Nostalgia: Things You Had Growing Up
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I started collecting Mercury head dimes when I was 10 yers old I think. Then I progressed to have a Very Nice Coin collection but cashed it in to help put a down payment on my house. My specialty became Indian Head Cents. I still have quite a few coin collection remnants that are cool. I have always wanted to start back up but, RECCESSIONS have told me it would be better to have Cash at Cash value on hand if the time came.
When my Mother said look what I got from the grocery store, Tony, some old dimes. Check em out. Can I have them? Sure you can, what, you want to start collecting old coins? YEA, these are cool! Thanks, Mom!
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afterburnt wrote: »Before graduating to Hot Wheels
I've still got a boat load of those around here somewhere.
I had every one of the ones in that photo (probably still have most, although our kids played with 'em as well, so they're kind of beat up).
I fell for the Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Lusso -- hard -- as a kid due to that Matchbox. I still think it's probably the most beautiful automobile ever built.
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I think the only toys from our youth that's still on the shelves are our classic board games, Gi Joe and Barbie, frisbee, Battleship, Hot Wheels and matchbox-( I think), and some others. Slot car and train sets are still being produced too.
Do they still make cap guns for kids?
Didn't Gas monkey garage make a car to help celebrate the 100 millionth hot wheels car production milestone?
Propbably true. That's why all of us middle aged men seek out NIB or otherwise good condition toys of our youth, and pay big bucks for em. I'm no exception. Lot's of fun finding those significant toys, snagging em, and proudly displaying on the shelf in our man cave!
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You realize you just completely sucked the fun out of that toy!mhardy6647 wrote: »afterburnt wrote: »Now these were pretty cool
Those are a great teachable moment to illustrate the noncompressibility of water, which is a fundamental property of water due to the extensive network of hydrogen
bonding between water molecules. Water molecules are extremely polar, which is also why it's arguably the single most powerful solvent extant (with the exception, of course, of mother's saliva ). The hydrogen bonding is also responsible for the remarkable property that water has of being less dense as a solid than as a liquid. This is why ice floats, and bodies of water don't freeze from the bottom up.
If bodies of water didn't freeze from the top, life as we know it likely never could have developed.
Water is amazing stuff.
Y'all knew all of that already, though, of course.
my work is done here.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »I fell for the Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Lusso -- hard -- as a kid due to that Matchbox. I still think it's probably the most beautiful automobile ever built.
You mean this one? CMC makes a stunning example of this car. It is worth getting as it is as close to the real one as mere mortals are allowed to get.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »
You realize you just completely sucked the fun out of that toy!mhardy6647 wrote: »afterburnt wrote: »Now these were pretty cool
Those are a great teachable moment to illustrate the noncompressibility of water, which is a fundamental property of water due to the extensive network of hydrogen
bonding between water molecules. Water molecules are extremely polar, which is also why it's arguably the single most powerful solvent extant (with the exception, of course, of mother's saliva ). The hydrogen bonding is also responsible for the remarkable property that water has of being less dense as a solid than as a liquid. This is why ice floats, and bodies of water don't freeze from the bottom up.
If bodies of water didn't freeze from the top, life as we know it likely never could have developed.
Water is amazing stuff.
Y'all knew all of that already, though, of course.
my work is done here.
I wonder how many kids grew up to be an architect, or engineer, chemist, etc., based on the fascination with the toys of our youth? I sure did! Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
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I wonder how many kids grew up to be an architect, or engineer, chemist, etc., based on the fascination with the toys of our youth? I sure did! [/quote]
I sure wanted to be a "COIN DEALER" for years and years. Still do in a way..
I know I looked at a million pennies and coins looking for double dies.. with my bare eyes too. 
Never found them on any coins except Indian Head Pennies, and they have a ton of examples to be found. Now I have to get help to read some coins sometimes.Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them. -
Wrist Rockets and Taconite Pellets. Good times.
