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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2008, 09:07:16 PM »
I remember when I got my first computer, a Timex Sinclair, in the early 80's.  It had 2K of RAM and the only long-term storage was a cassette deck.    Whew... I feel old.
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2008, 09:08:40 PM »
Yes Warhawk, I had the best of the best...and Im proud to say that.  My dad worked hard to provide for his family, even if it meant tinkering with bicycles.  It wasnt anything to be sitting at the table for supper adn we get a knock at the door and some kid ( most likely one that i went to school with) would have his bike wiht a flat tire...wanting my dad to fix it for him so he could get home before his curfew.  Like always my dad would say step inside sit down with us have a glass of koolaid and when he was done eating he would go out and fix the flat.  
I think everyone goes thru the "memory" period sometime in their life.  Always wanting how it was back then.  Here we are in a society who is always wanting bigger and better....but deep down inside all of us....we want the "Back Then".  I know I do, especially for my kids.  I really think our kids would be more well behaved, better educated and truely know what life is all about if they could for a short period of time....experience what we had back when we were younger.  I know folks older than we are could sit here adn say the same thing about us.  It just seems like there should be an end to making this better or improving that....and etc.  Before long all we will have to do is just push a button from our bed in the morning and everythign for the day will be done at that instant....dont laugh...it could happen.  
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2008, 10:08:19 PM »
I remember when I got my first computer, a Timex Sinclair, in the early 80's.  It had 2K of RAM and the only long-term storage was a cassette deck.    Whew... I feel old.

I still have my Apple Macintosh Plus from 1986.  It had a full megabyte of memory, which was a huge deal at the time.  It had no hard drive -- if you wanted one you had to purchase it separately and they were not cheap.  It's sitting on a shelf in my garage ever since my dad told me he was going to throw it away if I didn't get it out of his basement.  I just can't part with it for some reason.  I thought I was the only person in the world to still have one of those, until I helped my best friend move a couple of months ago and he had his older brother's Mac from 1983.   ;D

I also still have my first VHS VCR that I got for my birthday in 1984. It still works, but I stopped using a few years ago because it didn't have a wireless remote and the wired one that came with it didn't work anymore.

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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #33 on: January 15, 2008, 11:36:18 PM »
I remember spending the afternoon collecting bottles on the side of the road to return to the store and spending the money on a ice cold nugrape in a bottle that cost 10 cents and eating pushups and drumstick ice creams!
I remember the evil kenival motor cycle that would jump the evil kenival van!
I remember battleing GI Joe with the invicible stretch armstrong
I remember my mother driving me to the 7-11 in the volkeswagon bug and sending me in (5 years old) to buy things!
I remember leaving chicken necks in the sun for a day and then tying a string on one end and a stick on the other, then mom would take my brother and I to the beach not to play, but to catch crabs for dinner!
I remember watching ultra-man in the mornings at a neighbors house while we waiting for the school bus to arrive!
I remember building a fort in the woods and making bows and arrows and spears from sticks to battle other kids with as we protected our fort.
I remember playing stick ball/half rubber with the kids from the neighborhood in the middle of the street!
I remember getting the Roy Clark guitar lesson book with stickers for the fret board- Also remember watching Hee-Haw and Gomer Pyle and Sonny and Cher as a family!
I remember my comic book collection took up three of my dresser drawers!

Wow, the things that just pop in your head....
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2008, 12:29:15 AM »
Geeze, you guyz r young !  ya better sit down , I REMEMBER : the Kennedy funeral with the cassons and the horse drawn funeral cart ,watching on our black n white tv with rabbit ears  Jack Ruby shooting James Earl Ray in the basement of the police headquaters, Trains around the bottom of our christmas tree, the Lawerence Welk show "and a onea and a twoa" ol bakelight 78rpm records , our old 4door chevy with the mohair seats ,THOSE were the "cats ass" the inline6 with the glass fuel filters and the 1 ply toilet paper oil filter , vacume operated windshield wipers,  pull out THROTTLE on the dash to warm up the car, or a poormans cruise control, "HONEST BOX"'s when the store was closed ya just took what ya needed and left the $ in the "honest box" by the door,  BEFORE slurpee's there was MR. ICEY . I REMEMBER when McDonalds signs said "over 5000 sold"not 1 BILLION.  Milk was delivered to your "box" with a paper cap, You were "in",  if you had a pair of white hightop Converse all stars,  or Your POPS would take ya to the barbershop and let ya have a waterfall',  ducktail,or a  flattop, that ya had to use crewcut wax on . IF you were standing on the corner after dark and ya heard a loud BANG ya didnt run cuz ya knew it was ol man johnson hadnt got the hang of advancing the timing on his flathead harley and it was just a BACKFIRE , NOT a gunshot. When kids could tell ya WHO lived where, how many kids where their dad worked and IF they had a car, FOR BLOCKS AROUND !  REMEMBER when the family car ONLY came out on sunday and your pops rode the bus back n forth to work and the bus ride was 10/25cents. You used to be able to buy "recaps" for your car for about 2$  the milkman delivered milk n eggs thru a hole in the house and right into the back of the ICEBOX that you actually had to put BLOCKICE in , wringer washers that you had to pick up the clothes and run them thru the "wringer" that swiveled over the top THEN you knew what it meant to have "YOUR BUTT IN THE WRINGER" !   CHURCH's doors were open 24/7 to help people in need , the lunchbars at F.W.WOOLWORTH and S.S. KRESSEGE where you got REAL "soda"pop served in papercones standing tall in chrome holders , pop coolers that you reached down into and had a poptop opener on the end and the "honestbox"to pay for your "soda", the neighbor kids would FIGHT to see who would get to push the mailmans cart with the 2 wheels in the back 1 in the front and leather saddlebags. Penny loafers with the penny in the top. and if you were from the south n yer family was doin better than most... you were "WALKIN IN HIGH COTTON"  cuz you were in the money flow. When ya got gas , ya got your oil checked the windshield washed and a walkaround to check the tires, FOR FREE !!   boy , those WERE the dayz  
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2008, 08:09:21 AM »
Yes and I am sure PORKY you remember a time where your mom sat at a spinning wheel making yarn for your socks.! LOL......just rubbin ya bro...thats funny.  Now im gonna go eat me some Sausage links and Bacon!
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2008, 08:18:07 AM »
I remember when...

