Random junk you come across that makes you feel old.

[Great-Kazoo]

Do you have a picture of yourself riding your dinosaur, Kazoo?

Silly Ray. of course i do.



Here's one of the grand-kids. Terrorizing each other, as usual

[ray1970]

F**k me. Should have known you did. That'll teach me to be a smart ass.

[Dlesh123]

SH8-0842 (my late grandparents) ph # back east. In Brooklyn you had a Terrace or Shore Road prefix.

Sounds pretty neat for the time.

You had to click the receiver 2-3x to let who ever was on the line you needed it.

To call someone on the "other" side of the line. 6 and 6, we dialed the number, hung up while it ran on the other side and then guessed if they answered and clicked back on. We sometimes had to be a little more direct: " you have been on the phone long enough, get off so I can make a call". Usually worked.



The drug store was also the place one went to test the tv & radio tubes if one stopped working.

For us that came a little later, the new age of self service, still did not know what self serve gasoline pumps were though.

[USMC88-93]

So you must remember Marvin Zindler. "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!"

(sorry, for those of you who didn't watch Houston TV in the '70's, that won't mean much)

Dude was still doing it well into the mid 2000's Crazy suit and sunglasses and all.

[Fentonite]

Dude was still doing it well into the mid 2000's Crazy suit and sunglasses and all.

I had no idea he lasted that long. Heck, I can't understand how he lasted through the '70's! He must've just been kinda a joke and kept around as a gimmick. Oh well, he entertained me as as tyke.

[Aloha_Shooter]

When my dad was overseas, I think we only had the 1 channel. When he PCSed to DC, we got 5: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Channel 26 (had Ultraman, Johnny Socco and his Robot, a bunch of cartoons I've never seen anywhere else, and some goof ball who dressed up in silver and used the Vulcan sign all the time). When we moved back to Hawaii, we still had 5, replacing Channel 26 with the Japanese language KIKU channel 13.

[ray1970]

Well, I remember when I was going into the fifth grade and they decided to desegregate the schools. We went and drew a ping pong ball and that determined what school you would go to.

I ended up at one school, the neighbor beside me at a different school, and my cousin in the house beside him was at the third school. The three of us would stand out in front of my house waiting for the bus. The first bus would come and my cousin would get on. Another bus would arrive and pick up the neighbor. Then my bus would show up.

[Bailey Guns]

So you must remember Marvin Zindler. "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!"

Oh, yeah. I almost mentioned him when I posted. But I figured no one would remember the guy!

[Gman]

Amazing how many of us did time in the Houston area. It may explain how we ended up here in CO with its low humidity.

I remember testing and buying tubes for the TV with my dad.

What makes me feel old these days is waking up in the morning and having to put my feet on the floor. That, and the sound of snapping twigs as I make my way to the bathroom.

[Ah Pook]

You were in school in the middle of July?

Went back and did the math. It must have been the Apollo 14.

Must be one of those getting old things.