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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:52:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cameras had film, service stations were everywhere. , no central air, you bought magazines and didn't throw them away, The A&P in Ravenna was the first store I was ever in that had air conditioning. There was a sign on the door provided by the tobacco company that said: IT'S KOOL INSIDE! |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:52:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have mine! It's hanging from a shelf in the garage. No, I don't know why. Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have mine! It's hanging from a shelf in the garage. No, I don't know why. I might order one and use it just for nostalgia. My dad always had a can of beer in his 
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:52:19 PM EDT
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I remember smoking sections
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:52:38 PM EDT
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Routinely taking a 3.5 inch folding knife on my person on a commercial flight.
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:53:24 PM EDT
[#5]
Smoking on an airplane.
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:54:34 PM EDT
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Bluebags for Beestings
Its great magical use was on bee stings. Whenever the inevitable happened, one of our mothers or grandmothers would produce a wet blue bag, place it on the wound and … no more pain. None of us knew why of course, but we were grateful for this piece of passed down lore.  |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:54:39 PM EDT
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Quadrajet carburetors, big hair, and fuzzy bush.
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:54:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And that is what you learned how to drive on. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: three-on-the-tree And that is what you learned how to drive on. I think everybody did, all trucks had them back in th eday. our family car growing up was 1953 Chevy Bel Air(4 door) straight 6, three-on-the-tree... green everything ... couplea mohair couches for seating, no seatbelts.. skirts, hubcaps, whitewalls... the whole deal.
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:54:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:56:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Buying stuff from a catalog and paying COD when it finally arrived. We just ordered it out of the Sears book and went to the store to pick it up. |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:56:46 PM EDT
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Weekly Reader
American Gladiators Friday night roller skating |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:57:00 PM EDT
[#12]
Nitto 1320 drag racing
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:57:09 PM EDT
[#13]
My Father still uses the safety razor LOL.
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:58:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOHC, with no emissions |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:58:42 PM EDT
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I'm 50 and I can remember when I was real young going to beach in Biloxi and they had a beer vending machine anyone could buy beer from.
The burn marks on tables in a restaurant where people laid their cigarette down and it burned into the table eventually. Cheap ass McDonalds ash trays.  |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:58:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Routinely taking a 3.5 inch folding knife on my person on a commercial flight. I carried a Buck 110 on my belt, and a pack of smokes in my shirt pocket all through high school. Kids had their trucks parked in the lot with their rifles in the rack in the rear window. I don't know how we survived. |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:59:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: High beam switch on the floor. My 1980 K5 Blazer still has it. |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:59:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My Father still uses the safety razor LOL. |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:59:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember smoking sections I can remember as a kid when they banned smoking inside businesses, and seeing signs in the mall reminding people of the upcoming change. |
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Posted: 12/6/2021 11:59:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We got a new color TV right before President Kennedy was assassinated. Several weeks of black and white funeral crap. My Dad hated the Kennedys from then on... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: black and white television... it was a big deal when we got a color Sony Trinitron(mid 70's)... it even had a remote, the kind that would make the channel dial on the TV turn, so was kinda loud... I remember going to the TV store to buy this thing with my parents... it was winter, nighttime... maybe close to Christmas. I think it was a 19" We got a new color TV right before President Kennedy was assassinated. Several weeks of black and white funeral crap. My Dad hated the Kennedys from then on... My old man got tired of watching all that morbid shit on TV, He got dressed to play golf and we went out to the local links. While he played and I duffed the ball around Ruby shot Oswald. We didn't hear about it until we hit the bar for a beer and a sandwich for him and a coke and a sandwich for me. Most exciting time of that morbid weekend and we missed it. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:01:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI had an eight-track in my 69 Cutlass. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:01:44 AM EDT
[#22]
Disconnect the odometer cable, tell dad you only going to a friends house across town, but instead cruse the day away
and don't refill the gas tank 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:02:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OHC, with no emissions Vega. Overheating, oil puking, smoking turd that was lucky to go 50,000 miles. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:06:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryMan, I hated that shit. But if I wiped out especially bad on my Sting Ray, my parents would take me to the dispensary at ENT Air Force Base (Colorado Springs). They had a clear version that smelled ten times worse and hurt twenty times more. I still remember that smell after more than half a century. The whole place reeked of it. You got scared the minute you walked in the door. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:06:30 AM EDT
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They sold a series of paperback WW II history books from a display rack at our local Quik Shop, don't recall the publisher.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:07:07 AM EDT
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I'm old enough to remember ordering a Thompson from the Sears Roebuck catalog.
