I dropped two TRAYS once... 4 feet long each. That was a big program, payroll I think. I lucked out later though. As the operator, my compiles (for school) always seemed to go to the front of the line.
memories for thos of us older than dirt
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MEM
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MEM
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BTD THAT , too! It's 'doable' but you kind of have to use your body to hide the screen from the rest of the library usersMEM, your post is worthless without pictures. Ah crud, I'm still at the library and I wouldn't be able to look at them anyway!!!:lol: Reminded me of the last time I was at a drive-in. There was lemon gin and a yellow Toyota Celica involved. It was half-past midnight when some a**hat started blowing his horn so we poked our heads up to take a look. Turns out my foot was caught in the steering wheel ......
HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
The funny thing is that at 37, I am not nearly as old as some of you (Sorry!), but I remember 11 of the things on the list. I know about all of them, but actually lived 11 of them. It may have to do with the fact that I grew up in the middle of nowhere outside of a little town that was probably operating 10-15 years behind the rest of the country.
Since we lived so far out, we didn't have things like delivered milk or bread, but I have friends who had those things.
I remember sleeping on the rear dash area of my dad's souped up 1970 Oldsmobile Omega while he drove to work at 0500. That was the first car we owned that had the ignition switch on the steering column. He had an older truck and car with the switches in the dash. That car and my first car, a souped up 1973 Buick Century (Boat) had the high beam switches on the floor, as well as brake pedals that proudly displayed "Disk Brakes" in the front only. I remember when all the cars used "regular" gas and my dad griping when gas went from about $.75 a gallon to $.80 a gallon. I also remember waiting in lines when there was some type of fuel shortage in the '70's.
The radios were all AM and my dad's Olds had an 8-track player. I first heard the Jackson 5's ABC song on a 45 single with some other song on the B side. Our TV was a state of the art RCA 26" color TV with two switches. The first covered channels 1-13, and the other had the VHS or something setting that covered channels 14-24. We got 4,7,13,14, and 23 (in spanish). Later 2 was added and 23 was dropped.
When I was old enough to drive, me and most of my friends, who also lived on ranches, all carried our rifles in our trucks to school. A lot of us had rifle racks to proudly display them, but my dad thought it was just asking for trouble, so I had to case mine behind the seat. Every time one of us got a new rifle, half the class including the teachers would all go out the parking lot to admire our new possession. No one ever even thougth of shooting someone at school, because that would be stupid. Every one also carried a pocket knife...some big, some small, but there were tons of them, and never a stabbing.
When you talked about the coaches with the paddles, that reminded me of our coaches who did the same thing. It seemed all the coaches and shop teachers had a wooden paddle with holes in the end of them for effect. They were kept on the top of the chalkboard as a very present reminder not to screw up, and some of them had names like "Old Mahogany". If one of those came down, we were filled with terror, someone got their *** paddled, and the parents got called. Then when we got home, we got our ***** kicked again for whatever it was we did that forced the teacher to paddle us. No teachers were sued, and no children were permanently scarred. Somehow we all lived.
Since we lived so far out, we didn't have things like delivered milk or bread, but I have friends who had those things.
I remember sleeping on the rear dash area of my dad's souped up 1970 Oldsmobile Omega while he drove to work at 0500. That was the first car we owned that had the ignition switch on the steering column. He had an older truck and car with the switches in the dash. That car and my first car, a souped up 1973 Buick Century (Boat) had the high beam switches on the floor, as well as brake pedals that proudly displayed "Disk Brakes" in the front only. I remember when all the cars used "regular" gas and my dad griping when gas went from about $.75 a gallon to $.80 a gallon. I also remember waiting in lines when there was some type of fuel shortage in the '70's.
The radios were all AM and my dad's Olds had an 8-track player. I first heard the Jackson 5's ABC song on a 45 single with some other song on the B side. Our TV was a state of the art RCA 26" color TV with two switches. The first covered channels 1-13, and the other had the VHS or something setting that covered channels 14-24. We got 4,7,13,14, and 23 (in spanish). Later 2 was added and 23 was dropped.
When I was old enough to drive, me and most of my friends, who also lived on ranches, all carried our rifles in our trucks to school. A lot of us had rifle racks to proudly display them, but my dad thought it was just asking for trouble, so I had to case mine behind the seat. Every time one of us got a new rifle, half the class including the teachers would all go out the parking lot to admire our new possession. No one ever even thougth of shooting someone at school, because that would be stupid. Every one also carried a pocket knife...some big, some small, but there were tons of them, and never a stabbing.
When you talked about the coaches with the paddles, that reminded me of our coaches who did the same thing. It seemed all the coaches and shop teachers had a wooden paddle with holes in the end of them for effect. They were kept on the top of the chalkboard as a very present reminder not to screw up, and some of them had names like "Old Mahogany". If one of those came down, we were filled with terror, someone got their *** paddled, and the parents got called. Then when we got home, we got our ***** kicked again for whatever it was we did that forced the teacher to paddle us. No teachers were sued, and no children were permanently scarred. Somehow we all lived.
wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
That's all a pack of f***ing lies!!!!!! ^^^^^^^^ :lol:
There's no such thing as a "souped up" 1970s GM anything!!!!!
LIAR!!!!! Making **** up to fit in.
Pathetic!!!
There's no such thing as a "souped up" 1970s GM anything!!!!!
LIAR!!!!! Making **** up to fit in.
Pathetic!!!
Fixed. No need to say thanks.
wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
Ooh! Ooh!
Pics from the portrait gallery were hand tinted black-and-whites!!
Pics from the portrait gallery were hand tinted black-and-whites!!
