Starting a new thread to help all us old bastards feel a bit older. :laf:
Beginning with this.
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Dont lie :nofgr:
You bet I owned a pair or three. They were comfortable, kinda cool, and I liked them. They would wear thin spots and holes in them a lot faster than heavy blue denim, and couldn't take much handling a bale of hay on my thighs before school!
Yep! Been there and done that. Like Okanagan said, they did wear quickly. But they were oh so COOL.
But were they bell bottoms? :alscalls:
Quote from: Todd Rahm on December 27, 2024, 06:11:50 PMBut were they bell bottoms? :alscalls:
Some of em were, yep. :eyebrownod:
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This was pretty much a staple in our house when I was growing up. :alscalls:
For some reason we had a lot of traffic in the bathroom when us kids were bathing. AND the door had to be left open so we didnt drowned. :iroll:
I remember using a LOT of Bubbles to conceal my wiener from the traffic. Someone would come in and I'd hunker down into the bubbles. :originalhahaha:
You were a lucky little boy. We didn't buy Mr. Bubble. ☹️
WTH
Quote from: nastygunz on December 29, 2024, 01:25:06 AMWTH
I know. My parents thought that a bar of ivory soap was all anyone would ever need.
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That was going to be the end of the world as we knew it. Computer systems would crash and burn, banks would not be able to transfer money or anyone make a withdrawal, electrical grids would cease. The only thing that would work would be the Y2K zippers.
Yup. Near panic as the end was coming at the stroke of midnight 12/31/99. A lot of angst over not much of anything.
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Only after eating lots of Red Beets.
God I hated those beets. Still do.
They must have been easy to obtain and inexpensive.
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I had the TV-Guide several years. I did like it since there was no other way to see more than one day at a time in the paper. But, I also only got it when they would run some really low priced special. At the end of the year they would offer me the 'full price' special to renew, which I would not do. Then after several months they would offer the low price and I would usually get it again. Old memories like these are fun to see.
im old enough to remember Y2k and that whole farce. Dad had a tandy computer that he turned off because he didnt want it to fry.
I remember collecting bicentennial quarters when they came out. The same year postage went up to 13 cents. I thought that it had to do with the original 13 colonies, but it was just a coincidence.
I also remember sitting in front of the tv watching the rocket launch when we put men on the moon. I feel old.
I collected several years of the state quarter's thinking the same thing. I thought they were doing limited runs of em and wanted a couple of each state. When I realized they were replacing the old quarters and they really were not rare i cashed em in and actually bought a e call.
I remember hunting cave bears with my dad and uncles and my dad telling me son don't ever point your spear at anything unless you're goingto spear it! A lesson that I have retained till this day! :innocentwhistle: :biggrin:
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I had a hang-on cassette player, but before that I had a cassette player that I ran from a plug in to the lighter socket. Ask some kid now what a lighter socket in a car is and see what kind of answers you get.
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Back when vehicles were good.
Quote from: nastygunz on January 15, 2025, 01:59:45 AMBack when vehicles were good.
But also needed to be traded in every three to four years because the floor and side panels would rust out.
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I bought a brand new 1970 Maverick in Hulla Blue, just like the one in the upper left corner ad photo. The price was about $1900 and I drove it home after various taxes etc. for a little over $2200. That was the first car I bought and the only new car I've bought in my life.
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Why did every household have one of these as we were growing up? Was this literally the only option for coasters at the time?
What kind of monopoly was THAT? :confused:
It was the 'modern' version. If you are 'old' you remember the metal saucer shaped one.
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AHHHHHHH! Now that you did that, I actually do remember seeing some of those at my Grandparents. :alscalls:
We used them them for gold pans when we thought we were panning for gold in the river sand. That was so fun. :biggrin:
Totally forgot about that!
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Those records are really a blast from the past.
I see what ya did there :sneer: :sneer:
I actually think I had one of these. I remember seeing them in the store and begging for a long time.
I kinda think I eventually got one. Had to take it to a friends house because I wasn't allowed to play it on my parents record player. They thought it would ruin theres.
Got my own record player shortly after. Probably Christmas. And thats when I started building my collection of 45 rpm records.
Good grief, now that I set down and type this out I'm forced to relive it and I can actually remember my first two records.
One was Glen Cambell - Rhinestone Cowboy
And the other was Tanya Tucker - Lizzy and The Rainman.
And I played the shit out of them. :alscalls: Memorized every word :doh2:
The first record that I bought I had to have my parents get for me when they were in Columbus because there were no stores in my area that sold records. It was - Drum Roll!!!
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (1963)
I lifted the 'drop arm' that kept records level to the top so that the old record player thought that it had dropped another record and would keep playing it - over and over and over again. I refinished several stocks in my parent's basement listening to that record.
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That picture will cause me nightmares.
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I used one of those daily for 32 years when I was a lineman. They still issue them today although they have switched to fiberglass ones.
Who remembers these?
I can still remember my disappointment when the one by my house growing up, was vacated and takin down.
I gave these guys a LOT of business. I loved my little Kodiak Instamatic
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I never had an Instamatic, but I sure remember them. That revolving flash sure could increase the cost of shots.
I remember mom doing the wash with one of these. That wringer was dangerous.
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Quote from: KySongDog on March 27, 2025, 10:52:36 AMI remember mom doing the wash with one of these. That wringer was dangerous.
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Remeber getting my hand pulled into the ring once. Did not feel good.
Yes, my Grandma had one of those and she ACTUALLY allowed my brother to run Muskrats hides through the ringer after fleshing and washing them.
I forgot all about that :laf:
Now thats country!
Quote from: FinsnFur on March 27, 2025, 08:42:23 PMYes, my Grandma had one of those and she ACTUALLY allowed my brother to run Muskrats hides through the ringer after fleshing and washing them.
I forgot all about that :laf:
We had that kind of washing machine when I was little. My mom got her hand and lower forearm pulled in to the wringer, can't remember how she got out but her wrist and lower forearm were bruised and swollen. When we moved out to our property where we were building a house, before we got electricity my mom hand washed clothes with a ribbed washboard.
Years later, a trapper neighbor of ours had a washing machine that he used exclusively for furs, mainly coyotes I think. The finished furs sure turn out nice if fleshed well, washed with shampoo and hair conditioner and then spun almost dry.
I can't recall for sure but think that his was a modern washer, but it may have been an old wringer washer. The hide came out damp rather than wet, and with most of the water gone it dried quickly on the stretcher. Gets you top dollar. You may think I'm kidding but I'm not. He had a high volume operation going and prepped a LOT of hides.
Mom had a wringer washer when I was a kid and while playing with it I found out that hands do fit into the wringer. I was lucky that my mom had shown me the release (in the one pictured I believe it is the white triangled shape on the right of the wringer head) and I hit it as soon as I could. That released the heads.
Last one of them washers I bought had a gas engine. Got it home and the dang thing fired right up. Also had a few wringers that were hand cranked.
Quote from: pitw on March 29, 2025, 05:57:27 PMLast one of them washers I bought had a gas engine. Got it home and the dang thing fired right up. Also had a few wringers that were hand cranked.
Holy Crap you ARE old :bowingsmilie:
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Dad didn't smoke, but I put away quite a few boxes of those candy cigarettes.
Me2!
Remember the ones that were wrapped in paper? Under the paper the candy or gum cigarette was layered with fine sugar so you could wrap your lips on that baby and blow fake smoke?? :alscalls: :alscalls:
And when you ran out of 'smoke' you could pull the cotton wad out, dump in some powder, and you were good to go again. :rolleye:
:alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: Jerry
Talk about technology.
I can still hear the click as the next number flap tipped over.
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