The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2022

[GtHawk]

You're more duffery than me... Missed the new cars with tail fins. But when we got up in here, the hot spot in town was the Woolworth's which had a hardwood floor and a counter with stools in the back where you could get a burger, fries, and a malted milk.

I remember BEFORE McDonalds.
I remember BEFORE public phones (when there were two - one at either end of Main Street)
I remember FM radio coming to town.
I remember AM radio before it was talk.

I remember the birth of the muscle car (not the hot rod)
I remember when most trucks weren't 4wd.

So I ain't know spring chicken either

Birth of the muscle car? Wasn't that when Studebaker put a supercharged 352 Packard into a 1956 Golden Hawk? How about when carrying your on music in your car involved a record player?

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[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

These "Braying Jackass" photo posts just keep getting better and better.

[sneakypete]

Meh, I remember when virtually every new car had fins, when watching a movie at home involved 8mm film and a projector. I sat in the restaurant in a Thrifty Drug Store and put a nickel in the table top jukebox to listen to a song. I rode the electric street cars to go shopping. I remember when Nike was a missile not a shoe. I remember that if I wanted to make a phone call away from home I had to find these things called phone booths which I could make a call from for a nickel. I am not as old as I will be but feel older than I am.

@GtHawk

That's nothing. I remember when all tv's were black and white,and the only networks were CBS,ABC,and NBC,and they all went off the air at midnight.

Hell,I even remember we lived in a city when I was a child,and there was only ONE tv network to watch. Within a couple of years,we had the other two,and thought that was really something special.

I even remember when Walter Cronkite was declared to be "The most trusted man in America",just to show you how wrong the media could be even back then.

[sneakypete]

   I remember my father (big CWA Union Man) @ 10yo handing me LBJ bumper stickers and telling me go get that Cadillac down the street with the Goldwater stickers.  I did.

@corbe

I hope you paid him back for that bit of child abuse.

[Gefn]

Neelix!

[roamer_1]

Birth of the muscle car? Wasn't that when Studebaker put a supercharged 352 Packard into a 1956 Golden Hawk?

Yeah, yeah... I'm talking about the 60s.

How about when carrying your on music in your car involved a record player?

Never heard the like. I just had an AM radio... For a hella long time. I dang near missed 8 track. By the time you could find 8 tracks in garage sales, that's when I was on em.

Heck, my first FM radio in the truck was a Kraco that I actually bought for the cassette capability.
That's when I began to figure out that you would only sink your truck in the river to the level of your electronics...

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[Smokin Joe]

Any mechanic worth a crap buys them by the dozen...

[Smokin Joe]

You're more duffery than me... Missed the new cars with tail fins. But when we got up in here, the hot spot in town was the Woolworth's which had a hardwood floor and a counter with stools in the back where you could get a burger, fries, and a malted milk.

I remember BEFORE McDonalds.
I remember BEFORE public phones (when there were two - one at either end of Main Street)
I remember FM radio coming to town.
I remember AM radio before it was talk.

I remember the birth of the muscle car (not the hot rod)
I remember when most trucks weren't 4wd.

So I ain't know spring chicken either

I remember the cash going in the basket up to the office on the back wall of the mercantile, and the basket coming back with my change.
Nickel cokes out of the machine...
when a dollar's worth of gas would get you around for the weekend...
cigarettes at 32 cents a pack (including tax)...
...beer for a buck a six pack...
and getting my cousin a box of cheap thrills--six bottles of wine for less than a buck apiece, for his birthday...
fishing without a license (didn't need one)...
watching the Washington Senators play the Baltimore orioles...
..and going up to National Airport with my dad and watching big passenger planes take off and land--all prop driven, except for just a couple of jets.. and seeing a flying wing taking off out of Andrews AFB on the way home.

[DCPatriot]

I remember the cash going in the basket up to the office on the back wall of the mercantile, and the basket coming back with my change.
Nickel cokes out of the machine...
when a dollar's worth of gas would get you around for the weekend...
cigarettes at 32 cents a pack (including tax)...
...beer for a buck a six pack...
and getting my cousin a box of cheap thrills--six bottles of wine for less than a buck apiece, for his birthday...
fishing without a license (didn't need one)...
watching the Washington Senators play the Baltimore orioles...
..and going up to National Airport with my dad and watching big passenger planes take off and land--all prop driven, except for just a couple of jets.. and seeing a flying wing taking off out of Andrews AFB on the way home.

LOL!  Cigarette machines at our neighborhood gas station sold cigarettes for 27cents a pack.
The 3cents change was slipped inside the cellophane wrapper.

The TV repairman shows up at the house and all of a sudden the damned TV stops "rolling" the picture and behaves until the SOB leaves.

[roamer_1]

I remember the cash going in the basket up to the office on the back wall of the mercantile, and the basket coming back with my change.
Nickel cokes out of the machine...
when a dollar's worth of gas would get you around for the weekend...
cigarettes at 32 cents a pack (including tax)...
...beer for a buck a six pack...
and getting my cousin a box of cheap thrills--six bottles of wine for less than a buck apiece, for his birthday...
fishing without a license (didn't need one)...
watching the Washington Senators play the Baltimore orioles...
..and going up to National Airport with my dad and watching big passenger planes take off and land--all prop driven, except for just a couple of jets.. and seeing a flying wing taking off out of Andrews AFB on the way home.

YEP... Pay a quarter for a can of Cope and get change back...
I remember 3 bucks for a cold pack of beer...
A dime for a candy bar 1/3 bigger than they are now...

Man we thought we were all that when McDonald's came to town - It was a thing for us, as we had come from Chicago and knew what it was... Went two years or better without. That was strange after coming from the city...

[Slide Rule]

@GtHawk

That's nothing. I remember when all tv's were black and white, and the only networks
were CBS, ABC, and NBC,and they all went off the air at midnight.

Hell,I even remember we lived in a city when I was a child,and there was only ONE tv
network to watch. Within a couple of years,we had the other two,and thought that was
really something special.

I even remember when Walter Cronkite was declared to be "The most trusted man in
America",just to show you how wrong the media could be even back then.

Several of us are older than dirt.

I remember when the street lights came on it was time to be home.
When dad used a switch on my ass to correct poor thinking.
When a Baby Ruth was a Nickle.
When Mom and Dad sat on the porch steps.
The first restaurant meal. Mom had me take a bath in the afternoon
before dad came home from work so I learned we would be going.
Cronkite lies lost us the Vietnam war, all by himself. What a guy.

[Slide Rule]

[Slide Rule]

[Slide Rule]

[EdinVA]

YEP... Pay a quarter for a can of Cope and get change back...
I remember 3 bucks for a cold pack of beer...
A dime for a candy bar 1/3 bigger than they are now...

Man we thought we were all that when McDonald's came to town - It was a thing for us, as we had come from Chicago and knew what it was... Went two years or better without. That was strange after coming from the city...

Sure glad I am not old like you people.. 

[Slide Rule]

[corbe]

https://youtu.be/xQjEpqhq6EU

[GtHawk]

Yeah, yeah... I'm talking about the 60s.

Never heard the like. I just had an AM radio... For a hella long time. I dang near missed 8 track. By the time you could find 8 tracks in garage sales, that's when I was on em.

Heck, my first FM radio in the truck was a Kraco that I actually bought for the cassette capability.
That's when I began to figure out that you would only sink your truck in the river to the level of your electronics...

I remember upgrading from just an AM radio, adding a neat 8 Track unit under the dash, then AM/FM cassette in what seemed like only a year.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKYz4yVDQm8

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]