The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: mrclose on July 08, 2015, 10:29:55 PM
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I want the truth!
I'll start: Butch Wax.
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Peanut Gallery.
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:lol: ....BOTH.....pluck your magic twanger froggy
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Cans of coffee grounds with a "key" on the bottom, which one snapped off, and used to open the top of the can. That's about my earliest memory of anything.
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.27 gas from a pump with a little whirlygig on the side
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$0.04 Lincoln stamps coming into usage.
Push-button automatic transmissions.
Fun With Dick and Jane being my 1st Grade Reader, not a cynical comedy movie starring Hanoi Jane.
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Remembering buying candy with a shiny nickel.
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Comic books that proudly proclaimed "Still only $0.35"
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(http://www.ratfink.org/ratfink_signs_clocks/ratfink21-30_sign_files/rf3.jpg)
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Kilroy was here.
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Large 2 for a penny JACK'S cookies.....every country store had them.
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32 ounce Coke bottles got 5 cents in return.
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Blasting caps PSA.
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This. I feel older than this at times.
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Cigarette vending machines. I think they were $1.25 a pack.
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Cigarette vending machines. I think they were $1.25 a pack.
I sold them in a grocery store and they were $1 a pack.
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Most of the stuff mentioned, I remember.
Here's one that will nail it, though: the New York Mets move into Shea Stadium.
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Baseball ... I remember the Kansas City Athletics (but not when they were in Philadelphia) and the Milwaukee Braves (but not when they were in Boston). Not quite old enough to remember the Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, or St. Louis Browns (though I know where they moved, :whistling: ). Do remember the short-lived Seattle Pilots.
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I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
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I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Well then that means you're either a young'n that hasn't learned anything yet or an old coot that has forgotten everything. :-)
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I'm old enough to remember cassette players in cars used for adapters to plug in your portable CD player.
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I'm old enough to remember cassette players in cars used for adapters to plug in your portable CD player.
I remember record players mounted in cars. You run over a good bump and get to hear it all over again or nothing. Still got some 8-track tapes and something to play them in.
Time marches on....cigarettes were a quarter a pack in vending machines and drinks were 7 cents.....small cokes were still a nickel from the little box drink machine on 4 legs.
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Comic books that proudly proclaimed "Still only $0.35"
Wow .. You're a 'youngin'! :rofl:
(http://i57.tinypic.com/r9hpi8.jpg)
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Old enough to remember glow bull cooling...
(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2255/5173/original.jpg?w=800&h)
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I remember my buddies and I pumping gas up into a clear glass container at the top of the pump so the correct amount could be dispensed via gravity into the 40s something cars.
(http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/gasStations/GravityFlowPumpsPortElizabethNJ1.jpg)
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Since I have been watching American pickers, I have begun to fall in love with petroliana and other Americana.
I have wishful pipe dreams about a man cave of my dreams with all kinds of that Americana in it, and all restored to working order, so that i could and would actually use it.
I figure, if it doesn't get put to use, what use is it ?
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I'm old enough to remember cassette players in cars used for adapters to plug in your portable CD player.
8 track player mounted under dash.
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My allowance was a quarter ever week. I would promptly spend it at the corner store.
12 cents for a comic book
12 cents for Twinkies
1 cent for tax.
adds up to kid heaven.
I remember school stopping and all the kids crowded around TV sets to watch the moon landings
I remember thinking Pong was High technology
I remember having only 4 channels, and having to get up and manually changing the station.
AND I WAS GRATEFUL!
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My allowance was a quarter ever week. I would promptly spend it at the corner store.
12 cents for a comic book
12 cents for Twinkies
1 cent for tax.
adds up to kid heaven.
I remember school stopping and all the kids crowded around TV sets to watch the moon landings
I remember thinking Pong was High technology
I remember having only 4 channels, and having to get up and manually changing the station.
AND I WAS GRATEFUL!
You forgot to mention...uphill both ways in 6 feet of snow - with no shoes!!!
Let me fix it for you.
You'll thank me later...
I remember having only 4 channels, and having to get up uphill both ways in 6 feet of snow - with no shoes then manually changing the station.
