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The Good Old Times
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Vista or something close to this, lol. Car wash, Walmarts, but the best place was an old folks retirement nursing community. Listening to their stories was so great, I could have worked there for free. This is how much I enjoyed working there.
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We watched in black and white. Didn't have a color TV for many years after that.I was watching it live on T.V. in color... Well Black and White are colors. 1969. Where were you ?
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First job was delivery and repair of business machines. Then bus boy and dishwasher at a Denny's. Then USAF...
I was watching it live on T.V. in color... Well Black and White are colors. 1969. Where were you ?
I was watching it live on TV, too.
My first job was as a messenger for the Credit Bureau in downtown Portland. I picked up credit card applications from department stores and brought them back to the Credit Bureau. That lasted 6 months, part time after school, then my first real job was at a place called Realty Tax Service (also in downtown Portland), started out sorting and mailing tax bills and legal descriptions from the individual counties to the appropriate banks, then worked up to being a real, live secretary. (Sorting tax bills was mind-numbingly boring, but quiet and clean...) And the rest is history. I always considered myself fortunate that I never had to work at a burger joint. I don't know why, but I would rather have done anything else than that.
I'll never forget my first solo bike ride. My dad was holding the back of the bike (flat package carrier thingie) to make sure I didn't wobble and fall over, and I was riding down the sidewalk. Then I happened to say something to him, and when he answered, he sounded way far back! I turned around, all in a panic, and promptly fell over, LOL! But I had ridden 20 or 30 feet all by myself, so then I knew I could do it.
Does anyone remember this, and the sayin
OK, I was very much alive in the 80s, but I didn't get this. Unless it's the "This is your brain on drugs" thing. In that case, the quote is wrong. If it's not that, then I have no clue.
I still have my Nana's Singer treadle machine, and it still works. I never use it, but if I needed to, I could. Just gotta get that belt back on... There's still a packet of needles for it in one of the drawers. Those needles might be as old as I am! LOL! Anyway, it sits in the living room by the front window and the cats lie on it to bask in the sun on sunny days. So it still has a useful purpose.
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I think we still have one...
We do too, my dad was a photographer and was always usin it
Yep! I used to turn mine on when I was supposed to be asleep. I would listen to E.G Marshall's Radio Mystery Theater. That radio program scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Mine was similar to this one.
I had one like that, too, but no FM, just AM. Tinny sound, but it was the best, because you could take it with you, using the handy wrist strap, LOL!
I remember being told not to switch to FM channels "because they were bad". Of course I did exactly that when nobody else was around, and discovered rock music. I wasn't even 5 years old at the time, and already turning into a slacker.
exactly the same as me, i suppose thats why 12 yr olds in out times were not obese
naughty girl then
I used to hold three pencils in my hand so that I could get it done faster.
I like your attitude!
I want that Lamborghini
Hi Lo Lo, just wanted to welcome you to the forum
Thank you! It's great to be here!Hi Lo Lo, just wanted to welcome you to the forum
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I'm too practical, I'd take the A Team van. Can do all kinds of things with it.
I would get in too much trouble with the others, but it would be fun.
I always wanted a KITT, but if I had to choose.... it would be the Magnum PI Ferrari. Can't help it.
Whoa, Nellie! Somebody forgot to turn off the freakin' water! Rich and I stayed in a motel at Tahoe one time that had a waterbed in it, and it was overfilled like the one in the picture. Only one person can sleep on that. If one person moves, the other one got rolled out of bed onto the floor. What a miserable night that was. And no sofa. I ended up sleeping on the floor.
Having said that, I had a waterbed from 1975 up to about 10 years ago. I had to get a memory foam mattress because my back was sore sleeping on the "hammock" waterbed. The most comfortable waterbed I ever had, though, had a giant sponge in the bag, so you just filled it up to the level of the sides and it was like sleeping on a cloud. I called it my Pudding Bed. If you filled a waterbed mattress with pudding, it would have felt the same. I really miss that mattress. It was a PITA to drain it, so I guess they never really took off. I never found another one.
Gotta go with the a-team van. You can't haul anything in cars, which is why the Ghostbusters car has all that gear on the roof.
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james bonds. then i would feel safe driving to the shops!
All the time! But that was back when you could actually make toast brown (or burned) in less than three days. Nowadays, the toasters are ceramic or something, so the outside stays cool so idiots won't burn themselves on a hot toaster, and it takes forEVER to toast a piece of bread. Even longer for me, because I make all our bread and don't add sugar (the sugar helps it brown). It takes 6 or 7 minutes to make a piece of toast now, and it's BARELY browned. I wish we could have real toasters again, the kind with the wire elements that got red and very hot and actually heated the bread....