JoeSpartaNJ
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Plastic shopping bags at food stores in New Jersey.
We used to sit on the wrappers. The additional mass applied directly to the steel slide did significantly reduce the Coefficient of Friction, but an old burlap sack did even better.Waxed paper bread wrappers.
When I was a kid, in the 50s, bread came in waxed paper instead of plastic bags. We’d save the wrappers, take them to the playground, and rub the slides down with them. Waxing the slide probably increased our speed by, maybe, a factor of .1 or so. But we thought we were really flying down the waxed slide. I’d like to share that with my 4 and 7 year old grandsons.
i can't even get the pale ale here.....
I can find it here, but fresh.......that's a crap shoot.
Torpedo is getting real hard to find here.
I made a pretty good clone of that.
Scotch guard is still available. It can be found in the water supply of much of the eastern side of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro area where 3M used to manufacture it. Come on up and have a sip!REAL Scotchgard. Read many years ago that the original formula, which was absolutely impermeable to dirt/grease/grime, was discontinued because it never breaks down; there are still original Scotchgard molecules in the atmosphere that will never go away. The stuff they have now works for a while but wears off.
I don't want these death wheels back! In 5th grade one of those giant pre-pubescent girls got that thing wound up and little old me fell off backwards and broke my wrist! Just one of the painful memories of Catholic grade school. [Sigh]i just know things like that when i was a kid would cause chaffing....think i tried something similar.
and honestly, i've heard a disturbing rumor more important, that these have gone away?
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now there's a feeling! spining one up as fast as a 6 year old can run and getting slung off like a sling shot!
We had that on tap at the bowling alley I used to bartend for. Many arguments were had as to who got to take the tap handle home when it went out of rotation (of course after telling the distribution rep that it "broke"). Quite a tasty beer as I recall, their IPA was just meh though.Goose Island Honkers Ale. One of my favorite pre-brewing beers.
Yeah, they had a similar thing in the U.S. when my wife and I got married (over half a century ago). We were spending our “first night” at a swanky downtown hotel with valet parking. We thought no one in the wedding party entourage knew where we were staying.Growing up in the 70's in England was great, you could go out and wash a few cars when it was a nice day, that'd earn you a few quid to buy a bag of chips wrapped in newspaper, and a bottle of pop ... you could return the bottle for 5p too.
But what all boys wanted was fireworks... in the late 70's early 80"s a young adolescent could walk into any cornershop in England and purchase the holy grail of fun.
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I bought more packs of mini-rockets, air bombs & bangers than ive had hot dinners....completely irresponsible shop owners were the cornerstone of British society in suburban England, bring the 70's back!
I have as well, but nothing beats the real thing.I made a pretty good clone of that.
We used to go to the local shooting range, collect spent shot-shell casing and fill them with the gun powder from broken apart fire crackers.Growing up in the 70's in England was great, you could go out and wash a few cars when it was a nice day, that'd earn you a few quid to buy a bag of chips wrapped in newspaper, and a bottle of pop ... you could return the bottle for 5p too.
But what all boys wanted was fireworks... in the late 70's early 80"s a young adolescent could walk into any cornershop in England and purchase the holy grail of fun.
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I bought more packs of mini-rockets, air bombs & bangers than ive had hot dinners....completely irresponsible shop owners were the cornerstone of British society in suburban England, bring the 70's back!
We did something similar with spent CO2 cartridges. Quite dangerous actually.We used to go to the local shooting range, collect spent shot-shell casing and fill them with the gun powder from broken apart fire crackers.
Many a mail box were blown to smithereens during my youth...
I used to do that with large spent rifle brass (.30-06, .270, and .300 Win Mag, etc) using FFFF black powder and cannon fuse. I can't imagine that using that much flash powder, much less in a CO2 cartridge or shotgun hull!We did something similar with spent CO2 cartridges. Quite dangerous actually.
We actually didn't use powder per se, we would cut the heads off matches and stuff them in. The very last time we blew one off we put the cartridge in a hollow metal tube to aim out over the valley like the speeding projectile it became. The major mistake we made was that the tube was made of aluminum, and we didn't use a fuse. It took off with a BLAM, never to be seen again, while filling my buddy's leg with shards of aluminum. He ended up going to the emergency room to have the aluminum removed and leg stitched back up. After that experience we thankfully moved on to much safer activities.I used to do that with large spent rifle brass (.30-06, .270, and .300 Win Mag, etc) using FFFF black powder and cannon fuse. I can't imagine that using that much flash powder, much less in a CO2 cartridge or shotgun hull!
Did I mention the three cousins? One went on to serve on U.S. Navy nuclear subs, his brother graduated from Purdue in Electrical Engineering before earning his pilot’s license and also becoming a qualified pilot of the Alvin deep sea submersible. And their baby sister? She went on as an aerospace engineer to help design the NASA space shuttle.
Vernors Ice Cream, Farrells restaurants, and McDonalds original fried cherry pies.
I always have to stock Vernors Ginger Ale for holiday get togethers.Vernors Ice Cream, Farrells restaurants, and McDonalds original fried cherry pies.
14 and JohnR, Oakland mall. The Pizza jooint with the organ was at Universal mall, but the pizza was crap and the organ was rarely played.I really liked the ginger ale, did not know Vernors made ice cream. Yeah, I did a birthday or two at Farrells, remember the big deal they made when you ate the "Pig Out"?. Fun as a kid, as I recall....
Near 14 mile and Woodward in the '70's, been a long time, but remember it well.
On a beer related note, when 14 year old, me and a few friends used to get one of the dudes hanging around the liqure store in strip mall around 13 mile & woodward, gave them $10, and we got a case of Colt 45 or Stroughs malt liquer, and they got a pint of Nite Train, Thunderbird, or Ripple. Win win, and then we went bowling and watched the drive in from the train tracks, and rode our bikes regardless of rain or snow.
Are you in Patagonia?i'm just glad beer might be a mega cartel, but i can still get wine if i feel the need... 45 minute drive to elgin, and they make a nice bottle!
Are you in Patagonia?
I didn't think you were!nope
Finders Keepers.Knock that off!
You don't want the Marshalls to have to move him again!
Waxing the slide makes me think of this scene...When I was a kid, in the 50s, bread came in waxed paper instead of plastic bags. We’d save the wrappers, take them to the playground, and rub the slides down with them. Waxing the slide probably increased our speed by, maybe, a factor of .1 or so. But we thought we were really flying down the waxed slide.
Waxing the slide makes me think of this scene...
Good name for a song.doing Mach 2 horizontally through McDonalds...
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