Author Topic: Oldster test, see if you pass. (Read 26084 times)

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #25 on:** January 16, 2011, 05:06:55 PM »

I remember the sign off of one of the big three stations. They played "The Star Spangled Banner" and showed fighter jets flying in the sky behind the American flag.

I doubt any network would do that today.

In our neighborhood in Flint, MI we had a vegetable truck come around a couple of times a week. My brother worked for the owner for a bit, selling vegetables.

My wife was born in a house that didn't have a bathroom, just an outhouse. They bathed in a big metal tub.

Bogie · « **Reply #26 on:** January 16, 2011, 05:07:19 PM »

I tagged 18, and probably could hit more, because of what I'll call "Studebaker syndrome."

I've also ridden as a passenger in a train (and not a commuter one...)

I've sat on the jumpseat in a Checker cab.

My family owned a full-size station wagon. People will buy "sport utility vehicles" when they would NEVER buy a station wagon.

I remember when Volkswagens had the engines in the back. When someone pumped your gas for you, and the filler was under the license plate. And they'd check your oil too, but you had to watch 'em to make sure they didn't try to sell you oil you didn't need.

Cameras used to use something called "film." I've developed film and made pictures from it.

I know how to use a manual and electric typewriter.

grampster · « **Reply #27 on:** January 16, 2011, 05:10:50 PM »

Most of that stuff is old news to me. I remember all of it including sitting in the dining room in front of the radio, which was taller than me, listening to Buster Brown, The Shadow, The Creaking Door, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet , The Bickersons and many others....

I remember the first Italian folks who moved to our neighborhood and introduced the Pizza Pie which was much different than today. I remember the whole neighborhood gathering at the home of the fella who made big bucks and had the first TV.

I remember how McDonalds drove the neighborhood burger joints out of business.

Every generation believes their generation was the best. But I have experienced the Greatest Generation, my dad's, who told me all about his youth which was not much changed from the 17th century actually, in the way of light, heat, getting around and cleanliness, to my own experiences which started out with horse drawn carts of the ice men, horse drawn vegetable carts and the first gas powered milk men who have been out of business for several generations.

P5 Guy · « **Reply #28 on:** January 16, 2011, 05:16:56 PM »

Not quite all of them.
I never rode in a Packard but one neighbor had a Avanti. It was the coolest car on the block until another guy bought a Corvette pre-Stingray.
My Grandma collected Yellow Stamps and had a gasoline engine that ran her washer. She would push it out into the yard to wash clothes and you had to wind the pull rope around a little bell shape thing on the crankshaft.
My GrandPop got his shirts picked up and returned from the cleaners.
I'm 55 and must be pretty dirty.
And the fighter jets had one big intake in the nose.

Tallpine · « **Reply #29 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:09:08 PM »

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I remember the sign off of one of the big three stations. They played "The Star Spangled Banner" and showed fighter jets flying in the sky behind the American flag.

I remember a station that would also play a recorded recitation of the poem "High Flight"

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #30 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:12:50 PM »

Actually, I do have two. They had and may still have table jukeboxes at this old greesy spoon truckstop in zions crossroads. My Mumma would give me a couple quarters everytime we went'cause those things facinated me. The place had beem there since like the mid fifties, if not earlier.

280plus · « **Reply #31 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:14:50 PM »

Pizza place in town still has the booth jukeboxes. Broke though and nobody knows how to fix them or where to get parts.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #32 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:22:06 PM »

Quote from: 280plus on January 16, 2011, 05:05:23 PM

Remember when all TV stations signed on and off with "The Star Spangled Banner"?

In the South it wasn't uncommon for them to sign n or off with "Dixie".

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #33 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:22:43 PM »

I don't remember my first time playing a booth jukebox, but the song was "Be My Baby" by the Ronnettes. I had a thing for girl groups from that period, and still do.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #34 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:33:17 PM »

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11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last
show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.

18. Mimeograph paper

These things were pretty common in the eighties, and I think I even remember test patterns into the nineties. They should be much higher on the list.

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22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-in theaters

Both still available, especially the popguns. (Unless they don't use cork anymore.)

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17. Metal ice trays with lever

I've come across those from time to time, in my thirty-four years.

Table-top jukes are not uncommon, depending on where you dine out.

280plus · « **Reply #35 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:34:09 PM »

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on January 16, 2011, 06:22:06 PM

In the South it wasn't uncommon for them to sign n or off with "Dixie".

That's just cool...

