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If you were raised in this era, share your memories with us, what was your favorite TV show?, did you listen to the radio?, how was Egypt at that time?
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Memories of Egyptians Born in the 70's
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- Do you remember how was it in Egypt during late 70's, 80's and the 90's.
If you were raised in this era, share your memories with us, what was your favorite TV show?, did you listen to the radio?, how was Egypt at that time?
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Here are some of the stuff that i remember and you should remember if you were born in the 70's:
1- TV, means only Egyptian Channel 1 and 2
2- You really loved programs like (taksi el sahra, ekhtarna lak, fakar thawany tesab da2aye2, mawakef wa tara2ef, nadi el cinema, aalam el 7ayawan and el 3elm wel eman)
3- You still laugh your a** off, at the same tom and jerry episode that you have seen when you were 5
4- You woke up early on Friday, just to watch the duck tales on Abla Fadela's show.
5- The radio was really interesting, we heard programs like kal al faylasoof and e3terafat laylyeah, and we still shiver if we hear the morning eza3et el shark el awsat music at 7:00 am
6- European program 95.5 fm was the only source for the latest English music, Hala hashish was the master DJ of that era.
7- Having a taxi was a miracle, and sometimes you had to share it with other people going different places.
8- Some of the older people have witnessed the assassination of their president on live TV
9- You have actually witnessed the mobile invention being introduced to Egypt when it was for 5000 EGP
10- Ramadan meant great fun on TV, bo2loz, fawazeer nelly we sherihane, alf leela we leela yehia el fakharany
11- You actually heard amr diab, mostafa 2amar, alaa abdel khalek, hamid el sha3ery and mohamed fouad sing for the first time.
12- You enjoyed hearing medhat saleh, aly el hagaar and the real deal was eman el bahr darwish.
13- Snacks were basically consisting of Bimbo, rocket and karatee, along with one Pepsi in a small glass bottle.
14- Cinema el tahrir in dokki was state of the art technology and it took a fight to be able to get a ticket there before Jurassic park I.
15- You wore a baggy green jeans and a Texas shoe at a stage of your life, then you got stylish and wore the vanilla ice outfit (black shoe with metal plate, and black cap with metal plate and a black hi cole t-shirt !!!)
16- Smokers still suffer so far from the first breath of Getians cigarettes
17- People traveling to Port Said at that came back with tons of goodies that you can never get from Dubai now.
18- Getting online was a disaster, you have to steal a password from someone, call magles el wozara or AUC 1000 times before the line is free, all that so in the end you can chat with an American girl on MIRC.
19- You still have this paper that gives you the details of your pen pal in the states (IYS, they gave us this little yellow paper with all the countries flags are on)
20- You have witnessed the legends of Egyptian football play in the field (hassan shehata, el khateeb, taher abo zaid, alaa mayhoob ...etc) and you cried your eye out when they quit.
21- News papers were Al-Ahram, Akhbar and Gomhoryeah, nothing else.
22- You think Adham Sabry can liberate palatine alone.
23- You still read Mickey :)
24- You sincerely looked for fodoly in Maged magazine and was really proud finding him.
25- You have actually seen Egypt scoring a goal in the World Football Cup
26- You think Captin Maged is the best football player ever.
27- You have memorized movies like el rosasa mazalat fe gayeby, wa eslamah, rab3a el 3adawyeah.
28- El Keef movie is the best comedy ever.
29- Raafat El Haggan was your hero and you really loved him from your heart.
30- You wished if you can own a 128 one day.
31- English TV shows were great, Nots Landing, the bold and the beautiful, MacGyver, mission impossible, and Ochean
32- You suffered big time trying to figure out where and how to place the straw (el shafata) fel zeft elly esmo 3aseer Best !
(Additions by member: Sam K)
33- You remember when the Cairo subway was still new, clean and smelled good.
34 -You scored 75-80 % in Thanaweya Amma and you joined the university of your dreams.