Bobby Valentine and Don Drysdale were on Dodgers baseball cards...

Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West were on basketball cards...

I went and saw Billy Jack at the movies for 75 cents

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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2008, 08:20:37 AM »

....I REMEMBER...Jack Ruby shooting James Earl Ray in the basement of the police headquaters


Actually Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald

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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #38 on: January 16, 2008, 08:37:22 AM »
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh! LOL

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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #39 on: January 16, 2008, 09:43:01 AM »
I remember playing stick ball/half rubber with the kids from the neighborhood in the middle of the street!

That brought back a billion memories on one....

Playing football, stickball, whatever in the street and every few minutes...

"CAR"

I can still almost hear it.

Did you guys ever count "aligators" before a blitz in street football?
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #40 on: January 16, 2008, 09:50:12 AM »
I remember playing stick ball/half rubber with the kids from the neighborhood in the middle of the street!

That brought back a billion memories on one....

Playing football, stickball, whatever in the street and every few minutes...

"CAR"

I can still almost hear it.

Did you guys ever count "aligators" before a blitz in street football?

Or we would count Mississippi's
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #41 on: January 16, 2008, 09:51:57 AM »
I remember playing stick ball/half rubber with the kids from the neighborhood in the middle of the street!

That brought back a billion memories on one....

Playing football, stickball, whatever in the street and every few minutes...

"CAR"

I can still almost hear it.

Did you guys ever count "aligators" before a blitz in street football?

Or we would count Mississippi's

We counted "alligators" also. Mississippi? I thought that'd be too hard of a word for ya, PP!  :*))


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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #42 on: January 16, 2008, 11:02:30 AM »
I remember watching the movie RAD and then building a track in an empty field by our house - took a week to build, but we did it anyway.

I remember when you had a NERF football, basketball, dart gun, and just about everything else, but you only used them indoors because to use it outdoors was wussie.

I remember when the GOTCHA paintball gun came out and Jim McMahon was the spokesperson.

I remember when Laser Tag was HUGE and we'd spend all night running around the neighborhood playing - until the batteries ran out.

I remember when Intertech squirt guns looked like real guns - they were battery powered and came in a 45 caliber model and a 9MM Uzi model and shot a continuous stream of water.

For you BMXers, I remember Skyway Tuff Wheels that you could put in a freezer to "true up" if you bent them.  We'd always take ours to the freezers at the Safeway near by since you couldn't fit a rim in your house freezer.

I remember when a Huffy was a cheap bike you'd get at Sears or Montgomery Wards - now they're good bikes.

I remember Big Wheels and the crash up derbies that we'd have in the neighborhood.  You were cool if you had a siren on yours.

Ahhh, the memories...
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #43 on: January 16, 2008, 11:21:57 AM »
I forgot this one.....DIRT CLOD FIGHTS.  ^)$$
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Re: I remember when....
« Reply #44 on: January 16, 2008, 11:26:23 AM »
You all talkin about playin in the road.  I remember this prank we would pull all the time..didnt matter what time of year..it was always fun.  We would take fishing line...and a black magic marker and paint it black. Tie one end to a stick and the other end to an old purse from mom's closet.  Stuff it up a little bit...but not too much..gotta make it look real.  Throw it out in the street...hide behind a bush and when someone would stop to pick it up...just when they were about to touch it...you yank on that string and run as fast as you can.  LOL. There are two instances that will remain in my mind forever...one is two cars following behind each other...first car sees it...she pulls up ahead and stops.  Second car sees it too she stops before it. They both jump out, the first one hollering..I SEEN IT FIRST I SEEN IT FIRST...they are squabbling over who was gonna get it....actually takin each other to the ground...the 2nd lady reaches for it and we yank it....oh you talk about two ladies getting the sh*t scared out of em...lol.  Second one was city police detective.  He stops his car....opens door and sorta gets out of car to reach down to get it....we yanked the purse...he jumps up hits head on frame of car....pissed off, he flips on his lights and takes off around the block...on his loud speaker...he hollers..OK WHO EVER YOU ARE IF YOU THINK THAT WAS FUNNY SEEING ME HIT MY HEAD WELL YOU WONT THINK IT IS FUNNY ONCE I CATCH YOU!  lol...we run inside and my parents are like why are you so outta breath lol.....we couldnt resist the laughter.  Another time a semi truck pulls up...stops his wheels right on top of the string...gets out cuts the string and takes the purse.  He hollers....HA HA HA.....SEEN THAT DONE THAT!  ...butthole takes off with it.  LOL..we had to hit mom up for another purse.

 



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