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Posted: 5/23/2023 6:24:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CB caps. Most people today never heard of them.  I have a couple of 100-round boxes of CCI CB Long and one of CB Short. Bought them in the 1980s. It was damned good ammo, and cheap, too. |
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Posted: 5/23/2023 8:50:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CB caps. Most people today never heard of them. And BB Caps. |
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Posted: 5/23/2023 9:03:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, the primer-powered little 24-grain stuff. Speer/RCBS made some (38 cal) primer-only plastic shells & bullets too, but cleaning was a nightmare. Or do they still make those? https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-5g8vjnp7d/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/11565/16856/s562511878356124186_p2684_i2_w259__06741.1564573717.jpg?c=2 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: .22? Yes, the primer-powered little 24-grain stuff. Speer/RCBS made some (38 cal) primer-only plastic shells & bullets too, but cleaning was a nightmare. Or do they still make those? https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-5g8vjnp7d/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/11565/16856/s562511878356124186_p2684_i2_w259__06741.1564573717.jpg?c=2 I won’t even say I remember those as I still have some of those?? |
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Posted: 5/23/2023 9:48:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/23/2023 10:00:20 PM EDT
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Doubling on handlebars of bikes. No helmet required.
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Posted: 5/23/2023 10:08:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Guns in the Western Auto catalog. Electric trains in Western Auto around Christmas time. |
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Posted: 5/23/2023 10:10:29 PM EDT
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Every car had a different code, pump gas pedal twice then push pedal part way to start.
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Posted: 5/23/2023 10:12:20 PM EDT
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Full bench front seats. Squeeky styrofoam cooler in back seat full of strohs.
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Posted: 5/23/2023 10:15:45 PM EDT
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When a man's word meant something.
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Posted: 5/23/2023 10:40:09 PM EDT
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Coke only available in 6 oz bottles. Back in the day when the Coke company didn’t hate their white customers.
Getting gas for 19 cents a gallon during gas price wars. When the presidential election ballots were counted by hand and results were in by midnight |
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Posted: 5/24/2023 8:33:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full bench front seats. Squeeky styrofoam cooler in back seat full of strohs. Mmmmmm, Stroh's |
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Posted: 5/24/2023 8:41:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CB caps. Most people today never heard of them. |
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Posted: 5/24/2023 9:43:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mmmmmm, Stroh's I had a brief flirtation with that back in the day. I haven't seen any of it in years here in North Texas. I liked it. |
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Posted: 5/25/2023 3:34:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had a brief flirtation with that back in the day. I haven't seen any of it in years here in North Texas. I liked it. Big in Ohio when I was in college. That and Little Kings. |
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Posted: 5/25/2023 4:12:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $79 SKS $69.00 for 1k of 762x39 ammo $99.00 for 1k brass cased 5.56 |
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Posted: 5/25/2023 4:36:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Doubling on handlebars of bikes. No helmet required. Sheee-ot, we used tor triple. 1: the peddler 2: the guy on the handlebars 3: the guy standing on the back axle nuts (way before pegs came into vogue), holding on for dear life. also "bumper sliding". It's when it snows and they haven't plowed the roads yet, hang out by a traffic light or a stop sign. when a car comes up and stops you squat down and grab the back bumper. The driver can't see you so they just go, bringing you for a slide as far as you can hang on. works good with old shoes with no tread. they slide better. |
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Posted: 5/25/2023 6:42:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: also "bumper sliding". It's when it snows and they haven't plowed the roads yet, hang out by a traffic light or a stop sign. when a car comes up and stops you squat down and grab the back bumper. The driver can't see you so they just go, bringing you for a slide as far as you can hang on. I used to do that all year long, but on a skateboard. Sometimes hanging on so long that I was afraid to let go.  |
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Posted: 5/25/2023 11:13:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I used to do that all year long, but on a skateboard. Sometimes hanging on so long that I was afraid to let go. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: also "bumper sliding". It's when it snows and they haven't plowed the roads yet, hang out by a traffic light or a stop sign. when a car comes up and stops you squat down and grab the back bumper. The driver can't see you so they just go, bringing you for a slide as far as you can hang on. I used to do that all year long, but on a skateboard. Sometimes hanging on so long that I was afraid to let go. Get a flat board about So long and about That wide, This thick, nail your old roller skates onto it......  |
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Posted: 5/28/2023 1:30:26 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ... Also the big aluminum Christmas tree with the light with rotating colored lens to shine on it. I remember how hot the bulb go that was running these. |
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Posted: 5/28/2023 9:14:49 AM EDT
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Quoted: also "bumper sliding". It's when it snows and they haven't plowed the roads yet, hang out by a traffic light or a stop sign. when a car comes up and stops you squat down and grab the back bumper. The driver can't see you so they just go, bringing you for a slide as far as you can hang on. works good with old shoes with no tread. they slide better. The vernacular was "hooky-bobbing" in SW Idaho. |
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Posted: 5/28/2023 5:08:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remembering when Skate Boards were first invented. Get a flat board about So long and about That wide, This thick, nail your old roller skates onto it......http://ar15armory.com/forums/uploads/emoticons/default_old1.gif Oh HELL yeah! I had 6 or 8 skateboards before you could order ANY hardness/width/diameter/color POLYURETHANE wheels you can imagine. Nobody around here sold decent skateboards: I had to order mine from California. One ER doctor told me he'd like to give me some $100-off emergency room coupons.
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Posted: 5/28/2023 5:10:33 PM EDT
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Remember burning your fingers on flash-bulbs?
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Posted: 5/28/2023 5:11:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThe bar I go to still has one of these. |
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Posted: 5/28/2023 6:17:36 PM EDT
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The Indy 500 was NEVER shown on TV the same day.
