OT - Double dog dare....
Neil Tarasoff
it ended with a "double dog dare" to pass it on. if you
remember what that means, you understand. If you don't know
what that means, read on and see what you missed.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere
between old enough to know better and young enough not to
care. How many do you remember?
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1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
bottles.
4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
(Drexel-5505)
12. Pea shooters.
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM Records
15. Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue Flash Bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork pop guns
23. Drive ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
28. Tinker toys
29. The Erector Set
30. The fort Apache Play set
31. Lincoln Logs
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that
awful pink slab of bubble gum
34. Penny candy
35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
36. Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie
A TIME WHEN ...
* Decisions were made by going
"eeny-meeny-miney- mo."
Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming
"do over!"
* "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the
fastest.
* Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an
entire evening.
* It wasn't odd to have two or three "best"
friends.
The worst thing you could catch from the
opposite sex was "cooties".
* Having a weapon in school meant being caught
with a slingshot.
* A foot of snow was a dream come true.
* Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute
ads for action figures.
* "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
* Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling
down was cause for giggles.
* The worst embarrassment was being picked last
for a team.
* War was a card game.
* Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
* Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any
bike into a motorcycle.
* Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable
aspirin.
If you can remember most or all of these, then
you have lived!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a
break from their "grown up" life... I double dog dare ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dancing Baby
Drake
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RayDunakin
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
bottles.
4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
cardboard stoppers.
>>
I remember all of those.
>>7. Party lines.
I remember those, but we never had one. I did know some folks who had a party
line, though.
>>8. Newsreels before the movie.
I don't know, I didn't go to movies back then.
>>9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
(Drexel-5505)
12. Pea shooters.>>
I remember those.
>>13. Howdy Doody
May have been around when I was little, but I never watched it.
>>14. 45 RPM Records
Still have one of those.
>>15. Green Stamps
S&H Green Stamps, to be precise. Also popular were Blue Chip Stamps. We
collected both and I clearly remember all the time we spent pasting them into
books.
>>16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers>>
Yep
>>18. Mimeograph paper
I remember mimeographs from school, but I always wondered how they worked.
>>19. Blue Flash Bulbs
Assume this refers to the big round bulbs, not the little mini "blue dot" bulbs
that are useful for rockets.
>>20. Beanie and Cecil
Hated that stupid show.
>>21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork pop guns
23. Drive ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders>>
Yep, I remember all of these.
>>28. Tinker toys
29. The Erector Set>>
Had Tinker Toys, and loved 'em. Best part was the smell of the wood. Always
wanted an Erector Set too, but those were too expensive.
>>30. The fort Apache Play set
31. Lincoln Logs
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that
awful pink slab of bubble gum
34. Penny candy
35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline>>
Yep, I remember those too, and even recall gas being a good deal cheaper than
35 cents.
>>36. Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie>>
This one's a complete mystery to me.
Mike Pearson <see .sig>
>
> I remember mimeographs from school, but I always wondered how they worked.
http://www.karnes-city.isd.tenet.edu/trails/ed/tech/mimeo.html
And they are still available:
http://www.repeatotype.com/mimeo.html
And still being used in schools:
http://bsd-web.lausd.k12.ca.us/psg/pbWarehouse/pbProducts/pbproducts.jsp
?listType=1273
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<Vegetables aren't food; vegetables are what the food eats!>
Matt Oresky
Yes--2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
water inside.
Yes--3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
bottles. (the bottles were laying down and as kids we would pop the
tops with a church key and catch the soda in a cup}
Yes--4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
Yes--5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Yes--6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
cardboard stoppers. ( the milk man drove the truck standing up,
no seat!)
Yes--9. P. F. Flyers (had many a pair)
Yes--11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (ours was FOrest 8-XXXX )
(Drexel-5505)
Yes--12. Pea shooters. (for a dime you got a thick plastic straw and a
little bag of peas)
Yes--14. 45 RPM Records(you had to have a little adapter to play it on a
regular turntable)
Yes--15. Green Stamps (at one time their catalog had a car in it,
a Simca IIRK )
Yes--16. Hi-fi's
Yes--. Metal ice cube trays-with levers THEY SUCKED!
Yes--18. Mimeograph paper
Yes--19. Blue Flash Bulbs
Yes--20. Beanie and Cecil (both the puppets and the cartoon versions)
Yes--21. Roller skate keys
Yes--22. Cork pop guns
Yes--23. Drive ins
Yess--24. Studebakers (they had the first hemi engines)
25. Wash tub wringers
Yes--26. The Fuller Brush man (vaguely)
Yes--27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
Yes--28. Tinker toys
Yes--29. The Erector Set
Yes--31. Lincoln Logs
Yess--32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
Yes--33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that
awful pink slab of bubble gum
in '74)
Matt Oresky
TRA 7645 L2
Member Tripoli South Carolina
About 50 miles from Orangeburg, SC ! (originally from L.I.N.Y.)
Dale Windsor
For Born again candy-eaters <g>
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On 2/25/02 8:23 PM, in article 20020225202306...@mb-cd.aol.com,
Chuck Barndt
I remember ALL of these, with the exception of #36. Can you explain?
Chuck
Neil Tarasoff
Andy's Gang. Froggy, Midnight the Cat, Squeaky the Mouse.
Hey Lew, help me out here.
Neil
David Erbas-White
I thought #36 was "Twang your magic twanger, Froggie" ?
And what about:
Sherman and Poindexter
Felix the Cat
Buster Brown shoes
Keds
The Good Humor Man
(in Los Angeles) the Helms Bakery Man
and on-topic
those little vinegar-and-baking-soda rockets you could get free in
certain cereals?
the Gulf Lunar Module paper model
David Erbas-White
Jerry Irvine
Matt Oresky <or...@sc.rr.com> wrote:
I bekieve.
>
>
> Matt Oresky
> TRA 7645 L2
> Member Tripoli South Carolina
> About 50 miles from Orangeburg, SC ! (originally from L.I.N.Y.)
>
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Opinion, the whole thing. <mail to:01ro...@gte.net>
Please bring common sense back to rocketry administration.
FABULOUSFISHHEAD
> it ended with a "double dog dare" to pass it on. if you
> remember what that means, you understand. If you don't know
> what that means, read on and see what you missed.
> And remember that the perfect age is somewhere
> between old enough to know better and young enough not to
> care. How many do you remember?
> ----------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------
> 1. Candy cigarettes
> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
> water inside.
> 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
> bottles.
> 4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
> 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
> cardboard stoppers.
> 7. Party lines.
> 8. Newsreels before the movie.
