Other things no longer around:
Flexi Flyers
Crackerjax with prizes
Schwinn bicycles
Howdy Doody
AAOOGHA horns (Mostly on Model A's and T's)
Spark plugs in your exhaust tips to light up the night.
Manual chokes to make the engine lumpy like it had a big cam.

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Bill

 

You mean spark plugs in the exhaust ain't cool no more! Damn I jost got done installing them. LOL

I even remember those big banana seats and I'm just a youngster. Other than that the only thing I miss is open space!

Howdy who???

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• 91 Talon Tsi AWD
• 94 Mustang GT conv.
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"Still waiting for lightning to strike"

 

You guys left out recapped tires. Wonder how long a couple would last on the rear of an L.

 

I miss those candies that you get and you eat and they crackle... you can still get them, but they don't taste the same...Hey SIXPIPES, hunny, baby, hehe Will you email me that cow pleasssssse hehe
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Reaching a little bit:
Vinyl seats----Seat Covers also
Individual Juke boxes in the booths at Soda Fountains.
Foxtails on your radio antenna.
Plastic/Bakelite AM radios in purple/pink & coral (My first was Coral probably worth $300 on EBAY now).
Black & White TV
The weekly news at your local movie theatre and double features. John Wayne, damn I miss that man!!!
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Bill

 

Hey sixpipes, member when ya'll were hidin' down by the creek with that Whammo Air Bazooka, and ya'll pumped it up like a 100 times, member that? member the kid that came cruisin by on his new Schwinn Stingray, member that? member when ya'll stuck it up to his ear and blasted him when he went by? that was awesome! i still can't hear sh*t out of that ear. member?

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Remember when gas was $1.40 ????

 

This thread is getting some legs.

Let's play:

Remember when there were no Zip codes?
Member, member, member when you had to dial the long distance operator to make a long distance call? No area codes either. And, there were real operators!

Member, member, member when there were cabooses on trains? Also guys that shouted "AAAAlll AAAAAboard"? Not to mention steam engines. Dear Lord what a lovely sound. Also had Firemen on the trains.

BBQMAN: that may have been me that pranged you with the pump gun. Also remember the Daisy pump pellet guns and I think the brand was Crossman or Crosman CO2 guns that I used to kill mice with.

This post is for the over 50 crowd.
Bill

 

Good point JimB:

With my history, I remember when it was $.27 a gallon for High Test Super Leaded All American roll up your 12.5 compression Hemi to the pump.

Definitely not good for the environment, but there were probably only 10% or so of the cars on the road at that time that needed that sort of gas.

 

Some of the things I am trying NOT to remember are leisure suits, platform shoes, nehru jackets, bell-bottom pants and side burns down to collar.

Man was that 70s stuff ever ugly!

Oh, yeah. How about Ford Mavericks, Pintos and Fairmonts.

Please everybody, do not throw up at once. At least miss the keyboard.

 

bill, it was called a "sonic blaster"
old bw tv commercials showed kids, pumping it up 3times and shooting a blast of air at a playing card "house" and knocking it over.
well, with 4 boys in the house, we soon mastered the pump to weight ratio for hardboiled eggs/lizards etc. this thing was the size of an "old" military bazooka, and sold in your favorite toy store. i think it was pulled of the market quickly because about that time, "lawyers", appeared on planet earth, and the rest............

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BBQMAN:

Remember those things well. Had one too and modified mine the same way.

Total coincidence, I am sitting here watching Tape IV of Victory at Sea that Pat got me for Christmas (Got the whole set).

As I was born in 1940, it is a bit before my coherent time, but still really interesting.

Aside from the purely military content, it also has a lot of good footage of some of the type of stuff I have been mentioning here. Steam trains, soda fountains, dial telephones and the like.

I am not sure if life was really better then, but it sure as heck was simpler in many respects.

 

Member the sound of a soild lifter Chevy with M/T headers? No other sound like that ever came from a car........

 

Bill Murray, you have the Victory At Sea video set too. So do I. Great stuff. Perhaps you remember watching it when was it was first televised in the 1950s. I think the series won an Emmy every year for best documentary.

Best part about it for me was my father was there for the Battle of the Atlantic and much else. He was a Merchant Marine. Saw it all. Used to watch it together with him and get an eyewitness description of events. Wolfpacks, surface raiders (Q ships), Luftwaffe attacks,etc.

 

member...member, member slot cars? member when the deaf-in-one-ear rich kids would tow us on our skateboards behind their Schwinn Stingrays downtown to the slotcar track cause we, cause we would like point our Whammo Air Bazookas at their good ear. member...member, member that?

that was awesome...