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THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:13 am

MiniYoda wrote:

Now, could you gents who are older than I am, please discuss things that you could obatin from your local gasoline station? Please don't post pictures of signs saying gasoline was under a dollar a gallon. What I mean was, do you remember getting a fill-up, and the attendent (for you young furts, that's an employee who pumped the gasoline in the car for you, so that you didn't have to get out of the car), gave you something as a thank you for your visit. A collectable.

Anyone else remember getting a fillup at the local 76 or Shell, and getting something back as a thank you for your visit?

Yep, I remember scraping together a bunch of change for gas to put in my first car, a '59 Volkswagen.

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:26 am

Jim wrote:

FrankC wrote:

Keds were the better shoe. Your mother worried about you having fallen arches. Keds had arch supports.
Fallen arches were a big worry in the 50's after polio.

Speaking of disease, the whole class use to be lined up and brought down to the nurse's office every year for a tuberculosis test. Lawsuits would be flying if they tried that today. With our President's interest in health care maybe mandatory testing for select diseases should be required.

Who here has a scar on their shoulder from a polio inoculation? Or was it small pox? I don't remember. I just remember standing in line in grade school with a bunch of kids whimpering in anticipation of pain. I just shrugged it off. The youngsters here won't have any remembrance of this.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

In the early days of gas stations that added car washes, they would often give you a free car wash, if you filled up. I guess that deal is long since gone. Could it be because the price of water has gone way up, and the price of gasoline has dropped so much, that gas stations lose money on the water, after you have filled up with gasoline...?

Somebody help me here, and if anyone does, I will tell you the story of CLOUDY, THE IDIOT, going through the free car wash about 25 years ago. (It's a funny story.)

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.......................... Wish I wasn't driving a station wagon that day, but it still has a happy ending.

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 790

Cloudy wrote:

I don't think they make 45 rpm records anymore. (Though I have heard the 33 1/3 vinal LP's might have a new life.) The 45 rpm records were great. You could go to parties, and just play the songs that people wanted to hear and dance to. You could stack them up on the hi-fi spindle adapter, and let them automatically drop down to the next one as the last one ended. While you were riding your bike over to your buddy's house, they would convienently slip over the handle bars, so you could carry a bunch of them, while you peddled your way through the neighborhood.

p.s. Does anyone remember the cheap plastic inserts that you needed to stack them on a hi-fi, if you didn't have the spindle adapter?

............... (What an invention, and NO moving parts...!)

p.p.s There were also solid metal 45 rpm adapters, that were a little trickier to insert, but never slipped out.

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p.p.p.s. For you real youngsters, the 45 rpm records only had two songs on them. (One on each side.) There was an exception to this, called the EP (Extended Play) that had two songs on each side.

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

pengwn · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:19 pm

The Performing Arts centre here in Calgary still has two hand-operated elevators. Last time I was there buying a CPO ticket, there were two security ladies on duty. I don't think offering out of the blue to lay a wager on, say, Stanford beating Cal as you're descending to the main floor would be all that advisable in this case. You never know, though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrqXWcMD70

Botanist · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:31 pm

THE ICEMAN wrote:

Jim wrote:

FrankC wrote:

Keds were the better shoe. Your mother worried about you having fallen arches. Keds had arch supports.
Fallen arches were a big worry in the 50's after polio.

Speaking of disease, the whole class use to be lined up and brought down to the nurse's office every year for a tuberculosis test. Lawsuits would be flying if they tried that today. With our President's interest in health care maybe mandatory testing for select diseases should be required.

Who here has a scar on their shoulder from a polio inoculation? Or was it small pox? I don't remember. I just remember standing in line in grade school with a bunch of kids whimpering in anticipation of pain. I just shrugged it off. The youngsters here won't have any remembrance of this.

Yes, that was the smallpox vaccine. They stopped routinely giving those in 1972, so people younger than 45 or so will not normally have the scar. I remember getting that vaccine, as clear as if it were yesterday. Rather than a typical needle injection (which is what I expected at the time), the doctor would tap your skin repeatedly with a pointy object, just enough to abrade your skin and introduce the virus.

Botanist · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:43 pm

Cloudy wrote:

I don't think they make 45 rpm records anymore. (Though I have heard the 33 1/3 vinal LP's might have a new life.) The 45 rpm records were great. You could go to parties, and just play the songs that people wanted to hear and dance to. You could stack them up on the hi-fi spindle adapter, and let them automatically drop down to the next one as the last one ended. While you were riding your bike over to your buddy's house, they would convienently slip over the handle bars, so you could carry a bunch of them, while you peddled your way through the neighborhood.

p.s. Does anyone remember the cheap plastic inserts that you needed to stack them on a hi-fi, if you didn't have the spindle adapter?

p.p.s There were also solid metal 45 rpm adapters, that were a little trickier to insert, but never slipped out.

p.p.p.s. For you real youngsters, the 45 rpm records only had two songs on them. (One on each side.) There was an exception to this, called the EP (Extended Play) that had two songs on each side.

