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by: Ray Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 3:10pm  
For me so far it has been......Dumont, Emerson, Motorola, Zenith, and Philco TV's (all black and white)4 track tape players.8 track tape players. (Had an Oldsmobile and a 65 mustang with an 8 track AM only radio)While we're talking cars I miss Oldsmobile and Pontiac 78 RPM records45 RPM records and the portable record player for them. LP records Whatever happened to Randolph Scott, Gene and Tex and Roy and RexThe Shadow, Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, all on the radio5 cent fountain drinks. The soda fountain at the drug store.Prince Albert in a can (call the drug store. "Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? WELL, LET HIM OUT!)Lot of toys I got for Christmas and Birthdays. Would have been worth a fortune if I had just left them in the box and saved them Same about baseball cards 8" floppy disksMag tape storage for computersPunch cards.ABC NBC and CBS were the only channels. Off at midnight and the national anthem played. On again at 6amCaptain KangerooRed SkeltonEd sullivan...Crap I am an old bastard.... ____________ 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 4:26pm  
Datsun ----) Nissan
Burger Chef
Pizza Hut dine in with salad bar
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 4:39pm  
Typewriters 4951
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RogueHippEE Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:02pm  
Typewriters
 
@BooBear: I still have a few if you want to see them
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FreebyrdII Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:12pm  
My cuteness……… 4951
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DanStanton Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:18pm  
Waking feeling refreshed. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:21pm  

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notfromhere Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:24pm  
Letting kids be kids, good educational standards, playing outside every day with your buddies, disciplining your kids with a good whopping, sense of responsibility, work ethic.
 
On the good side, we are no longer segregated and racism is dead.... Oh wait 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:27pm  
People being nice to each other just because...Neighborhoods without fences...A&W root beer floats with car hops that hung the tray on your window...The Lone RangerRoy RogersAble to leave your windows open and your doors unlocked...No cell phones..Walking a mile to school and not have to worry if you child is safe...Double Stick Root Beer Popsicles... 4951
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Nurse3 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:49pm  
Common sense & critical thinking.
Dead and gone for so many people. 4951
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jax Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:52pm  
My virginity
 
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PugKrazy Active Indicator LED Icon  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 5:58pm  
Floppy disks, worthy cartoons like snorkles, rainbow brite and my little pony lol. Pay phones... Well they may be a few around but who uses them, as well as home phones. Have not had a home number in years. DSL slow connections lol, cd players, records, cassett players .. Specially on cars lol. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 6:19pm  
hudsons, packards, plymouths. nash, ramblers, studebakers, VW beetlesthings you can actually fix yourself

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Zokomo Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 6:25pm  
Mosquitos buzzing in my ear at night in bedKids playing outside ALL dayEating boiled eggs at Easter that had been laying around in the yard for daysRiding in the car with the windows down because there was no a/cRiding in car with no seat beltsBig Chief tabletsSpankings at schoolPop gunsPaper dollsPlaying Cowboys and IndiansHandwriting essays at schoolCursive 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 6:50pm  
OU's defense.... 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 3, '16 7:01pm  
typewriters, thats a good one.  I took a typewriting class in high school.  Do they even offer that anymore?I knew every neighbor on my street growing up and what the inside of their house looked likeBlock partiesA very large record player, it was a large cabinet with huge speakers inside it.tape player in my carmanual car windowsPE class everyday and recessplaying outside everyday afterschool and on weekendsheating things on the stove or oven instead of a microwavewhen everyone washed their car in their own driveway.  I remember shiny Armoral sprayed tires were very in.answering machinesfamily or friends just showing up unannounced without a text or even a phone call. getting the paddle at school 4951
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