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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 18:40:32 GMT
Automats
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 20:20:03 GMT
Amsterdam still has Febo, and I love them (looks of horror and revulsion from most Dutch people) -- however, they are only out in the street with no sit-down option like in the New York automats of olden times.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 23:10:09 GMT
turnstiles
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 23:10:35 GMT
DDT
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Post by imec on Jun 27, 2009 1:28:15 GMT
Michael Jackson
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2009 1:34:13 GMT
;D
One assumes you mean Michael Jackson, the young, human, African-American lad?
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Post by imec on Jun 27, 2009 3:05:27 GMT
That's the one! Good kid, clever, talented, proud. Not the ghoul who's been masquerading as him for many years.
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Post by rikita on Jun 27, 2009 7:23:13 GMT
i remember not just one, but two currencies that aren't in use anymore...
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jun 27, 2009 19:58:47 GMT
I remember a time when we had no telephone exchanges, and my family's phone number (on a 4-party line) was 62030. When exchanges came in they started with the first two letters of a word: Our phone number became MAin 62030
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2009 20:02:21 GMT
Our exchange was UNiversity, although there was no university in the area.
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Post by rikita on Jun 27, 2009 20:39:59 GMT
telephone exchanges? letters in a phone number?
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jun 27, 2009 20:47:59 GMT
It was a loooooong time ago, rikita, back in the 1950s when I was a child. I can't explain exchanges, but they became necessary when the phone company started running out of the shorter numbers so they had to add the prefixes.
And, k2, I am dying to know where you are from originally. It appears you are "An American In Paris" Only if you don't mind. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2009 20:52:44 GMT
I was born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, gyllenhaalic.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2009 20:54:47 GMT
I'm sure name exchanges were still used after the fifties. I say that because I still think of my mother's as HU(dson)2- etc., and we only moved to where she lives now in 1966.
Let's stop with the looooooong time ago, Gyllenhaalic! I'm old enough to be your mother, and I'm still a mere slip of a girl.
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jun 27, 2009 21:03:39 GMT
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you, bix! You just made me feel like a kid again!
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jun 27, 2009 21:07:05 GMT
Thank you, k2!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2009 23:18:31 GMT
"Thank you, K2, sir."
I swan -- the kids of today!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2009 23:46:07 GMT
Our phone exchange is still UNiversity 5 ( we do have 2 or 3 universities in the area).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 3:56:00 GMT
They had the same system in France. When I first arrived, there were still things like BAlzac, ELysée and OPéra.
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Post by bjd on Jun 28, 2009 9:21:24 GMT
Same system in Toronto at least in the 1960s. Ours was ROger 6-7875
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 14:00:33 GMT
When the lotto first started in France, there were carbonized three-fold forms to fill out, and the salespoints had giant computer listings they had to check for winners and amounts.
Now there is just a bar code reader where people can check their receipts themselves.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 28, 2009 14:33:15 GMT
kerouac, why on earth do you love FEBO? I'm not horrified, but personally I find their food rather vile.
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 28, 2009 15:20:01 GMT
My dad still uses his "Sony walkman". I had to get it back from the hotel he stayed in as he'd forgotten it... (he's been using it solely to try and learn english for the past twenty years, I think!)
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 28, 2009 15:22:32 GMT
Something that is fast disapprearing or so it seems is people's pride in earning a living/ of doing their utmost to NOT depend on the government if they are able to avoid it at all (obviously, I am not talking about those who need and deserve government support, but only of those who routinely abuse the system)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 15:42:26 GMT
kerouac, why on earth do you love FEBO? I'm not horrified, but personally I find their food rather vile. I know which items to choose there. I am totally hooked on the curried rice croquettes, among others.
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jun 28, 2009 17:05:06 GMT
"Thank you, K2, sir." I swan -- the kids of today! Bixa, you are hilarious!! I remember when things were made of metal and lasted forever and never fell apart or wore out. Now everything is plastic and is done in just a few years. I'm specifically thinking of a small metal fan that was always in the LR at our house. It gave us faithful service during my entire childhood. When we cleaned out the house after my parents died, there was the fan, still perfectly working, but relegated to the attic once air conditioners became common. The cord had become frayed, so I was afraid to use it on a regular basis. (Heaven forbid I should be able to find someone to repair it!) I then bought a plastic floor stand at Wal-Mart a few years later and, after only 4 or 5 years of use, it literally disintegrated and fell to the floor in pieces. Arrgh!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 28, 2009 18:14:13 GMT
Back in the mid-eighties I toured the USS Wilmington with my stepfather. Here was this WWII craft out in the elements and really not that well maintained, but still in great condition. That included the leather on the armrests of the big guns, all the bakelite knobs and doo-dads, the metal, etc.
Oh yeah ~~ see what I just posted in Putting Down Roots, about being cruelly served by modern plastic.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 18:19:05 GMT
When I was a kid, back in England, we lived in a house that had a long garden with an air raid shelter in the back. I used to play in it quite a bit. It was one like this one:
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Post by lagatta on Jun 28, 2009 23:19:06 GMT
I can see that. Like you, I don't like snacking very much; I prefer meals. I have been known to buy frozen curry and other interesting aka Asian-influenced croquettes at Dutch supermarkets, since I was there at a research institute with very limited facilities for small-scale cooking.
Though I still prefer the smoked chicken bits you can buy at Dutch street markets. They do survive heating up with a microwave - ouch! - I've never had one at home and have refused gifts of them - too much counterspace for something I only use when I have to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2009 18:40:10 GMT
I enjoyed piling up records on the record changers and never understood why the purists were so against them for reasons of "damage". Nobody expected a record to last forever anyway.
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