Something our grandkids won’t believe we had/did?
daddyjt
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1”-3” thick books that had everyone’s phone number listed - UNLESS you paid extra to NOT have your number listed.
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Miss those days.
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Rode our stingray bicycles behind the fogger mosquito truck as it maneuvered through the neighborhood.
I don't men the misting one's either, the fog would cover the whole neighborhood. -
Jarts. Totally safe....
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Neighborhood BB gun wars?
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Only 13 channels available on TV. If that....and all TV went off air at 12.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Only 13 channels available on TV. If that....and all TV went off air at 12.
Tom
And you had to get up and walk across the room to change the channel of adjust the volume…“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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Also, to adjust the rabbit ears.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Only 13 channels available on TV. If that....and all TV went off air at 12.
Tom
You had 13? Wow, we had 3. One phone in the whole house. I did get nervous calling my GF...Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me -
SkitchingPolitical Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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You had 13? Wow, we had 3. One phone in the whole house. I did get nervous calling my GF...
Many of them didn't come in to great and this was on both UHF and VHF......then there was this "special" channel that every once in a while, would show something other than snow and mostly squiggly lines. What it focused in on, when it very briefly came into somewhat of a picture was, shall I say, "adult" in nature.
Something along the lines of the M*A*S*H episode, where you saw Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, bare the forbidden. Yes, on public TV. They were quite nice, if I do say so myself.
Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I remember that, late in the first half of the 1970s, our scientific calculators became significant status symbols. There was a substantial period of one-upsmanship ca. 1973/74.
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Uhf tv stations. I'm betting none of my kids or grandkids know what those are or how difficult it was to get them. It also seemed like that was where all the good programs were.
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Carburetors and distributorsExpert Moron Extraordinaire
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How about starting a car with a dead battery by rolling & popping the clutch?“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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How about starting a car with a dead battery by rolling & popping the clutch?
Yup I can hear someone yelling "put it in 2nd the wheels are dragging". -
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Rotary phones, riding our bikes through the fog following the Mosquito man spraying that DDT around the neighborhood...ah the smell still lingers! Air raid drills & diving under our desks in school."2 Channel & 11.2 HT "Two Channel:Magnepan LRSSchiit Audio Freya S - SS preConsonance Ref 50 - Tube preParasound HALO A21+ 2 channel ampBluesound NODE 2i streameriFi NEO iDSD DAC Oppo BDP-93KEF KC62 sub Home Theater:Full blown 11.2 set up.
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Riding in the back of a pick up truck
Land line phone with a 20 foot cord so you could walk across the room, and by the end of the call you would have the cord wrapped around you -
Being 8 or 9 years old and running around outside on a summer's night, unsupervised, with a bunch of other neighborhood kids. Playing kick the can or whatever... until the mosquito truck comes by.SystemLuxman L-590AXII Integrated Amplifier|KEF Reference 1 Loudspeakers|PS Audio Directream Jr|Sansui TU-9900 Tuner|TEAC A-6100 RtR|Nakamichi RX-202 Cassette
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Riding in the back of a pick up truck…
And fighting over who got to sit on the wheel-wells…“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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Only 13 channels available on TV. If that....and all TV went off air at 12.
Tom
How old are you? I thought you were younger than I, but we had cable TV here since the late 60's. There were only 13 channels on the dial though. And the remote was wired. Dad was a stereo/electronics nut.
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Nerds carrying these usually on belt:
Especially at engineering schools like GA Tech.
"I might have owned one""Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Nerds carrying these usually on belt:
Especially at engineering schools like GA Tech.
"I might have owned one"
I still have my grandfathers tools from his career as an architect…
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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Riding your bike with your friend on the handlebars and then jumping off the bike watching your friend bust ****.
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skipshot12 wrote: »Riding your bike with your friend on the handlebars and then jumping off the bike watching your friend bust ****.
With no helmets:-)“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZq5idUJcI
