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Posted: 3/30/2022 10:36:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone else remember that horrendous orange sawdust concoction the janitors threw down when some kid barfed on the carpet in school?   That intoxicating smell of freshly xeroxed papers still wet to the touch.  I don’t remember that smell but I remember the smell and taste of rectangle school pizza.   Attached File |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 10:47:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t remember that smell but I remember the smell and taste of rectangle school pizza. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/3EFD37F1-C856-4A00-BC5A-5D225DA5C1A4_png-2331571.JPG OH YEAH BOY...I think our school called them Tostadas (ETA: AKA Mexican pizza).
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Posted: 3/30/2022 10:59:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Anyone else remember that horrendous orange sawdust concoction the janitors threw down when some kid barfed on the carpet in school? That intoxicating smell of freshly xeroxed papers still wet to the touch. I remember mimeographs https://s.mltshp.com/r/10K1F Our mimeograph was hand cranked. I remember the feeling of sore shoulders cranking out piles of worksheets. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 10:59:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @HiFlow I remember that. Pure awesomeness. Remember Gen 1 Soundwave with all the cassettes? That was the one everyone wanted in my grade. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/E63674AE-F85B-4FA7-ACCE-4324190BE9A3_png-2331554.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/480138/G1Jetfire_Map_jpg-2330730.JPG We were on summer vacation, mom and grandma took us shopping with them. I spent my entire summer allowance ($40) on the OG Gen1 Jetfire Transformer. My dad was SO FKN pissed I spent all my money on that thing, we were mere seconds of having to return it when grams came to our defense. @HiFlow I remember that. Pure awesomeness. Remember Gen 1 Soundwave with all the cassettes? That was the one everyone wanted in my grade. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/E63674AE-F85B-4FA7-ACCE-4324190BE9A3_png-2331554.JPG Yeah, those were some of my brothers and I's favorite toys. We had a lot of them. the original ones with die cast metal parts. We lost interest when they went all plastic and looked all cheapo and crappy. Sadly they are all in a landfill somewhere because mom most likely threw them out. 
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:03:25 AM EDT
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I remember being in elementary school and getting a special pass to go to the "Robotics Lab" which was, of course, a Radio Shack Armatron.
I still have one, almost new in the box, just missing a couple of the pick up targets. Very interesting bit of tech inside.  Radio Shack Armatron |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:10:12 AM EDT
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 Just turned 45 this week!
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:13:33 AM EDT
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Mom would buy a volume every time we went the grocery store. It took a few years but we eventually had the complete set.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:17:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mom would buy a volume every time we went the grocery store. It took a few years but we eventually had the complete set. https://i.postimg.cc/Hs5ck9KT/FaW.jpg I remember reading the encyclopedia as a kid. It was super interesting to flip through. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:17:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember being in elementary school and getting a special pass to go to the "Robotics Lab" which was, of course, a Radio Shack Armatron. I still have one, almost new in the box, just missing a couple of the pick up targets. Very interesting bit of tech inside.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDFkzdEalgHoly crap! I had one of those and completely forgotten about it! This thread is definitely a blast from the past. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:21:29 AM EDT
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 1980 - Big Trak - Programmable Electric Toy I was HUGE into this back in the 80's. Loved the thing to death... found tons of cheats for it. I used to make coffee and tea for my parents and I programmed it to get into their room. Good times. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:31:25 AM EDT
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I think the generational divide stuff is generally big fat gray lines. A lot of it is dependent on your family structure, regional factors, placement of birth order, etc.
For example, my parents are old as fuck. I'm the youngest of 3. Bro and sis are X'ers, and we were raised by 1st Gen Boomers in the south. We didn't have the internet until I was probably 16 or so, and I was 14 when we got a shitty used PC. My household was largely analog. I identify w/ X'ers way more than Millennials, despite being born a few years into Millennial status. On the other hand, my wife is a year older than me. Yeah, she was born closer to the X'er side, but she's the oldest of two. Grew up in a wired household that didn't want for shit, raised by the second gen of Boomers. She's a Millennial through and through. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 11:38:34 AM EDT
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Anyone else have one of these? The batteries would not last long so most of the time it was unpowered, but I still loved it By the time my little brother got it the transmission was gone and he was freewheeling it.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:02:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think the generational divide stuff is generally big fat gray lines. A lot of it is dependent on your family structure, regional factors, placement of birth order, etc. For example, my parents are old as fuck. I'm the youngest of 3. Bro and sis are X'ers, and we were raised by 1st Gen Boomers in the south. We didn't have the internet until I was probably 16 or so, and I was 14 when we got a shitty used PC. My household was largely analog. I identify w/ X'ers way more than Millennials, despite being born a few years into Millennial status. I agree, and you sound exactly like my youngest brother. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:04:41 PM EDT
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When your dad's reading materials included gun rags and Shotgun News had awesome ads.
