edjr 5,660 Posted September 27, 2022 11 hours ago, posty said: Stopped reading the article when they mentioned going to a BlockBuster…. Nice research idiot… Good call. Mom and pop rentals were the thing before BB ruined them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cruzer 1,993 Posted September 28, 2022 23 hours ago, Cloaca du jour said: Toughskins...cardboard jeans lol. Garanimals to pick out your own clothes. Ha, def had those. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BudBro 123 Posted September 28, 2022 On 9/26/2022 at 7:43 PM, BeenHereBefore said: I don't think anyone had vcrs till around 81 and only a very few had them. My friend's folks got one of the first betamax recorders. We watched the Sampson/Ewing game from a recording. (not sure why we didn't just watch it live, but I remember that as being the first thing I'd ever watched on tape) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horseman 1,590 Posted September 29, 2022 VHS was for rich kids. Not only when I was a kid, but their entire lives they never had VHS (they passed 3-5 years ago). They never had DVDs, cable tv, computers, internet or cell phones. Our telephone was a party line when I was a kid and even up to their passing they never paid the extra to be able to call long distance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BeenHereBefore 1,357 Posted September 29, 2022 2 hours ago, BudBro said: My friend's folks got one of the first betamax recorders. We watched the Sampson/Ewing game from a recording. (not sure why we didn't just watch it live, but I remember that as being the first thing I'd ever watched on tape) Cool and my dad rented one of those top loading vcr's around 82 and also rented Jaws & Raiders of the Lost Ark. So they was the first things I watched on them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
