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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2012, 12:40:43 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on May 03, 2012, 12:02:58 PM
My favorite pair of jeans in 1975 were bell bottoms with red and white daisy's all over them.

Of course, I was seven years old. :laugh:

Now THAT's truly depressing. In 1975 I was going through my first divorce. Vietnam was already behind me.

How to make a guy feel old.
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2012, 02:56:28 AM »
>Bell bottoms.... Hmmm... that would solve the ankle holster problem I have now, for warm-weather carry, as Jamisjockey touched upon... <

I actually slapped together a sorta ankle holster for an airsoft 1911 right after getting out of the Navy, and successfully carried it under a pair of dungarees (which I still have, although now Spoon wears them).

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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2012, 06:04:30 AM »
Quote from: charby on May 03, 2012, 07:29:07 PM
The 1980's were just as bad, remember the white Don Johnson/Miami Vice suit?

Remember?.....I wore one for my junior high school graduation....  :cool:
 

:lol:

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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2012, 06:12:01 AM »
Quote from: Strings on May 04, 2012, 02:56:28 AM
. . . I actually slapped together a sorta ankle holster for an airsoft 1911 right after getting out of the Navy, and successfully carried it under a pair of dungarees (which I still have, although now Spoon wears them).
Why was an adult trying to carry a toy concealed?
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2012, 07:51:40 AM »
Quote from: HankB on May 04, 2012, 06:12:01 AM
Why was an adult trying to carry a toy concealed?

Because, if you open carry your toy, someone will just try to take it from you....
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2012, 08:44:08 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on May 03, 2012, 04:35:12 PM
Also from his site: http://lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html

I'd passed this hotel traveling around Wisconsin, coming and going to and from Milwaukee on I-94 perhaps a hundred times, as a child and an adult when they finally tore it down. Had I only known. I'd have done anything just to see the inside, just once...

The BOW-CHIKA-WOW-WOW awesomeness could just not be contained. It's like the demented evil genius lair of some 1974 Bond film that was never released.

I think my brain is trying to eat its way out, to save itself from the horror.
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2012, 09:42:19 AM »
I look though my HS yearbook and shudder...  :O
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2012, 10:04:33 AM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on May 03, 2012, 10:51:18 PM
I was there in 1970, but I never wore that crap, and neither did my wife. We dressed stylishly, but not loud.

My best friend weighed about 250 at the time, and his folks bought him a suit made from that same sort of loud plaid.  [barf]

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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #33 on: May 04, 2012, 10:36:48 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on May 03, 2012, 12:02:58 PM
My favorite pair of jeans in 1975 were bell bottoms with red and white daisy's all over them.

Of course, I was seven years old. :laugh:

Making me feel old, here. 
In '75 I was at my first duty station in the service.  Imagine your's truly, typical jarhead haircut and such, color blind and no fashion sense, wearing clothes he bought himself out in town on liberty...   Bringing back, uh, a few somewhat uncomfortable memories. At least now SWMBO keeps an eye on such things for me.
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #34 on: May 04, 2012, 11:06:15 AM »
An old friend was visiting, and we were going through photos from the 1970's. Everybody in the photos was wearing all sorts of loud colors and patterns, and had ridiculous afro's (especially ridiculous for white guys). He looked at the photos of me and remarked that I was the only one who wore "normal" colors like black or brown. And I didn't have an afro.

When the styles shifted to disco, with suits and so on, things got a bit better. In fact, I'd like to do a billboard or poster with side by side photos. In one photo would be a guy in a white three-piece suit (John Travolta style) standing next to a 1970 Corvette. In the other photo would be two guys with baggy jeans with their boxer shorts showing, a bunch of tattoos, baseball hats on sideways, standing in front of a 1980's era Buick with 20" wheels and thin profile tires. The headline would read, "Yeah, you're old. But you looked cooler then than they do now".
 
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #35 on: May 04, 2012, 11:43:35 AM »
My grandfather got my dad on silent Super-8 film coming from work to pick me up from their house one day when they were watching me, it must have been around 1975. He pulls up in his AMC Matador... 

Quasi-pageboy haircut, handlebar mustache. Tinted octagonal "grannie glasses". White and green checkerboard sportcoat. Black dress shirt, White tie, white vinyl belt. Flared Haggar black dress slacks, and white vinyl shoes.

Pimptastically awesome..

His job? Institutional group sales for Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance.  :laugh:
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #36 on: May 04, 2012, 02:57:58 PM »
Groovy!
My mom had formal photos done of me and my brothers in the 70s. My dad forced me to go buy a suit- so I went and bought a dark blue Johnny Carson suit- set my dad back about a week's pay.
My brothers were wearing "coats of many colors" like those on the Sears ad.  I still cringe when I see that picture. I look like a well dressed "Ernie" from My Three Sons...but still look better than my bros.

I miss flared jeans and overalls- made shoe removal and dressing/undressing easier. One pair of overalls and a few T shirts= wardrobe for a week or so. There was a casual period during the mod squad years as well.
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #37 on: May 04, 2012, 09:32:43 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on May 03, 2012, 04:35:12 PM
Also from his site: http://lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html

I'd passed this hotel traveling around Wisconsin, coming and going to and from Milwaukee on I-94 perhaps a hundred times, as a child and an adult when they finally tore it down. Had I only known. I'd have done anything just to see the inside, just once...

The BOW-CHIKA-WOW-WOW awesomeness could just not be contained. It's like the demented evil genius lair of some 1974 Bond film that was never released.

Why, why, oh why did they tear it down!?! Why didn't someone restore the fantasically awesome horror that was the Gobbler!

They just don't make stuff that bad anymore!
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #38 on: May 04, 2012, 10:27:32 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on May 04, 2012, 06:04:30 AM
Remember?.....I wore one for my junior high school graduation....  :cool:
 


:lol:



So did I :)
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #39 on: May 05, 2012, 03:20:22 AM »
>Why was an adult trying to carry a toy concealed?<

Because I happened to have it laying around, did NOT have a real one (at the time), and I was curious if it would even work
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #40 on: May 05, 2012, 12:57:45 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on May 04, 2012, 12:40:43 AM
Now THAT's truly depressing. In 1975 I was going through my first divorce. Vietnam was already behind me.

How to make a guy feel old.

Quote from: RocketMan on May 04, 2012, 10:36:48 AM
Making me feel old, here. 
In '75 I was at my first duty station in the service.  Imagine your's truly, typical jarhead haircut and such, color blind and no fashion sense, wearing clothes he bought himself out in town on liberty...   Bringing back, uh, a few somewhat uncomfortable memories. At least now SWMBO keeps an eye on such things for me.

Aw boys, you're only as old as you think you are! Having spoken with you both (and met Rocketman) neither of you seem over the hill to me. :)

Monkeyleg - we should definitely set up that photo. I'll offer up my two sons as the current era models.
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #41 on: May 05, 2012, 10:06:00 PM »
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #42 on: May 06, 2012, 03:31:39 AM »
Withdrawn as off topic.  Had, like, stuff about guns in it.
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #43 on: May 06, 2012, 07:17:42 AM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on May 03, 2012, 02:29:10 PM
No doubt.  My office is dead center on the road in town nicknamed "The Hip Strip."  There are some truly amazing fashion choices every day.


Wait, there is hipness in Montana?  =D  :P
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« Reply #44 on: May 06, 2012, 10:38:45 AM »
Quote from: adively on May 06, 2012, 07:17:42 AM

Wait, there is hipness in Montana?  =D  :P

Lots of big hips, expecially at Walmart  ;/
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #45 on: May 07, 2012, 09:14:36 PM »
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