The "Back in my day" Thread

I just had a X-10 signal bridge removed from my circuit panel. It was already mostly obsolete when I had it installed 21 years ago.
 
Daleandee said:
Did anyone mention the best place to take a date?

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Just took my kids to their first drive-in movie a few weeks back. Put a Queen-size air mattress in the back of the Excursion with blankets and pillows with the JL Audio sound system going. Wife and kids made it through the first movie (Nightmare Before Christmas) but crashed halfway through the second feature (Hocus Pocus). Apparently the blankets and bed were a little too comfy, lol.
 
the first drive-in movie I remember was Patton…my parents used to go to drive-ins for date night, probably because they could pack my brothers and me along and not have to pay a babysitter.

Chevy Vega station wagon, orange. ;)
 
Mahneuvers said:
I just had a X-10 signal bridge removed from my circuit panel. It was already mostly obsolete when I had it installed 21 years ago.
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There's probably still one installed at the house I lived in in Virginia for 23 years. I never took it out. Amusingly, we moved out and left the house vacant for a couple of weeks while I got the thing ready to go on the market. What I started to find as I was cleaning up was every tape measure that I had lost over the previous 23 years. I had over a dozen of them lined up on the window sill. I took them over to the new house and they immediately scurried off to find new hiding places.
 
flyingron said:
There's probably still one installed at the house I lived in in Virginia for 23 years. I never took it out. Amusingly, we moved out and left the house vacant for a couple of weeks while I got the thing ready to go on the market. What I started to find as I was cleaning up was every tape measure that I had lost over the previous 23 years. I had over a dozen of them lined up on the window sill. I took them over to the new house and they immediately scurried off to find new hiding places.
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At least you didn’t drywall them in during a bathroom remodel…:rolleyes:

I’m still not sure how many tools I lost in that wall.
 
wanttaja said:
That's the upside to vacuum-tube radios. They have a working voltage of 100V, vs. 12v in your modern radio. Could get a LOT more volume fed to the earphones....

Ron Wanttaja
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The Safeway grocery store near FAI had a self-serve vacuum tube tester, so you'd know if you needed to buy one. (And yes, they sold 'em.)
 
MauleSkinner said:
the first drive-in movie I remember was Patton…my parents used to go to drive-ins for date night, probably because they could pack my brothers and me along and not have to pay a babysitter.

Chevy Vega station wagon, orange. ;)
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The one I remember the most was a dusk-to-dawn Clint Eastwood marathon. Me and a buddy had early Willys Jeeps, we took the tops down and folded the windshield flat to the hood to improve the view.

Ron Wanttaja
 
Dana said:
Hah! Just a year ago I bought a brand new Jeep with hand cranked windows, didn't know that was even possible.

Toy guns without orange plastic tipped barrels... greenie stickum caps... or roll caps (perforated or not?)... plastic army men to shoot at with your BB gun... bicycles converted to a motorbike with a B&S lawnmower engine... Cox models with gas engines... Estes model rockets... TV Guide magazine with a special "C" symbol to indicate a color program (which later became a special symbol to indicate a B&W program)... TV, period.
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Two channels, ABC and a combined CBS-NBC . . . or was that CBS and ABC-NBC . . . or . . ..
 
WDD said:
Green stamps, and yellow stamps.

Free drinking glass in a box of powdered laundry detergent.
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Going to the S&H in Ypsilanti with my mom after collecting books of 'em from shoping at the A&P.

And getting "free" plates or encyclopedias, let's see we have four As. three Bs Cs and Ds, two Es and Fs, and a N, a Q, and an XYZ.
 
Grandpa predicting that people would never pay $1 for a gallon of regular (leaded) gas.
 
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