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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2009 18:54:33 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jul 1, 2009 11:37:37 GMT
Aha -- I looked at Bixa's yellow thingy and wondered why it looked familiar but couldn't figure it out. Now I remember.
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jul 1, 2009 16:22:52 GMT
I remember when telephone/electric poles had those wonderful heavy glass globes on them as insulators or some such. They are in great demand today as decorative items.
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Post by imec on Jul 2, 2009 1:29:26 GMT
What I'd like to know is why they pressed 45's with the big hole in North America but not in the UK (at least in the 60's when I lived there).
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Post by imec on Jul 2, 2009 1:30:27 GMT
I remember when telephone/electric poles had those wonderful heavy glass globes on them as insulators or some such. They are in great demand today as decorative items. There are still some of those on power lines not far from the city here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 2, 2009 2:03:38 GMT
Hmm ~~ I didn't know that about 45s & the UK. I never really thought about why 45s had the big hole and the larger 78s & 33 1/3s had the little hole. Guess I just figured a 45 would be more prone to warping or something if it had a little hole. It seems to me that all kids records were on 45s, and that there were sturdy little record players just for kids & their 45s.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2009 4:48:20 GMT
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jul 2, 2009 14:25:24 GMT
I remember when telephone/electric poles had those wonderful heavy glass globes on them as insulators or some such. They are in great demand today as decorative items. There are still some of those on power lines not far from the city here. Wow, imec, if you ever hear of them being taken down and being replaced by whatever they use now, grab them!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2009 17:39:33 GMT
Does anybody remember these authentic ads? It used to be okay to be a pedophile. This 1960 vintage ad for a sun lamp shows a mom frying her baby. This ad shows how an uptight dad stopped beating his child after switching to decaffeinated Sanka. A special one for our Canadian friends. Simply bizarre! Mama, please DO NOT give your baby another glass, it's root beer! If the headline and image don't convince you to buy your tot a gun, perhaps the copy will: "Every live, healthy boy wants a 'King' AirRifle. It's boy nature to want a gun; to want to get out in the fields and woods, nearest to nature, and enjoy youthful life to its fullest extent. Get your boy a 'King' Air Rifle. It will mean health and boyish happiness -- and steady nerves, keener eyesight and well-developed powers of observation."
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Post by spindrift on Jul 3, 2009 18:18:00 GMT
I owned several of these old minis
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Post by rikita on Jul 3, 2009 21:01:16 GMT
ours were prettier...
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Post by livaco on Jul 4, 2009 0:33:40 GMT
Wow, this thread is bringing back memories. I remember so many of these things. I had a Fury with push button transmission just like imec's picture. I miss that car. :-(
The way I understand it is that the reason 45's have the big hole is that it makes them easier for jukeboxes to play. (But I don't know why it would be different in the UK. Were there fewer jukeboxes?)
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Post by livaco on Jul 4, 2009 0:50:04 GMT
I also remember that we would put pennies on the stylus to weigh it down if the record skipped.
Also, how about the records that were made of cardboard that you could just cut off of cereal boxes?
And candy cigarettes. I remember two kinds -- the ones that were bubble gum and the ones that were hard candy and had powdered sugar under the paper so you could blow on it and it looked like you were smoking.
Also, I am very embarrassed to admit it but I remember that us kids would say some terrible things in our play. Like "eeny meeny miney mo, catch a ni**er by the toe, if he hollers let him go, eeny meeny miney mo". And we'd play a game where everybody'd pile up on someone. It was called "ni**er pile". And I really wasn't brought up racist or anything. It was just the words the kids used. (I did stop when I started thinking about it.)
Hopefully kids don't say things like that anymore in their play.
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Post by livaco on Jul 4, 2009 0:51:39 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2009 1:35:22 GMT
That's weird -- I don't remember those cut-out records at all.
I do remember candy lipstick and candy cigarettes, also wax lips, which I think are still around.
Livaco, until I was a fairly big kid, I thought the rhyme went "catch a tiger by the toe". That's how our mom taught it to us.
Does anyone remember the little hard plastic dogs that smoked cigarettes? You put a tiny rolled up piece of paper in the dogs mouth & lit it (!) and the pup puffed away. Another thing that I remember from when I was really little, maybe four or five, was a plastic parakeet with rotating suction cup "feet". You wound it up and it walked up the wall.
No one has mentioned the x-ray machines in shoe stores, or how dentists would give you a little vial of mercury to play with. Ah, the good old days.
Wooden & glass phone booths.
Real toys in Cracker Jack.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2009 4:52:12 GMT
I learned the same version as Livaco, but it wasn't my mother who taught it since she didn't even know it, coming from another country. It was absorbed at school.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2009 10:59:12 GMT
We learned catch a tiger by the toe too. My favorite toy was a monkey that blew bubbles. It was battery operated. What about swimming caps,did you have to wear them? God,I hated those things!
