I am so old.... - Page 6

**rbryan4** · 07-09-2016, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Bennett

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

As long as they were Bicycle playing cards. After all, they were on a bike.

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Jim Bennett · 07-09-2016, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by rbryan4

As long as they were Bicycle playing cards. After all, they were on a bike.

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Of course!

**Donna D.** · 07-09-2016, 09:45 AM

Sounds like you guys were those stoooopid noisy boys (she says with a voice of a 7 year old girl). To be really cool you needed a pinwheel and streamers on the handlebars

Iowa Dave · 07-09-2016, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by rbryan4

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.

You are young, we listened to the Dr. while picketing an entry point at the packing house, while on strike. First time I ever saw a .32 cal chrome plated revolver. Scary.
Dave

Iowa Dave · 07-09-2016, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by gbaglo

Picked up WLS-Chicago in Whitewood, Saskatchewan.
It was either that or mating grasshoppers.

Dick Biondi. Stacks and stacks of hit parade wax!

Steven M · 07-09-2016, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

Dick Biondi. Stacks and stacks of hit parade wax!

Dick Biondi is still on the air on weekend mornings on WLS-FM, and this is the radio I listened to him during my misspent youth.

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Patandlinda · 07-09-2016, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Yep, these are hard to find

That's the key Jim ! Pat

Patandlinda · 07-09-2016, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by thoer

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.

Eric for how cool it made our bikes it sure made for good memories . I think as kids we spent more time outdoors . Pat

Patandlinda · 07-09-2016, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Bennett

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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Pat

Patandlinda · 07-09-2016, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by rbryan4

As long as they were Bicycle playing cards. After all, they were on a bike.

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Brand new fresh deck too ! Pat

Patandlinda · 07-09-2016, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Donna D.

Sounds like you guys were those stoooopid noisy boys (she says with a voice of a 7 year old girl). To be really cool you needed a pinwheel and streamers on the handlebars

Donna in the old days we were doing mods to our bikes ! Pat

blue_bullet · 07-09-2016, 11:00 AM

In 1956 our TV broke in VA just before my dad got transferred to Juneau. He said to forget it b/c TV wasn't much good there. Sure enough for 5 years there all I got to watch occasionally were 2 week old Dennis the Menace reruns at a friend's house shipped up from Seattle to be played by the local TV station. Instead I learned to read and listen to the radio.

**rbryan4** · 07-09-2016, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by blue_bullet

Instead I learned to read and listen to the radio.

Ain't that something? How about this: I'm so old I actually read books as a child.

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cpaharley2008 · 07-09-2016, 11:04 AM

and one of these for those midnight runs.....

Patandlinda · 07-09-2016, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by rbryan4

Ain't that something? How about this: I'm so old I actually read books as a child.

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Yep me too . Went down to the library on my bike ,and got the limit 10 books at a time . Went home and read every book . Would find quiet places to read , like one of my parent's cars ,getting in the back and locking the doors so my younger brothers couldn't bother me . Big Oldsmobile under a shade tree and they didn't know I was there . Pat

Jim Bennett · 07-09-2016, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Donna D.

Sounds like you guys were those stoooopid noisy boys (she says with a voice of a 7 year old girl). To be really cool you needed a pinwheel and streamers on the handlebars

I had streamers at one time too, but not pink ones.