The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums. 
The "Back in my day" Thread
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Gilbert Buettner
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It's a redneck fire alarm
The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums.
Yes. Those wanting to "save" GA should be working on extending life expectancy.....
wanttaja
En-Route
Two cyanide pills and a hotline to Jesus? What kind of upbringing did YOU have?All y’all with memories of exchange phone numbers, anyone else remember one of these next to the phone?
Ron Wanttaja
Hey, my hair isn't white! Well, it has gotten kinda gray though...The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums.
flyingcheesehead
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I actually managed to get a job running a FirstClass BBS, which was a great system - Graphical, kinda AOL-like, and you could download files and read emails AT THE SAME TIME!
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Astrocam! Grainy, blurry pictures that took days to develope.
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They aren't at PoA, but I have taught both of my sons, and my niece to fly (Armstrong starter, tube and fabric, natch'). One son owns my old BC12D.The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums.
MauleSkinner
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I never put that together before!
JackL-3J
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"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball . . .."
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That is the modern version. The original used a small disk of film that you loaded / unloaded in a darkroom or a changing bag. I don't recall how you got it developed - probably had to send it back to Estes.
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Our high school had a darkroom. A little trial and error with nasty smelling chemicals, (masks, glasses, surely you jest) and Nessie was in clear focus (if one squinted enough).
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We had the 110 version that came out in 1979.
History and Use of the Estes AstroCam 110
UPDATE: MAY 2020--NEW PHOTOS ADDED THAT WERE RECENTLY FOUND IN MY LIBRARY Anyone younger than age 25 or 30 probably doesn't remember much about the chemical-photography days thanks to the...
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Our phone co-op had a 3 minute beep on the party lines . It was needed when we had 5 or more people on our line.All y’all with memories of exchange phone numbers, anyone else remember one of these next to the phone?
No rural phones here till 1956.
DaleB
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We had Jarts. I always wanted a Vac-U-Form and some of the others… some of my friends had the Creepy Crawlers (and of course Imcredible Edibles). There was another one a buddy had, the Strange Change Machine. You took a little Starburst-size/shape chunk of plastic and stuck it in a heating chamber, and it expanded into a creature of some sort. Then you could stick it into a heated crusher and turn it back into the little plastic square with a debossed Mattel logo. Cool as hell.
Our kids had an Easy Bake oven and a bunch of other stuff that’s fun but not 100% safe even when abused or used stupidly. You ought to see the stuff my older siblings had from the 50s and early 60s!
Yeah, stuff got hot. Yeah, the chemistry set we had came with real chemicals, and you could buy all kinds of other chemicals at the hobby shop. And yet we all survived. If you touched something hot you only did it once. The only scars any of us or our kids have came from things other than toys.
I guess back in the day we figured out pretty quickly that if you did stupid stuff you might get hurt. We still did stupid stuff, we were just careful (and still mostly cartilage, probably).
Our kids had an Easy Bake oven and a bunch of other stuff that’s fun but not 100% safe even when abused or used stupidly. You ought to see the stuff my older siblings had from the 50s and early 60s!
Yeah, stuff got hot. Yeah, the chemistry set we had came with real chemicals, and you could buy all kinds of other chemicals at the hobby shop. And yet we all survived. If you touched something hot you only did it once. The only scars any of us or our kids have came from things other than toys.
I guess back in the day we figured out pretty quickly that if you did stupid stuff you might get hurt. We still did stupid stuff, we were just careful (and still mostly cartilage, probably).
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Speaking of back in the day games, who here had one of these?
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Oof, I would have killed for this as a kid.
JOhnH
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I didn't, but my neighbor did. Best inside game I remember, until Pac-Man came out.