Are you old enough to remember....

[Tom Brown]

Let's cook up a list. I'll start...


Using silver paper from a cigarette package to fix a blown fuse.

 

[my dixie wrecked]

that works on cartridge fuses but how about using a penny for the screw in fuses in a house?

 

[scouter]

that works on cartridge fuses but how about using a penny for the screw in fuses in a house?

I was going to bring up the penny deal.... We did that.... How many people here, though, even remember fuses in a house?

 

[Joker]

Using an apple for a makeshift pipe.

 

[Meaney77]

BJ and the Bear???

 

[Weekend Therapy]

Baseball cards and cans on your bike to make them sound cool.

 

[OCMerrill]

Using a matchbook to set the points?

Putting water in your car battery?

A squealing fan belt?

 

[Willie B]

Let's cook up a list. I'll start...


Using silver paper from a cigarette package to fix a blown fuse.

...Or using said paper to hotwire a car?...

 

[dread Pirate]

Thanks for reminding me. I have a gum wrapper for the fuse on one of my shop speakers. :thumbup:

BJ & the Bear rocked! Or at least it did when I was a kid,,,,,

We had fuses on our house in Sacramento growing up. My dad is the cheapest mo-fo I know and would never upgrade.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Using a matchbook to set the points?

Putting water in your car battery?

A squealing fan belt?

using a bar of soap on the belt:cool

 

[3queens]

using your fingers to change the dial on tv
making bongs in ceramics class
pipeline skate park

 

[milkmoney]

changing the whole headlight and not jus a bulb..

 

[dread Pirate]

using your fingers to change the dial on tv
making bongs in ceramics class
pipeline skate park

check, check and check!! and it's not a bong! It's a flower vase with a drain hole for my mom!!

Black & white tv.

 

[fishing fool]

Having to turn on the oven and wait a hour for a frozen pizza.

$.10 and a phone booth to make a call.

Pull tabs on soda (beer) cans.

When 15" was rollin on DUBS.

 

[WTRR]

The Sears and Roebuck catalog coming in the mail...

buying bubble gum for a penny...

regular and ethyl gas at the pump...

 

[HANDY]

full service gas stations

 

[djunkie]

full service gas stations

I worked at one.


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[milkmoney]

.99 cents got you a loaf of bread, gallon of milk and or a gallon of gas..

 

[djunkie]

.99 cents got you a loaf of bread, gallon of milk and or a gallon of gas..

I'm actually old enough to remember .99 gas too. A $10 bill filled up my VW bug. Was awesome.


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[scouter]

I'm actually old enough to remember .99 gas too. A $10 bill filled up my VW bug. Was awesome.


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How about odd & even gas rationing?

 

[TBI]

Remember when Dave was cool?

 

[racered]

Outhouse..
Hand pump in the kitchen (grandma's house)
crystal radio
patches for pants
6volt positive ground
percolator on the wood "cook stove"

 

[TPC]

,,,,,,,,,remember Roller Skating Accordion Players?:

[video=youtube;gMEoll6XQU0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEoll6XQU0[/video]

 

[djunkie]

How about odd & even gas rationing?

Not that old. LOL


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[h2o225]

Dials on microwaves

 

[scouter]

Not that old. LOL


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I am..... :grumble:

 

[HANDY]

S&H green stamps

 

[Warlock1]

Remember when Dave was cool?

That actually happened???

 

[kevnmcd]

A Chevy Luv :thumbsup

 

[TBI]

That actually happened???

 

[TPC]

That actually happened???

RD smoked his own cigarettes and drank his own Keystones.

 

[OCMerrill]

Oil cans :thumbsup

Bias ply tires

Gemco

 

[milkmoney]

Oil cans :thumbsup

Bias ply tires

Gemco

ha ha yes on the oil cans when i was a kid,my father would let me help in the shop and i always fucked up the can tryin to push the funnel(?) thingy in it, he would jus sit there and shake his head, never got mad, jus punched it with a screw driver....what a fucking mess i made...love my dad..:thumbsup

 

[OCMerrill]

ha ha yes on the oil cans when i was a kid,my father would let me help in the shop and i always fucked up the can tryin to push the funnel(?) thingy in it, he would jus sit there and shake his head, never got mad, jus punched it with a screw driver....what a fucking mess i made...love my dad..:thumbsup

Dads' rock. Past and present. Miss my Dad daily.

 

[milkmoney]

Dads' rock. Past and present. Miss my Dad daily.

:thumbsup:thumbsup

 

[djunkie]

Oil cans :thumbsup

Bias ply tires

Gemco

I remember Gemco. That place was awesome.

 

[djunkie]

A Chevy Luv :thumbsup

Ford Courier. My aunt had one. I remember the glass on the gauges was pointed and looked like nipples.

 

[RogerThat99]

I remember most all of these things except the Hand pump in the Kitchen and the Roller skating Accordian players. LOL.

I will add, how about the original Pagers where you spoke your message which was broadcast from a speaker on the pager. When the pager went off...everyone had to be quite. It had Squeltch and volume.

Chevy Luv was my first car. Stepside, with Enkie's, Knock offs, tinted headlight covers, wide BF Goodrich TA's on the back, a bumpin little Pioneer Super Tuner system. LOL.

 

[TBI]

RD smoked his own cigarettes and drank his own Keystones.

I heard he now pays someone (Rhymes with Tom Brown) to shit his pants for him

 

[OCMerrill]

I remember most all of these things except the Hand pump in the Kitchen and the Roller skating Accordian players. LOL.

I will add, how about the original Pagers where you spoke your message which was broadcast from a speaker on the pager. When the pager went off...everyone had to be quite. It had Squeltch and volume.

Chevy Luv was my first car. Stepside, with Enkie's, Knock offs, tinted headlight covers, wide BF Goodrich TA's on the back, a bumpin little Pioneer Super Tuner system. LOL.

That was powered by an Isuzu. A gas version of todays Duramax.

 

[OCMerrill]

Ford Courier. My aunt had one. I remember the glass on the gauges was pointed and looked like nipples.

How about Mazda's version with Rotary Power. :thumbsup

 

[FlatNv]

rotary dial.. yanking the phone from your older sisters ear from 2 rooms away (then running like hell)

 

[racered]

Duck and cover drills at school
"coal oil" lamps and remedies
hand crank tractors
gay was happy

 

[Sun burners]

Riding in the back of a pickup truck

 

[Buoy]

Grandma had a "clothes wringer".

 

[TBI]

When a quarter pound was $150

 

[djunkie]

How about Mazda's version with Rotary Power. :thumbsup

Used to see a lot of those at the track. :thumbsup


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[racered]

10.00 lid

 

[NdaWind]

Forgot most but now remember LOL First truck was a Chevy Luv bet the shit out of that thing. The oil cans reminded me of last summer had a kid helping around the shop, gave him the task of change the oil filter on my old (80's) quad the book told him the tools required are screw driver 10mm wrench and a can opener. He came to me WTF? can opener i was stunned at first and remembered the old oil cans.

Alinum foil on tv antena dad would mess with those ears all the time on the black and white tv the remote was us getting up and change the channel

 

[waterhorse]

5 cent Butterfingers, Ethyl gasoline and a service station attendant cleaning the windshield till it squeaked.
Also the 'ding ding' air hose bell as you drove into the station.