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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 8:56:30 GMT -5
Change Holders
and Coinstar Change Machine
 These things were popular in the 60s and the 70s and I still have mine - it's a blue one like one that pictured here in the middle. Man, I had totally forgotten about those! I used to have one. It's long gone, though, like almost everything else (except comics) from my youth.  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 8:58:15 GMT -5
I don't know how I've neglected this thread for so long, except that I guess I spend most of what time I have on the comic book threads, but this is great. I love all of these blasts from the past! Thank you for this ... I wanted to do this and I'm using the internet for ideas and this topic is quite endless and I'm trying to get people to be aware of things in the past. I grew up from mid 60s and on and I'm letting members here of what we had in the past and wanting you and everyone here to share. I watched a lot of documentaries of things in the past and I've came up with this thread and it's quite simple for me to do this ... I love Retro and Vintage things and enjoyed sharing them to all members and guests alike. Great idea! I grew up in the 70's (And 80's) but you've uncovered a lot of things from my youth, including some things I'd forgotten about! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 9:01:20 GMT -5
Change Holders
and Coinstar Change Machine
These things were popular in the 60s and the 70s and I still have mine - it's a blue one like one that pictured here in the middle. Man, I had totally forgotten about those! I used to have one. It's long gone, though, like almost everything else (except comics) from my youth. I have a store that still carries these and they have a supplier that constantly giving them these change holders and they sell them for $1.49 a piece. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 9:12:16 GMT -5
Man, I had totally forgotten about those! I used to have one. It's long gone, though, like almost everything else (except comics) from my youth. I have a store that still carries these and they have a supplier that constantly giving them these change holders and they sell them for $1.49 a piece. Where do you live? |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 9:14:12 GMT -5
My friends and I had a Big Wheel  Though someone in our neighborhood had the Green Machine:  ![]() |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 9:14:34 GMT -5
I have a store that still carries these and they have a supplier that constantly giving them these change holders and they sell them for $1.49 a piece. Where do you live? Greater Seattle/Everett Area. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 9:15:03 GMT -5
Then there were moon boots. They made winter fun! ![]()  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 9:18:52 GMT -5
Then there were moon boot. They made winter fun! ![]()  My family had something like this for me and my three older brothers in the late 60's and early 70s ... those were cool to wear during snow days! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 9:25:47 GMT -5
Then there were moon boot. They made winter fun! ![]() My family had something like this for me and my three older brothers in the late 60's and early 70s ... those were cool to wear during snow days! I had to edit my post because I noticed that the picture of the Moon Boots didn't appear (same thing with the Green Machine in my previous post). I remember having blue Moon Boots but I don't remember the exact color of the stripes. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 10:05:13 GMT -5
Coolest Cabin Applainces  I just wanted to share this ... in the early 60s our family did a lot of camping during the weekend and we stayed at a friend cabin and we were shocked to see this cool thing that we did not expect. A device that cooks, wash, store food in a refrig; and has storage space for pots and pans too. This device had running water so that we can clean our dishes after each meal and its was a godsend for my Mother that loves this thing. We used this cabin about 30 to 50 times during the 60's until my oldest brother went to college in the early 70s and we didn't go camping that often. We came back to this cabin a couple of times in 1974 and this thing is still usable and cooked steaks and fried potatoes on one range and had three beans salad that was stored in the refrig for dinner and it was so fun for my mother to do this and we chuckled seeing this again that year. Our friend moved in 1978 (my Senior Year in High School) and our Friend wanted to sell this cabin to us and my Parents said no because our desires to go camping was a non-factor then. Imagine seeing a thing that can clean your dishes, cook steaks, store food, and your pots and pans all the same time. I was in shock seeing this back then. It was an innovative thing of the 60s!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 10:12:19 GMT -5