> 9. P. F. Flyers
Lusted after these at age 4 but had flat feet and wore Randy Pedics
instead. What a racket that was.
> 10. Butch wax
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> (Drexel-5505)
> 12. Pea shooters.
We just hocked loogies at each other.
> 13. Howdy Doody
> 14. 45 RPM Records
> 15. Green Stamps
The store where we exchanged our full books for merchandise still
stands.
> 16. Hi-fi's
Close And Play's
> 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers
> 18. Mimeograph paper
SNIFF
> 19. Blue Flash Bulbs
Yup
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
Nope
> 21. Roller skate keys
Vaguely
> 22. Cork pop guns
I must have had a dozen of these confiscated over the years.
> 23. Drive ins
Several still exist around us.
> 24. Studebakers
The Doug Holverson Memorial automobile?
> 25. Wash tub wringers
Our neighbor still uses hers.
> 26. The Fuller Brush man
several years ago. Should've sold them.
> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
What about 8-track recorders?
> 28. Tinker toys
They're back.
> 29. The Erector Set
> 30. The fort Apache Play set
> 31. Lincoln Logs
Back also.
> 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
that were the size of a Frisbee?
> 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that
> awful pink slab of bubble gum
> 34. Penny candy
> 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
> 36. Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie
> A TIME WHEN ...
> * Decisions were made by going
> "eeny-meeny-miney- mo."
years. Still makes me uncomfortable today.
> Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming
> "do over!"
> fastest.
> * Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an
> entire evening.
> * It wasn't odd to have two or three "best"
> friends.
> opposite sex was "cooties".
> * Having a weapon in school meant being caught
> with a slingshot.
> * A foot of snow was a dream come true.
> * Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute
> ads for action figures.
> * "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
> * Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling
> down was cause for giggles.
> * The worst embarrassment was being picked last
> for a team.
> * War was a card game.
> * Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
> * Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any
> bike into a motorcycle.
> * Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable
> aspirin.
> If you can remember most or all of these, then
> you have lived!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a
> break from their "grown up" life... I double dog dare ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Dancing Baby
(I feel old, just not grown up.)
Bill Westfield
29. The Erector Set
I still see these around. The last three seem to be making a substantial
comeback...
BillW
Mike Pearson <see .sig>
> What is 'Butch Wax'?
It was used for waxing your "butch" haircut so it would stand up
straight, like it was supposed to! Also good on the standard crew cut
and flattop!
RayDunakin
Thanks. Still leaves a few questions unanswered, like what the stencils are
made of, and why the ink is always purple instead of black?
RayDunakin
Sort of like a greasy hair gel to make your hair stand up when you had a butch
cut.
<<And what about:
Sherman and Poindexter
Felix the Cat
Buster Brown shoes
Keds
The Good Humor Man
(in Los Angeles) the Helms Bakery Man>>
I remember all of those! Man, this is making me feel old. :)
RayDunakin
They're back.>>
Yeah, but I think they're made of plastic now. It's just not the same without
that great wood smell. (I think it was ash.)
Dave/Kristin Hall
: Keds
Uh.... Keds were actually in style between 5-10 years ago. Not as old
as you think.
(Yeah, I remember them from WAY back, but that's beside the point)
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Dale Windsor
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On 2/26/02 4:22 AM, in article a5fk5j$j89$2...@delphi.ridgenet.net,
Jerry Irvine
raydu...@aol.com (RayDunakin) wrote:
The stencils are like carbon paper used in typing but a bit thicker to
survive repeated use. The purpleish tint was a function of the
chemistry used to almost instantly cure the ink (it probably had to be
translucent to work). I used to run the mimeograph for the city's
entire newsletter to citizens. What's worse is we then had to hand
deliver a copy to every home in the city, a job I always thought better
for the PO till I realized it gave us jobs and was still less than half
the cost of postage.
Jerry
Sams Family
Dale Windsor wrote:
>
> Chuck Taylor's
>
Blue Suede Chuck Taylor's. $14 a pair in 1974 (versus $11 for the canvas).
Didn't cure whiteman's disease, tho.
Doug
If I jump with all my might, if you're quick, you can slide a sheet of paper
under my feet...
Lew Garrow
>From: Neil Tarasoff neilc...@attbi.com
>Date: 2/26/2002 12:10 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <3C7B1923...@attbi.com>
Plunk your magic twanger Froggy!
"I'll be good, I will, I will"
How about Winky Dink and the magic screen you could draw along on! ( a plastic
screen that went over your TV so you could draw with crayons and then wipe off)
Or Farmer Gray (Brown, etc.) cartoons with everything always blowing up at the
end and the farmer and various cats, dogs and mice would come tumbling down in
the sky....
Or the first color TV's? a plastic screen tinted blue on top and green on the
bottom to give the illusion of color (didn't work too well when the action on
the TV was indoors!)
Davey Crockett coonskin caps!
Hopalong Cassidy penknife
Chocolate shakes that filled two glasses!
Coca Cola in coke glasses when they were really used, not a retro chichi thing!
Lew Garrow
TRA 7181 L3
NAR 77928 L3
METRA VP
Maryland Delaware Assn
Jerry Irvine
raydu...@aol.com (RayDunakin) wrote:
My kid has my Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, Legos (with a few strategic
scorch marks), and my Hot Wheels. He finds old Lincoln Logs and
Tinkertoys vastly superior to new and despite the massive volume of Lego
received, he managed to almost double it.
Scott D. Hansen
@aol.complex says...
> Davey Crockett coonskin caps!
Fess Parker is still alive and well. He's now a hotel magnate and winery
owner in Santa Barbara County. His winery makes excellent wine. I'm a
member of their wine club. You can still get coonskin caps from them as
well.
Scott
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Mark Simpson
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Neil Tarasoff <neilc...@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3C7AB049...@attbi.com>...
> Double dog dare.... I am sending this on because
> it ended with a "double dog dare" to pass it on. if you
> remember what that means, you understand. If you don't know
> what that means, read on and see what you missed.
> And remember that the perfect age is somewhere
> between old enough to know better and young enough not to
> care. How many do you remember?
> ----------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------
> 1. Candy cigarettes ---w/red tips
> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
> water inside. ----came in cardboard cartons too
> 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
> bottles. ---- rounded sides on a Coke machine dispensing pony bottles
> 4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes ----still around in small towns
> 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum ---still around
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
> cardboard stoppers. ---placed in lined metal milk boxes on the front porch
> 7. Party lines. ---Don't remember those. NJ was one of the first Bell locations
> 8. Newsreels before the movie.----before my time
> 9. P. F. Flyers ---- sneakers
> 10. Butch wax--hated the stuff. My dad made my brother and I get crew cuts every summer. He died when I was 13; my next haircut was at 21. ;-)
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> (Drexel-5505) - Mine was TIlden 5.....
