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My Dad had a remote for the TV. It was the kid closest to it.
You had a dad. THAT’S the good old days.
He worked and provided the discipline while Mom worked keeping the household and wrangling 4 kids. Both of them were very involved in our lives through PTA, sports, church, scouts, etc. 2 involved parents is what makes it the Good Ole Days and what is missing in too many families today.
That’s wealth.
We WERE wealthy, but did not have much money. We were the same as everyone else we knew and life was good.
Sounds like White Supreemism
The colored kids had working Dads and stay at home Moms, as well and we did not have to worry about locking the door at night.
You had a TV? THAT’S the good old days.
I remember my dad telling me to look in the vents in the back of the TV to see if a tube wasn’t turning red lighting up. Had to take the non working tubes to the TV store to replace every so often lol.
One of the local grocery stores had a testing machine where you could test suspect tubes to see if they worked and then you could select the replacement from the cabinet.
As a little giffer, I believed in the tooth fairy. Waking up to expectantly find a coin after a loss was instrumental in forming an affinity for coins.
Especially older ones…pre-’65.
Had an older brother who influenced me in that regard.
Take a handful of modern alloyed coins and drop them on a marble table, then do it with ‘junk’ silver, and listen to the difference.
If you haven’t seen a 1 oz. American Eagle, or a Panda, their weight, luster and beauty are worthy of study.
And ownership.
BTW, loved the doggie namesake example in this edition of TGOD.
With the $USD losing ever more of its purchasing power, maybe a crypto should be considered.
But, which one?
Why Dogecoin, of course.
😆
Thx, DQ.
I always got Mercury dimes from the tooth fairy.
Another nice numismatic design. The Merc dime.
Likewise, buffalo nickels.
The old Peace dollars circa the Roaring 20’s, + the Barber silver dollars from the late 1800’s are nice to see & have, too.
Back when we honored gods and ideas on our currency rather than political hacks and grifters.
That’s a double upvote there too.
A G – I had an uncle who was a coin collector and one year for Christmas, he gave all the nephews/nieces one of the blue coin collecting books. My Granddad was a coin saver and dumped piles of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters on the big dining room table and told us to fill our books. My uncle looked on salivating until Granddad allowed him to start searching through the old coins for the rare ones.
I let my grandkids hear the “ring” of silver vs “thud” of clad and let them hold a Krugerrand so they knew what real money looked and sounded like. Also broke out a proof Eagle set for them to see the beautiful brilliance of shiny 24k gold.
Nice! Patriot.
I remember those blue books well.
The creme de la creme was always the elusive 1909-S, VDB.
Indian head pennies are nice historical pennies, too.
Yeah, something about holding a nice shiny, heavy gold coin in your hand.
Regardless, the design.
Real money. Yup.
With no 3rd party risk
I still have mine. It was Lincoln cents book 2, from 1941 – 1960, with a few blanks that I continued to fill in. I wish I had gotten the book 1 or the buffalo nickel book as Granddad had a bunch of old pennies, including Indian Head and he had a can full of buffalo’s. Nobody was lucky enough to find the ’09S-VDB coin that day.
I think the blue coin folders were made by a company named Whitman.
That sheet metal slide should not be in the shade. To reach the required temperature of 800 degrees it should be placed in the open. Otherwise, the buns will be undercooked.
Oh, how the memories burn.
If the slide is too hot and grippy, just throw a few handfuls of dirt on it
Waxed paper worked really well too!
Wax paper was the fastest!
Ours ended in lots of sand, so sand was the lubricant.
Wearing shorts in the summer helped to sear the legs, as well
My favorite was Robotron. I found a machine that actually plays ALL of the ones shown and Robotron. No quarters needed.
we had an arcade next to my high school lots of lunch money got fed into donkey kong and defender.
If I had to pick one from that list, it would be Star Wars, in the sit-down cockpit version. I loved the vector graphics. Personal favorites were Zaxxon, Battlezone, Time Pilot, Xevious, Space Fury.
Y’all have MAME, right?
It’s getting to be a little disconcerting when I realize more and more of the featured pics don’t feel like “old” at all. More like semi-recent.
Good Old Days was plugging a nickel into one of these
One quarter? Frogger, for sure.
https://www.heykcsb.com/ < it’s safe
missile command
Thanks for the smiles and memories.
I was in retail / wholesale sales of TV’s in the 1970’s and 1980’s in Lancaster County, PA. In 1975 our best selling TV size was a 19 inch set. A non-remote, 19 inch Sony TV retailed for $499.95 and the equivalent Zenith was $30 less. There were no remotes at this time in 19 inch size. The 25 inch floor model TV’s started at $599.95 and if the customer wanted remote it was an additional $100.
We had a giant three or four story rocket ship in the park on church street in Holbrook /bohemia ny. It had a slide that corkscrewed around it . I can’t even exaggerate how many kids broke their arm or collarbone falling off it lol.I believe they tore it down in the early 80s maybe late 70s . I believe it was located at the current site of the Mike Buckley ballfield.
Society is always trying to protect kids from having fun and breaking bones.
I remember something like that at Fink Park in Oklahoma.
Two words:
Joyce DeWitt
The Three’s Company choice of Joyce or Suzanne a bit comparable to Gilligan’s Island one of Ginger or Maryann.
Kind of.
Sort of.
Maybe.
Or, not.
Mmmmm…Mrs. Howell.
😆
Mrs. Roper
Angie Dickinson
Thelma Lou or Helen Crump
Neither Joyce nor Suzanne seemed “high maintenance ” like Ginger.
Back in the 70’s dad had a business that rented jukeboxes, pinball machines and pool tables for half the proceeds. When Pong came out he borrowed every nickel he could to buy those machines and all subsequent arcade machines that came out. I was a teenager in the 70’s and there would be various arcade machines in the garage but he kept a Donkey Kong most of the time. In 1978 the business doubled and again in 79. He sold the business in 1980 as it had gotten larger than he could handle.
I dropped on down briefly to tell a cute story. The name of the restaurant is inconsequential, but this neighborhood restaurant (Italian) and actually a pretty nice restaurant is a place that the whole family (actually a split family; my father, my stepmother, and stepsister) would go often on weekends. I must have been around 6 or 7 and my stepsister maybe 5 or 6. We went to the checkout counter after the check came and were waiting on our parents. Once they arrived with the check, I had my stepsister open her purse and I poured the entire cup of butter mints into it. I guess I figured no one else liked those. But we sure got in trouble. The ‘as a kid’ one; well I wanted to be a lot of things and one of them I actually became and in my case as opposed to the stereotype, I actually did make a lot of money at it. But I wanted to be a cowboy, a policeman (now it’s an officer of course) a fighter jet pilot, and a truck driver.
Those are my favorite brachs candies. I don’t know what they are called or if they still make them.
Patrick Swayze looks just like his mom.
Thanks Admin.