Evil Dog
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Mom doing the laundry with a wringer washer and then hanging the laundry out in the driveway to dry.
I remember all of these, you?
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wheelgun28
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My wife brought me these a few years ago.
I still have a rotary phone
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KdF
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And it works just fine. Right?
This is strange.....
I have a friend (not a gun person) and today he brought up an old restaurant that used to be in town. I told him that I remembered the restaurant but I never went inside. He said, "Yeah, they had the jukeboxes on the tables."
So they were around when I was growing up but I just never encountered one. STRANGE that he would bring this up out of the clear blue sky.
I have a friend (not a gun person) and today he brought up an old restaurant that used to be in town. I told him that I remembered the restaurant but I never went inside. He said, "Yeah, they had the jukeboxes on the tables."
So they were around when I was growing up but I just never encountered one. STRANGE that he would bring this up out of the clear blue sky.
KdF
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Yep. I figure around 73 or 74 they became popular. Then Ma Bell started charging extra for touch tone capability. I remember the white punch cards they used to stick in the top of business phones to speed dial them. I still have 3 '40 era phones, and ones a wall phone. They actually had a ring I can hear
It's really astounding...
At first cassettes were crummy, ok for voice. But it is really astounding that they made such leaps and bounds in improving the technology while 8 tracks had the inherent flaws of jamming up, head alignment, changing tracks in the middle of the song etc. and they just petered out.
At first cassettes were crummy, ok for voice. But it is really astounding that they made such leaps and bounds in improving the technology while 8 tracks had the inherent flaws of jamming up, head alignment, changing tracks in the middle of the song etc. and they just petered out.
All 15 here and I'll add vacuum operated windshield wipers. I hated them for slowing down when you needed them to go faster. How about overdrive transmissions that engaged with the knob under the dash. My dad was a barber, so instead of getting the belt, for misbehaving, my brothers and I would get the razor strop. Good times, eh?
cmort666
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I'm fifty six and remember mail order ads for guns in gun magazines where you could get a Waffenamt stamped Astra 600 or Unique Kriegsmodell, with holster and cleaning kit for less than you can buy a consumer grade IWB holster these days.
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cmort666
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My aunt had a cassette recorder that used non-standard cassettes. Superficially, they looked the same, but the posts in the recorder and the holes in the cassettes were in different places than the standard ones. I never knew where she got it, and don't recall the brand.
When I was a small boy, I would ride in the car, up front with my parents, standing between them. When I was 5 or so, I could name the brand of almost any car we met. I remember when the only foreign cars were European. I remember Vauxalls. I remember when Ford and Chevrolet had only 2 body styles, full size and sports cars.
millisec
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LOL I'm 54 and at least at some point saw/did most all. When I was a kid there were people/relatives that still had wood burning stoves, outhouses and hand pump water (usually pump inside on kitchen sink though) . My great great uncle was a fairly well off tobacco farmer and still enjoyed those luxuries.
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