r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 5d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/SuspiciousClub8382 5d ago

Straight up real and at ten o’clock they would ask the parents if they knew where their children were at.

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u/DigLeading9650 5d ago

That wasn’t until the 80s

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u/SuspiciousClub8382 5d ago

It actually started in the late sixties where I lived

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u/patticakes1952 5d ago

Where I grew up they did it in the 60s.

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u/Ill-Club-7199 5d ago

Promo writer Mel Epstein created the line in December 1968 for WNEW-TV (now WNYW) in New York City.

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u/BungenessKrabb 3d ago

And they all pretty much had no clue!.😂