Remember when...

[passedpawn]

I could go on and on with the car theme.....too many 60's cars in my past. When I met my wife she was driving her grandfathers '66 Impala. What a beautiful car. You could almost stand on the ground straddling the engine, and nothing was hard to find or get to. You'd be lucky to see the ground under the hood now.

El Caminos anyone? We had a '70 with a 4 speed and a 402 bigblock. I so loved that car... Got stopped by the police twice in my recently mentioned Falcon, but never in the El Camino! Go figure.

I had an old (70-something) impala. Massive car. My brother ruined the transmission in it, shifting into R while driving. It would only go into R after that.

To get it home, I had to drive it backwards, slooow, for many miles on winding hilly roads. Cars lined up honking at my face. Pretty funny thinking about it now.

It was so big. I remember driving down tight roads and it's sideview mirror would knock off the mirrors of parked cars on the right. I wasn't such a good driver at that time

 

[SEndorf]

It was so big. I remember driving down tight roads and it's sideview mirror would knock off the mirrors of parked cars on the right. I wasn't such a good driver at that time

So.... That was you... !!!

 

[GrogNerd]

It was so big. I remember driving down tight roads and it's sideview mirror would knock off the mirrors of parked cars on the right. I wasn't such a good driver at that time

Did that one time in my '97 Civic driving down 9th ST NW in DC, past the FBI . was pouring rain, some d-bag was illegally parked in front of the Hoover Bldg and I bashed his sideview mirror with mine. kept on going, when I got home and checked, didn't even have a scratch.

 

[ncbrewer]

When I met my wife she was driving her grandfathers '66 Impala. What a beautiful car.

I hope she doesn't see that post.

 

[jrgtr42]

My JCM900 is easy : 12ax7s & 6L6s & can tell right away when one side or the other goes bad

Pre tubes aren't bad, but a matched quartet of those power tubes is $85

Had a friend whose dad forgot to use the numbered decals on the tubes & their corresponding sockets

yeah, I have one of those too - the 4100 - high gain dual reverb. I keep mine on the 50-w setting, so when a tube starts going, I swap the pairs. It's my other Marshall and more so my Boogie that are issues - the Boogie especially; it wears out preamp tubes like no one's business. It's a pain figuring which one went bad.

 

[MaxStout]

It's the now sound, it's what's happening...

 

[jleiii]

I hope she doesn't see that post.

Ouch, took me 3 times reading to get that one. I can be a bit dense. She was pretty sweet too!
And, she would rather have hot needles in the eye than read about beer. No worries about her drinking mine is a bonus.

How about Two Guys Dept store? Or maybe Pomeroys?
Or, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Mickey Rat and Dizzy Ratstein comics? For those in the know, uh, its just comics....nothing to infer here.

 

[passedpawn]

Ouch, took me 3 times reading to get that one. I can be a bit dense. She was pretty sweet too!
And, she would rather have hot needles in the eye than read about beer. No worries about her drinking mine is a bonus.

How about Two Guys Dept store? Or maybe Pomeroys?
Or, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Mickey Rat and Dizzy Ratstein comics? For those in the know, uh, its just comics....nothing to infer here.

I used to pick up FFFB comics at record shop. Best ever.

 

[day_trippr]

Wow. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
It's been hella long since I last saw those dudes

 

[GrogNerd]

yeah, I have one of those too - the 4100 - high gain dual reverb. I keep mine on the 50-w setting, so when a tube starts going, I swap the pairs. It's my other Marshall and more so my Boogie that are issues - the Boogie especially; it wears out preamp tubes like no one's business. It's a pain figuring which one went bad.

IT GOES TO 20!

 

[MaxStout]

Wow. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
It's been hella long since I last saw those dudes

Fat Freddie and Fat Freddy Scat. Loved the FFFB back in the '70s. And Creem, an irreverent look at rock 'n' roll.

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

It's been a loooong time since I've heard mention of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, or Fat Freddie's Cat.
Regards, GF.

