..Back in the Days...

[Pearl]

.I was 7 when I saw my first B/W TV 1949
It was 'Muffin The Mule' ... at a boys birthday party.

I remember seeing television for the first time when I was a small child at the home of one of my dad's friends; black and white and Muffin the Mule with Annette Mills.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

....

What about you very first Movie ...anyone?

I think the very first one I was taken to Romeo and Juliet.
And then my brother took me to "Jeremiah and his lamb."
With the second feature film being Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped"
Kidnapped (1948) - IMDb

I was spellbound.
Before that it was Stage Shows. Wizard of Oz scared me totally...I was 4 , stood on my chair and screamed the place down.

Wow, I didn't even know I remembered my first movie until you asked. I don't remember what it was called though. A young Angela Lansbury was in it and she took teaching classes by mail on how to be a witch from a guy who was just making it all up to make money. But the witch spells worked for her. The second part of the movie was sometimes cartoon, but all within the one movie...hah, I just remembered, it was called Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I was quite smitten with movies after that.

 

[Pearl]

I remember coming home from school sitting on the floor near the big console radio and listening to some of my favorite programs: The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Inner Sanctum, Big John and Sparky, and others. I used to dream that the tuning display would magically change and began to show TV pictures of which I had only heard... but never yet experienced. The first time I ever saw a TV working was while visiting my father in Oklahoma [I still lived in California]. He took my brother and me to a friend's house in Oklahoma City to watch a TV show. We were disappointed because the only thing they watched while we were there was a boring news broadcast.

I used to listen to 'Dick Tracy Special Agent' and 'Journey Into Space'. My dad listen to the boxing on Saturday nights, Palm Court and Family Favourites on Sundays and Friday Night is Music Night. There was also The Goon Show and In Town Tonight. I can still remember the music. And during the day my mum had the radio on all day and I remember Workers' Playtime and Mrs Dales Diary, Woman's Hour and then Children's Hour. All on the radio and I think the radio inspired our imaginations far more than TV does for today's kids.

 

[Pearl]

....

What about you very first Movie ...anyone?

I think the very first one I was taken to Romeo and Juliet.
And then my brother took me to "Jeremiah and his lamb."
With the second feature film being Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped"
Kidnapped (1948) - IMDb

I was spellbound.
Before that it was Stage Shows. Wizard of Oz scared me totally...I was 4 , stood on my chair and screamed the place down.

My first one was 'Pinocchio'.

 

[Pearl]

I cannot remember the very first one but I had an uncle who when he was in high school used to take us to the movie theater where they always played triple features on Saturday afternoons at a discounted price of about 25 cents a person. We loved to go see three Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller, Gordon Scott. Lex Barker or one of the many others as the ape man; or three of the old grade B westerns. As you might guess he was our favorite uncle. He is still living today in Oregon. He is of course several years older than my 75 years... my mother's baby brother. I usually talk to him on the phone about once a year.

We had the children's matinees at our cinema on Saturday afternoon: Laurel and Hardy, Roy Rogers, Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello as well as the latest episode of the current serial like Flash Gordon or Dick Tracy.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

I was telling my sister's children that milk in bottles used to be delivered to a metal box on our front stoop by the milkman. They thought it very odd.

 

[Pearl]

I cannot remember my first film, but we use to go to Saturday morning picture at the cinema - I guess it would have been a Walt Disney movie - like Snow White, or bambi. When I was a teenager I use to spend so much time at the cinema, you could watch the films as many times as you liked. Towering inferno, enter the dragon- and of course Star Wars were my favourite - I lost count with how many times I watched them. Me and friend use to go to the Duke of Yorks cinema in Brighton ( near pres tong circus Helen - not sure if you would remember it ) it use to be called the ' flea pit ' because it was a bit run down. Me and a friend would spend hours watching Bruse Lee in his first films, the dubbing was awful- but we really liked him !!
Great memories X
Rita

There were five cinemas in my town when I was a girl and most of them changed the programme midweek so we were never short of something to see. And when I was old enough I used to go into Manchester to the posher ones with the latest films and technology like ToddAO or widescreen. I saw Westside Story and My Fair Lady, Pal Joey and South Pacific in Manchester.

