It's a redneck fire alarm
The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums.
Two cyanide pills and a hotline to Jesus? What kind of upbringing did YOU have?All y’all with memories of exchange phone numbers, anyone else remember one of these next to the phone?
Hey, my hair isn't white! Well, it has gotten kinda gray though...The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums.
I actually managed to get a job running a FirstClass BBS, which was a great system - Graphical, kinda AOL-like, and you could download files and read emails AT THE SAME TIME!
Astrocam! Grainy, blurry pictures that took days to develope.
They aren't at PoA, but I have taught both of my sons, and my niece to fly (Armstrong starter, tube and fabric, natch'). One son owns my old BC12D.The overwhelming participation in this thread explains the declining GA numbers and all the white hair (or no hair as in my case) in the audiences of Oshkosh forums.
I never put that together before!
"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball . . .."
That is the modern version. The original used a small disk of film that you loaded / unloaded in a darkroom or a changing bag. I don't recall how you got it developed - probably had to send it back to Estes.
Our high school had a darkroom. A little trial and error with nasty smelling chemicals, (masks, glasses, surely you jest) and Nessie was in clear focus (if one squinted enough).
We had the 110 version that came out in 1979.
Our phone co-op had a 3 minute beep on the party lines . It was needed when we had 5 or more people on our line.All y’all with memories of exchange phone numbers, anyone else remember one of these next to the phone?
Oof, I would have killed for this as a kid.
I didn't, but my neighbor did. Best inside game I remember, until Pac-Man came out.
I had something like that, but I think it was a knockoff version, I don't remember the key switch. It was on my Schwinn Sting-Ray (with the obligatory STP sticker on the seat). But baseball cards and clothespins worked almost as well.
I suspect some of those in the old group that failed to make it past their early 20s was not because of PLAYING war. They are probably resting with some of my contemporaries; either in Arlington or in the jungle in S.E. Asia after participating in the real thing.
Ours would collect all players around the 30 yard line in a big vibrating pig pile. Either that, or right before a touchdown, the player with the ball would reverse course and score for your opponent. Not sure I ever made a field goal with the kicking player and the amorphous ball of lint that represented a ball.
Yeah they were goofy as hell. Then in ‘77 these guys came out and changed gaming forever.
I wasn't trusted with a BB gun, but I did have the bottle rockets, a .22 and a 410.
I actually still have the Mattel game! I found it when cleaning out my parents house.
Me too. My first election where I could vote.
As a teen, I put an actual 36 or so cc two-cycle single on a bicycle. It probably did 20 mph and got 100 or more mpg. Needed much better brakes 'tho.
Yes, with a genuine Fran Tarkenton style quarterback that went left, right, backwards, and forwards . . . at the same time.
So.....it wasn't cause you needed a 6 shooter?
We had a simple Zenith TV with clicker. One evening I was watching TV and my parents were going out. My mom walked into the living room and the TV channel changed and then changed then changed.
I was a Centuri rocket guy. Way back, before Estes bought them, and then there was one.
Two for B&W, 4 for color TVs.
