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Offline Chris

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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2008, 12:36:08 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 28, 2008, 12:14:47 PM
Awesome.   :-*

Hey, I remember those.  Only we never had Pong.  Too fancy.

Here's a couple that I remember...
Cars didn't have  the third brake light in the rear window (didn't happen until 1986)
If you wanted your oil changed, you did it in your driveway and your neighbors didn't complain.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2008, 12:37:16 PM »
Well, I remember when my dad bought this car brand new, in 1979


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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2008, 12:37:31 PM »
Back in the day I remember riding with my mom around town to find the lowest priced gasoline. She would drive all over town when gas was 4 and 5¢/ gallon........ (Texas gas wars)

I also remember going to a pancake supper with Mr. Peppermint as the attraction (Another N Texas Icon)
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2008, 12:38:39 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on December 28, 2008, 12:37:16 PM
Well, I remember when my dad bought this car brand new, in 1979


Our neighbor had one of those with the white vinyl top.  That thing was a boat.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2008, 12:44:55 PM »
Back in the day a "Porno Web Page" was when spiders got webs on the playboys you hid under the bed.
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« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2008, 12:46:50 PM »
Back in the day a GPS system was Mom holding an atlas and yelling at Dad to turn the damn car around before he wound up driving to Guada La Hara.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2008, 12:49:03 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on December 28, 2008, 12:46:50 PM
Back in the day a GPS system was Mom holding an atlas and yelling at Dad to turn the damn car around before he wound up driving to Guada La Hara.

Ah, yes... family vacations.  The memories.

Our truck broke down somewhere in Alabama in July, I remember.  It was a mess.  I think the most memorable was the 12-hour drive to Sarasota for a week at the beach.  Or it could have been the semi-nude beach in Europe.  Mmmm, boobies.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2008, 12:52:49 PM »
Ahem.....as an over 50 ..... :bawl:

I remember:

When the first Mickey D's opened in Rockford Il....I was in kindergarten....

When Big Mac's first came out...I was in HS...couldn't even finish it, because it was so big.

Having a '61 Ford Falcon that always started in the winter, had a "choke" that pulled out and made it start. My dad called it the "puddle jumper"....$3 to fill it up.

Going to the drive in movies with my parents and going to sleep in the back seat.

Going to see "Cleopatra" with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. I was about 11 and was visiting my mother's cousins with my Grandmother. My mother went ballistic when she found out they took me to a "trash movie".

When Bonanza was in black and white. We didn't get a color TV until 1966.

When I was really really skinny.......  :lmao:
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2008, 12:56:58 PM »
Watching Bonanza was a ritual. Had to suffer though Lawerence Welch first though. '65 or '66 was when we got out first color TV. All three channels.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #34 on: December 28, 2008, 01:01:33 PM »
A few more:
Emergency brakes were near the driver side door.(lift your foot to set it)
Ignition on the dashboard.
No shoulder belts, and nothing in the rear seat.
Riding on the tailgate of a pickup.
In dash 8-track tape players. (AM only radios)
Riding on the rear window ledge.
Station wagon gates that opened to the side.
Playing outside until very late at night and no need to worry .
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #35 on: December 28, 2008, 01:06:27 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on December 28, 2008, 12:37:16 PM
Well, I remember when my dad bought this car brand new, in 1979




OMG my parents bought the same car, same year only white with maroon top like the one below.  I'm pretty sure the wheels didn't look like that but I can't remember for sure.



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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #36 on: December 28, 2008, 01:07:20 PM »
Quote from: BEG on December 28, 2008, 01:06:27 PM
OMG my parents bought the same car, same year only white with maroon top like the one below.  I'm pretty sure the wheels didn't look like that but I can't remember for sure.


Sweet!  Another car to add to my I-Want list :-)
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #37 on: December 28, 2008, 01:09:58 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 28, 2008, 01:07:20 PM
Sweet!  Another car to add to my I-Want list :-)

This was our other car (only light blue).



Back in the day I always wanted them to pick me up in the Thunderbird.  The Pinto was SO uncool.

