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Kitchener, ON
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Quoted from Nepi23:I remember well playing this at one Christmas - it was very very cool!
That was my first pinball machine too.
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Quoted from AlexSMendes:My brother just reminded me of this one we had: » YouTube video
I still have that. We got it as a hand me down. My daughter likes building it and watching it go.
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Holy shit. I just had a memory of that radio shack arcade come back. I would have been very young (born in 78) but I now remember playing with one of them. I just did a wiki search, they were from ‘81-82. That box looks fairly decent too. Considering they’re going for $20-$40 on eBay, you did very well.
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Quoted from cottonm4:I’m a baby boomer and I have no idea
Might have been a regional thing. Looks like it started in Britain
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Oh yeah, I played marbles for hours.
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Quoted from BMore-Pinball:Who here is old enough to have had the old metal Tonka trucks?[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
My mom has a favorite story she likes to tell about me. When I was 3 or 4 she made a deal with me that I could get one of those steel dump trucks if I used the bathroom consistently. Apparently i was difficult to potty train and had frequent accidents.
I did well, got the truck...and destroyed it within weeks. I loved taking apart toys to see how they worked. She thought the steel would be my match, proved her wrong. They were pissed at me and surprised that I was able to break it.
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Quoted from jamesmc:My neighbor Bobby had a grey ghost krate. They made them in 1971. This one was made in Dec 71 and those came with a disk brake that 1 month. So they are pretty rare. My wife bought me this for Christmas. I have a nos headlight for it. It even has a turn signal accessory nos. I have 1 mile on the new speedometer. Been trying to find Bobby on the internet to even things up.[quoted image]
I like the Godard print. Probably one of the best game room artist around.
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Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:When I was very young there was a thing I think was called lincoln logs. All made of wood, and painted. You built log cabins and stuff like that, and seems like the pieces that were flat and went on the roof were painted green.
One of my fondest memories of my grandparents was playing with these when I was young at their place. I just looked they still make ‘em after 100 years
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Quoted from bob_e:NO board game just cards, you become a Used Car Dealer
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Holy shit. That just brought back some memories. My parents must have had that game, because it looks really familiar.
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Quoted from gliebig:Crossbows and Catapults.
Reminds me of a board game I have called Siege.
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You guys hear about the warehouse of Kenner toys from the 80’s that was just found in Chile?
https://geekculture.co/huge-m-a-s-k-toy-collection-with-us-packaging-reportedly-uncovered-in-chile/
Quoted from Rezdog:Same with the Vectrex. These overlays cost more than the games themselves
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I think there are new remakes of those overlays.
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/564082324/vectrex-overlay-reproductions-and
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Quoted from cottonm4:Not really a toy, but these Casio Pocket TVs that Radio Shack used to sell have Christmas stocking stuffer written all over them.
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Now we watch everything on iPhones.
I was a cable tv guy for years and we would use those little portable tv’s while working on distribution panels to “check that the signal was ok” but once everything switched to digital they became useless
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Oh man, living in Canada we never got to play with M-80’s. They were a thing of legend here; just imagine a bunch of kids shooting the shit trying to one-up your friends story. “I heard you could flush one down the toilet in school and blow it up”
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Quoted from VanishingVision:Big Loader from Tomy. Quite clever, the chassis would move along and attach/detach itself to the different truck bodies to scoop and dump little black marbles through the chutes. There was a larger set called Big Big Loader as well, and I believe you could connect the two of them.
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I have (Had) this set, it was a hand me down for my daughter. She’s grown out of it so it may have been passed along to the next kid. Only difference is that it’s themed Thomas the train
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I remember going to the convenience store in the 80’s and 90’s and ripping open random packs of trading cards to see what was inside. I grew up on a farm outside a small town, so the selection was crappy and always changing. It would have been impossible back then to collect a full set of anything and most of the cards probably ended up in my bicycle spokes. So I’ve been picking up random packs of cards every now and then. I think I might open a couple packs on my birthday each year. E311E240-20B6-4072-9AAF-3F9F2F18A646 (resized).jpeg
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:I just shared this with my son...the 24/7 online gamer shooting on every planet, alien and time period, and he fell on the floor hysterical.