Crash Cash
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Oh, and another one... remember the car radios with the mechanical buttons for the stations? Where you pushed the button and the needle physically moved across the band to the station, and the button stayed pushed in until you pressed another button?
One of the younger coders once wondered out loud why the RadioButton widget was called that.
One of the younger coders once wondered out loud why the RadioButton widget was called that.
MEM
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I wistfully remember a time before pantyhose.
Remember when bra commercials on TV had women wearing bras over tight sweaters?
remember when Playboy didn't show the juicy parts?
The most popular sneakers were PF Flyers or Converse All Stars.
Posi-traction was new. Two stroke ring-a-ding's ran the streets.
Remember when bra commercials on TV had women wearing bras over tight sweaters?
remember when Playboy didn't show the juicy parts?
The most popular sneakers were PF Flyers or Converse All Stars.
Posi-traction was new. Two stroke ring-a-ding's ran the streets.
Dr. Rich
Arrested Development
My first job was working in a gas station... Gas was 19.9 cents per gallon, we gave away prizes like glasses. we washed the windshield and checked the tires and oil. Additionally we gave stamps like Green Stamps and Blue Chip Stamps... You could almost fill a VW on two dollars worth of gas.
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dcarver
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Foremost milk in glass bottles with paper tops?
Glass 5 gallon Sparklett's water bottles?
Little League baseball with no batting helmets?
White gas for Coleman stoves and lanterns, bought from the gas station?
Full on fireworks for July 4th? The kind that really go high and Boom?
Stingray bicycles with checkerboard pattern banana seats?
Sorry, I just can't play this game - I'm a young gun...
Glass 5 gallon Sparklett's water bottles?
Little League baseball with no batting helmets?
White gas for Coleman stoves and lanterns, bought from the gas station?
Full on fireworks for July 4th? The kind that really go high and Boom?
Stingray bicycles with checkerboard pattern banana seats?
Sorry, I just can't play this game - I'm a young gun...
Good ones Carver,
Little League baseball with no batting helmets? No helmets bicycling or roller skating (with steel wheels and a key) either, or anything for that matter except football
Stingray bicycles with checkerboard pattern banana seats?
I owned a purple stingray with white seat. Stolen at the public pool one day...
Sorry, I just can't play this game - I'm a young gun...compared to Beemerdons we can all feel young.
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MEM
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Do you guys watch "Mad Men" - tv series set in early 60s. GOOD show
Khunajawdge
Toto El Mundo!
Ahhh so many memories...
I think it's time to squeeze myself a small glass of lemonade and add a couple of teaspoons full of sugar and baking soda to mock a Sprite. Next, I'll make myself a mustard on white bread sandwich, with no meat, cheeze, or anything else, just the way mom used to feed me and my friends when they came over to play.
Oh and, my mom always bought day old bread, which meant we couldn't eat it the day it came home because we still had day old bread from a day or 2 before that we had to eat first.
My first skateboard was a metal wheeled roller skate that had been taken apart in the center and then the two sets of wheels were nailed to the bottom of a 2x4 with 16 penny's bent over because they were too long.
Mom made all of my clothes, they were cheaper than the one's you buy today made in Pakistan.
Dad never bought anything that he couldn't pay cash for right on the spot with at least a 10% discount.
The funnest family outings that I remember were when Dad drove us over to San Juan Bautista in his DeSoto for a picnic at the Mission. He'd stop at a small mom and pop in Aromas and mom would buy chicken tamales and avocados from a lady there. Upon arrival at destination, mom would set up a picnic on a white sheet on the lawn out in front of the mission under the olive trees, while I ran on the grass, and dad strolled nearby smoking his weekly cigar.
I think it's time to squeeze myself a small glass of lemonade and add a couple of teaspoons full of sugar and baking soda to mock a Sprite. Next, I'll make myself a mustard on white bread sandwich, with no meat, cheeze, or anything else, just the way mom used to feed me and my friends when they came over to play.
Oh and, my mom always bought day old bread, which meant we couldn't eat it the day it came home because we still had day old bread from a day or 2 before that we had to eat first.
My first skateboard was a metal wheeled roller skate that had been taken apart in the center and then the two sets of wheels were nailed to the bottom of a 2x4 with 16 penny's bent over because they were too long.
Mom made all of my clothes, they were cheaper than the one's you buy today made in Pakistan.
Dad never bought anything that he couldn't pay cash for right on the spot with at least a 10% discount.
The funnest family outings that I remember were when Dad drove us over to San Juan Bautista in his DeSoto for a picnic at the Mission. He'd stop at a small mom and pop in Aromas and mom would buy chicken tamales and avocados from a lady there. Upon arrival at destination, mom would set up a picnic on a white sheet on the lawn out in front of the mission under the olive trees, while I ran on the grass, and dad strolled nearby smoking his weekly cigar.
stevec677
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My favorite: No answering machines. If you called and no one answered, you either called back later or ran over to your friend's house to see if they were outside and couldn't hear the phone.
Also: Late 70's the first tv remote control was on a long cord. The advantage over today's remote is that you never lost it. Disadvantage: If you ran thru the living room and dad was watching tv....yup, trip over the cord, rip it out of dad's hand and get grounded for the rest of the day.
Also: Late 70's the first tv remote control was on a long cord. The advantage over today's remote is that you never lost it. Disadvantage: If you ran thru the living room and dad was watching tv....yup, trip over the cord, rip it out of dad's hand and get grounded for the rest of the day.
Patriot
Isabella is Lazarus
beemerdons
Certifiable Old Fart
That's a very odd picture of Hot RodZilla! Why isn't there an Armadillo under AJ's left arm?
Fixed. No need to say thanks.
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