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Old 02-27-2023, 08:58 AM
 
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Yes, they were rather funny looking cars. Lots of them back then!
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Old 02-27-2023, 09:01 AM
 
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Thrift stores were called "second hand stores" and before that they were "junk stores".
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Old 02-27-2023, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow in "OZ "
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I'm so old I remember...

Tige the famous bulldog.
Cindy Lou -Lou
Ned Mcdod
Vlad Vlad-I-Koff
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Old 02-27-2023, 10:00 AM
 
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OK TN Tin Man, you got me beat! I don't know who or what any of those are!
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Old 02-27-2023, 10:54 AM
 
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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Studebakers......the car that looked very similar both front or back. People used to joke you couldn't tell if it was coming or going.
I remember living across the street from the Studebaker factory in Indiana.

My first car was a $3.00 1939 Studebaker Commander that was won in a raffle.
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Old 02-27-2023, 11:03 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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I remember living across the street from the Studebaker factory in Indiana.

My first car was a $3.00 1939 Studebaker Commander that was won in a raffle.
now, south bend is mostly famous for pete boot-edge-edge
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Old 02-27-2023, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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OK TN Tin Man, you got me beat! I don't know who or what any of those are!
I remember Tige.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown

Maybe the others were regional. I've never heard of them.
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Old 02-28-2023, 10:29 AM
 
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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now, south bend is mostly famous for pete boot-edge-edge
Getting alot of ink lately.
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Old 02-28-2023, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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I remember MASH. ended 40 yrs ago, just read on CNN.
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Old 03-01-2023, 05:20 PM
 
Location: Earth
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.....when they made full sized pick up trucks. The massive behemoths that you see on the road today constitute an entirely new class of vehicles IMO.
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