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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 8:44:17 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 8:50:20 AM EDT
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Real H&K MP5s were $3300.

Microwaves were a newish thing.

Car phones.

Cell phones came in a shoulder bag.

Phone booths.

3 TV channels.

Glock standard capacity mags were going for $75 - $140.

Manual crank windows.

Hood release was under the hood.

4 speed manual transmissions.

Cars without rear defrost.

Minivans were toasters on wheels.

Porsche starting to make SUVs was sacrilegious.

Link Posted: 12/8/2021 9:01:10 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 9:20:04 AM EDT
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Without pull tabs

needed a church key
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Budweiser came in tin cans (with a pull tab).



Without pull tabs

needed a church key


And crushing one on your forehead was a test of a man's ability to withstand pain and possibly the sight of blood.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 9:37:20 AM EDT
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Kmart sold guns and ammo.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 9:42:55 AM EDT
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I'm only 52 so I don't know if I classify as an old timer yet, but I'm going with replacing your phone cords with super long ones so you could talk on the phone while across the room or pick the whole phone up and go into the nearest room.

Link Posted: 12/8/2021 9:49:51 AM EDT
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Most reminiscing has mostly been of High School age and beyond

I saw This Movie while it was in its First Run.

Talk about prices:
An issue of Sgt Rock and Easy Company was 12¢
When we moved to NYC the Subway Token was 15¢
There was a bridge on the NJ/PA highway (I forget its number) whose toll was 10¢

A box of .22 rimfire cost a penny a round.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 9:56:25 AM EDT
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Aurora A/FX Slot Cars.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 10:02:09 AM EDT
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Slot cars.

1:24 scale in commercial venues, HO Scale  - mainly by Aurora - at home.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 10:16:01 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 10:34:05 AM EDT
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I grew up in Detroit so....before they changed the recipe it was good.

Back in the 70s you could take a tour of the Stroh's Brewery in Detroit; free beer at the end.   Must have taken that tour 20 times. Same with the Hiram Walker distillery in Windsor.



Link Posted: 12/8/2021 11:10:23 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 11:35:32 AM EDT
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...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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I never got that one either ??
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 11:38:50 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 11:51:54 AM EDT
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I remember bringing a hunting vest, cased 20 ga and ammo to school so I could hunt, behind the school on the hillside for squirrels

And I wasn't alone and no one batted an eye.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 12:56:59 PM EDT
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Oh hell yes!  THAT was true child abuse!


But, just to balance things out, you could still get great cough syrup.



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Just no. Those OTC "cherry" flavored things ruined my taste for cherry stuff. A guy
I worked with has constipation and was told by an older guy to use castor oil. He came
back and while admitting it did work, he fussed at the old guy for not telling him to heat
the oil up first. He said it was like a glob and almost threw up before he could choke it
down.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 1:01:45 PM EDT
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Anyone remember this show from the 80s?

20 Minute Workout.  



Link Posted: 12/8/2021 1:09:07 PM EDT
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I can't remember... I don't think I paid much attention... I think it was wood grained, or at least brown.

hey, do you guys remember those "Mark-it" grocery stores where you go in with a grease pencil, all the cans and stuff are in bins and you write the price on top and put it in your basket?
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Prairie Market, I remember going to the one in the Bellevue/Redmond area with my mom and marking the prices on the goods, early seventies.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 1:13:35 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 1:31:27 PM EDT
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Oh hell yes!  THAT was true child abuse!


But, just to balance things out, you could still get great cough syrup.



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I suspect at times, that I was given the "good" cough syrup even when I didn't have any cold or flu symptoms, just to shut me the hell up

Link Posted: 12/8/2021 1:59:51 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:03:48 PM EDT
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Trusting the news on the TV.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:06:03 PM EDT
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Sears Christmas Wishbook Catalog.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:07:08 PM EDT
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I'm only 52 so I don't know if I classify as an old timer yet, but I'm going with replacing your phone cords with super long ones so you could talk on the phone while across the room or pick the whole phone up and go into the nearest room.

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Hey, where's the attachment that lets the cord spin all the way around and not twist?!?!?
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:12:42 PM EDT
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I remember us kids being sick and my Mom calling the doctor and he stopped by for a house call.

