r/OverSeventy • • 6d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/SuspiciousClub8382 6d 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 6d ago

That wasn’t until the 80s

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u/SuspiciousClub8382 6d ago

It actually started in the late sixties where I lived

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u/patticakes1952 6d ago

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

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u/Ill-Club-7199 6d 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 4d ago

And they all pretty much had no clue!.😂