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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:30:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I miss the days of numerous good western shows. I liked Have Gun - Will Travel, Trackdown, Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Wanted Dead or Alive. Some of the best TV shows ever. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:31:40 PM EST
[#2]
Nekked tittied native women in National Geographic.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:31:43 PM EST
[#3]
Anyone remember Jupiter or Kresge stores?
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:32:16 PM EST
[#4]
Cigs were 25 cents out of a vending machine and a 4 finger lid was 10 bucks.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:34:32 PM EST
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:37:24 PM EST
[#6]
Roller skating rinks being jam packed on a Saturday night
Ground Round when the floor was covered in peanuts And let’s not forget the very first video on MTV, back when they actually played music videos  Video Killed The Radio Star |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:50:38 PM EST
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TV dinners that came in a foil covered metal tray.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:53:12 PM EST
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My dad’s 54 Chevy with a straight 6 and Power Glide. Step on the gas to merge into traffic and nothing happened. Pop the hood and you coukd see the ground. It is almost like they forgot to put the engine in.
Dad was cheap, he did not buy the optional AM radio. I don’t think they offered an AM/FM radio. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:04:38 PM EST
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Quote HistoryI remember that they never stayed on. Certainly did not work with your Keds. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:12:43 PM EST
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:13:06 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Reel-to-Reel tape recorders. Computer Punch Cards: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/40561/Punch_cards_jpeg-2195460.JPG First days of High School you handed them to you Home Room teacher. My First Job in IT had me use them to start certain Jobs. Later they weren't exactly as Punch Cards but rather as large, non-stick Post-Its with information written on them. There was at least one store-chain that had a variation of punch cards as inventory control. The cashier would take one part of the tag, you'd keep the rest in case there was to be a return. I knew them as Hollerith cards. I was lucky and never had to use them. We had this new fangled thing called an Editor. One job I applied for was still using cards. I couldn’t help my self and asked why they were still using cards? I actually felt good about not working for a company that thought using cards was a good idea. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:24:02 PM EST
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Vent windows on cars and air conditioning being an option on cars.
Carrying a 4" Folding Buck knife on my belt in HS. Returning Glass Coke & Pepsi bottles at the grocery store for the .02 deposit. 18yo drinking age with most of us getting a fake ID at a Camera shop at age 15. Black & White TV - my dad would would never buy a color tv until they stopped selling B&W TVs in the 80s. Taking telephones we found in old buildings to the local phone company and getting paid for them. Patty Hearst kidnapping and her turn as a far left terrorist Going to baseball games and there almost always being a fist fight or two in the stands ABA basketball with the Red White and Blue ball Sonny Jurgenson vs Billy Kilmer 1968 assassination of MLK & the riots that followed Car antennas you could break off and use as a weapon in an emergency - very popular with kids in my neighborhood "Highs Dairy Stores" about every 6 blocks in DC Peoples Drug stores Sears being the main place to go shopping |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:29:53 PM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryYou could break the tip off of a blue tip match and shove it in the cutter. When the next kid sharpened his pencil the sparks would light the shavings up.  |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:32:39 PM EST
[#14]
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before the words "under God" were added (1954).
Quoted: I miss the days of numerous good western shows. I liked Have Gun - Will Travel, Trackdown, Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Wanted Dead or Alive. Some of the best TV shows ever. Many of those are on MeTV, some daily, some once a week. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 9:52:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone remember Jupiter or Kresge stores? Jupiter, no. Kresge, yes. Trivia: K-Mart was an outgrowth of S.S. Kresge (that's where the "K" came from). |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 10:19:15 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: …….when the floor was covered in peanuts And let’s not forget the very first video on MTV, back when they actually played music videos We drove MIL & FIL up a wall, keeping the TV on, watching the countdown for MTV to begin…. “Radio killed the Video Star”. First one…. Lol. Still miss the peanuts…. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 10:22:42 PM EST
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:49:26 PM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, it still works… https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/19372/D0F20546-47EC-418D-BD95-4C5B792D54A4_jpe-2197236.JPG Great thread. At first glance I thought this was the 2nd generation Mattel game but then noticed it is the much rarer Tudor game. I dominated the first generation Mattel game - I could control the clock and score after time had expired. Never did learn to play the 2nd generation Mattel... |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:52:38 PM EST
[#19]
The Berlin Wall going up.
Belive me, when it went up NOBODY thought it would come down so quickly. Yo Hipster! Want to know what Real Socialism is, go on the Eastern side of The Wall. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:56:04 PM EST
[#20]
Kids were outside doing kid stuff and not fat.
