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Post by spindrift on Jul 6, 2009 10:13:50 GMT
I would still wear a mantilla for funerals in Ireland. My half-sister knitted me a colourful Golliwog. I loved him dearly. I bought myself a Bush transistor radio with my first earnings. I remember learning The Twist! to Chubby Checker's music.
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 6, 2009 10:30:10 GMT
I had a bike with no gears. And to engage the brake you back-pedalled.
I remember a pub when i was at university that sold beer for a shilling a pint - in metric, that is 5p. So twenty pints for a pound.
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 6, 2009 11:02:10 GMT
I had a bike with no gears. And to engage the brake you back-pedalled. Yup, I had one of those too. It was a great bike !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 11:11:45 GMT
LOL! Great image of you dancing to the twist spindrift! I remember my first transistor too! I also remember sneaking into my oldest brother's room and playing his 45's. He always knew somehow,and I was so careful.
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Post by palesa on Jul 6, 2009 12:47:25 GMT
I think I have read the whole thread, but may have missed these
telex machines listening to "stories" on the radio money chutes (not sure if that is what they were called) when the cashier would put your money and invoice into a tube and send it upstairs in a lift thing, and then they would put your change and receipt into the tube and send it back. roneo machines
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2009 13:54:23 GMT
Ooo ~~ yeah, money chutes! I think the only place they still exist in the US is in drive-through banking.
Re: garter belts (which I still think are a good invention) ~~ Gyllen or others, remember the crinkly, elastic tube kind of garter belts?
I well remember learning to Twist. No one has mentioned hula hoops!
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 6, 2009 14:19:38 GMT
Running boards on cars. When we lived in Canada we rented a cabin for a couple of months in summer. My mother and I would go up to the cabin, my father and older brother would join us at the weekends. I used to wait by the crooked tree for the car to arrive and then I would jump onto the running board and hold on until my dad stopped by our cabin.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 14:36:44 GMT
Money vacuum tubes are used in all of the hypermarkets of France, because the cash has to cover quite a bit of distance when there are 80 checkout lanes spread over two levels. It seems to be very efficient and secure.
And I still have a telex in my office, although the messages are now typed on my computer screen and not the wonderful paper tape with holes punched in it (which drove everybody crazy, of course).
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Post by palesa on Jul 6, 2009 14:58:36 GMT
Really K2, I would have thought that telex was obsolete with fax machines and e-mail.
I used to hate sending telexes with the tape and if you made an error, you had to start from the beginning again.
Something else I haven't received in many many years is a telegram, I wonder if one can even send one
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 6, 2009 16:25:55 GMT
Ocean liners. I think cruises are awful (I had to go on one for my work) but a couple of weeks of a sea voyage is great.
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Post by rikita on Jul 6, 2009 22:34:06 GMT
well i mainly remember only things that make sense only in my own cultural context. like wandzeitungen and fahnenappell and pioniernachmittage... oh, and the konsum (that is what stores were cold when i was a kid)... and train tickets costing 20 pfennig (ost)...
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 7, 2009 2:00:11 GMT
Princess Phones!!!!! My first car, only it was black with black leather interior.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2009 2:09:28 GMT
Rikita, I saw "Goodbye, Lenin" the other night, so I'm keenly interested in what all those terms mean. (what a great movie!)
T63, as soon as I saw that picture, I winced with the aural memory of those damned things falling off the table if you moved too suddenly while talking on them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2009 2:17:46 GMT
My first bike was a Schwinn foot-brake one that I got when I was seven, and kept for years & years. I remember my little brother learned to ride it before I did because he was fearless. It looked somewhat like this. You could blow in one of the handgrips and the sound would come out as a fairly melodic whistle on the other end. I think my mother sold it at a garage sale around 20 years later.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 7, 2009 3:26:25 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong rikita:
Wandzeitungen, public newspapers stuck to walls. Had them in China and other commie countries as well. We even had them in the west, not stuck on the walls but in little windows. They were free to read when passing by.
