PLAY The “vintage” thread

StarryEyedLad

StarryEyedLad

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Profit of Doom said:
Those aren’t the same groups, I hope.
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No, just random pictures I got off the 'net. They struck a chord with me, reminding me of family gatherings and photos from years past. They could be my own family, but they aren't. Just reminded me of what we've lost as a nation, and as a culture. Warm, happy family memories, time spent gathered together, Sunday afternoons and dinners that no longer happen. It's sad and I don't think we'll ever get it back, and I know some people never had it to begin with. I miss those days.
 
SurvivalRing

SurvivalRing

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Dennis Olson said:
This was my favorite penny arcade amusement back in the day

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I remember that one!! Loved it. There was one at a grocery store in Garland, Texas, on Beltline Rd. This must have been 1965/66. Always stopped to look at it, but only got to play it a couple dozen times.

Years later, in the 70s, Mattel came out with the Vertibird toy, using four D sized batteries to power a tiny copter on a stick, with two controls, one for prop speed, and one for direction.

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SurvivalRing

SurvivalRing

Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
StarryEyedLad said:
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Sweet stereo set-up.
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My dad had one of those for 20 years. When he upgraded to a modular (stacked) stereo, he gave me his old one...(the bastard!)…

It was over six feet long, he had upgraded to 15” woofers, added midrange speakers and tweeters, and very nice dual cassette player, after adding an all important eight-track player.

The entire cabinet must have weighed three hundred pounds.

When he first got it, he used to wake us up early on Sunday mornings, for homemade pancakes, by playing the War of 1812 overture…with very realistic cannon fire. The damn thing was on the other side of the wall from my bed in my bedroom.

I prefer my iPhone now, after my iPod touch (version 2) died a decade ago.
 
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Barb

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Profit of doom I like your pics. I would guess, looking at the first one, that mama probably made hers and the girls dresses. The girls dresses look like they were made with the same pattern Good memories.
 
ChicagoMan74

ChicagoMan74

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SurvivalRing said:
I remember that one!! Loved it. There was one at a grocery store in Garland, Texas, on Beltline Rd. This must have been 1965/66. Always stopped to look at it, but only got to play it a couple dozen times.

Years later, in the 70s, Mattel came out with the Vertibird toy, using four D sized batteries to power a tiny copter on a stick, with two controls, one for prop speed, and one for direction.

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Now you did it (posting a toy)...I remember my father letting me discover electronics from this exact kit when I was a wee lad:

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I LOVED these things. This one did a few cool things like making an AM radio, a light dimmer, and a mock telegraph.
 
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moldy

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I used to take my kiddos out one evening before Christmas (ex never wanted to join us). We'd get Starbucks (the one time a year I'd buy it) after I had them loaded up in their pajamas, and we'd drive for an hour or two looking at the lights.

This year, that's what my small department is doing for our 'Christmas party' - dinner, then lights.
 
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seraphima

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Still do drive around the neighborhoods with family and/or friends to look at the lights, playing Christmas carols on the CD. Best neighborhood is 'Little Manilla' where many of Philippino origen reside. They are artists in lights!
Here in Kodiak many fishing boats get decorated with lights and there is even a nighttime parade of lit boats down the channel to the downtown harbor. The best!
 
Siskiyoumom

Siskiyoumom

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BH said:
In college we could smoke in class (I am that old). Local McD and Hardees could not keep their throw away ash trays.

Most classes were: walk in, sit down, take off sun glasses, open Mt Dew, take out ash tray and light up (circa 1973-74).
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My third grade teacher in elementary school smoked at her desk. Parents smoked at the school events, my Girl Scout Leaders smoked at our meetings. Heck folks smoked in the grocery stores and stores provided ash trays on stands. Yes, thus was in the mid to late 1960s in Northern California .
 
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moldy

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Heck, I started as a nurse in1985 and the nurses smoked in the lounge and report room! I don't think we went smoke free until the mid 90s!

I"m selling some vintage clothing on Ebay. DH saw some of it and said, "It's a shame women don't dress like that anymore." So I bought a dress today - it's hard to find ones appropriate for my age... Old enough I shouldn't be dressed in anything tight, but young enough it doesn't have to match my gray hair (I'm still blond.) Now I just have to find some shoes. I don't think it would look good with my Bogs (but it would match!)
 
StarryEyedLad

StarryEyedLad

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Since December, Christmas, and the holiday season are here, I'll share a story about Dunkin' Donuts that I shared recently in another thread,


One year, when I was very young, about 5 or so, my older brother & sister were selling boxes of a dozen Dunkin' Donuts for a school fundraiser. This was the 70's, a very different time versus now! Multiple family members all pitched in and ordered a box. When it came time to pick them all up, right before Christmas, we were inundated with dozens of boxes. Then, a snowstorm came...a big one. We were snowed in for Christmas with everyone's donuts!

As the days ticked by, and phone lines went back on, we got phone call after phone call telling us to consider the donuts as presents from our family members...keep them, eat them, enjoy them, Merry Christmas! I was on cloud nine, with all the jelly donuts I could have ever wished for!

What a wonderful Christmas that was.
 
Ragnarok

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
SurvivalRing said:
I remember that one!! Loved it. There was one at a grocery store in Garland, Texas, on Beltline Rd. This must have been 1965/66. Always stopped to look at it, but only got to play it a couple dozen times.

Years later, in the 70s, Mattel came out with the Vertibird toy, using four D sized batteries to power a tiny copter on a stick, with two controls, one for prop speed, and one for direction.
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I remember playing with those!
 
Groucho

Groucho

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I bought this with money saved from my paper route. Used to listen to HAMS, satellites, radio shows from all over the world including Radio Moscow, VOA, and the BBC. Tube type, of course. Nice and warm in the winter, didn't listen much in the summer. However, listening was better in the summer. I remember being surprised to hear Peking radio one night.
The radio was a National NC 105. I wish I still had it.

ETA, I believe this was 1961 or 62. The radio was made in the USA. Massachusetts IIRC.

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