Age of the FC Community plus a lot of nostalgia

[1DMF]

I guess this would have to be included in the classic 'pin-up' pics category! Though I don't believe this one was available in Athena, unlike the tennis one!

Though I got the shock of my life searching Google for an image link, what ever you do don't
Google 'Naked girl in chair'...OMG!

And lets not forget the ladies...

 

[CuckFumbustion]

I have actually seen women gush over the second photo before. No lie. Having the baby in the photo really tugs at the ole heart strings.
WWII Bomber Nose Pin-up art.

 

[CarolKing]

Right after I got my drivers license this happened. We had every other day gas allotment depending on your license plate - even or odd number or limited to 10 gallons. Gas started to go sky high in prices.

 

[Shrike]

^^^In 'Jersey during the '70's I got up one morning in February at 4 in the morning with it being about 10 degrees out to wait in a 4 block long line, 2 hours to receive 2 gallons worth of gas...whoopee!!!

...while oil tankers heavily laden with oil sat in the Delaware Bay...FUCK the Dutch Oil Company (Shell) for starting that whole phony, bullshit shortage along with the other mother fucking companies that went along with the ruse...

 

[CarolKing]

My brother had one of these Gremlins. The ugliest car made except for - Remember the Pacer? I don't think they made that one for long. In 1977 I had an olive green Pinto station wagon, that was pretty ugly too.

 

[CuckFumbustion]

I immediately reacted with a laugh when I saw the pic. And Yes my first car was a Pinto. My favorite small car was a GEO metro. Drove that until the wheels fell off. TX.
The year 1977 was the 1970's in turbo mode as far as I'm concerned. New York City blackout of 1977, The NASA Space Shuttle, Saturday Night Fever, Jimmy Carter, Death of Elvis Presley, Son of Sam, the Sex Pistols, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET']ARPANET, and Star Wars. I could go on.[/URL]

 

[1DMF]

hmm, I must be getting old, I quite like the look of that Gremlin!

Reminds me of a Ford Capri...

 

[Mr. Me2]

Right after I got my drivers license this happened. We had every other day gas allotment depending on your license plate - even or odd number or limited to 10 gallons. Gas started to go sky high in prices.

I remember that too, and the price increases. But we haven't talked about the price of gas per gallon back then...

 

[CarolKing]

The gas prices in my area during the early 70s was about .36 a gallon but the end of the 70s it shot up to .99 a gallon. My dad was pissed in the mid 70s the president switched the speed limit to no more than 55mph on freeways. They though the country could conserve energy that way.

My dad loved driving fast in his 1970 Grand Prix often faster than the speed limit. My dad would be behind a slow driver and he would pass going really fast sometimes recklessly with another car coming in the next lane. I would close my eyes.

He also smoked his cigarettes with the windows barely rolled down in the car. He was a very inconsiderate person to say it mildly. He possibly needed some kind of medicine like for bipolar.

 

[DDave]

@lwien
"Fess up!" This is your cat, isn't it?

&

 

[CuckFumbustion]

What did I just see up there? Second thought, maybe don't look up.
That was one feral looking cat.

R.Crumb

 

[Joel W.]

That was one feral looking cat.

He is a Tibetan wild cat breed , I want one. Awesome looking cat...

 

[Vitolo]

 

[ataxian]

That's why I use my Solo as a desktop home vape pretty much exclusively. I don't have a discrete portable at the moment, but I still will use the Solo out and about in my car or whatever. If I had more portable needs, I would get the crafty/mighty (again), maybe in the summer or if there is a good sale. I tried the Air for out and about and it frustrated me to no end. Much rather have a crafty/mighty.

Thinking about shooting some .1g thick milk vids today! I'm starting to really favour tamping and packing coarse shreds with a nice 30sec+ presoak.

many may disagree as we all have our preferences!
I hate batteries and think they are old fashion.
The SOLO has batteries however you don't change them out between sessions.
I'll buy another SOLO when this one dies!