> 12. Pea shooters.----- swallowed many a navy bean using them.
> 13. Howdy Doody-------Yep.
> 14. 45 RPM Records-----still have some
> 15. Green Stamps ---A&P gave out plenty.
> 16. Hi-fi's ----still have one
> 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers ---yep, what a pain. Pinched many a finger in them....made of aluminum
> 18. Mimeograph paper-- smelled and was a nasty purpleish color
> 19. Blue Flash Bulbs ---- still have some (I collect antique cameras)
> 20. Beanie and Cecil --- watched it religiously
> 21. Roller skate keys ----Yep
> 22. Cork pop guns --stuffed dirt in it instead.
> 23. Drive ins ---still a few left in Ohio
> 24. Studebakers---saw plenty, never rode in one, though
> 25. Wash tub wringers ----Grandmom had one.
> 26. The Fuller Brush man--never saw one up close and personal
> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders--still have a couple
> 28. Tinker toys---see 29 below
> 29. The Erector Set---played with one while watching Alan Shepherd take off in Freedon 7.
> 30. The fort Apache Play set---brother had one
> 31. Lincoln Logs--cousin had a million of the suckers
> 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers----I remember 5/a dollar, but not sure about $0.15.
> 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that
> awful pink slab of bubble gum--powdered pink gum slab. ;-)
> 34. Penny candy--oh yeah. Neighbor had a candy shop in her family room.
> 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline---$0.29/gallon. It jumped into the 60's about the time that I got my license. Coincidence? I think not. ;-)
> 36. Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie----No clue on that one.
Mark Simpson
Mark Simpson
NAR 71503 Level II
Sams Family <sam...@flash.net> wrote in message news:<3C7BB3FE...@flash.net>...
Mark Simpson
> What is 'Butch Wax'?
An insidious plot to make squares out of cool kids in the 60's.
>
> I thought #36 was "Twang your magic twanger, Froggie" ?
>
> And what about:
>
> Sherman and Poindexter ---and the Wayback machine
> Felix the Cat----------the wonderful, wonderful cat. Whenever he gets in a fix he reaches into his bag of tricks....
> Buster Brown shoes----my sisters wore BB saddle shoes.
> Keds----------preferred Chuck Taylor All Stars myself.
> The Good Humor Man ---gotta love the hat and white coat.
> (in Los Angeles) the Helms Bakery Man--how about the three little bakers commercials? Or was that a Philly only thing?
Mark Simpson
Mike Pearson <see .sig>
> > 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum ---still around
Nope...Adams was bought out a while back by Phizer. For a while they
had the "Adams Nostalgia Chewing Gum" line, but they have now dropped
all three (Beeman's, Blackjack, and Clove), have no more in stock, and
have no plans to go back into production.
Too bad...Blackjack was an all-time favorite!
Stefan E. Jones
Ummmm!
Neil Tarasoff
I would put in on when I played the Davey Crockett song on the Victrola.
Neil
Richard Freed
>made of, and why the ink is always purple instead of black?
>
Mimeograph machines had a black ink reservoir which oozed through the master,
and printed the paper. What you are thinking of are the spirit duplicating
machines ("ditto machines") which were a real pain in the butt to those of us
who had to use them to reproduce papers for our classes. I do always remember
my classes smelling the scent of the liquid when I passed out newly copied
papers to them however. Thank heaven for the introduction of Xerox machines to
the schools!
Froggy the Gremlin was the comedy act in Andy's Gang Show. I seem to remember
an actor who gave demonstrations of various kinds (recipes) in which he would
be giving the instructions such as "mix the contents in a bowl. Then take a
quart of milk...." (and Froggy would mumble "and pour it on your head"...) "and
pour it on your head, " as he doused himself with the milk.
I remember Howdy Doody as a daily show which appeared around 5:00 p.m., the
first show of the day. On weekdays, TV didn't come on until 5 p.m. and
sign-off was around 8 p.m. We watched it on our very first TV set which was
about the size of an upright piano with a Black & White screen about 8 or 9
inches diagonal. I also remember frequent repair calls to keep the thing up
and running. (It also had a channel 1 on the dial)
I remember my first car -- a 1961 Rambler, and getting gas for it at
26.9/gallon.
I can answer yes to all 36 items. (And I am 54 years old.)
Richard Freed
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David Stribling
Metal lunch boxes (Jonny Quest, Land of the Giants, Fireball XL-5, etc)
GI Joe w/ _real_ rubber wet suit
Slot cars
Pee-Chee folders
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James D. Young II
>> 29. The Erector Set
>> 30. The fort Apache Play set
>What about the Cape Kennedy set?
Still available from Marx. I bought one last year.
**James
David Erbas-White
VacuFormer
Astron Scout Rocket
Rocket Engines in heavy blue tubes
'Sure-Shot' ignitors
Gyroc
Interceptor
Orbital Transport
Clustered Saturn-V
BIG Centuri Little Joe II
sorry, got carried away...
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First with 'Plastigoop' and 'Creepy Crawlers' then later with
'Gobbledy Goop' to make 'Incredible Edibles.' I also liked the
Vac-U-Form.
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RayDunakin
I remember a brief period when there were places with big slot car tracks where
you could bring your own slot cars and race them, but you had to keep feeding
quarters into the timer. You'd be lucky if you could make more than one lap on
a single quarter. These were pretty big slot cars, maybe 4-6" long, not the
"matchbox" size that come with looping tracks and stuff now.
David Stribling
NASCAR chassis! I was about 8 yr old, and my cousin took me with him when
he raced at this big track in Tucson. I thought that was sooooo cooool!
Guys even had their custom hand controllers.
DS
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The Silent Observer
The stencils are a waxy resist coating on permeable paper. If the ink
is purple and gets fainter as you make more copies, what you have isn't
a mimeograph, it's a spirit duplicator; the stencils are saturated in
the purple/blue, spirit soluble ink; for each impression, a pad of felt
saturated in spirit (not mineral spirit, I think it was an alcohol,
based on my memory of the smell) is pressed against the solid purple
side of the stencil, carrying ink through where the original typing or
art work has broken the resist and depositing that ink on the paper.
A true mimeograph does similar trickery with genuine ink, available in a
variety of colors but most common in black. Here, the resist isn't
saturated with ink until it's installed in the mimeo machine, which then
presses the ink through the felt, through the impression in the stencil,
and onto the paper. A true mimeo doesn't get fainter as you make more
copies -- a spirit duplicator stencil is good for only a couple hundred
impressions, while a mimeo stencil is good for 500 to 1000, depending on
how slowly you're willing to crank the machine to avoid tearing up the
stencil.
