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From: St. Charles, Missouri.
Received a cool E-Mail Today.
How many of y'all remember...?
- When it took time for the TV to "warm up" (Radio Tubes?)
- Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes, or towels hidden inside.
- School's threatened to keep kid's back a grade if they failed, and they did.
- Stuff from the store came without safety caps and seals because no one poisoned strangers.
- When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to what waited for you at home.
- Summer's filled with bike ride's, Hula Hoops, and Kool Aid.
- Howdy Doody.
- The Peanut Gallery.
- The Lone Ranger.
- The Shadow Know's.
- Nellie Bell.
- Roy & Dale.
- Trigger and Buttermilk.
- How many of these do you remember...?
- Candy Cigarettes.
- Wax Coke Shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
- Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
- Coffee and Ice Cream parlors with table side Juke Boxes.
- Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry Chewing Gum.
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
- Newsreels before the movie.
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix. (Ex: Yukon2-601)
- Pea Shooters.
- Hi-Fi's and 45 RPM Record's.
- 78 RPM Record's were the "new" thing.
- Green Postage Stamp's.
- Mime-0-graph paper.
- The Fort Apache Play Set.
- Do you remember when...?
- Having a weapon in school meant bein' caught with a slingshot.
- Saturday Morning cartoons were actually worth waking up for.
- Oly-Oly-Oxen-Free made perfect sense.
- The worst embarrassment was gettin' picked last for a team.
- War was a card game.
- Baseball card's in the spoke's of any bicycle transformed it into a motorcycle.
- Taking "drugs" meant orange, chewable flavored aspirin.
- Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
- If y'all can remember most of these, then you have lived. I wish I was as lucky as you guy's...This was fun typin' all this out by hand, with a typewriter... Sorry for the flashbacks.
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From: La La Land
Here's how Canada remembers veterans:
YouTube - Terry Kelly - A Pittance of Time (Official Version)
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YouTube - Terry Kelly - A Pittance of Time (Official Version)
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From: Riverside, CA
Good pick Marv. Today I honor my Step-father, USMC. Semper Fi. My grandfather, Army. My other grandfather,Air Force. Who Dares, Wins.
I honor my fallen brethren, the group I grew up with. Out of high school,they enlisted, and now our group of 12 has dwindled to 3. 2 are still fighting.
I also honor all service men and women. Thank you all and god bless.
I honor my fallen brethren, the group I grew up with. Out of high school,they enlisted, and now our group of 12 has dwindled to 3. 2 are still fighting.
I also honor all service men and women. Thank you all and god bless.
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From: Riverside, CA
Man,it would figure. high winds again. We're talking trees being riped up from the ground type of winds, and I get to foot patrol in it. Oh joy. I won't be patrolling for long though. If it gets too damn windy, theres no way I can effectively do my job. Especially with debris flying like it was last night. This should be interesting.
See ya'all in the morning.
See ya'all in the morning.
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Joined: Aug 2007
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From: St. Charles, Missouri.
We gotta another old vintage Singer.
Wanna see picture's...? (All I had was my cell phone)
This one was free, it's a little rough.
It even has the orginal woden case, which is falling apart.
As well as an oil can, and this one has a engine, and is all there, it has a light as well. It's a Model 99, The Treadle one down stairs is a 127 Model.
(As you can see, it's not as ornate as the 127.)
Wanna see picture's...? (All I had was my cell phone)
This one was free, it's a little rough.
It even has the orginal woden case, which is falling apart.
As well as an oil can, and this one has a engine, and is all there, it has a light as well. It's a Model 99, The Treadle one down stairs is a 127 Model.
(As you can see, it's not as ornate as the 127.)