Remember When
Quote: EvenBobQuote: JohnzimboRemember hearing a top 40 single on the radio, liking it, then buying the album and finding out the radio version was shortened?
I can recall two for sure.
American Woman by Guess Who
Green Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf
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Just realized that I've never bought a record album in my life, I was never into music that much. I was always reading. My brother on the other hand has hundreds of albums. I was just at the library today, to me it's a more sacred place than the church.
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You don't use the Libby app? Save you from leaving your house.
Quote: JohnzimboRemember hearing a top 40 single on the radio, liking it, then buying the album and finding out the radio version was shortened?
I can recall two for sure.
American Woman by Guess Who
Green Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf
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I had never heard the full version of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" until I bought the song on iTunes!
Quote: rxwineQuote: EvenBobQuote: JohnzimboRemember hearing a top 40 single on the radio, liking it, then buying the album and finding out the radio version was shortened?
I can recall two for sure.
American Woman by Guess Who
Green Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf
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Just realized that I've never bought a record album in my life, I was never into music that much. I was always reading. My brother on the other hand has hundreds of albums. I was just at the library today, to me it's a more sacred place than the church.
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You don't use the Libby app? Save you from leaving your house.
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There are a few different library apps, depending on which digital collection "your" library subscribes to.
Mine gets me different collections on Libby and Hoopla.
Do I remember something about Meals on Wheels delivering library requests for a while?
(Not trying to cast aspersions on our group, but someone here would remember if it was once a thing.)
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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I see it all the time because nobody explained to them the most rudimentary things about life and how to stay alive.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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I see it all the time because nobody explained to them the most rudimentary things about life and how to stay alive.
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Doesn’t matter any longer; everyone is looking at their phone.
Quote: rxwineQuote: EvenBobQuote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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I see it all the time because nobody explained to them the most rudimentary things about life and how to stay alive.
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Doesn’t matter any longer; everyone is looking at their phone.
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I was foolishly walking across a street in San Diego on my phone and ran into the curb because I wasn't paying attention. Kicking a curb in sandals is painful and I ended up breaking my big toe.
it used to be taught to everyone. I find young people simply don't believe me when I tell them this.Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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Unmentioned even in my day: you walk on the left so you can see what's coming ... you might have to leap out of the road
Quote: odiousgambitit used to be taught to everyone. I find young people simply don't believe me when I tell them this.Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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Unmentioned even in my day: you walk on the left so you can see what's coming ... you might have to leap out of the road
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25 years ago Stephen King was walking on the road near his house and was struck by a pickup truck from behind. It changed his life because of the injuries. He might have been able to avoid it if he'ed been facing the oncoming vehicle.
Quote: odiousgambitit used to be taught to everyone. I find young people simply don't believe me when I tell them this.Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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Unmentioned even in my day: you walk on the left so you can see what's coming ... you might have to leap out of the road
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I have seen like a dozen kids walking home from school on the right. Shook my head. It just seems a casualty of schools not teaching life skills. People born after 1980 just do not seem to get it.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: odiousgambitit used to be taught to everyone. I find young people simply don't believe me when I tell them this.Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when you were taught to walk on the left, facing traffic?
Saw it again today, woman with 2-3 kids in tow, walking on the right.
Anyone else notice this?
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Unmentioned even in my day: you walk on the left so you can see what's coming ... you might have to leap out of the road
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I have seen like a dozen kids walking home from school on the right. Shook my head. It just seems a casualty of schools not teaching life skills. People born after 1980 just do not seem to get it.
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It's their parents that don't get it. My parents taught me all this stuff and parents aren't teaching their kids anything. I was reading that this generation of parents is so stressed that many of them when they get home from work they sit in their car in the garage for an hour and drink wine before they face the family. Or they sit in the parking lot down the street and do it. Pretty bad when you got to be half drunk before you walk in your own door.
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I was reading that this generation of parents is so stressed that many of them when they get home from work they sit in their car in the garage for an hour and drink wine before they face the family. Or they sit in the parking lot down the street and do it.
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LOL Where on earth did you read that? Sounds like something that would happen in the '50s, not today.
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I was reading that this generation of parents is so stressed that many of them when they get home from work they sit in their car in the garage for an hour and drink wine before they face the family. Or they sit in the parking lot down the street and do it.
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LOL Where on earth did you read that? Sounds like something that would happen in the '50s, not today.
