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smittykins
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This is supposedly still around, but I haven't seen it in eons:
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DARK FATHER
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Wow Smitty! I used to chew those like candy when I was 3-5 years old! I have not seen it lately either.
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Jimbo
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I'm kind of imagining it more as Mrs. Claus' pubic hair.
If you really think about it, that is.......
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Thor
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Probably about the right size, too. Lotta nights spent with Santa and his helpers at that cold North Pole these past several hundred years. I heard Santa once confused it for a chimney.
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JimAyzing
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Pa, I will have to take you up on the offer, some time. Other things that you don't see anymore
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DARK FATHER
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I never see children under high school age riding their bicycles to school anymore. This is thanks to all the psycho sicko perverts out there. My son's school is less than a half mile from my house and has a paved bike-only road that leads right to it. But will NOT allow him to ride by himself because he must pass multiple woods and a cemetary where anyone could be lurking. So either DARK MOTHER or I must drive him. The bus is too unreliable.
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Angry McPisseron
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Here in Federal Way WA., we have the milkman show up every Thursday morning to put milk, eggs, and other dairy products into a styrofoam-lined lidded metal box on our porch...guess it simply depends on where you live.
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DARK FATHER
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Wow Angry, I had no idea that still happened!
When I was a kid the trash collectors had to walk into your yard to where ever you kept your metal trash cans and drag them to their truck to be emptied. Now trash collection is curbside with the rolling Herbie Curbie trash containes.
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Angry McPisseron
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I call those things "wheelie bins".
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Thor
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When was the last time anyone saw any of those mobile carnival rides? Trucks used to come around my neighborhood in the summer equipped with little ferris wheels, whips, and some ride that used to rock to and fro (I forget what it was called). They'd stop on various blocks and charge kids a nickel or a dime per ride.
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Tiz
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They used to provide(and maybe still do)a stall that we could park our bikes in. Put the front wheel in, padlock it and be done. Nowadays, the front wheel may still be there when school lets out. When was the last time anyone had a basket on their bike? |
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PaWolf
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A 'Full Sevice' gas station |
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"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
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Pirate Alyx
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"Don't Cook Tonight Call Chicken Delight"
Sorry folks, but this is a long thread can't read it from the start...don't know if this place was mentioned, or if I even mentioned it before. But for some reason I keep thinking about this place that has long vanished from CA. I remember it from the 60's from my childhood. I think there may be a few in the Northern Midwest and there are several in Canada.
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plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is..............
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Yiffy
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read the first post and frankly do not want to read any more. It just gets me so depressed what hell hole this country has become. ( America ) and yet people put up with the decline because of their no-longer-care attitude and their oh-well way of life. It is disgraceful and disturbing to me to think of the future in another 30 years.
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DARK FATHER
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Wow Yiffy, when I started this post it was supposed to be pleasantly nostalgic. I never meant to depress anyone. And you are correct about how the world seems to be worse without some of these things that once existed.
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DARK FATHER
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My 1963 Schwinn Twinn tandem bike has the basket on it from its time period.
My daughter's 1976 Murray Swinger has a basket on it from its time.
However these are RARE!
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Yiffy
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Actually no, my apologies I came back to see what kind of damage my comment caused. It's just that I take the way things are headed on a downward spiral very seriously and my heart weeps for everyone. I was meant to be born 60 - 70 years earlier but I was born in 1977 instead I really do not fit in but would have been perfect that many years ago. I would have fit into society a lot better. Didn't mean to be so down and I know you started this just for fun. |
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Hootman
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Look on the bright side Yiffy, if you were born 60 or 70 years earlier, you might be dead now.
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Tiz
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Do you and Dark Mother ride that bike, DF?
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jeroboam
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The world is not in such a decline.
Violent crime is actually down in the US compared to the 19th century. Children's welfare was almost non existent. Women were not only not allowed a voice but they were subject to abuse in some circles and the laws were not there to protect them. Disease was rampant. Infant/mother mortality rates were so high a baby living was something to celebrate. Flush toilets exist now. Literacy is up. Blacks and other other minorities were worse off in many ways. hell in the old days white minorities were treated awful. My great grandfather was refused work because when they discovered he was Irish he was rejected but if they suspected he was jewish it was worse. youth gang violence in many ways was higher. In fact the boweries of eastern us were rampant with homeless youth begging and terrorizing the working class for money and mugging was a regular occurence. Cholera Small pox Governments were ran by kings and queens and class societies. europe was a hot bed of incestual cronyism and the violence they bestowed on one another and the lower classes was awful if not barbaric. Communication was horrible. Travel was close to exclusive without it offering a risk of fatality. British imperialism ruined portions of the world to where we are picking up the pieces STILL. Ancient greece complained of wild youth, and disrespecting of elders. So f**k the good ol' days. I love the stuff that was great and pine for simpler times but I am also realistic and know that it isn't as bad as it has been. |
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Dreamstalker
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I miss the purple ditto machines (sometimes I wonder if I'd have turned out 'less weird' had I not always volunteered to run the machine for my class)
Real wood/metal playground equipment, none of this plastic crap. Us 10-year-olds being allowed to roam the neighborhood in the summer Homemade trick-or-treat goodies
My mom found a production-model SX-70 camera in my grandmother's house...the film that is out there now is too new (different loading mechanism and I think the film itself is too sensitive). I hear that a company is trying to rerelease the old "Time Zero" film...but we'd also have to find flash bars for the thing. |
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DARK FATHER
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