35-You had 2 boxes in your fridge, one of Bimbo biscuits and the other of Corona wafers.
36-You use to eat at Mc Burger and it was the latest and greatest in fast food chains.
37-You used to beleive that when year 2000 comes cars will look so wierd, bulidings will be smart and everything will be computerized.
38-You kept longing for so long for the Egyptian TV to stop writing the results in Football matches by hand and was so overwhelmed by the technology in the World Cup or Olympic Games.
39-Public transportation busses were all red, Mercedes Benz or Nasr.
40-Summer vacation simply meant Alexandria. Sharm, Marina, and Hurgada were not invented yet. And you called someone who went to Hurgada a wierdo!
41-You had to move up to the TV to flip channels.
42-You used to feel inferior because you did not own a VCR (video)
43-You kept your breakfast everyday to eat it with mosalsal borg el 7az (Sharara) or Meezo.
44-You spent your break time at school exchanging pictures of football players.
45-Talking to a girl was a huge adventure that only few guys could claim. You heard others talking about it but you never thought of doing it because you were "mo2adab"
46-Nancy agram was not born yet and the term "Lebanese girls" never came up in any conversation. You never compared Egyptian girls to any other nationality.
47-Songs were heard not watched and you evaluated a singer based on her voice not her body.
48-You only watched Channel 1 when there is a football match, but most of the time you were watching channel 2 to see the American movies.
49-You went to a family visit with your parents and they offered you bonbon Sima.
50-You used to call your friends at home and say "Masa2 El Kheir folan mawgood?". You spent weeks trying to reach him at home but he is always away.
51-You waited for so long to have a phone installed at your home and till that happened you made your calls from the nearest pharmacy or grocery store.
52-You always wanted to upgrade your bicycle to one with 7 speeds.
53-You used to fight with your friends whether Sakhr was better or Sinclair.
54-You used 5.25'' Floppy disks and when the new 3.25'' ones appeared you thought they will never catchup.
55-Cassette tapes used to get stuck in the player and when you tried to fix them they got worse and you spent the rest of the day trying to get the tape in the correct position.
56-There was an old play in TV on Thursday and night. You started to watch and fell asleep in the middle.
57-You spent summer in the outdoors, you turned on the fan when it was hot and owning an A/C was not an option.
58-You thought that when you grow up you will be rich and have a phone in the car.
59-"Khaly Balak Men Zozo" was the hottest movie you can ever see.
60-Before bying a PC you checked to see if it was 100% IBM compatible.
61-You used to guess and try website names because nobody told you about Yahoo.
62-You paid 2.5 Pounds for KFC Snack Box.
63-You upgraded your memory to 4 MB.
64-Your uncle had a Ramses car and sold it to buy Seat 133.
65-You bragged about having a milkshake in Wimpy.
66-You copied software packages on 35 floppies.
(Additions by member Hossam Farag)
67-Masr kollaha ra7et McDonalds fe share3 gam3et el dwal 3ashan kano 7ayeddo 3arabeya l awel wa7ed yedkhol.
68-Kol bani 2dam kan lazem ye7awel y3zef Ra2fat El Haggan 3ala ay org aw piano yeshoofo 2odamo (seems to me that it was the only instrumental played on these days).
69-Law dakhalat share3 Makram 3ebaid f madeenet nasr kont betla2y nafsak f west el sa7ara.
70-Yassmeen Abdel Aziz was singing mamty w tanty w khalti 7arfeet leban (a real complicated know how).
71-A7das el 2mn el markzy lamma kol el welad 3ayetto 3ashan yenzelo yel3abo kora fel share3 sa3et 7azr el tagawoul.
72-Temsal Ramsis kan 23ed fel medan merta7 w 7awaleh taraawa (badal el bahdala elly bahdeloahlo delwa2ty.
73-Masr kollaha kanet betetkalem 3an azmet el o3’neya el shababeya w ta2serha 2ala el mogtama3 el masry although they were just 10 singers 7eela (See now!!).
