Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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I still wear a wind-up skeleton watch.

aren't those called "P38"s? I have several I inherited from my ww2-era dad.

Oleo (margarine) packages that had a yellow dye packet you had to mix together to have it colored.

I remember my dad telling me about that. used to be the law fake butter had to be white. if only people back then know just how harmful to health that stuff was.

Yes it is a P 38, can opener, just what you needed to enjoy C rations.

C rats were yummy

...I was a fan of/into this whole 8-track fan thing in the 90s , AB , and got the fanzine for 8T fans put out by the guy who made that film , IIRC...which I never saw .
My even deeper fall into poverty and disease kept me from going farther into that...I haven't even had a turntable this century .

...It's also hard to describe , but I do recall big , cylinderish ones , I guess built with the idea of stacking 45s up for automatic changing , which I remember buying in 1976 or so , when I decided I wanted to start buying 45s again ( " Disco Duck " was a major reason !) (I had bought 'em around 1969-71 , oddly enough , had a stack of 'em dating from then... , which you would put on the LP turntable's spindle .
These were much bigger than the " flat plastic " one you mention , but were built upon the same theory of putting on top of the spindle .


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Not sure what you're getting at but...the turntable adapters for the wide holed seven inch (ie 45 pm) vinyl discs were not phallic shaped ( if that's what you mean by "vibrator like"). Either the turntable had a built in disc shaped thingy you could twist to come up. Or you bought an adapter thing (two kinds - one looked like a little hat that sat on the record spindle, and the other was a flat plastic thing you had to insert into the record hole. Both hard to describe, but neither was very phallic like.[/quote]

...I recall ithe Sunday-nite Disney anthology being " The Wonderful World Of Color " during my dedicated fan days of it , at least part of it...I remember Walt Disney's last year or so of life , when he still hosted the show , and maybe the official billing was different still then??
Obscure Sunday-night TV shows from then..." The New Adventures Of Huckleberry Flynn " , a combination live-action/animated series made by Hanna-Barbera..." The Wonderful World Of Mister Magoo " (possibly not the exact series' title) , a peculiar concept of 1/2-hour animatedClassics Illustrated-kinda adaptations of famous literary works with the idea that Mr. Magoo was a lead actor in them , incuding adaptations of material as grim/adult as " Moby Dick " and Mary Shelley's original " Frankenstein "...An " adult-aimed " series , " The Mothers-In-Law " , with Eve Arden and Kaye ballard ! This was essentiaslly " I Love Lucy: The Second Generation " , produced by Desi Arnaz's post-Desilu company and written by the exact same?? head writers who'd worked on " ILL " - and one week they did an episode that remade the " LILL " episode where they can only get two tickets for the two couples to a hit Broadway show of the time as a " Mothers-In-Law " episode , updating what the show was to a Sixties one , and I discovered that - because the local station's rerun rotation of " Lucy " had the same original episode turning up in their rotation that week ! !! !! !! !! !!

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Yes. Every Sunday night with daddy and my big brothers (the vicious teases ) while MeMum was at church; usually there were milkshakes made in the blender and popcorn involved. Good times, good times!



Yes. Another good one, though I was a bit sensitive to the parts about predators eating cute baby deer and gazelles.



Um, no. What was it about? Was it anything like "How Come?" or "Ripley's Believe it or Not?" [/quote]

Geez-a-LOO, I can't believe I forgot about this thread----I can't seem to remember ANYTHING, nowadays!!

Anyway, I don't have anything NEW, to add----I've just been enjoying all the posts----particularly, all the talk about old records..... I still have a couple of 78s----it's interesting how thick, they are----even, some of the older 33s, I have, are thicker than more recent (though, OLD) ones.

As for the little plastic thingy, that one put in 45s----I still have alot of those (both, the 45s, and the little things still attached----I bought those little inserts, almost as often as I bought 45s, so that I wouldn't have to detach / re-attach them, each time, cuz I was afraid of breaking the records). I have two turntables----one, a console stereo (you know, like the old console TVs, that were furniture), and a "regular" (though, old) stereo, that I think I bought at The Goodwill Store, maybe, cuz I was sick-to-DEATH, of CDs, and the speakers on my console stereo, went wonky.

I think I know what the person said, who was talking about the "spindle-like" thingy, for 45s----I remember them being in JUKEBOXES, though.....

To the person who said something about folding the edges of the printer paper, and putting a toothpick in the holes: I THINK I know what you're talking about, cuz I used to do the same thing----except, I folded it like a fan, and put it on a swizzle-stick, or pencil. Did you ever fold them, like a fan?

Ahhh, such good memories, on this thread.....

I still use them. When the "new, improved' can openers break, these always work.

Ooops----I think I just told a big, fat FIB! I think my eldest sister had one of those spindle thingies, for 45s----so, it WASN'T that I remember them ONLY, on jukeboxes!! Ooops----sorry, about that!!

telephone number phonemic prefixes such as "LE7-2534" or PR7-5427" or such, instead of just pure numeric chains. or when it was just 5 or 6 alphanumeric combos instead of 7. and the old-fashioned "beating" dial tones that sounded a bit like somebody gargling.

the ozoney smell of old electrical and electronic things. the rich sauerkrauty smell of leaded gas in pre-emission-control cars, the roarty sound of minimally muffled car and motorcycle engines. the tinny sound of primitive portable transistor radios. television ghosting. the buzzsaw din of dot matrix printers. the chirp of a dial-up modem.

...Was it an earlier thread by Kraftiekortie (not his most recent one hear on this page) which mentioned " Wonderama " ?
I think that I can answer it ~ However , I'd rather do it when I have a little more time , I want to read/post other posts now .
I really do remember these - Um , stacked-up tires or flapjacks ? ~ " big , round " 45 spindles for home phonographs , I KNOW that I had one !
A lot of childrens' 7-inch/45 records were on various kinds of colored vinyl (And , I am record-buff ~ Even as a shit-ass poor , homeless , person with NOTHING to my name . enough to know that there was an elaborate " format war " involving 45s versus LPs in the early 1950s which involved different colors of colored vinyl on 45s apparently to designate different musical categories/genres) , and , in the late 70s , there was something of a fad for regular Top 40-aimed pop music 45s coming out on colored vinyl , even aside from more " indie/new wave " ones - It was an even larger fad in Great Britain , but there was an amount of them here .

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