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Posted: 8/16/2016 9:08:55 PM EDT

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Any of you homo's touch my stuff, I'll kill ya.

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I was 17. Yeah, I miss that day and time.

I was 17 in this picture.

http://www.narruc.net/Public/pix/basic_small1.jpg

Any of you homo's touch my stuff, I'll kill ya.

Watching Stripes gave me PTSD.

Posted: 8/16/2016 9:37:15 PM EDT

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They gave these out in elementary school, I don't know why I was too young. It was the 1976 election and man did my dad not like that POS carter.

Posted: 8/17/2016 1:38:32 PM EDT

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A little 1978 music......

Posted: 8/17/2016 2:09:07 PM EDT

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Is that a Happy Days pinball machine?!?

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roller skates and a pin ball machine, what are you folks looking at?

Posted: 8/17/2016 2:17:15 PM EDT

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The Blizzard of '78 was memorable. The front of our house had snow all the way to the roofline so my brother and I climbed out on the roof to sled off the roof of the house.

My old man arrived in his VW Beetle (a good car in the snow, but the inside windshield defroster was useless so you had to use an ice scraper as you drove down the road

). He said Route 128 was a war zone and there were abandoned vehicles all over.

He went inside, had a stiff drink (probably) and then popped out to yell at us to not rip the gutters off the house. You could leap off and disappear completely into the snow drift. It was a hoot.

Then we were drafted to dig tunnels (really) from the front door to the driveway to clear a lane for a fire escape.

The size of the drifts were incredible.

Good times, man.

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I was seven when it hit. My father worked for the "street department" for a municipality in Ohio. He was out running a big ass Case front end loader for a week straight. First day he came by and did our dead end street. So I had a two story high mound of snow in my yard. It was fucking epic for snowball wars. Ahhh to be a kid again.

Day three of that and he was doing a road out in the country at about 0100hrs. He slid into a ditch and had the bust waist deep snow for a mile to get to a farm house. Lucky the elderly couple was home and helped him. Took the city another day to get to him, dig him out and then send his ass back out on the road.

Posted: 8/17/2016 2:28:07 PM EDT

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I was born a couple years later, but I am keeping the 70s alive with a '78 F-250 and a '79 Bronco.

Posted: 8/17/2016 3:11:12 PM EDT

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The kiss pinball machine has been on my list for 20 years....I just cant bring myself to spend the $$

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Damn, I'd love to have a pinball machine.

Kinda pricey

It depends

The pre-1977 electro-mechanical pins are practically free because nobody can keep them running

The post-1977 solid-state games run from a few hundred all the way up to $10,000

70s solid state pins are very simple and slow-playing, I don't like them.

The collectors all want the 1990s Bally-Williams. Those games are the pinnacle of pinball in terms of art and gameplay.

The 80s pinballs are less desired but are still great games.

A classic 90s pin like Addams Family is going to run you around $5000 to $7000

A classic 80s pin like Williams High Speed is going to be around $1500

The nice thing is that the games don't lose value. I paid $2500 for my Twilight Zone, I could sell it for $6000 easy. So it's hard to go wrong.

check this out, a pretty decent price guide -

http://www.bostonpinball.biz/ebay0516.htm

I've been wanting an Addams Family pinball machine forever. Should have bought one years ago. Looks like I missed out.

The kiss pinball machine has been on my list for 20 years....I just cant bring myself to spend the $$

I have a home-use-only Addams Family, it looks brand new.

You guys should just go ahead and take the plunge.

If you get one in good shape at a fair price, you will absolutely and positively make money if you ever sell it, because the prices go up every year.

Also, there are a number of excellent 80s pins that are really fun to play, so don't think you need to shell out a ton of money, $1500 will get you a great game.

I recommend Williams High Speed or Bally Atlantis (not gottlieb atlantis), those are probably my two favorite 80s pins.

Posted: 8/17/2016 4:22:17 PM EDT

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In 1978 I was 21, making enough money that the company I worked for opened a direct deposit account in my name because they got sick of me not cashing paychecks. I was riding a Harley, fucking every decent looking female who'd let me, owned my own home, didn't have a care in the world and was as dumb as a fucking box of rocks.

Damn straight I miss 1978.

Posted: 8/21/2016 9:51:34 AM EDT

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XM Sirius is playing the original broadcast of American Top 40 for this week in 1978. You can look at the original AT40 worksheet here: http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/08-19-78.pdf

They already played the #34 song "From a new group out of Boston: Cars." Just What I Needed.

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:00:31 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:08:01 AM EDT

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I was flying this sleek, racey, sophisticated war machine. Not the icky F-4.

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This is what I was rocking in 1978. VP-30 RAG

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I was flying this sleek, racey, sophisticated war machine. Not the icky F-4.

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I bet in some ways it was more interesting to fly.

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:13:27 AM EDT

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I don't remember this one, at all.

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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:19:17 AM EDT

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I'll pass...........living in shithole Detroit back then.

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Is that where you lived?

I was living in Canton then.

I remember going to Bill Knapp's restaurant to eat with my folks.

Remember Bill Knapp's?

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:20:40 AM EDT

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Is that where you lived?

I was living in Canton then.

I remember going to Bill Knapp's restaurant to eat with my folks.

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No but the Fort St. and Livernois area was a pit............dilapidated houses everywhere and crime through the roof.

It sucked...........so HAPPY to get out of there.

I do remember Bill Knapps..............used to go the one on Eureka Ave., in what I think was in Southgate or Trenton now and then when coming home from a trip.

Have friends right now who live in Canton...........nice suburb.

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:35:06 AM EDT

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Yaeh, it was good. We only had that incompetent boob Jimmy Carter to worry about.

Compared to today it was almost a paradise ( except for his devastating effect on the economy).

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:37:22 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:52:54 AM EDT

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1978, at the time I did not know of this record

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:55:47 AM EDT

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1978, at the time I did not know of this record

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Don't think I did either. They were wearin' stuff like this out on the radio:

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Posted: 8/21/2016 10:57:22 AM EDT

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Hair should be feathered if it's 1978.

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It's fine..

Posted: 8/21/2016 10:57:39 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/21/2016 3:08:13 PM EDT

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Notice how everything was endgame melting pot. Even the top 40 was rock, soul, everything.

Then the left made sure they carved everybody out in separate isolated groups.
And then somebody killed R& B and R&R.

Posted: 8/21/2016 3:18:00 PM EDT

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we seem to have meandered of topic somehow, I believe we were discussing ditto jeans?

Posted: 8/21/2016 3:54:42 PM EDT

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Girls were thinner back then. They dressed sexily and not like tramps. The breasts were real. And there wasn't all this filthy ink-stained skin on girls.

Posted: 8/21/2016 4:10:51 PM EDT

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What's the deal on Disco duck? Was disco big outside of NYC and big cities in 1978? My Mom loved that "take me to funky town" song, which I can't stand.