A few years ago we were doing some renovation work, I sent my wife and daughter to go visit her family, and I was basically living in out basement. So, I decided to take the trains from my childhood that had been sitting for 40 years, and built a suspended track that runs around the game room . . . .

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No time like the present, especially with also spending most of our time at home. The way I did it, is just suspended from the drop ceiling rails, with brackets. I just bent with a jig made from on block of wood and a couple of nails. The just slid them into rail and the wood strips with the tracks nailed into it, just sits on top of it. Worked better than I expected. The wood support for the curves were cut from plywood. I used some metal channel material, cut to small pieces to get each wood strip level to its neighbor, those use screws to hold each piece of wood to the top of the channel so they line up (first tried just a metal brace strip across the adjoining pieces but that did not really insure they stayed lined up).

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My daughter had her favorite stuffed animal, that she took everywhere and we were worried about her losing it, while it took some time but we tracked down another one to have just in case. Then after it had gotten pretty worn and tattered, we told her we needed to take hers to the stuffed animal doctor to get him fixed up, and then we swapped them out. She is now in college, still has it, looks worse than the original, and the original is still tucked away safe. She still does not know there are actually two.

I was getting that for a brief time as a kid.

while looking for something else, came across this . . . you would feel them nibble and then you would have to hook up with a quick flip, and then reel them in and no lose it IMG_5182 (resized).JPG

We used one for scrabble tiles

My grandfather repped for a cigar company and he would always bring us cigar boxes. Still have a couple of the wooden ones left.

Still have mine from when I umpired little league games, so, this has got to be over 40 years old . . .

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these were great for fast channel changing. You could also crack it open, adjust the pot, and get some of the stations you were not supposed to get

While I did not learn if from good and plenty, that upside down glass trick won me many a free drink back in my bar days.

Played one of these at a show in the last couple of years, can't remember which, was great to get to play one, very cool.

When I was kid, the B9 robot came out as a toy and I really wanted one. Was 35+ years later that I got this newer one as a gift. Always makes me smile when I see it.

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yes, sure makes me feel old, (next someone will post a microfiche machine) but my first thought was "would be great for parts storage".

those early remotes were chime units, sometimes jiggling keys would change the channel

You are supposed to be under the water first, then much easier to lift the lever as well not stick to it -- I guess I'm a few years too little late with this advice.

Seen a couple of people do this with a frosted freezer

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A lot of broadcasts mute the baked bean/fart scene, let alone some of the language

hmm, 311 machines? Yeah, you have it under control

pass the pigs, we were just playing that recently

Cottage inn is pan pizza, which is not the same as deep dish.

Pan Pizza is typically not eaten with knife and fork, like deep dish is

My brother has copies of my fathers and grandfathers patents hanging on the wall in his office, which is pretty cool. It is a nice conversation piece when customers come in to visit. Once in a while I'll give him grief that he does not have a copy of one of mine, but since they are not related to his business, like the others, I let him off the hook. I also consider my Dad and Grandfathers patents far more interesting, since they are about creating/manipulating physical things vs being software process/methods line mine.

We had this too, this is the first time even seen an image of it on 40+ years.

Had not heard this. Back in the 70s the PBA tour on ABC on Saturdays was must watch TV in our house. Roth came from Brooklyn like my Dad so he was a big fan. Both my parents were in leagues back then. Most people don't realize how big bowling was back in the 60s and 70s, guys like Roth and Earl Anthony were making twice as much as the top NFL guys. In 1964 Don Carter was the first athlete to get a million dollar endorsement deal.

Not one of those, but still have a Mac Plus with a whole 1 MB of memory!! Originally I had the external floppy drive as well, but after getting tied of doing the floppy disc shuffle, I got a 60MB external drive. At the time people would say "what would you ever need 60MB for".

The engineering on the cube is really well done, how it all fits together.

For which she won three Emmy awards. Was recently watching some episodes, and in the first couple of seasons, any time she was alone on screen, they did a soft focus.

Got my blue stingray in the late 60s, a few years later it was stolen and I stepped up to a 10 speed varsity.

when we lost gas station attendants, we also lost the 'ding-ding' when you would pull into the station. I put that sound into Hot Wheels.

So who delivered newspapers as a kid? In the early 70s I used one of these carts that I would pull along as I rode my Schwinn varsity when i delivered Newsday after school and Saturday and Sunday mornings. Wednesday we would get inserts to take home and then add to the Sunday paper for which we got paid a few extra cents. Sunday deliveries had to be done by some early ass hour. Worst part was having to go collect money each week. Had this little green book to keep track of charges and payments. There was one handicapped old lady on my route and once a week I had to take the garbage out for her and she was still a poor tipper.

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Don’t forget they also use the whale mold as Santa Claus.

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This took me way way back.

I remember the song better than what he looked like.

while searching for something in my basement , stumbled across this.

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This is one of those, that if you know what it is, it will make you smile and likely bring back a memory.

I remember watching it live, I was in grad school and in my apartment. I knew immediately things went wrong even while the commentators continued talking about it as if all was well.

3 and 7 did not register.

A couple more that fit well with this list . . .

Ancient Chinese secret
Reach out and touch someone
hot n juicy, hot n juicy, hot n juicy
I can't believe I ate the whole thing

anyone ever have one of these?

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Of course we might have to explain film and developing your own to some of the youngsters around here. I kind of miss that darkroom smell.

While I don’t have the roller anymore, I do still have a couple of the metal tins the spool of film came in.

My brother was on and his episode aired the morning after we had some family event where we did not get home until after 1am, but had to get up a few hours later to watch him. He did get on camera and I want to say he won a skittle bowl.

So I shared the video with my brother and got the following response, who knew . . .

"Fucking snake cans is cruel. You build up a kids dream of a new bicycle only to have them dashed in a shocking explosion of reptile and confetti. I am still traumatized by that experience and I think it explains a lot about my trust issues."