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>> Fifty years ago, the cheapest way to keep your child quiet was to sit down and dredge up your memory of Rapunzel, Snow White or (in my grandmother’s case) th
by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> Fifty years ago, the cheapest way to keep your child quiet was to sit down and dredge up your memory of Rapunzel, Snow White or (in my grandmother’s case) the fairy tale-like plot of The Sound of Music.
Well, I got The Return of The Jedi. Only my mother didn't remember Luke Skywalker's name so I knew him as "the handsome prince" until I watched the movie X)
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoYeah, I think he's wrong by 25 years or so. The cheapest way 50 years ago was still TV.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoAlso, kids 50 years ago already had ATARI consoles.
- kragen 5y agoIn 01972? Maybe Pong, but that was at the pizza parlor, not in your house. And it sure wasn't cheap.
- vba616 5y agoAtari was producing home video game machines before long, I guess, but if they sold ~x00,000 units, that was an awfully small percentage of the population. Some people had (non-kit) microcomputers ~1981, but again, that was an extremely small percentage of the US.
- vba616 5y agoCheapest? Help me out here. When and how was a TV cheaper than telling stories?
- hallway_monitor 5y agoTime is money baby
- vba616 5y agoLet's say you make $$$/hr with unlimited overtime. Can you draw a schematic for me to understand how buying a TV saves money?
- pixl97 5y agoHeh, 50 years seems like a long time ago, until I recite my own age. Honestly that's probably more of 70+ years now.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoMy mother wasn't the type to watch Star Wars movies so it's plausible she learned of them from her own mother...
- trgn 5y agoMaybe your mother saw Reign of Fire, it makes the exact same claim, Star Wars will be the new folklore in the post apocalypse.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoInteresting. I've watched the movie but I didn't remember the Star Wars reference.
- gnabgib 5y ago50 years ago Return of the Jedi was still 11 years in the future? [0] Star wars was still 5 years away, Blade Runner 10. Colour TV on all networks was 7 years away [1] But hey, a house cost $28K, a car cost $4K, a quarter pounder of beef cost 16c [2] the convention that made Star Trek popular happened[3] (in two days). There was also terrorism, Watergate, the space shuttle programme, and the days of the week match this year (until that pesky leap day) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi [1]: https://www.thoughtco.com/color-television-history-4070934 https://www.thoughtco.com/color-television-history-4070934 [2]: http://www.mytwodollars.com/2009/10/22/the-cost-of-living-in-1972/ http://www.mytwodollars.com/2009/10/22/the-cost-of-living-in... [3]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_convention https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_convention
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago>> 50 years ago Return of the Jedi was still 11 years in the future? Woa, I didn't say that happened 50 years ago! I mean, you'd expect my mother to tell me the tales she remembered from her childhood, no? So you can imagine that at least a couple of decades had passed between the time The Return of the Jedi first appeared on screen and the time I heard the tale of the Handsome Prince with the laser sword and the evil knight in the black mask. But, I'm not willing to say anything more precise about my age. Sorry :)
- kragen 5y agoYour mother is awesome.