Coolest Cabin Applainces I just wanted to share this ... in the early 60s our family did a lot of camping during the weekend and we stayed at a friend cabin and we were shocked to see this cool thing that we did not expect. A device that cooks, wash, store food in a refrig; and has storage space for pots and pans too. This device had running water so that we can clean our dishes after each meal and its was a godsend for my Mother that loves this thing. We used this cabin about 30 to 50 times during the 60's until my oldest brother went to college in the early 70s and we didn't go camping that often. We came back to this cabin a couple of times in 1974 and this thing is still usable and cooked steaks and fried potatoes on one range and had three beans salad that was stored in the refrig for dinner and it was so fun for my mother to do this and we chuckled seeing this again that year. Our friend moved in 1978 (my Senior Year in High School) and our Friend wanted to sell this cabin to us and my Parents said no because our desires to go camping was a non-factor then. Imagine seeing a thing that can clean your dishes, cook steaks, store food, and your pots and pans all the same time. I was in shock seeing this back then. It was an innovative thing of the 60s! There was a place we stayed at the South Jersey shore that had this too! It was basically a hotel room with a tiny kitchen. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 11:53:23 GMT -5
Yeah, going out to eat wasn't a thing for us either as a family of five. Stay home barbecue burger and hot dogs was more cost effective. When it occasionally happened with family it was either to a Bob's Big Boy restaurant or Blake's Lota Burger which were both about a 45 minute drive away. I didn't really get to experience fast food hangouts until high school when hanging with friends driving about town on Friday and Saturday nights. Then there was McDonald's and Taco Bell and Burger King sitting, eating and watching other folks driving past. Never even thought there was a thing known as take out Chinese food until I was in high school. I know exactly what you are coming from and we did a lot of barbeque back then during the Summer Months and we did that mostly on both Friday(s) and Saturday(s) nights and we usually have Hamburgers and Hot Dogs then. We didn't know that Chinese Food was available in a take out food not until 1980 rolled around and it's was available to us in 1976 and my Dad was kicking in his pants for not realizing this and that's would given us more leeway in our eating arrangements back then; it was just the four of us back then and we didn't think that our favorite chinese restaurant had take out service then. We wasted four years for this and it would save us a ton of trouble ... seriously and my whole family loved Chinese Food especially my Parents and myself too. My older brother would eat it now and then ... but not crazy like me and my Parents at the time. When he left for College in 1980, we had Chinese Take Out food every other Friday and we the Chinese Family Pack that feeds 4 and my Parents and I enjoyed it back then. I was a picky eater as a kid. My parents and I would go to a nice Chinese restaurant, and I would order...a hambuger! Disgraceful, I know. I didn't start eating Chinese food until college. Now I love it! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 11:55:51 GMT -5
Bell Bottom Jeans  During my High School Years and a single year in College and just about the 80's begins ... I wore Bell Bottom Jeans similar to the guy that's wearing the Green One in the picture above. They were hip and cool for awhile and I find them not so functionable and fashionable when the 80s rolled along ... its may not be true in your area and the girls wore them more than the guys and they even wore them in the 80s and stop abruptly at some point of time that I can't remember. Anyway, have anyone has any experiences wearing them too? I've never worn bell bottoms. I guess by the time I was old enough to wear them, they were out of fashion. Didn't they make a little bit of a comeback maybe 15-20 years ago, though? |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2018 11:56:52 GMT -5
You need some "groovy" platform shoes to wear with those bellbottoms @mechagodzilla :  At 5' 7" on my best days, I really wish those things would come back in fashion! I could use the extra inches! |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 6, 2018 13:46:28 GMT -5
Bell Bottom JeansDuring my High School Years and a single year in College and just about the 80's begins ... I wore Bell Bottom Jeans similar to the guy that's wearing the Green One in the picture above. They were hip and cool for awhile and I find them not so functionable and fashionable when the 80s rolled along ... its may not be true in your area and the girls wore them more than the guys and they even wore them in the 80s and stop abruptly at some point of time that I can't remember. Anyway, have anyone has any experiences wearing them too? I've never worn bell bottoms. I guess by the time I was old enough to wear them, they were out of fashion. Didn't they make a little bit of a comeback maybe 15-20 years ago, though? Yeah. They were "flare legged" jeans. Still looked sexy on the ladies, and awful on the guys. And now we have guys wearing skinny jeans .... idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore.jpg |
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