Remember when

[muff528 3]

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65 cent cigarette machines; playing jacks, spinning tops, hop scotch,

You young pup, I remember when they were $24 and the pack came with a book of matches and a penny taped to the pack.

We would play war with tops but jacks and hop scotch was for girls and sissies.

Sparky

35 cents a pack or I could have a friend get them for me at Patrick AFB BX for $2.50/carton. Later, gas and cigs were each 50 cents and I thought that was ridiculous. (glad I finally quit them dam things ...cigs not gas).

Sometimes, with 4 sisters and a baby bro I played jacks and hopscotch or I played alone.

[philly51 0]

I was the one to go to the store for my parent's cigarettes................22 cents per pack, drop in a quarter and get the pack, 3 cents change and matchs.

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, Shouting "...holy shit...what a ride!"

[kallend 1,620]

Duck and cover.

A dreadful song that went

"Re-mem-mem re-mem-mem member,
Re-mem-mem re-mem-mem member,
Re-mem-mem re-mem-mem member,
Re-mem mem re-mem-mem member
..."

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[livendive 8]

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I remember all of those things. I was sorta hoping I would find a post with something I didn't remember.

Give it another decade or two...

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[shah269 0]

You "bought" porn on paper!
Remember that! Now you can get it on your cell phone! How we are not spending hours and hours going solo is beyond me!

Remember when if someone was talking to themselves at the store you knew they were nuts....not you are not sure?

Remember going out to rent a movie?

Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay.

The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

[jumpsalot-2 2]

I remember when you could buy a pound of Mexican bud for $ 90, or $ 10 an ounce.

Life is short ... jump often.

[pyrotech 0]

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I remember when you could buy a pound of Mexican bud for $ 90, or $ 10 an ounce.

That's still all it's worth, but you still end up paying more.

[muff528 3]

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I remember when you could buy a pound of Mexican bud for $ 90, or $ 10 an ounce.

...or a peyote button for a quarter if you were too lazy to go pick 'em yourself. Also, I remember my hippie friends at Star Camp making "sand candles" and selling them at Minder Binders in Scottsdale.

[masterrig 1]

...remem-member when?


Chuck

[billvon 2,380]

Wow, suddenly I feel not-old. I remember when I was 12 bugging my mother to take me to Radio Shack because they had computers I could use.

[popsjumper 2]

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Remember when the big tanker truck would drive slowly through the neighborhood spraying for mosquitos, and all the kids would ride their bikes in the clouds of insecticide ?

OUR asshole driver had a bad habit of slamming on the brakes.
Yes, I'm a dumbass...*WHACK* the asshole got me more than once.


The Ice Cream Man...knew us well enough that we had credit and could run up a tab!

First 16oz cola I had was a 3-V (Vim, Vigor, Vitality) Cola. Damn! That thing filled you up!
(Why I would remember Vim, Vigor, Vitality, I have no idea.)
PIC: http://chez-frontporch.blogspot.com/2008/09/3-v-cola.html

.049 control line airplanes - $5 at Sears. Burned and destroyed many of them.

Home made box cars...steer with your feet. Get some sucker to push you and go hell-bent for leather. We didn't have hills.

Our "neighborhood" was 11 3/4-mile long streets. Tons of kids and we all knew each other well. Don't be the first one to have to go home at the end of the day...PUSSY!

Playing "chicken" on the bikes. I never caved. One of my buds went head-on with me 3 times before he chickened out.
What's a few bumps and bruises to a 10-year old? Wheels bent? No problem...stomp on it until it didn't rub anymore and keep on truckin'.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[shah269 0]

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Wow, suddenly I feel not-old. I remember when I was 12 bugging my mother to take me to Radio Shack because they had computers I could use.

Same here[:)

Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay.

The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

[Bolas 5]

TI 99/4a was my first computer. Hooked to a TV and an old tape player to load and save programs though some came on cartidges.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[BillyVance 34]

Our first computer, bought in 1979, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, complete with a cassette tape drive to load programs and games. Looking back, man that shit took forever!

