Old stuff

[calvinater]

Anyone remember this company?

Tried the numbers no luck.
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"Albatross"!

[calvinater]

Or how about " Sy Sims, where an educated consumer is our best customer"
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"Albatross"!

[NJ John]

I’m surprised I don’t remember that driving school. I do remember Taggart’s Driving school. Also in matchbooks and cheesy commercials. Apparently, their still around.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[Glenn]

Black and white tvs

5.25" floppy discs

Radio shack and vacuum tube testers
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74 Beetle Specs | 74 Beetle Restoration | 2180cc Engine
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[shano63]

We had a zenith black and white growing up. I can still see it in the corner of the den. All my friends had a color TV and cable. Not us, noooo My mom still has a rotary phone in her basement
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63 T1 Ragtop Gulf Blue
20 Toyota Corolla 6spd
22 Wrangler 6spd
78 F250 4x4 4spd

Chris

Take it as it comes-- Morrison

[raygreenwood]

[Max Welton]

[Glenn]

[kingkarmann]

[Shonandb]

Growing up, I don't remember getting any new in the package matchbox cars so I have no idea about the packaging. We didn't get a TV until the early 80s and it was black & white and we had radios with tubes until I moved out to go to school in 85. The rotary phone remained on the wall well into the 90s. Spent most of the time outdoors back then.
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76 Westy with a 2.5L Subaru SOHC + Vanagon (010) Automatic Transaxle
Build & Trip Thread: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=758760
Previous 1973 Panel Bus:
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[Glenn]

[calvinater]

Let us not forget Crazy Eddie, his prices are insane

Or Manny, Moe, and Jack.
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"Albatross"!

[NJ John]

I DJ’d for Crazy Eddie’s nephew once, big tipper.
And, met Jerry Carrol, the guy in the commercial’s. Crazy Eddie sponsored two cars at out local oval track. Part of the deal was Jerry got to drive one of them.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[Glenn]

[shano63]

I worked at Caldor back in the mid 80s. I loved that store. You could get points for your vw there. There was Service Merchandise, another good store
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63 T1 Ragtop Gulf Blue
20 Toyota Corolla 6spd
22 Wrangler 6spd
78 F250 4x4 4spd

Chris

Take it as it comes-- Morrison

[Dusty1]

[my59]

Ive got my dads late 70's 40 channel Cobra CB radio in the bus, down on the side of the driver pedestal. Had to source a magnetic antenna for putting on the rear of the roof.
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my59: Well son, my grandfather died before I got to drive it, so does that answer your question?
our79: sunroof bus w/camper interior and 2.0 FI
Other:'12 Jetta, '77 Benz 300D, and a 74 MG Midget.

[shano63]

I put a CB in everything I drove back then. You can just see it on the jeep. Screw the magnet, I screwed that sucker in
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63 T1 Ragtop Gulf Blue
20 Toyota Corolla 6spd
22 Wrangler 6spd
78 F250 4x4 4spd

Chris

Take it as it comes-- Morrison

[zerotofifty]

I had a dial telephone in use up till the phone company stopped their use. All but one of me cars has manual windows cranks. When I bought me house I had a small 13 inch black and white vacuum tube TV set.
I have a working WW2 Army Air Corp short wave receiver, as used in bombers.

One of my car radios has 13 vacuum tubes in it! When turned on it defogs the windshield, and dims the headlights for me!

I still use for my home stereo the first thing I ever bought with a credit card, an AM FM, dual cassette, record player Fisher brand stereo.

I have an HP 25C calculator, my second, my first is a Novus made by National Semiconductor in Santa Clara California. I worked for them I had a computer terminal on my desk, the computer was a mainframe in the computer room, where else to place the computer.

In college in my machine shop class we had a lot of WW2 Navy surplus lathes, mills, radial drill press, and shaper, still had the US Navy tags on them. We had an old GE xray machine for crystallography, that had a bare xray tube sticking thru the work table top, you had to be smart enough not to turn it on without placing sheets of lead around it, no safety interlocks! One of my chemistry professors fondly recalled Oppie from when he worked with him on the A-bomb during ww2.
All my college papers where typed on a manual smith corona type writer.

My old time cards from my first real job where in triplicate, with carbon paper

When my company got a Xerox machine, it was the first I had ever seen, it was like magic, We coped our hands, our face, the boss even Xeroxed his baby's butt, then we copied dollar bills, but quickly tore them up cause they looked too real even though they was in black and white, amazing technology for the era.

Oh and pay phones every where, and waiting rooms at the doctor, the dentist, the car repair shop, the airport all had newspapers and magazines to read.

I remember the first supermarket bar core reader, it was like magic, This was one of the first, at a grocery store in Palo Alto, near the heart of Silicon Valley. Took a while for it to catch on.
There were stories about it in the newspaper, people would travel to that store just to see it, the food still had price stickers placed on them however. We'd go to that store just to see it.


The greatest thing, the most life changing was not the Moon landing, oh no, it was the microwave oven, or as Amana called it, the Radar Range. That was awesome, no more preheating the oven for the frozen Swansen TV dinners that came in aluminum trays. The future was here at last.

We had candy cigarettes, BB guns, real guns, lawn darts and never thunk of wearing a helmet for anything.

My newest, most modern car is 35 years young, my oldest is 67 years young.
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