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Post by brutalis on Mar 26, 2018 10:14:19 GMT -5
Of course it is only a temporary alliance. We super-villains only play nice together when it is for our own convenience. Eventually one shall turn on the other for there can only be one true supreme Overlord ruling over all!!! So says DOOM!
Or being immortal one of us will eventually claim the other's head....for there can be only one!!!!!! Keep your sword close MechaG. HAHAHA
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 10:15:16 GMT -5
brutalis and I will be handling this thread from now on ... and I'm thrilled to have this member contributing to this thread on a daily basis. So, I welcome Brutalis with his support of this thread!
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Post by brutalis on Mar 26, 2018 10:27:34 GMT -5
brutalis and I will be handling this thread from now on ... and I'm thrilled to have this member contributing to this thread on a daily basis. So, I welcome Brutalis with his support of this thread! Mods, if you wish you can combine my original Remember When into this thread with @mechagodzilla creating a larger thread now enhanced with pictures. Any chance we can install a scratch and sniff app as well for all of the food and snack reminiscences? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 26, 2018 11:13:07 GMT -5
I don't think I ate at a McDonald's until I was in college. There wasn't one in the area I grew up in until I was in junior high or high school. And by that time I was beyond the little kid allure of the commercials and there were better options for my money. Actually eating out was pretty rare when I was a kid. With four kids and just Dad working it was too expensive. Once in a while we'd eat out when we were traveling. And three or four times a year we'd eat at Grizzly Bear Pizza, which was a regional chain that was in Oregon and Idaho.  My mom went back to work after I started school. And after my two older brothers left home eating out happened a bit more often. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 26, 2018 11:47:19 GMT -5
Chewing Gum I remember chewing these gum back in the 60s. 70s. and 80s ... my favorites were Cloves, followed by Black Jack and Beemans ... While I was a Senior in High School ... My High School Store had Cloves and I can get 5 sticks of Gum for Nickel back then.  Everyday, when I can ... I will try to share some memories back then and I'm encouraging all members here in Classic Comics Forum to do the same ... I think when we get older ... I think it would be so much fun to remember things from the past. Please share as often as you can ... don't worry about the things that you've shared that already been discussed in this thread ...  I've never seen any of those gums before. Maybe possibly I've seen Beemans but if so it was in a different wrapper. I went for Juicy Fruit, Fruit Stripe, Hubba Bubba, Bazooka (with the little Bazooka Joe comic strips inside), and Bubble Yum (whose ads I constantly run across in my comic back issues) Beemans was pretty famous and was a favorite of pilots, as seen in The Right Stuff and The Rocketeer. Wrigley was stronger, around here, as the were from Chicago. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 26, 2018 11:50:22 GMT -5
Remember when McDonalds actually used to change the number sold on the signs? They were probably total BS; but, it made the signs more interesting. My childhood nostalgia is for a different burger chain. Sandy's.  The chain began here in Central Illinois, with a group of investors who bought the first McDonald's chain, in Illinois, opening it in Urbana. They wanted to expand to Decatur (near where I grew up) and Peoria; but, Ray Kroc said that wasn't included in their territory and it would cost them more. They told him to go.......ahem, supersize himself and opened their own chain, Sandy's. They had far better burgers, were vastly more friendly, and the company was the antithesis of McDonald's. Owners were able to source their own products, as long as they met company standards and the head of Sandy's used to visit all of the stores and talk to all of the employees. They emphasized having fun while earning a reasonable profit. Kroc was notorious for being a nasty SOB. We used to eat at their restaurants, and at Dairy Queen (my grandparents had owned a franchise in Bloomington, IL) and it was a way better experience than McDonald's. They had a scottish theme and used tartan graphics in their design. Unfortunately, costs of advertising caught up with them and they merged with Hardees, who rebranded all of the stores and pushed their inferior food. The other....  In Illinois, it was Tops Big Boy. Loved the restaurants; but, even more, the comic books...  Oh yeah! I think I even still have one or two of those Big Boy comics in one of my long boxes. All this talk of McDonald's reminds me of the magical summer of 1984. McDonald's had this Olympic game where you'd get a game card with each purchase, and each game card had an Olympic event on it. If the USA won a gold you got a free Big Mac, if they won a silver you got free french fries, and if they won a bronze you got a free soft drink...then the Soviets boycotted the Olympics and the USA had a HUGE medal count. Man, I can't remember how much free McDonald's food I rode my bike to the local Mickey D's and got that summer. Ah memories. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 11:54:11 GMT -5
Monster Magnet I got this in one of my birthdays in the 60s and after playing it until Batman Adam West Show was over in 1968 ... I gotten tired of it and donate it to a charity just around in the early 70s so some kid can play with it. Later on, I regretted that decision in time I've started in High School in 1976 and wished that I still had that thing today. It was a cool toy back then and had a lot of fun picking up things. One of my fun times that I had is to borrow my Mom's old Steel Spoons that we used for our Camping Trips and spend a good 30 minutes a day picking them up using the Monster Magnet and sometimes my older brothers play with it too. It was a fun toy and I wished that I still had it today! Made by Wham-O
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 12:10:03 GMT -5
Superball Another Wham-O product that I had in the 60s and 70's 20,000 Super Balls dropped from a Helicopter I had this toy for nearly a decade from mid 60s to mid 70s until I gotten tired of it. It was a cool toy and I lost three of them due to errors on my part of not thinking about the consequences of playing them outside and when I got into High School I've gotten over it quite quickly and donate that toy along with my Monster Magnet and regret it too. I seen other versions of this toy and my grand nephew have one too ... he's eight year old and have a ball playing today and I seen him all the time with his Super Ball. He's quite fond of it and plays with it about a half hour to an hour a day with it and never, ever gotten tired of it. I loved this toy and I play with my grand nephew from time to time and I was thinking about it in the past day or two and that's one of the reasons that I started this thread thinking of retro and vintage stuff that I'm very fond of. Super Ball is a great toy!
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 26, 2018 12:36:48 GMT -5
Oh yeah! I think I even still have one or two of those Big Boy comics in one of my long boxes. All this talk of McDonald's reminds me of the magical summer of 1984. McDonald's had this Olympic game where you'd get a game card with each purchase, and each game card had an Olympic event on it. If the USA won a gold you got a free Big Mac, if they won a silver you got free french fries, and if they won a bronze you got a free soft drink...then the Soviets boycotted the Olympics and the USA had a HUGE medal count. Man, I can't remember how much free McDonald's food I rode my bike to the local Mickey D's and got that summer. Ah memories. Actually, I was going to mention that Simpsons episode but by the time I got done typing what I did, I'd forgotten. The little gray cells aren't what they used to be! |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 26, 2018 14:08:15 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.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 15:46:38 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. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 19:37:16 GMT -5
Entertainment
When we switched from an antenna to cable....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 19:40:43 GMT -5
And TV's were furniture.
Console TV:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 19:48:32 GMT -5
And record players were furniture also.
Stereo console:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 19:52:22 GMT -5
I remember when we got a second TV to watch while eating. A small B & W set.
TV in the kitchen:
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