Things you won't find anymore...

[rgp]

LOL !! I remember both my mother & my sister sitting around in those things ...... I told them they looked like they were from a different planet ..

 

[rgp]

I have a 'single' cup malt machine, sitting right over there on the counter. It is dated 1930.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Something 'you won't find anymore'... A bizarre Top-40 oldie like "The Bristol Stomp". First, why would a group call themselves The Dovells? (Something to do with doves maybe?)

Cameo/Parkway co-owner Bernie Lowe told the group they needed a new name, and he suggested they rename themselves The Deauvilles (after a famous hotel in Miami Beach). The members liked the sound of the name but thought it would be too hard to spell, so they changed it to The Dovells.

 

[rgp]

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Who else still has one?

I do, it's in my toolbox , in the garage .

 

[squatting dog]

Any idea what year that was ? Now'a days those would be advertised @ $100,000 maybe more.

The 70's I believe.

 

[JBR]

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In July. I can remember it well! My posterior remembers.

 

[squatting dog]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[squatting dog]

We used to remove the info bracket off all the pay phones around us. Made dandy custom license plate frames for our motorcycle's.
Miss those phones... I've got 2 motorcycles just begging for those frames.

 

[ChiroDoc]

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Ha! I guess they don't do that anymore. I delivered the Pittsburgh Press for several years in the mid 1950s. But my dad had to take me around the route in his station wagon on Sundays because the editions were so big.

 

[Llynn]

Fotomat

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[Ken N Tx]

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The first deleter thingy..

 

[Paco Dennis]

The first deleter thingy..

LOL, that's it.

 

[JBR]

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My grandmother used this item, and I inherited her typewriter. I used that little machine until I bought a decent self-correcting electric, and from there I progressed to my first (desktop) computer.

 

[ChiroDoc]

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Ha! I used those a lot with my manual typewriter. But the circular eraser was always tricky to erase just a letter or two. Then someone invented the white carbon tabs, so you could just white out your mistaken letter.

 

[KSav]

Ha! I guess they don't do that anymore. I delivered the Pittsburgh Press for several years in the mid 1950s. But my dad had to take me around the route in his station wagon on Sundays because the editions were so big.

I delivered newspapers with a canvas sack like that when I was in my early teens. I really wish paper routes were still available for kids (in my area, adults drive and deliver them); I found it to be an excellent lesson in work ethics and budgeting.

Lucky you, @ChiroDoc, getting a ride to deliver those huge Sunday papers! I had to make a few trips back to my house to re-stock while doing my route. Those things were heavy.

 

[Grampa Don]

Did you ever use one of these?

There was a fun zone in Long Beach called the Pike, and some of these were in a penny arcade. As a teenager I plunked some coins in to watch the naughty movies. There were also vending machines for risque postcards. These days they would seem pretty tame.

 

[Bella]

 

[Paladin1950]

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I used those erasers in school. I haven't thought about them in decades.

 

[Paladin1950]

That's how I learned the difference between purple and violet. I went by Crayola Crayons. Also why I started using words like yellow orange, light green, red violet, blue violet, cornflower, magenta, salmon. They were all shades of colors in Crayola Crayons.

 

[Fyrefox]

My parents had some 78 rpm records that I can remember playing on a large, floor standing console unit (an RCA, I think) that also housed an AM radio as well as the turntable. It had a wood housing, and was a piece of furniture. It must have been quite the entertainment center in its day prior to television being popularized. The 78 rpm records were brittle, and would shatter if dropped…

 

[RadishRose]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Grampa Don]

My parents had some 78 rpm records that I can remember playing on a large, floor standing console unit (an RCA, I think) that also housed an AM radio as well as the turntable. It had a wood housing, and was a piece of furniture. It must have been quite the entertainment center in its day prior to television being popularized. The 78 rpm records were brittle, and would shatter if dropped…

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There was a time when record albums were real albums with several 78 rpm records in a hardback binder. I still have one with a collection of Sousa marches. I don't know when my Mom bought it. It was there as far back as I can remember.