Little Black Fly from Ontario. Awesome Canadian Folk song. Saw it on PBS when I was a kid.
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Fullerton, CA
Saturday morning tv was the stuff of legend. From the seventies right on through the 80s.
So much gold in those Saturday mornings. From Scooby doo to wrestling to peewee Herman. As a 17year old we would follow up Saturday morning with a creature feature. This was the late 80s now. VHS heaven.
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Was this from the movie Hackers? It's been years since I've seen it, but god was it influential on me!
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Few items from today's auction. Never was good at yo yos
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So, it's so weird, but yoyos never died, they just went underground (kinda like the pinball community), and youtube kinda revolutionized it, as you could now upload and learn other people's tricks. In a lot of ways, new yoyos are very different than those old ones, but still a heck of a lot of fun. Those old ones are still a massive collector's item, though).
I may have been obsessed with them for a while. This was a wall I had in my old place (maybe represents a tenth of the ones I actually own...)
qFE1GBu (resized).jpgQuoted from thekiyote:Was this from the movie Hackers?
Yes it was!
Quoted from Azmodeus:Also as a side note, I feel Scooby doo original is a dream theme for me done properly.
Yeah, but that wasn't the music, or sound, used in the first few broadcasts:
All the earliest episodes later had the song added on later.
One show I always looked forward to in the mid 1970's (well, the first two seasons that is):
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Okay, the effects were cheap, the costumes and many of the sets were kind of cheesy, But even now if you go back and watch this show, you'll find it was pretty well written.
Quoted from pinwiztom:I doubt anyone would have dared to bring and play Frank Zappa's Dinah Mo Humm!
...and of course brown shoes don't make it. Like if you get it.
When we were a bit older, my buddy and I would go out on Sunday mornings to the pet store to get feeder fish for his aquarium.
We'd get baked on the way there, then go to Chuck E Cheese next door and play some video games then order a pitcher of beer and a pizza and watch the animatronic show.
V46OLML34RGJDMYYIYJH2WUGDM (resized).jpgQuoted from girloveswaffles:Okay, the effects were cheap, the costumes and many of the sets were kind of cheesy,
But only the richest had a large screen TV. For us mere mortals peering at a 24" or 32" screen, the cheapness of the effects would be hard to see.
Quoted from cottonm4:But only the richest had a large screen TV.
I was friends for a short time with one of the rich kids in the next neighborhood over, they were the only ones I knew of that had this "monster".
We had a 19" Zenith.
FIXRiZzP9QxaUnrGFsjH8rRJJfK3YImxYTQxIHhNTXc (resized).jpgQuoted from zombywoof:We didn't even have color TV until 1979 when Dad bought a 19" Zenith.
Since we are talking TVs, the newsies kept talking about the new high res TV that were going to be coming to market. I was like "What for ?. I don't need to be able to see the zit on some actor's nose. And then I got a high res Viseo from Walmart. When it crapped out, I bought a 65" 4K LG TV from a real TV store.
And then I had a chance to see a TV from around 10 years ago at Goodwill. And I found myself wondering how I even managed to watch that thing. I like seeing the zits on the actors' noses. 
Quoted from Atari_Daze:I was friends for a short time with one of the rich kids in the next neighborhood over, they were the only ones I knew of that had this "monster".
Too funny. We did have two t.v.s growing up but the "big tv" I think was 27". The basement "kids" tv was 19" and we broke the channel knob arguing over which of the 13 stations were we going to watch. From then on out, it was vice grips for turning stations
tv (resized).jpgQuoted from ReadyPO:The basement "kids" tv was 19" and we broke the channel knob arguing over which of the 13 stations were we going to watch. From then on out, it was vice grips for turning stations
LMAO !
Kitchener, ON
Quoted from ReadyPO:Too funny. We did have two t.v.s growing up but the "big tv" I think was 27". The basement "kids" tv was 19" and we broke the channel knob arguing over which of the 13 stations were we going to watch. From then on out, it was vice grips for turning stations
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Our 2nd tv was black and white when I was real young, and we were lucky to get 6 channels off of the antenna if the rotor was turned the right way. Ours had lines marking the best spot for each station.
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One of my favourite memories was Dec ‘87. I got Legend of Zelda for the NES, for my birthday, and a 19 inch colour tv for Christmas, so we didn’t have to use the big tv in the living room to play games.
Quoted from Luckydogg420:Our 2nd tv was black and white when I was real young, and we were lucky to get 6 channels off of the antenna if the rotor was turned the right way. Ours had lines marking the best spot for each station.