Good thing I didn't know about those Taconite Pellets.......I'm assuming they explode on impact? I got in enough trouble with a large box full of rejected steel ball bearings from the local bearing factory some 40 years ago. -
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Yep! I bet kids today haven't even heard the term/reference "lump of coal". They're too busy getting trophies for losing. They get a trophy for just participating. Pfft.You're still receiving those aren't ya, Hermit?
I remember one year I did something bad right before my birthday, I can't remember what it was. For my birthday, my parents gave me a card that said, "What comes around, goes around." No gift! That was devastating for a kid. I had to wait a whole nother year to get a birthday present. I probably didn't get a gift for using the word "nother".
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I had this one in yellow. Good times.
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I wonder how many kids grew up to be an architect, or engineer, chemist, etc., based on the fascination with the toys of our youth? I sure did!
I sure wanted to be a "COIN DEALER" for years and years. Still do in a way..
I know I looked at a million pennies and coins looking for double dies.. with my bare eyes too.
Never found them on any coins except Indian Head Pennies, and they have a ton of examples to be found. Now I have to get help to read some coins sometimes.[/quote]
Tony, I started collecting coins in 1960. Lincoln cents to start, then everything that I could afford to save and put in a Whitman folder. The nice thing about back then, you could still get Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters and Walkers.
Many years later, I started buying complete sets of BU coins on the Bay (Jimbos*coins) and found a lot of doubled-dies and die cracks on Jefferson nickels. Had a lot of fun with them, Roosevelt dimes and Franklin halves, till they got too expensive. -
Y’all remember having that thing we had before internet, cell phones, and “liking” everything? What was it called, oh yeah, it was called freedom. And the other thing many young people have never experienced with our digital world that we had, meaningful relationships that we valued and worked to earn and keep.Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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Pong and a phone "pager". Beginnings of things so superior it boggles the mind where they began.
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Before wireless and now everybody has a drone!
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Before wireless and now everybody has a drone!
I see a collision section of track on that elevated long bridge..
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Balsa wood planes were the bomb....and they looked cool after you cracked a wing and flew them on fire
But bejeebus they want a lot of money for them now
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This is how us poor folk flew kites.
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Reminds me of the Pitch Back I had growing up for baseball. I have 6 brothers and I still needed one. 2 Channel
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Yep! I bet kids today haven't even heard the term/reference "lump of coal". They're too busy getting trophies for losing. They get a trophy for just participating. Pfft.You're still receiving those aren't ya, Hermit?
I remember one year I did something bad right before my birthday, I can't remember what it was. For my birthday, my parents gave me a card that said, "What comes around, goes around." No gift! That was devastating for a kid. I had to wait a whole nother year to get a birthday present. I probably didn't get a gift for using the word "nother".
One year for Christmas I told my son he should ask Santa for a BBQ grill (he was 9 or 10). He asked why and I told him I heard he was getting a lot of coal this year. (But he did end up getting his regular presents)
He is 25 now and every Christmas he still talks about it.........
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How about the original redneck f-a-r-t machine, cut piece wire hanger, 2 rubber bands and a washer
If you don't know what that is your granpa didn't raise you right
You could also put it into an envelop as a rattle snake egg prank
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This guy got me through so much from when I was 11 or so until about 15 when I got a Discman.
Even then, Discman's sucked bawls until they invented antiskip. 5 second antiskip! 10 second antiskip! Holy crap they have 20 SECOND ANTISKIP?! I can jog with my Discman! 1 MINUTE ANTISKIP?!?!?!?! I CAN GO OFFROADING WITH A DISCMAN NOW, MY LIFE DREAM!
afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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My Sony Discman was terrible. If you sneezed near it, it would skip.
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I sure dig the color of your nail polish Josh, ya' wanna go campin' 2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
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I can't be the only one that destroyed their bike tires doing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3HNN9dd8Y afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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haha! Never saw that done before, but we did the baseball cards in the spokes with a clothespin for sure!
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How about the chopper bike made by cutting forks off one bike and driving onto your bike.
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This is only going to be for the few people on here in their 30's. When painted cardboard was the hottest thing on the playground.
afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Guilty as charged!
Forgot all about POGS!
https://youtu.be/2BDSaWKJQTY
