Things you don't see anymore
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Lots around here.
They're just stubbier.
Are you doing your part by wearing them?
Ball caps don't count.
Ball caps worn backwards earn you negative points.
Look for an appropriate TV lamp to put on top of it.
I found a Washburn X-10 guitar by the side of the road, very much like this one:
Except mine was missing a knob and the whammy bar, and the neck mounting screws were completely stripped out so that the neck was bent forward by 20 degrees.
I hoped at least to recover the pickups, but with some carpenters glue and slivers of wood to replace missing splinters, it was good to go. With no whammy bar I chose to wedge the tremolo block.
There's treasure to be found everywhere.
There was one of there laying in the street my crew was working on one day. 3 of the guys (all in their mid to late 20s at the time) had absolutely no idea what it was. They also didn’t quite believe that oil actually came in a can, not a pour bottle at one time.
Yes, and yes.
It's quicker to tune up and easier to bend notes.
I've replaced the shiny Telecaster-type knob with a pair of vintage black Bakelite radio knobs, and I've got a new 5-way switch to go into it, because the existing one has a broken spring that is supposed to make it go "click" in the 5 positions.
For those who are mystified, "blocking" or "wedging" a tremolo bridge block on a Stratocaster-style guitar looks like this:
(see reddish wood blocks on the right)
It's a non-permanent mod that immobilizes the bridge, and it's easily undone if you decide to get a whammy bar for it in the future.
Thrift stores are full of all sorts of wonderful junk no one wants anymore. Sometimes it even works and is reasonably priced.
Wow . . . and pop came in tins without tabs.
Sliced cheese came in packages that were sealed with some sort of sticky wax . . not individually wrapped . . . you had to carefully peel them off of each other and yes it was not perfect . . . the corners would get crusty.
When you went to the store and bought bananas there was a man in the produce department who would use a marker to write the price on the skin of one of the bunch you picked.
And then . . . everybody had their payday on Friday so everybody did their grocery shopping Friday evening . . . more or less. . . so big baskets of groceries and there were Car orders. Paper bags filled and put in bins on roller belts and you were given a ticket so you could get in your car and drive up to a door . . . present your ticket and they would load your stuff into your trunk.
Now we have self service check out.
simon1
Self Ignored by Vista
I don't know where mine got off to.
I used to be a sacker in the local grocery store when I was a kid...back when they used paper bags. Cans go on the bottom, not the bread.
A quarter a pack in a machine and two pennies change in the pack.
Frankenmuth, MI = St. Julian/Paw Paw Wineries we used to buy a Solara aged wine.
Tell them it's a watermelon tap.
I had one that was similar as a kid. This is a re-pop from restoration Hardware.
Going back even further, I can remember my dad buying oil from bulk barrels at Montgomery-Ward's. It was BYOB, and you'd set your bottle under the spigot of the drum (which sat upright) containing the grade of your choice; then you'd take what you needed using a coffee-grinder type pump. That's the little I recollect, as this was about 1949-50.
Ah, yes. Just attach the alligator clip to something metallic on your home phone (which would act as an antenna) and catch the Big Bopper!
Manners and common sense?
Swedes are usually very early when it comes to adapting to new technology. It was years since I last saw cash. Almost all transactions are made with cards or telephone apps. Come to think about it is kind of scary that cash that was the standard way of paying for hundreds of years just vanished in a couple of years.
I had one of those! I would clip it to my neighbor’s chain link fence and my friends and I would take turns listening to it. Hmmm... we weren’t concerned about sharing earwax back then.
shavefan
I’m not a fan
Growing up out in the country there was a big dairy farm near us, I remember going there with my mom to get milk. There was a spigot that ran down to near the main road and allowed you to fill your own ga. container with milk. And a bucket that you threw a quarter in. The honor system. I can't imagine anything like that is around today.
If you don't see it anymore, then it's obviously not just your son's generation that's the issue. Perhaps, your son's generation never learned it because no one taught it with leading by example.
Just some food for thought.
I see stuff like this quite a bit still. I live in a small city just outside of Lansing, MI. There are plenty of farms in the surrounding area. It's not uncommon to see produce and egg stands near the roads at the foot of farmer's driveways. It's almost always a stand or table with the produce and a little box for money with no one accompanying it.
I imagine that milk you would drink straight from the dairy farm tasted better than anything in a jug or carton today.
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