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Old enough to have had he potato chip guy's weekly visit to trade empty metal potato chip cans and less than $2 for full ones. However, not quite old enough to do the same for milk.
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I remember Johnny, the milkman. Our house had a "milk chute" which was just a cubbyhole built into the house where he would drop off the full half-gallon bottles with the paper "cap" and pick up the empty bottles.
I remember the super heavy cardboard beer cases. We'd take out the bottles and the cardboard sectioning and use 'em to pack stuff in for Boy Scout campouts.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck.
Shoes with pointy toes and the laces off to the side. Nehru jackets. White belts (this came later, into the 70s).
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Navy "P" coats were trendy for civilians to wear.
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I remember my buddies and I pumping gas up into a clear glass container at the top of the pump so the correct amount could be dispensed via gravity into the 40s something cars.
(http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/gasStations/GravityFlowPumpsPortElizabethNJ1.jpg)
Those type of gas pumps were before my time, but I think there is something in that picture they need to bring back. Show the price of gas, and then show the tax amount.
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Old enough to have had he potato chip guy's weekly visit to trade empty metal potato chip cans and less than $2 for full ones. However, not quite old enough to do the same for milk.
(http://i59.tinypic.com/23kw9cp.jpg)
:cheersmate:
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Cigarette vending machines. I think they were $1.25 a pack.
The reason my dad quit smoking was because a pack started costing $1.
As to the OP's question...I was 3 months old when this happened:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A[/youtube]
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The reason my dad quit smoking was because a pack started costing $1.
As to the OP's question...I was 3 months old when this happened:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A[/youtube]
I used to put 2 dimes in a cigarette machine and get a pack with 3 shiny new pennies in it . I always swore if they went to .50 cents a pack I'd quit . I was spending $100 a week when I quit 9 years ago.
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I used to put 2 dimes in a cigarette machine and get a pack with 3 shiny new pennies in it . I always swore if they went to .50 cents a pack I'd quit . I was spending $100 a week when I quit 9 years ago.
I buy these for $9.17 a carton at a local store.
The blue pack reminds me of some HAV-A-TAMPA(?) jewels cigars I used to smoke.
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:cheersmate:
Oh HELL yes. ^5.
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The reason my dad quit smoking was because a pack started costing $1.
As to the OP's question...I was 3 months old when this happened:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A[/youtube]
That occurred on my 7th birthday...yeah..I'm old.
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I remember being picked up from elementary school instead of riding the bus because Kennedy had been shot...I was too young to understand what the big deal was.
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(http://www.turnbacktogod.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ben-hur-1959-movie-01.jpg)
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(http://www.turnbacktogod.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ben-hur-1959-movie-01.jpg)
You are Ben-Hur?
:tongue:
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:cheersmate:
Yep. Good ole Charlies Chips.
A neighbor was a Frito Lay guy. It really bugged him to see that truck in the neighborhood.
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The reason my dad quit smoking was because a pack started costing $1.
As to the OP's question...I was 3 months old when this happened:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A[/youtube]
I was 6 years old during the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
Dad was glued to the TV. I was watching too but curious about everything. I was asking questions. Without even looking away from the TV, Dad said, "Shut up. This is history." :)
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Too old to rock n roll and too young to die.
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Man, you guys are old.
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Man, you guys are old.
BS for the brutal truth.
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Man, you guys are old.
Looked at your avatar recently?
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Man, you guys are old.
Contrary to popular belief, I am not old as dirt. I did help set out the first trees but the dirt had already been made.
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Too old to rock n roll and too young to die.
Jethro Tull Album reference.
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Looked at your avatar recently?
Yeah, it was way before my time. :tongue: :-)
BS for the brutal truth.
I'm surprised I only got one. Wading into this thread and dropping that turd was the equivalent of going into a nursing home and subjecting yourself to beatings from the canes of all the old men present. :popcorn:
Honestly, I'm an old person at heart. My wife says I'm the equivalent to being married to an old man. Anybody who frequents the "What are you listening to" thread would probably mistake me for an old fart.