Oh my, showing my age
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RLSharp
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carson said:
Wasn't that called the "wing?"
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carson
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Kids today don't know about VHS tapes, manners, AM radios with tubes that had to warm up before sound came out, respect, 3 on the tree shifting, earning money, church keys, tube type tires, saving for a rainy day, coal oil, leaded gas, black white TV, Walt Disney on Sunday night, Ed Sullivan, Phil Silvers, Art Linkletter, To the Moon, Alice, Don't open that closet, cars without seat belts, cars with fins, mumbly peg, milk bottles with cream out the top when it was too cold, bumper jacks, poodle skirts, intake manifold whistles,..........
Tom and Margi
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Doctors who made house calls.
Molaker
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No, they went out when power steering came in.Ned said:
Molaker
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;D ;D ;D I have a Jeep Wrangler and last summer one of my grandkids and I were out in it and I told him to roll don't the window. After a few minutes, I looked back at him and he then looked at me and said, "How?"Just Lou said:
Molaker
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Carson, do you remember running out to the ice truck and snitching chunks of ice while the ice man carried a block to the house? Houston, Tx in July, this was as big a treat as the Popcycle man.carson said:
Charlie 5320
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AH, the good old days, well maybe not. I like having whole house heat and and air conditioning. Must be a lot of old timers on here. Wing windows went out in 1968 for GM when they came out with astro ventalation. Still have a 8 track player in my 77 Trans Am, my son keeps saying I need to take it out. Told him he can do that after I'm gone. Some things have changed for the better, don't ya think? Never would of thought I'd be sitting in my recliner typing on a laptop on the internet. ;D ;D
Somebody mentioned black and white T.V. but did not go far enough, with only 13 channels of which only 4/5 could be brought in and no remote, you had to get up and turn it on, change channels by turning a knob and then move the antenna (what's that the kid said). You want to punish your children, make them use one of those for a week, I'm sure they will behave after that. Of course there is always the possibility that they will turn you in to child welfare for abuse.
Molaker
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How about memeograph - the pre-Xerox copier? Typing up the "stencile" error free was a challenge, but then loading it on the drum and running off your copies could be a total mess.majfrizz said:
SeilerBird
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anyone remember "carbon paper"??????majfrizz said:
mylo
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Wendy said:
My 93 Toyota pickup still has those. Oh, and so does my RV. We used to call them cigarette windows.
My RV still has 2-point "suicide" belts on the captain's chairs, too...
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Tom and Margi
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Molaker said:
And the teacher's favorite reproduction method, "ditto" paper. Blue gunk on the back of white medium, run off on a "ditto machine".
Tom and Margi
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majfrizz said:
I do! First part-time job before college at 17 years of age: typing wills and oil leases for an attorney. Sometimes required five or six sheets of carbon paper. He did not allow erasures on wills or leases, so if a mistake was made, we started all over from the beginning. We learned accuracy the hard way.
White out had not yet been invented.Margi
gwcowgill
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And I suppose you all got your green stamps.
