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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:54:15 AM EDT
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My mom would sit me in front of the radio and I would listen to, Aspen Street, the Shadow and the Whistler. We had no TV.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:55:10 AM EDT
[#2]
Quote Historyhow well did those work with cannabis? |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:57:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $79 SKS I miss those days 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:58:20 AM EDT
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Buying .22LR ammo at the camera counter (where they sold film for cameras and developed prints) of the grocery store, then going shooting at the gravel pit. I was 14 at the time.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:58:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a kid I knew there guys, girls, and the fruit cross dressers that got the shit beat out of them from time to time in the French quarter. But nobody called them another gender. Yep, you were either male or female. If a guy liked to suck cock, be was still a male. If a woman liked to scissor with other women, she was still a woman. At least homos were honest back then, not spouting the "I am a woman/man trapped in a man's/woman's body" line of bullshit the trannies use. A gay man would say "I prefer cock" and lesbos would say "I prefer bearded clams", simple and straightforward, unlike the freaks we have now. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:03:45 AM EDT
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The Space Race
 I had a pencil sharpener in the shape of a Mercury Capsule. I was sick at home when John Glen orbited the Earth. I got to watch nearly the entire thing, when I wasn't asleep. Watching and Listening to Larry Ferrari Sunday afternoons. Then we moved to NYC and Da Bronx and I never saw him again. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:08:21 AM EDT
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 Trying to decide whether or not the scene before you was worthy of clicking the shutter because you had a finite amount of film. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:10:27 AM EDT
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Xillennial here; I had a B&W TV, I was the TV remote, I had floor mounted high beam switch in my Ford, I remember growing up without a cellphone, I remember the slot in the back of the medicine cabinet and used it, I used road atlases, FL still had dry counties when I was growing up, heck, they were dry going into the 2010s.
A lot that you folks talk about existed in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:30:27 AM EDT
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TV Guide being delivered in the mail every week. The one where there were staples down the middle and you'd go crazy picking out the shows you wanted and arguing with the other family members as to who got to watch what because there was only one TV.
S&H Green Stamps and those books you had to lick and stick them into. Chalkboards with real chalk. Pounding erasers. That smell. Credit card manual imprinters going chunk-chunk, and signing the carbon copy. Ditto machines and the fluid that gave you a buzz. Personal store credit based on the general manager's say so. Getting liquor for my dad when at 8 years old, peddling up to the local walk up package store, getting some fifths wrapped in paper and telling them to "put it on my dad's tab" and biking off. Collecting bottles by the roadside for the 5 cent deposit. bell bottom jeans and heart-shaped asses everywhere |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:32:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: High beam switch on the floor. Starter button under the gas pedal. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:39:41 AM EDT
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Real barber shops that were closed on Monday because they were open on Saturday.
If you're from New Orleans, Schwegmanns and K&B. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:48:05 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:55:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: black and white television... it was a big deal when we got a color Sony Trinitron(mid 70's)... it even had a remote, the kind that would make the channel dial on the TV turn, so was kinda loud... I remember going to the TV store to buy this thing with my parents... it was winter, nighttime... maybe close to Christmas. I think it was a 19"  clunk clunk clunk.. my dad won one as a door prize. I think all the remote did was change the channels(cable was only like 6 channels) and volume |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:57:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryBrings me back to simpler times |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:57:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had an insulated milk box on the front porch and the milk man would deliver fresh milk in glass bottles. I seem to recall they even had metal wire grab handles on them. The milk box made a great place to sit as a kid. You mean like this?  Attached FileYes, We still have home milk service in Puget Sound and we get our delivery once a week.  Welcome to Smith Brothers Farms |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:57:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryBrings me back to simpler times |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:03:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Full service gas stations asking regular or unleaded. Full service gas stations asking Ethyl or Regular. There was no such thing as unleaded gas. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:13:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI'll never understand why they stopped using those, it always seemed safer to me than what we have now. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:18:57 AM EDT
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Kennedy assassination
Sputnik Milk machines at the gas station, quart for a quarter Sky King Cap guns Clapping erasers Banana seats Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers Beatles on Ed Sullivan One small step for man Kent State Woodstock I am not a crook Staiway to Heaven |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:27:21 AM EDT
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When our country was still reasonably sane and prosperous....
