far from being an engineer but it’s similar to graphic design...rapidiograph pens, stat cameras, orange peel, pressure sensitive fonts type faces, PMT’s. We’ve come a long way, thank you Steve Jobs and Apple.
OT : Silly things you remember but are now long gone
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far from being an engineer but it’s similar to graphic design...rapidiograph pens, stat cameras, orange peel, pressure sensitive fonts type faces, PMT’s. We’ve come a long way, thank you Steve Jobs and Apple.
I remember going bowling with friends. $2 would get you shoes, 3 games, a slice of pizza and a soda. And still have change.
Transistor radios. My wife used to sit on her front porch with her dad in the summer listening to phillies games.
White walls on tires. Spinners on hub caps. American Muscle cars - GTO’s, 442’s, Chevelle’s, ‘Cuda’s, Road Runners to name a few.
White walls on tires. Spinners on hub caps. American Muscle cars - GTO’s, 442’s, Chevelle’s, ‘Cuda’s, Road Runners to name a few.
How about when you first got a push button phone....you felt rich.
living outside of town with only a few houses on our road, cable didn't even get installed on our street until mid 1990's. my parents did not even get cable (ended up with directv) until mid 2000's. And since directv did not carry local channels unless you paid, my dad could still get the local channels with the antenna. Literally that antenna (with that rototenna device which was like 90 degress off direction so putting it on south meant it was face West now) was used until about 5 years ago until somehow he caved or directv gives local channels as part of the package.
i think about the 80s and how they really ended hitchhiking because of safety issues. big campaign against it. and now Uber and Lyft have a multibillion dollar business basically for paid hitchhiking.
No, not questioning 3 for 2. In fact I posted a funny commentary by Bill Russell. The Celtics were in a playoff game and Paul Silas made 2 of 3 FTs. Russell said here's a guy who only shot 66% during the regular season but came up big making 2 of 3 during crunch time in the playoffs.
-Bill Campbell, By Saam and Richie Ashburn doing the Phillies game
-paying kids to ‘watch your car’ at Connie Mack Stadium (a good investment)
-Don Demeter in left, Tony Gonzalez in center, Johnny Callison in right, Clay Dalrymple behind the plate
-Phillies Excursions from Harrisburg, on the Pennsylvania RR
-Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews
-Fleer Bubble gum, with Fleer Funnies
-men wore white shirts and black pants to the baseball game (causing center field bleachers to be vacated, because the batter couldn’t see the ball)
-wool Little League uniforms, sweaty and itchy
-KDKA ‘party pretzel’
-Pittsburgh radio celebrity Al ‘jazzbeaux’ Collins
-the Green Weenie
-an Eagles QB named King Hill
-a Steeler QB named Dick Shiner...
-paying kids to ‘watch your car’ at Connie Mack Stadium (a good investment)
-Don Demeter in left, Tony Gonzalez in center, Johnny Callison in right, Clay Dalrymple behind the plate
-Phillies Excursions from Harrisburg, on the Pennsylvania RR
-Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews
-Fleer Bubble gum, with Fleer Funnies
-men wore white shirts and black pants to the baseball game (causing center field bleachers to be vacated, because the batter couldn’t see the ball)
-wool Little League uniforms, sweaty and itchy
-KDKA ‘party pretzel’
-Pittsburgh radio celebrity Al ‘jazzbeaux’ Collins
-the Green Weenie
-an Eagles QB named King Hill
-a Steeler QB named Dick Shiner...
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This thread is the perfect example; I sat here and read thru 4 pages to make sure no one mentioned thread view. In the good ol' days, a quick 4 second scan was all it took.
I loved those uniforms. 50 kids would try out for the team and only 25 would make it. Everybody didn't make the team and get a trophy back then. I was proud of that uniform.
I hated the helmet with 2 ear flaps that whistled when running to 1st base.
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Grew up with Harry, Whitey, Andy Musser and Wheels. Those were the days I watched or listened on the radio to every pitch of every game. These days I have trouble getting motivated to watch even a single game in HD.
And everybody shared a few helmets and a few bats...and none of the bats were exactly the right size.
We played minor league ball when we were 8 (before going to little league at 9). We had the hand me down wool little league uniforms usually 3 sizes too large with half the felt of the teams name and number worn off. But how did we love them. You couldn't get kids today to wear what we wore back then. Great memories.
One more thing, we played in an old ball field that had metal outfield walls with
advertisements just like the big league. Even had dugouts, but remember the field was far from being nice. I remember, I tried to jump the fence to get onto the field (8 years old) and my shoe lace got stuck in the fence. I took a nose dive to the dirt. Don't think I ever got over that embarrassment.
Jail break - for anyone that remembers that game.
We get it - you actually hit the ball and got to run to first!
Phys ed uniforms. Jock strap checks. Communal showers were required after gym class. You had 10 minutes and sometimes the coach would shower with you.
My wife says that the girls had to open their towels to prove to the teacher that they got wet.
More than once actually.We get it - you actually hit the ball and got to run to first!
Ha! I wore the same type of uniform. Looking back on it now we must have looked like a baseball team circa the 1920’s.
True story. I once bought a Wiffle ball that came packaged in a cardboard box. On each side of the box was a drawing that showed how to hold the ball to throw different pitches - a change up, sinker, curve ball, slider...can’t remember the others.
Long story short, I practiced throwing those pitches all the time with my brother and was so good at throwing the change up that during a game the other team’s coach, the umpire, and my coach had an impromptu meeting, after which they asked me to stop throwing the change up because no one could hit it. LOL! Can you imagine? This was Little League mind you and certainly not of the caliber of the Little League World Series either.
Once damn near threw a no hitter until the infield screwed it up. I think it was the third baseman. Jerky infielders.
Same here. He would drive very slowly, shouting " rags" and ringing a bell. Would take rags and metal and give you cash depending on how much it weighed. Usually a buck or less. One of the first recyclers.
Dick Shiner was the Maryland QB on the team that beat Penn State in 1961 in College Park.
Those 1st remotes were pretty crude. You could actually change the channel by shaking your keys at the TV.
My mother used to tell me if the music was playing they were out of ice cream.
Wooden-framed pinball machines. When no one was looking, you could unscrew one of the boards, slide the glass out a few inches, then manually move the free-game counter up as far as it would go. You could play all day without paying. (Probably the most "juvenile delinquent" thing I did as a kid.)
I would use a wire hanger and aluminum foil and stand wherever I needed to stand to listen to pirates games on KDKA in the Harrisburg area. Lanny Frattere - “There was nooooooo doubt about it”.
Goldenbergs Peanut Chews are still the best. The Philadelphia company sold out a few years ago but they are still made, but now by someone else. I guess this is another subject for a poll. I believe I read that the company founder died recently. He started a candy shop in Kensington.
A 70” TV in the 90s? How rich were you guys? I didn’t even know one was invented yet, let alone anyone who had one. I think we were still using a 27” until about ‘99 when we went huge with a 36”.
Mine is more recent, but long gone nonetheless:
Friday night with my brother and dad at Blockbuster. He’d be looking for a movie while my brother and I picked out a video game (or on really special occasions, then new system like the SNES), then getting some candy by the register. So many times we did that, and while I’m part of the reason they don’t exist anymore, it makes me sad I can’t do that with my son.
Friday night with my brother and dad at Blockbuster. He’d be looking for a movie while my brother and I picked out a video game (or on really special occasions, then new system like the SNES), then getting some candy by the register. So many times we did that, and while I’m part of the reason they don’t exist anymore, it makes me sad I can’t do that with my son.
