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Let's see:

 

78 records

 

Vertical hold controls on TVs

 

Party lines

(If your phone rang, before you answered you had to make sure that it was your "ring" first. If you wanted to make a call you had to make sure no one else was on the line first.)

 

Saturday morning cartoons on all three major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC)

 

Drive-in resturaunts

(where they brought your food out to your car on a tray)

 

Pest strips

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The Cold War! Also, the Berlin Wall - in the eighties, every second news program had something to do about the communists, how many tanks the Warsaw Pact had vs. NATO, nukes, etc. And then the wall fell and it was all over!

 

Also, do you remember Matthias Rust, the guy who flew a Cessna 172 under the radar from West Germany all the way to the Red Square, throwing a dirty nappy right over the communists' heads? THAT was brilliant!

 

Sadly, the guy suffered from bad depression, and committed suicide a few years later. But he's one of my all-time heroes, if cahone-size has anything to do with it...

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Just shows how memories get warbled!

 

Matthias Rust never committed suicide, he stabbed a nurse and kinda screwed up his public image. Also, he never ducked soviet air defences - according to them, they followed him all the way but never engaged due to confusion in the ranks. More than 2,000 guys lost their jobs over the incident.

 

I entered the previous post and then checked out the Wiki link... hahaha...

 

Check out WEHT.net: The Online Compendium of 'What Ever Happened To?' and 'Where Are They Now?' - informative!

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