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:30:53 AM EDT
[#21]
Cheap surplus firearms
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:40:36 AM EDT
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News that reported news
Politicians not selling out to commies. Washington wasn't a leftist state. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:49:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My Father still uses the safety razor LOL. Heck I still use my Grandfathers, father's safety razor, he taught me to shave in Highschool with it, and when he passed away in 2001 it was the one thing I really wanted to remember him by. I remember most of the stuff in this thread, and I'm in my mid 40s. If anyone comes up with a time machine I'm going back and never returning. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:58:38 AM EDT
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Johnny Eagle guns. I had the Skeet-shooter, & 1 other, don't remember which 1 tho
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:01:05 AM EDT
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Mini-bikes and Rat Finks. Slotted chrome's. Gabriel Hi-Jackers shocks. Beatle boots and wigs.Black Jack gum and if you want to go backeven more, Sen Sen. Split rim truck wheel's.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:07:38 AM EDT
[#26]
Ceramic heaters
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:14:33 AM EDT
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Mini-bikes and Rat Finks. Slotted chrome's. Gabriel Hi-Jackers shocks. Beatle boots and wigs.Black Jack gum and if you want to go backeven more, Sen Sen. Split rim truck wheel's.
Edited to add, Sports Review Magazine--Bikini chick wrestling!! And counter checks, all your local banks. Back when everybody knew your name. Sign and drive. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:21:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pull-tabs on beer cans ETA. Glass seltzer bottles. Delivered to your door No semis on the roads on Sundays. Angle parking in downtown small towns. Every small town had at least two car dealerships, one grocery store, one hardware store, multiple bars, and multiple churches. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:22:38 AM EDT
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Doctors were on call 24/7 and would make house calls in the middle of the night.
Septic only, no sewer. No dishwasher or microwave. Clothesline in the backyard, no dryer. Bathtub only, no shower and only one bathroom. Dentists that did not use novocain. We always drank out of the hose. Lawn darts Cinder track, no Astroturf. Wood tennis rackets. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:26:48 AM EDT
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What a great thread, brings back some awesome memories.
We didn't have a color TV until I was 10 or 11 years old, and I had to be in my teens before we had anything with a remote. I had one of those little Radio/4in black and white TV's that my grandparents got for me at a garage sale, got one channel 13 which was fox if I remember right. I used to ride my bike 4 miles into town to buy my Mother Cigarettes and booze with a note, if I was lucky I'd get a piece of penny candy for myself. Playing with little green army men and firecrackers and bottle rockets all year long. Those were the days, and I feel sorry for kids now that sit in the house and play video games. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:28:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Doctors were on call 24/7 and would make house calls in the middle of the night. Septic only, no sewer. No dishwasher or microwave. Clothesline in the backyard, no dryer. Bathtub only, no shower and only one bathroom. Dentists that did not use novocain. We always drank out of the hose. Lawn darts Cinder track, no Astroturf. Wood tennis rackets. You’re an older fuck than I am and I love it ETA: I was with you every step of the way, up until the no sewers; we always had sewers |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:33:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You're an older fuck than I am and I love it ETA: I was with you with every single one up until the no sewers; we always had sewers Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Doctors were on call 24/7 and would make house calls in the middle of the night. Septic only, no sewer. No dishwasher or microwave. Clothesline in the backyard, no dryer. Bathtub only, no shower and only one bathroom. Dentists that did not use novocain. We always drank out of the hose. Lawn darts Cinder track, no Astroturf. Wood tennis rackets. You're an older fuck than I am and I love it ETA: I was with you with every single one up until the no sewers; we always had sewers |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:35:38 AM EDT
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Playing with real lawn darts.
