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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 10/29/2009 2:51 PM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 10/29/2009 6:05 PM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 10/29/2009 7:54 PM  1 votes
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 12:19 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 12:21 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 2:21 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 2:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Anybody remember Big Daddy Roth and Rat Fink? The dragster craze of the '60s? The surfin' craze? Remember when you liked something it was either "Neat-O" or "Fine-O"? How about rushing home from school every day in October to check the mailbox for Lionel's Christmas Catalog? Remember aluminum Christmas trees and the mandatory red/yellow/blue/green rotating floodlight? Remember building a treehouse in your backyard and how frighteningly high up it was? (8ft :-) Remember the day the first color television came to your neighborhood? How about the blue-on-top, red-in-the-middle and green-on-the-bottom filters the rest of us had to put on our TVs in order to get "color"? Remember going to the convenience store with your dad to test the TV's tubes? Remember the Sunday evening when the whole world came to a stop in order to watch The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show? Remember the Tom Swift series of books? Remember your first dog? Your first two-wheeled bike? Your first kiss?

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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 3:56 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 4:26 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 11:43 AM   
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Do you remember going door to door and taking orders for personalized Christmas Cards and getting a shiny new red control line Pitts ''Lil' Stinker'' equipped with an .020 engine, fuel, handle and lines delivered to your door as your reward for selling 10 or so boxes?!



I got the bicycle. 60 boxes.
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 6:02 PM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/2/2009 8:03 PM   
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Anybody remember Big Daddy Roth and Rat Fink? The dragster craze of the '60s? The surfin' craze? Remember when you liked something it was either ''Neat-O'' or ''Fine-O''? How about rushing home from school every day in October to check the mailbox for Lionel's Christmas Catalog? Remember aluminum Christmas trees and the mandatory red/yellow/blue/green rotating floodlight? Remember building a treehouse in your backyard and how frighteningly high up it was? (8ft :-) Remember the day the first color television came to your neighborhood? How about the blue-on-top, red-in-the-middle and green-on-the-bottom filters the rest of us had to put on our TVs in order to get ''color''? Remember going to the convenience store with your dad to test the TV's tubes? Remember the Sunday evening when the whole world came to a stop in order to watch The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show? Remember the Tom Swift series of books? Remember your first dog? Your first two-wheeled bike? Your first kiss?

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I clearly remember all of that......... the problem is that I just can't remember what I had for breakfast!
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 1:42 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 2:06 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 3:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		By all means, Jim. Hop on your stick pony and join in as we talk about the good ol days. We got room for ya! Got any memories to add to this thread?

Lawnmowers that weren't self-propelled? Ambroid glue that didn't need three paragraphs of warnings written by lawyers because we never even considered using it for anything other than building model airplanes? How about playing kick-the-can at the weekly cub scout meeting; not because were were poor but because it was FUN? Remember the cute girl in our third grade class who we were too nervous to talk to? Remember spending weekends mowing our neighbor's lawns so we could buy the latest Cox .049 offering? Remember building Estes model rockets? Archie and Jughead comicbooks (and how voluptous Betty was?) Remember My Favorite Martian, The Time Tunnel, and The Twilight Zone? Remember band class in Jr High school? Remember the time you finally got the nerve up to stand up to that bully in the 6th grade and even though he beat the crap out of you, you were still the hero of the day to all the rest of the nerds (your friends)? Remember when ice cream came in only three flavors and they were all packed in the same square cardboard carton?

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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 3:28 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 3:33 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 5:27 AM   
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Remember when ice cream came in only three flavors and they were all packed in the same square cardboard carton?

Do you remember when the Ice Cream truck (55' or so Chevy pre Mr. Softy) would cruise the neighbor hood? I distinctly remember buying my 5 cent popsicles and getting a snoot full of exhaust fumes from the running truck during the transaction !

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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 12:35 PM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/3/2009 2:29 PM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/4/2009 12:09 AM   
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/4/2009 12:44 AM   
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Hey Wow! Great Thread! I just turned 65 this summer and remember all of the above, the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, [and agree, the world did stop], Thimble Drome 1/2 A CL ships for X=mas and all. For me, on looking back, I think things changed, and not for the better, when our past 'wunderfull' Prezzie, Trikkie Dickie Nixon took our dollar off of the Gold Standard: back then $35 US/ounce gold, today's market close $1086/ounce of gold; you do the math. Back then we all worked, and seemed to have $ for just about everything you wanted, if you plannned and saved in advance; now my god, if you're working, your making bigger bucks but it seems no matter how hard you plan or try, there is never enuff $, everything just costs so much. About the only bargain these days, especially in our hobby is the cost of radios, everything else....wow. What we really need now is a stable Dollar, or a Dollar that is worth/or means something.

Well. I guess I will stop pining/whining about the good ole'days, and go think about my late Dad, and kid Brother helping me chase FFs all over the farm country where I grew up a long time ago, a kinder, quieter, gentler time for sure. Once again RCU Guys and Gals, Tanx for da Memories, best regards from Glendale, Arizona,

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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/4/2009 1:38 AM  1 votes
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RE: Maybe it's a sign that I'm just getting old... - 11/4/2009 1:51 AM   
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I agree those were the days, now i understand how my parents felt. But as far as I know there are no time machines to take us back, I wish there were. I truly believe things will get better agian.

Just a few more Saturday double features at the Movies, leaving the front door unlocked and going out of town for weekend.

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