Furthermore, if you had a long song that did not fit on one side, you had to flip the 45 over halfway through the song. The one I am thinking of specifically was Don McLean's "American Pie," which was over eight minutes long.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

How about 8-Tracks...?

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Heck I think a still have two or three hundred of them.

p.s. It looks like audio cassettes (of which I probably have close to 1,000.) are also becoming pretty much obsolete.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

How about Poodle Skirts and White Bucks...?

No, I never owned or wore a Poodle Skirt, but I remember older teenage girls, who did.

However, I did own and wear White Bucks. Thanks to Pat Boone, for making them the rage.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

If you were a kid in the 1950's, not only did you have fire drills, you also got air raid drills.

Yeah, we all had to climb under our desks at school, and that was supposed to save us from an atomic blast... :roll:

Rich kids' families built fallout shelters in their basements, and kept quiet about them. They didn't want the rest of us (Who didn't have one.) trying to squeeze into their fallout shelter, if Soviet missiles were ever headed our way.

If the bomb detonated within 50 miles of these fallout shelters, they would have been vaporized. If the fallout shelter survived the blast, the survivors would have emerged into a new world, where they would have wished that they had been vaporized. :cry:

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Botanist wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I don't think they make 45 rpm records anymore. (Though I have heard the 33 1/3 vinal LP's might have a new life.) The 45 rpm records were great. You could go to parties, and just play the songs that people wanted to hear and dance to. You could stack them up on the hi-fi spindle adapter, and let them automatically drop down to the next one as the last one ended. While you were riding your bike over to your buddy's house, they would convienently slip over the handle bars, so you could carry a bunch of them, while you peddled your way through the neighborhood.

p.s. Does anyone remember the cheap plastic inserts that you needed to stack them on a hi-fi, if you didn't have the spindle adapter?

p.p.s There were also solid metal 45 rpm adapters, that were a little trickier to insert, but never slipped out.

p.p.p.s. For you real youngsters, the 45 rpm records only had two songs on them. (One on each side.) There was an exception to this, called the EP (Extended Play) that had two songs on each side.

Furthermore, if you had a long song that did not fit on one side, you had to flip the 45 over halfway through the song. The one I am thinking of specifically was Don McLean's "American Pie," which was over eight minutes long.

Botanist, I had no idea that they ever tried to put "American Pie" out on both sides of a 45 rpm record. Hell, it took up one whole side of the 33 1/3 LP album.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Gogetem wrote:

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

GOGETEM, we need to start a movement to bring record players, and 45 rpm records back. These records contain the original sound that all of these computer copycats try to reproduce, but lack the fullness and warmth of the original recordings. My musician son (who is in his 20's), and who plays lead guitar, bass, drums, and electric organ in several bands, says that vinal records have the best sound.

p.s. I probably have a thousand 45 rpm records collecting dust in my basement. They go back to the early 1950's, and right up to the end of the 45 rpm record era.

FrankC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:00 am

Cloudy wrote:

Gogetem wrote:

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

GOGETEM, we need to start a movement to bring record players, and 45 rpm records back. These records contain the original sound that all of these computer copycats try to reproduce, but lack the fullness and warmth of the original recordings. My musician son (who is in his 20's), and who plays lead guitar, bass, drums, and electric organ in several bands, says that vinal records have the best sound.

p.s. I probably have a thousand 45 rpm records collecting dust in my basement. They go back to the early 1950's, and right up to the end of the 45 rpm record era.

That is known as the Vinyl myth. CDs are far better than LP 33 and 1/3s.

FrankC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:13 am

FrankC wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Gogetem wrote:

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

GOGETEM, we need to start a movement to bring record players, and 45 rpm records back. These records contain the original sound that all of these computer copycats try to reproduce, but lack the fullness and warmth of the original recordings. My musician son (who is in his 20's), and who plays lead guitar, bass, drums, and electric organ in several bands, says that vinal records have the best sound.

p.s. I probably have a thousand 45 rpm records collecting dust in my basement. They go back to the early 1950's, and right up to the end of the 45 rpm record era.

That is known as the Vinyl myth. CDs are far better than LP 33 and 1/3s.

The other myth is that vacuum tube amps produce better better sound than transistor amps.

FrankC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:13 am

FrankC wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Gogetem wrote:

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

GOGETEM, we need to start a movement to bring record players, and 45 rpm records back. These records contain the original sound that all of these computer copycats try to reproduce, but lack the fullness and warmth of the original recordings. My musician son (who is in his 20's), and who plays lead guitar, bass, drums, and electric organ in several bands, says that vinal records have the best sound.

p.s. I probably have a thousand 45 rpm records collecting dust in my basement. They go back to the early 1950's, and right up to the end of the 45 rpm record era.