 

[Pearl]

I don't remember biscuit bangers at Christmas !
Remember the rest.
We use to have conker season at school - of course that's all banned now !!
Anyone remember marble season - we use to make cardboard targets with little tunnels cut out - some bigger than others. Other children would roll their marbles , if they got it through one of the holes they would win a certain amount of money. We did that at play time in junior school. That's all banned now as well !!
Then there was guy Fawkes - penny for the guy- some people made some amazing guys!
Then we use to have big bonfires - usually community ones on the fields. It would always get lit before November the 5th !
Rita

My dad taught us how to play marbles like that Rita, and made us a set of tunnels. Mostly though the way we played was by trying to knock your opponents marbles into a hole in the ground and you got to keep the ones you got in.

 

[Pearl]

I was telling my sister's children that milk in bottles used to be delivered to a metal box on our front stoop by the milkman. They thought it very odd.

We had a milkman until about twenty years ago, now we get in delivered with the groceries. Ours used to have orange juice too and eggs and some had bread as well.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Wow, a milkman until 20 years ago...? That kinda stopped here about 45 or 50 years ago.

 

[Pearl]

Wow, a milkman until 20 years ago...? That kinda stopped here about 45 or 50 years ago.

Some people here still have a milkman.

 

[Butterfly]

My dad taught us how to play marbles like that Rita, and made us a set of tunnels. Mostly though the way we played was by trying to knock your opponents marbles into a hole in the ground and you got to keep the ones you got in.

Our targets stood upright - I guess things varied from region to region. X
Rita

 

[Butterfly]

Wow, a milkman until 20 years ago...? That kinda stopped here about 45 or 50 years ago.

I still have a milkman - like to support the locals
So, I still get milk in bottles , with a silver top lid xx
Rita

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Some people here still have a milkman.

I don't believe in the milkman. Could you give me the verse?

 

[APAK]

I don't remember biscuit bangers at Christmas !
Remember the rest.
We use to have conker season at school - of course that's all banned now !!
Anyone remember marble season - we use to make cardboard targets with little tunnels cut out - some bigger than others. Other children would roll their marbles , if they got it through one of the holes they would win a certain amount of money. We did that at play time in junior school. That's all banned now as well !!
Then there was guy Fawkes - penny for the guy- some people made some amazing guys!
Then we use to have big bonfires - usually community ones on the fields. It would always get lit before November the 5th !
Rita

Bangers...you had two people pulling at each end and it would go 'bang' with stuff inside....
Marbles....pee wees, spider eyes and boulders (the big ones)...getting the other person's marbles out of a circle and claiming their marble you got out....some used their bent thumb down vertically to propel them..some intricately balance or poised the marble between the index finger and thumb as to form a stand and pushed off with the thumb....more precise...I used that technique...you had to watch the other person creeping closer to fire...a no no...

All good and Cheers...from APAK

 

[Butterfly]

Oh , we just called the, ' crackers ' - still have them each year x

 

[Butterfly]

I don't believe in the milkman. Could you give me the verse?

Lol, but I have seen him with my own eyes !!!
Does that make me ' special ' X
Rita

 

[APAK]

@Butterfly ..some called those biscuit bangers at Christmas...Crackers...now I remember

 

[Pearl]

Our targets stood upright - I guess things varied from region to region. X
Rita

Yeas the one my dad made us stood upright, like a series of arches with different numbers, but nobody else I knew played like that.

 

[Grams]

I can remember in Detroit, when I was about ,,, 4 !
I do not remember what he was delivering to the family,,,, but,,,,,,,, it was no automobile !

A horse driven wagon with some kind of food........ I guess I was to young to remember!

we moved when I was 5 and I did not see that in another part of Det.
But they did have delivery of milk with a truck ,,,, no horse.........