Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

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  1. lotsie

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    I still have my first hammer and set of chisels when I started as a carpenter apprentice. Back then if a power tool was cordless it meant it was broke...
     
  2. CHKMINI

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    Anyone remember JC Higgins bicycles?
     
  3. Friskie

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

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  5. Nathan

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

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    Uniroyal Tiger ads

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

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

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    Hours and hours of older than dirt fun here... Retronaut
     
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    I remember going to the worlds fair. I was 14, and I went with a classmate from Military school. We were on spring break from Fork Union Military Academy.
     
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    Small world, I went to Augusta Military Academy and we played you all in football and several other sports. :Thumbsup:

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    Katzenjammer Kids

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    If you remember "lay down" Ramblers
     
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    Push button shifter on a Dodge Dart.
     

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