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Today would have been one of the few days that I would get out bed early, voluntarily, and just sit in front of my boom box, listening to the main local AM station that would list all the school closings. They would just go county by county, and I would get so annoyed because nobody cares about the ...

I can do you one better than an 8-track that I bet VERY few people know about, and that is an 8-track to cassette adapter. Plug it into an 8-track deck to play cassettes. Frankly, I only know about it because the family business was repairing instrument clusters, clocks, and radios. We did the majo...

At 50, I can honestly say that I never used an 8-track player. My parent's stereo had 8-track, and I think there were a half dozen or so tapes sitting around, but I can't say I ever heard them play. I don't recall having a rotary phone in the house, although I am sure we did when I was young. I do r...

The house I was born and grew up in had a den that was called the 'rec room' which is considered an old timey term these days. Anyway, it was the play room for us kids. One entire wall had orange shelves that contained all of my toys. Right in the middle on the top shelf we had an 8-track/record pla...

Back in my day I was working a paper route, Monday thru Saturday at 6AM on my bike, from 10 years old until I turned 16. In rain, snow and stormy conditions.

Also, riding my bike to the convenient store down the street to buy my dad cigarettes at the age of 6 and 7. Awesome.

-Pizza Hut - Book It -The Yellow Pages -Blowing in Nintendo cartridges -Smoking in restaurants -Riding your bike 10-15 miles to get into town -Getting lost in the woods all day with a backpack of sandwiches -Roll down windows -Phone booths -Corelle plates -Snow -Iron on patches for pants -Gumball ma...

I would enjoy a jukebox and a game room with the various consoles for the games I like or am interested in. Unfortunately, I pretty much need one of every console ever made to play the one game on each of those systems I like, so there's that. :roll: :lol: While I do like arcade machines, and they ...

Costco had an arcade machine a few years back with all the late 80's arcade games on it. If memory serves, it was something like $1200 at the time, and scrolling through the menu it really didn't have any of the games I enjoyed. I've always been drawn to the "simple" yet difficult games, ...

........We pounded entire boxes of strip caps with a sledgehammer for the big boom ......we gutted shotgun shells, duct taped tacks to the primer and dropped them off the roof onto the concrete below .....we dropped zinc coated nails into glass bottles full of hydrochloric acid and captured the hydr...

We pouned entire boxes of strip caps with a sledgehammer for the big boom Got my fingers slammed in the door of a sky blue Pinto once too....after swim lessons at the "Y". The only 'explosives' I was allowed to play with as a kid were strip caps, and those snapper aka pop-it things you th...

5th or 6th grade id sneak my moms 81 dodge charger 2.2 out in the middle of the night... i'd push it down the street a little ways and start it up and go cruising the dirt roads outside town. and then jr high and high school happened... me and my friends were total degenerates. drinking cough syrup ...

Being 45 and growing up in SE WI...the highlights of childhood were Mini bikes/small engines, skyway mags, staring at the wall of BMX candy (pegs and parts) at the local bike shop, tower hobbies, freedom to roam, popping the hood on moms 86 Cutlass to charge the battery for my Raider, hanging out at...

Man, this is a great post. Lovin these stories.

Two VHS tapes of R/C stuff just sold on eBay I was contemplating buying. I also have a lot of home videos on VHS as well so I looked into what it would cost to digitize the format, and was surprised the equipment would cost hundreds. :? Everyone I knew back in the day had VHS except for one friend w...

Is he from Australia?