HankB · « **Reply #36 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:41:28 PM »

Quote from: 280plus on January 16, 2011, 10:56:02 AM

. . . BTW, Avanti was a Studebaker? Add one more to my list, I just got older.

Yep, Avanti was the last Studebaker. The blown version with the Paxton supercharger made it the fastest too, topping out at a bit over 170. It had a brief resurrection when a company in South Bend, IN made the Avanti II on - IIRC - a Corvette chassis, but they wern't in business long and only made a couple of hundred a year.

230RN · « **Reply #37 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:43:42 PM »

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Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

And when it was cold, the milk would freeze and push the cream up out of the bottle. With that little tabbed cardboard disc sitting right on top.

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Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.

And the starter switch, too.

And the timing advance-retard lever on the steering column. My pop had a truck we used on our Long Island property and on which I learned to drive. You can just barely see the front end of it in this pic of my sister (RIP) holding me

I'm still just as handsome.

That truck was around for most of my young life, and it wasn't until years later that Pop taught me to drive with it... on the property only, of course. I think I was about 12.

I actually drove a Checker Marathon (propane-fueled) when I drove a cab many years ago between "real" jobs.

And I actually owned a Studebaker. The low-end model, I forget which it was. Probably the Leadhawk model. Reverse gear quit on it, and it was 1/2 fun and 1/2 PITA to plan ahead for parking. Handsome styling on those things.

Oh, yeah. Bioarcheology.

Terry, 230RN And if you look at my bio at

http://www.gunrightsmedia.com/

You'll note that I am "older than the rocks the dirt was made out of."

Ben · « **Reply #38 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:49:43 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on January 16, 2011, 06:09:08 PM

I remember a station that would also play a recorded recitation of the poem "High Flight"

I remember that too. They still did it into the early 70's where I grew up. I'd be interested to know the how and why for ending the Star Spangled Banner and the poem.

P5 Guy · « **Reply #39 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:59:59 PM »

I also remember when Sears sold; handguns, rifles and shotguns, motor scooters and delivered them to your house.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #40 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:07:56 PM »

230RN, please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm wondering how old that photo is, as your sister's dress is awfully short for any time earlier than the late 1960's.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #41 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:17:12 PM »

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And the fighter jets had one big intake in the nose.

At the park in the town square, La Plata, Missouri, they had one of those with no engine. We would climb into the intake, and come out the back. That was in the eighties, when we went to visit my paternal grandparents.

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Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.

The Natl. Guard's Chevy trucks have dimmer switches on the floor. Or at least they did in 2005. Those old boys have been around for a while.

Tallpine · « **Reply #42 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:20:12 PM »

My 1976 GMC has the dimmer switch on the floor

sanglant · « **Reply #43 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:25:37 PM »

they stopped playing the star spangled banner when they started airing infomercials all night. no going off the air no need to sign off.

and i have to call shenanigans on the movies. just because your community didn't allow ahem those movies doesn't mean they weren't being filmed. the generation before porn on film is already dead.

NSFW wiki link.

grampster · « **Reply #44 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:29:30 PM »

Dick,
That's 230's mom holding his sister.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #45 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:39:54 PM »

Grampster, 230RN said "You can just barely see the front end of it in this pic of my sister (RIP) holding me"

Or am I really dense today?

RocketMan · « **Reply #46 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:44:20 PM »

Twenty-one, and I'm 'only' 54.
We still signed on/off with the Star Spangled Banner when I worked at KPTV in Portland in '79-'80.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #47 on:** January 16, 2011, 07:48:39 PM »

Dad had 22, and said, "yes, I am older then dirt and proud of it!"

mimeograph paper also got a comment... "I loved the smell of that stuff, all the kids did."

What the hell is mimeograph paper?

Tallpine · « **Reply #48 on:** January 16, 2011, 08:01:56 PM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 16, 2011, 07:48:39 PM

Dad had 22, and said, "yes, I am older then dirt and proud of it!" mimeograph paper also got a comment... "I loved the smell of that stuff, all the kids did."

What the hell is mimeograph paper?

Back before there were copy machines, that is how they had to make multiple handouts for students in school.

It was a machine that you cranked by hand. You had to type the master and it went on the roller drum, and the pages went through and got impressed. You had to use a special paper.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #49 on:** January 16, 2011, 08:30:11 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on January 16, 2011, 08:01:56 PM

Back before there were copy machines, that is how they had to make multiple handouts for students in school.

It was a machine that you cranked by hand. You had to type the master and it went on the roller drum, and the pages went through and got impressed. You had to use a special paper.

Oh, that stuff.

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Author Topic: Oldster test, see if you pass. (Read 26084 times)