 

[SEndorf]

Can never forget driving to Ellsworth Wisconsin in 1965 for the "Teen Trot" to hear The Trashmen. We were so.. uhhhhhh....cool? Or not....

 

[MaxStout]

Can never forget driving to Ellsworth Wisconsin in 1965 for the "Teen Trot" to hear The Trashmen. We were so.. uhhhhhh....cool? Or not....

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A Minneapolis classic! The bird is the word.

 

[Kharnynb]

I've owned a '56 F100 Panel Truck, a '60 T-Bird, and a '67 Goat. A high school drop-out with basic manual skills could keep any of them running.

I'm an EE with 45 years of practice. After tiring of laying under all the above Detroit Iron, the series of Z-cars, Supras, and Audis I've owned since '75 required someone with experience working on miniature nuclear reactors. With tiny hands.

The 2017 Durango R/T and the Spousal Unit's 2017 Impressa hatch? Fahgetaboutit.
They have more controllers, sensors and servos that can be counted. Or debugged

Cheers!

Ugh...I would love to have a F100 panel truck, still such a great looking vehicle. I was late with driving(living in the middle of a big dutch city means not owning a car or needing to spend the rather massive sum for a dutch driving license) so I never owned anything that would be "self fixable"

 

[flars]

Remember when one of these was would be the family entertainment system. The radio was the first radio in our farm house. The 1890 piano was my wife's first musical instrument.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Remember when you use to hear older people talk about how things use to be and have no clue what they were talking about and make fun of them

 

[DoctorMemory]

It's been a loooong time since I've heard mention of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, or Fat Freddie's Cat.
Regards, GF.

Speaking of cats, who can forget Fritz?

 

[day_trippr]

Ugh...I would love to have a F100 panel truck, still such a great looking vehicle.][...]

Eye of the beholder stuff
The F100 started life as a Denver FD rescue vehicle (I went to the University of Denver) and was entirely white when I bought it third hand (the owner used it to haul hay for his Shetland ponies). When I finished school I moved to a hamlet out on the Olympic Peninsula and one day got crazy and did this to it:

Not having insulted the poor thing thoroughly enough, I eventually did this to it:

Yeah, it was the early '70s
By that time the old 272ci had been upgraded to a T-Bird 312 and an Edsel 3 speed with electric overdrive

I put over 150K on it over the years, went from coast to coast 2.5 times (stayed East on the last trip), and went through at least a half dozen generators and voltage regulators, at least that many starter motors, and a couple of radiators along the way.
Sold it for a buck to someone who needed it more than I did by then...

Cheers!

 

[Brewenstein]

Speaking of cats, who can forget Fritz?

Quite a disturbing movie...

 

[Dan]

I️ remember joining my big brother’s club which was held in the top of a barn. Initiating fee was bubble gum and I️ bought 100 bazooka joes for a dollar from the corner Tastee Freeze

 

[Dan]

Everybody has their own private phone now, cell phone. When I️ was a kid there was one phone on the wall in the laundry room with a long spiraled cord that stretched long enough to let you sneak into the bathroom close by. All the privacy you wanted....unless somebody on the party line picked up and secretly listened in. Hahaha. And remember when you picked up the phone to make a call and your neighbor was already talking on the party line...ya just had to wait. My goodness how did we survive

 

[MaxStout]

We never had party lines where I lived, but I had a girlfriend who lived in the country and they did. Three or four families sharing the party line, IIRC. Each household's phone had its own unique ring, so they knew who the call was for. One of her neighbors, creepy old Mrs. Moulton, would sometimes try to listen in on other people's phone conversations. We'd hear the tell-tale "click" and we knew we had company. I'd say "good evening, Mrs. Moulton, glad you could join us!" Click. She hung up and never bothered us again. Sometimes, someone would get on the line and ask us to wrap up our conversation so they could use the phone. We knew not to talk more than 10-15 minutes.

Good times.

 

[vanishingpint]

As I recall our ring was two shorts and along.

