#4: well after my time. We had 16mm film, and opaque and transparent overhead projectors. Oh, and filmstrips! (Also, there should be a mimeograph machine here.)
I remember movies and other on 16mm (?) reels and one of the AV class setting up and running the film projector. Overhead slides and mimeographed tests.
No knots on our ropes. Still remember the lovely sound of THUMP when somebody hit the mat after a fall of 10 feet or so. I did bounce well in those days.
Shit, you had separate desks and chairs? In grade school, we had the flip top desk/chair combo. Who else here was a 6th grade crossing guard? Badge and all.
Yup, a nuclear shelter in a classroom with one wall of glass bricks. Half the classroom were Air Force brats and the other half belonged to DOD civilian employees, none of us were impressed. Next drill we were moved to the storage area under the bleachers.
I was a crossing guard in 5th and 6th grade. Made it all the way to Captain. We had different colored belts to show your status. I lived across the street from the school so it was kind of natural for them to pick me.
I remember all that except for the Driver's Ed simulators. We just squeezed into a VW Bug with the coach and drove around the block a lot. Now Driver's Ed with or without simulators doesn't exist because that is an actual skill most people will use in Real Life.
1980ish Georgia -- dad taught me in a bug, driving around a quite residential block. Driver's ed was to get the insurance price break. Drove myself to driver's ed, across town in rush hour traffic to then do the driver's ed stuff in a land yacht with an automatic transmission. When my son got his license, he had to do driver's ed before getting his learners permit.
Kid in our class was the son of the guy that owned the local Chevy dealership, so our high school driver ed car was a nice sedan. Had to have room for the two other students who rode along on road outings. We'd switch off so all three got a chance to drive.
1969 in small-town Michigan: Drivers Ed was a one-semester class in high school. There were no simulators. They had several old cars, including one with a manual transmission. And you learned to drive on snow and ice. The certificate from Drivers Ed let you get a Learners Permit so you could drive with a parent in the car. Once they thought you had enough practice, you took a drivers test with a state employee.
2010's with my grandchildren, about 30 miles from the first town: Driver's Ed was outside the school system and I paid for it. It was in the summer, so the only preparation for winter driving was a few minutes on the skid pad. It was much shorter than when I went through it.
If a kid's family didn't pay for Driver's Ed, he could still test for a license at 18 or older. I think it shows in the way many drive nowadays... I assume there was some similar policy for kids that didn't get Driver's Ed in school, but everyone I knew passed it, except maybe Billy the future Village Idiot.
I broke my right hand when I was 11, so I learned to write with my left. It wasn't great, but probably more legible than my normal writing is nowadays.
I graduated High School in 1960 so the first 9 are very familiar and bring back great memories, however #10 was not an option since the local Chevy dealer provided a sedan for our on the road experience.
#3: We used to draw boobies on our brown-bag covers. Pissed off the old bat maiden teachers.
I was a doodler in school, start with a line in a corner and expand from there... More often than not it would become something way beyond what I intended at the beginning.. JD
For most of those I am OLDER than that! No TVs, but I was on the AV team in 5th grade. We ran the portable movie projector (#4). And who could forget Big Chief tablets (#1)?
#10) My school system had no money. So the driving simulators were hand-me-downs from the 1950s. They were large and looked kinda like bumper cars. Probably had vacuum tubes in them. I did enjoy "Red Asphalt", "Signal 30", "Mechanized Death", and the other 50s and 60s driver's ed scare movies. For me, it was all about the musical score. Good times, good times.
#8 ... I've got that very same paper cutter on a shelf in my garage right now. Bought it 20 years ago at a yard sale, and it was likely 50 years old then. I look at that ten ton paperweight and try to imagine how many adolescent fingertips were sacrificed to it. Imagine seeing one of those in today's middle school art classes.
Unfortunately, I was afflicted with homeschool, but I still remember #1,3,4,5,8,9 from church, general life, homeschool video lessons, etc. Most of these were still in use in the 90s.
These days, textbooks are digital rentals. I.E the publisher takes your money and you get nothing in return. Online homework which is registered to a book-key really needs to be made illegal so this practice stops.
