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  1. Jags Super Moderator

    joined: Aug 2, 2006
    11,309 posts
    Northern Illinois
    I think I was still potty training.
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  2. begreen Super Moderator

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    36,118 posts
    South Puget Sound, WA
    Stunning to think that many here have always known Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain, and Elvis as dead people. They've never known the joys of 8-tracks, riding in the back of pickup trucks, or black and white tv. Hopefully at least they've gone skinny dipping at least once.
  3. Jags Super Moderator

    joined: Aug 2, 2006
    11,309 posts
    Northern Illinois
    Only "Marilyn Monroe" escapes me.;)
  4. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
    Not since I was 28. ;em
  5. BrowningBAR Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 22, 2008
    7,103 posts
    Doylestown, PA
    I was an angry teen when Cobain was alive. Two when Elvis died.

    I remember a long trip from south Florida to Pennsylvania in which my father played the same Elvis 8-Track over, and over, and over... and over.

    Hell, I did that last weekend.

    On acid.
  6. DAKSY Super Moderator

    Test patterns... Wringer washers...AM Radios (Top 40 HITS!)...Milkmen...Pushmowers...Cap Guns...
    We're getting OLD (*sigh*)
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  7. begreen Super Moderator

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    36,118 posts
    South Puget Sound, WA
    LOL I remember when a portable (am) radio weighed about 10 lbs and that was considered light. The first transistor radio I owned (am/fm) was like magic.
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  8. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
    High speed routers.

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  9. begreen Super Moderator

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    36,118 posts
    South Puget Sound, WA
    I hate to say it but I remember when we got our first dial telephone and this was not in rural Kansas, but just a few miles north of NYC.
  10. zap Minister of Fire

    joined: Aug 25, 2009
    10,392 posts
    The information highway of the 60's, the party lines. Your neighbor knew everything that was going on in your house or family!

    zap
  11. fossil Super Moderator

    joined: Sep 30, 2007
    9,152 posts
    Bend, Oregon
    Few years ago I brought in a considerable amount of money cleaning out all my toys & things from the 50's & 60's and selling them on Ebay to nostalgic old farts. Example: Something like $275.00 for my Mattel Fanner 50 cap pistol. :cool:
  12. Adios Pantalones Minister of Fire

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  13. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
  14. firefighterjake Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 22, 2008
    13,475 posts
    Unity/Bangor, Maine
    Ditto.
  15. firefighterjake Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 22, 2008
    13,475 posts
    Unity/Bangor, Maine
    To heck with the '60s . . . we were still using party lines into the '80s where I grew up in Maine. Fortunately, the two other parties on the line were my grandparents and my uncle/aunt.

    And . . . while I am too young to remember it . . . as a toddler my parents said they still used the old-fashioned crank phone in their brand new 1970 vintage split level Ranch.
  16. firefighterjake Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 22, 2008
    13,475 posts
    Unity/Bangor, Maine
    It's not that old Daksy . . . I remember getting up early on Saturday morning and having to wait for the test pattern to change -- on one of two or three stations we got the morning always started with a very odd-looking cartoon rendition of "American Pie" with a local TV personality's head flying off . . . and then it was time for Looney Tunes.

    Wringer washers . . . my grandmother was using them well into the 1980s.

    AM radios . . . FM was still in its infancy when I was growing up. Most folks were still tuning into AM stations.

    Milkmen . . . I was too young to remember, but my Mother said they got their milk from one when I was a toddler.

    Push mowers . . . Got me there . . . then again Dad was always tinkering and building equipment to make life easier . . . such as the time he built a riding mower . . . but forgot to add brakes . . . he discovered that when he went downhill . . . with me on it. Fortunately, I was a toddler so I don't remember much about that experience . . . well, actually I don't remember anything.

    Cap guns . . . kids with their Air Soft guns would laugh at how much we enjoyed buying caps and shooting them off.
  17. firefighterjake Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 22, 2008
    13,475 posts
    Unity/Bangor, Maine
    Not since two weeks ago . . . maybe I'll do so tonight for "old times sake." ;)

    P.S. No one come by between the hours of 5:15 and 5:30 p.m. . . . you have been warned . . . if you stop by and your eyes start bleeding you have no one to fault but yourself. ;)
  18. Jags Super Moderator

    joined: Aug 2, 2006
    11,309 posts
    Northern Illinois
    Or taking the entire roll of caps and placing it on cement and then smacking it with a hammer.:cool:
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  19. Adios Pantalones Minister of Fire

    I used to wrap it in electrical tape first.
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  20. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
    Dad was our Borden milkman. Loved riding with him because lunch was a pack of cheese crackers and a bottle, yep little bottle, of chocolate milk eaten in the truck.

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  21. granpajohn Minister of Fire

    joined: Jul 13, 2007
    584 posts
    Central Maryland
    What? I demand you change your "good ol days" quote. This is new information. You must admit; it is "good".
  22. DexterDay Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 11, 2010
    9,058 posts
    NE Ohio
    Counting Leap Years? Or not? :)

    Around 4,334 days. Cobain was one of my Idols back then... As for Elvis, he was near Clarion Pa a couple weeks ago :) :)
  23. begreen Super Moderator

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    36,118 posts
    South Puget Sound, WA
    BTDT :cool:
  24. begreen Super Moderator

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    36,118 posts
    South Puget Sound, WA
    Our first tv set was like this Philco, with a whopping 8" screen. It eventually ended up in our bedroom. We watched many a late night monster flick and Twilight Zones on that set.

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  25. jharkin Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 21, 2009
    2,061 posts
    Holliston, MA USA
    I still remember the day Cobain died, listening to it on the radio in my parents car on the way home from some after school activity. Elvis, well, I was still in diapers then.

    Its amazing how fast things change... I'm certainly one of the younger folks here but I look at my toddlers and think of all the things even I can remember as a kid in the 80s that would just be stories to them... Black and white TV, having to set the choke to start the family car, hand crank windows, vinyl (well, kids will know that one because Im holding on to mine), cassette tapes, VHS, laserdiscs, floppy disks..... Looking up books in a paper card catalog at the library, turning the big antenna on the roof whenever you change the channel on the TV, etc.

    I bet even CDs and paper phone books will be a relic by the time they are in high school.

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