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One of my favourite memories was Dec ‘87. I got Legend of Zelda for the NES, for my birthday, and a 19 inch colour tv for Christmas, so we didn’t have to use the big tv in the living room to play games.
My grandparents lived on the farm with well water, party line telephones, and one of these antenna rotators. On Saturday night, gramps would turn that rotator dial to the southeast for Saturday Night wrestling in St. Joseph Missouri. And then on Monday, he turned the dial to the north for wrestling in Omaha Nebraska. And the rotator would make these click click click sounds as it headed for the new setting.
That was in the 60s. To this day, I have never seen another rotator. Until the pic of yours.
Did your rotator make clicking sounds?
Quoted from thekiyote:So, it's so weird, but yoyos never died, they just went underground (kinda like the pinball community), and youtube kinda revolutionized it, as you could now upload and learn other people's tricks. In a lot of ways, new yoyos are very different than those old ones, but still a heck of a lot of fun. Those old ones are still a massive collector's item, though).
I may have been obsessed with them for a while. This was a wall I had in my old place (maybe represents a tenth of the ones I actually own...)[quoted image]
Coca colas sold for $30 cdn and the Mickey mouse lot sold for $10.
44327534_1m.jpg44372257_1m.jpgQuoted from dirkdiggler:I loved collecting concert and gig posters. Lost my collection in a flood 20 years ago. Here's a couple at a local collectors auction next week. Check out the opening act for Zappa.
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I was in a pawn shop yesterday and saw this concert poster. Hendrix is the opener.
And this concert and poster are the real deal.
Quoted from cottonm4:I was in a pawn shop yesterday.
Does that pawn shop sell any individual chess pieces?
Since I brought The Monkees up, I did not know Michael Nesmith died a couple of months ago. I knew Peter Tork died but not Nesmith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nesmith
Anyway, history lesson: Nesmith died a rich bastard because of White Out/Liquid Paper.
https://theweek.com/music/1008001/5-heady-facts-about-late-monkees-singer-songwriter-michael-nesmith
1. Nesmith's mom invented whiteout.
Nesmith was raised in Dallas by his mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented the first correction fluid in 1956 while working as a typist. She turned her whiteout, Liquid Paper, into an office staple, selling the company to Gillette in 1979 for $47.5 million plus royalties. When Graham died in 1980, Nesmith inherited an estimated $50 million.
( Me: She concocted the white out at the kitchen table. It is considered the last of the great kitchen inventions. )
Quoted from pinzrfun:then go to Chuck E Cheese next door and play some video games then order a pitcher of beer and a pizza and watch the animatronic show.
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You're in luck (if you have the space and money) - you can purchase your own slightly used chuck e cheese animatronic show - haha
Quoted from littlecammi:Does that pawn shop sell any individual chess pieces?
At closing time, the knights come alive.
Quoted from ReadyPO:Too funny. We did have two t.v.s growing up but the "big tv" I think was 27". The basement "kids" tv was 19" and we broke the channel knob arguing over which of the 13 stations were we going to watch. From then on out, it was vice grips for turning stations
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Current picture. Working 12" B&W in the spare bedroom. Nothing but class, baby!
20220303_201635 (resized).jpgQuoted from ClarkGriswold:You're in luck (if you have the space and money) - you can purchase your own slightly used chuck e cheese animatronic show - haha
www.craigslist.org link
We have a sometime Pinsider, that Bought a whole setup like this and restored it!
My wife's First boyfriend went on to Design some of the Original Chuck E Puppets in '78...He later did the Small Aliens, on MIB.
His Prototype Moon, Hangs in our House.
20220303_202203 (resized).jpgpasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from cottonm4:My grandparents lived on the farm with well water, part line telephones, and one of these antenna rotators. On Saturday night, gramps would turn that rotator dial to the southeast for Saturday Night wrestling in St. Joseph Missouri. And then on Monday, he turned the dial to the north for wrestling in Omaha Nebraska. And the rotator would make these click click click sounds as it headed for the new setting.
That was in the 60s. To this day, I have never seen another rotator. Until the pic of yours.
Did your rotator make clicking sounds?
Yeah. I don’t remember if it was a click or a grind, but i clearly remember it making noise as you waited for it to turn. We also had well water a party phone line (one ring was for us, two short rings was for them) with the next farm up the road and free tv over the air. I only watched cable tv on rare occasions when we went to a friends place in the city. We used a rotor and antenna until the late 90’s or early 2000’s, then we had a mini dish with 100 channels or more.