The girls in 1st through 6th grade used to put a dollop of elmer's glue on the inside lip of the desk and make fake fingernails after it dried. Then they used a little library paste to stick them on and paint them. This was before their mommas let them get actual fake nails. I remember everything except the simulator. We had a 1976 Plymouth Volare when I took driver's ed.
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#4: well after my time. We had 16mm film, and opaque and transparent overhead projectors. Oh, and filmstrips! (Also, there should be a mimeograph machine here.)
ReplyDeleteFilmstrip with the audio tape 'beep'...
DeleteCame here to say the same thing. I didn't see that setup until college. And didn't you just love taking a big whiff of the mimeograph test sheets?
DeleteMimeograph? Surely you mean the ditto machine?!?!?!?!? Becuz, you know... you ran off dittos on it. ;-)
DeleteI remember movies and other on 16mm (?) reels and one of the AV class setting up and running the film projector.
ReplyDeleteOverhead slides and mimeographed tests.
film reals with audio that was always out of sinc with the video by about half a second.
DeleteYep. Nothing like the prospect of fall 20 feet to the hardwood gym floor to motivate you to not try very hard
ReplyDeleteNo knots on our ropes. Still remember the lovely sound of THUMP when somebody hit the mat after a fall of 10 feet or so. I did bounce well in those days.
Delete#6- Nuclear Shelter.
ReplyDeleteShit, you had separate desks and chairs? In grade school, we had the flip top desk/chair combo. Who else here was a 6th grade crossing guard? Badge and all.
DeleteYup, a nuclear shelter in a classroom with one wall of glass bricks. Half the classroom were Air Force brats and the other half belonged to DOD civilian employees, none of us were impressed. Next drill we were moved to the storage area under the bleachers.
DeleteI was a crossing guard in 5th and 6th grade. Made it all the way to Captain. We had different colored belts to show your status. I lived across the street from the school so it was kind of natural for them to pick me.
DeleteAlso a tornado shelter.
DeleteNot a crossing guard. I was the best in math of the kids that walked to school and thus could come in early, so I sold the lunch tickets.
DeleteGod I'm old ....knew all of those things. Better times for sure.
ReplyDeleteI remember all that except for the Driver's Ed simulators. We just squeezed into a VW Bug with the coach and drove around the block a lot. Now Driver's Ed with or without simulators doesn't exist because that is an actual skill most people will use in Real Life.
ReplyDelete1980ish Georgia -- dad taught me in a bug, driving around a quite residential block.
DeleteDriver's ed was to get the insurance price break. Drove myself to driver's ed, across town in rush hour traffic to then do the driver's ed stuff in a land yacht with an automatic transmission.
When my son got his license, he had to do driver's ed before getting his learners permit.
Kid in our class was the son of the guy that owned the local Chevy dealership, so our high school driver ed car was a nice sedan. Had to have room for the two other students who rode along on road outings. We'd switch off so all three got a chance to drive.
Delete1969 in small-town Michigan: Drivers Ed was a one-semester class in high school. There were no simulators. They had several old cars, including one with a manual transmission. And you learned to drive on snow and ice. The certificate from Drivers Ed let you get a Learners Permit so you could drive with a parent in the car. Once they thought you had enough practice, you took a drivers test with a state employee.
Delete2010's with my grandchildren, about 30 miles from the first town: Driver's Ed was outside the school system and I paid for it. It was in the summer, so the only preparation for winter driving was a few minutes on the skid pad. It was much shorter than when I went through it.
If a kid's family didn't pay for Driver's Ed, he could still test for a license at 18 or older. I think it shows in the way many drive nowadays... I assume there was some similar policy for kids that didn't get Driver's Ed in school, but everyone I knew passed it, except maybe Billy the future Village Idiot.
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Dude, wayback machine, I remember all of it.
ReplyDeleteI’ familiar with all but the last, haven’t seen it before, what’s the point? Learn how to tune the radio while driving?
ReplyDelete#4 - way too new for me. We had the very rare occurrence of a film projector.
ReplyDeleteWith the accompanying vinyl record and "Beep!"
DeleteAhh yes, the good old days were a wonderful time to grow up..
ReplyDeleteJD
Memories of a better time.
ReplyDelete#7: did you know that using carbon paper makes writing lines go MUCH faster?