While we're on the subject, everyone should also remember the
hectograph, which used indelible pencil on plain paper to transfer an
image of handwriting or artwork, in mirror, into a gelatin base that
would then retransfer the ink (which is what makes indelible pencil
impossible to erase) onto dozens (up to 100, according to the name, but
they were getting pretty thin by then) of blank sheets. The nifty thing
with a hectograph is that you can make one in your kitchen, using
unflavored gelatin. Indelible pencils are pretty hard to find now,
though, and I don't remember the details of how to transfer the ink --
steam iron, boiling water, something like that, and a similar treatment
to "erase" the gelatin pad in order to take a new image.
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> David Erbas-White <der...@arachneering.com> wrote:
>
>
>>What is 'Butch Wax'?
>>
>
> It was used for waxing your "butch" haircut so it would stand up
> straight, like it was supposed to! Also good on the standard crew cut
> and flattop!
Of course, what they didn't tell you about the butch cut was that you
had it because a) your dad had an electric clipper, and b) your family
was either too broke or too cheap to pay a barber to cut your hair.
At least, that's the way it was at our house... B(
RayDunakin
because a) your dad had an electric clipper, and b) your family was either too
broke or too cheap to pay a barber to cut your hair.
At least, that's the way it was at our house... >>
Same here. I never saw the inside of a barbershop until I was in my late teens.
I had no idea what to say the first time a barber asked me "How do you want
it?"
Dave/Kristin Hall
: Metal lunch boxes (Jonny Quest, Land of the Giants, Fireball XL-5, etc)
You mean they're not metal anymore? (Geez, better look next time I'm at
the store!)
: Slot cars
: Pee-Chee folders
They still make both of these.
FABULOUSFISHHEAD
Christmas. The suit has since dry-rotted. I don't remember that
happening to the original.
Al Rognlie
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> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
inside.
> 29. The Erector Set
> 31. Lincoln Logs
>
> I still see these around. The last three seem to be
making a substantial
> comeback...
But what they're calling Erector sets nowadays are really
Meccanno (spelling?) sets.
Meccanno is a bit more flexible since the parts have evenly
spaced holes
(about every 1/2 inch?)the entire lengths of the parts,
whereas the Gilbert
parts only had holes every 2-1/2 to 3 inches (as I recall).
The Gilbert parts looked more like built-up girders rather
than metal strapping.
-- Alan Rognlie NAR 71223
WOOSH, NIRA, SeaNAR and Washington Aerospace
FABULOUSFISHHEAD
> Mark Simpson <mark.s...@home.com> wrote:
>
> > > 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum ---still around
>
> Nope...Adams was bought out a while back by Phizer. For a while they
> had the "Adams Nostalgia Chewing Gum" line, but they have now dropped
> all three (Beeman's, Blackjack, and Clove), have no more in stock, and
> have no plans to go back into production.
>
> Too bad...Blackjack was an all-time favorite!
Seems that I remember another situation like this that is somwehat on
topic. This conglomerate bought out two fairly cool rocket companies,
killed one off, and made a joke out of the other one.
Is this Phizer the Pfizer that makes every young golddigger's
nightmare medicine?
Wasn't Beeman's featured in The Right Stuff every time Chuck Yeager
was about to make a test flight?
David Weinshenker
>
> David Stribling (nada.d...@swbell.net) was rumored to say:
>
> : Metal lunch boxes (Jonny Quest, Land of the Giants, Fireball XL-5, etc)
>
> You mean they're not metal anymore? (Geez, better look next time I'm at
> the store!)
I think they started making them out of plastic at the demand of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission, which thought that the kids might
hit each other with the metal ones.
-dave w
RayDunakin
to make a test flight?>>
Yep!
I love that movie.
Hilty Information Systems
wrote:
<snip>
>But what they're calling Erector sets nowadays are really
>Meccanno (spelling?) sets.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Kenner's "Girder and Panel" building
sets.. I had one of their standard ones when I was a kid..
I picked up their "Hydrodynamic Building Set" variant at a local junk
store, and my 8yo son thinks it's the coolest thing since sliced
bread..
Even *if* it was made in 1968!
<g>
tah
Tod A. Hilty NAR #72099
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That's my line when I'm about to launch a rocket on its maiden
flight..
To the 11yo: "Hey Ridley! Can I borrow a stick of Beeman's? I'll
pay you back later.."
Him back: "Furr enough!"
Lew Garrow
>Date: 2/27/2002 12:16 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <3C7C6BD8...@ix.netcom.com>
>
>RayDunakin wrote:
>
>> << http://www.karnes-city.isd.tenet.edu/trails/ed/tech/mimeo.html >>
>>
>> Thanks. Still leaves a few questions unanswered, like what the stencils are
>> made of, and why the ink is always purple instead of black?
>
>
the mimeograph squad! ah yes, I remember those halcyon days at Bronx HS of
Science on the mimeo squad. And why you might ask? well the mimeo squad was A.)
located on the first floor allowing for an easy window egress after....
B.) putting oneself on the absentee list (after being marked present in
homeroom), which was then mimeo'd and sent to all teachers, so that you would
not be marked as cutting if you then ....er...'skipped' a class!
ah the fumes...the clank of the rotating drum....the sound of retreating
footsteps as we ditched school...
Hilty Information Systems
<der...@arachneering.com> wrote:
>VacuFormer
This made a comeback a few years back (either that, or somehow we
ended up with an original), and my wife picked one up somewhere cheap,
complete with a zillion plastic sheet refills...
My boys had it spread all over the living room floor just last
weekend..
Lew Garrow
>Date: 2/26/2002 5:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20020226170902...@mb-fv.aol.com>
good memory! Yep Andy's Gang, and then it would feature a short serialized film
about either a couple of American Indian kids or Eastern Indians - ah the chant
of the elephant handlers! TV used to comeon the air on weekends around 5:00 am
with 'The Modern Farmer' (gotta get your anhydrous ammonia) and then segued
into 'Library Lions'...I remember staring fixedly at the test patterns waiting
for the 'broadcast day' to begin!
Howdy Doody....I sat in the peanut gallery once!
how about Claude Kirchner's 3 Ring Circus? and the clowns name on that show
was........................?.
Lew Garrow
>Date: 2/26/2002 9:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20020226211412...@mb-mj.aol.com>
yep we used to build them by soldering together a chasis of brass tube, solder
on engine mount. We'd rewrap the motor armatures with fewer coils of heavier
wire so they could run 'hot' and we'd even throw a squirt of alcohol or white
gas on the armature so they took of down the track with a flame blowing out
behind them! A friend of mine's family owned one of the many tracks that
sprouted up around the city. He'd give us a handful of tokens and off we'd go.
