Shoe by Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins

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  1. pouncingtiger

    pouncingtiger said, 6 months ago

    Elementary, my dear boy.

  2. whitrozes

    whitrozes said, 6 months ago

    …and t.v. channels were 2-4-5-7-9-20-36 and 44. And no such thing as a remote control.

  3. mfboyd

    mfboyd said, 6 months ago

    hah, we only had channels 3, 6, 7, and 12. and cartoons only came on Saturday mornings.

  4. trenrut666

    trenrut666 said, 6 months ago

    And we lived for a cartoon on The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night!

  5. Yukoneric

    Yukoneric said, 6 months ago

    We had 8 and 13. Or the great outdoors.

  6. rshive

    rshive said, 6 months ago

    We had channels 16, 22, and 28. Plus Disney on Wednesday night.

  7. Richard

    Richard said, 6 months ago

    We only had channel 6 and at the mercy of local programming, alas, on the bright side, friday we had “creature features” and saturday cartoons! (Bugs Bunny)

  8. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 6 months ago

    30-38 years ago, cable-less Calgarians got only channels 2 (CFAC–local), 4 (CFCN/CTV) and 9 (CBC). On cable, some transmogrifications (2->7, 4->5, 9->6) and the following additions: French-CBC 11 and Spokane-based 3 (NBC), 8 (ABC), 12 (CBS) and 13 (PBS). Almost as mfboyd stated about cartoons (mostly Saturday mornings–although 2/7 did have Herc for half-hour 7:00-7:30 am and Marvel Superheroes 7:30-8:00 am).

    I guess Skyler is not used to the concept of “chicken-scratch” notes.

  9. TiggerLeBounce

    TiggerLeBounce said, 6 months ago

    We had 3, 6, 10, 12, sometimes 27, and sometimes 33. Once in a blue moon we even had 15!

  10. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 6 months ago

    Great outdoors (especially in AB) is an excellent alternative to moron-box: we actually made Saturday trips to Banff, Drumheller and Gull Lake, full-weekend trip to Waterton–and somewhat longer (and much less-nice) summer roadtrip to Yellowstone (in 1975–when it really seemed funny that we could speed along at 70 down to border, and then had to “hold horses” to 55, especially in MT’s vast vehicle-sparse expanses).

  11. toad4evr

    toad4evr said, 6 months ago

    We got 1 channel and only if someone went out and adjusted the antenna

  12. Dry

    DryGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    “The Wonderful World of Disney”, good times, good times!

  13. Dry

    DryGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    The kids today miss so much! Remember getting caught passing a note? You had to read it out loud to the class then, at least in my class you did! Talk about embarrassing!

  14. chromosome

    chromosomeGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    You guys all sound as old as I am. I’m quite familiar with the time there was no remote control and we passed notes. Now I even have a remote control with my air conditioner

  15. whmIII

    whmIII said, 6 months ago

    Use a Q-tip and a swab with lemon juice. Hold it up to a light bulb and you could read it. If you got caught, the paper was blank.

  16. iamtxmilady

    iamtxmilady said, 6 months ago

    Oh, I don’t know. Growing up, my dad had a remote. He would say “Donna, change the channel.”

  17. Silverpearl

    Silverpearl said, 6 months ago

    In my house we had a radio. Hy ho Silver, the Shadow Knows, Etc. We listened while doing dishes, etc.

  18. Radical-Knight

    Radical-KnightGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    We passed notes by rolling them up and putting them in ink pen barrels.

  19. Radical-Knight

    Radical-KnightGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Silverpearl - My folks would tell us kids about the family sitting around and watching “The Radio”. Said we were too spoiled with modern technology back in the 50’s.

  20. pookid54

    pookid54Genius_badge said, 6 months ago

    …..up hill…..both ways

  21. papa smurf

    papa smurf said, 6 months ago

    …into the wind and rain….