Jimi - that looks like toaster from way back to me. Seems like my aunt had one.Who's old enough to have had one of these
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Thats what im guessing too, the sides fold out, put the bread in, right?
It's a stove top toaster, I can remember my mom using oneStumped on that one. No idea what it is.
I do know what this is...
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...but couldn't use it to save my life.
Guess that makes me old
It's a stove top toaster, I can remember my mom using one
Guess that makes me old
I remember when you could take a flight without having to take off your shoes, be scanned all over with one of those scanning thingies, and have airport security goons scream at you. The last time I connected at Newark for international, the TSA lady grilled me, literally screaming at me "why is this passport so new"? Not that it was any of her damn business why my valid passport was new, but I didn't want to be dragged away, disappeared and held indefinitely on the so called Patriot Act, so I explained that I'd express renewed my expired passport for a last minute trip.
Then another baboon asked me what I was wearing underneath my blazer. "My bra". Another one of them laughed.
I'm a mild mannered, clean, neatly dressed person who waits politely in lines and acts respectful.
Ugh, air travel used to be fun, light hearted, exciting, an elevated experience. Now it's just a grind.
Then another baboon asked me what I was wearing underneath my blazer. "My bra". Another one of them laughed.
I'm a mild mannered, clean, neatly dressed person who waits politely in lines and acts respectful.
Ugh, air travel used to be fun, light hearted, exciting, an elevated experience. Now it's just a grind.
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1st time flying. Summer of 6th-7th grade. Sister and I. TWA Airlines. Phx to St Louis. Phx Sky Harbor was one small building. Walked onto the tarmac and up the stairs to board. No other passengers. So we got the run of first class. 
They have built real airports in Costa Rica since it started to become so popular a decade or two ago, but when I went there the Guanacaste pass-through to board was literally a converted cow shed. I felt it was very amusing and charming.1st time flying. Summer of 6th-7th grade. Sister and I. TWA Airlines. Phx to St Louis. Phx Sky Harbor was one small building. Walked onto the tarmac and up the stairs to board. No other passengers. So we got the run of first class.
on my way to australia from england, we stopped over at the Philippines, i took a photo from inside looking at all the planes on the runway. within seconds i was jabbed in the back, i turned around to find a soldier pointing a machine gun at me, he started screaming stuff and sweating, yes i thought this is it! thankfully a pilot who was walking past said something to the chinky, then more came. it turned out that a sheik was landing and the red carpets etc were out, someone saw a reflection from the carpet outside and set of security as they thought someone was a sniper waiting to shoot the sheik!
it was the few times i really really was worried.
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Remember when you could accidently take a fully loaded including the chamber 380 Barretta in our carry on? But forgot it was in there because you checked it? Then remebered once the plane was in the air? and you though you'd be going to jail because someone got on at a stop and sat in the isle seat across from you? and they had a lanyard around their neck that had FAA on it? and a fight attendant wouldn't let you off the plane even though you told them you'd be right back?
Oh wait, that wasn't that long ago. Just long enough to be post 9/11. And nothing happened.
Oh wait, that wasn't that long ago. Just long enough to be post 9/11. And nothing happened.
The last time I flew was back when folks were still allowed to smoke on board a plane, unless the No Smoking lights were on. Of course that was pre 9/11, and before they crammed the seats so close together that passengers have to fight over petty bullshit. You could carry knives onto the plane, and nobody cared. These days, trying to get onto a plane must be like getting booked into the county jail. Be sure you ain't got shoelaces or a belt. They could be used as weapons.
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Remember when there was only peanut butter that needed to be stirred?
Before most decided that hydrogenated would sell better (but at the cost of more health concern)? And like most now, you have to pay more if it's better for you, even if it costs less to produce.
Before most decided that hydrogenated would sell better (but at the cost of more health concern)? And like most now, you have to pay more if it's better for you, even if it costs less to produce.
when i stopped off at manila, there was a smoking room, it was around 6metres square total grass walls and ceiling with a load of people in but you could only see their outlines, i pushed the door open and the bloody smoke literally hit my face like a fist! i reckon i had 10 cancer sticks from that cloud. there were cigars,pipes god knows how many joints it was putrid. apparently the room was totally changed in that there was a guard letting people in and a time allowance to get you out fast, however the main reason for the change was because in the first month of use, with visibility being zero inside, there were loads of complaints from woman who were getting touched up. so much for having a smoke after sex, over there its both at same time!
i went for a look at ireland, while i was there someone gave me a rubber bullet, it was super hard rubbery stuff around 5 inches long, shaped like a candle with spirals dug into it. when we were leaving ireland i put it into my friends suit case, coming through customs they asked my friend what it was, jokingly i said it was her sex toy! i got a huge laugh and also the hardest slap you could get!Remember when you could accidently take a fully loaded including the chamber 380 Barretta in our carry on? But forgot it was in there because you checked it? Then remebered once the plane was in the air? and you though you'd be going to jail because someone got on at a stop and sat in the isle seat across from you? and they had a lanyard around their neck that had FAA on it? and a fight attendant wouldn't let you off the plane even though you told them you'd be right back?
