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The "I'm so old" thread game

And some of us are Still hiding from Columbia House ...
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We got an HDMI adapter for the VHS player and it works; a great turntable that plays 331/3s, 45s and 78s; a CD/DVD/Blu-ray player and it's all hooked up. I don't have enough cassettes or 8mm film to worry about it. I had found a couple of OLD 8mm reels from a handheld camera I had early in my Navy days and had them professionally converted to digital.
 
Let me see, I feel old since we have an eight track / vyinl album player tower, I remember putting on "Disco duck" As well as a lot of Mickey Mouse Eight track album, like most of the time, first taste of Little Richard, and Sammy Davis Jr.
 
I'm so old that one Christmas I received a reel to reel recorder. The reels had to be around three inches in diameter and the tape around a half inch wide. It was quite the treasured possession for quite some time. Radio sounded absolutely terrible in play back and was only mono... but so was AM radio. :)
I also had a B&W camera called the swinger that developed it's own pictures. I still have a few pictures of friends and girlfriends from my middle school years that it captured.
 
olbriar said:
I'm so old that one Christmas I received a reel to reel recorder. The reels had to be around three inches in diameter and the tape around a half inch. It was quite the treasured possession for quite some time. Radio sounded absolutely terrible in play back and was only mono... but so was AM radio. :)
I also had a B&W camera called the swinger that developed it's own pictures. I still have a few pictures of friends and girlfriends from my middle school years that it captured.
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I remember having those too.
 
Jacks, marbles, jump ropes, and tops were THE toys for girls and boys when I was a kid. We had to improvise to go beyond the norm. We had a 55 gallon drum that was sealed on both ends that we would walk around the yard or try to knock/walk each other off of. We also had an inflated tractor tube that was our trampoline. A favorite of the boys was a pair of boxing gloves. I'm talking a left glove and a right glove. We'd square off, each with a glove, and when a kid got knocked down, we would trade gloves and fight again.
 
Becoming an adult in the 1980s meant being a little child in the mid-1960s, when women were obsessed with trying to hit the "perfect" measurement: 36-24-36. They would get together for "lunch" at Woolworth's and lunch would be a lettuce leaf with a slice of pineapple on it; a scoop of cottage cheese on that, with a cherry on top; and two slices of Melba toast. That was it... and either a Tab or Fresca to drink.
 
The_Chief said:
Becoming an adult in the 1980s meant being a little child in the mid-1960s, when women were obsessed with trying to hit the "perfect" measurement: 36-24-36. They would get together for "lunch" at Woolworth's and lunch would be a lettuce leaf with a slice of pineapple on it; a scoop of cottage cheese on that, with a cherry on top; and two slices of Melba toast. That was it... and either a Tab or Fresca to drink.
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yeah my grandma had those in the cottage, her name was Melba hahhaa.
 
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