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8 tracks and vinyl (45 and 78rpm) were disposed of in the big purge of 2018. I still have my 33 rpm vinyl albums. Bought me a Victrola 8-in-1 turntable that plays vinyl, cassettes (yep, have a few of those), CD's and BlueTooth connectivity. Can also plug a USB stick into with music if I want and it has an FM radio. Love it!
 
Dalis said:
Good to know, I am not the only one that left stuff behind at my mom's house. LOL!!!!
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I live in the house that Mom built... thus the great purge of 2018. Her stuff, dad's stuff and my stuff. Over 50 years worth!
 
HavaDrPepper said:
8 tracks and vinyl (45 and 78rpm) were disposed of in the big purge of 2018. I still have my 33 rpm vinyl albums. Bought me a Victrola 8-in-1 turntable that plays vinyl, cassettes (yep, have a few of those), CD's and BlueTooth connectivity. Can also plug a USB stick into with music if I want and it has an FM radio. Love it!
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That's one fancy vitrola!
 
Dalis said:
Oh YIKES, I feel for you, but you must find some cool treasures!
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Yes, I did find some neat stuff. Love letters from mom to dad when she was on a month long trip with her parents just 3 months before they got married. A "scrapbook" mom put together when she was 13 years old for a school project. It was called "13 Things About Beverly". Lots of other little things as well. I took photos of some stuff, scanned other stuff but in the end 98% of it went out of the house and basement.... including the VHS tapes.
 
This will be an interesting thread to read! (Where have I been that I'm only just seeing it 2 days late?) I'm going to answer first though, because I don't have much of a story, because my memory is so poor.

I was in high school in the 1980's when my family got our first VCR. I think we were given a box of movies too. All I remember from that box is a scene from a horror movie in which someone falls out of a window onto a big shard of glass. Still makes me cringe.

My oldest daughter, who just turned 19 two weeks ago, used a VCR when she was very little and I think she remembers it vaguely. But my other two kids probably only know of them like something from history. We had gotten rid of our VCR by the time my second child would have been able to use it. We hadn't collected a lot of videotapes, fortunately. I did hold onto some recordings of old t.v. shows and such for a while but now I think the only VHS tape in this house anymore is our wedding video. My brother kindly recorded it for us using our sister's camcorder, which was a huge gigantic thing that looks so obnoxious today. :lol2 There's something else we're procrastinating on (referencing another thread): getting our wedding video digitized. It's actually two tapes. We also recorded some video on our honeymoon, which was a weeklong drive down the California coast.
 
This may seem silly (or maybe not, based on the "holiday" lol) but I remember the first time I saw one of those VHS rewind machines. It was at a friend's house, and I thought, "how cool that you have a machine to rewind your tape for you! I hope my parents get one." And when they did, I would watch the tape as it was spun backwards. Oh gosh, the 80s were wild! :giggle
 
Tree City said:
This may seem silly (or maybe not, based on the "holiday" lol) but I remember the first time I saw one of those VHS rewind machines. It was at a friend's house, and I thought, "how cool that you have a machine to rewind your tape for you! I hope my parents get one." And when they did, I would watch the tape as it was spun backwards. Oh gosh, the 80s were wild! :giggle
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Yep, had one of those as well! Actually 2. I had one for my apartment and I gave my parents one for Christmas so when I moved back home, we had 2. Dad put one in the basement and the other stayed in the living room.

It was actually nice. You could rewind the tape in that and be watching a different tape in the VCR if you wanted.
 
The first experience I had with a VCR was in 8th grade (mid 80s), I had just come home from the hospital after the car accident I was in. Our family friend had a video rental store and brought over a VCR and a few tapes for us to borrow. They were a bunch of movies I probably wouldn’t have watched otherwise but it was such a novel thing to watch a movie at home with no commercials that we didn’t care!!

The only tapes we have now are family movie ones that we need to get converted to digital.
 
The first experience I had with a VCR was in 8th grade (mid 80s), I had just come home from the hospital after the car accident I was in. Our family friend had a video rental store and brought over a VCR and a few tapes for us to borrow. They were a bunch of movies I probably wouldn’t have watched otherwise but it was such a novel thing to watch a movie at home with no commercials that we didn’t care!!

The only tapes we have now are family movie ones that we need to get converted to digital.
 
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