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GrogNerd
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remember when Elton John could sing?
had his own hair?
wasn't a joke?
had his own hair?
wasn't a joke?
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^^^ Not a really long time ago, but remember the Harley-Davidson 100th anniversary concert at County Stadium in Milwaukee? Sir Elton, himself. And many, many, many H-D riders walked OUT of the stadium!
glenn514
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That was his classic era. I like his music up to about 1975. Madman Across The Water and Honky Chateau are my favorite albums.
Spinwelder. Had one about mid 80s. Dragster.
They don't crash very well...
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Airplanedoc
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I remember once thinking You know you are getting old when Time-Life is selling music that you remember. Little did I know how early in my life that would come. Does Time Life still sell music???
Remember these
Remember these
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Remember these
Had a set of World Books as a kid. It was my go-to for information decades before the Internet and Wikipedia.
Wife and I collected green stamps from the grocery, then traded them in each month for more of the World Book set. Eventually, we had the entire set, including the dictionary, medical dictionary, and thesaurus. Seems so silly now.
I remember sitting in the kitchen with encyclopedia salesman (Britannica). Pressure cooker. They would throw in the globe if you signed before they walked out the door. Makes me laugh now (we almost did it... ouch).
kingboomer
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Speaking of globes, remember when the USSR was part of it?
Goofynewfie
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When you bought a car and got one key for the trunk and one for the ignition
gratus fermentatio
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Remember when you could buy rabbit meat in the grocery store? Remember when you got drinking glasses in a box of Duz soap? Remember S&H Greenstamps? Remember when bathtubs had feet & were deep enough so your whole body (except your head) could be underwater at the same time?
Regards, GF.
Regards, GF.
Goofynewfie
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you can still buy rabbit meat in a few stores around here
When you could draw the picture of a gun in school and not get expelled?
Ah, seems like only 5-10 years ago...
Ah, seems like only 5-10 years ago...
Jacob_Marley
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Filter Queen vacuum cleaners ... sold door-to-door by real, live, plaid-jacketed, hayseeds-in-the-hair, receded-chinned vacuum cleaner salesmen.
I was profoundly unhappy when I found out that my mom had been talked into buying one of these $1300 (!!!!!!) vacuums (and this was in the early 1980's!). Mad as a cloud of wet hornets is more like it.
I can not possibly figure out what compels people to buy a Filter Queen. For $1300, wtf ... they aren't a wet-vac, they are not self-propelled, they don't play music, make cappucino, press your trousers or have "marital aid" attachments ... you can't order one in your choice of colors or with options like an automobile would. They tip over constantly and the latch that holds the dust collection compartment closed comes open constantly, the vacuum hose is too short and the unit is underpowered.
It is now mine ... and at some point, it ... and I, are going out to the woodshed to have a little talk ... or possibly the shooting range.
ed5388
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I had to get in on this. Does anyone remember these? I remember having at least 50-100 at one point!
Jacob_Marley
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Or towels that came in boxes of laundry detergent. Colorful towels with flowers that would then become the "guest" towels that you could not use yourself to wipe your hands on, on pain of death.
Somehow always reminds me of "the stories" ... The Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives etc ... probably because those same laundry detergents were their commercial sponsors/advertisers.
Jacob_Marley
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How about when there was no such thing as a "Valet Key" (like my Infiniti has) that manages, when the regular key gets lost, to become the one on your keyring. Won't open the trunk, won't open the glovebox.
Valets don't touch my car ... give me an additional proper key, or at least deduct the cost of that silly "valet" key from the vehicle cost. Worthless.
And show off your pocket knife to friends at school without triggering a lockdown. We even made throwing knives and letter openers in shop class.
Jacob_Marley
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Oh man that's an ugly subject. Can't go there. Broken numerous soap-boxes when up on them waving my arms around and yowling about such blistering stupidity.
This is where my Better Half puts the "O" in SWMBO. I am on a short leash when that and other "zero tolerance" subjects come up in public ... more than a few measured sentences from me and she's gone to fetch the large cast-iron Griswold.