 

[flars]

Everybody has their own private phone now, cell phone. When I️ was a kid there was one phone on the wall in the laundry room with a long spiraled cord that stretched long enough to let you sneak into the bathroom close by. All the privacy you wanted....unless somebody on the party line picked up and secretly listened in. Hahaha. And remember when you picked up the phone to make a call and your neighbor was already talking on the party line...ya just had to wait. My goodness how did we survive

It is like brewing beer. It takes patience.

 

[MaxStout]

Remember when...people HAD patience?

 

[Kirkwooder]

Remember when...people HAD patience?

No, and I'm old.

 

[smurfjuice]

Patience AND common sense ...

 

[MrNatural]

Ahh, you were lucky! (that's one too) I had a 144 cuin Falcon wagon with a 2 speed fordomatic (??) trans, vacuum wipers and a tube AM radio. The wipers would stop dead until you were at a constant speed, or going down hill. I had to let off on the gas every so often to clear the window. Drove that 100k miles before I put it down (already had almost that on it when I got it), and halfway through put a 3 speed automatic in it. The wipers still sucked.

Hahaha... Man, I was right there. Grandma gave me her '63 Falcon Futura convertible. I thought it was 170CI, but a turd either way, two speed tranny made it a double deuce. Still wish I had it now though.....
And how about those radio "presets"? Tune to station, pull out button, push button back in to store "preset". Of course the suckers always shifted a little and you had to figure out which direction they were off and compensate original tuning to offset the shift when you pushed button in to "save" station.

 

[MrNatural]

Ouch, took me 3 times reading to get that one. I can be a bit dense. She was pretty sweet too!
And, she would rather have hot needles in the eye than read about beer. No worries about her drinking mine is a bonus.

How about Two Guys Dept store? Or maybe Pomeroys?
Or, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Mickey Rat and Dizzy Ratstein comics? For those in the know, uh, its just comics....nothing to infer here.

And of course:

 

[ba-brewer]

I remember buying gum for a penny and reading Bazooka Joe.View attachment 546188

Me too, I would buy mine at the corner tavern on the way to elementary school. Would leave loaded every morning. Bazooka joe in one pocket and rootbeer barrels in the other.

 

[MaxStout]

Me too, I would buy mine at the corner tavern on the way to elementary school. Would leave loaded every morning. Bazooka joe in one pocket and rootbeer barrels in the other.

Bazooka, and if I wanted an all-day supply, Bub's Daddy.

 

[ba-brewer]

Don't remember Bub's daddy, but I recall a brick of gum about the size of baseball card and twice as thick as bazooka for a dime. I searched what I thought was the name but found porn pics.

 

[grampamark]

And of course:

And MAD Magazine.

My Dad went to school at the Art Institute of Pittaburgh after the war. One of his classmates was Kelly Freas who became one of the early cartoonists/illustrators for MAD. Dad started bringing MAD home to follow his friend's career sometime in the mid 50s.

Reading MAD at an early age had a lot to do with the way I am today. Thanks, Dad.

 

[MaxStout]

And MAD Magazine.

My Dad went to school at the Art Institute of Pittaburgh after the war. One of his classmates was Kelly Freas who became one of the early cartoonists/illustrators for MAD. Dad started bringing MAD home to follow his friend's career sometime in the mid 50s.

Reading MAD at an early age had a lot to do with the way I am today. Thanks, Dad.

I learned political and social satire from MAD as a kid. And Spy vs Spy, the Mad Fold-in...what, me worry?

 

[Zuljin]

Candy cigarettes.

 

[MaxStout]

Candy cigarettes.

The packs even looked authentic, from a distance. I recall some teachers giving a double-take when I pulled those out in the lunchroom.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember when you could shovel snow without your back hurting the next day? Remember when you could walk up stairs without your knees & ankles crunching & popping?

 

[smurfjuice]

Remember when you could shovel snow without your back hurting the next day? Remember when you could walk up stairs without your knees & ankles crunching & popping?

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