Good morning, welcome back to our series sharing Unique Holidays: June 7th, 2021. Can you believe the first week of June is gone? Before we know it school will be resuming. Being National Chocolate Ice Cream Day I think we should treat the kids to a Ice Cream from there favorite Ice Cream store don’t you?
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day is a great day to eat America’s favorite flavor of ice cream. Before you ask yes, Chocolate is Charlie’s but I prefer Vanilla unless the Chocolate has Nuts in it. As for David he likes Strawberry. How about you?
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day is a field day for Ice Cream Makers. However, we probably don’t need any additional incentive to eat Chocolate Ice Cream. And, with the arrival of Summer weather, cooling off with a little (or a lot) of Chocolate Ice Cream is a natural.
Celebrate National Chocolate Ice Cream Day by enjoying Chocolate Ice Cream a few times today. It’s as simple as that and make sure to eat the Ice Cream quickly before it melts in the Summer heat.
Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Video Cassette Recorders were “the” recording and playback format. The VCR cassette contained magnetic tape, which you could record on and erase over and over again. Just about everyone had a VCR player.
You could tape TV shows and movies on your home television, for playback later. The marketplace offered VCR cassettes with recent movies, available for purchase. VCR Day celebrates the VCR Tape Cassette and VCR players.
While VCR usage peaked in the 1980’s and 1990’s, the very first VCR available for commercial sale was released in 1956, by Ampex Corporation in the United States.
The VCR Player didn’t come into widespread use until the late 1970’s. For a short period of time, the VCR format competed against the Betamax (Beta) tape format.
Near the turn of the century, compact discs and DVD’s arrived with better quality, and longer storage. They quickly replaced VCRs in the marketplace. Which stinks…
I wish I still had a VCR because I still have VCR Tapes but I haven’t been able to locate one for our home. Do you still have a VCR or VCR Tapes? If so do you watch them or are they just taking up space? Like David says ours are.
During it’s heyday, VCR Cassettes also were used in recording movies in home video cameras. They largely replaced long popular 8mm and Super 8mm movie film, for the average amateur user.
If you are a younger reader, ask mom and dad, or grandpa and grandma about VCR’s. Chances are they have a VCR recorder, and Cassette tapes buried somewhere in their basement.
You may even find that you are on some of those cassettes, recording a childhood birthday, dance recital, or graduation. Now, before you ask no, you may not destroy those tapes there keepsakes to share with your children when you have some.
Like many other formats, the VCR Player became outdated as new, better formats were invented. As time goes by, fewer and fewer people are celebrating Video Cassette Day, as this outdated technology fades from memory.
Kids growing up today, have no idea what a VCR is. For at least a few more years, those of us old enough to remember the popular VCR, will continue to celebrate this day.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