You had to listen on the radio instead. Complain much about commercials breaks, do ya....  ....One Race Day it seemed there were more commercial time than there was coverage of the race itself.
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Posted: 5/28/2023 7:00:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember burning your fingers on flash-bulbs? That's why flashcubes were better. |
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Posted: 5/28/2023 9:42:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Indy 500 was NEVER shown on TV the same day. You had to listen on the radio instead. Complain much about commercials breaks, do ya.... ....One Race Day it seemed there were more commercial time than there was coverage of the race itself.I went with a buddy of mine and his dad in 1968 or so and saw the race in a movie theater on a close circuit TV deal. Bobby Unser won the race. |
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Posted: 5/28/2023 10:47:14 PM EDT
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$10.00 bought me a pint of 151 proof rum and 3/4 of a tank of gas. I was good for the weekend.
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Posted: 5/29/2023 1:14:07 PM EDT
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If you remember this song you're old....
 Melanie-Brand New Key -((Composer Melanie Safka)) If you know what a "key" is you're even older.  |
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Posted: 5/29/2023 1:27:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember how hot the bulb go that was running these. I still use the one we had when I was a kid. I'm 67 |
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Posted: 5/29/2023 1:31:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pull-tabs on beer cans ETA. Glass seltzer bottles. Delivered to your door Sucked when you pulled the tab off without opening the beer. Pretty sure there was a trick to reuse the tab in that situation. |
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Posted: 5/29/2023 1:39:05 PM EDT
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Patriotism. Love for the country. Weirdos were on the fringes of society and not runing society. Dress codes for employees. People fleeing communist countries. People being shot or jailed for attempting to leave communist countries. Somehow, people from China can defect to the U.S. today with no problem
 ...almost as if China is sending them here for a purpose.I was preschool age when the bi centennial was celebrated in 1976. I recall EVERYTHING being red, white, and blue with a '76. I just watched Smokey and the Bandit which reminded me of it (the scene when the Bandit is propositioned to make the beer run). Cups had '76 and stars/stripes. Edit to add...also remember rifle racks in the back windows of trucks. CO was red. CA could elect a R governor. PA could elect an R governor. People on drugs were seen for what they are...manipulative,desperate, and effed up in the head. Smart kids would avoid you if you were doing drugs. |
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Posted: 5/30/2023 10:07:01 AM EDT
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Still love this coke song.
 Coca-Cola, 1971 - 'Hilltop' | "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" |
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Posted: 5/30/2023 10:08:34 AM EDT
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When a shot in the ass would make anything go away in a week.
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Posted: 5/30/2023 11:32:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Indy 500 was NEVER shown on TV the same day. You had to listen on the radio instead. Complain much about commercials breaks, do ya.... ....One Race Day it seemed there were more commercial time than there was coverage of the race itself.It was always shown on ABC at around 8:00 or 9:00, replacing the Sunday night movie. As a little kid I thought I was watching it live. 
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Posted: 5/30/2023 11:38:10 AM EDT
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I remember when there weren't secret Zoom meetings.
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Posted: 6/7/2023 10:44:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was always shown on ABC at around 8:00 or 9:00, replacing the Sunday night movie. As a little kid I thought I was watching it live. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Indy 500 was NEVER shown on TV the same day. You had to listen on the radio instead. Complain much about commercials breaks, do ya.... ....One Race Day it seemed there were more commercial time than there was coverage of the race itself.It was always shown on ABC at around 8:00 or 9:00, replacing the Sunday night movie. As a little kid I thought I was watching it live.   ENSIGN O'TOOLE opening credits NBC sitcom |
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Posted: 6/7/2023 11:04:35 PM EDT
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Dang I must be old…. I remember the “key”.
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Posted: 6/16/2023 11:08:30 AM EDT
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 Broadside 1x01 Don't Make Waves 1964 Kathleen Nolan as Lieutenant Anne Morgan |
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Posted: 6/16/2023 11:46:11 AM EDT
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Cans of good surplus 7.62 NATO for .20 cpr.
Sadness. |
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Posted: 6/16/2023 10:15:05 PM EDT
[#40]
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Posted: 6/16/2023 11:46:15 PM EDT
[#41]
Military base surplus sales….
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Posted: 6/16/2023 11:55:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Electric trains in Western Auto around Christmas time. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Guns in the Western Auto catalog. Electric trains in Western Auto around Christmas time. I had an electric race car set my parents bought from a Texaco gas station |
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Posted: 6/17/2023 3:01:30 PM EDT
[#43]
Calling ten-dollar re-caps from Sears 'brand new tires'.
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Posted: 6/17/2023 5:21:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was always shown on ABC at around 8:00 or 9:00, replacing the Sunday night movie. As a little kid I thought I was watching it live. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Indy 500 was NEVER shown on TV the same day. You had to listen on the radio instead. Complain much about commercials breaks, do ya.... ....One Race Day it seemed there were more commercial time than there was coverage of the race itself.It was always shown on ABC at around 8:00 or 9:00, replacing the Sunday night movie. As a little kid I thought I was watching it live. I remember my first 3 or 5 Indy races.....All on closed circuit TV at sports arenas or theaters. Terrible quality, BUT LIVE!! |
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Posted: 6/17/2023 5:24:55 PM EDT
[#45]
Firestone Wide Track Ovals.
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Posted: 6/17/2023 5:28:01 PM EDT
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Using bread sacks to keep our feet dry when it snowed.
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Posted: 6/17/2023 5:57:33 PM EDT
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Air raid sirens every week.
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Posted: 6/18/2023 2:55:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Military base surplus sales . 
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Posted: 6/18/2023 3:05:52 PM EDT
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Filling out and sending out a mailorder form with a money order and waiting 6-8 weeks for your shit to show up out of the blue.
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Posted: 6/22/2023 7:50:49 AM EDT
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