The Gong at the end, I never noticed.
Heavy as Hell for a 5 year old!
Quoted from JayDee:I want one!!!
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Quoted from cottonm4:The books were not banned. The outfit that manages Dr. Seuss assets is the 2nd highest grossing $$ generated by a dead guy. Top dead earner is Michael Jackson.
The outfit that manages Dr. Seuss made a conscious decision to not publish 6 of the Seuss books.
Google “Dr. Seuss” and the links telling what happened are there.
But the books were not banned.
I agree there’s a difference between “no longer in print” and “banned”
I never stole my parents vehicle, but I do remember taking my dads truck 4x4ing a couple times. He has an ‘86 F250 diesel, the truck was jacked up with locking hubs. I never got stuck, surprisingly, and since it was a farm truck it normally had a layer of mud on it.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Sad news today...
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Anyone that had a Walkman or made a mix tape will remember cassetts.
I remember making mixed tapes off of a dual cassette player like this. I’d wait for hours to get all the songs recorded from the radio, and then I would mix them from one deck to the other; making sure to put 2 second spaces between songs. At one point we had a cheap microphone and pretended to be radio DJ’s and introduced the songs on the mixed tape. BD3A0793-1DA4-4CC6-9069-BD4509FD9675 (resized).jpeg
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Quoted from LTG:But, alas, it is just a myth. Originally, NASA astronauts, like the Soviet cosmonauts, used pencils, according to NASA historians. In fact, NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Houston's Tycam Engineering Manufacturing, Inc., in 1965. They paid $4,382.50 or $128.89 per pencil.
LTG : )
You are correct, but to add to this, it didn’t take nasa long to figure out the the tip of a pencil could break off and float around becoming a problem. That why they switched to a pen.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/
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Quoted from pinwiztom:For a few years back in the late 60s there was a soda vendor (bottler) called the Pop Shoppe
My dad bought cases (of a variety of flavors) from them since it was cheaper than Coke or Pepsi
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We still have pop shoppe here. Although the bottles are not stubbie anymore. The flavours are always unique.
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Quoted from TomKatt:Who knew one of the first Christmas gifts would turn out to be the foundation for fixing pins?[quoted image]
I got my nephew the modern version of that for a grade 8 grad present. A raspberry Pi and accessories kit.
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the European Mars bar
which are similar to Milky Way without almonds added.
Just cross the border into Canada. We have all of the UK chocolate here.
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This other game called globetrotters is cool too you travel around the world to collect keys then try to return home before others take your keys. It’s really dated and has countries that don’t exist anymore like Burma.
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:I always wanted to own a miniature golf course!
I have always had the dream to build a miniature golf course that was a scaled down size of a PGA course. Just putters and different thicknesses of fake turf to create the ruff and out of bounds. Miniature sand traps and water hazards….. it seems fun in my head.
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Nice S- - - - . No more hints. Can you see it too.?
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Quoted from dirkdiggler:Put any toy or game in front of me, nothing would compete with the ol TV. Video games probably second but Saturday morning cartoons was my world as a child
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Quoted from Rezdog:T Tops > Sliced bread
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When I met my wife she was driving a Nissan pulsar with T-tops and a 5 speed stick. She loved that car. I’ve often thought about finding another one for her.
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One thing I forgot to add. I wish they still made Popup, up and down headlights
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Quoted from cottonm4:My mother's ball of string (actually a cone). I can remember this from when I was 5 years old. I'll be 70 in August.
I still use it on occasion.
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I also have that soldering iron. Hakko 880 is a great unit.
Quoted from cottonm4:Back in the 90s? Have the 90s already reach the "back in the..." phase? This was just 20 years ago.
