OT : Silly things you remember but are now long gone
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In the fall, after the leaves are down, we could watch Philly stations. Big 5 basketball, Flyers, 76ers. Wee Willie Webber too.
It is still around, but due to the availability of video games it is not nearly as popular as it once was:
Strat-O-Matic Baseball
Strat-O-Matic Baseball
My son played computer APBA baseball for 10 years. Now he switched to this game. It's easier to make up your own teams, mixing players from different years.
Out of the park baseball.
https://www.ootpdevelopments.com/ou...MIqb-UkJGE6gIVBeiGCh2jHgEHEAAYASAAEgJQRfD_BwE
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Groundball Shortstop X
I liked the guys that had almost no hits but the hits they had were home runs but they were all on like 1-2 or 1-3 or 3-11 or 3-12. At a quick glance their card looked awseome because you saw all these HOME RUN all over the place.
I remember my Dad's electric razor would cause interference in the TV upstairs. He would always shave at 10:50 PM so that he could watch the 11 o'clock news which was always the time that the show I was watching was reaching the climax.
Wasn't there a college football team in Western PA that Paterno absolutely owned... Think they disappeared about 1981?
That’s hilarious. And you just reminded me of another example. I cannot tell you the last time I heard someone say “the jig is up!”One thing we used to do... Soloflex used to advertise that you could get a videocassette mailed to you with a demo of their exercise equipment. So a few of us got in the habit of calling up their 800 number multiple times and ordering tapes under various names, which we would then record over with our favorite shows or music videos. We enjoyed making a daily call from the pay phone in our middle school lobby over lunchtime
The jig was up when the Post Office complained to my friend’s parents that “You need to inform us of all the people that are living at your address!”
Cheesh, I I would reply to this, I would have said all these!
My grandfather had a Dodge sedan with those. My dad had a Chrysler Imperial or New Yorker that when you click the high beam button on the floor the radio went into search mode. We had FM too. Nothing but the best .
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I just spent some quality time reading this thread....drinking my High Life. This brought back a lot of memories!
Wow, even though my wife's current vehicle has push button, your response had me flash back to 1958 and our Mercury
Used to go to Q-Mart in Quakertown regularly with a tool box of cars, controllers and some spare parts. That was some quality time with my pops.
I remember that one. In the old "Bazaar of All Nations" near the base. I think a jet hit that building.
Not me......but my 8th grade class mate sent away for those X-ray glasses advertised in the back of the comic book. It was like the last few days before Christmas Eve waiting for them "special" glasses to arrive in the mail.....
Indeed.....
Brillcreme, a little dab will do ya,
Use more, only if you dare,
but watch out, the girls will all pursue ya....,
They'll love to run their fingers through your hair....
Talk about effective slogans, I still have many of these old jingles lurking, ready to jump into consciousness at a moments suggestion.....
Sure it has been mentioned, was at the office supply store today and saw white out tape, now far back does that goLOL, I think we got it in the early-Mid 70's...about the same time we got a color TV. For a long time I never knew Wizard of Oz was actually in color.
Didn't read through all 7 pages so not sure if this was mentioned.
Getting a sore finger from dialing the rotary phone all the time and thinking how long it took to call my friend who had a 0, 9 and 7 in his number.
Getting a sore finger from dialing the rotary phone all the time and thinking how long it took to call my friend who had a 0, 9 and 7 in his number.
