Topic: Groooovy, man...'70s flash-back
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Well, there we was, cruizin thru a new junk store(antique mall), and there it were...far OUT, man!! 
What were it, you ax? Check it out, man...
Gen-you-wine, 1970's vintage...hold on now...ya might wanna have a seat...
Stereo system...AM/FM tuner, Turn-table, dual cassette w/record, and...wait...it's comin...8-TRACK!!!!
Also included? A box FULL of tapes, and a storage case for them!! About 30 8-track tapes in all. It was a bit pricey, but I just had tuh have it!(only had one speaker, but that ain't a prob)
How much, ya say? Well...it almost broke the bank, and I'll have to cut back on the cheese sammiches for a couple of years, but I had to have it, and shelled out big bucks...$20!!! Thas rite...twenty US dollers!!! Yeeee-haw!
When we got home later this eve, I had to check it out further. Guess whut? IT WORKS....ALL of it!
Tuner tunes, turntable turns & plays, both cassette drives work, and, the icing on da cake...the 8-track works! Nostalgia? Yup...I just had to hear that thing go "CLICK" right in the middle of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" from the Rumors tape!
Bring out da bell-bottoms, light the incense, flip on da black light, and Keep on Truckin!
What were it, you ax? Check it out, man...
Gen-you-wine, 1970's vintage...hold on now...ya might wanna have a seat...
Stereo system...AM/FM tuner, Turn-table, dual cassette w/record, and...wait...it's comin...8-TRACK!!!!
Also included? A box FULL of tapes, and a storage case for them!! About 30 8-track tapes in all. It was a bit pricey, but I just had tuh have it!(only had one speaker, but that ain't a prob)
How much, ya say? Well...it almost broke the bank, and I'll have to cut back on the cheese sammiches for a couple of years, but I had to have it, and shelled out big bucks...$20!!! Thas rite...twenty US dollers!!! Yeeee-haw!
When we got home later this eve, I had to check it out further. Guess whut? IT WORKS....ALL of it!
Tuner tunes, turntable turns & plays, both cassette drives work, and, the icing on da cake...the 8-track works! Nostalgia? Yup...I just had to hear that thing go "CLICK" right in the middle of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" from the Rumors tape!
Bring out da bell-bottoms, light the incense, flip on da black light, and Keep on Truckin!
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That's a pretty cool find Joel. I think the tapes are the big bonus.
I gots one but the tape don't work...record player do tho.
As a kid, everytime I got me a new 8- track for my car some jackass would steal it. They were a big deal back in the day.
I gots one but the tape don't work...record player do tho.
As a kid, everytime I got me a new 8- track for my car some jackass would steal it. They were a big deal back in the day.
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We need to find Joel some platform shoes to go with new groovie muzik machine. Sweet find joel!!!!
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You guys are reminiscing about 8 track tape players and I can remember when I had a 45 rpm record player under the dash. I'm getting old.
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FAR OUT MAN! That's cool bro... My wife thinks I have flipped out too. I have bought several pairs of Levis Big Bells and some new Earth shoes off of EBAY lately.
I can't help it I just like the look. Now I am going to check out that Rumours Album.... Stevie Nicks in that white lacey dress..... Ohhhh Yeahhhh!
I can't help it I just like the look. Now I am going to check out that Rumours Album.... Stevie Nicks in that white lacey dress..... Ohhhh Yeahhhh!
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Isn't Stevie Nicks that Old chic from that old band?
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[QUOTE=Chevyjunkie93] Isn't Stevie Nicks that Old chic from that old band?
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That's okay Jamie.... Time has a way of playing cruel tricks on all of us.... Your day will come and you can't stop it...
Sorry to hijack your thread bro...
Just Kiddin Ya'llThat's okay Jamie.... Time has a way of playing cruel tricks on all of us.... Your day will come and you can't stop it...
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You guys are reminiscing about 8 track tape players and I can remember when I had a 45 rpm record
That's OK Jim...at least it wasn't a 78 rpm
That's OK Jim...at least it wasn't a 78 rpm
I've been looking for a place to stick this.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, or lay rubber, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ...."
and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
8-track tapes
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Pop bottle caps with cork in them
Drive ins
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life
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