Some would say that the ‘90’s were 30 years ago. I still feel like the ‘70’s was 30 years ago
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Well this is far from a childhood toy, but it feels like a youthful memory to me these days. About 20 years ago when my wife was just finishing college and when we started dating, she drove a Nissan pulsar nx. 5 speed. T top roof. Pop-up up and down head lights. A cute car for a cute girl. Well we just found the car locally after watching the for sale adds for about a year. We’re giving it a full restore and new pearl white paint job. I’ve been hunting down parts like it’s for an old pinball machine that is being revived. It just went on the hoist yesterday getting ready for the body work. 50A89970-9144-4FF9-BC0D-EA1316F25E82 (resized).jpeg3ED20D48-278E-4135-B026-93AF6407F948 (resized).jpeg2C1CC6FE-535D-4E21-AE0F-A6602625DB06 (resized).jpeg
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Just up the highway they build these 6 wheel argo’s. They float and can go just about anywhere.
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As for remote controlled multi-wheel cars; I had the front section of this bad boy. I always wanted the extension pieces but never seen them in store.
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The right advice to give in that situation would have been…
Go out and buy your own pinball machine, that way you can play at home whenever you like, and possibly also turn it into a family bonding experience.
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I was one of the few people that paid for Columbia House, several times. I grew on a farm that was a long way from any music stores, so by the time I was like 14 I did the math and asked my parents if I could join. I would always return the cards on time, and buy just enough to fulfill the deal; then. Would sign up again to get the dozen for a buck deal. I have a cd collection of over 600 albums, I bet over 100 came from Columba house.
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Apparently a lot of people would just get the 12 for a buck and never pay for the rest. That’s why it closed down.
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One of my first jobs. The one office lady would always check the fax machine first thing to see what came in through the night. About once a week there would be some funny NSFW fax come through, and I also remember them being pretty dirty for office humor.
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Quoted from ReadyPO:I think the only high school class I got more benefit from was typing. Didn't hurt that I was like the only guy in that class either
I took all the shops throughout high school, and one “parenting” class my final year because it was a Sr. Social science class that didn’t conflict with my computer classes. I was the only guy in the class. It was my last class of the day and we regularly cooked food. It was a great class. I even retained some of the skills from that class and sewed a Harry Potter dress for my daughter over lockdown, and received points from my wife in the process. I figured with 30 years of woodworking experience I could figure out some material.
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One of my oldest memories is getting up stupid early on Saturday morning to watch cartoons. The Green Forest was one of the first that I can remember that’s something other then Loony Toons.
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 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.
My 2600 top games were defender, yars revenge, missile command, and asteroids. I know I had more, but those were the only games that I remember sinking lots of time into.
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Quoted from HFK:How great is this setup? Everything you could possibly need within arms reach. I need to get a grill for my coffee table.[quoted image]
Don’t believe the internet. A hoser is not a Canadian hillbilly, or idiot. A hoser is a loser. You loose the hockey game, and you’re hosing down the ice at the end of the night.
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TL:DR I had totally forgot about this PSA until my buddy reminded me; then I instantly remembered it word for word.
So, my buddy shows a TicTok video of some stupid kid doing the “boiling water challenge”. Yes, it’s just as dumb as it sounds; think “ice bucket challenge” but hot water. The idiot dumps a big ol’ pot of scalding water right over his head and immediately begins screaming for his friend to hit him with the garden hose to cool off as he rolls on the ground in pain.
My other buddy in the group chat quickly posts this video, says it’s the first thing he thought about after seeing it. I had totally forgot about this public service announcement from the 80’s. but, as soon as I saw the first second it flooded back into my consciousness like a freight train. Boom. I’m singing along word for word, just as I did decades ago as a kid.
Did you guys have this PSA in with your Saturday morning cartoons, or was this a local ad for just Canada? I can think of 3 or 4 other song PSA ads from when I was a kid, but this one was lost for some reason.
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Those Nintendo packs of cards were $.25 originally, now they’re close to $10 a pack once you add in shipping.
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:1960's Shell gas giveaways! Shame no businesses, other than McDonalds? have a type
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1980’s Esso gas giveaways! The track list is surprisingly good. I think it was just a Canadian thing. I can’t remember how many of them were in the set but I can remember having a half dozen different tapes from the gas station.