"Not really" |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:07:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had an eight-track in my 69 Cutlass. Mine was in my 67 Plymouth Sport Fury. Had the obligatory match book wedge under the tape to keep it playing right. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:08:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:10:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mine was in my 67 Plymouth Sport Fury. Had the obligatory match book wedge under the tape to keep it playing right. Mopars were cool since they had the mounting holes for 6x9s in the rear deck already. Easy install. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:11:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I rememberers cars with push button transmission selector We had a car with the gas cap behind the brake light. Sunoco 260 102 octane @ $.49 a gal I was riding my bike around the block with my friends, And remember my mother sitting on the front steps of our house crying. When I asked her why she was crying. She said " President JFK was just killed" I was in the first grade. For no apparent reason, the principal went to each classroom and told us all to go straight home. As soon as I walked in the door, the phone rang and my mom picked it up. Five seconds later, she burst into tears. Nothing on TV for three solid days except news coverage and then the funeral. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:11:33 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:14:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI put fucking Jensen co-ax speakers in my 1973 Chevy Nova. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:17:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryAlternators were a lot easier to replace back then. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:19:46 AM EDT
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AM radio in the car
Wing windows Thrifty ice cream 10 cents for a single scoop cone, 20 for a double scoop, and a quarter for a triple scoop. Collecting glass bottles to turn in to buy Thrifty ice cream Adjusting the horizontal control Gas wars Turning a Sting Ray into a motocross bike Wind up wall clocks Aluminum flashlight with a 4" head that put out 2 lumens Having a canteen that didn't leak in my backpack. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:21:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mine was in my 67 Plymouth Sport Fury. Had the obligatory match book wedge under the tape to keep it playing right. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I had an eight-track in my 69 Cutlass. Mine was in my 67 Plymouth Sport Fury. Had the obligatory match book wedge under the tape to keep it playing right. Mine was in my 68 LTD 4 door, hand me down from my Mama...I was so uncool... |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:24:31 AM EDT
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Browning BSS 12g for $185 at Sears Roebuck
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:27:45 AM EDT
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Carrying on of these in your jeans in junior high in the late 1960s.
Made in Japan, exported to Tijuana, where they were sold to American tourists. I still have mine. Plus the Italian switchblade my mom bought for me in Milan, Italy in 1969. .gif)
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:29:44 AM EDT
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Quoted: The slot in the back of the medicine cabinet. My son thought I was bullshitting him when I told him what it was for. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:30:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pull-tabs on beer cans ETA. Glass seltzer bottles. Delivered to your door Pull tabs? Hell, I remember when you had to use the church key to open a can of soda or beer. I also remember vending machines that had a mechanism which would punch two holes in your can of soda or beer. LC |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:30:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mine was in my 68 LTD 4 door, hand me down from my Mama...I was so uncool... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I had an eight-track in my 69 Cutlass. Mine was in my 67 Plymouth Sport Fury. Had the obligatory match book wedge under the tape to keep it playing right. Mine was in my 68 LTD 4 door, hand me down from my Mama...I was so uncool... My first car was a 66 Galaxie four-door. No air, no radio, nylon cloth seats, and a 289 engine. Literally my grandmother's car. Fellow teammate laughed when he saw it, I laughed, even more, when he asked for a ride and I told him no. He never should'a disrespected my car.......after all he didn't have one. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:35:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: [color=#ff0000]How about fuel caps behind the driver’s seat on pick-up trucks? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Fuel cap behind the license plate on the back of the car [color=#ff0000]How about fuel caps behind the driver’s seat on pick-up trucks? [/color] I 'member. Learned to drive on my Dad's old 68 F-100 pickup with three on the tree. I also remember his old 58 Chevy Apache with the starter switch on the floor. Wish he had kept that truck. LC |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:38:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI remember those heads from when I worked in an auto machine shop. Hated them damn things. (Vegas) |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:41:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They sold a series of paperback WW II history books from a display rack at our local Quik Shop, don't recall the publisher. was it these? Ballantine book series |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:41:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: YouTube with no ads If you don't know what adblock is at this point, there's no helping you. I haven't watched an ad on youtube in over ten years. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:42:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Billie Eilish back when she had talent. https://static.spin.com/files/2019/01/billie-eilish-bury-a-friend-1548889261-1024x683.jpg So that's a memory that doesn't exist then. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:46:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They sold a series of paperback WW II history books from a display rack at our local Quik Shop, don't recall the publisher. As of 2014 those were still in Truckstops. War history paperbacks. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:47:03 AM EDT
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When phone books were important.
When green stamps were worth collecting. When postage was 3 cents. The C-modal grade system and blue book exams. Electromallet and gold foil filling techniques. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:47:43 AM EDT
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There were only 2 genders.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:52:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There were only 2 genders. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:53:20 AM EDT
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No personal computers
No cellphones No GPS Most adults smoked People read books and newspapers (even kids like me!) Stagflation Kids played in the yard instead of organized sport leagues Dodge ball in gym class Most families had one car and a small house College was "pay as you go" unless you had rich parents - nobody had a student loan It was harder to get rich |
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