Things no one says anymore...
01-19-11, 07:16 PM
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You want to see a kid try to open a bottle of beer on a hot day which requires the use of a church key to open, not that I would do anything like that. snicker, snicker
01-19-11, 07:18 PM
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Ahh, the lunch counter at Woolworth's! And no matter what Woolworth's you entered, or where it was, they all smelled the same. How on earth was that accomplished?
"Big Chief" writing pads. Basically, a big block of plain, rough paper. Write on it, or, if you were like most, draw goofy pictures of the teacher on it.
I wore PF Flyers! The name has vanished, re-appeared in various forms, and been bought and sold who-knows how many times? And I wore them for darn near everything! According to Wikipedia, (take with grain of salt) the name is presently owned by New Balance, oddly enough.
"Go down to Liggett's and pick up a few things" Liggett's Drug stores! These used to dot the northeast, way before the days of CVS and Walgreen's. Like Woolworth's, every single one had that same smell, and usually, creaky wooden floors. Oh yeah, the mean old man, (or woman, sometimes) behind the register. Must have been some kind of company policy. They were drug stores that sold pretty much everything else. Candy, tobacco products, various household goods.
"Big Chief" writing pads. Basically, a big block of plain, rough paper. Write on it, or, if you were like most, draw goofy pictures of the teacher on it.
I wore PF Flyers! The name has vanished, re-appeared in various forms, and been bought and sold who-knows how many times? And I wore them for darn near everything! According to Wikipedia, (take with grain of salt) the name is presently owned by New Balance, oddly enough.
"Go down to Liggett's and pick up a few things" Liggett's Drug stores! These used to dot the northeast, way before the days of CVS and Walgreen's. Like Woolworth's, every single one had that same smell, and usually, creaky wooden floors. Oh yeah, the mean old man, (or woman, sometimes) behind the register. Must have been some kind of company policy. They were drug stores that sold pretty much everything else. Candy, tobacco products, various household goods.
01-20-11, 07:53 PM
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Procrastinateur supreme
How about the Electrolux man who came every year or so, with his shiny new jet-engine shaped machine and his little bag of dirt? And the big (like inch and a half) ball bearings to show how powerful his product was.
No wonder I'm a skeptic now!
No wonder I'm a skeptic now!
01-20-11, 08:43 PM
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I'm going to the "5 and 10", you need something?
01-21-11, 08:22 AM
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Lucille
Going outside to get the milk in glass bottles the milkman delivered
Doctors that made house visits
Washing clothes in the brook and passing them through a mechanical wringer and then hanging them on the line
Doctors that made house visits
Washing clothes in the brook and passing them through a mechanical wringer and then hanging them on the line
01-21-11, 09:29 AM
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. . . In the precomputer days, we used to move stories by taking them to an airport, going out to the gates and finding a flight going to the right place. We'd give the envelope to a stewardess (sorry, flight attendant) and tell her somebody would meet her at arrival and give her $10. Then we'd phone the office, tell them a name and flight number, and somebody would meet the plane . . .
01-21-11, 09:38 AM
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What??? Only 2 wheels?
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On today's MSNBC page "Special Forces Storm Ship Taken By Somali Pirates", for which I asked myself "Special forces can't even keep their own storm ships?"
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01-21-11, 09:43 AM
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Even my Aunt and Uncle, who live in the middle of nowhere, finally got rid of their party line and got individual home phone service several years ago.
01-21-11, 11:14 AM
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A 39 Mb hard drive. I'll never fill that up. 
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01-21-11, 11:43 AM
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For you NewYorkers-Remember the IRT?-
I need a transit cop!
Nedicks
The Automat
Horn and hardart
Chock full of Nuts
The Coliseum
I need a transit cop!
Nedicks
The Automat
Horn and hardart
Chock full of Nuts
The Coliseum
01-21-11, 03:21 PM
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You're way off topic!!
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01-21-11, 04:42 PM
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01-21-11, 04:54 PM
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What??? Only 2 wheels?
