Puffy and scratchy and sniff stickers.

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Ah...scratch-n-sniffs. Early 70s fare. I had forgot all about S-n-S.

Remember Weird-Ohs? Model kits, trading cards, puzzles, a board game... Ed Roth really milked his creations!

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I've been involved in a program to mentor/tutor kids in math for a number of years. I've had as young as first grade and as old as fifth. I use stickers as a reward and, regardless of the age, they all love the scratch and sniff stickers.

You just reminded me of my Father. When he was a child, they'd gone fishing. After cleaning the fish, he fed the heads and stuff to their chickens. For three months their eggs tasted like fish.

LTG : )

Decorating eggs for the Spring Equinox New Year, goes back 4500 years to Zoroastrian Faith.

Wow Art. I knew you were old, but I didn't know you practiced Zoroastrian Faith.

I liked Zoro. But I didn't believe in him.

LTG : )

For my beer digression. Bond girl beer. I looked and looked never even saw one in the wild.

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Zorro, huh? Lmfao

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Zorro brings back memories! Drive in State College used to play kid kinda movies like cartoons and Zorro. But after that the XXX stuff was on. One night he took me to see Zorro. I remember asking what all them X’s were for and could we stay to watch. I guess I was 6 or 7 and he always rushed me out. I never got a good answer. Lol!

In our house it was a bit different. My mother is very artistic and so she did Ukranian egg decorating. The dye was very pungent, but the colors were so vibrant. It always amazed me how painstakingly she put the lines down and the sheer amount of time it took. She would be there all day in front on that candle making just one egg

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I built one of the plastic models!

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Should have used flex paste to assemble it. Then it wouldn't have leaked.
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Sky King and Penny

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I was going through my old transformer toys and came across this guy. Even back then I was into pinball. As a kid I just thought it was a generic transformer. After some research, its from a company called Select, and the line was called convertors. I had a few of them and never knew the brand.

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We were being primed for the likes, upvotes and thumbs up back in first grade.

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Saturday's at noon. The idea of a pilots license started then and I reached that goal in 1980. Somewhere is my solo flag. Rich "Songbird" Wolfson.

///Rich

Was this last Easter Mooch?

Last Easter I had to make my own basket and hire a bunny.

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I would like to dye those eggs : )

That’s sad. My Grandmother always made baskets for us till she died. Now my wife does it.

Some old ice cream wrappers from here in St. Louis. No idea how old but they are pre Zip Code so before 1964.

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I’ve always loved these old barber chairs. I just found this one for free.
1901 Koken

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When I was a kid we had a great regional ice cream parlor chain called High’s Ice Cream. They were founded in Richmond in 1928. They were very old school, a classic soda fountain out of an earlier age. They had checkered tile floors and those metal spinning stools bolted to the floor at the counter. They made their own ice cream and it was better, much better, than chains like Baskins-Robbins or Dairy Queen. The milk shakes were sublime. I remember having my very first hot fudge sundae there. It was in one of those tall, metal, tulip style glasses, and came with a long handled metal spoon to reach down deep.

Later they were acquired by a company out of Baltimore which closed the ice cream parlors in favor of convenience stores/gas stations.

I ate a lot of Easter Sunday dinners at my Grandma’s. She always baked a big ham and had one of these “lamb cakes” for dessert.

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Wow! That's an early one. And for free!?

Glad these germy things are out!

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These were a lot bigger when I was a kid.....I think?

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Yep. Down from 278g to 258g in 2019 alone.

According to Wiki

American Creme Eggs at the time weighed 34 g and contained 150 kcal. Before 2006, the eggs marketed by Hershey were identical to the UK version, weighing 39 g and containing 170 kcal.

Those weights seem much more likely. In any case, they are getting smaller.

I don’t remember those, but I remember the movie Polyester where they handed out a scratch-n-sniff card. When the number on the movie screen flashed you would scratch-n-sniff the corresponding number on card. Fun stuff.

When I was a kid, my buddies dad had a scratch and sniff Hustler. Of course we were too young to know what it was supposed to smell like.

Holy crap, I thought that was just my grandma who did that!

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My father worked for K-Mart for many years. For quite a while we had a Commodore Vic-20, which was the first really affordable color home computer in the US, and had a Vicmodem as well. I remember the first time we dialed up Compuserve from the Vic - it was like magic! Extremely primitive by today's standards, of course, but it was hard to believe this inexpensive computer and modem could connect us with people around the world (or at least the US). It was used only on very special occasions (usually to try to get further in those Scott Adams adventure games, occasionally with a programming question). The whole family was involved because my brother and I were very young and the phone bill was a constant worry.

I spent a lot of time in front of that computer until we got our first PC clone then started the hardware treadmill. I picked up a Vic-20 recently and am relearning 6502 assembler and teaching my kids BASIC. I have a real soft spot for all the 8-bit computers, but especially the underpowered Vic-20.

I heard rumors about those Hustler scratch-n-sniffs. I did not want to say anything because it sounds so outlandish.

Nasty. Im not prude by a long shot but that kindof like going down on a hooker.

Spoiled chicken. Remember, if its slimy before you start working on it, leave it alone.

Ignored.

When a friend told me years ago that the original Gran Turismo 2 disc had scratch n’ sniff I thought he was bullshitting. But damn I couldn’t wait to get home to smell my game. Scratched my disc for minutes and ... nothing. Felt like a idiot.
Didn’t know it was a special edition I didn’t have : (

Pretty cool marketing. Surprised this gimmick never caught on

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Sure it is, werent you a teenager. Its all in fun man, just being goofy.

learned to program BASIC on this
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My best friend had one of those with the speech synthesizer module. I remember spending a ridiculous amount of time typing out a text-to-speech program just so we could make it say the f-word.

My favorite scratch-n-sniff sticker was the one on the Raspberries record album.

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I remember the first time I got knocked offline. Was “hooked up”down in my kid cave of a basement on my Vic 20 and heard my startled mother telling my dad that something is wrong with our recently installed second phone not knowing that she instantly killed my online connection. This happened 2 or 3 times a day for my first online month. Surprisingly she had the same startled reaction every time she picked up while I was online. By the end of that summer we were back to being a one phone household. Don’t think she ever grasped what those sounds were or even “how a fancy typewriter could talk to other robots over the phone”. That is a direct Mom quote: )

Funny how history really does repeat cause I have no clue as to what a Bitcoin is. Robot coins? Do they make noise?

Yeah, they sound like this:

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Which coincidentally is also a primary childhood memory for me.

Here’s what I think of when I hear the term “Bitcoin.”

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