ReplyDeleteI actually learned to write with my left hand, I'm right handed, good enough that the teachers never noticed the difference
DeleteJD
I fastened 5 pens to a ruler to write mine. Next time I was simply assigned 5 times as many.
DeleteI broke my right hand when I was 11, so I learned to write with my left. It wasn't great, but probably more legible than my normal writing is nowadays.
DeleteEverything except the driving simulator............................
ReplyDeleteNo slide rule?
ReplyDeleteI graduated High School in 1960 so the first 9 are very familiar and bring back great memories, however #10 was not an option since the local Chevy dealer provided a sedan for our on the road experience.
ReplyDelete#3: We used to draw boobies on our brown-bag covers. Pissed off the old bat maiden teachers.
I was a doodler in school, start with a line in a corner and expand from there... More often than not it would become something way beyond what I intended at the beginning..
DeleteJD
For most of those I am OLDER than that! No TVs, but I was on the AV team in 5th grade. We ran the portable movie projector (#4). And who could forget Big Chief tablets (#1)?
ReplyDeleteYou can almost smell the mimeograph ink, can-cha.
ReplyDelete-lg
With the first comment I read I was imagining that same thing..
DeleteDid anyone here know to get those stencils out of the garbage for a copy of the test before Animal House?
Delete#9 the return date for a library loan card. Up until just a few years ago the library in my city was still using those.
ReplyDeleteNemo
#10) My school system had no money. So the driving simulators were hand-me-downs from the 1950s. They were large and looked kinda like bumper cars. Probably had vacuum tubes in them. I did enjoy "Red Asphalt", "Signal 30", "Mechanized Death", and the other 50s and 60s driver's ed scare movies. For me, it was all about the musical score. Good times, good times.
ReplyDeleteI remember ALL of them!
ReplyDelete#8 ... I've got that very same paper cutter on a shelf in my garage right now. Bought it 20 years ago at a yard sale, and it was likely 50 years old then. I look at that ten ton paperweight and try to imagine how many adolescent fingertips were sacrificed to it. Imagine seeing one of those in today's middle school art classes.
ReplyDeleteI'm so old, dirt was new when I was born.
ReplyDeleteI can remember when MacDonalds had only sold 100 hamburgers!
DeleteAh! That new dirt smell!
DeleteWhere's the microfiche?
ReplyDeleteStarker here,
ReplyDeleteI still have a paper cutter. Had that desk & all in one. Never had the simulator.
Would like to add Flannel / Felt board.
Unfortunately, I was afflicted with homeschool, but I still remember #1,3,4,5,8,9 from church, general life, homeschool video lessons, etc. Most of these were still in use in the 90s.
ReplyDeleteThese days, textbooks are digital rentals. I.E the publisher takes your money and you get nothing in return. Online homework which is registered to a book-key really needs to be made illegal so this practice stops.
-Arc
Number 4 meant “Substitute Teacher”.:
ReplyDeleteYours didn't drink, eh?
DeleteBest time with it was watching the shuttle go partway up, then "...OK, back to work..."
Never got to the top of the rope until I was at MCRD San Diego.in 1972. For some reason I was motivated.
ReplyDeletePaul J
#1 Big Chief red cover tablet. I remember the printing practice sheets turned over every day to our 1st - 2nd grade teachers.
ReplyDelete#10 - Driver's Ed, I used pretty much the same while film was playing on wall.
No driver’s simulators. No tv or tape players either.
ReplyDeleteMy fav the mimeograph not shown.
ReplyDeleteI can still hear it and smell it.
Who would ever try to keep home made book covers clean? To me and everyone I knew, they were blank canvas for doodling and other customizing.
#8 - I have one of those paper cutters in my home office.
ReplyDeleteOh the memories
ReplyDeleteWow major flash back. Took awhile to get off memory lane;)
ReplyDeleteThx WC
Novalt
The girls in 1st through 6th grade used to put a dollop of elmer's glue on the inside lip of the desk and make fake fingernails after it dried. Then they used a little library paste to stick them on and paint them. This was before their mommas let them get actual fake nails. I remember everything except the simulator. We had a 1976 Plymouth Volare when I took driver's ed.
ReplyDeleteLived through each and every one. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYup. Me too. America was another country then. We will never be the same. Sad.
DeleteFlashbacks!
ReplyDelete