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I can see it still happening. Lots of people have a sort of walking depression. Hide behind a happy face but their family life is not what they want. It is not what they see on the sitcoms. Filling their lives with useless consumer goods. Just getting by.
Quote: TigerWuQuote: EvenBob
I was reading that this generation of parents is so stressed that many of them when they get home from work they sit in their car in the garage for an hour and drink wine before they face the family. Or they sit in the parking lot down the street and do it.
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LOL Where on earth did you read that? Sounds like something that would happen in the '50s, not today.
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Too bad you did not live in the "50's." They were great. Not the kind of "stress" one sees or feels today. Most everyone was working. Moms stayed at home with their children. Gas and autos were cheap and affordable along with housing and rents. Kids played outside with their friends and could use their imaginations to make things interesting. Families ate dinner together and moms packed the lunchbox for school. There was so much more. It was a wonderful time to grow up. People in the "middle class" were abundant and active and could actually save a portion of their wages. Vegas was affordable and EXCITING and unique.
Tiger, what we have today is chaos, complexities, polarities, the f bomb along with all the other crudities, and confusion.
tuttigym
Quote:Ancient Greece: Aristotle noted that young people are high-minded and think they know everything1.
1st Century B.C.E.: The Roman poet Horace lamented that each generation was worse than the one before1.
14th Century Japan: Yoshida Kenkō criticized the coarsening of language and modern fashions1.
17th Century England: Thomas Barnes complained about the disrespectful behavior of youth1.
18th Century England: A letter in Town and Country magazine bemoaned the loss of manly vigor and athletic appearance in young
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I was reading that this generation of parents is so stressed that many of them when they get home from work they sit in their car in the garage for an hour and drink wine before they face the family. Or they sit in the parking lot down the street and do it.
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LOL Where on earth did you read that? Sounds like something that would happen in the '50s, not today.
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I can see it still happening. Lots of people have a sort of walking depression. Hide behind a happy face but their family life is not what they want. It is not what they see on the sitcoms. Filling their lives with useless consumer goods. Just getting by.
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That is why the show "Married With Children" may be the best TV show ever. It showed the side of life most people won't talk about.
Quote: DRichQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: TigerWuQuote: EvenBob
I was reading that this generation of parents is so stressed that many of them when they get home from work they sit in their car in the garage for an hour and drink wine before they face the family. Or they sit in the parking lot down the street and do it.
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LOL Where on earth did you read that? Sounds like something that would happen in the '50s, not today.
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I can see it still happening. Lots of people have a sort of walking depression. Hide behind a happy face but their family life is not what they want. It is not what they see on the sitcoms. Filling their lives with useless consumer goods. Just getting by.
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That is why the show "Married With Children" may be the best TV show ever. It showed the side of life most people won't talk about.
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Also "Rosanne" got it really close to the mark. If you spend much time in lower management where you deal with the front line people daily you get to see it. Probably 40% of the USA is living right on the edge all the time. So many a flat tire from disaster.
I do not think I have seen people playing multiples since the early 2000s though I am sure some of you have seen it lately.
Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when most slots were "reel" slots and you would regularly see people playing 2 and even 3 machines at once? That always amazed me, need that much stimulation?!
I do not think I have seen people playing multiples since the early 2000s though I am sure some of you have seen it lately.
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Most of the floor layouts I've seen since the time of social distancing have been low density, so "adjacent" machines have enough space between the player button decks to make it difficult.
It does seem more common to see a couple playing one machine, rather than one person playing two.
I followed this case pretty closely
Total media Circus
Just watched the Netflix documentary on this
Pretty shocking that the number 1 cause of death among pregnant women is homicide
Quote: rxwineI don't know if anyone else had this effect, but when 911 happened I watched so much coverage I think I started to feel the effects of PTSD, Maybe it wasn't PTSD but it was something.
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I had nightmares about it for years. Regularly at first, but they began spacing themselves out and eventually stopped.
Quote: rxwineI don't know if anyone else had this effect, but when 911 happened I watched so much coverage I think I started to feel the effects of PTSD, Maybe it wasn't PTSD but it was something.
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I watched the first day as it unfolded and after that I ignored it because all they did was repeat the same news over and over until they ran it into the ground. It's what they always do. My wife always falls for it, she'll sit there for days watching the same news regurgitated over and over again. I couldn't do that now if I wanted to because I don't have cable, I can't get live news and my life is so much better.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: rxwineI don't know if anyone else had this effect, but when 911 happened I watched so much coverage I think I started to feel the effects of PTSD, Maybe it wasn't PTSD but it was something.
