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Old 02-26-2017, 08:13 PM   #41
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Old 02-26-2017, 08:29 PM   #43
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I had to laugh at this in Tapex signature. For an old person that can have other meaning. I know it's off topic but I couldn't resist.
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Old 02-26-2017, 08:36 PM   #44
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Old 02-26-2017, 08:37 PM   #45
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As long as we're on Nostalgia Road:

I can remember my rich neighbors having a subscription to TV Guide.

Taking a typewriter class in school. Having a shop class in school.

Walter Cronkite... when he came on the television, you knew it was serious and true.

Soda vending machines that dropped a cup, then filled the cup.

Transistor radios (the expensive ones had FM)

Pull-tab cans...the bane of the modern metal detectorist.

S&H Green stamps. We got to pick out Christmas presents from their catalog. My mom would even time her grocery shopping to days when you got double stamps.

Toothpaste tube keys

Lots of pay toilets

Barnum's Animal Cracker boxes with the string (I recently learned this was so they could be hung as Christmas tree ornaments/gifts) and was not a carrying handle as I thought my entire youth.

Receiving the Sears Wish Book catalog (I can remember fighting with my brother over it)
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Life seemed a lot simpler back then, but I appreciate the technological advances. Just think, if it wasn't for this technology, many of us would not be reading this right now, or made the friendships we have thru this forum.
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Old 02-26-2017, 08:41 PM   #46
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Attachment 130742 We had this in just about everything my Mother made
Don't remember that and glad I don't. I do remember when the first maragine came out. Twisting the plastic bag it came in to mix the ingredients together.
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Old 02-26-2017, 09:04 PM   #47
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I have a couple of 60'ish models that I forgot to return to uncle Sam...
Exactly. They made you work for your "meal" back then; came in C rations. I kept one on my dog tag chain. They made a larger one, that was called P-51. I opened thousands of cans in the mess hall, Frankfurt GE in 65 - 67... packaged for Korea... late 50s. The funny thing was the Hershey chocolate bar... it would turn almost white... but tasted just the same and was good. No one wanted to eat it, but I sure did... I kept them and gave them away

That knob... we simply called it a Spinner; everyone had one. I have one on my little Craftsman riding mower right now.

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I remember when no one gave any thought to eating eggs and red meat and no one even knew what Red Dye #2 was.

You could get a soda with cyclamates or sugar or even one that used 10-2-4 as a Logo.

Want one that was uncola, you could have that as well.

Department stores that had a snack bar where one could order a Malted or a shake with some fries if you wanted.
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Old 02-26-2017, 09:16 PM   #49
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Woolworths lunch counter was always a treat for a hot fudge sundae or a REAL ice cream soda.
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Old 02-26-2017, 09:19 PM   #50
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Ah.......Soda Counters.........

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Old 02-26-2017, 09:24 PM   #51
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Don't remember that and glad I don't. I do remember when the first maragine came out. Twisting the plastic bag it came in to mix the ingredients together.
I grew up on a SW Iowa farm, no central heat, no electricity, no running water. The only entertainment was a battery operated radio. My dad used to like to hear the Friday night fights. We had a wind charger to keep the battery up to snuff. What a treat to go out to the outhouse in 10 degree weather with wind literally blowing up you A** and wiping with a Sears catalog page. I used to get to mix the margarine color. We sold the milk and cream and bought margarine to save money. And they say those were the "good old days". Now days DW's idea of roughing it is a B&W TV at the Holiday Inn.
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Old 02-26-2017, 09:28 PM   #52
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Department stores that had a snack bar where one could order a Malted or a shake with some fries if you wanted.
Brings back...

My first pay check job was in a restaurant. I did well enough that I got "promoted" from bus boy to soda jerk. Made all the shakes and ice cream deserts along with other miscellaneous duties. Paid the same as bus boy though...

After I moved on to cook, they made the waitresses handle the ice cream stuff, either I was too good, or just awful!
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Remember using one of these? OOP'S Some one done tiped my outhouse over! LOL. (Built this to store all my lawn tools in.)
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Old 02-26-2017, 10:43 PM   #54
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Not like that, too hard to sit on.
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I grew up on a SW Iowa farm, no central heat, no electricity, no running water. The only entertainment was a battery operated radio. My dad used to like to hear the Friday night fights. We had a wind charger to keep the battery up to snuff. What a treat to go out to the outhouse in 10 degree weather with wind literally blowing up you A** and wiping with a Sears catalog page. I used to get to mix the margarine color. We sold the milk and cream and bought margarine to save money. And they say those were the "good old days". Now days DW's idea of roughing it is a B&W TV at the Holiday Inn.
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3 channels, wow. Remember the test pattern and the national anthem at sign off. Survived riding my bike without a helmet, no seat belts when growing up, drank water from a hose, played outside (there was no video games to play) played tag (can't touch anyone now). It's a miracle we grew up.
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Our first tv we had to put antenna on top of hill and still only got one station also remember p38 still have the one I used in nam we made our own lard after butchering hogs in the fall and salt curing the meat
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