@Dr. Soxhlet in the early 70's we used 5.25 floppy disc and 640k ram and no hard drive!
The monitors produced a green and black image!
We have come so far in technology. (pong) was one of the 1st games!
For decades we rolled ZigZags and Bongs during the release of Bob Marley's Albums (vinyl).
I hated Bong's due to the large mouthpiece that I related to drinking fine wine in a styrofoam cup!
The strains have improved as well with all the cross breeding and gene splicing.
My OLD SOLO 113 seal PHVES GonG D series bubbler and GSC is as good as it gets!
With My Gizmo and Stand my SOLO will last a long time!

CANNABIS is the HOLY GRAIL and the SOLO helps us to enjoy the GRAIL!

 

[OF]

@Dr. Soxhlet in the early 70's we used 3.25 floppy disc and 640k ram and no hard drive!
The monitors produced a green and black image!

The first computers I used (aside from the big mainframes in college) were PDP8s. You'd boot up off punched tape (no floppies yet, nor hard drives for small computers?). Then you'd set the boot address with a row of paddle handle toggles (in binary of course), push the button and pray. I/O was by teletype.

We played a 'video game' called Star Trek on the teletype. The Universe was a grid 8 by 8 squares. Phasers did OK against the Klingons, but Photo Torpedoes were the call. We proved, experimentally, you couldn't wipe out your own Space Station (new fuels and weapons) with Phasers, but back off a few sectors and let loose a torpedo.......

The first Pong games came along a bit later, one in a local bar. We (4 of us) built one from TTL (Transistor Transistor Logic) ICs with an analog 'front end'. Took us months. About then we decided to go for on screen scoring (serious in hardware). We only got it partially working after 6 months or so of fiddling. Small processors (4004, 4040, 8008, 8080, 8086 and so on fixed a lot of those problems).

Fun times. IMO nothing like getting a new app today.

"When we were young we had to sleep 4 to a bed"
"You guys had a bed?"

OF

 

[ragnorak71]

ah OF, whenever I see a 'four yorkshiremen' reference I doff my cap so yay you

 

[Dr. Soxhlet]

I was yearbook photographer in Junior HS.
We did it all in black and white.

No s**t. I was a High School annual staff photographer!
And yes all in black and white.
We were like modern alchemists in our mysterious darkrooms..
Now its' all too easy.
Wish I'd had a Solo when I was in college.

 

[Melting Pot]

Anyone remember these?

 

[Enchantre]

Gosh yes! My kids had those... um, 1981 or 82? about then, I think

I'm feeling very nostalgic today... I'm wearing Levi brand jeans... first time since I was a teenager.

 

[grokit]

I'm feeling very nostalgic today... I'm wearing Levi brand jeans... first time since I was a teenager.

Ha I still wear 501s at least once a week, in fact I have a pair on right now

 

[Enchantre]

Ha I still wear 501s at least once a week, in fact I have a pair on right now

Sure. But, I haven't worn a size small enough to justify Levis since I was - are you ready for it? - 15 yrs old.

I am now wearing a size I haven't seen in forty years. And they are Levis.

 

[little maggie]

Anyone remember these?

They had them out in a couple of restaurants for playing while waiting for food. But not that long ago.

 

[CarolKing]

In the 1960s they still had some of these at restaurants.

Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in each booth? Wallboxes were an extension for a jukebox, making it more convenient to select music right from your table. You’d drop a coin in, choose a song from the flipbook behind the glass, chrome and plastics, and the machine would send pulses down a wire to the restaurant’s jukebox, where a stepper would decode the pulses and queue up the song you’d select.

 

[little maggie]

This is probably for the "girls" but do you remember drawing hopscotch with chalk or using a Chinese jump rope?

And I grew up in an antiquated city so I imagine that some place still has those table record players.

 

[Amoreena]

In the 1960s they still had some of these at restaurants.

Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in each booth? ...

There's still one near us. We've been going to Johnnie's for almost forty years. They have wall boxes on each table identical to the one pictured. Excellent sandwiches/burgers and we always make sure to bring quarters. http://www.johnniespastrami.com/