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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #38 on: December 28, 2008, 01:13:00 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on December 28, 2008, 12:46:50 PM
Back in the day a GPS system was Mom holding an atlas and yelling at Dad to turn the damn car around before he wound up driving to Guada La Hara.
OMG - LOL!
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #39 on: December 28, 2008, 01:15:39 PM »
Girls had to wear skirts (dresses) to school....absolutely no slacks, shorts, or even "culottes"....and we often had to get on our knees to prove that our skirts were at least to our knees (right after we "unrolled"
the waists  :-) )

The teacher taking a ruler across our eyebrows to make sure our bangs were not below the eyebrows.

Yes....this was public school.....everyone had "Beatle haircuts".
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #40 on: December 28, 2008, 01:19:35 PM »
Back in the day going on vacation meant going to "Worlds of Fun" in Kansas City (we lived in Omaha).  No one went to Cozumel or any place like that....EVER.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #41 on: December 28, 2008, 01:21:15 PM »
Programming a TRS80 in assembly -- had to write my own UART handler since there was no modem software.  Saving my programs to cassette tape.

Programming on punched cards for mainframe.  Dropping card decks and running them back through the card sorter.  Walling the object deck to the card reader.

Drum storage and paper tape output.

150 BAUD TTY hard copy output.  300 BAUD terminals (I remember the frist time I saw 9600 and I thought nothing would ever be faster).

Riding my bicycle and playing Monopoly at my friends' house until after midnight in summertime then riding home.

Hitchhiking to the beach (25 miles away) and back every day when I was 14.

Playing pickup tackle football.  I was so small I couldn't tackle anyone so I would jump on their back, grab their head, put my knees in their back and lean backwards.  They called me "Headhunter."  Do kids play pickup tackle football anymore?

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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #42 on: December 28, 2008, 01:25:44 PM »
We played monopoly for hours on rainy afternoons in the summer too!!! Otherwise we were at the public pool, playing crazy eights in between swimming all afternoon.

We rode our bikes a couple of miles to go swimming.
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #43 on: December 28, 2008, 01:27:17 PM »
Quote from: BEG on December 28, 2008, 01:09:58 PM
This was our other car (only light blue).

Back in the day I always wanted them to pick me up in the Thunderbird.  The Pinto was SO uncool.

I always preferred the Vega to the Pinto.  Here's a 1973 with the full front bumper (the '72 had a split bumper).





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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #44 on: December 28, 2008, 01:38:55 PM »
I'll join deb in the over 50 crowd, but since she's waaaaaay older than I am, she gets top billing:  :-)

Since cars seem to be a recurring theme, how about Chrysler's pushbutton transmission, first introduced in 1956 and killed off by the gummint in 1964?

I had one in my 1962 Plymouth Valiant. It was a good running car, especially with the 225 cu. in slant six engine.

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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #45 on: December 28, 2008, 01:47:29 PM »
"... this driving control from the future."

I love those old ads. :-)
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #46 on: December 28, 2008, 01:52:40 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 28, 2008, 01:47:29 PM
"... this driving control from the future."

I love those old ads. :-)

Yeah, some of the underlying sexist statements, too, along the lines of "Women love its ease of operation," and "It's so easy, just step on the gas and go."

The last one made me think of "It's so easy, even a caveman could do it."  :rotf:
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #47 on: December 28, 2008, 02:06:00 PM »
When I worked for Ford, we used to get old film reels and advertisements for their cars piped through the CCTV displays in the buliding connectors.  They would show the Ford GP (the original 'Jeep' designed by Willys) bouncing up a hill in Dearborn, the post-war '49 Ford, LeMans footage of the GT500.  It was nice.  If I didn't have to work, I would have watched it all day. 
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #48 on: December 28, 2008, 03:13:21 PM »
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Re: Back in the day ...
« Reply #49 on: December 28, 2008, 03:54:38 PM »
Hey, I'm only 37, and I can remember learning to use a slide rule for math calculating back in Jr. High School.  (By high school, I had a spiffy Ti Scientific calculator riding my breast pocket behind my pocket protector.)

I also remember learning to program the TRaSh-80 in assembly language.
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