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I watched the first day as it unfolded and after that I ignored it because all they did was repeat the same news over and over until they ran it into the ground. It's what they always do. My wife always falls for it, she'll sit there for days watching the same news regurgitated over and over again. I couldn't do that now if I wanted to because I don't have cable, I can't get live news and my life is so much better.
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I kept it on because I was way into news back then. I even looked around the dial, they had some channel I forget which dialed into CBC which gave a detached Canadian viewpoint, which was and still is interesting. I had business on Long Island a week later, it was weird to see the smoke where you saw the towers. One guy at our Queens branch watched it fall on TV and live out the window at the same time. He was a tad shaken, lived in the midwest all his life until a couple months before.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: EvenBobQuote: rxwineI don't know if anyone else had this effect, but when 911 happened I watched so much coverage I think I started to feel the effects of PTSD, Maybe it wasn't PTSD but it was something.
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I watched the first day as it unfolded and after that I ignored it because all they did was repeat the same news over and over until they ran it into the ground. It's what they always do. My wife always falls for it, she'll sit there for days watching the same news regurgitated over and over again. I couldn't do that now if I wanted to because I don't have cable, I can't get live news and my life is so much better.
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I kept it on because I was way into news back then. I even looked around the dial, they had some channel I forget which dialed into CBC which gave a detached Canadian viewpoint, which was and still is interesting. I had business on Long Island a week later, it was weird to see the smoke where you saw the towers. One guy at our Queens branch watched it fall on TV and live out the window at the same time. He was a tad shaken, lived in the midwest all his life until a couple months before.
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I was 52 years old when they took out the Twin Towers so I've been around to see this kind of thing covered ad nauseaum. In the late sixties on the Nightly News they had Vietnam coverage every single night for years and it all looked the same. I got sick of it and learned how to tune it out. Give me the highlights once a week and I'm happy.
AM stations would go even shorter, down to two digits because the radio in your car usually did the same.
Leaded gas and cheap steel pipes were the reasons. By the late-80s they used stainless at the factory so much so that seriously, when was the last muffler shop ad you saw on TV?
OTOH, if you lived close enough to sea water in either place, maybe that was true.
Quote: rxwineReplacing exhaust systems might be more common in colder areas where lots of salt is applied to the roads in winter. I don’t remember it so much. I spent a lot of years in Texas and Florida. Neither real big on winter. Or maybe I was just lucky.
OTOH, if you lived close enough to sea water in either place, maybe that was true.
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Salt didn't really have much to do with it. There is moisture in exhaust gas as well as other things that rusted them out. The steel was cheapo.
These days they rarely need replaced, I have not heard of someone having to do it since the 1990s and then on older cars.
If you were a kid you probably went to Buster Brown. An adult maybe Kinne, GASS, or Endicot-Johnson. There were others and some specialized in men or women's shoes.
Last time I went shoe shopping I could barely find one of those size-meters let alone someone to help you find shoes on the self-serve rack. Can you imagine working as a shoe salesman today?
Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when the local mall had 5-6 shoe stores and they all had shoe salesmen who would size and then bring out the shoes for you to try on from the back? Sometimes they helped put it on and laced them up for you to try.
If you were a kid you probably went to Buster Brown. An adult maybe Kinne, GASS, or Endicot-Johnson. There were others and some specialized in men or women's shoes.
Last time I went shoe shopping I could barely find one of those size-meters let alone someone to help you find shoes on the self-serve rack. Can you imagine working as a shoe salesman today?
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Al Bundy was the greatest shoe salesman ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAf89zr2KJE
Back in the late 1950s/early 1960s going to the shoe store was a big deal and family oriented function. Could some please post a picture of a Brannack Device - I can't figure out how to post a picture. This way the younger members could see this tool of the trade in the shoe business. It made going to the shoe store something to look forward to.
The device was invented and manufactured in Syracuse, New York. Had a relative that worked for the company. During family visits after Sunday dinner the adults would watch bowling and us kids we would go into the basement and play with the Brannacks - there were boxes of them. We pretended that they were something a spaceman would use. Sadly, they probably all went out in the trash after my relatives passed on. I think they have the original plans and prototype for the device in the Smithsonian.
https://brannock.com/
Quote: billryanIn high school, I started working in a department store's stock room. A co-worker was part-time but was looking to go full-time. A spot opened up in the shoe department, and it came with a raise. He lasted a week before going back to PT in the stock room. I think it took a special person to be a shoe salesman.