Reading in the high-school manual that guns had to remain locked in student vehicle on school parking lots during class. Shredding my own cheese with a hand crank shredder, cause it only came in blocks. Returning glass soda pop bottles for cash, so they could be washed and reused. Being able to walk into a hospital without wearing a mask. Using pennies to replace a blown fuse in a 78 Ford pickup truck. Using bailing wire to repair a 81 dodge ram carburetor on the side of the road. Playing with a 50 cal Deagle in Walmart. Eating commodity food, that cheese was nasty. Watching a black and white TV. Programing an NEC 64 business desktop computer, then saving said program on an 8 1/2" floppy. Sending a personal check in the mail, then waiting 6 to 8 week for a product. Making a phone call on a rotary phone. Using a mobile cellular car phone, and overhearing someone else's call. Rotating aerial antenna to find a television signal. Full service gasoline. Wool and leather being the best outdoors clothing for winter. Deer season sounding like a war zone from constant gun fire. Hooking up a Nintendo NES to a boob tube using a coaxial cable. Driving a car with only AM radio. Telling the deli how thick I wanted my lunch meat sliced, and watching them wrap it in butcher paper after slicing it. Cause they didn't sell pre sliced lunch meat. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:39:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:42:41 AM EDT
[#35]
Major Matt Mason
SeaMonkeys |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:45:39 AM EDT
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I remember a 15" TV encased in a wood cabinet/enclosure that weighed 750 lbs.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:17:39 AM EDT
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Candy was either 5 to 10 cents.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:31:30 AM EDT
[#38]
 The STATLER BROTHERS - Do You Remember These probably already posted. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:35:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pull-tabs on beer cans I can remember no pull tabs on beer cans. You had to have a "church key" or can opener to pop 2 holes in the top to drink the beer. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:48:34 AM EDT
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Duck and Cover
George and Gracie, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett. My first car was a 64 Plymouth Sport Fury with push-button transmission selector. No A/C in school, teacher brought a box fan when it got too hot. Walking from the house to the woods with a 7.7 Arisaka to shoot and not getting the cops called on you. Grabbing the .22 after school and walking the creek looking for snakes. Again, no cops. Only high school seniors in good standing were allowed to drive to school. Bringing knives to school and playing mumbly-peg with them during recess. Marbles. Drive-in movies and steamed up windows. Musicals and war movies. Paregoric for fussy babies. I'm old.... |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 5:12:54 AM EDT
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27 cents a gallon gas.....
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Posted: 12/7/2021 5:20:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Duck and Cover George and Gracie, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett. My first car was a 64 Plymouth Sport Fury with push-button transmission selector. No A/C in school, teacher brought a box fan when it got too hot. Walking from the house to the woods with a 7.7 Arisaka to shoot and not getting the cops called on you. Grabbing the .22 after school and walking the creek looking for snakes. Again, no cops. Only high school seniors in good standing were allowed to drive to school. Bringing knives to school and playing mumblety-peg with them during recess. Marbles. Drive-in movies and steamed up windows. Musicals and war movies. Paregoric for fussy babies. I'm old.... Fixed it for you, because sometimes we don't remember.  |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 5:51:17 AM EDT
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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 |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:06:30 AM EDT
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Your handgun choice was S&W or Colt. That was it.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:10:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $79 SKS 49, and 59 dollar sks |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:11:40 AM EDT
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Buying a rifle from a catalog and having it delivered by the mailman...........
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:13:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Beer in steel cans that required one of these: https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/beer-can-bottle-opener-picture-id174917090?s=170667a Commonly called a Church Key. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:31:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: High beam switch on the floor. Starter switch on the floor, too. Tip out vent windows. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:35:10 AM EDT
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Guns at Sears and Montgomery Wards
The creak of the wooden floors at the hardware store and the five and dime |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 6:35:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most businesses being closed Sunday. Black and white tv with rabbit ears TV repair men would come out on house calls to fix an ailing TV. It was usually a bad vacuum tube or two. |
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