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Remember when........? (mainly for us old folk)

Remember when you rolled down your window, raised your left arm up as a left turn signal, left it horizontal for a right turn. And, for those of us with stock trucks, when you pulled a cable to operate the left and right turn arrows on the top outside of the racks.
 
Yep....Mom used to send me down to the little grocery with a quarter for her smokes and a nickel for a popsicle....When those went to 7 cents we all had a fit
 
For that matter, when a joint cost you 50 cents, or three for a buck, a "nickel bag" of weed was a quarter ounce, and actually only cost 5 bucks, and a dime bag was three fingers deep in a normal baggie, probably weighed better than half an ounce, and cost you a ten-spot?
 
UR20Z said:
For that matter, when a joint cost you 50 cents, or three for a buck, a "nickel bag" of weed was a quarter ounce, and actually only cost 5 bucks, and a dime bag was three fingers deep in a normal baggie, probably weighed better than half an ounce, and cost you a ten-spot?
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Never was a Cannabis fan...but I always wondered how a "Nickel" got up to 50 dollars
 
I used to keep pool cue chalk in an aluminum film can. ..Every damn fool and his granny used to pick it up off the shelf by the table and shake it. Youd think theyd have figured out that if there was contraband in it, I wouldnt leave it in the open....

Remember when 35 mm film cans WERE aluminum? Kodak's were bright yellow with a red top.
 
UR20Z said:
For that matter, when a joint cost you 50 cents, or three for a buck, a "nickel bag" of weed was a quarter ounce, and actually only cost 5 bucks, and a dime bag was three fingers deep in a normal baggie, probably weighed better than half an ounce, and cost you a ten-spot?
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I remember all the seeds. $20 an oz. Where I lived, weed was so crappy compared to today, but today I don't really smoke. One hit and that's it for me.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Yep....Mom used to send me down to the little grocery with a quarter for her smokes and a nickel for a popsicle....When those went to 7 cents we all had a fit
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Yea, nickel candy bars, penny candy, but I remember Mr Good Bars were 2 or 3 cents.

Maybe that's why old people can be so frugal, we remember all the "use to be prices".
 
saddlebum66 said:
I used to keep pool cue chalk in an aluminum film can. ..Every damn fool and his granny used to pick it up off the shelf by the table and shake it. Youd think theyd have figured out that if there was contraband in it, I wouldnt leave it in the open....

Remember when 35 mm film cans WERE aluminum? Kodak's were bright yellow with a red top.
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I forget which brand it was, but there was another one that used plain, naked brushed aluminum for both can and screw-top lid. Liked those for storing small bits and pieces.
 
PonyLove said:
I remember all the seeds. $20 an oz. Where I lived, weed was so crappy compared to today, but today I don't really smoke. One hit and that's it for me.
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Y'know, now that you mention it, it's gotta be better than 20 years since I last got any weed with a seed in it. Got an Altoids box somewhere that's travelled around the country with me collecting seeds. Last time I looked in it, there were probably half a thousand, I'd guesstimate. All "bag seeds", some going back as far as the 80s. Last time I tried sprouting any of 'em, I came up with a plant that I called "grapefruit cough". Made 12 clones off it, sold 4, gave away three others, and finish-grew the rest for personal use and some small-scale sales. The name was perfectly descriptive - Tasted like smoking a grapefruit, and made you try to hack up a kneecap every toke. The guy I sold the 4 to used one as a mother that he started cloning from, and the rest to make edibles. Last I knew, about 4-5 years back, clones from that batch of plants were being used all over the place for making cookies. REALLY NICE COOKIES! ??‍??
 
UR20Z said:
I forget which brand it was, but there was another one that used plain, naked brushed aluminum for both can and screw-top lid. Liked those for storing small bits and pieces.
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Sounds like agfa....European film with a sort of golden cast to the finished pics if it was color film. Kodak ektachrome and its consumer oriented( read as harder to fuck it up) brother Kodachrome had little color bias. I have a Photog friend from Poland who has stated that kodak films
" have no soul", and I can see his point
 
UR20Z said:
For that matter, when a joint cost you 50 cents, or three for a buck, a "nickel bag" of weed was a quarter ounce, and actually only cost 5 bucks, and a dime bag was three fingers deep in a normal baggie, probably weighed better than half an ounce, and cost you a ten-spot?
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When I first started people were complaining about a lid (1 oz) going up to $10. Of course "clean" at that time meant no rocks or huge stems.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Remember 'Boys Life' and the American Seed Co ads on the back of the comics? I sold those for three years...got my first fishing rod that way
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Reminds me of my Boy Scout handbook which had a gun ad talking about how their .22 shot straighter than the others.
 
That was the Model 60 Marlin Glenfield....I own one that was made for Sears Roebuck....


Heck, Y'all remember when they WERE Sears Roebuck....and they sold Guns? Ted Williams was their Outdoor Sports advisor, and had his name on their best grades of Rifles, Shotguns and Fishing Gear.

And of Course, Baseball gloves and Bats.
 
saddlebum66 said:
That was the Model 60 Marlin Glenfield....I own one that was made for Sears Roebuck....


Heck, Y'all remember when they WERE Sears Roebuck....and they sold Guns? Ted Williams was their Outdoor Sports advisor, and had his name on their best grades of Rifles, Shotguns and Fishing Gear.

And of Course, Baseball gloves and Bats.
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I do! :)
 
j217 said:
When I first started people were complaining about a lid (1 oz) going up to $10. Of course "clean" at that time meant no rocks or huge stems.
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Yea, I forgot to mention all those stems in addition to the seeds. And the seeds would pop like popcorn if you put them in a pile or rolled them.

Remember the Cheech and Chong giant rolling paper in their album??
 
PonyLove said:
Yea, I forgot to mention all those stems in addition to the seeds. And the seeds would pop like popcorn if you put them in a pile or rolled them.

Remember the Cheech and Chong giant rolling paper in their album??
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Yep. The Big Bambu. A bunch of us threw in together and rolled a QP in it for a gag. Didn't smoke worth a shit. Ended up tearing it down and re-rolling using good ol' Zig-zags and EZ-Widers.

Of course, there's always the adventure of rolling a seed you didn't notice, and having the damned thing go off like a popcorn kernel partway through the joint - Damn near burned a house down due to one of those. Ker-POP, and the joint blew apart like somebody stuffed a cigarette load in it. Thought it was all over, but we must've missed a bit of the hots, 'cause about 20 minutes later, we're in the kitchen playing euchre, and we started noticing a burning smell. Turned out to be the arm and one of the cushions of the couch smoldering and just about ready to burst into flames. We managed to get it out the front door before it actually went full bonfire mode.
 
Remember when you had to wait 20 minutes for those large box computers to load while staring at that Microsoft icon on a CRT?
 
Pillar said:
Remember when you had to wait 20 minutes for those large box computers to load while staring at that Microsoft icon on a CRT?
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My first full time job was as a computer operator. The mainframes stood on the floor and were table top high, 6 ft wide and 3 ft deep. The disk drives were 22 meg, we used a keypunch and then a card reader to enter data, and Microsoft didn't exist.
 
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