74-Lwlaaky for 3ali 7emaida was a phenomenal song (you can hear it if you open your shower!
(Addition by member Sherine Meshad)
75- School trips were to places like genenet el 7ayawan or el karia el for3oneya .. and most of your life that was in school uniform!
76- You can still hum the tune to smurfs, woody wood pecker, sesame street.
77- the normal present from abroad would be a gigantic tubleron bar of chocolate!
78- Fantastickers was the most amazing fad ever.
79- Lycra tights on oversized phosphoric t-shirts worn with ankle sneakers we el lesan bara el gazma!! the hottest fad! (not even mentioning the hair!)
80- Top English music included Wham, Madonna, Modern Talking, Glen Maderious (nothing's gonna change my love for you), and lets not forget Sandra!! New Kids on the Block - NKOTBs were the first ever boy band and everyone loved Gordan!
(Addition by member Joe Atta)
81-u brag for 2 weeks cause u ate at {Pizza Hut} even if u just got Pepsi....
82- U wait for thursdays as it is 1/2 a day in the school & there is the open day (elyoum elmaftou7) in TV were there is a comic old arabic movie at noon & elbarlaman elsa3'eer before the 6 o'clock news, then u end the night with a play (masra7eya).
83- u must have a pair of shoes men elly beytalla3o noor, or those ones with the word (Air) written on their sides...
84- Brands like adidas or nike were magical & luxurious... All there is were Bata, Cootchi shoes, Amigo elturkey & the famous Arc shoes...
85- Elkabab elkabab lankhali 3eyshetko hbab... was the most catchy slogan u've ever heard .
New Additions by the creator:
- You hopped on the Metro when it was first made, just to kow how is it like (some of us made a trip all the way to Marg station to try the metro out), now, you rearly use it even if you're going downtown.
- Same concept of trial (as if we can prove that something is wrong in whatever we try), you hopped into your car to try the new Moneb - Ring road crossing over the nile and went all the way to mansoria and back, and was amazed that the trip only took you 25 mins.
- If you don't have a reebok pump or a nike air, or LA Gear shoe, then you're not in style and that's it.
Some other additions from various members (thanks evrybody for adding to the list):
- Hanan's song, el shams el garee2a , wel nesma el ra2ee2a
- Koki Park (anyone remembers that?) and sindbad, when this one came out it was THE place to have fun.
- Estimation & Tarneeb was UNI fav sport all day all night people are gathered playing bola after bola
- people were actually going to Discotheques , Papillon in Movenpick Helipolise, can't remember Meridian one and Atlas El Mohanedesin ,Jackie's in Nile Hilton and of course "Upstairs" where only the elite (back then ) can enter
- SATANIC'S LOL ... the most overrated youth crisis in Egypt
- to add to the above T-Shirts with Bands & singers on it..and the shops that print them on T-shirts
- how cool it was to wear a T-shirt with the writing of Iron Maiden on it
- Camel Cigarettes (damn i miss that brand )
- The Nokia Banana phone
- the Urban legend of ghosts appearing in El Baron Palace in Helipolise & how cool it was for people to claim they jumped the fence & actually went inside
-el otobees kan b bareeza, wu el otobees el momayaz kan b rob3 geneeh wu kan loono azra2 (leghayet delwa2ty ma3rafshy kan momayaz leeh? yemken 3ashan loono azra2, anyway, el rob3 geneeh elly konna benedfa3o kan beykhaly el otobees fady fa dy kanet fe3lan meeza).
-kees el chipsy (the only potato chips brand then in egypt) kan b bareeza bardo, wu kan mal7 bas, lamma nezel chipsy bel ferakh kan sawra wu kan b reyal be7alo.
-yally westek west kamanga, wu 3oodek marsoom 3al senga, ana kont ba7eb el meshmesh delwa2ty bamoooooooot fel manga. awel oghneya sha3beya ba3d 3adaweya
- The HUGEEEE homework for mid year vacation.
