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Post by foreverman on Sept 5, 2012 12:01:34 GMT
Our main phone is a Panasonic with 3 handsets, but I still prefer to use the old one
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2012 20:16:01 GMT
Although I never read the "Little Orphan Annie" strip, I remember Daddy Warbucks.  Warbucks was often a platform for cartoonist Harold Gray's political views, which were free market-based. He sometimes expounded on the need for wealthy men to work hard—lest the masses have no employment. At the same time, capitalists who underpaid or mistreated their workers were portrayed in a negative light, with corrupt businessmen often being shown as villains. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2012 5:39:46 GMT
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Post by bjd on Oct 4, 2012 7:01:28 GMT
Hah! I bet real cowboys smoked roll-your-owns.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 4, 2012 14:51:04 GMT
I don't know if this was ever the case in other countries but when I was in my teens our city had Public Toilets that had a brass fitting on each toilet door into which you dropped your coin, slid the spring-loaded bolt across which allowed the money to drop down and unlock the door.
As teens we were always short of cash so made sure all our friends got in as we went out before the door locked again!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2012 15:00:10 GMT
I remember seeing this in both bus stations in the United States, and also some of the unattended toilets in cafés in France had a coin slot, too.
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Post by htmb on Oct 4, 2012 22:47:07 GMT
I can remember my pediatrician smoking while he examined me. I always wondered if the ash on the end of his cigarette was going to fall off on me. He looked a bit like this doctor, minus the glamorous babe.
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Post by rikita on Oct 5, 2012 6:14:21 GMT
don't remember any of my doctors smoking in my presence, but it was still pretty normal that my dad smoked in the car while we were in it, when we were kids...
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Post by mossie on Oct 5, 2012 7:25:02 GMT
The pharmacist in a village we used to live in, always smoked. It was fascinating to watch him counting out your pills into a little bottle, and speculating if the long ash would drop in with them  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 17:07:47 GMT
I have a liquor cabinet that is actually an old hi-fi cabinet -- back from when there was a turntable, an amplifier, a radio and cassette player on the top shelf and the vinyl records on the bottom level. My younger friends think it is pretty cool but they can't figure out where I could have found such a cabinet.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2012 7:29:05 GMT
Do you remember how computers looked in Louis XV's time?  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2012 17:25:36 GMT
No, I don't. I'm so much younger than you that I can only remember back to the industrial age. They made some beauties back then, too: |
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Post by lagatta on Nov 17, 2012 2:56:08 GMT
I remember the Minitel, and also applications in Paris far ahead of anywhere in North America at métro stations, providing a choice of itineraries. This was in the fairly early 1980s, if I recall.
We were using Internet at university, but it was far from generalised. I worked on an early Mac at my job (in communications) but this too was far from generalised.
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Post by htmb on Dec 1, 2012 14:10:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 17:33:09 GMT
Oh, I can just imagine trying to put all of those little broken bones together again after even a minor accident.
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Post by rikita on Dec 1, 2012 17:37:13 GMT
ah, i don't remember this one - but my parents told me that with all their kids, they drove home from hospital with the newborn being wrapped in blankets, in the mother's arms. that's it, no seat. so when dad went to pick up his wife and my baby brother from hospital, he forgot to bring a car sear. they almost didn't let them go home, but in the end they lent them a baby seat...
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Post by htmb on Dec 1, 2012 18:13:18 GMT
Oh, I can just imagine trying to put all of those little broken bones together again after even a minor accident. Yep, but that's what served as a car seat back in those days before they threw her in with the rest of us kiddies in the back seat. Basically, it served to elevate the child so she could see out the front window and be entertained by watching the passing sights. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2012 22:45:32 GMT
That car seat was all that was available in 1961 & was actually rather an upscale frill at the time, in the pre-Ralph Nader era. Kids did love them, what with the built-in steering wheel & all. Digression:Htmb considerately linked to the car seat photo, as it is over-sized for the forum. However, when you feel that you need to post a photo rather than a link, follow the instructions here. In the case of a big pic borrowed from the web, open it to full size, then float your mouse over its tab above your browser window. The dimensions will appear. You then paste the url for the picture in a message box on anyport, highlight it & attach the Image tags, then type in width= and height= after the opening img. Put in the desired width & height after the equal signs, then post. For instance, the car seat picture reveals that it is 1531 x 1256. To post that picture here, you'd paste in the url: http://lovesphotoalbum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1960s-Child-Car-Seat.jpg add the Image tags: [img src="http://lovesphotoalbum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1960s-Child-Car-Seat.jpg"] Type in width= and height= after img in the opening tag: [img src="http://lovesphotoalbum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1960s-Child-Car-Seat.jpg" width= height=] Add the desired dimensions (here using half the original sizes -- 1531 divided by 2 and 1256 divided by 2): [img width=766 height=628 src="http://lovesphotoalbum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1960s-Child-Car-Seat.jpg"] Then, when posted, the picture is a size that fits the forum:  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2012 3:57:20 GMT
Ooooo, look! Just found this jewel posted online ~~  |
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Post by htmb on Dec 6, 2012 3:54:46 GMT
I remember being a teenager on vacation with my family in North and South Carolina. Featured on the radio every hour were obituary reports of people who had recently died. (Most had died from illness or old age, but a few died when car radios exploded due to strange grammatical errors made by exhausted broadcasters who where then jeered by other listeners from exotic countries near and far. (Don't understand? Best not to ask  ) |
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Post by onlymark on Dec 6, 2012 4:23:14 GMT
How do you die on a car radio? Electrocuted or something?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2012 4:56:17 GMT
Throwing oneself upon it, in the mistaken impression that it's a live grenade.
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Post by htmb on Dec 6, 2012 5:14:55 GMT
Yep, exploding car radios. ;D for more detail see modification and elaboration above.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 17:23:19 GMT
While squeezing lemons for tonight's dinner to marinate my fish and scallops, I remembered how my mother used to squeeze oranges through a strainer when I was little, because having any pulp in my glass was out of the question.
Many years later, my parents only bought pulp free orange juice at the market in Florida, while now I only buy orange juice with pulp at my Paris supermarkets.
It is quite odd how all of us evolve.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2012 19:42:06 GMT
I remember when the term "shutterbug" was used for people like me and how it was both gentle and disdainful.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2012 22:47:22 GMT
Ha ~~ yes, somewhat like "bookworm".
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Post by htmb on Dec 15, 2012 19:59:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2012 21:05:13 GMT
Oh, the Dutch still have tons of those!
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Post by htmb on Dec 15, 2012 21:11:11 GMT
This one had tree limbs on top, algae all over the sides, and looked like it had just been pulled out of the woods after a long stay.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2012 21:53:31 GMT
I can see the algae.
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