Half the country didn't have diabetes because we were active. In addition to mowing the lawn that day, Tommy probably put 5 or 10 miles on his bicycle also. 
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Posted: 12/9/2021 5:26:09 AM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Berlin Wall going up. Belive me, when it went up NOBODY thought it would come down so quickly. Yo Hipster! Want to know what Real Socialism is, go on the Eastern side of The Wall. I did. It was eye opening. I can describe communism in one color word, grey. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 6:45:07 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most businesses being closed Sunday. Black and white tv with rabbit ears
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Posted: 12/9/2021 6:48:58 AM EST
[#23]
Going with my dad to the hardware store to test the tubes from the tv.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:05:23 AM EST
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Quote History |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:07:15 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember smoking sections |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:08:24 AM EST
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My high school employed students as bus drivers. We had seniors ( 18 year olds ) and possibly even juniors driving our school buses. We had a jehoviah witness kid no one liked and the bus would not stop at his house, it just “ slowed down “ to about 10 mph, and made him jump off, or run after it like a bum after a box car and had to jump on.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 8:02:45 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Pull choke on the dash, could've used it this morning. 
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Posted: 12/9/2021 8:07:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mentioned yet ? Calling the number for current time and temp. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 8:30:23 AM EST
[#29]
In my small CT town, I think half my classmates lived in a three-bedroom ranch house with one bath. Quarter or third acre lot.. Woods, fields, streams and small ponds everywhere. Went wherever we wanted. Don't forget your Daisy or Crosman 760. Or, if you were lucky, your Sheridan Blue Streak in the exotic 5mm. To us, that was the Weatherbyof air rifles.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 8:32:01 AM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember when you smoked everywhere, no sections. I grew up in the South. It saddens me the write: nobody litters like rural Southern people. Nobody. The roadside fringe, where asphalt reaches grass, at intersections where there were lights or stop signs, would be covered with butts. In little towns, there'd be thousands of butts in gutters and on sidewalks. My long deceased grand uncle smoked white owl cigars. I haven't stood on his old place in about 40 years, but I bet the ground around the old tractor shed is still covered with those white plastic tips that came on white owls. One could not pull off a road onto the shoulder without running over glass coke bottles. This was before plastic bottles. I shit y'all not: occasionally, someone burning off a pasture might let the fire go all the way to the road; or there might be a roadside fire caused by a tossed smoke. In some places, one could not put ones foot down on a road shoulder without stepping on a bottle or broken glass. I remember when Mello Yello came out. The closest town to our house still had a 'Coke factory'. Remember small-town Coke factories? Anyway, IIRC, Mello Yello was piloted there in biodegradable, green plastic bottles--to combat litter. My first cousin worked at the plant and brought some home. Told us all about it. (I did a quick Google search and didn't find collaboration.) |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 10:16:34 AM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I grew up in the South. It saddens me the write: nobody litters like rural Southern people. Nobody. The roadside fringe, where asphalt reaches grass, at intersections where there were lights or stop signs, would be covered with butts. In little towns, there'd be thousands of butts in gutters and on sidewalks. My long deceased grand uncle smoked white owl cigars. I haven't stood on his old place in about 40 years, but I bet the ground around the old tractor shed is still covered with those white plastic tips that came on white owls. One could not pull off a road onto the shoulder without running over glass coke bottles. This was before plastic bottles. I shit y'all not: occasionally, someone burning off a pasture might let the fire go all the way to the road; or there might be a roadside fire caused by a tossed smoke. In some places, one could not put ones foot down on a road shoulder without stepping on a bottle or broken glass. I remember when Mello Yello came out. The closest town to our house still had a 'Coke factory'. Remember small-town Coke factories? Anyway, IIRC, Mello Yello was piloted there in biodegradable, green plastic bottles--to combat litter. My first cousin worked at the plant and brought some home. Told us all about it. (I did a quick Google search and didn't find collaboration.) I don't know if any particular demographic had a monopoly on littering, but I definitely remember how bad it was. The "Don't Mess With Texas" campaign made a big difference here. People still litter, but they are the minority now. It would be shocking to see someone blatantly toss trash out on our roads these days. There was a local convenience store/grill/bar outside of Bryan, Tx that had so many beer pull tabs dropped in the gravel parking lot, they were still covering it in the late-90s. That had to have been 10-12 years after everyone went to fixed tabs. I went back about a decade ago and it was cleaned up. I wonder if anyone went to the trouble of separating the aluminum, lol. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 11:09:02 AM EST
[#32]
I might have watched This show....
