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Old 07-08-2016, 10:39 AM   #81
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Growing old is not so terrible. It sure beats the alternative.
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Old 07-08-2016, 12:30 PM   #82
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The kid at the grocery store asked me how I was doing, just this morning. I looked at him and said " Vertical" he didn't get it so I explained. When I managed cemeteries someone asked me if I was able to keep up with the mowing with a short crew. I told them everything must look pretty good, people were dying to get in. Rimshot.
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Old 07-08-2016, 01:32 PM   #83
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and for trashmen, "business is picking up".....
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Old 07-08-2016, 01:53 PM   #84
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and for trashmen, "business is picking up".....
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You learned trash-talkin' in the 60's? 50's?
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Old 07-08-2016, 01:55 PM   #85
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I guess late 50's, early 60's....M&M was not candy, but Maris vs Mantle, playing stickball in the alley or step ball on the street. Pinky was not your finger but a pink hollow rubber ball for these games.
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I remember building a crystal radio, and, a few years later, a 5 tube superheterodyne radio...
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Yes, the crystal radio with copper rolled around a toilet tissue insert, some head phones, an antenna out on the roof and a ground wire to the radiators, no electricity or battery power required just a pin and a piece of crystal.
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I remember spending a month's allowance on a single 9V battery for my transistor radio, it would only last a few hours.
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I remember building a crystal radio, and, a few years later, a 5 tube superheterodyne radio...
I had a Rocket Radio and a wire stretching out my bedroom window to the garage roof. http://www.crystalradio.net/misc/rocket/

Then in my teens, I took a bus down town, met a date, to watch EASY RIDER which in my young mind was the absolutely coolest movie ever. There was a Harley Davidson motorcycle parked in the movie lobby. The movies closing scene was impactful and I thought I'd live hard and never reach 30 years old. And now here I am 62, still in jeans and retired. Who would have know .

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I had a JC Higgins, we went on many adventures from Easton PA to Nazareth PA all along the bushkill creek stopping along the way to skip stones in the creek. Slipped on somes leaves on a sharp curve one fall day and bent the fork, that was before there were many highways. Shoveled snow all winter to earn the nine bucks for the new fork at the bike shop, Got JC fixed and off I went, what a great time I had. Carl
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Well, I guess I'm the young one. When I was in Jr. High, I used to listen to AT40 and the Dr. Demento show on a Panasonic Toot-a-Loop AM radio.
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Old 07-08-2016, 10:36 PM   #92
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Might as well join in! I am so old…that my 1st pair of downhill skis were brand new JC Higgins hickory with a single strap into which to slide my goulashes. Bindings yet to come...
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Old 07-08-2016, 10:41 PM   #93
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Might as well join in! I am so old…that my 1st pair of downhill skis were brand new JC Higgins hickory with a single strap into which to slide my goulashes. Bindings yet to come...
I had ultra modern Spademan spring bindings in 1965 - on wooden skis I painted "racing red" with red house paint.
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Old 07-08-2016, 10:43 PM   #94
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Well, I guess I'm the young one. When I was in Jr. High, I used to listen to AT40 and the Dr. Demento show on a Panasonic Toot-a-Loop AM radio.
Always loved "The Cockroach that ate Cincinnati". Now I have all his works on CD.
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Picked up WLS-Chicago in Whitewood, Saskatchewan.
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Old 07-08-2016, 11:34 PM   #96
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Well, I guess I'm the young one. When I was in Jr. High, I used to listen to AT40 and the Dr. Demento show on a Panasonic Toot-a-Loop AM radio.
That Toot-a-Loop is great. I had a blue AM Panapet. Panasonic... just slightly ahead of our time.
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I am so old put my roller skates on my shoes and tightened with a key . Oh ,took my bike and added as many playing cards as I could with clothes pins so it would be nice and loud . Pat
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Old 07-09-2016, 08:58 AM   #99
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I am so old put my roller skates on my shoes and tightened with a key . Oh ,took my bike and added as many playing cards as I could with clothes pins so it would be nice and loud . Pat
And then someone on a similarly audio enhanced bike could pull us behind the bike on those metal roller skates. Road rash was just a fact of life.

Only later did I learn how many (now) valuable baseball cards I ruined in the quest for motorcycle sound on my bikes.
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Other than a bit of healing time in the winter, I pretty much had full time scabs on my knees as a kid. All gravel roads in our town.

We too did the playing card/clothes pin thing. We was cool.
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