Steve Decker
"Hey Ridley, loan me a stick of Beeman's, will ya? I'll pay you back
later".
"Fair Enough".
Incidentally, Jack Ridley was played by Levon Helm, who is also a
well-known musician!
Steve Decker
square-jawed chief engineer of the patternmaking division
Mario Perdue
Information Systems) wrote:
>I'm surprised no one mentioned Kenner's "Girder and Panel" building
>sets.. I had one of their standard ones when I was a kid..
Another one of my favorites. I had a couple different sets, including
the one with the monorail.
Hilty Information Systems
<mpe...@L4software.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:19:57 GMT, hil...@IhrUnterhose.net (Hilty
>Information Systems) wrote:
>
>>I'm surprised no one mentioned Kenner's "Girder and Panel" building
>>sets.. I had one of their standard ones when I was a kid..
>
>Another one of my favorites. I had a couple different sets, including
>the one with the monorail.
The hydrodynamic set is really a ball to mess around with, but it
tends to make a mess. It's all the Girder and Panel basics, but with
tanks, valves, pipes (hoses, actually), etc., all connected to a
battery operated centrifugal pump.
There *are* some really cool toys being made today too. My 8yo saves
every penny he can get his hands on to "enhance" his Rokenbok set..
It's a little on the expensive side, but it is _very_ well designed,
and engineered..
It seems to me that Rokenbok is the 90's version of Girder and Panel,
and its downright addicting when you start playing with it..
Check out the Flash at:
http://www.rokenbok.com/whatis/index_01.html
That'll explain it all..
Tod "I grew up? When?" Hilty
Mike Pearson <see .sig>
> how about Claude Kirchner's 3 Ring Circus? and the clowns name on that show
> was........................?.
Claude Kirschner's Terrytoon Circus, with Clownie!
I was on that show, with my sistyer. She won a bike in a drawing
through Thom McAnn show stores, so we all went down to the WOR studios
in NYC for the filming.
--
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Mario Perdue
Information Systems) wrote:
>It seems to me that Rokenbok is the 90's version of Girder and Panel,
>and its downright addicting when you start playing with it..
The local HobbyTown had a demo of Rokenbok set up. I tried to convince
my wife that we needed to buy it for the kids, but she pointed out
that our kids were 20 and 28 at the time. <sigh> I hate it when she
shoots holes in my ideas...
Hilty Information Systems
>raydu...@aol.com (RayDunakin) wrote in message news:<20020227043117...@mb-fm.aol.com>...
>> <<Wasn't Beeman's featured in The Right Stuff every time Chuck Yeager was about
>> to make a test flight?>>
>>
>> Yep!
>>
>> I love that movie.
>
>"Hey Ridley, loan me a stick of Beeman's, will ya? I'll pay you back
>later".
>
>"Fair Enough".
>
>Incidentally, Jack Ridley was played by Levon Helm, who is also a
>well-known musician!
Very cool bio on Jack Ridley here:
http://www.edwards.af.mil/articles98/docs_html/splash/nov97/cover/ridley.html
He sounds like a heckuva guy!
tah
Doug Sams
<snip>
> Incidentally, Jack Ridley was played by Levon Helm, who is also a
> well-known musician!
Yeah, I found that out a few years ago, and was quite surprised. When I
originally saw the movie (1985?), the Ridley character was a bit of an
enigma. He was there for Chuck's big moments, but didn't get a lot of
visibility otherwise. However, his voice provided the narration which
was prevalent throughout the film.
Given his memorable contribution to the film, I sorta expected him to
pop up again in film or television, and was surprised I never saw him
for many years until I learned he was a musician (which helps explain
what he'd been doing all those years :)
Anyway, I always wondered how he came to be in the film. Was he hired
for the great voice? Was this his one foray into films? Or was there
someone involved in casting who knew of him and sought him out?
Doug
Just curious
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is...gulp...old?
Just kidding. I haven't seen the familiar BJ wrapper in a while so
that explains why. Thanks.
Mark Simpson
NAR 71503 Level II
The Rocket Scientist
> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
I still own one. I also own an antique known as a turntable.
> 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that
> awful pink slab of bubble gum
That pink slab was included as a clever ploy to avoid paying sales
tax. It was also the first place I ever encountered "Really Stupid
Printed Instructions", i.e., "Save the cards. Chew the gum".
Even more off-topic-- does anybody remember Mad Magazine's parody of
the stupin instructions included with bubblegum cards? "Chew the
card, save the gum." "Chew entire mess, throw entire mess up." etc.
Ad Astra!
Bill "Ancient and Flatulant" Sullivan
Hilty Information Systems
Rocket Scientist) wrote:
>Neil Tarasoff <neilc...@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3C7AB049...@attbi.com>...
>
>> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
>
>I still own one.
Me too. Mine's a Columbia, and works perfectly..
>I also own an antique known as a turntable.
Yeah, but does yours play cylindrical records like mine?
<g>
Tod "Edison Model 7 Type C Reproducer" Hilty
Mario Perdue
still works great.
RayDunakin
was prevalent throughout the film. >>
I thought Dennis Quaid did the narration?
Mario Perdue
>I thought Dennis Quaid did the narration?
I think you're right.
RayDunakin
and my 8yo son thinks it's the coolest thing since sliced bread.. >>
Is that the one in which you can pump water through clear tubes and through all
sorts of transparent plastic devices, all of which are supported by whatever
girder structure you choose to build? You could make all kinds of "Rube
Goldberg" systems out of it. I had a set like that once when I was a kid, got
it second hand and never saw one before or since.
RayDunakin
I have one, plus a massive collection of records, aka LP's, aka albums. :)
Hilty Information Systems
That's exactly it! I picked this one up in a junk store down the road
for $12, and it still has the little dye tablets (ala Paas) that you
can color the water with. I've seen other sets go for well over $200
on ebay. This one was missing pieces, and had been well played with
before I got my hands on it, so we decided to keep, and use it.
After messing with it for awhile, my 11yo remarked, "Geez Dad.. Why
don't they make toys like this nowadays?"
tater schuld
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> Neil Tarasoff <neilc...@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> > 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
>
> I still own one. I also own an antique known as a turntable.
>
Does the play those big black CD things?
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Crussell51
>>I'm surprised no one mentioned Kenner's "Girder and Panel" building sets. I
had one of their standard ones when I was a kid.
>>Another one of my favorites. I had a couple different sets, including the one
with the monorail.