Fahnenappell, assembly at school before lessons start, raising the flag, singing the national anthem, still quite popular in the third world.
Pioniernachmittage, meetings of the state controlled youth movement, also still quite popular.
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Post by rikita on Jul 7, 2009 22:13:05 GMT
yeah something like that with wandzeitung... in my case i was mainly referring to the ones in schools so it wasn't so much a newspaper but something the students would make, writing articles or cutting htem out and put them on a big piece of paper in an appealing way and decorate that with pictures and all, and then hang it in class room walls for everyone to read...
yeah the other two are exactly as i meant... we didn't have fahnenappell every day though, but only on special days. for these days all the children that were in the youth movement (i wasn't, but most were) had to show up in their uniforms...
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Post by livaco on Jul 7, 2009 22:42:59 GMT
I thought of this one today when I was at the library. I remember when a card catalog was a wooden set of drawers with lots of index cards inside.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2009 0:49:08 GMT
*sigh* You have no idea how much I love real card catalogues. Look how nice that looks! Fahnenappell, assembly at school before lessons start, raising the flag, singing the national anthem, [highlight=Yellow]still quite popular in the third world.[/highlight] Is that so?! It's certainly true here. It seems most of Monday is devoted to that activity. The Mexican national anthem has something like 347 verses, plus it's an opportunity to over use the ever-popular loudspeaker. The kids have to wear white uniforms on Mondays. Must be popular with the moms.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 8, 2009 4:36:24 GMT
Well, it is over here. I know for a fact it's still done daily in Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand. For sure in Vietnam and Laos as well.
In Thailand the national anthem is played in cinemas just before movies start. You'd better be standing with all the Thais when it's being played!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 4:51:10 GMT
Yes, I saw Titanic in Bangkok and stood with the crowd when the anthem was played.
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Post by rikita on Jul 8, 2009 6:54:31 GMT
don't think we ever did that in chile when i went to school there - then again chile isn't a third world country i suppose... well the nly other country i went to school in was the US - there weren't exactly fahnenapelle there, but there were gatherings sometimes with people telling us not to use drugs or with things about the school spirit or something... so they were almost like a fahnenappell...
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 8, 2009 10:26:15 GMT
I had a bike with no gears. And to engage the brake you back-pedalled. Yup, I had one of those too. It was a great bike ! I had a Huffy (?) bike that had that. I never liked handle bar grips brake controls. I especially dislike trap pedals.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 10:31:22 GMT
I remember how fascinated everybody was when the first video game -- 'Pong' -- came out. Watching that little white square bouncing back and forth had us all mesmerized.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 8, 2009 10:34:50 GMT
"listening to "stories" on the radio"
Here in Mexico, we can hear "novelas" on the radio, complete with dramatic, swelling orchestration. A favorite theme is "¡CHUcho El ROTO!", a sort of Mexican Robin Hood. I enjoy occasionally listening to that while riding the "Combi" van to Pátzcuaro. I believe it's serialized. I only understand about 1 word in 10, but it's fun.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 8, 2009 10:37:42 GMT
I remember a friend demonstrating to me the first Macintosh computer. Suddenly, personal computing became an accessible concept "for the rest of us."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 10:41:15 GMT
I remember listening to "The Shadow" on the radio. Lying under the covers we would listen. It was quite spooky with the scary music in the background.
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Post by BigIain on Jul 13, 2009 22:35:11 GMT
who else can remember having to get up and walk to the TV when the channel or volume needed changed? And cars which needed to be "tuned" every 3000 miles... timing adjusted, spark plugs gapped and emery papered?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 3:48:39 GMT
"Europe on $5.00 a Day"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 4:19:29 GMT
I used that book.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 11:50:01 GMT
I was trying to remember what year it was that it came out. Late '60's ,early '70's?
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