Jiri,thank you. You are correct that most today can not use a sextant,or read semaphore for that matter,or morse code. I am one of the fortunate ones who was in the REAL Boy Scouts,back when our scout masters were all navy WW2 vets + taught us knotwork,navigation,marksmanship,ad affinium. I treasured that knowledge then + still do today. Seems however that today in the "pussy movement" that the Boy Scouts should not be perceived as some sort of military training unit.What a crock of liberal propoganda. That was exactly what Baden Powell had in mind.And he was right. I have 1 friend left in Germany from WW2 that had to serve in the Hitler Youth. This is NOT anywhere near the same. I agree that I hope none of our children will that kind of soviet aggression or any other kind.Here's my stump speech;If you let Hillary or anyone on the tratorist left allow the U.N. to override the U.S. Constitution (LAW OF THE LAND) then we + our children are in deep merde.

The little glass with a turbine inside, on top of the gas pump. To assure the customer that gas was flowing. The early gas pumps had a glass reservoir on top. You pumped the gas into the reservoir then let it flow down into your tank. I recall seeing some of those in the 1940's.

Starter switch on floor. Flathead engines. Choke button. Spark advance and throttle lever on steering column. The Jewel Tea man and his brown truck. Super Constellation airliners. Attractive airline stewardesses. American citizen migrant farm workers. 19 cent 22 LR ammo at the grocery store. Cane or bamboo fishing poles. Cushman Eagle motor scooters. Oak plank pickup beds. Real Winchester firearms. House call doctors. Cuban cigars. "Bubble gum machines" on cop cars.

I was going to say a Rand McNally Road Atlas, but they still make them. My last one was 1997.

A nickel cigar

Cars with fenders

A rumble seat

A Soda Jerk

A "Full Service" island at a gas station

A caboose

Shoe shine machine

Men on the moon

A Schwinn Sting-Ray with banana seat

The concorde

A Fotomat

A Two Stroke powered motorcycle

An elephant at a circus

A typewriter

A player piano

A victrola

33, 45 and 78 RPM LP's & SP's

8 Track

Betamax



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I don't agree with some. If you travel a little, you will see many things mentioned above:

The little glass with a turbine inside - seen sometimes on modern gas pumps in Europe

Attractive airline stewardesses - don't fly with Delta, British or American airlines and it will be much better ;-)

Bamboo fishing pole - seen one last year in Cabelas in South Carolina

Shoe shine machine - seen sometimes in hotels

A Two Stroke powered motorcycle - a lot of around the world

Cuban cigars - everywhere except USA

The concorde - not flying, but seen one last year in Sinshaim, Germany

And many more :-)

Jiri

A glass or cup in a box of oatmeal.

33, 45 and 78 RPM LP's & SP's:

The production of vinyl records is increasing. In our country, we have one of the best known factory in the world - http://www.gzvinyl.com/ (produced 14 000 000 records in 2014)

There is also a lot of turntables, for DJs and Hi-Fi. For example this austrian company make it here in Czech Republic - http://www.project-audio.com/m...t=turntables&lang=en

Just look for another end of Hi-Fi, not low one ;-)

Jiri

Bigfoot, Golem, Nessie... ;-)


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Jiri, on the vinyl records. I still have about a dozen of the nickel masters the vinyls were made from. I never knew whose records they were just that they were pure nicklle. I cut them up for years to put in my Damascus.

The millennial golfers will never get the opportunity to "hit it in the screws".

I was watching Hud (the movie) last night. Paul Newman used an old style beer can opener to punch two triangular shaped holes in the top of his beer can. (If you remember, the other end of the opener was to pop the cap off of a beer bottle.) Those openers are collectibles now; some going for about $10 on ebay.

A computer that you talk to in machine language, that has no operating system, that has core memory and forgets everything when power is removed.
A pay phone (there are still a few but damn hard to find).
Shredded wheat that comes in mini hay bails that have to be broken up by hand.
Car windows that have to be opened with a crank.
Oil that has to be changed every 1000 miles.
Kids in school that have had Polio and walk with crutches.
The list is endless.
C.G.B.

Two-meter amateur radio emergency communication networks that can't be shut down with a simple over-the-air software update from China...

A few more:
Airports without security lines.
Cops that carry revolvers, not MP5's or M4's.
Mothers that don't have to work.
Girls with real boobs and no tattoos.
School reports requiring the use of a library and books.
Talking to a person that can complete a sentence without using the F word at least once.
People that can do simple math in their heads.
Having to suffer with mumps, measles, or chickenpox, although there are some mothers today that think such things are wonderful, natural experiences.
John Wayne and Walter Cronkite.
Living without WiFi.
C.G.B.

Personal accountability, with appropriate consequences.

How about One-speed bicycles that weighed about 70 pounds with fat tires that really gave you a workout.

Whitewall tires I suspect.

Yeah, Ken, I remember church keys well, still have a few. Who would have thought that they would have that kind of value today? I still have the oil spout that I kept in an oil-soaked rag under the seat to puncture the cans. Hud was + is a great movie; Larry Mcmurtry's 1st book written under the title "Horseman Pass By."

Riding in the bed of the pickup truck.

Copper pennies in the fuse box.

Trying to tune in the radio frequency with the knob.

