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08-04-2008, 12:38 AM
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Lost in Space
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: California
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Reputation: 6684
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I'm so old I remember... When a kid would get a empty thread spool, rubber band and a couple of toothpicks and keep themself entertained all day  I remember our cell phones were two cans and a string. I remeber playing with toy guns and nobody thought we would grow up to be killers  |
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08-04-2008, 10:03 AM
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Ak-sar-beN ~ another time and place ;-)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: LEFT of the white house
9,257 posts, read 4,190,534 times
Reputation: 18121
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Different times ~ different names
Yeah,,, playing cops and robbers with your finger and thumb as a gun, nobody ever got killed. 
I remember the Jesse James gang wore bandannas and used guns to rob people, and we called them outlaws. Today our money is taken away by the oil companies and the politicians who allow them to do this ~ they don’t use bandannas and don’t carry guns and we call them corporations and my elected officials.  |
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08-04-2008, 02:01 PM
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Finally... Queen of the Music Freaks!
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Close to Bruce Springsteen
3,000 posts, read 680,539 times
Reputation: 6746
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Don Kirshner's Rock concerts. Loved them! Had to stay up till about 1 am or so to catch them.
Black light posters to go with the black lights (although I do believe they still have them).
Girls wrote in Diaries, not Journals.
Viewmasters
Cost of a new home in 75- $42,600.00
Gallon of Gas-
.52 cents
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08-04-2008, 03:28 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Where the snow never stops!
24,186 posts, read 4,667,225 times
Reputation: 15016
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I'm so old I remember being scared when we bought our first home for $34,950 and being petrified about making a mortgage payment (including prop. taxes) of $360 mo!!!!
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08-04-2008, 03:33 PM
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Free at last! Free at last!
Status:
"free at last! free at last!"
(set 9 days ago)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Cumberland Co., TN
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Reputation: 2400
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 I remember getting the frito bandito eraser in the lunch size bags of fritos. |
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08-04-2008, 04:16 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: So. of Rosarito, Baja, Mexico
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Reputation: 1337
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Bought a NEW track house in 1955 for $10,500 and had house payments of $78.00 a month. Steve
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08-04-2008, 05:06 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2008
1,006 posts, read 405,045 times
Reputation: 238
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Led Zeppelin as a "new band" playing at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Must've been late 60's? Mid 60's? Cheap lawn tickets for Janis Joplin at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill. Believe we went for free. This would've been the summer of '68 or '69?
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08-04-2008, 05:07 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2008
1,006 posts, read 405,045 times
Reputation: 238
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LaceyEx
I'm so old I remember being scared when we bought our first home for $34,950 and being petrified about making a mortgage payment (including prop. taxes) of $360 mo!!!!
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Similar thing. First home, it was '75, I believe. Mortgage payment was $337 per month and it included real estate tax. |
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08-04-2008, 06:14 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Circle City, CA. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
3,462 posts, read 1,970,490 times
Reputation: 5886
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First house was new in 63 @ $14,300, sweated the payments of $98.00 including taxes.
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08-04-2008, 08:03 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Considering changes
1,013 posts, read 523,263 times
Reputation: 2642
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I remember asking the car salesman in the late 70s if they gave 20 year mortgages on new mini-vans. He looked at me funny and I said we had just bought a house for $18,000 (the same price as the mini-van) and we got a 20 year mortgage for it.
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