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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 12:58:49 PM   
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You know you're getting old...

... when you remember that the highest tech toys you could get a kid were a View-Master and an Etch-A-Sketch.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 1:02:43 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 1:05:53 PM   
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I had a game.....can't remember the name, maybe one of you other old farts will.....it had two hand-held plastic mazes, one red, one blue, they were attached to a light tower by wires, had a red light and a blue light. You put metal marbles (ball bearings?) into the mazes, and the one who finished first would complete the metal contact with the ball bearing and the corresponding light on the tower would light up. Anybody remember that???

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 1:30:09 PM   
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Oh, now don't forget the Give-A-Show Projector

I had a game.....can't remember the name, maybe one of you other old farts will.....it had two hand-held plastic mazes, one red, one blue, they were attached to a light tower by wires, had a red light and a blue light. You put metal marbles (ball bearings?) into the mazes, and the one who finished first would complete the metal contact with the ball bearing and the corresponding light on the tower would light up. Anybody remember that???


hmmm .... no good idea.  But it sounds like cross between "Mouse Trap", "Operation" and a pinball game ...

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 1:32:44 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 1:43:50 PM   
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Any of your ladies have an "Easy-Bake Oven"?

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yep...got in trouble for melting barbie parts in it

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 5:34:28 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 6:31:54 PM   
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Any of your ladies have an "Easy-Bake Oven"?

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yep...got in trouble for melting barbie parts in it


Of course I had an Easy Bake oven, the real one,  when you could bake with a 100 watt light bulb. 

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 6:43:00 PM   
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Any of your ladies have an "Easy-Bake Oven"?

Firm


yep...got in trouble for melting barbie parts in it


Of course I had an Easy Bake oven, the real one,  when you could bake with a 100 watt light bulb. 




Now i'm really feeling old because my daughter also had one of those things...it had looked and worked (and the food tasted) pretty much the way the one i had when i was a kid.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 8:17:57 PM   
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Any of your ladies have an "Easy-Bake Oven"?

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No, but I had a Baby Boo. 

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 9:06:28 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 11:02:20 PM   
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I had a Lite Brite

Me too!

Never could keep enough black construction paper around, though ...

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 11:29:34 PM   
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I had a Lite Brite



Me three, and I had pound puppies and garbage pal kids.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 11:42:22 PM   
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I got yall beat, before TV we used to listen to radio, not just for music and news but stories, too. Records that you played on your hi-fi were 78s. Gas fixtures instead of electricity, all cars were stick, phones where you had to call the operator first and give your number, "party lines," long distance was a big production, you had to call the operator and she would call you back when she got through.

Doctors made house calls, butchers gave you free bones for the dog, the vegetable man traveled down the street with his cart and horse, and the milk man delivered.

You could give your kid money to go to the store for you and buy cigarettes or alcohol. Processed food hardly existed, microwaves (and dishwashers) were unheard of, people had to actually cook.

Every community had a local theater, and Saturday afternoons there was a double feature for a quarter. Gas was 16 cents a gallon but let's not go there. 

Yeah. Milk deliveries. B&W TV. Hula Hoops. I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. My draft number was 8. Seeing Led Zep, and the Cream, and The Dead, and Quicksilver, and Jeff Airplane...

Ten dollar lids... Orange Sunshine... Free Love... the SDS... hitchhiking across the country - twice... when JFK was shot... Kent State...




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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 11:45:12 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/2/2011 11:48:02 PM   
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What would a 20-something think if you told him that you used "rabbit ears" to watch TV?





Up until a week ago, we were still using "rabbit ears" and my young'un knew how to fix them when the picture went wonky.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/3/2011 12:01:36 AM   
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Any of your ladies have an "Easy-Bake Oven"?

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Easy Bake Oven

Atari

Chatty Cathy

And Barbie... the bubble cut brunette version

Skipper.. cant forget her

Ouija Boards!

Anyone else remember the hand held poker games?

Did anyone not have a slinky?



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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/3/2011 5:11:29 AM   
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Any of your ladies have an "Easy-Bake Oven"?

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Atari


Atari My ass........PONG baby

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/3/2011 9:02:39 AM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 7/3/2011 9:43:20 AM   
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