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Waiting for the radio to 'warm up' before it would play...

 

ALL things had a label............ Made In The U.S.A.

The whole world liked us.

BBF.......Burger Boy Food-O-Rama, Home of the whirling Satellite and $0.15 hamburgers (this was my first job as a teenager). Oh, and the dominate language was English.....

 

Books were printed on paper.
PanAm.
Cruising the boulevard on Saturday night.
Chain smoking at your work desk.

 

If a soldier walks into the bar, everyone tries to be the first to buy him a drink.... Not to mention folks wanted to hire him.

 

Braniff

I worked at Nabisco a bit over 10 years ago. They were owned by RJR and you could still smoke at your desk, though most people tried to refrain until after 5pm for the benefit of others around them.

 

RJR built my business. Now they are just a shadow of its former self...

 

I still do and bacon grease, kept in a metal coffee can on the stove top.

BTW: Yes, my cholesterol is well within the good numbers, much to my wife's surprise.

Jim

 

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Can't find a website for Little Kings but found several places that sell it or have reviews.

 

Not sure what the official name for it is, but how about the noisy little box with the dial on it for rotating your television aerial.

 

The sound of a pressure cooker hissing steam.
The swept wing Dodges.
The adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on the radio.

 

It was called a rotary box. My mom used to make them.

 

Betcha can't guess which item listed above was the inspiration for my MINI's name...

 

Soda fountain

 

Crashton bought Little Kings in Kentucky on the way to MOTD.

Slide rule
Treadle sewing machine

 

"It's About Time" on the TV

Craig Power Play radio in your car

Push Button phones without the * and # keys.

Gun racks in all pick up trucks in Texas. otherwise you were a foriegner

 

When Cheech & Chong was the newest greatest thing....

 

Yeah! I use my pressure cooker all the the time too!

Dave