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Quoted from mooch:
Carpet in the bathroom? Big mistake. My Mom did our bathroom in plush shag back in the 70s. I came home one night in my College years full of Stroh’s and Rumple Minze and hurled all over it. That sent all that plush into the dumpster in a hurry.
I tried selling vacuum cleaners in 1977-78. I about starved to death but that is another story 
When showing sweepers in homes back then, shag carpet was everywhere. One word for shag carpet: Nasty.
Especially after people shag on it!
At a microscopic level, ALL carpet is nasty. I'm gradually removing all of it from my home.
Carpet in the bathroom? Big mistake. My Mom did our bathroom in plush shag back in the 70s. I came home one night in my College years full of Stroh’s and Rumple Minze and hurled all over it. That sent all that plush into the dumpster in a hurry.
Or think how many times you missed the target!
Carpet in the bathroom? Big mistake. My Mom did our bathroom in plush shag back in the 70s. I came home one night in my College years full of Stroh’s and Rumple Minze and hurled all over it. That sent all that plush into the dumpster in a hurry.
Should also mention peeing with a drunken aim would be 50/50. And hell to pay if you forgot to lift that fuzzy lid.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:
Especially after people shag on it!
At a microscopic level, ALL carpet is nasty. I'm gradually removing all of it from my home.
I ripped my carpet up 25 years ago and polyurethaned my wood floors. No regrets ever.
Anybody else mount these VCR sized radar detectors on their dashboards back in the day?
My teenage brain figured I needed the biggest and brightest detector I could fine in hopes to impress the ladies in my totally bitching’ 82 Z28 : )
Surprisingly my dumb ass plan didn’t attract any girls ....
but sure did attract a lot of police.
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Invariably they would be stuck together in giant clumps.
Quoted from dmacy:
Breaker, breaker one nine!
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My handel was The Boogieman
Quoted from Mr68:
My handel was The Boogieman
Having a last name starting with a Q, I was somehow dubbed with the CB moniker "Quacko."
Quoted from zombywoof:
I haven't played any of those variants. Looks challenging. I did have a tri-dimensional chess set like Mr. Spock's:
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Of course I remember that 3D chess set well. But after looking at this posted pic, it really struck me how cheesy that thing looks. The chess pieces look like they came from $2 plastic chess set, and the rest of it looks so rickety it would fall apart in a few plays. The prop department spared no expense on that one!
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Oh hell yeah ... I still use one in my LandCruiser for trail rides (just about ready to switch to 2m Ham)
Back in the days before cellphones car phones were actually two-way radios connected to a landline and pretty rare. I found a Radio Shack CB that looked like a phone ... thought I looked really cool chatting with my CB buddies 
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And before Walkie Talkie's, a tight string between two cans. Which I never did but heard about.
I think the earliest form of distance communication was smoke signals. Not a toy, waaaay before my time and I'm not sure why I bring it up. 
And before Walkie Talkies they used a tight string between two cans.
Stringed cans? That highly technical device is best left for the use of trained professionals!
I started at the age of 9, delivering NY Daily News. Up at 6 AM, 1-1/2 hours a day. Snow and rain, then walked to school.
I made $3 to $4 a week. Christmas got me ,25 cent tips, and I reached $10.
Worked a whole year for a Trumpet.
Next 2 years was a pinball.
Baldwin Harbor.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:
I started at the age of 9, delivering NY Daily News. Up at 6 AM, 1-1/2 hours a day. Snow and rain, then walked to school.
I made $3 to $4 a week. Christmas got me ,25 cent tips, and I reached $10.
Worked a whole year for a Trumpet.
Next 2 years was a pinball.
Baldwin Harbor.
Our local town paper came out only once a week on Monday. Got $3 to deliver. I was 12 I think, hated that job and held it only as long I had to before my parents said uncle as they got tired of goading me every week. Switch to lawn mowing did that by myself for a few years, then with a partner for several years and 30 lawns or so before getting a "real" job with the local pharmacy. That was the best job in town, I "handed" it down to my younger brother when I left for the Army. Managed stock, delivered drugs to the nursing homes, engraved items in the Hallmark store, just about anything that needed done.
And before Walkie Talkie's, a tight string between two cans. Which I never did but heard about.
Why ? You only have one can ?
LTG : )
Quoted from littlecammi:
Stringed cans? That highly technical device is best left for the use of trained professionals!
Especially this version, looks pretty high tech to me! (Mine.)
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Library before the internet.
I always looked at the old due dates. I thought it was interesting to see how often the book was borrowed by others.
Library before the internet. Grandma making sure I read during the summer. Also liked to go there after school to do homework and meet girls from other schools.
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A Dewey Decimal System card file?!? That thing is an antique and I'm feeling especially old right now. (It's also inspired a future post for this thread when I have more time).
I Googled as I always do and found that the Dewey Decimal Classification lives on today as WebDewey.
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I remember those cards! You used to get them through banks like these:
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