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hkcavalier
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Location: NE WA Joined: Tue Oct 18, 2011 Posts: 5495
Real Name: The Dude
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Q151R wrote: haha I have you all beat I remember tending my fathers sheep in the foothills above my child hood home in the summer evenings of 1946, just after the war ended. I remember being at boarding school and getting hit on the knuckles by angry nuns who we talked back to. I remember flying over the atlantic in 1952, running up and down the isles of the airplane drinking coca cola. the engines exhaust were red cherry hot.
I also remember living as a small boy in my home town of the french Pyrenees during world war 2. the german soldiers used to let us ride in the sidecars of their bmw motorcycles, and would give us pencils, crayons, candy, and licorice at school. they used the church and school as what i know now as a military intelligence headquarters, back then we thought it was a school for them too! I am 85. Yeah I think you win this one. I read a book recently, Shibumi, which despite its Japanese name is mostly set in the French Pyrenees, in the Basque region. Lots of place names with a healthy dose of Zs and Ks befitting the Basque language. Seems like an interesting area without a whole lot of fanfare/tourism but centuries of history.
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6217
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Q151R wrote: i hunt with 7mm mauser and 3006 usually. have a colt 38 detective snubby and shotguns Old guys know their shit. Nothing fancy or trendy. Just what works, every time.
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Wacarry
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Location: Olympia Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2011 Posts: 3696
Real Name: Kelley
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We had Yard Darts, sent my friend to the ER when he took one on the noggin.
We got Pong and every kid in the neighborhood came over to play.
I remember when people dressed up to fly and they served legitimate meals during the flights.
Also remember my dad giving me a dollar and a note to buy him cigarettes at the local store. Still had enough left over for a candy bar.
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6217
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I made a dozen lawn darts last summer. They are badass. Thoroughly dangerous
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Selador
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Location: Index Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2012 Posts: 12963
Real Name: Jeff
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We had a party line phone until I was almost 14.
I remember going more than 5 miles one way, through a blizzard I could hardly see through, to get my mom some cigarettes. I was 10. Man, that is one mean addiction. Yep. Money and a note.
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jukk0u
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Location: Lynnwood and at large Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 21296
Real Name: Vick Lagina
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Radio tube testers at the five-and-dime.
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“A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Láodòng zhèng zhūwèi zìyóu
FJB
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Pablo
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Location: Everson, WA Joined: Sun Jan 6, 2013 Posts: 28191
Real Name: Ace Winky
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jukk0u wrote: Radio tube testers at the five-and-dime. Most grocery stores!
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Because the eagle sounds like a hawk.
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Selador
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Location: Index Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2012 Posts: 12963
Real Name: Jeff
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jukk0u wrote: Radio tube testers at the five-and-dime. Yep. I thought it was like magic! Of course, Madpick introduced me to red dot sights. (I'd never seen one before.) And I thought THAT was magic, too!
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golddigger14s
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Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17822
Real Name: Chuck
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Wacarry wrote: We had Yard Darts, sent my friend to the ER when he took one on the noggin.
We got Pong and every kid in the neighborhood came over to play.
I remember when people dressed up to fly and they served legitimate meals during the flights. And you could smoke during the flight.
Also remember my dad giving me a dollar and a note to buy him cigarettes at the local store. Still had enough left over for a candy bar.
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golddigger14s
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Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17822
Real Name: Chuck
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S&H Green stamps.
_________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux
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Wacarry
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Location: Olympia Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2011 Posts: 3696
Real Name: Kelley
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I also remember my neighbor got HBO, shows didn’t start until I think 7 or 8pm. And ended at 1 am.
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stevemcgee
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Joined: Wed Jul 8, 2020 Posts: 567
Real Name: Steve McGee
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Wacarry wrote: I also remember my neighbor got HBO, shows didn’t start until I think 7 or 8pm. And ended at 1 am. Forgot about that. The HBO song would come on when it started. Saw it a hotel. I remember the last plane I smoked on, 1991 I think, going to London from SF. Remember pull-knob cigarette machines? Like the knobs on my 77 Bronco. Cigarette machine next to a pay phone at bars and lounges. (Remember lounges with candles?)
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Old Growth
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Location: Nisqually Valley Joined: Wed Oct 5, 2016 Posts: 4836
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I remember when 9mm was under $10 a box
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20771
Real Name: John
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Marlin Perkins and Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" on TV
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JohnMBrowning
Location: Bothell Joined: Sat Sep 12, 2015 Posts: 4882
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Old Growth wrote: I remember when 9mm was under $10 a box I remember when it was under $5/box..... and I'm not near as old as you!
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