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Quoted from mooch:Hmm… I first heard it when the Muppets danced around to the song on the Ed Sullivan Show. A web search digs up that the song was first used for a scene in a Swedish sex film featuring models piling into a sauna. Ed Sullivan didn’t mention that at all.
Looks like a good movie.
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Quoted from Azmodeus:I have not seen any muscle men in any of the places if been in last seven years. Not a one I don’t think.
I had a bunch before, all gone now.
If you like them, this website shows them all.
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I went looking for these on eBay a while back and the price blew me away. I thought you’d be able to get a dozen for a couple bucks, but some of them are a couple bucks each.
Quoted from Jediturtle:I had no idea they were worth anything
Neither did I
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Quoted from cottonm4:We were still drinking from garden hoses, though.
That was pretty normal through the 80’s too. But we had lost lawn darts just as I was getting old enough to really play with them.
Quoted from cottonm4:I never heard of Auto Union before. Don't recall ever seeing a wagon like this.
I consider myself a car guy and also had never heard of this car. When I was young I remember being told some old cars were 2 stroke, but never looked into it before. I think I’m going to see if there’s any good information on YouTube about them. That door is awesome
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:A common misconception, as that includes the awful infant mortality back then. Someone who made it to adulthood could expect to live well into their 70s on average. My own great great grandparents mostly made it into their 80s and 90s!
Yeah, I’ve had to correct people before that thought that too. I wonder if that is the reason for the saying “have an heir, then a spare.” Just because child mortality was so high. If you lived to 10, then you had a good chance to live a long life.
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Nice![quoted image]
I think the proper term these days is Ninja Boot
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:I used to have one here in Norwalk that's log gone. and there was one in Fullerton CA. for many years that had car-hop service, also long gone.
Not to long ago a couple of local malls had A&W locations in the food courts, also gone.
Now the closest one to me is almost a two hour plus drive away. The last one I saw in California is in Baker off I-15 heading to Las Vegas... two plus hour drive.
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Quoted from pinwiztom:Here on the west coast, one sees quite a few A&Ws coupled (in tandem) with another fast food restaurant like KFC. (Called Co-branding)
The First A&W originated out of Lodi CA, where my grandparents used to live.
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Quoted from zombywoof:Dairy Queens
I prefer DQ burgers and onion rings over most fast food places. They’re right on par with Harvey’s. (Although I think that’s just in Canada)
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Just had a memory of playing with a space shuttle when I was really young. The main thing I remember was that you could push a button and the boosters would drop off. I thought the extra fuel tank was red plastic, but a quick search brought me to this Dinky toy from ‘79. I would have been too young in 79 to play with this but for some reason I get the feeling mine was from a thrift shop, because we weren’t that well off when I was young and I don’t remember the box or the payload for the shuttle.
A687355E-2F6C-465E-BB43-C1E501A4A556 (resized).pngI had turned 7 just months before the challenger explosion. Just imagine a young boy in love with space, playing with his space Lego and all that came along with kids in the mid 80’s. Then watching it explode live on tv. That memory has really stuck with me over the years. It’s one of the few “do you remember where you were when” moments in my life
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I saw a lady with a steering wheel knob this morning on my way to work. I’m pretty sure they were outlawed in the 80’s for cars. We have one on the kubota tractor at work, but on a car is wild.
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Quoted from NunoDirector:I remembered they also have Mighty Max toys for the boys. It was the same concept but with a Kid named Max and had different abstract worlds. They even made a TV cartoon about it.
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Wow. I was born in 78 and have no memory of this toy, I wonder if it made its way into Canada, or if I just lived too far from civilization
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Quoted from Ballderdash:Commercials for these old toys were so amazing. Made everything seem exciting and larger than life.
I was 5 in ‘84 and had totally forgotten about this truck, but as soon as I saw it again a rush of memories came back
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Quoted from BMore-Pinball:Had one of these in the 70's - loved it as much as Adam
I almost got one from eBay after watching that video
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Quoted from cottonm4:Jan., Feb., Mar., April, May, June.....I count 6.
Preemie?
lol, I read it as the previous months were in ‘63
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