    
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:05:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Our mimeograph was hand cranked. I remember the feeling of sore shoulders cranking out piles of worksheets. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Anyone else remember that horrendous orange sawdust concoction the janitors threw down when some kid barfed on the carpet in school? That intoxicating smell of freshly xeroxed papers still wet to the touch. I remember mimeographs https://s.mltshp.com/r/10K1F Our mimeograph was hand cranked. I remember the feeling of sore shoulders cranking out piles of worksheets. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:16:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember being in elementary school and getting a special pass to go to the "Robotics Lab" which was, of course, a Radio Shack Armatron. I still have one, almost new in the box, just missing a couple of the pick up targets. Very interesting bit of tech inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDFkzdEalgOur elementary received funding to buy a bunch of the Hero 1 robots, but after awhile they always seemed to sit in the corner broken.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:18:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone else have one of these? The batteries would not last long so most of the time it was unpowered, but I still loved it By the time my little brother got it the transmission was gone and he was freewheeling it. https://i.postimg.cc/QthgDnS9/bigfoot.jpg I ABSOLUTELY had one of those! Bigfoot mania was huge back then. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:20:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgEkpcPC2I8I was HUGE into this back in the 80's. Loved the thing to death... found tons of cheats for it. I used to make coffee and tea for my parents and I programmed it to get into their room. Good times. This sort of thing was "the future" back then. Just an toy car combined with Logo. You can even do Logo online now.  https://www.transum.org/software/Logo/I think Tomy had a robot thing with a remote control and microphone. Robot servants were going to be the future. Instead we got chicks with dicks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibot |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:27:48 PM EDT
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"Schaper" brand Stompers. I had this blue Datsun and the bridge kit.
 Stomper cars toy classic tv commercial  Stomper 4X4 Trucks commercial |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:30:48 PM EDT
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It walked the line between the 80s and 90s, but Tyco's SpyTech line was amazing.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 12:52:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone else have one of these? The batteries would not last long so most of the time it was unpowered, but I still loved it By the time my little brother got it the transmission was gone and he was freewheeling it. https://i.postimg.cc/QthgDnS9/bigfoot.jpg I think a friend had one of those but that reminded me of STOMPERS! Stomper 4X4 Trucks commercial ETA: Beat like a mule, lol |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 1:47:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Watched the 87’ Challenger explosion while sitting in the school library in 8th grade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUqPMMgfJ4QI watched that in the duty office in the barracks at NAS Millington. I had just checked out that morning on orders to MCAS El Toro. I was waiting on a good friend who also got orders going to the same place and MOS. We were leaving as soon as he got back to the barracks. One of those odd days where two major life events happened on the same day... |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 1:52:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Our elementary received funding to buy a bunch of the Hero 1 robots, but after awhile they always seemed to sit in the corner broken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/9A2966F0-9B2A-47C8-9B10-8ADF490882D7_png-2331658.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I remember being in elementary school and getting a special pass to go to the "Robotics Lab" which was, of course, a Radio Shack Armatron. I still have one, almost new in the box, just missing a couple of the pick up targets. Very interesting bit of tech inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDFkzdEalgOur elementary received funding to buy a bunch of the Hero 1 robots, but after awhile they always seemed to sit in the corner broken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/9A2966F0-9B2A-47C8-9B10-8ADF490882D7_png-2331658.JPG Funny thing. I just finished scratch building a CNC router at home. I was sitting there watching it run for the first time and thinking how it was like the first time I got to play with the RS robot. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 1:58:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I agree, and you sound exactly like my youngest brother. We're the lost boys of 80-85. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:04:52 PM EDT
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The toy store usually had a bucket of Poopa Trooper parachute toys on the counter. Cheap fun as a kid.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:04:54 PM EDT
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My bother and I had a couple of these.