I don't understand how the people of a school district don't demand the head of moron administrators responsible for such policies ... insulting to people's intelligence and *horribly* destructive to the children who are merely working through, in an "age appropriate" way, concepts of aggression and similar human behavior ... I digress ...
< "step down from the soapbox and back away slowly, keep your hands where we can see 'em" >
Who remembers opening the box of cereal as soon as Mom brought it home and going elbow-deep in there to get the prize? Crackerjacks too... every prize is the same stupid tattoo now. Did people actually choke on that stuff?
Who here sent away for a real decoder ring. I did. 4-6 weeks for processing... felt like an eternity, checking the post box every day.
Who here sent away for a real decoder ring. I did. 4-6 weeks for processing... felt like an eternity, checking the post box every day.
Remember advertising that wouldn't fly today?
Beernik
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I had a decoder ring. Captain Crunch I think.
Frankly I'm amazed my mom didn't slap me and my brother silly for fighting over cereal box surprise.
The large slurpees used to have secret surprises in the bottom of the cup too. I remember scrounging around the neighborhood for bottles to return and cans to recycle so I could scrape together enough money to buy a large slurpee and get the surprise. I think I devoted 1 day a week of every summer vacation from 2nd grade to 5th grade doing that.
I am pretty happy that they changed that... One of my worries any time I take my Caddy out for a run...
Goofynewfie said:
Remember when it didn't cost $450 to get a second key because only the dealer can reprogram the built in alarm system?
Jacob_Marley
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I remember waking up and, first thing, thinking about the cereal prize I'd get when I got downstairs ... great marketing. As a kid they were awesome.
Once upon a time long ago there was a whistle that came as the prize in boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal that would allow you to make toll-free telephone calls to anywhere in the world. Absolutely free. You'd just blow the whistle into the telephone's receiver and voila ... you were clear to dial. This was the legendary Cap’n Crunch Bosun Whistle.
There was this blind guy known as "Joybubbles" who was a “phone phreaker”, a type of early hacker based on telephone technology (many Phreakers were blind) and Joybubbles had perfect pitch and so over time he had “mapped” the tones & frequencies that AT+T used in controlling their phone system ... as well Joybubbles could whistle (with his lips) at a perfect 2600 hertz and could open the AT+T long trunk lines and could then act in operator mode and dial anywhere for free.
Another phreaker, a guy named John Draper, was known as “Captain Crunch” because he was the one who discovered the Cap’n Crunch Bosun Whistle’s ability to sound at 2600 hertz, and who later went on to work on designing “blue boxes” ... devices that would generate those tones electronically to open the telephone trunk lines.
Around that time, another pair of guys, known as “Oak Toebark” and “Berkeley Blue” to make some extra money created brilliantly designed blue boxes and also black boxes (black boxes allowed you to receive calls from anywhere at no charge to the caller) ... these guys also were early members of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club and whose real names were both “Steve”.
Oak Toebark later became known as the Mozart of Digital Design. Steve & Steve who designed and sold those illegal Blue Boxes would be Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founders of Apple Computer ... and so, as Paul Harvey would say, now you know the rest of the story ...
Jacob_Marley
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Remember when you could go to a payphone and dial the Operator and tell her you "lost your money in the phone" trying to dial a call and she would then put your call through at no charge?
Many many people made many many such calls.
I think this was as close to philanthropy as Ma Bell ever did ... and it went on for years and years.
Many many people made many many such calls.
I think this was as close to philanthropy as Ma Bell ever did ... and it went on for years and years.
gratus fermentatio
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Remember when Slurpees were new? And came in those "Collectable" cups? Remember Quisp & Quake cereals? Remember how kids used to coat their palms with Elmer's glue & then carefully peel it off in 1 piece? Remember those parachute toys that you'd wad up & throw up in the air, then watch the chute deploy & float back down? Remember when turtlenecks & tweed jackets were in fashion? Remember when when you called your boss "Mr."?
I remember watching the wadded up chute fall back down
Remember using a clothes pin to stick a baseball card to your bike frame so the wheel spokes would flip it?
Yep back in the day those brought the world to you.
Remember staying up all night trying to record your favorite song off the radio.:rockin:
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