Fun & Games Most liked posts in thread: You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole

 

^ Cool, I never had one of those.

 

I did. rrr:

Jim

 

First calculator was about $300 and had an led display......

 

My first calculator wasn't a calculator at all. It was a slide rule...an aluminum one by K & E.

 

I just found my calculator from high school:

 

I remember when calculators were called "adding machines."

 

And no batteries required.

Jim

 

It was fingers and toes before that.

 

I took courses in school that required "slide rule accuracy" I always found slide rules fascinating, it was possible to see how answers were derived.

 

How about the tools you have in your garage?? I am not talking about what you remember but what you all still own????:lol:

 

No, but I had a 2 1/2 ton Schwinn with baloon tires that had me playing at something very quietly after only one trip around the block. Us guys in the neighborhood would get screw drivers and pliers from wherever, remove everything that wasn't needed including chain guards, paint red and yellow flames on the frame, turn the handlebars upside down and clip a bunch of baseball cards to the fork and pretend we had stripped down rat rods. The worst part was the whipping after those tools got left out in the rain. But boy did we have fun. A guy wasn't worth talking to if he couldn't take a Bendix coaster brake apart and put it back together.

 

Anyone else visit Queens back in '64 or '65?

 

Yes, as most of my family lived in the area. I have no recollection though. I was still in diapers and drinking from a baby bottle at the time.

 

Wish I could ride the way-back machine so I could see the debut of the new Mustang!

 

Uniroyal Tiger ads

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hc_expHAJo]Uniroyal Tiger Paw tires - TV commercial - YouTube[/ame]

 

My recollections are fading, but I do remember that it was an amazing time and two days were not enough to see very much. The giant car that you walked underneath, the dinosaurs at the Sinclair Oil pavilion, the streets of Hong Kong in the Coca-Cola pavilion, and GE's Carousel of Progress that still lives today at Disney World.

 

Remember Uni Roy & Al?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql123u7WSJo]1973 Commercials UniRoyal and Continental Insurance - YouTube[/ame]

 

I was in high school and remember all the stuff that came out about it, but did not get to go. I lived in Virginia at the time and Washington, DC was as far north as I had been.

Jim