September 15, 201511 yr Still is for me, don't have a credit card. :thumb: I need to shake your hand!!
September 15, 201511 yr 8-Track tapes and how they'd break or get all tangled up in the player, and sometimes you could get lucky and successfully tape them back together to get them to play again. When Pong was a big deal and a major TV video game break though. Previous to cable TV there was a service called "On Tv" that also had a premium naughty pay to view option, but if you didn't have it you could still hear all the naughtiness while watching it through the squiggles, and had to be quick changing the channel if your parents came in the room because there was no mistaking why you'd be watching squiggles. When you'd load a stack of your favorite 45's on your record player and one by one they'd drop down automatically for uninterrupted listening pleasure. When you'd excitingly review out loud to your friends who you got in your new pack of baseball cards while chopping on a thin pink square stick of stale nasty tasting hard powdery bubble gum while drooling and wiping your mouth with the back of your hand because naming your players took precedent over getting the wad of gum to properly congeal in your mouth, and if you bought more than one pack you'd still continue to load your mouth with more gum where the players you were naming came out of your mouth in an even more garbled sloppy mess of unintelligible sounding names. Remember that? When the baseball cap that you wore all summer long stunk to high heavens from you having sweated in it everyday, all day, day after day 'til there was a nasty yellow ring on the inside rim of the hat. Dems some good old days B-Ball!
September 15, 201511 yr I remember when I would ride my bike down to the Tressler-Comet "service station" to watch the mechanics work on cars. Then go over to the Coke machine, stick my dime in and pull out an ice cold small Coke. We had to drink it right there because we had to put the empty in the rack next to the pop machine. DAMN, I wish I could do that again. Renting a bike at Devou Park and riding around. Going to Prisoner's Lake to fish, then getting an ice ball at the shelter house after we went through all our worms, crickets and minnows.
September 15, 201511 yr Remember when Kim Davis was all sassy and turned all the boys' heads in town?
September 15, 201511 yr Remember when Kim Davis was all sassy and turned all the boys' heads in town? [ATTACH=CONFIG]52341[/ATTACH] There you go again! :lol2:
September 15, 201511 yr I can't tell you the last time I've watched kids play wiffle ball. We used to wear out wiffle balls. When they broke youd tape them up and REALLY get some long home runs. Like someone mentioned, my backyard also had the basepaths and pitcher's mound worn out. Parents didn't care. We were OUT of the house. When we got bored with that we'd break out the gloves and rubber baseball and play pickle. Sidenote: My wife is from Pittsburgh. She tried to tell me the game is called "rundown." Married her anyway. I grew up there too , and she's correct.
September 15, 201511 yr WOW! My sister and I used to do that. We would get up as early as 5am and watch cartoons all morning. I usually had to get up really early to catch two of my favorites, "POPEYE" and "CASPER the FRIENDLY GHOST." Rocky and Bullwinkle; Mr. Peabody and Sherman Droopy Underdog Dudley do Right Road Runner and the Washington Generals of cartoondom - Wile E. Coyote Johnny Quest Tom and Jerry Gigantor A little newer - Dangermouse Hey Arnold Beavis and Butthead Ren and Stimpy Doug Rocko's Modern Life Real Monsters
September 15, 201511 yr When the whole family would sit out in the yard on nice summer evenings bonding and looking up at the stars, or playing the game Riddly Diddly, or singing songs while trying not to engage ourselves in too much of an involved way with the regular neighborhood alcoholics walking back and forth to the corner liquor store for another pint of whiskey, or some of the neighborhood mothers chasing their barefooted children up and down the hard sidewalks with belts and threats of a good whoopin', or the excitement that would cease the peace and quiet when cops showed up to break up drunken fights down the street, and my parents would eventually give the order that it was time to go back in the house. We must have been neighbors. I do miss the good ole days!
September 15, 201511 yr Remember when Kim Davis was all sassy and turned all the boys' heads in town? [ATTACH=CONFIG]52341[/ATTACH] :lol::lol::lol:
September 15, 201511 yr Rocky and Bullwinkle; Mr. Peabody and Sherman Droopy Underdog Dudley do Right Road Runner and the Washington Generals of cartoondom - Wile E. Coyote Johnny Quest Tom and Jerry Gigantor A little newer - Dangermouse Hey Arnold Beavis and Butthead Ren and Stimpy Doug Rocko's Modern Life Real Monsters Curious as to your thoughts on the seminal '90s cartoon on USA Network called "Duckman."
September 15, 201511 yr I remember paying 200 bucks for our first VCR. I remember the first VCR I bought was an RCA. It was made of metal, huge and heavy.
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