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01-21-11, 07:53 PM
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Touch football in the street:
Run to the Buick on the right, cut left to the Plymouth station wagon and look back for the pass.
Run to the Buick on the right, cut left to the Plymouth station wagon and look back for the pass.
01-21-11, 09:09 PM
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Long Beach Airport (southern Calif), mid 1960s, right next to the old Douglas Aircraft facility. Friends and I used to ride our Stingrays bikes down to the airport to watch the airplanes come and go. Occasionally we could get a flight line mechanic or pilot to walk us out to the planes for a 'tour' - through the cockpit, into the baggage compartment, or into the maintenance hanger. Totally cool! They'd get fired for that today.
Another lost Los Angeles icon - Helms Bakery trucks (a door-to-door bakery products delivery company) coming down the street. 10 cents for two glazed donuts!
Another lost Los Angeles icon - Helms Bakery trucks (a door-to-door bakery products delivery company) coming down the street. 10 cents for two glazed donuts!
01-22-11, 01:24 AM
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I was shocked the other day when I pulled into a gas station in Grants Pass and suddenly someone appeared at the window (shell at Morgan ln an 7th), I was also delighted as it was just bucketing outside.
I felt quite guilty, but I was dry!
01-22-11, 08:27 AM
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I can't even imagine what the world will look like for the kids in 20 years.
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pump - verb: rising out of the saddle to accelerate or climb on a heavyweight, single speed bicycle.
wheel - meaning the entire bicycle. "Have you seen Billy's new wheel? It's a Schwinn Black Phantom!"
twicer - a tandem bicycle
vulcanized patch - a tube patch bonded by the heat from a flammable backing. You clamped them in place in a small sheetmetal housing over the spot to be repaired and, so help me, set the backing material on fire.
"prices slightly higher in the south and west" - to cover the increased shipping costs from the American manufacturing heartland. This was the concluding line of the Schwinn advertisements on Captain Kangaroo.
English racer - a post-WWII British bicycle, lighter than the common American models and fitted with a three speed hub and caliper brakes. Here's a picture of a young American lad and his new English racer in 1955.
wheel - meaning the entire bicycle. "Have you seen Billy's new wheel? It's a Schwinn Black Phantom!"
twicer - a tandem bicycle
vulcanized patch - a tube patch bonded by the heat from a flammable backing. You clamped them in place in a small sheetmetal housing over the spot to be repaired and, so help me, set the backing material on fire.
"prices slightly higher in the south and west" - to cover the increased shipping costs from the American manufacturing heartland. This was the concluding line of the Schwinn advertisements on Captain Kangaroo.
English racer - a post-WWII British bicycle, lighter than the common American models and fitted with a three speed hub and caliper brakes. Here's a picture of a young American lad and his new English racer in 1955.
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01-22-11, 08:39 AM
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I don't know if that's really an obsolete phrase. There was something like that at the end of a Viagra commercial I saw just the other day.
Edit: The ad said, "Discontinue use if you experience a sudden loss of vision." I guess that's different.
Edit: The ad said, "Discontinue use if you experience a sudden loss of vision." I guess that's different.
01-22-11, 09:15 AM
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Excellent! 
There's a club in Worcester,MA called the "Seven Hills Wheelmen".
Their website They refuse to change their name to satisfy the PC crazies.
I also miss the old LAW logo, with the wings and a bicycle wheel. The new logo just does not work for me at all. But, it's unlikely they will go back to the old one.
"I'm gonna wash your mouth out with soap!" I cannot imagine this being said today. Heck, cops would probably storm the house.
"Two Wheeler". As in "You're big enough to have your own two wheeler".
There's a club in Worcester,MA called the "Seven Hills Wheelmen".Their website They refuse to change their name to satisfy the PC crazies.
I also miss the old LAW logo, with the wings and a bicycle wheel. The new logo just does not work for me at all. But, it's unlikely they will go back to the old one.
"I'm gonna wash your mouth out with soap!" I cannot imagine this being said today. Heck, cops would probably storm the house.
"Two Wheeler". As in "You're big enough to have your own two wheeler".
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