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Post by BigIain on Jul 4, 2009 11:27:54 GMT
I expect Kerouac to have posted the old French Chocolate ads soon!! Like the Menier (sp?) series. Highly traumatising.
I remember bicycles that had only 3 or 5 gears! Now they all have dozens, my current one has 24 gears! I use around 4.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2009 14:17:11 GMT
When I was young, we called Woolworth's a dime store, but things had long since stopped costing just a dime in that place.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2009 14:31:57 GMT
There was a special smell that all Woolworths had. It was made up of popcorn, maybe the rubber from baby dolls, and unidentifiable other scents -- not unpleasant, but very distinctive.
Yeah, it was the dime store, or the five&dime, or the five-and-ten-cent store. I love the way some New Orleanians pronounce it -- Woolzworf's
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jul 5, 2009 3:01:31 GMT
Yeah, bixa, my mom always pronounced it Woolzwerths, but, of course, she also got her paint from Sherman Williams and her make-up from Esther Lauder. We had two "dime stores" right next to each other in the little burg I called "town" when I was a tweenager. I would get all dressed up in a dress and hose to go to town to shop and those horrible garter belts to hold up the nylons, but all they did was squash my thighs up together, causing terrible chafing on a hot summer's day from the sweat. I can actually remember the pain from my fat little thighs rubbing together and having to walk with my knees bent outward, like an ole cowpoke!!!! Often, when I finally got home, I would discover that my thights were bleeding!! OMG!
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Post by rikita on Jul 5, 2009 23:27:27 GMT
casimira - well i remember swimming caps, as we had to wear them for our school's swimming lessons.
iain - until recently i owned a bike with three gears. and i remember even bikes with *gasp* no gears! now i have a normal bike with many gears though, finally.
i think we just had chocolate cigarrettes rather than chewing gum or candy ones... but we had many other candy that isn't common these days, though i am sure it still exists... like pfefferminzkissen (peppermint pillows)...
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Post by lagatta on Jul 6, 2009 0:23:56 GMT
I had a lovely three-speed bicycle that was stolen a couple of years ago. I was very sad. It was a CCM Sunsport, a beautiful copper colour. Had scarcely been used - I bought it from an elderly couple - the wife couldn't cycle even on a slow bicycle like that any more. It cost me $25 Canadian, and worked fine - obviously, I spent a lot more than that on upkeep for it while I had it. My current bicycle is a Raleigh Sprite - now a 6-speed, though it may have originally been a 5-speed. I don't need any more speeds than that, even to climb our little hills and our so-called "mountain", because I had to have the plateau changed and have one with a "super low" speed, which is kind to my arthritic knee, meaning I take hills "en moulinant" (pedalling fast) rather than forcing my knees. Rikita, do you live in a hilly or mountainous region? Sure, I know Germany extends from the flat northern plains to the Alps, and there are other hilly areas. I detest mountain bikes unless one is actually cycling in mountains. There is a big return to more urban cycle styles, with mudguards (fenders) and a posture more adapted for town riding. www.amsterdamize.com www.copenhagencyclechic.comLong-distance riding is another matter entirely.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 0:33:15 GMT
Lagatta, I ride an old ,probably circa early,mid 1960's Raleigh 3 speed. Not great for long distance as you said but perfectly suitable for around town. It's pretty flat here,it's all I need. Good old Sturmy Archer gears,will last forever. My husband had one almost identical to which we just gave away to the young man who works for us and is pretty much family.(Mr.C did not forsee using it anymore and it was just sitting up).
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Post by lagatta on Jul 6, 2009 1:03:27 GMT
Yeah, my current bicycle is a wee bit younger (1970s) and a little better for doing the hills, but I certainly don't want or need 21 speeds. Too bad Mr C can't cycle any more.
Now modern copies of the classic bicycles cost many $$$ €€€ £££ etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 1:52:08 GMT
Having to wear a hat or head covering to church,we had these little lace caps that looked like doilies held on with a bobby pin. The ladies wore lovely lace mantillas or stylish hats.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2009 2:08:16 GMT
"chapel caps" (the doily things)
Remember how many women, despite seeing Jacqueline Kennedy wearing her mantilla correctly, would wear theirs backwards?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 2:23:14 GMT
I can't say I remember a backwards worn mantilla,hmm,might of missed that. I have the one my mother wore,a lovely black lace one,not too long. (you never know when you might need a mantilla !
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Post by rikita on Jul 6, 2009 6:56:37 GMT
lagatta - no, where i live it is all flat... though where my bf lives it is somewhat hilly, and there i use a two speed bike (one speed is broken, it was three speed originally)...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 9:40:00 GMT
The first plane I ever took was a Pan Am Boeing 707. It did not have overhead luggage compartments but just a wide shelf to put things like on a train.
There were some very small black and white TV monitors fastened to the shelves about every 6 rows as the latest development in inflight entertainment.
Pan Am was the cream of the crop back then. (1968)
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