Driving partially repaired cars while sitting on a milk crate.

Jiri/NormanConquest, Marines (and Army) are still doing Land Nav with map and compass. Navy is still doing Celestial Navigation, Maneuver (Mo) Boards, and P Works (using tide tables and maps to plan the right time/tide to make sure you have high enough tide not to run aground or a low enough tide to get under the bridges).

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Originally posted by cgbach:
A computer that you talk to in machine language, that has no operating system, that has core memory and forgets everything when power is removed.
A pay phone (there are still a few but damn hard to find).
Shredded wheat that comes in mini hay bails that have to be broken up by hand.
Car windows that have to be opened with a crank.
Oil that has to be changed every 1000 miles.
Kids in school that have had Polio and walk with crutches.
The list is endless.
C.G.B.

Shredded Wheat still comes standard in the mini hay bails you describe. I've got two boxes of it on the shelf right now.

How much freedom they lost after 9-11

abacus, slide rule, Curta calculator

Cars and trucks with running boards

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Originally posted by rabbithabit:
Cars and trucks with running boards

I'm going to throw in, real bumpers.

Grizz

True. A few years ago a customer sent his wife to pick up a chimney cap from my shop + my dog bit through the bumper of the new Ford F-150. I just gave her the cap no charge but told her I would be concerned about my safety in a truck that a dog can bite through the bumper. Also a few years ago I was in the Snap-On tool truck + he had a box of plastic pop rivets + after asking what those were for he said it's the body kit for the new Plymouths. It seems that now all the body parts, quarter panels + all are installed with plastic pop rivets to make the change outs easy.

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Originally posted by Brice:
Live TV that was actually live. Think Dorothy Kilgallen (What's My Line?), Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, My how times have changed! (You'll never see another Rochester), and many dozens more who didn't need a script to be entertaining.

Not True!! Lisa Blunt(skull)-Rochester is a State Representative in Delaware! Maybe she's related?

-Drum full of military surplus rifles to
choose from at prices from $25 - $99

- Barrel of fired brass sold by the pound

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Originally posted by TomP:
Snow tires with 78-profile tread and sawdust mixed with the rubber for traction...

Oh yes, F-78-15 Walnut shell retreads.

Drive In movies (And 5 bucks a car load night).
Lawn darts
Pop Guns

Kids playing with train sets. H.O. rules.

Kind regards,

Carpediem

Train sets indeed ! + as was mentioned cap guns made out of metal W/O an orange tip.

An 8-track blasting Steppenwolf over the sound of headers and glass-packs.


Buying 22 ammo at Western-Auto

Buying shotgun shells at K-Mart

A High School with an indoor shooting range (my HS in WI had one)

Oh GOD, now that brings back some memories! Do you know who wrote, "Born To Be Wild"? A dude named Mars Bonfire + he was writing about his new Corvair. Go figure.

Guys being born in 88. I have seen personally all these things.

I use to wear my Mom’s Indiana Jones like Winston awards leather jacket. I even saw Camel Cigarette TV ads.

My grandpa had I swear a V10 Chevy wo no seatbelts. I did not get to see unleaded gas.

A heavy wind would jock out our electricity for weeks. Burned a lot of coal and kerosene.

I saw Ric Flair wrestle Ricky Steamboat. Ate more candy cigarettes than most folks smoked. I never picked up a pack.

Nehru jackets.

Driving your pick up truck to high school with your deer rifles or shotguns in the gun rack of the rear window, leaving them there all day and hunting after school; Driving a two tone '54 Chevy Coupe (all steel) with stick shift on the driving column; driving a 49 Nash; leaving your house unlocked; leaving the keys in your car; going to the 5 cent Saturday matinee; girls wearing garter belts to hold up their hose; shooting rats at the local dump with your .22s; visiting with your grandparents who had an outhouse, hauled coal and wood for the wood/coal burning stove to cook on; hauling water from the spring as there was no running water or toilets in their house; getting one of the first polio shots; visiting with great grandparents who were born in the late 1800's, grandparents who were born in the early part of the 20th century (1900); World Book Encyclopedias; silver certificates (money); old Indian head nickels; Indian head pennies; dimes and quarters made of silver; nickel candy bars; mimeograph machines and mimeograph paper; corner drug stores with a malt shoppe; non-rotary phones where you picked up the receiver and then asked the operator to connect you to so and so in town (and then the operator listened in on your conversation); subsequent rotary phones; telephone switch boards with full time switch board operators; old Herter's and Sears catalogs; addressing letters to people in town by just putting their name on the envelope and then writing "City"; being born in a house instead of a hospital; no zip codes; no freeways; crew cuts and butch wax, or long hair and brill cream; sneaking kids into the drive-in in the trunk of the car; . . . . . . and the list goes on and on and on.

UEG, I can relate to every one of them!

Oh, and simulated air raid drills during elementary school, in our cold war with Russia and Khrushchev. 20 minutes before the "bomb" would hit for you to either make it home and take cover, or hide under your desk at school.

Rifles in the back windows of trucks. At school!

Half the girls in your high school class graduating without getting knocked up. We only had one, I graduated in 93.

My sister's kid is 15 and just crapped out her 2nd kid.

I thought wood stocked rifles were as dead as the Dodo but here comes Mossberg.