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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:45:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy fuck that takes me back. They came stacked 3 in a pack. @ElSupremo Holy shit.. totally forgot about those. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 7:38:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Every kid in class standing reciting the pledge of allegiance. The Sears wishbook Sears was a powerhouse retailer, top quality tools, service dept., catalog sales, they had it all and they f'ed it up and walked away. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 7:45:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/25002/Stag_Beer_JPG-2195694.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/25002/Hanely_Beer_JPG-2195693.jpg Stag and Hanley beer. Doubt anyone here has tried it unless you are from the mid-west in the 50s - early 70s. Hanley might have been the worst I have ever had in my life. Stag was still being sold in in the St. Louis area in 2004; I remember it (not so) fondly.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 8:00:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: South African surplus m193 I the battle pack. $39/300rds. I still have a couple of those. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 8:00:49 PM EDT
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When “blowing your tranny” meant you had a problem with your car.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 8:05:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Clock radio in 1970 had plates w/ the time printed on them, they'd flip every minute, can't remember if they had AM, PM on them so a minimum of 720 plates. The precursor to a digital readout, only other choice was analog. https://i.imgur.com/rZMNqRC.jpg 28 plates: Blank-1 0-9 : 0-5 0-9 You can still see full alphanumeric flight boards in some airports today though. The chatter is a convenient notification that something has changed. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 8:12:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Me too. It’s just a very distinctive smell, which is what my memory thought of first, before any “visual” memory. Hell, I can smell it through that picture. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: For some reason I loved the chemical smell from the mimeograph machine. Me too. It’s just a very distinctive smell, which is what my memory thought of first, before any “visual” memory. Hell, I can smell it through that picture. I remember those smudged blue images, but not the smell. I also have a vague memory of a teacher cranking them out. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 8:48:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Budweiser came in tin cans (with a pull tab). Without pull tabs needed a church key |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 8:55:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And it was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV. Before microwave ovens when a girl could still cook and still would. Bingo Literally, Bingo Night at the VFW |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 9:29:09 PM EDT
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Bruce Jenner on the Wheaties box.
Alex the Stroh’s dog (golden retriever) Spuds McKenzie the Bud Light dog (bull terrier) Stopping at AAA before vacation to pick up a TripTik mini map book. Baseball cards in the spokes of my bicycle Schwinn Varsity 10-speed bicycle Basketball backboard was wood instead of glass America’s bicentennial in 1976 Mounting a knob on my car’s steering wheel (before power steering was a thing) CB radio in my car Hood ornaments Backtracking to search for the hubcap which fell off Studded snow tires Weights in the trunk of the car during winter for added traction (rear wheel drive) A square key for the car’s ignition, round key for the doors and trunk Newspaper delivery route Flashcube on the camera Polaroid instant camera Deer hunting before wearing blaze orange was required Micro cassette tape in the answering machine Winding up the wristwatch daily |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 9:38:08 PM EDT
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Luden's wild cherry cough drops
Candy cigarettes Wax Lips Yellow pages |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 9:41:59 PM EDT
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Falstaff had a series type commercial w/ two guys traveling in a Minnie Winnie exploring America, saw a few and then they ended abruptly. , and not too long after that Falstaff seemed to end. Good commercials though.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 9:52:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There are several times where you will find yourself needing to dim the lights- At exactly the time your foot is on the clutch or you need / want to hit the clutch at the same time I still drive vintage muscle cars a handful of times a month. I still own multiple vehicles with the floor mounted dimmer switch, two of which are manual transmissions, and I've never in 30+ years of driving had a problem, but we're all different. If I could order new vehicles with the floor mounted switch I'd do it in a heartbeat. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:04:16 PM EDT
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Sleeping on the floor of our car during long road trips, and never wearing a seat belt.
I don't remember wearing seat belts until the early 90s. Anyone remember those toy pistols that shot sparks when you pulled the trigger? |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:12:23 PM EDT
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Spending evenings dreaming and circling everything you wanted out of the sears catalog.
That thing was like 3in thick, and had anything you could imagine in it, all in black and white of course. Even had a bra section that a young man could educate himself for seconds. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:22:00 PM EDT
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Bellows cameras.
Toy crystal radio sets. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:25:01 PM EDT
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Leaded gasoline.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:28:57 PM EDT
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This is one of the best threads we've had in a while.
Thanks for all the mamories guy's. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:30:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Leaded gasoline. Amoco unleaded premium, erroniously referred to as "white" gas. True "white" gas was intended for devices such as Coleman lanterns and camp stoves. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:36:31 PM EDT
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A mix-tape of all that, brought to you by Ryan Reynolds
 Maximum 80s |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:46:36 PM EDT
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Antenna rotor and booster boxes on top of the TV set.
Paregoric  "Cathederal" radios. Some had shortwave bands, but no FM. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:46:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:47:55 PM EDT
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Sambo's for supper after church.
Western Auto and Ace Hardware for guns & ammo. Literal piles of M1 Carbines at Sears & Robuck to dig thru & cherry pick. JC Penny and Sears Xmas catalogs that would be worn to shreds by Xmas day. 3 channels of B&W TV on a 19" |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:53:06 PM EDT
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Trying to locate the bad bulb in a series string of Christmas lights.