Quoted from cottonm4:Since we are talking TVs, the newsies kept talking about the new high res TV that were going to be coming to market. I was like "What for ?. I don't need to be able to see the zit on some actor's nose. And then I got a high res Viseo from Walmart. When it crapped out, I bought a 65" 4K LG TV from a real TV store.
And then I had a chance to see a TV from around 10 years ago at Goodwill. And I found myself wondering how I even managed to watch that thing. I like seeing the zits on the actors' noses.
I just got a "new" T.V from a Good Will store in Downey CA. a few weeks back. It was a new old stock model (XBR-55X810c) still in the box unit 4K with 4HDMI inputs and it still has Component and composite video inputs as well. It fit my needs better than most newer sets. Out the door price: $499 ... no sales tax!
A friend loaned me a 4K HDR Blu Ray player to try on it. It's amazing how much detail there is (there's even a notable difference in cable and over the air viewing).
I think back to my first HDTV from 2008 (a Samsung) and wonder how I managed to watch that!
Quoted from cottonm4:Since I brought The Monkees up, I did not know Michael Nesmith died a couple of months ago. I knew Peter Tork died but not Nesmith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nesmith
Anyway, history lesson: Nesmith died a rich bastard because of White Out/Liquid Paper.
https://theweek.com/music/1008001/5-heady-facts-about-late-monkees-singer-songwriter-michael-nesmith
1. Nesmith's mom invented whiteout.
Nesmith was raised in Dallas by his mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented the first correction fluid in 1956 while working as a typist. She turned her whiteout, Liquid Paper, into an office staple, selling the company to Gillette in 1979 for $47.5 million plus royalties. When Graham died in 1980, Nesmith inherited an estimated $50 million.
( Me: She concocted the white out at the kitchen table. It is considered the last of the great kitchen inventions. )
https://moviecultists.com/when-was-whiteout-invented
Mike Nesmith won a Grammy for 1981 for a comedy album. It was a video album:
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Quoted from zr11990:I met my wife at a Monkeys concert at Astroworld. I’m still buthurt that they tore it down.
The Monkeys tore down Astroworld...Wow
Nooooo, I met my wife at a Monkeys concert at Astroworld so the park meant a lot to us. We took our kids there for years and years and about 10-15 years later the park closed and they tore it down. Why, because whomever owned the property the park was on thought they could get tons of money for it. It is still a vacant lot and Houston still has no amusement park.
Does that clear things up for you? 
Quoted from bob_e:The Monkeys tore down Astroworld...Wow
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Where it all started
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Wait! Is tat a "Heavy Sixer" 2600?
Edit: Oops, on closer inspection it's not. but at least it's a model with all six switches on the front.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Another poster up for sale today.
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Reserved seats: $5.00.
And then Ticketmaster got into the game
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Wait! Is tat a "Heavy Sixer" 2600?Edit: Oops, on closer inspection it's not. but at least it's a model with all six switches on the front.
Christmas 82. Still haven't found the box shot. Think it had frogger on it.
Christmas 84 we got a C64. My dad had a associate in the States and when he travel on business the guy would burn floppy disc's full of games. We had every Atari, Coleco, Intelivision, arcade game released.
20220305_140644.jpg20220305_140707.jpgFavorite childhood toy: a stick and some gravel. How far can you hit it? Batting rocks with sticks never got old. Low overhead and maintenance on that game unless you were stupid enough to do it anywhere near something you could damage.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:5th Bday. I loved Pitfall. One of the first games you could scroll left or right.
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D52423BE-BC41-473D-A402-22F35AB577CC (resized).jpegQuoted from cottonm4:I was in a pawn shop yesterday and saw this concert poster. Hendrix is the opener.
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And this concert and poster are the real deal.
https://rockandrollroadmap.com/places/where-they-played/other-rock-music-venues/jacksonville-coliseum/
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Lol! My wife's Dad took her and some of her friends to that concert in Charlotte. She said he lasted about one song before he went out into the concourse to have a smoke and talk to the security guy. She didn't see him again until it was over. Interestingly, she said the Monkees was worse with all the girls screaming non-stop.
I've always told her if people start talking about what concerts they've been to, she should say Hendricks no need to mention the Monkees.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:5th Bday. I loved Pitfall. One of the first games you could scroll left or right.
Back in the early '90s, I worked with David Crane, who was the creator of Pitfall. He'd be happy to know that you still remember it fondly.
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