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Off Topic Area => The Lounge => Topic started by: FL SAAC on November 05, 2022, 10:08:51 AM
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I miss getting up early Saturday morning and watching a marathon of colorful, energetic, brilliant cartoons that ran for hours non stop. Then right around mid day, the drum beats and then a yell that Tarzan was about to start ....
How about you ?
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No personal computers…. ;)
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The cartons are good. Real fun toys. HO/AFX race sets...But there are no good car designs to copy, it would have to be retro.
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Cartoons, and a show called 'Wonderrama' starring Bob McAllister....In LA, there was channel 52 that showed 'The Little Rascals', 'The Three Stooges' and 'Speed Racer' on a daily basis. Miss that. Also, LA's KTLA channel 5 used to show all the cool monster films, like Godzilla, Rodan, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. Pre-celeb Steve Edwards would have a contest right after the movies.
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Cartoons, and a show called 'Wonderrama' starring Bob McAllister....In LA, there was channel 52 that showed 'The Little Rascals', 'The Three Stooges' and 'Speed Racer' on a daily basis. Miss that. Also, LA's KTLA channel 5 used to show all the cool monster films, like Godzilla, Rodan, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. Pre-celeb Steve Edwards would have a contest right after the movies.
. If you like the monster flicks(along with some corny shtick) there is Svengoolie every Saturday night…… 8)
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Cartoons, and a show called 'Wonderrama' starring Bob McAllister....In LA, there was channel 52 that showed 'The Little Rascals', 'The Three Stooges' and 'Speed Racer' on a daily basis. Miss that. Also, LA's KTLA channel 5 used to show all the cool monster films, like Godzilla, Rodan, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. Pre-celeb Steve Edwards would have a contest right after the movies.
. If you like the monster flicks(along with some corny shtick) there is Svengoolie every Saturday night…… 8)
Yes, I know of 'Sven. Always watch him after The 'Stooges!
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Great stuff.Too bad the original mystery science theater is done.Most humorous…
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The cartons are good. Real fun toys. HO/AFX race sets...But there are no good car designs to copy, it would have to be retro.
You mean like these?
Roy
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“What do I miss from my childhood?”
Smoking.
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Going shooting with my Dad from the time I was about 8 until I was 14 (and discovered girls!) Just about every other Saturday morning, Dad and I would drive out to a farm owned by a friend of his. The pasture was a valley probably 500 yards long with hills on both sides. We'd shoot everything from .22 rifles and pistols, varmint rifles, high power handguns, shotguns, stuff we'd bought at gun shows. I really miss him and the time we spent together.
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Driving by the Shelby Airport facility with my Dad on a Saturday and stopping to peer through the fence to see the cars.
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This is very true
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Buying AMT annual 1/25 scale models for less than $2.00
And working at McDonalds for all of that .95 cents an hour.
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the thing i miss the most is 3rd gear...
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the thing i miss the most is 3rd gear...
This has to be the funniest answer today....LMAO
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A full pack of BB's and my gun on Saturday morning
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A full pack of BB's and my gun on Saturday morning
This sort of scenario ;)
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I miss going to the various car dealers with my parents
every year to see the new models and design changes,
unlike today where they all look the same and all come in
grey ,black or white
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I miss going to the various car dealers with my parents
every year to see the new models and design changes,
unlike today where they all look the same and all come in
grey ,black or white
+1 I'm in my 7th decade, there was anticipation every year to see the new cars, I remember them being in the show room covered
up until the release date. It was a big deal, there would be refreshments , and I would grab the sales brochures, and spec out the
cars as I would like them, of course the most powerful engines and a 4 speed, or fully optioned with all the luxury stuff.
I still have those brochures with my notes ;)
I'm with you that they all look the same now, back in the day you could tell a car at night by the tail lights, and some times the
headlights.
Mike
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What Honker said!
I did the same thing, back in the day. Auto shows with my dad. Bringing home every car brochure, even of the cars I didn't particularly like.
Then, spending the weekend pouring over all of the specs, committing them to memory. Scribing the new data into my three-ring binder to compare everything. Writing pretend road test comparisons between the muscle cars.
Then, cutting the pages apart and thumb-tacking the phots across quite literally every inch of the walls in my room. Separated by make and model.
That was me, from ages 9-16.
My god, that was great.
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