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Floor model radios.

 

The bakery home delivery .... Those were good days !!

 

Remember ..............

........................S**t................

.............................damn-it....

 

I used to pick up and deliver dry cleaning and groceries in two of my high school jobs.

 

When the first tuned on Project PX at UPENN in Philadelphia.

A.K.A. ENIAC

ENIAC contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. It weighed more than 30 short tons (27 t), was roughly 8 by 3 by 100 feet (2.4 m × 0.9 m × 30 m), took up 1800 square feet (167 m2), and consumed 150 kW of power.[

 

Captain Video

 

This was actually available in Salem, OR up until about 15-20 yrs ago. We had milk and such delivered to our doorstep up until we moved to Bend. Great local dairy.

 

The Milk Man is making a comeback...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/business/yourmoney/16milk.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

 

Going 'big time' and getting a room at the Holiday Inn for $10.00.

 

When you remember the local the icehouse.

 

We had a coal burning fireplace.

 

If you cut your kids hair with a Flowbee.

 

When you bought a new car the dealer offered two options: white walls and an am radio.

 

Wait a minute, I liked them then!:beer

 

You know Fleetwood Mac is not something you can order at McDonalds

 

Me too, in fact the next day after watching the original Jaws we went to Ocean

City, Md. and if it were not for a lot of beer we might not have even got wet!

Remember things were different 39 years ago!!:beer

 

Seeing "classic" Disney movies on the first release in the theater.

 

Anyone else here that saw "How The West Was Won" in Cinerama? Don't ask me what year that was. I was a kid, I do know that.

 

If you saw "Old Yeller" in the theater.