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Life without a cell phone.
When you left the house, you were gone and would be back when you got home. You usually couldn't leave a message, unless I was wealthy enough to have an answering machine. Your mom, dad, or boss couldn't call you or text you and demand to know why you didn't return the call I was born 20 years too late. |
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Quoted: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/137980/e4f06bbaf0621ff034bd42318b6815ec_jpg-1715010.JPG View Quote Oh thats pure nostalgia right there. There was huge, multi story one of those at the Ocean City Boardwalk, would ride it every summer. |
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Quoted: We had one of these at our elementary school. Know of at least 1 kid that broke his forearm, 3rd grade, 1974 https://i.imgur.com/LXLNSNOh.png View Quote We had those. But we also lived in a desert, so they were burning hot. We also had metal slides in the neighborhood parks that we had to wear pants during the 110+ degree summers to ride with a towel under you because kids got burned when their legs slipped off and hit the metal. Nearing 120 degrees the wooden play structures started oozing preservatives |
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Quoted: Playing dodgeball. http://svite-league-apps-content.s3.amazonaws.com/2799/6756/Dodgeball%20(1).jpg View Quote In summer camp, we played dodgeball with Frisbees, while also incorporating soccer goals for a points system. The most fun sport I've ever played. Then, one year, some moron replaced the soft frisbees with hard disc golf discs...a girl I knew nearly lost an eye within the day, and the sport was canceled forever. |
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I have one of those. I have to say old mechanical toys of any kind, and ones that were actually made out of metal. nd in the USA.. Especially windup stuff that did not need those damn new fangled battery's to run on. |
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Quoted: Before 1968 Gun Control Act, you could have your gun shipped right through the mail to you too. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: https://i.cbc.ca/1.4536332.1518670673!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/darling-pet-monkey.jpg Kid in my neighborhood got one of these. The kid's father found out he was hiding it in the basement. He tried to wrangle it and got bitten a few times. They're not as the ad portrays. They are much larger. It was quite the affair. Man thats crazy; they shipped a live monkey through the mail? Before 1968 Gun Control Act, you could have your gun shipped right through the mail to you too. Get a live monkey through the mail is 100% crazier then a gun. |
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Quoted: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/269250/22f2735a6ea35ef4c9e05889e02da545_jpg-1714149.JPG This brings back some painful childhood memories, lol. 6 people in the middle, each pushing on a bar could really get those things spinning fast. ![]() View Quote |
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The training rifle I still have mine got it in the 60s for christmas, the wood bullet that slides inside the bolt to look real. 8 track tape player i still have my Pioneer and tapes from 70s. Fm converter to. I also have the lever action with the metal scope I got the year after the training rifle both have the stickers on them.. oh the germans we nailed with them when we were about 8 yrs old
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Quoted: Same here but only thing I saw was busted teeth and chins from falling. It was okay we still had baby teeth. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: We had one of these at our elementary school. Know of at least 1 kid that broke his forearm, 3rd grade, 1974 https://i.imgur.com/LXLNSNOh.png Same here but only thing I saw was busted teeth and chins from falling. It was okay we still had baby teeth. My nose is slightly crooked from falling off the one on our playground, lol. |
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came to post wind wings are the shit.
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Quoted: Jetex solid fuel rocket motors and the airplane, car, and boat model kits to go with them. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vsmjw7U7VBQ/maxresdefault.jpg View Quote My Dad told me about jetex. I would always try and find them at RC show swap meets to no avail. I did find a jetex model in a shop in st louis but no engines. |
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Quoted: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/137980/225969_Rear_3-4_Web_jpg-1714247.JPG There were two in my neighborhood when I was growing up. View Quote Someone in my neighborhood still has two of them. On a nice weekend afternoon I’ll see him drive by in one. Always see him go by in the other about an hour later. |
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When't the last time you've seen a kid riding a bike outside of his own immediate neighborhood?
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View Quote Wow! Sock it to me! |
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Kids riding their bikes with .22s or shotguns across the handlebars.
None of us had slings! |
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Quoted: Life without a cell phone. When you left the house, you were gone and would be back when you got home. You usually couldn't leave a message, unless I was wealthy enough to have an answering machine. Your mom, dad, or boss couldn't call you or text you and demand to know why you didn't return the call I was born 20 years too late. View Quote I mean, you do know that you don’t have to answer the phone if it rings... or even turn it on, for that matter, right? As for people demanding things... go to a garage sale, buy an old pair of balls (we used to have those), and tell them to fuck off. |
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Quoted: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/18/07/41/180741577dbad0656d298ad5c38b8854.jpg https://propserviceswest.com/wp-content/uploads/56005877.jpg Patriotism everywhere. https://historycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Bicentennial-Celebration-1976.-Smithsonian.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/ee/43/1eee4351b433e677be37c00b69cc3c77.jpg https://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/25005844/cigarette-machines-600x450.jpg https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/362615039219_/Lot-of-6-McDonalds-Unused-New-Old-Stock.jpg Couldn't find a pic, used to see LOTS of tables at restaurants with cigarette burns on the edges where people laid their cigarette down while eating and it got onto the table. Same for pool tables and lots of other things. View Quote When I was a little kid there was a cigarette machine in the local Sunoco gas station. We would wait for the attendant to go out to the pumps (no self service back then), slip in two quarters and have our pack of cigs! ![]() |
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Quoted: How can you spot a kid on a bike and know from which neighborhood he or she lives? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: When't the last time you've seen a kid riding a bike outside of his own immediate neighborhood? How can you spot a kid on a bike and know from which neighborhood he or she lives? Well, most of us know the kids in our own neighborhoods. And, it's not unusual to see (very small) kids circling around a driveway or in front of house under the close oversight of what are obviously parents. And, a kid driving a bike through a commercial area or parked outside of a convenience store probably doesn't live there. I didn't think this was rocket science. |
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View Quote I have seen 1 my whole life in the wild. |
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Young women with a good head. Now it’s young whores. Rare to see good young women anymore.
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Quoted: Life without a cell phone. When you left the house, you were gone and would be back when you got home. You usually couldn't leave a message, unless I was wealthy enough to have an answering machine. Your mom, dad, or boss couldn't call you or text you and demand to know why you didn't return the call I was born 20 years too late. View Quote yep. i fought getting one when they became common in the late 90s for exactly that reason, knowing my boss would abuse the hell out of it. which he did, do i just turned it off a lot. these days, it gets left at home sometimes when i leave. |
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Quoted: Well, most of us know the kids in our own neighborhoods. And, it's not unusual to see (very small) kids circling around a driveway or in front of house under the close oversight of what are obviously parents. And, a kid driving a bike through a commercial area or parked outside of a convenience store probably doesn't live there. I didn't think this was rocket science. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: When't the last time you've seen a kid riding a bike outside of his own immediate neighborhood? How can you spot a kid on a bike and know from which neighborhood he or she lives? Well, most of us know the kids in our own neighborhoods. And, it's not unusual to see (very small) kids circling around a driveway or in front of house under the close oversight of what are obviously parents. And, a kid driving a bike through a commercial area or parked outside of a convenience store probably doesn't live there. I didn't think this was rocket science. I guess it is rocket science, because it doesn't really work like around here. Kids ride bikes, dirt bikes, and four wheelers pretty much where ever. Except in the city, where they just ride bikes everywhere. We don't really have "neighborhoods" per se around here so I am so sorry for my inability to relate and the stupid question |
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