chrlswltrs

I'm not that old either but I remember having a phone like that, you had a cord holding you stationary???





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cwhatever

they have these new now. but i had one when i was younger.
the REEL mower.

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Still using one. They cut the grass much nicer Like a scissors instead of a machete. My lawn has become much healthier since using it.

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cwhatever

i hear you on that. they just don't cut high grass or weeds that good.

TheAtheistReverend

I bet this one would!

I WANT ONE!!!

cwhatever

yeh that makes me want one now too!!!!

chrlswltrs

I actually enjoy using a REEL mower, that is the only way I don't mind mowing. Kind of relaxing

saptech

I made plenty of spending money, while growing up using those mowers to cut neighbor's grass.

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cwhatever

You either cut grass or you deliver papers to make money in our days. not even sure nowadays what young people do for money?

MacFett

They ask mom or dad for it.

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zuben el genub

We had a powered reel mower years ago. Family said it cut better than a rotary.

Kid got an allowance and was paid extra for doing extra. She was too young for most yardwork, but we did give her an extra penny per weed she pulled. We had an influx of Russian Thistle or Tumbleweed.

cwhatever

Pretty sad huh! I use to have to work when I was younger for what I wanted. The world might be a better place if Mom and Dad's today would do like we had to do. Kids might respect things more than they do.

MacFett

Sadly my wife and I have fallen a bit into this rut. We both had it hard growing up (some nights a single pack of ramen noodles was dinner for 4 at my house). I didn't get a lot of toys when I was a kid. Sure we had had a day in the end of December and our birthdays, but they were scant. I try not to give in every time they ask for a toy and never when they whine. But I do want them to have it a little better than we did.

We are making a conscious effort to curb this. Now that the youngest two are in school they have been doing a lot more chores (they mow the yard with the aforementioned reel mower) to earn their coins.

cwhatever

Sounds good and I understand. We never had kids, and it's a little too late for her to have kids now. Making them do chores and stuff is the best way to go. Hopefully they will appreciate it more. and not take everything for granted like some other people do. The bad thing is it's not the person's fault it's the parents fault that made the person or kids that way

cwhatever

this type...








or this type
(this is one, that one of my family members still uses up north) the heck with that electricity works fine here.

cwhatever

the old cox line control planes

cwhatever

intellevision

nintendo
commodore 64

all these were so popular and who would have thought back then we would have what we have today?

Bob Maxey

Hey now . . . no laughing. Morse code and related technologies will save us when radio, cells and the net goes down. Code can cross the seas using very little power. Very effective indeed.

isaemm

The first product to have a barcode on it was Wrigley's gum.

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danaj

I remember all of these except the telegraph, but I did know what it was. Growing up my grandpa's house had an out house and a well, but they did have indoor plumbing too. We only used the outhouse and well pump when we were swimming in the pool.

EarlyMon

How many remember this stuff?

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Except the other thread is pretty much just about one linked article where as this thread is not.

Doit2it

I always got so dizzy flying mine. I'd end up stumbling and crashing the plane. Yeah, I've never been graceful.

But I loved the smell of the Cox fuel and the sounds. I've gotta go up to my parents and find my old trainer and flip that prop, just to hear that "plfttt" compression sound.

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TheAtheistReverend

Things from the past, and yet they are...

EarlyMon

Two words - glow plug.

cwhatever

old style phones you were mobile back then and didn't need a pay phone or home phone, WOW HOW COOL WAS THAT!!!!



the beeper



back in the day when you got a beeper that could do more then just recieve beeps, you felt like you were on top of the world and now look what we got. what next?

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TheAtheistReverend

still see beepers every day :O

MacFett

Are you in the medical field, drug dealing or work in a pawn shop?

TheAtheistReverend

Two out of three could be applied to my work environment.
I work in a hospital.

zuben el genub

I"ve still got and use IBM Clicker keyboards. Only keyboards the kid couldn't kill. Very heavy handed.

TheAtheistReverend

Can anyone finish this rhyme?
Little Willy, dressed in sashes, caught on fire and burned to ashes...

1950s era poetry

saptech

Ole fashion penny candy...

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2223_53185882

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2224_114156470

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2227_26111005

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HotRoderX

when candy came in a tin wrapper instead of these little hard to open plastic baggy things.

cwhatever

the first one i like and still get every now and then. it comes in a bag with like 15 in it.

cwhatever

yeh, hate them hard to open plastic bags.

chrlswltrs

I really can't understand why the medical industry won't let beepers die. As much money as they make you think they could afford to upgrade to at least a dumb phone





Are kit kat still packaged like that?

MacFett

I am sure it has to do with reliability, both of device and signal

HotRoderX

I agree the bags are garbage no idea why they switched to them unless they where cheaper.

HotRoderX

No there not they use the baggy things like everyone else

cwhatever

It might be because the baggy preserves it better. The foil was not airtight so bacteria and stuff can get into it so it must be safer to have it in a baggie now.

cwhatever

these used to be everywhere, nickle a call then 10 then 25 cents. they still have some here in fl in poor areas for people that have no phones in the house. like ma community pay phone.

MacFett

There is a pay phone at a 7-11 up the street from us, it does not have a coin slot. It only accepts prepaid calling cards and credit cards.

saptech

Remember these also...

Bob Maxey

I remember all of them. I have had them all, I should think.

I also love Sen-Sen for the breath. Do you remember Teaberry, Black Jack, Beeman's and Clove gum? Wax lips? Old school Fizzies in the long strips of foil? Candy dots? How about Barley sugar pops?

One of my favorites is C. Howards gum. Especially their violet gum.

I fond a few web sites that sells candy from the past. Ordered the above gums a few years ago. I found a site that created gift baskets based on the year. A nice assortment of candy old farts remember and kids never knew existed.

Thanks for the pictures.

Bob Maxey

Seems to me that a beeper saves time. No chit chat. Perhaps the better signal/reception is a good idea. I want my doctor to have 1245 bars when I am dying on the O-Table or in the E-Room.

cwhatever

What Ever Happened To The Full-Size Spare Tire?








this is so funny to see people traveling on these for miles at high speeds, come on follow directions. also my truck has no small spare.

Seanette

My DH HATES those miniature spares, and has been known to buy another full-size wheel for the car and have a tire put on it, so he has a full-size spare.

saptech

I remember the first time I bought a used car from a car dealer and noticed the doughnut spare tire in the trunk. I went back to the dealer and told the salesman that I had the wrong spare tire, that I got a volkswagen spare.

He said let him see it and when I did, he told me that is the type of tire that comes with cars now days. This was around late 1980s and the car was a Pontiac Bonneville.

cwhatever

pretty crazy but is what it is now. unless you have a 4x4 truck.

kevincott

Things I remember ...

- The smell of gas: from gas stations and everyones' garage
- AT&T as a land-line monopoly: you had to rent your telephone
- Dog ears on the TV antenna
- Carburetors in new cars
- A door-to-door salesman trying to sell my parents a 'cassette tape' player
- Saturday morning cartoons
- Not owning a microwave
- Encyclopedias and White-out


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- Learning BASIC at the DOS prompt in high school
- 5 1/4 inch single sided floppies (before you hole-punched)

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