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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:15 am
I've lived in California all my life so no sleds here.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:16 am
Wow, you had ear buds, as in more than one?!? We had that little ivory one that came with them, and the 2 foot long cord, hee hee.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:24 am
I know I'm dating myself, but I had this little jewell when I was a freshman in high school. Would that I still had it.

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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:24 am
You know what? It was just one bud! LOL How funny is that? I always get on the daycare kids because they'll say they are bored. They have every toy and device known to man and they are bored. We were never bored! We'd make games up to entertain ourselves. We had so many summer evenings of hide and seek or kick the can. The parents would all be sitting in their webbed lawn chairs having drinks and we'd be running around barefoot and having a great time.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:27 am
My mother still has the old black rotary phone hanging on the wall. Her's is a bit older than this model, because her's actually has a metal dial, not plastic. She still uses it even though I bought her a set of 3 portables! When repair guys come for one reason or another, it always catches their eye. Last week the plumber said, "wow, does that thing really work?". Duh, it ain't like we call Sara down at the general store to have her connect up with someone!
Our phone exchange used to be call Fillmore or FI-3 instead of what we say now as 343. I remember to this day that my great grandmother's house was Lincoln or LI-8 (548)
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:28 am
Horrible to recall this...but we used to have this guy come down our street in the summertime and fog our property for mosquitos. It was DDT...omg, and we would play in the "clouds". Yikes.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:31 am
OG, I'll bet your "record player" played as many 45's as LP's (or 33's as we called them). How many 45's did you wreck trying to get the metal adapter put into the center so it would fit on the spindle? Oh, and I loved to run my finger or thumb across the needle. You could "play" your fingerprints, ha ha ha Here's one style of adapter: 
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:39 am
Loved my...

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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:41 am
Loved my klackers! I had purple ones. Of course, then they were deemed unsafe for kids. I still have my 45s and I have my mom's 45s and 78s. I have nothing to play them on but I have them. My grandparents had one of the old crank phones on their wall for as long as I could remember. It didn't work but we used to pretend that we were asking someone to connect us.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:44 am
Klackers were great...when they were made of actual marbles, huh? They made the best noise ever! Too bad some kid got marble in his eye or something and they changed them to crummy plastic. Never the same after that...and THEN they had the audacity to put stiff plastic "strings" on them! Might as well just stop manufacturing them, what good are they? Oh, and Mamie, we used to go to the dump, too. I can't believe my parents would let us rummage through the junk there! We would usually find boxes of comic books without their covers. The newsstand had to throw away ones they didn't sell...we were good rubbish rummagers!!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:46 am
We came home with an old chemistry set once. Boy was my mom steamed! LOL (I just sounded so Cleaverish then!) Now the bike to have was a stingray with a banana seat. I remember the Christmas morning that my brother Will and I got up to find them assembled in our living room. I had a purple one and he had a gold one. We would put old cards in the spokes and happily cruise down the street.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:47 am
I believe the telephone in my mother's house was put in somewhere in the 1940's. My grandmother was a nurse and had to have one available for work. It was the only phone around the neighborhood for such a long time. When it was initally installed, her phone number was just 1484. I am full of useless trivia. 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:53 am
omg, YES, playing cards in the spokes! What a great sound! My neighbor friend had a Varoom motor on her bike. I hated her for a while... Here is a commercial for that lousy Varoom motor http://www.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=569&format=tv&theme=guide BUT!!! See the second commercial that immediately comes after the Varoom...for the Electro Shot Shooting Gallery? Well, I had one (and my neighbor didn't nyah nyah)
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:56 am
A "rich" neighbor kid had the Schwinn Orange Crate. I wanted that bike sooooooo bad! Not just because it was a stingray, but because it had a stick shift for the shift, instead of some lame handlebar shifter. I never had an "english" bike until I was an adult.

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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:57 am
Well, I think I'm done with my travels back in time for one day. Come up with some more fun things from your past and keep it going!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:59 am
We didn't have any brakes on the handlebars or shifters. You had to make the pedals go backwards to stop or use your feet.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 12:09 pm
I remember milk deliveries to the door. The milk had a paper pull tab top. There was a big glob of cream floating on top of the milk. The butter came in a squeeze pack. There was a yellow center and you had to squeeze the pack to make it all turn yellow.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 12:20 pm
Yes, we had our milk box on the porch (gray metal) and we would get it in quart bottles. We would beg and beg my mother for chocolate milk. Didn't happen very often! I don't know why I remember this, but I do remember it costing 26 cents a quart. What year that was, I don't know, but I definitely remember the amount. No recollection here of butter like that Dogdoc, but I've heard of it
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 3:13 pm
LOL, I have a pair of klackers just like those up thread! A friend of mine went to Mexico 5-6 years ago and she brought me them. She knows me well, lol, I actually played with them for a while before I hit myself (they are hard!) Now they sit on a shelf.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 3:20 pm
Huk, I am loving this thread and all the fun posts!! Seems you grew up in my family (or vice versa). Will be by in a few days (if I get a day off!) with some posts to share. 
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 3:31 pm
I'm having fun reading this thread, too 
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 3:41 pm
LOL - I convinced my Dad to buy me Klackers, I'm sure against his better judgement. I think I came close to driving the poor guy insane, clacking with them. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 3:48 pm
Our next door neighbor made all the klackers that we all had. I was quite the champion at them.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:01 pm
I was such a tomboy (o.k., so I still sorta am) Back in the day...we played with guns that looked like guns, and put (heaven forbid) CAPS in them! I really only remember having rolls of caps, like the ones at the bottom of this picture, but this isn't the brand. One day I'll remember them. The box was red, white, and blue though!
Even cooler, was to unroll the caps, and hit them with a sharp stone. We'd have all these little white marks on our fingers (uh, nowadays they would call these burns!), especially if we ran a stone down them to make a whole string of gunshot noises! Or once in a while, sneak the hammer outside and hit a whole roll at once! Our ears would ring forever! These caps came out some time later. I found them to be a pain in the butt to have to stick them to the gun one at a time! Then you had to peel the old ones off as they built up

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 4:10 pm
Remember the princess phones?? My Dad worked for the phone company so I got a pink one as soon as they came out. I loved that phone!
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