>
>The hydrodynamic set is really a ball to mess around with, but it
>tends to make a mess. It's all the Girder and Panel basics, but with
>tanks, valves, pipes (hoses, actually), etc., all connected to a
>battery operated centrifugal pump.
>
Tod "I grew up? When?" Hilty
>
>Tod A. Hilty NAR #72099
>Hilty Information Systems
Jeeez! Stuff I hadn't thought of in decades. I had the "Girder and Panels" set
and the Hydrodynamics set, which was a hobby shop display model. The later
used the same girders and beams to construct a simulated chemical plant, or
what have you. A small battery powered pump circulated the colored water.
It was mentioned that Kenner produced a girder and panels set with a monorail.
I saw an early version in the early '60s while at a trade show with my father.
I was really fascinated by the concept. Never saw a production version though.
Perhaps it was a small production run.
Wow.
Still, my Gilbert erector set was my favorite. Along with the train sets. And
the plastic models...and then I discovered model rockets.
Living in the past for the present...
Chas
Amy & David Martin
They still race and keep the track up. They have a large track in the
back
of the hobby shop. It fits the larger cars made up with the brass tubes
and custom controllers. Slot cars aren't dead but they are mighty weak
in number for the folks who race them.
The 1/32 scale? SCX cars came to the US a couple years ago. Hobby Town
has been carrying them. They have some cool older Formula 1, LeMans, and
modern American LeMans design bodies.
David
in central Ohio
The Silent Observer
> Dave/Kristin Hall wrote:
>
>>David Stribling (nada.d...@swbell.net) was rumored to say:
>>
>>: Metal lunch boxes (Jonny Quest, Land of the Giants, Fireball XL-5, etc)
>>
>>You mean they're not metal anymore? (Geez, better look next time I'm at
>>the store!)
>>
>
> I think they started making them out of plastic at the demand of the
> Consumer Product Safety Commission, which thought that the kids might
> hit each other with the metal ones.
I can attest to that -- many times I went home at the end of the school
day with a scalp or facial bruise from the corner of a lunch pail, and I
can't tell you the number of times I had water from the fountain to
drink with my lunch, because either a) someone took my lunch box away
from me and hit me or someone else (or a wall) with it, or b) I hit
someone with it in a (usually unsuccessful) attempt to defend myself.
The old glass Thermos liners couldn't take that kind of abuse, and a
leaking outer can filled with a slurry of glass shards and milk doesn't
make a very good lunch beverage source... B(
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> << Of course, what they didn't tell you about the butch cut was that you had it
> because a) your dad had an electric clipper, and b) your family was either too
> broke or too cheap to pay a barber to cut your hair.
> At least, that's the way it was at our house... >>
>
> Same here. I never saw the inside of a barbershop until I was in my late teens.
> I had no idea what to say the first time a barber asked me "How do you want
> it?"
I knew exactly what I wanted: a Spock cut. Well, really, anything that
wasn't a butch, but that was all the longer my parents would let me wear
my hair even after they started paying $2.50 ever couple months for a
"professional" haircut.
The Silent Observer
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:36:42 GMT, "Al Rognlie" <note...@nunya.biz>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>But what they're calling Erector sets nowadays are really
>>Meccanno (spelling?) sets.
>>
>
> I'm surprised no one mentioned Kenner's "Girder and Panel" building
> sets.. I had one of their standard ones when I was a kid..
>
> I picked up their "Hydrodynamic Building Set" variant at a local junk
> store, and my 8yo son thinks it's the coolest thing since sliced
> bread..
>
> Even *if* it was made in 1968!
Of course, if you're really into toy engineering, you can make working
steam engines (well, air pressure engines) from Lego block sets...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=lego+steam&btnG=Google+Search
RayDunakin
engines (well, air pressure engines) from Lego block sets...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=lego+steam&btnG=Google+Search >>
Wow, that's pretty cool!
FABULOUSFISHHEAD
> raydu...@aol.com (RayDunakin) wrote in message news:<20020227043117...@mb-fm.aol.com>...
> > <<Wasn't Beeman's featured in The Right Stuff every time Chuck Yeager was about
> > to make a test flight?>>
> >
> > Yep!
> >
> > I love that movie.
>
> "Hey Ridley, loan me a stick of Beeman's, will ya? I'll pay you back
> later".
>
> "Fair Enough".
>
> Incidentally, Jack Ridley was played by Levon Helm, who is also a
> well-known musician!
Drummer and vocalist with The Band, I believe. Anthony Munoz,
ex-Bengal great (that narrows it down a lot,) also had a small role.
He played a hospital orderly who had to tend to Scott Glenn and ???
when they were undergoing a procedure that I won't detail here.
Lew Garrow
has 2 very active slot car tracks, although the cars are not the size of our
oldies but goodies....
>From: Amy & David Martin ama...@insight.rr.com
>There is a slot car track in Columbus OH at Mac Tom Thumb's Hobbies.
>They still race and keep the track up. They have a large track in the
>back
>of the hobby shop. It fits the larger cars made up with the brass tubes
>and custom controllers. Slot cars aren't dead but they are mighty weak
>in number for the folks who race them.
>The 1/32 scale? SCX cars came to the US a couple years ago. Hobby Town
>has been carrying them. They have some cool older Formula 1, LeMans, and
>modern American LeMans design bodies.
>
>David
>in central Ohio
Lew Garrow
Lew Garrow
small industrial parks ;-) they were kind of like Lincoln Logs meets modern
industry....the main thing I remember is that toys were almost all made out of
wood and metal and of course the old standby masonite! there seemed to be a lot
more toys that were designed to create a 'play situation' where your
imagination supplied the rest as opposed to a toy that you play with for its
own sake. Without the abundance of vacuformed toys to choose from, it seemed
like we built an awful lot of the things we played with.....
>Subject: Re: OT - Double dog dare....
>From: cruss...@aol.com (Crussell51)
>Date: 2/27/2002 10:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Jeeez! Stuff I hadn't thought of in decades. I had the "Girder and Panels"
>set
>and the Hydrodynamics set, which was a hobby shop display model. The later
>used the same girders and beams to construct a simulated chemical plant, or
>what have you. A small battery powered pump circulated the colored water.
>It was mentioned that Kenner produced a girder and panels set with a
>monorail.
>I saw an early version in the early '60s while at a trade show with my
>father.
>I was really fascinated by the concept. Never saw a production version
>though.
> Perhaps it was a small production run.
>Wow.
>
>Still, my Gilbert erector set was my favorite. Along with the train sets.
>And
>the plastic models...and then I discovered model rockets.
>
>Living in the past for the present...