Soda "jerks". It was an art unto itself. Juke boxes with 78 RPM records. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:56:36 PM EDT
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Radio Shack selling electronic components.
Car bumpers having slots in them for a jack. Calling a special phone number to be told the time. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:58:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had a TV with a wired remote. I don't think they were around very long before somebody said "this sucks, we can do better...". TV remotes with chimes. Jingle a ring of keys and the TV would go apeshit. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:59:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:09:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hoping that the out house had a toilet seat attached so you didn't get the chance of a splinter in your ass. And that wasps hadn't built a nest under the seat. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:18:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TV remotes with chimes. Jingle a ring of keys and the TV would go apeshit.  012 Zenith Space Command Retro-future Ultrasonic Remote Control Project |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:19:26 PM EDT
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I remember some of the stores having locked stalls in the bathroom that you had to put a dime in to open. (We always crawled under the door) ??
Radio Shack actually having the best radio controlled toys. Spending hours trying to record songs off of the radio using a separate tape recorder. Corduroy pants that were very loud when the legs rubbed against each other. Commodity (Reagan) cheese. Those little cap revolves that took the ring of caps. Getting your mom to buy certain cereals just for the toy inside. Getting cracker Jacks so you could get the baking soda submarine only to be disappointed every time when it was a temporary tattoo. Saturday nights when your friends spent the night you would always say that you were going to stay up all night only to fall asleep by 10:30 ?? Lightning bugs (fire flies). Sitting on the porch for hours talking when company came over not wanting it to ever end. Having company, Visiting friends/family ????? |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:22:05 PM EDT
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How to check on our elderly neighbors.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:24:12 PM EDT
[#32]
Horn And Hardart Automats.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:29:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ...Getting cracker Jacks so you could get the baking soda submarine only to be disappointed every time when it was a temporary tattoo... Putt-putt boats 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 12:18:42 AM EDT
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Going down the highway on a summer day riding in the back of a pickup truck.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 12:26:52 AM EDT
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When anything and everything we wanted was made right here.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 12:28:15 AM EDT
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 got this exact set for Christmas back in the day(I was probably 6-7)... it came with a Gulf Porsche 917 and a red Ferrari 512... the headlights lit up.... we turned all the lights out and me and my dad raced by the light of the Christmas tree... was awesome. you guys remember the smell these tracks made when they were running?... like an electrical fire..
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Posted: 12/8/2021 12:44:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Amana Radar Range ? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: ha... I remember the first microwave we got... maybe around 83-ish.... my mom got it from her dad(like a hand-me-down)... it had no buttons, it had a dial to heat, and it was HUGE... like you could cook a turkey in it.. Amana Radar Range ? We still have an Amana Radar Range in our break room at the office, still works. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:19:52 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:25:28 AM EDT
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Before there was super soaker there was surgical tubes and a few odds and ends we cobbled together and called “water weenie”.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:30:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:33:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pull-tabs on beer cans |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:34:57 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:39:47 AM EDT
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Anyone do this: While driving at night, your (phantom) left food gets ready to hit the dimmer switch?
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:43:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We still have an Amana Radar Range in our break room at the office, still works. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: ha... I remember the first microwave we got... maybe around 83-ish.... my mom got it from her dad(like a hand-me-down)... it had no buttons, it had a dial to heat, and it was HUGE... like you could cook a turkey in it.. Amana Radar Range ? We still have an Amana Radar Range in our break room at the office, still works. We still use one all day long at the machine shop. 365 days a year. Made In the USA!!! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 2:10:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone do this: While driving at night, your (phantom) left food gets ready to hit the dimmer switch? It's been a few decades, but yes. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:51:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/MZQAAOSwztZhdxXF/s-l1600.jpg got this exact set for Christmas back in the day(I was probably 6-7)... it came with a Gulf Porsche 917 and a red Ferrari 512... the headlights lit up.... we turned all the lights out and me and my dad raced by the light of the Christmas tree... was awesome. you guys remember the smell these tracks made when they were running?... like an electrical fire.. Heck yeah! I got the cheap AFX set from Target and then proceeded to add track and cars as I could afford. There’s a song about slot car racing.  Sleaford Mods - TCR (Official Video) |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:58:25 AM EDT
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Me at 10 years old walking into our corner store , paying 50 cents to fill up my Honda xr 75 , with a 22 rifle slung over my back , getting a box of 22lr, Marlboro reds, and a can of Hawkins for my up coming hunt. Good times . WarDawg
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:12:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Me at 10 years old walking into our corner store , paying 50 cents to fill up my Honda xr 75 , with a 22 rifle slung over my back , getting a box of 22lr, Marlboro reds, and a can of Hawkins for my up coming hunt. Good times . WarDawg That would be the ultimate picture for a meme 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:15:35 AM EDT
[#49]
Damn, this thread makes me happy and sad.
I'm going to go yell at some clouds now... |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:31:50 AM EDT
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We remember all the actresses that were so damn hot when we were young but now look like depends and rascal spokespeople.
I on the other hand have not aged at all.
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