” and you talked on a “telephone” that was connected to a wall and your TV came free over a thing called “the air.” And you had to study for a test by going to a “library” and read a book ( things once used for kindling knowledge and now just Kindled).

Of course, if we really LIKED the old days, we don’t have to be here. We can be on eBay ordering old stuff or downloading the Beatles on I-Tunes. Reminds of the folks who used to talk about the good old days but wouldn’t spend a day in the woods without indoor plumbing.

Summer of ‘69

great song and great year

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Crosby Stills & Nash……………..

time to get out my old albums!

The Stone Age is whatever decade your parents were born. :)

Hey I’m 12 and I love the Beatles. The thing is, I use Gen X things to listen and connect with them, I listen to them on my I-Pod and play Beatles rock band. I dont know more than 20 people out of the 1,200 at my school that dont like the Beatles, though only a quarter of those who like them actually have them on a CD or an I-Pod

Check out my avitar. That’s Smokey Stover and Chief. I remember him in actual print. All I had was cigarettes to keep me warm.

There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

I remember us first getting cable, it cost $4.50 a month and u got 12 extra channels, now my cable bill is $60.00 a month and I get i’d say around 70 channels. yeah that’s right 70 more channels where they mostly have commercials lol

From 67 to 70 we can do without but the time before cable was not so bad. Kind of like we didn’t know what we were missing because it wasn’t there then to miss. Now the cable company raises rates and my feeling is enough is enough so off with all but basic and that would go if I were in an antenna available building.

My broadband connection, on the other hand, is something you do not want to mess with. The faster the better and when fiber gets here to my little corner of the world next year 154Mb download will be the rule of the house. Open WIFI everywhere would also be nice but TV? Not so much.

Ummm … last time I looked, we DO have more than one social networking system, competing with each other …

TV was bad then and it’s bad now and it will be bad in the future. Same thing with good TV. Tell it to the DOCTOR

We had cable in the ’60s. It started in areas that didn’t get TV otherwise, & mostly had just the broadcast channels from the nearest major city. The weather channel rotated dials & guages showing time, temp, humidity, etc., with audio from the local AM station, & was the only one that was 24 hours a day.

I was born in the wrong era for radio plays and shows, but I was listening to them in the 80s. My local NPR station had a few shows. They did more modern stuff. Hitchhiker’s Guide. LOTR. Word Jazz. And some off the wall stuff that I still can’t figure out what it was. However, it was awesome, and I really do miss it.

They did a fantastic job with many of those things, and it beat the pants off many of the shows that were on TV at the time. I would sit up late at night with the radio on softly listening to it. It was on late at night, because that’s the only time slot they could get. I still haven’t found any source on the internet that did that stuff. Every thing I hear now is from the 50s or further back, during the golden age of radio. Not during the ‘oh noes! we need ratings!’ period.

Oh, well. At least I can be nostalgic about something

Lewreader said, about 7 vices ago

The 60s were when I began wasting (no pun intended, well, maybe a little) my my life. I intend to remedy that in the teens.

Like the fellow who won a million dollars in the lottery, and said that he intended to spend most of it on wine, women and song–and then waste the rest?

Y’all are talking about TV/Radio but think about what Computers were like back then. Room sized, punch cards , ect. In fact, today a coffee maker has more computer power than what took us to the moon.

if only, if only, if only………………….sigh

There were 3 channels (4 if you counted PBS) and so many good shows on that we had to buy video tape recorders. Today we have over 70 in my little berg and most nights I can’t find 3 hours worth watching. Ah, progress.

i spent almost all the 80s overseas in the navy. Iran. Lebanon. Syria. oh yeah: can’t forget muomar khadaffi: knockin’ it out with F14 tomcats and blowin up Libya. oh: and the riuning of the economy and the military by good old ronnie rayguns. you can HAVE the 80s, yuck.

We had NO TV until I was a teen (50s) and I had “On TV” as my first version of cable. I also wired my house at that time so the kids could not see the adult programming on there in the kitchen TV, but it was in my bedroom. A long time ago.

I had a lot of fun in the 60s without getting stoned. Only bad parts were Viet Nam war (still at it different place), assassination of public officials (still at it) and mowing down students on college campuses (just try civil disobedience and see what happens).

i have a short story about that…

up until september ,1968, our local tv channel carried programming from both nbc and cbs. in anticipation of a new local station opening up in february, 1969 which would be carrying cbs programming, the local channel dropped all of its cbs shows at the onset of the 1968-‘69 season. one of the shows my dad loved watching was “gunsmoke”, which was a cbs show. try as he might, he couldn’t get our rooftop tv antenna to work, so he bit the bullet and had cable installed so we could receive cbs programming from the san francisco affiliate, as he didn’t want to wait until february.

Back to this Hollywood liberal running the white house? What was his name again? Oh yeah … Ronald Reagan.