Remember These???

[robert952]

As you no doubt have noticed, I seem to be obsessed with remembering things, which is one of the reasons I started this thread. I wasn't sure where this fit in, but thought I 'd relate it here... for reasons. I've spent a lot of time in the last two years cooped up in my house, alone due to coronovirus. ... I'm still at a loss to explain how it happened because I didn't hear it explode, but just looking at it you could tell, it exploded! To make a long story short, I called a tow truck, got a new tire and got back home. Now I'm afraid to go outside again.

DW and I have been reflecting recently. Not sure why. I guess CoVid has as all reassessing things.

Sorry to hear about your tire. I too had a blowout around Fayetteville Street way back before they turned it into a 'sidewalk mall.' (They later returned it to being a street...our tax dollars at work.) Like you I couldn't see any pothole or obstruction I hit. My mechanic said it looked like the belt slipped and cut the tire. But like you, to me it looked like a bad blowout. I filed it under 'fecal matter occurs.' Don't let that make you afraid to go outside again.

Since that time I have had a couple of: hit pot hole, BANG, blow out. One evening my wife and I was on a 'date night.' and hit a pothole. We pulled back into the parking lot we at the next turn in. There was a AAA truck and two other cars which apparently hit the same pot hole. So, our wait for AAA (which I swear is worth the investment even it you use them only once every 3-4 years) was trimmed down considerably.

I do want to relate an incident. A person in a large pick up truck with oversized tires was waiting in a traffic jam (along with the rest of us). He was aggressive: riding up on bumpers, honking his horn, trying to change lanes, and you could see him yelling. He finally got fed up with waiting I guess. He made a U-turn, gunned the engine, 'peeled rubber,' fished tailed, and promptly hit the curb on the other side of the street. Yep, you guessed it...front right tire: explosive blow out. You could see him 'explode,' too. It wasn't the kind of tire you carried a spare for either: one of those 4 ft tall 2 ft wide type. (OK, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but they were big tires.) About that time, the traffic started flowing. They had cleared the wreck at the intersection and police were directing traffic. I drove past watching him kicking the dead tire. I smiled and thought, "Beware of karma."

 

[eclark1894]

DW and I have been reflecting recently. Not sure why. I guess CoVid has as all reassessing things.

Sorry to hear about your tire. I too had a blowout around Fayetteville Street way back before they turned it into a 'sidewalk mall.' (They later returned it to being a street...our tax dollars at work.)

"Sidewalk Mall". With that one stupid move they killed most of the shops downtown and the Christmas parade.

 

[sapat]

I didn't want to run afoul of Alisa again, so I decided not to show any live models in this next pic, but Remember These??! Now I was well past the Underoos stage by the time these came out and got popular, but I remember seeing the ads on commercials on Saturday mornings. I also think they sold well at a little known store... K-Mart.
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I bought these at Target about a hundred yrs ago for my 2 boys.

 

[sapat]

Anybody play Mousetrap or Candyland?

 

[eclark1894]

Anybody play Mousetrap or Candyland?

Never played either one, but I recently bought Mousetrap for the daughter of a friend of mine in New York.

 

[eclark1894]

When we first moved into the house I live in now, my mother bought all new furniture. One of the things she bought was a 3 globe floor lamp that we had in the corner. It stayed in the house until a few years ago when I got sick, and my nieces and nephews threw a lot of my stuff away. Still worked too!

 

[Terre]

Anybody play Mousetrap or Candyland?

I did play Candyland a little when i was young. Didn't have it myself but someone my family knew did.

 

[Terre]

When we first moved into the house I live in now, my mother bought all new furniture. One of the things she bought was a 3 globe floor lamp that we had in the corner. It stayed in the house until a few years ago when I got sick, and my nieces and nephews threw a lot of my stuff away. Still worked too!
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Vaguely reminds me of a lamp my mother got back in the late 60s with S&H Greenstamps.

 

[eclark1894]

So, got a question for you. Matchbox or Hotwheels? Who had the better cars?

 

[eclark1894]

More treats from when I was young. Anybody Remember these?

I still buy these from time to time, but there was a time, when my family was so broke, this was all we had for lunch. This was sometime after my father had died. Eventually my mother was able to get a job, and would give us money to buy reduced lunch, and eventually free lunch.

Believe it or not, I didn't like peanuts all that much when I was younger, but I did like peanut brittle. Never had it all that much. Once in every blue moon.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember when a small bag of potato chips was mostly chips and not air??? Remember when you actually got a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks?

Remember when you could spend all day at the State Fair for $20? Including the bus fair there and back?

 

[eclark1894]

Remember these? I don't drink and I detest beer, but I do remember them!

 

[eclark1894]

Remember the See and Say?? I never owned one, but I have played with it.

 

[robert952]

Remember the See and Say?? I never owned one, but I have played with it.

My kids had a couple, one was animal sounds, another generic words like apple, banana.

 

[Terre]

Remember when a small bag of potato chips was mostly chips and not air??? Remember when you actually got a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks?
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Remember when you could spend all day at the State Fair for $20? Including the bus fair there and back?

Yup. Remember when boxes of cereal had a little plastic toy in the bottom? And multipack boxes of single serve Lays chips had a superball in it? I do.

 

[eclark1894]

Anybody remember these? I don't know if they're still around, and I'm not talking about icetrays. I still have them, but they're all plastic. I'm talking about the metal ones with the pull lever. We used to have those in our earliest refrigerators. As I got older, my mother replaced them with plastic flexible ones. Eventually, we pretty much got rid of them all together and just started using bagged ice.

 

[Miss B]

I remember my mother having those back when I was a teenager. I don't remember what I had when I first moved out, but now-a-days I only use the plastic ones because they're flexible.

 

[eclark1894]

I remember my mother having those back when I was a teenager. I don't remember what I had when I first moved out, but now-a-days I only use the plastic ones because they're flexible.

To be honest, I always hated the plastic ones. I thought the metal ones were better. They froze the water faster, and it was easier to get the ice out with the lever. And to be honest, it seemed to me like the ice from the plastic ones were smaller.

 

[Terre]

Anybody remember these? I don't know if they're still around, and I'm not talking about icetrays. I still have them, but they're all plastic. I'm talking about the metal ones with the pull lever. We used to have those in our earliest refrigerators. As I got older, my mother replaced them with plastic flexible ones. Eventually, we pretty much got rid of them all together and just started using bagged ice.
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Not only do I remember them I ordered 2 stainless steel ones two weeks ago. I've never liked the plastic ones. It's easier for me to get the ice out with that bar.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember these? I remember the Sinclair Dinosaur well, I once had a plastic model of it that I got on a school field trip. The bus stopped off at a Sinclair gas station and I bought the model there.