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Title: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: FL SAAC on November 05, 2022, 10:08:51 AM
 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 ?
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: 557 on November 05, 2022, 10:31:51 AM
No personal computers…. ;)
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Post by: 67 GT350 on November 05, 2022, 11:21:26 AM
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.
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: crossboss on November 05, 2022, 11:42:48 AM
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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Post by: 557 on November 05, 2022, 01:03:56 PM
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)
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: crossboss on November 05, 2022, 01:26:09 PM
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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Post by: 557 on November 05, 2022, 05:29:24 PM
Great stuff.Too bad the original mystery science theater is done.Most humorous…
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Post by: TA Coupe on November 05, 2022, 11:52:46 PM
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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Post by: Drew Pojedinec on November 06, 2022, 12:04:43 AM
“What do I miss from my childhood?”

Smoking.
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: NC TRACKRAT on November 06, 2022, 08:06:21 AM
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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Post by: Side-Oilers on November 06, 2022, 04:58:54 PM
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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Post by: FL SAAC on November 07, 2022, 07:31:30 AM
This is very true
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Post by: roddster on November 07, 2022, 11:16:24 AM
  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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Post by: papa scoops on November 09, 2022, 04:47:25 PM
the thing i miss the most is 3rd gear...
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: FL SAAC on November 09, 2022, 04:51:31 PM
the thing i miss the most is 3rd gear...

This has to be the funniest answer today....LMAO
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Post by: Lfino on November 14, 2022, 11:08:39 PM
A full pack of BB's and my gun on Saturday morning
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Post by: honker on November 14, 2022, 11:21:25 PM
A full pack of BB's and my gun on Saturday morning

This sort of scenario  ;)
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Post by: shelbyhertz66 on November 15, 2022, 02:45:33 PM
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
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: honker on November 15, 2022, 03:24:23 PM
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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Post by: Side-Oilers on November 15, 2022, 03:54:16 PM
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.
Title: Re: What do you miss from your childhood ?
Post by: FL SAAC on November 15, 2022, 06:15:27 PM
Everything said on page 2 is a reflection of my life....