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Man! I haven't seen a TRS-80 in years (excluding the Model 100 portable I have).
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Quoted from dontfeed:Z-Brick and wood paneling everywhere.
Uh! Z-Brick! I have a wall in both my living room and kitchen with that shit! Worst part is, if you try to remove it, it takes part of the wall board with it!
I had to fight with it just to remove a small section to put a T.V. wall mount up.
Quoted from o-din:My den still has the original ash wood paneling from 1959 and it adds a warm glow to the room so I'm not ever taking it out. Won't be buying any deep shag carpeting any time soon though. Or any carpet for that matter.
I can see a kitchen remodel in the future sometime as termites have gotten the better of the cabinets around the sink. Avocado green is still a great option
There's nothing more fun than finding out the different color your rooms (or even exterior) of your has had been painted.
I stripped a former Ironing board cabinet door in my kitchen a few years back. At one time my kitchen was also avocado green. before that pink 
and what I like to call "Cal-trans Orange" prior to that.
Quoted from Ericpinballfan:Ummm, none of us are spring chickens.
Isn't pinball for the over 50 crowd?
"Ouch!" ... and yes.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:LATE 70s, but still the 70s.
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Remember back in the '70s when toys were a lot more dangerous?
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Quoted from o-din:Sure. A lot more toxic too.[quoted image]
Shapes and colors.gifQuoted from MrBally:Since they were recalled, I wonder how much you could get for a set of those?
Hard to say. I've heard it's illegal to sell them even on line. But someone allegedly found a work around: (it's at the very end)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-darts-sales-ban/
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Hard to say. I've heard it's illegal to sell them even on line. But someone allegedly found a work around: (it's at the very end)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-darts-sales-ban/
BTW, if you look close at the picture, you'll see that this one on display does not have the metal rod in it. It's just the plastic fins.IMG_0524.jpgIMG_0524A.jpg
... now lets see who knows where this is (or maybe was now).
Holy S**t! just for laughs I looked on eBay and:
ebay.com link: Vintage Eagle Lawn Darts Game FULL GAME 4 darts 2 rings original box
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Quoted from o-din:Nothing screams 1970s arcade like this little beauty that is at the local auction house.[quoted image]
Captains Auctions?
Quoted from o-din:Yep!
Of all those Stunt Cycles they made, and it has to be 1000s of them as they were everywhere, this is only the second one I've seen at the Captain's.
For those not familiar with that game, it sucked down quarters as fast as any pinball machine in it's day. I know it took a lot of mine.
But there's nothing like these. One of the first coin op video games:
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Nuttings Computer Space. Predates Pong by nearly a year. Molded fiberglass cabinet, vacuum tube television for a display (modified) and a gas can for a coin box (also modified).
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... wait a minute ... That's in Banning!
Quoted from o-din:I'm guessing you never saw Wizards.
Warning: Major spoiler here if you haven't seen the movie ...
The pivotal scene of the movie.
Quoted from zombywoof:Yeah, nothing says the 70s like Ralph Bakshi. Fritz the Cat, Wizards, The Lord of the Rings. Good stuff!
Don't forget Heavy Traffic (with lots of Pinball in it).
Quoted from RWH:1970 calling O-din, pick up![quoted image]
1973 is asking if O-Din ever listened to music on one of these:
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I just found this in a thrift store today for $0.95 . It seems like it might be a "Tandy" thing to have.
Quoted from o-din:No but I had one of these.
KEZY and KKDJ 102.7 FM baby! Oh and Vin Scully announcing Dodger games.[quoted image]
But did you listen to KLOS or KMET (The Mighty Met!) or even the early days of KROQ?
Quoted from cottonm4:Tape recorders bring good money today. If it works you should do some research. Tandy is not the same as Teac, but look around.
It's not working, but I already found a video on repairing it that has the same model with the same problem. Right now, I'm just cleaning it up. I removed some of the black tape off the front. The name and model are printed on the front (Realistic 999B).
I do however have a working AKAI GX4000 that I've had since 1978.
Quoted from o-din:80s you say? What have they done to my radio station!