 
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:16:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My bother and I had a couple of these. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPHcqwuX0AEAV31?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPHd0LhXEAEwI0z?format=jpg&name=large One of my firsts, a hand me down:  |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:24:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t remember that smell but I remember the smell and taste of rectangle school pizza. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/3EFD37F1-C856-4A00-BC5A-5D225DA5C1A4_png-2331571.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Anyone else remember that horrendous orange sawdust concoction the janitors threw down when some kid barfed on the carpet in school? That intoxicating smell of freshly xeroxed papers still wet to the touch. I don’t remember that smell but I remember the smell and taste of rectangle school pizza. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/3EFD37F1-C856-4A00-BC5A-5D225DA5C1A4_png-2331571.JPG I remember the oil on the rectangle school pizza that you'd dab off with napkins. Speaking of that, "the smell of rectangle school pizza" + "sawdust concoction the janitors threw down when some kid barfed". They had to open all the windows in one wing of the elementary school when some kid yammed up lunch plus barf-absorption dust plus no air conditioning plus spring heat+humidity started making other kids barf. Good times.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:26:50 PM EDT
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“I wish I was in a different generation” said no GenXer ever.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:30:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "Schaper" brand Stompers. I had this blue Datsun and the bridge kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_c7rM0vwPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pko_iTP4sQGot 2 for christmas, brother decided he wanted to see how they work the day after 
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:35:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:40:09 PM EDT
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Quoted: The definitive guide to the greatest decade to be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9AsSO7hToBorn in 74’. Class of 92’. 1974 and '92 as well. Good mix. Thanks. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:44:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My bother and I had a couple of these. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPHcqwuX0AEAV31?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPHd0LhXEAEwI0z?format=jpg&name=large My first deck too, that thing was such a slug.  My Mom LOVED shopping at K-Mart. My favorite skate shoes back in the day. I had to buy them myself because there was NO WAY mom or dad was gonna spend that kinda money on shoes.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:53:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone else have one of these? The batteries would not last long so most of the time it was unpowered, but I still loved it By the time my little brother got it the transmission was gone and he was freewheeling it. https://i.postimg.cc/QthgDnS9/bigfoot.jpg Yep, had that truck myself as a kid. Monster trucks were awesome. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 2:59:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Watched the 87’ Challenger explosion while sitting in the school library in 8th grade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUqPMMgfJ4QJanuary 28, 1986. Was sitting in my senior year physics class when the Principal cane over the PA and announced the Challenger had exploded shortly after liftoff. My Physics teacher exclaimed “that could have been Me!” Apparently he was an applicant to the teacher-in-space program. We quickly laughed at his statement and went back to the lesson. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:08:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:21:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My bother and I had a couple of these. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPHcqwuX0AEAV31?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPHd0LhXEAEwI0z?format=jpg&name=large Whew boy. A Nash. They were considered as bad as my Variflex (Sears or JcPenny carried them, can't remember). I had to save up enough money to eventually buy a deck/trucks/wheels that wouldn't get laughed at by my peers. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:24:55 PM EDT
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Quote Historythey had that awful kinda blue kinda purple ink....holy balls flashback....I can smell the room where they ran them.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:25:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't remember that smell but I remember the smell and taste of rectangle school pizza. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/3EFD37F1-C856-4A00-BC5A-5D225DA5C1A4_png-2331571.JPG |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:28:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember reading the encyclopedia as a kid. It was super interesting to flip through.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:28:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:28:53 PM EDT
[#42]
I can still feel the vinyl melting to my delicate, little, hairless legs. Why were my shorts so short?
 And that, gentlemen, is when my love-affair with motorbikes began. I still have the same face every time I sit on a new bike. 
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:32:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI had a psycho stik with slimeballs wheels. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:33:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I can still feel the vinyl melting to my delicate, little, hairless legs. Why were my shorts so short? https://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/061516-Barn-Finds-1980-Chevrolet-Citation-X11-1.jpg And that, gentlemen, is when my love-affair with motorbikes began. I still have the same face every time I sit on a new bike. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51971773516_647d652fdc_z.jpg That was the car I took Drivers Ed road training in.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:40:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My first deck too, that thing was such a slug. My Mom LOVED shopping at K-Mart.
My favorite skate shoes back in the day. I had to buy them myself because there was NO WAY mom or dad was gonna spend that kinda money on shoes. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/480138/s-l300_jpg-2331817.JPG  How The Reebok Pump Became a Cultural Icon |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:46:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More mall stores that aren’t coming back. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/5E225FB8-E765-4C5A-B112-31EB70D46180_jpe-2331873.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/D1314E4E-46D5-434E-ABE0-9835489809E1_jpe-2331874.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/D1E0226E-3D17-4C37-8320-6426DE7B78FF_png-2331875.JPG If anyone wants to travel down a dark rabbit hole, this dude does a great job breaking down why these companies died out. Radio Shack in particular, you would think in the age of the "maker" they would be rolling in dough.  The Decline of RadioShack...What Happened?  The Decline of KB Toys...What Happened? My first gun came out of a Woolworth in the mall in Hollywood Florida. I remember barrels of SKS for under $100 at the time. |
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:47:44 PM EDT
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My Dad got bored this past winter and was going through what little stuff is leftover from when we were kids. He put this together using pieces from a few different racetracks.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:50:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
My Dad got bored this past winter and was going through what little stuff is leftover from when we were kids. He put this together using pieces from a few different racetracks. https://i.imgur.com/8B0Oo1y.jpg 
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Posted: 3/30/2022 3:58:11 PM EDT
[#49]
80's TV was so awesome. I loved The Fall Guy, and the truck was one of my favorite toys as a kid.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 4:01:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you remember smearing butter on the track to make the cars slide? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My Dad got bored this past winter and was going through what little stuff is leftover from when we were kids. He put this together using pieces from a few different racetracks. https://i.imgur.com/8B0Oo1y.jpg Do you remember smearing butter on the track to make the cars slide? Heck yeah! |
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