I also (just barely) remember going back to school after the Christmas break and the teacher changing the calendar in the classroom and saying "It is no longer 1954, it is now 1955".
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:21:27 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:32:33 PM EDT
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1964.
We had moved to NYC in 1963.
I got to see the Mets play in the Polo Grounds.
Twice.
Lost the first time, , won a Double-Header the next time around.
I was thoroughly a Mets fan after that Sunday afternoon.

To the World Series of 1964: The entire school body went to the auditorium to watch Game 7 of the World Series.
A senior teacher said, before the Sole TV (B&W) in the Entire School Was Turned on, Well, it is an important game.
I might have been the only student that enjoyed watching the Cardinals beat the Yankees.

The Color TV I have in my bedroom today has a larger screen than what a couple hundred kiddies watched a B&W TV back then.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:42:16 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 2:51:37 PM EDT
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Glass bottle soda machines. I have one like this one in my garage. Still works. Hard to find Pepsi in glass bottles anymore.


Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:06:09 PM EDT
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I remember bringing a hunting vest, cased 20 ga and ammo to school so I could hunt, behind the school on the hillside for squirrels

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Even in San Franciscograd we'd go shooting (at the range) after school.  You needed a friend with wheels for that since we crossed the county line to get to san Franciscograd's range in Pacifica (San Mateo County).
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:08:01 PM EDT
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Silver coinage and 4 cents postage stamps.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:22:48 PM EDT
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Didn't read all 11 pages so sorry if dupe.

Rusty Jones "Hello Rusty Jones,goodbye rust" They drilled holes in your cars panels and sprayed bituminous paint/tar in the fenders.

The bell going ding ding after running over an air line at the service station letting the attendant know you pulled up.

Old nipple caps plugging up gas lines on the wall where gaslights used to be.

I'm sure someone mentioned the tiny triangle vent windows on old cars.
Someone posted an ink bottle pic, I remember the holes in kids school desks for them.

Lots of Chicago but has many old national chains that went away.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:23:54 PM EDT
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I'm Gen X and I remember the slot in the back of the medicine cabinet.
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Well...we sort of are getting to be old timers.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:43:19 PM EDT
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Glass bottle soda machines. I have one like this one in my garage. Still works. Hard to find Pepsi in glass bottles anymore.

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That looks like the kind where you have to make sure that you
have a good grip on the bottle neck or the cap will mess up
your fingers.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:45:03 PM EDT
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Waiting for the ice cream man in the street in front of the house and bouncing the silver dollar off the steel manhole cover to hear the ring.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:46:29 PM EDT
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While I was having lunch the TV was tuned in to Barrett's auto auction. I remember when most of the cars and trucks they were selling were new models, it was an antique and classic car sale.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:53:11 PM EDT
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Play tape 2 track tapes and player in my VW.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 3:59:55 PM EDT
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Didn't read all 11 pages so sorry if dupe.

Rusty Jones "Hello Rusty Jones,goodbye rust" They drilled holes in your cars panels and sprayed bituminous paint/tar in the fenders.

The bell going ding ding after running over an air line at the service station letting the attendant know you pulled up.

Old nipple caps plugging up gas lines on the wall where gaslights used to be.

I'm sure someone mentioned the tiny triangle vent windows on old cars.
Someone posted an ink bottle pic, I remember the holes in kids school desks for them.

Lots of Chicago but has many old national chains that went away.
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Ziebart was the auto rust outfit I remember.    Mako and Earl Scheib the paint outfits.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:01:43 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:05:58 PM EDT
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I remember they were originally Aurora Model Motoring.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:16:32 PM EDT
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Waiting for the ice cream man in the street in front of the house and bouncing the silver dollar off the steel manhole cover to hear the ring.
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I read somewhere on here that one mother told her kids that
they only play that music when they are out of product.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:18:35 PM EDT
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867-5309
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:20:43 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:37:07 PM EDT
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Going to the doctor's office and he walked in to see you smoking a cigarette.


Bought a Remington 700 bdl 30-06 for $79 at Sears.

Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:37:24 PM EDT
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7th or 8th grade our shop class divided into segments wood, metal, craft, engine.
For the "Craft" project I picked leather, normally if you picked that it was a few wallets or a book binder.
I made a leather rifle case, I carried my .22 rifle to school to custom fit it.
Link Posted: 12/8/2021 4:38:04 PM EDT
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