(Topic ID: 157159)
Wichita, KS
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Quoted from Mr68:Sneaky Mooch. I love it.
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Truly, a bunch of old farts hang around here.
Quoted from mooch:They had the right idea in that scene, but not enough paper. My school had about 1500 kids dumping out so much stuff that you couldn’t see the floor.
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Even outside the school, paper was everywhere. It got so bad my school warned kids that if they found a paper with your name on it there was going to be serious trouble. Made little difference lol. My kids don't seem to have anything like that. Probably because the last day of school varies depending on what finals you take.
Quoted from mooch:They had the right idea in that scene, but not enough paper. My school had about 1500 kids dumping out so much stuff that you couldn’t see the floor.
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The scene that seemed to capture really capture some high school magic for me was this from Donny darko.
This is cool.
http://microforever.net/microheritage.htm
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Oh the Roadtrips in the 60s and 70s from NY to Florida...up and down 95.
This kept the 4 boys fighting in a 69 Cutlass Wagon, from fighting:
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They still have plenty of South of the Border signs leading up to South Carolina. My wife and I drove to Florida twice during the pandemic last year. I noticed the place looked pretty dead when we drove by.
I always wondered how that place makes it financially with so much property and facilities. It never looked very special and I am pretty sure we always just drove by without stopping when I was a kid when we were doing a family road trip vacation to Myrtle Beach or Florida.
Quoted from cottonm4:I think KISS out Beatle-ed The Beatles when it came to marketing theirselves.
Well there are 2 KISS pins, and only one Beatles, so I’d say yes.
Quoted from DCFAN:They still have plenty of South of the Border signs leading up to South Carolina. My wife and I drove to Florida twice during the pandemic last year. I noticed the place looked pretty dead when we drove by.
I always wondered how that place makes it financially with so much property and facilities. It never looked very special and I am pretty sure we always just drove by without stopping when I was a kid when we were doing a family road trip vacation to Myrtle Beach or Florida.
Not much going on off the highway in the 60s, and nothing in the car, except fighting with my brothers. The signs served a distraction, but I was itching for fireworks as a 9 year old.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Not much going on off the highway in the 60s, and nothing in the car, except fighting with my brothers. The signs served a distraction, but I was itching for fireworks as a 9 year old.
Yeah, the fireworks were always something my brother and I saved money for in the years we were going to Myrtle Beach for summer vacation.
I also agree the signs were a good distraction as kids for about 100 miles of otherwise boredom of I95.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Not much going on off the highway in the 60s, and nothing in the car, except fighting with my brothers. The signs served a distraction, but I was itching for fireworks as a 9 year old.
Most of my family trips involved driving north from Chicago to somewhere up in Wisconsin. There were countless highway signs for cheese shops. I could usually persuade my Dad to stop at one of these two favorite spots.
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Mars cheese castle is still always a place to hit when crossing the border. Also brat stop.
78DFFBEF-BA23-41C6-A86B-A6697FB376F7 (resized).jpegI have a very early memory, I must have been like two, because it was soon after my parents bought their house on Lake Winnebago, and they were having a housewarming party. One guest arrived ready and raring to go swimming, and before anyone could warn him, he ran out on the dock and dove head first into water only about two feet deep!
Well, that broke his neck and a bunch of his teeth, and little me got to see him carried past on a stretcher with blood pouring out of his mouth, which is the part I remember very clearly. I was so little that I didn't realize the gravity of the situation and was not even upset by it!
The good news is the guy made a full recovery, I was told whenever I brought it up later. I hope they weren’t just protecting me from a sad truth, but it's too late to ask them now.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:I recall having one of these but not knowing wtf to do with it.
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You could put someone's eye out with that thing.
Almere
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Québec, QC
Quoted from JayDee:Mars cheese castle is still always a place to hit when crossing the border. Also brat stop.
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Bought our Cyclone right out of the Brat Stop ages ago for $550. Thanks Fox Vending. They had it packed up and ready to load in the parking lot, I had been wondering how I was going to get it off the mezzanine.
Quoted from PhilGreg:You guys would like this book. The "we imagined"/"they sent" part is pretty amusing since most of the advertisements were very misleading.
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I always wondered how those Xray glasses worked. At least with the Ovaltine Decoder ring you got to play along for a couple of weeks before you knew had been hosed. With these Xray glasses, you know you got hosed as soon as you opened the box.
I never bought any of this crap. I bought the Charles Atlas package so I could keep the bullies from kicking sand in my face. I think Mr. Atlas was the teacher for the outfits selling the "how to make millions in real estate".
At least the real estate stuff came in a 3-ring binder. My C. Atlas package was a brown manilla envelope with a stack of printed loose sheets of paper 3/4" thick loaded up with all sorts of instructions for isometric exercise. I had already been doing isometric exercises in gym class. I spent 5 minutes reading that junk and sent it to the round file.
Quoted from cottonm4:I always wondered how those Xray glasses worked. At least with the Ovaltine Decoder ring you got to play along for a couple of weeks before you knew had been hosed. With these Xray glasses, you know you got hosed as soon as you opened the box.
I never bought any of this crap. I bought the Charles Atlas package so I could keep the bullies from kicking sand in my face. I think Mr. Atlas was the teacher for the outfits selling the "how to make millions in real estate".
At least the real estate stuff came in a 3-ring binder. My C. Atlas package was a brown manilla envelope with a stack of printed loose sheets of paper 3/4" thick loaded up with all sorts of instructions for isometric exercise. I had already been doing isometric exercises in gym class. I spent 5 minutes reading that junk and sent it to the round file.
Here are the respective reviews for those in the book.
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I remember that my friend's sister bought some of those Sea Monkeys. Yeah, she put them in some sort of vessel that held water. I think there was some sort of life there, but the new wore off of that chandelier real fast.
Quoted from cottonm4:I remember that my friend's sister bought some of those Sea Monkeys. Yeah, she put them in some sort of vessel that held water. I think there was some sort of life there, but the new wore off of that chandelier real fast.
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Sunshine
In a fit of nostalgia, I bought some Nestle’s Quik today- now called Nesquik. I just had some mixed in a cold glass of milk and it was as good as ever! My fave flavor was always strawberry. Nowadays, it comes with an easy-off plastic lid. In the 60s, I had to pry the tin lid off a can of Quik like I was opening a can of varnish.
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Oh, I loved that Strawberry Quik. I was like 5 or 6 years old in the late 50s when that stuff hit the market.
Quoted from swampfire:Well there are 2 KISS pins, and only one Beatles, so I’d say yes.
Unless you count The Bootles/Beat Time
RM
Quoted from RussMyers:Unless you count The Bootles/Beat Time
RM
Ok, then Kiss ups the ante with a KISS Kasket. To get people to pay extra to get buried in this coffin is master marketing.
https://www.famefocus.com/celebrity/10-unusual-products-endorsed-by-big-name-celebs/2/
As a young kid in the mall in the early 80’s, this was the biggest disappointment. Begged my parents forever to give me a dime or quarter so I could make the call. Don’t remember what it said but it sucked. I guess kids these days will never see something like this now.
pasted_image (resized).jpegpasted_image.jpegQuoted from cottonm4:Ok, then Kiss ups the ante with a KISS Kasket. To get people to pay extra to get buried in this coffin is master marketing.
https://www.famefocus.com/celebrity/10-unusual-products-endorsed-by-big-name-celebs/2/
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Holy crap is that ever ballsy. Wow. LOL
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