>
>Chas
>
>
>
>
>
>
Scott McCrate
> raydu...@aol.com (RayDunakin) wrote in message news:<20020227043117...@mb-fm.aol.com>...
> > <<Wasn't Beeman's featured in The Right Stuff every time Chuck Yeager was about
> > to make a test flight?>>
> >
> > Yep!
> >
> > I love that movie.
>
> "Hey Ridley, loan me a stick of Beeman's, will ya? I'll pay you back
> later".
>
> "Fair Enough".
>
> Incidentally, Jack Ridley was played by Levon Helm, who is also a
> well-known musician!
Levon Helm has done a number of roles including the father of Loretta
Lynn (portrayed by Sissy Spacek) in Cole Miner's Daughter. My wife
loves that movie and we watch it about every time it's on. He really
looks the part of an Appalachian coal miner, kind of permanently
beaten down.
Scott McCrate NAR 71680
Scott McCrate
> "Bill Westfield" <bi...@cypher.cisco.com> wrote in message
> news:54n0xw4...@cypher.cisco.com...
> > 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> inside.
> > 4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
> > 28. Tinker toys
> > 29. The Erector Set
> > 31. Lincoln Logs
> >
> > I still see these around. The last three seem to be
> making a substantial
> > comeback...
>
> But what they're calling Erector sets nowadays are really
> Meccanno (spelling?) sets.
> spaced holes
> (about every 1/2 inch?)the entire lengths of the parts,
> whereas the Gilbert
> parts only had holes every 2-1/2 to 3 inches (as I recall).
> The Gilbert parts looked more like built-up girders rather
> than metal strapping.
>
> -- Alan Rognlie NAR 71223
> WOOSH, NIRA, SeaNAR and Washington Aerospace
Meccanno was the original British name of the set and I can't remember
if it preceded the A.C. Gilbert Company's Erector line or if it was an
imitation of it. The two are related, I just can't remember which
direction. Growing up, my brothers and I got two very old (1940's or
early 50's) Erector sets that had belonged to my uncles. These were in
the red steel case and included a big electric motor with a gear box
on the front. The motor drove the gear box through a worm gear and
there was a forward/neutral/reverse lever on it. We built all kinds of
great contraptions with that stuff. The Erector steel beams were
pressed with channels down the edges so that four could be arranged
and bolted together to create a box beam. Very cool stuff! I have very
carefully prevented myself from going out on Ebay to see how many
hundreds of dollars those sets--which we used literally to death--are
worth today. Damn, I want one again.
Scott McCrate NAR 71680
Mario Perdue
wrote:
>Meccanno was the original British name of the set and I can't remember
>if it preceded the A.C. Gilbert Company's Erector line or if it was an
>imitation of it.
A. C. Gilbert created and first marketed the "Mysto Erector Structural
Steel Builder" in 1913. Meccano Company (now Meccano Toys Ltd.)
acquired the rights to the Erector Set after 1962.
The Rocket Scientist
<snip>
> Davey Crockett coonskin caps!
I had one that I wore religiously between the ages of 2 and 5. One of
my earliest memories is when I got my tonsils taken out (Bill Cosby's
tonsil bit is so true!) and was not allowed to wear the cap into the
O.R. According to my mom, I let loose with a lot of vocabulary that
made her blush.
Ad Astra!
Bill "Precociously Profane" Sullivan
The Rocket Scientist
> Chuck Taylor's
BEGIN MEMORY DUMP
I have been wearing Chucks since the 60's. Back then they cost $12.95
a pair and all of my friends thought I was crazy for spending so much.
They were the only sneakers that would last me for an entire summer.
I now get them at the Allentown Army-Navy store for $24.95 a pair,
which is actually pretty cheap for sneakers.
Funny thing is they keep creeping back into style. About 10 years ago
my niece noticed my Chucks and said, "Wow, Uncle Bill wears Chucks!
And where did you get such a cool color?" They were black.
Same thing happened with a younger niece about 4 years ago. So twice
in my life I have been on the cutting edge of fashion.
END MEMORY DUMP
Ad Astra!
Bill Sullivan
Bob Kaplow
> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Ric Gaff gave my daughter some of these at NARAM. I doubt I'll ever forgive
him!
> 28. Tinker toys
> 29. The Erector Set
> 31. Lincoln Logs
The Tinker Toys and Lincon Logs are now mostly plastic. Of course, I still
have my original circa 1960 sets. Along with the Kenner Bridge and Turnpike
Hydro Dynamic sets, and the Lionel trains.
What is being sold today as Erector set is actually from the Mechanno
company. Back when I was a kid, I had Mechanno instead of Erector. MUCH
superior! Still have my set from back then, which is 100% compatable with
the stuff sold under the Erector name today.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Ctrl-Alt-Del"
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Crussell51
>here is a slot car track in Columbus OH at Mac Tom Thumb's Hobbies.
>They still race and keep the track up. They have a large track in the
>back
Mac's Tom Thumb was where I purchased most of my non-mail ordered rockets and
supplies in the late '60s and early '70s. I bent "Mrs. Mac's" ear alot talking
about the hobby and new products, etc. Flew a lot of competition back then.
The Centuri enerjet motors and kits were always tempting...
Mr. Mac was more of the slot car end of the business. I am sure they are gone
now. Nice folks.
Chas
Charles Russell, NAR 9790
Lee Reep
Converse All-Stars. I told her those were my shoes in late 60s (but they
were 1/5 the price, and not made in China!)
We called them Chuck's, or Connies (she thought I was kidding...)
--
Lee Reep
NAR 55948 L2, TRA no more ...
Fort Collins, Colorado
"Dave/Kristin Hall" <theh...@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote in message
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> David Erbas-White (der...@arachneering.com) was rumored to say:
>
> : Keds
>
> Uh.... Keds were actually in style between 5-10 years ago. Not as old
> as you think.
>
> (Yeah, I remember them from WAY back, but that's beside the point)
>
> --
> David Hall
> - http://www.ridgenet.net/~thehalls
FABULOUSFISHHEAD
> > Chuck Taylor's
>
> BEGIN MEMORY DUMP
>
> I have been wearing Chucks since the 60's. Back then they cost $12.95
> a pair and all of my friends thought I was crazy for spending so much.
> They were the only sneakers that would last me for an entire summer.
> I now get them at the Allentown Army-Navy store for $24.95 a pair,
> which is actually pretty cheap for sneakers.
>
> Funny thing is they keep creeping back into style. About 10 years ago
> my niece noticed my Chucks and said, "Wow, Uncle Bill wears Chucks!
> And where did you get such a cool color?" They were black.
