r3dot Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Ugh who remembers the gen 4 glock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ASH Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 1 hour ago, KBKEITH said: dude i had a redline pl20 back in the day and a diamondback turbo . buddies had greg hill and hutch trick star. that brings memories back . i wish i still had mine they go for bout 3,000 bucks now if you can find them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 No security cameras. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) 16 hours ago, Eric said: That was the first TV remote control that my childhood household had growing up, that didn't have two legs and a head of unruly dirty blonde hair. Before that, us kids were the remotes. We changed the channels, we adjusted the rabbit ears. We fixed the vertical hold and on bad reception days, one of us would often end up having to stand there with a hand on the TV antenna. to improve the reception for everyone else. My father bought a state of the art TV with a solenoid driven tuner, and a cord that went the length of the room. We were one of the first in town with a "remote control". I think it was the 10" Sylvania. We lived 60 miles from the TV stations, but had a 4 story sheet copper roof with a 20' mast and huge Yagi antenna on it, so we could pick up the TV stations damn near "line of sight". We were one of the first TV's in town. 4 Channels available. Watched the power changeover of one station a couple of years later, when they went to 100,000 Watts and the snow simply went away. Fascinating. Edited September 5, 2017 by janice6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Quote When I was adventurous in my youth, I tapped into the phone line with a Carbon Microphone connected in series with a pair of headphones. I could (and did) make calls from my "room". The operator would answer and I would tell her the number I wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJHNSN Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 My kids would not believe me when I told them we had a phone in our house that you had to "dial" and it was physically attached to the kitchen wall in our house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clancy Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 8 minutes ago, JJHNSN said: My kids would not believe me when I told them we had a phone in our house that you had to "dial" and it was physically attached to the kitchen wall in our house. I remember getting a 20 foot long phone cord, and thought that being able to take the phone into the bathroom with me was so cool. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 5, 2017 Author Administrators Share Posted September 5, 2017 22 minutes ago, Clancy said: I remember getting a 20 foot long phone cord, and thought that being able to take the phone into the bathroom with me was so cool. Long cords were great, but the long curly cords could be a huge pain in the ass. They would kink up and get tangled really badly. Remember spinning the phone headset, or spinning around yourself, to take the kinks out of a long phone cord? I remember my first cordless phone. It was in the late eighties. It was a Cobra wireless phone. It was not cheap. It had that long retractable chrome antenna, that you would pull out when you took a call. It seemed pretty high-tech back then. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJHNSN Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 We had a Cobra and thought it was awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 The days of several vehicles making a high school or college trip, communication kept by CB... Man that seems like a long time ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 2 hours ago, janice6 said: I had a 51 Cadillac like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJHNSN Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 How about the days of your parents fretting over the latest car break down when the quality of American cars was in the crapper? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Hi-test gasoline. Leaded gasoline. Getting your homework done before the Charlie Brown special (for whatever holiday). Looking forward to Christmas cartoons because there was only one time a year when Mother Nature got to break up the fight between the Heat Miser and Snow Miser. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROB Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 AFX slotcars, especially the magna traction ones with the orbital positioned pancake armatures that would rotate the car like it was stepping out under power. So cool. They always had the coolest bodies too, like a Baja bug or Datsun 510. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XSIV4S Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 2 people that were miles (or hundreds of miles apart) picking a time and place to meet? It generally seemed to work out fine without satellites, GPS, cell phones, on-board navigation or any other high tech gadget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkdweller22 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 On 9/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, Eric said: Who remembers when the largest container you could buy soda pop in was a glass 32oz bottle and was intended for a whole family? I think those bottles weighed more than their contents and they had a good deposit value on them? When I was in third grade, my oldest brother (Who was eleven or twelve) went to the store, to buy a 32oz bottle of Dr Pepper for everyone. On the way back home, he dropped the bottle on the concrete. As the bottle broke, the soda foamed up forcefully enough to launch a piece of the glass into the back of his leg, hitting a small vein or something. He was only about half a block from home when it happened, but by the time he got in the house and removed his shoe, there was enough blood accumulated in his shoe to poor out. AND we didn't get any damned soda! Who remembers spending summer days on the hunt for soda bottles that paid a deposit, so you could blow the money on more soda and candy? An enterprising kid could keep himself in snack money all summer, if he put some effort into it. My brother has a scar across his upper lip to this day from one of those 32oz glass bottles. He was about four. He pulled it out of the fridge at a party we were having and wanted my dad to open it for him. My dad told him to ask mom, on the way he slipped with the bottle in hand and it shattered as he fell on it. His upper lip was cut clear across and hanging where you could see his gums under his lip. It was pretty graphic. Lots of blood and stitches later, he was ok, but the scar is still there. That kid is 43 now.... Damn time flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkdweller22 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 11 hours ago, TBO said: The days of several vehicles making a high school or college trip, communication kept by CB... Man that seems like a long time ago. We road tripped to DC and Disney World when I was a kid with walkie talkies. It was like a three car party! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkdweller22 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 15 hours ago, r3dot said: Ugh who remembers the gen 4 glock Dude, you ruin everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkdweller22 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 On 9/4/2017 at 3:14 AM, Rabbi said: This is something you used to have to deal with on many cars. Well, if you dealt with that, you also had to deal with this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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