Actually it was a one of a kind and made it to the early 90s, and put the biggest LA corporate rock station KMET out of business.[quoted image]
KMET went "Off the air" because FOX had to sell it when they purchased Metromedia. Then it became the "Wave" 
and I learned to REALLY hate Kenny G and that kind of music. It was nice for the few short years that The Sound (100.3 FM) was on the air and they had some of the old KMET personalities, but it's gone also.
Quoted from o-din:The other guy is Seymour.
It may have been local only but he hosted Fright Night and showed horror movies, and was one of the first around here to do so.
Way before Seymour on KABC:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1847484/
... and those who followed: https://terrordaves.com/2011/06/05/the-real-horror-hosts-of-southern-california/
Quoted from o-din:Yes, I wasn't alive but remember Vampira for some reason. Maybe they had model kits we could build or something like that.
Another was Saturday afternoon's Chiller.
Didn't really have a host as such, but always showed some green dude in a swamp putting his hand on his face and pushing himself into the water. Mid to late 60s on that one. Perhaps into the 70s.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/chiller-early-70s-los-angeles-t15986.html
Yup, I remember Chiller being on KTTV back in the early 70's.
Quoted from o-din:My buddy had the "Honey Bee" version of that.
The first of my many Toyotas was one of these. 1976 though and green in color. I bought from a a guy named Ivan Ho.
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My first car was a '76 Corolla DX Wagon. Built like a tank. Only got 23 mpg in the city, but 33 on the highway. Moved a few pins in it too.
Moved a Space Invaders pin in it. The only thing I had trouble moving in it was a Hyperball. (folded down it was a 1/2" to high).
Quoted from o-din:Your car had that wonderful 2TC hemi engine. My Corona was sporting a 20R. Hard to go wrong with either.
1588cc Baby! Yeah! 
Quoted from o-din:No, nothing at all whatsoever to do with the 70s, but for a spell during the 90s I was tooling around in one of these gems. Talk about good gas mileage.[quoted image]
Old School DatSun?
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1968 called. They'd like their Disneyland map back.
Quoted from o-din:Yep, you nailed it. It says copyright 1968 on it although I believe I acquired it in the early 70s.
My friend an I were looking at it and discussing how much better Disneyland was then. When I had that on my wall, we wondered how that space port and rocket ride would be and how the cars or trains would run through all those tracks coming out of the top of the building.
They kept selling that version of the map up until just after Bear Country opened (1972). For some reason, they didn't even update the Haunted mansion as being opened in 1969 until then.
Quoted from o-din:Yes, it is worth taking out of the box every twenty years. I also got a kick out of thumbing thru some of those old Mad books.
It's good to know Sergio Aragones is still around and doing comics. Here he is at San Diego Comic Con this past July:
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Quoted from o-din:He's about the only one left, right? I liked them all. Dave Berg drew some great characters that looked like people in real life and was hilarious.
For me though, Don Martin was the man![quoted image]
Most of the classic MAD Magazine artist and writers are gone now. 
But I was surprised to find that Mort Drucker is still around (For those of you who aren't familiar with him, he drew a lot of the movie and T.V. parodies in MAD, also many of the covers and he also worked at DC comics in the '60s)
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Quoted from zombywoof:I wish I still had my Megos. I had several of their Planet of the Apes action figures, and the whole Star Trek crew along with the Enterprise set.
If it weren't for Mego, we probably wouldn't have Robot Chicken!
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So who remembers this tune (except with the lyrics "Baseball , Hot Dogs, apple pies and Chevrolet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=TpEJJyayzx8&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=0sPODUBgXGI&feature=emb_title
Quoted from screaminr:That's a classic Aussie add , but after a quick Google search , we ripped it off you guys and it was also used in South Africa . https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/unaustralian-the-truth-behind-1970s-tv-ad-football-meat-pies-kangaroos-and-holden-cars/news-story/addcca872d166cf9d2c1b801d72735de
It's a classic U.S. ad that caught on World wide:
https://www.chevyhardcore.com/news/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet-worldwide-chevy-tunes/
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