Age of the FC Community plus a lot of nostalgia

What age range do you fall in.....

  • 15 ---- 18

  • 19 ---- 25

  • 26 ---- 35

  • 36 ---- 48

  • 49 ---- 60

  • 61 ---- 70

  • 71 ---- 80

  • 80 +

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GetLeft

GetLeft

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His_Highness said:
I'm loving this thread! Saturday morning's were for cartoons as stated above.

Schoolhouse Rock:

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
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For me, this was part of the "Electric Company" schtick. Friday nights. I hated it, prbably 'cause I was never the brightest bulb in the socket. I was probably fantasizing when would be the first chance I'd have to get high.

My sisters liked it, though. They've gone places ;)


This guy was more my speed:

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He helped me spend gazillion afternoons watching the likes of:

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and

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and

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oldiebutgoodie

oldiebutgoodie

Apostle, Church of Vaporization
Hippie Dickie said:
. . . anyone remember when a single JK flip flop took up a pcb that was 4" on a side? . . .
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Sure. My first job in electronics - years before becoming an engineer - was as a stock boy in a Palo Alto start-up. The company had invented the first industrial laser, 14 ft long. The huge boards were stuffed on a large lazy-susan table by ~half-dozen operators (all women, of course).


lwien said:
This was my system in the 70's. . . .

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Still have my record collection. Must be over 400 albums all boxed up. Lots of English imports.
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We have about the same nbr of LP's boxed up, too. And our turntable which we had refurb'd years ago intending to xfer the albums to digital. We've never gotten around to the project, though. :ugh:
 
lwien

lwien

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oldiebutgoodie said:
My first job in electronics - years before becoming an engineer - was as a stock boy in a Palo Alto start-up. The company had invented the first industrial laser, 14 ft long.
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For about a year back in the 70's, I worked for a company called Laser Images. We produced all the Laserium shows around the US and some overseas as well as doing some laser effects for the movie industry. Fun gig.....

Funny thing I just though of. Ya know how we refer to ourselves as vaporists? Those who operated the laser projectors where known as laserists.
 
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phattpiggie

phattpiggie

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Accessory Maker
I wish we could have a way of knowing how old someone who posts is? That way I could just look and then understand where they were coming from. I used to be balls out, lets have it, in my youth but as I've entered and nearly gone thru the 36-48 group I am a bit more sedate. Slowly slowly catchee monkey type.
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
I have several I didn't post which I liked a lot like Creedance Clearwater and several others. Feel free to add. I was thinking different years too. James Taylor would have been before Elton and Billy Joel. I only wanted to have 4, it was difficult to decide. I love ELO but that would have been a year or 2 later.
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Now would the real Carole King use her real name?:leaf::2c::peace:

I replied about this before. I am a singer but not the famous one. I'm younger than the real Carole King.;)

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I remember having a dime and getting 10 pieces of candy. Also way back when we would find pop bottles and exchange them for penny candy. We used to have bottle deposits on the glass pop bottles. We would walk with a big bag holding the bottles all the way to the country store 1/2 mile, hoping the bag wouldn't break.
 
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Enchantre

Enchantre

Oil Painter
CarolKing said:
Now would the real Carole King use her real name?:leaf::2c::peace:

I replied about this before. I am a singer but not the famous one. I'm younger than the real Carole King.;)

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I remember having a dime and getting 10 pieces of candy. Also way back when we would find pop bottles and exchange them for penny candy. We used to have bottle deposits on the glass pop bottles. We would walk with a big bag holding the bottles all the way to the country store 1/2 mile, hoping the bag wouldn't break.
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We had the same childhood!

My stepsister and I would walk around the shopping center we lived near, picking up pop bottles to get the bottle deposits back on, which we would then purchase candy with, at the 5 & Dime.

This was Rolling Hills, CA, circa 1965 - 1966

Only real difference... we lived really close to the shopping center. and there was a "31 Flavors" ... I practically lived there, when possible.
 
phattpiggie

phattpiggie

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Accessory Maker
Songs from the Wood. I wore the needle out listening to that album. Being at a PX and tasting Root beer for the first time.
Having a beard before it was trendy. The only people with facial hair when I was younger were hippies, bikers, tramps and grandmothers. Now every fuker and his dog have one.
 
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bella

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Born in 1970, so turning 45 this year. I remember a bit of the 70s but mostly grew up in the 80s (you can imagine how good the photos are, lol...t'was not a great decade for fashion and hairstyles!)

Was in love with duran duran and kiss, assumed i would be nuked before i got to be an adult and lived in a mind-numbingly dull aussie bush town of about 300 people (which kind of made me hope i would get nuked).

Oh, and i looooved the tv show 'the littlest hobo' (aussie/canadian production apparently....anyone else remember it?)
 
hd_rider

hd_rider

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When I was about 18, I took this advertisement off the wall in a subway platform in Boston. I guess that was about 1979 / 1980.

For years, the poster-sized advertisement was kept rolled up in a cardboard tube. Then about 25 years ago, I decided to have it professionally framed and it's been hanging somewhere in my house ever since.
 
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