That is known as the Vinyl myth. CDs are far better than LP 33 and 1/3s.

The other myth is that vacuum tube amps produce better better sound than transistor amps.

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 790

Cloudy wrote:

Gogetem wrote:

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

GOGETEM, we need to start a movement to bring record players, and 45 rpm records back. These records contain the original sound that all of these computer copycats try to reproduce, but lack the fullness and warmth of the original recordings. My musician son (who is in his 20's), and who plays lead guitar, bass, drums, and electric organ in several bands, says that vinal records have the best sound.

p.s. I probably have a thousand 45 rpm records collecting dust in my basement. They go back to the early 1950's, and right up to the end of the 45 rpm record era.

I don't have nearly that many, but several. I also remember that early 45s were monaural only. If one wanted stereo, the album had to be purchased.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Gogetem wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Gogetem wrote:

I still have some of those inserts and 45s. 8-)

GOGETEM, we need to start a movement to bring record players, and 45 rpm records back. These records contain the original sound that all of these computer copycats try to reproduce, but lack the fullness and warmth of the original recordings. My musician son (who is in his 20's), and who plays lead guitar, bass, drums, and electric organ in several bands, says that vinal records have the best sound.

p.s. I probably have a thousand 45 rpm records collecting dust in my basement. They go back to the early 1950's, and right up to the end of the 45 rpm record era.

I don't have nearly that many, but several. I also remember that early 45s were monaural only. If one wanted stereo, the album had to be purchased.

You're right, with very few exeptions, 45 rpm records were mono... However, we didn't care, we were all dancing and jiving to the sounds. The louder they were the better, and I doubt that many people at teen parties back in the 1950's, 1960's, or even the early 1970's, were audiophiles, who gave a damn what sounds came out of which speakers.

None of us back in the day would have known if the Contours' big hit, "Do You Love Me", was blasting out of the speakers in mono or stereo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muu7FxdCG4U\

How about the Spencer Davis Group with "Gimme Some Lovin'"...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFaT69CyyKU

Then, how about Wilson Pickett and "Mustang Sally"...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21eKXZTv ... re=related

I can't stop there. How about Dion's monster hit, "Runaround Sue"...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k

Oh Hell, one more. The Kingsmen and their big hit, "Louie Louie"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WcgqXMncf4

The fact is, that as teenagers back in those days, it didn't really matter to us, if we listening to stereo music as long as it had a good beat, something you could dance to, and was loud.

When the Joan Baez, Buffy Saint Marie, etc. type of music became popular, yes, it needed stereo sound. However, people just sat around and listened to that music, and never got up to dance.

Damn, I need to put the Wicked Pickett, Wilson Pickett, back in here one more time. He needs to take you all to "The Land of 1,000 Dances" without stereo sound, but who cares...? It has a good beat, you can dance to it, and it's loud. :lol:

Enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWoQ_pZtXCY

p.s This was a long post, but a lot of fun for me, to tell everyone that 45 rpm records didn't need to be stereo.

Dante · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:11 am

Cloudy wrote:

p.s This was a long post, but a lot of fun for me, to tell everyone that 45 rpm records didn't need to be stereo.

Somehow you turned this thread into "Music from the Stone Ages"

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Dante wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

p.s This was a long post, but a lot of fun for me, to tell everyone that 45 rpm records didn't need to be stereo.

Somehow you turned this thread into "Music from the Stone Ages"

OK, you asked for it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8

The Flinstones and the Rubbles didn't need stereo either...!

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Nearly everyone had a TV antenna of their roof back in the 1950's and 1960's. Even if you wanted one today, your neighborhood association would make you take it down. (I would like to think that they all were melted down and turned into beer cans.)

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Have any of you youngsters ever owned, let alone seen a white sidewall tire...?

p.s. It kind of looks like hubcaps and chrome bumpers are history too.

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Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Two toned cars and cars with fins are gone. (The only exceptions would be custom cars.)

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Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Can't find a picture of the starter button for the engine that was on the floor, but my parents' 1949 Ford had one. Guess we don't need those cute little buttons anymore to get our cars started.

(Does anyone else remember those starter buttons that have been gone for a long time now?)

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:10 am

Cloudy wrote:

Can't find a picture of the starter button for the engine that was on the floor, but my parents' 1949 Ford had one. Guess we don't need those cute little buttons anymore to get our cars started.

(Does anyone else remember those starter buttons have been gone for a long time now?)

Yep, I remember that button. My friend's dad had an old Ford pickup, we used to fiddle with it all the time. It looked similar to this one, except this one is in a bit better shape...

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

Highbeam light changer buttons on the floor board.

When they moved the changer to the steering column, round here, the joke was about all the hillbillies driving around with high beams on because they couldn't reach the changer with their feet.

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