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Out standing. My fav of TBP
Tupperware… sigh
I had those 8-tracks as albums(along with many more!) and would immediately convert to cassette and then with dual cassette deck make copies for friends!I was pirating from a early age!
In the 70s my parents used to go to the library, check out a bunch of albums, and record them on 1/4″ reel-to-reel tape. Later I took those same tapes and recorded them on cassette for my Walkman. Pirating was fun!
Pirating is fun:
Till you lose a eye and a leg and have a parrot on your shoulder!
I have zoomed and zoomed. Darn if I can see her in the background but I do see the Spring Garden Street Bridegroom I think
The magnificent Philly Art Museum perched on the hill.
Grinning from ear to ear. I was thinking about this toy gun I had, it would shoot these colored disks with slots In them. I was always a cheapskate and I would only play with enough of them to fill up the magazine so I wouldn’t be careless with them and lose them. If I did lose one, I would search and search before I would painfully get another out.
Sounds like the Star Trek gun that loaded from the side into a spring-loaded chamber.
Oh yea, that’s it.
I had one. Lots of fun. Thankfully you could also by additional ammo for it separately. Otherwise, I would have run out quickly.
Loved playing war and laser tag when I was a kid. Unfortunately now some parents put their sons in dresses and cut his dick off.
That McDonalds in 1972 looks so much better than the ones now that are overrun with animals.
The Schuylkill Expressway runs over my grandmother’s hometown of Port Kennedy, PA. Nothing left but a church, I think.
I love these posts but the “good old days” didn’t feature toy guns with orange tips. Just sayin’.
“guns with orange tips.”
Could be the point of the pic above that one?
However, PERFECT idea for modern ‘Camo’?
I was a Johnny 7 OMA kinda kid….
VERY Cool. Never knew such a beauty existed, Thanks! Definitely woulda wanted one, not sure when production ceased. 2 in ’64.
DO remember (BLOOD)lusting after…
And Thought THIS was Urban Legend Materiel:
Woulda been 6+ when a (new to me) Neighborhood boy got one (1st Video).
Able to procure one. The result of Guerrilla Sabotage. @ least until the Sore loser’s Mother Talked to mine. Apparently, i was ‘effectively’ concealed when he, 8 – 9 y.o? was descending a trail on his bicycle. Stick in the front wheel spokes. 🤣 ‘Cat-Like’ reflexes? DUMB Luck.
Successful thrust, ‘perfect’ size to pass through spokes near the perimeter of the wheel. Stick was dead enough for me to break, strong enough to stop
himthe Bike nearly on a dime. DO NOT know what i was thinking. i could have been injured. Too. (Musta seen a Phalanx movie?) Got lucky, Immediately behind the forks.Those things (bike & my new prize possession) were very robust. But i had my own bike. But the Gun was mine. Until i got the very realistic ‘Automatic’ action, replete with ‘realistic’ screams of the SEVERELY wounded. Alas, my Mommy knows nothing, now.
AND, i would like to think i’m slightly more creative WHEN such actions become de rigueur all over again. Most likely in a https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/education/teachers/curricular-resources/high-school-curricular-resources/military-advisors-in-vietnam-1963.
Best i’m Praying/hoping for? Die of Old Age in my sleep. Together. Shook hands on it with my Wife, Main Part of our Wedding Vows.
She will KILL me if i escape 1st. One Person i’m afeared of.
I used more sticks and broom handles for rifles as I did real toy rifles.
I don’t remember any guns having orange tips. I do remember a machine gun that had a red cylinder that popped in and out as you fired to simulate the flash though.
It also clacked, had one too
I want the chop suey and buttered bread for 50 cents.
About 1953 a nice old walking liberty half or one of the new Franklin half dollars would make do. It purchased a Snickers or Payday and a Coke (6 1/2 oz glass bottle). Afternoon snack. For supper a hamburger, fries and another Coke. A day in heaven for me at 6 years old. All for 50 cents. In contrast wife an I stopped at a Steak and Shake today for lunch. You MUST order from a kiosk. No cash taken, must be a card or phone payment. Not for me! Went to Meijer next door and got Doritos and a Lunchable. They can take their technology and put it where the sun doesn’t shine. Glad my expiration date is getting close.
Keep eating Doritos and Lunchables and it will get here even sooner. LOL
Oddly enough that walking liberties value at $15 plus or minus will still buy the same! ish–anyways if you discount crappy quality of the fast food, the snickers and a coke $5, Micky Ds burger fries and small drink $10…
I remember the Woolworth diner. Ours had a chrome divider to separate the white and colored customers.
BTW that 68 Dodge is one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
Always makes me smile, thanks Jim. Happy New Year!
I need to say “jive turkey” more. I already say it a lot, but I need to say it way more.
Kevin McCarthy is a muthafucking jive-ass turkey.
I call our white van the honky van.
When 4 tracks came out…Oh yeah! Then EIGHT tracks!? 1st car, a 1961 Rambler 210, 196 c.i. flat head. The girls! Love! No drugs, cigs or alc. Wow, life was awesome! Graduated in 69. Didn’t know anything about the Hidden Hand, life or reality. In the military, 07/29/69, found a reality. If I knew then what I know now…
Did your Rambler have the lay down front seat?