Welcome to our series sharing Unique Holidays: June 7th, 2022. Today is National VCR Day and I wish I had my VCR Player and DVD’s which Charlie and I could sit down and watch. They are gone and I don’t know anyone who had a VCR player. Do you?
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
For everyone National Chocolate Ice Cream Day is a great day to eat America’s favorite flavor of ice cream.
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. With the arrival of warm, Summer Weather, cooling off with a little 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. Just make sure to eat the Chocolate Ice Cream quickly or the Ice Cream may melt in the Summer heat.
The History and Origin of Chocolate Ice Cream Day:
Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this holiday but our money is on the Ice Cream makers as creators of this holiday.
We did not find any documentation confirming this to be a “National” holiday and we found no congressional records or presidential proclamation.
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. 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 did not come into widespread use until the late 1970’s. For a short period of time, the VCR format competed against the Betamax 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.
During it’s heyday, VCR Cassettes also were used in recording movies in home video cameras. VCRs 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 VCRs. Chances are they have a VCR recorder, and cassette tapes buried somewhere. You may even find that you are on some of those cassettes, recording a childhood birthday or other event.
Like so many other formats, VCR 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 Cassette is or how its used. For at least a few more years, those of us old enough to remember the popular VCR, will continue to celebrate this holiday.
The History and Origin of VCR Day:
Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this holiday which appears to have been celebrated since around the turn of the Century.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