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Posted: 12/9/2021 11:42:37 AM EST
[#33]
Real men, eal women, and no fake tities.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 12:44:22 PM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hiram's Grocery, Gemco and The Akron stores ... Los Angeles in the 60's Dragnet, Star Trek and the Wild Wild West COMBAT! The Rat Patrol The Invaders and The Time Tunnel
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Posted: 12/9/2021 1:01:06 PM EST
[#35]
Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford. This, and Have Gun, Will Travel are my some of my earliest tv memories.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 1:10:26 PM EST
[#36]
Ehh, some of you are old enough to be my dad's age and I am pushing 50.
I lived in a small town in SD and I remember most of the stuff y'all are talking about. A lot of it was simply being poor. Older vehicles. I was happy after I started buying FI cars. No more, was that one pump or only 1\4 of a pump, to start on a cold day. It will never start. Safety razors, not even my grandpa would use those shitty one blade jobbies. We could trust the news. Bullshit, it was propaganda even back then. That's how this nation had 40 years of cuck demorat rule in congress. I do remember being the remote control. I remember the cable companies fucking us and getting only a hanfull of channel s. Ma Bell fucking everyone on their phone bills. A soda or beer can with a dent in the side could be rotated on the antenna to bring in the signal. I remember standing on the couch arm to rotary dial grandpa's house using a wall mount phone. I liked the smell of memeograph paperwork and that stuff they sprinkled on kid puke. I thought a gay dood was a happy fellow that dressed in a green suit. My Tonka toys were metal. My toy rifle was a m16 and I flopped around in a set of my dad's old nam fatigues being mcarther. Most folks owned tvs that could take some hard abuse like a Red Rider shot or a miss tossed base ball. A tv repair guy lived behind us and taught me the parts to not stick my fingers if I wanted to live. I return, I stayed away from his stash of glorious junk. The town Dr. smoked and he would often come in to see you with lit cigarettes and the lobby was full of smoke. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 1:16:59 PM EST
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Large (1/2 gallon?) cans of Hi-C fruit drink that you had to open with a church key...
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Posted: 12/9/2021 1:36:13 PM EST
[#38]
You'd be the good guy who pulled the air cleaner off and held the choke open to start a flooded engine for a stranger.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 2:02:12 PM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Motor oil cans you had to puncture with a metal pour spout. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/741BA898-6ECE-40EC-8F38-D513922FD5EA_jpe-2194955.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/1C35C262-257C-460C-BFE0-ABAC13984E5F_jpe-2194956.JPG I still have my spout. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 5:45:57 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In my small CT town, I think half my classmates lived in a three-bedroom ranch house with one bath. Quarter or third acre lot.. Woods, fields, streams and small ponds everywhere. Went wherever we wanted. Don't forget your Daisy or Crosman 760. Or, if you were lucky, your Sheridan Blue Streak in the exotic 5mm. To us, that was the Weatherbyof air rifles. That must have been crowded. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 5:55:59 PM EST
[#41]
Looking forward to reading this thread. My contribution...
Working for $2.00 an hour, and being $0.25 over minimum wage. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 6:04:55 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryClean ashtrays? Never seent one. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 6:18:36 PM EST
[#43]
Can't believe the do all cure all's Mercurochrome/Iodine haven't been mentioned yet.
"That that does not kill you outright makes you stronger". |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 6:56:04 PM EST
[#44]
I remember when there were far, far fewer morons in America.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:38:49 PM EST
[#45]
American Bandstand, the Wide World of Sports, and Wild Kingdom.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:56:39 PM EST
[#46]
Curling play downs where everyone used corn brooms or rink rats.
Good old days. |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 8:18:35 PM EST
[#47]
Bush.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 9:22:20 PM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bush. Senior Or Junior? 
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Posted: 12/9/2021 9:26:59 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When TV stations signed off with the playing of the naitonal anthem.  HIGH FLIGHT-1960'S original but I definitely remember this sign-off:  US National Anthem - Air Force / TV Sign off |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 11:50:47 PM EST
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Drakes Ring Dings.
Originally they were about twice the diameter they are now. Then some Authentic Genius had a thought: Hey, let's make a smaller version and call them Ring Ding Junior It worked. Soon the Large size went away, the word Junior disappeared and the smaller Ring Dings stayed around for decades, now. |
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