Also, in the cereal aisle, there used to be just one version of each brand name cereal. The cereal section was probably just five feet long. Now cereals take up a whole fucking side, with as many as six or seven varieties of each brand name cereal!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[jackwallace 3]

People smoking everywhere.
Dumping garbage in the ocean and great lakes.
Dumping oil on dirt roads.
Gym class in school.
Ground stars.
Streaking, strolling and rockets.
Shortage of dope so people smoked anything: banana peels, crap they picked by the railroad tracks.
6 people crammed in a VW smoking so you didn't waste any.

U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
scr 316

[jumpsalot-2 2]

I remember when there was only "NBC"..."CBS"...and "ABC".........in black and white of course.

Life is short ... jump often.

[BillyVance 34]

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I remember when there was only "NBC"..."CBS"...and "ABC".........in black and white of course.

And PBS too. And when the channels signed off with the national anthem before going to the white noise.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[JerryBaumchen 1,046]

Hi Sparky,

Ahhh, yes. A paper route got me enough money to buy my first motor vehicle; summer of '54. Look out world, I am mobile.

I rode that thing all over Portland; no license, no helmet, no worries.

These days if you ask a neighbor kid if he would like to mow your lawn to make some money, he looks at you like you should be in an institution.

JerryBaumchen

[oldwomanc6 38]

Tonka Trucks! Now, I'm not talking about the sissy-ass plastic versions that are passing themselves off as Tonka.

I'm referring to the real, metal ones that we used to send off down the hill with a cherry bomb on board. They were solid enough to withstand the explosion, and be retrieved to be abused again and again.....

Holy crap, our parents let us do some stupid stuff!

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[BillyVance 34]

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Tonka Trucks! Now, I'm not talking about the sissy-ass plastic versions that are passing themselves off as Tonka.

I'm referring to the real, metal ones that we used to send off down the hill with a cherry bomb on board. They were solid enough to withstand the explosion, and be retrieved to be abused again and again.....

Holy crap, our parents let us do some stupid stuff!

Pfft! How about catching crayfish in the creek behind the house and lighting firecrackers on them?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[billvon 2,380]

>Our first computer, bought in 1979, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, complete
>with a cassette tape drive to load programs and games.

I remember my father taking me to a hobby store in Manhattan where I was 10. There, someone was trying to get an IMSAI 8080 to work. To this day I remember all the flashing lights and red and blue switches. The guy sitting at it was trying to get it to work with a floppy drive, and was constantly doing dumps of memory to see if it was reading correctly. I watched him for what seemed like hours, while my father tried to get me to look at model trains. I remember thinking at the time "someday I'm going to figure out how all that works."

[Coreece 189]

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>Our first computer, bought in 1979, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, complete
>with a cassette tape drive to load programs and games.

I remember my father taking me to a hobby store in Manhattan where I was 10. There, someone was trying to get an IMSAI 8080 to work. To this day I remember all the flashing lights and red and blue switches. The guy sitting at it was trying to get it to work with a floppy drive, and was constantly doing dumps of memory to see if it was reading correctly. I watched him for what seemed like hours, while my father tried to get me to look at model trains. I remember thinking at the time "someday I'm going to figure out how all that works."

Ya...I remeber Radio Shaq before they sold out!

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

[BillyVance 34]

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>Our first computer, bought in 1979, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, complete
>with a cassette tape drive to load programs and games.

I remember my father taking me to a hobby store in Manhattan where I was tried to get me to look at model trains. I remember thinking at the time "someday I'm going to figure out how all that works."

You know what? That same TRS-80 computer is still in the original packaging in my folks' basement!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Coreece 189]

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>Our first computer, bought in 1979, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, complete
>with a cassette tape drive to load programs and games.

I remember my father taking me to a hobby store in Manhattan where I was tried to get me to look at model trains. I remember thinking at the time "someday I'm going to figure out how all that works."

You know what? That same TRS-80 computer is still in the original packaging in my folks' basement!

I still have the transitor radio I built from scratch at 7 from parts at Radio Shack...Good luck with that now. It sure would be nice for me and my kid to buy parts for our own I-pod and not have to buy it at a 300% markup.

...sorry to keep being so negative.

Radio Shack has just been one of the big dissapointment in my life.

...o'well, I guess life ain't so bad then, is it?

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

[The_Don 0]

Ham radio?

I am NOT being loud.
I'm being enthusiastic!