- Helwan Train before they open Metro EL Anfa2
Alaa Abdel Khale2
dari remooshek 3ani we dari
Mostafa 2amar
2olloli fein 7abibi??
Latifa
Argook 2ewa3a teghir
iman el ba7r darwish
ana ma3balsh akoon ensan 3ala hamesh
Hisham abbas
wana wana wana wana wana3mel eih:)
- I personally experienced: loading DOS system on the PC (as it had no hard drive) from 5.25" diskettes that I used to get only from Maamoun korba.. High Density we Double Density.
- Oghneyyet Diddi lel cheb Khaled.
- 7elm el seneen: 3agala BMX aw 3agala Chopper be vitesse (lonha: Ko7ly, Nebeety, we a7yanan akhdar we bonny).
- Elshabab elrewesh howa elli beyfarmel faramel regl bel 3agala..
New additions to the list by member:
(Mostafa Metwaly)
37-You used to beleive that when year 2000 comes cars will be fueled with 3assir el 2assab as you were told by ketab el wezara
75-and paranoma 6 october where you couldn't understand why you were yelled at if you climbed on the tank; you knew it wasn't operating and it was a tank ...what are the chance you could make damage to it.
at highschool you wrecked el donia to even glimpse the truth about the existence of "warda el gaza2ereya" and "adel adham" infamous koutshina porn scene ,there were always a guy who swore he had seen the video. I found out later that it was a myth, and such a work never existed
our pornography assets were:
1-el ra2ssat el baladi in black and white movies, there were always a backup ra2assa prettier than the main dancer
2-ruzelyoussef porn stories section with the character's name abbreviated to "س.ص"
3- The celebrity section in "hayati" magazine and to a lesser extent "saba7 el khir",you also have vivid memory of the "seya3" kids circulating a playboy magazine picture of a real breast but you actually never saw it.
layla fawzi was and still is your idea of a femme fatal
Iman of mahammed sobhi el 3amil rakam 13 was the hottest milf ever and probably the only true arabic blond we have seen in that period. mayebe gogo of gom3a el shawal were a true blond but i was never really convinced.
You turned the channel or your head away if a french kiss was about to happen.
You thought women get pregnant by french kissing a man, it was confusing if the plot have a love triangle.
Around epteda2i isma3il yassin was the funniest creature ever.
The eastern european blond lady in mohammed sobhi's plays was the only foreigner in all arabic movies.
you used to watch el tarik ela ilate for "madline tabar's one piece bare-back blue swimsuit scene".and you genuinely hated the Israeli officer massaging her
No one ever had or thought about having or even knew a laptop.
Friday morning’s unicorn movie split on 20 parts was the greatest saga of your e3dadi years
you smuggled mickey with you in the toilet as reading it was distraction from your school work. you also found ragil el mousta7il and el moghamerin el khamssa the best relief in zan2et el emtahanate;you always read them inside a big wezatra book.
if you were in a all boys school ,el sa7era soniya in mikey's magazine was a your idea of pretty, but were ashamed to make such a comment
you always played volleyball with an improvised foil ball made from your mom's sandwich wrapping, during the school fos7a.
there were no fancy karassat silk with colored pages and plastic cover ,we used a kashkoul with white rough paper with 2 parallel red lines and a blue perpendicular line as a margine.And your mom spend endless hours tegaledhoum ma3ak,red for math, blue for English, green for history and geography.
And the list goes on, come on, share your memories with us and post it on the discussion board and the wall, and good ones will be included to this list.
(Sorry for the limited new additions, i just can't find the
time to post all that you have written, but promise i will)
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Sorry for removing some vedieos and photos, however we do not discuss politics in this group.
Theer are some really good groups that discusses politics, this is not one of them, i believe the reason this group is made is clearly stated in the description
Thanks for your cooperation.
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