Oh wait, that wasn't that long ago. Just long enough to be post 9/11. And nothing happened.
Just a while back, someone mentioned the old rad lanterns. I happened across one my step-dad had stashed under a stack of old windows I need to discard. the frames are really in that bad of condition. The lantern seems to be in really good condition, surprisingly.
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I just watched that again bout a week or so ago. Had been yrs, or decades. Great movie. 11 Academy AwardsRemember this old show, first aired on TV on April 4th 1960
They always used to play this in the Easter season also 10 commandments
"A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ."
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During its initial release the film earned $33.6 million in North American theater rentals (the distributor's share of the box office), generating approximately $74.7 million in box office sales. It was number one at the monthly US box office for six months.[151] Outside of North America, it earned $32.5 million in rentals (about $72.2 million at the box office) for a worldwide total of $66.1 million in rental earnings, roughly equivalent to $146.9 million in box office receipts.[147] It was the fastest-grossing film[16] as well as the highest-grossing film of 1959,[152] in the process becoming the second-highest-grossing film of all-time (at that time) behind Gone with the Wind.[153][154] Ben-Hur saved MGM from financial disaster,[155] making a profit of $20,409,000 on its initial release,[4] and another $10.1 million in profits when re-released in 1969.[16] By 1989, Ben-Hur had earned $90 million in worldwide theatrical rentals.[156]
Here they hack and gore movies on, WTF it's Easter. We didn't have any seasonal shows this year and I miss them, well I grew up with them
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Now that i think if it, it was Easter that I watched it.
Tv around here just sux, I like seeing some of the old time programing like "I love Lucy" and a few other once in a while
Some of those mid-century hollywood biblical over top movies are really very entertaining. I think panoramic wide screen was new in the 1950's-60's. I could be wrong about that.
I have "The Prodigal" on DVD. Lana Turner plays a high priestess of Astarte. She called it "a costume stinker", but it did well at the box office, and continues to sell with high ratings among DVD consumers.
That's really cool, haven't seen one of those in years.
Do you remember the old carbide lanterns?
I think you are right, it was in the 50's 60's era that panoramic came out
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Well, I remember i've seen'm. I'm old but not ancient, yet, soon tho lol.
I haven't had the cap off that one yet, it's lite enough to not have a battery but idk what kind.
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Remember when Oil came in a can and everyone carried an oil spout in their cars
Cool they had those when I was a kid, always wanted one but never got it
I used to have an old carbide miners headband lamp. Sounds very safe huh? have you ever seen a carbide explosion
carbide gives of acetylene gas when water is added so yeah very explosive.I used to have an old carbide miners headband lamp. Sounds very safe huh? have you ever seen a carbide explosion
I have 2 of those. One holds water. The other could if I used JB Weld on all the holes from where someone used it for a garden pot.Remember these old wash tubs?
We used to keep minnows in one for fishing when I was a kid
i was working on a large ship in the docks at scotland. a crane swung a load at knocked a gas welding set from the deck to the dockside. the valve on the oxygen bottle got sheared off. that bottle was like a torpedo! it was smashing all it hit and workers literally jumped into the sea!I used to have an old carbide miners headband lamp. Sounds very safe huh? have you ever seen a carbide explosion
the funnies one was the workers would mark with chalk what the oxy cutters had to cut out, they would cut out in the evening so we could grind during the day. the ss nothumbria was a ship with a deck wider than 2 soccer pitches. not the killer..3 apprentices played soccer at lunchtime on the ship. yup,,they marked a set of goals on the wall. 6 ft high x 8ft wide. guess what got cut out that night!!! 4 inch thick steel!! oh oh. bye bye job.
and an ambulance!
I haven't seen one for many years.
JB Weld can be priceless
the old country stores her in tasmania sell those old ones for $50-$60 bucks.
it makes you think it was 100 years ago but in the town in england i lived in. it had a huge coal mine, even in 1966 they carried canneries down to check for gas and pulled the carts with shetland ponies, shit now i feel ancient.I used to have an old carbide miners headband lamp. Sounds very safe huh? have you ever seen a carbide explosion
costume stinker..i remember as a kid wondering if womens boobs were conical and pointy!
my uncle used to guard the ammunition dumps in the army he gave me 3 hand grenades no explosive of course but throwing those was hard work, i reckon the german stick grenades were designed better.Cool they had those when I was a kid, always wanted one but never got it
yeah my father did that, i also remember you could buy ginger beer in a stone container that you used as a hot water bottle, you sometimes tossed and turned, kicked it, almost broke your toes and the noise as it fell onto the wooden floor woke up everyone,
i also remember getting fed up of my mate kicking my snowman over, so i built the next one around a pile of bricks!
and meccano sets were a must
yup and i remember my uncle cutting of a sleeve of his jumper, stuffing it and sowing a glove on. then he jammed it under the car boot hanging out like someone was in the boot.Remember when Oil came in a can and everyone carried an oil spout in their cars