>
> Same thing happened with a younger niece about 4 years ago. So twice
> in my life I have been on the cutting edge of fashion.
>
> END MEMORY DUMP
>
> Ad Astra!
> Bill Sullivan
Now they have a black pair with flames. Very cool. I saw them in the
Eastbay catalog last night and immediately e-mailed my sister in law.
Canvas gym shoes are one of the things from my childhood that I miss
the most. I occasionally find canvas K-Swiss and Keds, but not often
enough to suit me. Consider yourself lucky to have a source with such
reasonable prices.
Bill Westfield
First with 'Plastigoop' and 'Creepy Crawlers'
Got one for christmas this year! The "saftey features" that have been added
to prevent little kids from perhaps burning themselves are very depressing.
BillW
Mark Simpson
I'm from Joizey, can't ya tell. ;-)
Mark Simpson
NAR 71503 Level II
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Lew Garrow
>Date: 3/1/2002 8:12 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <2ada0da.02030...@posting.google.com>
gym shoes? sneakers, sneaks, skins but gym shoes? gym shoes were the ones in
modells with the hard rubber soles - my boys back on the block in the Bronx,
well they just called those skips!
;-)
Sams Family
Lee Reep wrote:
>
> My college aged daughter just bought some black, low top Chuck Taylor
> Converse All-Stars. I told her those were my shoes in late 60s (but
> they were 1/5 the price, and not made in China!)
> We called them Chuck's, or Connies (she thought I was kidding...)
Wow, that brings back more memories... Not sure how it came about, but we called
off-brand gym shoes "buddies". If you weren't wearing Converse, you were wearing
buddies, at least until adidas came along circa 1975, and Nikes were missiles
back then.
We had a saying:
When your buddies slip and slide,
Look for the shoes with the stars on the sides
Doug
--
samily at flash dot net
KG8GC
>plastic
>screen that went over your TV so you could draw with crayons and then wipe
>off)
Wow! Someone else who remembers that show! That makes two of us. I sent away
and got the plastic and the crayons. That was the first interactive TV show
ever.
The first real job I had after high school was in a "service station" and gas
was 19.9 cents for regular and 24.9 for Ethyl. During gas wars (honestly) it
got as low as 14.9 cents. It was a service station too, as I had to clean
every cars windshield and ask to check the oil and I pumped the gas for you.
You did not have to get out of your car.
Do you remember 78's? I still have some.
And I have an "Edison" record that is 1/4" thick and has the song "I am forever
blowing bubbles" on it. Was only recorded on one side.
I am only 55, but remember the entire list.
Karl Perry
KG8GC
There is a GI Joe club here in Cincinnati. They even make and modify their own
vehicles from WWII tanks to Hummmers. They make and sew new clothes and make
different accessories. Some even change the face to look like famous people.
At a recent show, I saw Audie Murphy, John Wayne, Gen. Patton, and Gen. Rommel.
Karl Perry
RayDunakin
forever blowing bubbles" on it. Was only recorded on one side.>>
At Knott's Berry Farm they have an antique precursor to the juke box, which
used Edison cylinders. There's about 10 of them mounted on something that looks
like a Ferris wheel. You select the song you want, put in the coin and turn it
on. Then it rotates the cylinder into position and plays it. When we were there
a few years ago the attendant operated it for us, but when we were there a year
later they said they weren't allowed to operate it anymore due to the age of
the device and cylinders.
Bob Kaplow
> The first real job I had after high school was in a "service station" and gas
> was 19.9 cents for regular and 24.9 for Ethyl. During gas wars (honestly) it
> got as low as 14.9 cents. It was a service station too, as I had to clean
> every cars windshield and ask to check the oil and I pumped the gas for you.
> You did not have to get out of your car.
And they gave you a free glass, screwdriver, or other trinket with each
fill-up.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Ctrl-Alt-Del"
Kaplow Klips & Baffle: http://www.pleimling.org/le/Phantom4000.pdf
NIRA: http://www.nira-rocketry.org NAR: http://www.nar.org
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
with religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal
Lew Garrow
>Date: 3/1/2002 11:47 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20020301234745...@mb-cp.aol.com>
glasses, etc.) as well as getting stuff at the movies (dishes). Devil Dogs
wrapped in wax paper - not sealed, just wrapped. it goes on and on, the scissor
and knife sharpening guy who'd drive his truck around and setup in your
neighborhood for a couple of hours - people would run home and get their stuff
to bring to him, the truck mounted 'rides', the last of the organ grinders and
monkeys....ah the nostalgic glow it brings....
Lew Garrow
METRA VP
TRA L3
NAR L3
Amy & David Martin
No, Mr. Mac is still alive and crusty as ever... 8-)
Mrs. Mac I think passed away.
Mr. Mac and their son Mike operate the store 6 days a week.
I was just there today picking up some Micro Maxx ignitors.
Good selection of Estes and a few Quest. Lots of Micro Maxx.
Their slot car racing is very alive and well. Mike said that
it slumped last year but this year is very much alive again...
It is on the opposite side of town so I don't get over there
often.
David
FABULOUSFISHHEAD
> vehicles from WWII tanks to Hummmers. They make and sew new clothes and make
> different accessories. Some even change the face to look like famous people.
> At a recent show, I saw Audie Murphy, John Wayne, Gen. Patton, and Gen. Rommel.
I picked up a few of my favorites via eBay several years back. I also
bought several books on the hobby, mainly to see if things were as I
remembered them. This kind of collecting is a lot like rocketry. 1)
Original stuff is very expensive. 2) A fairly strong aftermarket has
sprung up and it too is fairly expensive. 3) Some people are willing
to go to great lengths and personal expense to do things the way they
always thought they should have been done in the first place. I know
that there is a national organization, but is there a club that has
local shows? I'd pay to see that.
As a semi-related aside, I was on eBay last year looking over the
Major Matt Mason stuff, (my favorite at age 5,) and someone had done
up a custom version of one of the figures as Major Matt's gay friend.
Funny as hell and the workmanship was first class.
Mark Simpson
from Texaco stations circa Christmas 1961? It had working lights and
a fire hose that hooked up to a garden hose.
Mark Simpson
NAR 71503 Level II
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Sams Family
Mark Simpson wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember getting the big Texaco Fire Truck at a discount
> from Texaco stations circa Christmas 1961? It had working lights and
> a fire hose that hooked up to a garden hose.
>
Wow, I do remember having a Texaco truck. Don't recall the lights or hose, tho.
It was a straight truck, not a tractor-trailer. It was probably
8"h_x_8"w_24"l. It was designed for a kid to ride on. By leaning the cab to
one side, it could be steered. Does that sound like yours?