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Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.
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I have to wonder what we played with that will be looked at with such ... surprise? shock? agog-ness? in 20 years...
I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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in the early 50's, milk was 17 cents a quart, a can of soup was 10 cents, a bag of potato chips was 10 cents and a serving of french fries was also 10 cents.
in the 60's, a "today's special" (complete meal) in a restaurant was $1.00 and a 200 mile round trip by bus from the city where i lived to Montreal was $4.00
Gas prices hovered around 30 cents per gallon...
and greyhound busses would do 80-85 MPH on the highway.
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I have to wonder what we played with that will be looked at with such ... surprise? shock? agog-ness? in 20 years... Slap bracelets for one. Bren R.
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In the 60's I could drink and drive. When pulled over by a cop with beer in hand, the cop would tell me to be careful with that, and let me go.
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That didn't become illegal in TX until the late 80'S! That's also when they closed all the drive-thru bars.
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in the early 50's, milk was 17 cents a quart, a can of soup was 10 cents, a bag of potato chips was 10 cents and a serving of french fries was also 10 cents.
in the 60's, a "today's special" (complete meal) in a restaurant was $1.00 and a 200 mile round trip by bus from the city where i lived to Montreal was $4.00
Gas prices hovered around 30 cents per gallon...
and greyhound busses would do 80-85 MPH on the highway. And everybody knew you could hide from a nuclear nucular bomb by ducking under your desk. Ah, the good old days...
Fred
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Blujays1: Spending Fred's money one bottle at a time, no two... Oh crap!
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i bet those are the ones who survived in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
a great example of governments manipulating the people's minds.
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i bet those are the ones who survived in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
a great example of governments manipulating the people's minds. Did Canadians have "duck and cover" drills? It had a catchy little tune that went with the instructional 8 mm film....Duck!...and cover, Duck!... and cover. Where's Jack when I need him?
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I used to buy chocolate cigarettes all the time when I was a kid. I think there was another kind of candy cigarette too.
Isn't a Tootsie roll a kids version of chewing tobacco?
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