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Old 11-05-2007, 07:19 PM   #41
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Hey, Roger, I still have a reel to reel mower. Got it with my college graduation money back in '76. It has moved 12 or 13 times with us, but probably only mowed half that much.

The original Beetle - hey, we still have that too.

A VW bus (Don't go knockin' if it is rockin'). Almost have one of those too, just in pickup form. Look around NE IA, Roger, you might see our old bay window bus.



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Old 11-05-2007, 07:36 PM   #42
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I remember when Black Jack gum was available at every counter where candy could be found. I remember real soda jerks making chocolate Cokes on Saturday at the corner drug store soda fountain. I remember my first automobile that had hand operated windshield wipers and a hand-choke on the dashboard. I remember a gas war when gasoline was 12 cents a gallon. I remember being able to go the the "air-cooled" theater on Saturdays for a nickel. I remember when the trucks that haul things from coast to coast weren't as large as today's average sized pickup trucks with an 18' U-haul trailer attached. I remember when all roads were two lane............one each direction...................with the lanes not even as wide as the ones today. I even remember when we'd go on a vacation and not lock the doors at home.
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Old 11-05-2007, 07:46 PM   #43
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About the only thing that comes to my mind at the moment that I remember NOT being around when I was a kid, but is now are these.......





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Gone are the days of being able to just walk around the land and explore. I remember when I was a kid my folks would send the kids outside to play. We would end up a couple of 40's away before we'd decide to head home. The people never seemed to mind, and the kids all new enough not to damage the property we were on.
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Old 11-05-2007, 08:54 PM   #44
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I can remember the ration cards, not having enough to eat, my dad selling his '29 Oakland, traveling on a train with a real steam locomotive and coal smoke all around.

Then there was bicycling across the border to pick up an orange or a banana from our luckier neighbors, calling my dad on our ultra modern phone (#1561, no party line), etc. etc.

However, CindyL, today I have a real reel mower, but my reel-to-reel tape deck is long gone.
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Old 11-05-2007, 09:08 PM   #45
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Old 11-05-2007, 09:09 PM   #46
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We still have one of those 8mm reel to reel film projectors. And it "really" works.

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Old 11-05-2007, 09:13 PM   #47
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A hand water pump on the kitchen counter that pumped water from the cistern?

Coal bins and coal chutes!

Heating oil barrels in the basement.

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Old 11-05-2007, 09:25 PM   #48
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Can anyone give the full names of the 7 castaways on Gilligan's Island?
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Old 11-05-2007, 09:29 PM   #49
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Bob Denver as Gilligan
Alan Hale Jr. as Skipper Jonas Grumby
Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III
Natalie Schafer as Eunice Wentworth 'Lovey' Howell
Tina Louise as Ginger Grant
Russell Johnson as Roy 'The Professor' Hinkley Jr., PH.D.
Dawn Wells as Mary Ann Summers
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Old 11-05-2007, 09:31 PM   #50
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A beard

That's rough

And overgrown

Is better than

A chaperone

Burma-Shave

He lit a match

to check his tank.

Now they call

him skinless frank.

Burma Shave

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Old 11-05-2007, 09:47 PM   #51
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Hi: Watching for the "IceMan" to put ice in the ice box!!!
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Old 11-05-2007, 10:04 PM   #52
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to check his tank.

Now they call

him skinless frank.

Burma Shave

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Old 11-05-2007, 10:27 PM   #53
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Brylle Cream, a little dab'l do ya.
6 ounce Coca Cola bottles for only a nickel
Burma Shave signs
Gasoline, 16 cents a gallon, and that at a gravity pump. Just watch the gas inside the glass tank
Brodie knobs on the steering wheel
Putting Fullers Earth on the clutch plate to absorb the oil cause it leaked onto the plate and the car wouldn't go
Ah yes, the rumble seat on the back of a model A coupe.
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Old 11-06-2007, 03:09 AM   #54
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If daisies are
Your favorite flower
Keep pushing up
Those miles per hour

Ben and Anna
Made a hit
Ben neglected beard
Benanna split

Men with whiskers
Neath their noses
Ought to kiss
Like Eskimoses

Don't try passing
On a slope
Unless you have
A periscope

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My real reel mower is sitting in the shed waiting for next summer
My husband has a big box of radio tubes - you never know when they will come in handy

And now I can't get the Maverick theme song out of my head!
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Old 11-06-2007, 05:57 AM   #55
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Streamlined transportation...

The de Havilland Comet


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Old 11-06-2007, 10:03 AM   #56
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How bout the de Havilland Beaver which is probably still running ? The ones I flew in when living up north, one thought every nut and bolt was going to shake loose, and not uncommon for a pontoon to fall off.
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Old 11-06-2007, 02:39 PM   #57
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Old 11-06-2007, 02:43 PM   #58
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Didn't the Comets get grounded?

Something about them falling out of the sky or something...
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Old 11-06-2007, 05:10 PM   #59
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Yeah well I got my mouth soaped with Lifebouy soap for swearing ! I also owned a Mao styled dress. Very style conscious in those days. All the sock hops where the girls danced with other girls cus the boys were too cool (shy). We did the Popeye, Mashed Potatoes, Stroll, etc. dances I mean.
Going to reply to my own post. I need to make a change it wasn't a Mao styled dress it was a Nehru with a stand up type collar. Gotta get things right. Pointed padded bra's that some boy would come along and make a dent in it.
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Old 11-06-2007, 05:16 PM   #60
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Didn't the Comets get grounded?

Something about them falling out of the sky or something...
Actually it was metal fatigue around the windows that caused them to blow out when the cabin was pressurized at altitude... but they were still really cool and streamlined!

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