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I think I'd rather be in prison. Federal System at least.
Quote: DRichQuote: AZDuffmanRemember when the local mall had 5-6 shoe stores and they all had shoe salesmen who would size and then bring out the shoes for you to try on from the back? Sometimes they helped put it on and laced them up for you to try.
If you were a kid you probably went to Buster Brown. An adult maybe Kinne, GASS, or Endicot-Johnson. There were others and some specialized in men or women's shoes.
Last time I went shoe shopping I could barely find one of those size-meters let alone someone to help you find shoes on the self-serve rack. Can you imagine working as a shoe salesman today?
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Al Bundy was the greatest shoe salesman ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3NRH9nYdFY
A men's shoe store specialized in selling single shoes, as the market was big after two world wars and Korea but not one for women. She'd sometimes wear men's shoes, as she could get two singles, which supposedly caused a scandal. At the time, Ushers watched the entrances to Catholic mass and would refuse entrance if you weren't up to code. She had to obtain a letter from the Rector to wear men's shoes to mass. Around 1972, a national shoe company began selling custom pairs for people like her, as the Vets who had sustained the small industry passed away.
Quote: EvenBobI haven't bought a new pair of shoes in probably 10 years. I'm an old guy, I probably have seven or eight pairs of shoes that are all different and none of them wear out anymore because I don't go anywhere or walk very much. That's fine I'd rather wear an old pair of shoes than a new pair any day.
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I wear shoes six days a month for work. Other than that I am in sandals.
Quote: TigerWuShoe stores are much more efficient nowadays. Most/all of the stock is out on the floor. You just go in, find the pair that fits you, and get out. No more waiting for a salesperson to size you and go in the back to get a pair and just keep going back and forth until they found one that fit. This was common in shoe stores well into the '90s. It's so bizarre they did it that way for so long, when no other article of clothing worked that way. If you needed a shirt or pants, you just found some on the rack and went to the changing room to try it on. Imagine if you had to wait for a salesperson to come out on the floor, measure your waist, go to the back and bring out one or two pairs of pants for you to try on, yada yada yada. Obviously that's still how it works for things like suits and tuxedos, but imagine how ludicrous it would be if that's how they made you do it when you just wanted to buy a pair of sweatpants or jeans.
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I think this was because shoes were a less common purchase, once a year for many. As a kid we got new shoes in August for school, that was about it. Buster Brown when we were younger, places like GASS when we got a little older. So the shoe stores made it a bigger deal. I still buy shoes at most once a year, though now when old ones wear out instead of "for fall/school." Then again I just bought a pair about a month ago, near the same back-to-school time.
Quote: DRichQuote: AZDuffmanRemember when the local mall had 5-6 shoe stores and they all had shoe salesmen who would size and then bring out the shoes for you to try on from the back? Sometimes they helped put it on and laced them up for you to try.
If you were a kid you probably went to Buster Brown. An adult maybe Kinne, GASS, or Endicot-Johnson. There were others and some specialized in men or women's shoes.
Last time I went shoe shopping I could barely find one of those size-meters let alone someone to help you find shoes on the self-serve rack. Can you imagine working as a shoe salesman today?
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Al Bundy was the greatest shoe salesman ever.
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He also scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in 1966.
Quote: Jimmy2TimesFound this, it has the picture included automatically
https://brannock.com/
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Due to my hard to fit shoe size and width, not every shoe store carries shoes that fit me, nor does ever shoe company even make shoes in my size. So once I find a shoe brand and style, I tend to stick with that until they decide to stop making them. If I can find them in a store, great. If not, Amazon to the rescue. It's case of B&M stores not carrying a product I want, so they lose a sale to online. There's also a shoe manufacturer next town over with an outlet store that specializes in wide shoes.
I even have my own Brannock device.
As an aside, many of the Italian-Americans from my neck of the woods, including a Great Grandfather of mine, came over to work in the shoe factories which were common in my area at one time.
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Al Bundy was the greatest shoe salesman ever.
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According to the show, the owner of the shoe store is super rich, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and only keeps the shoe store open because she once vowed to never have a failed business. That's the only reason Al ever keeps his job....LOL
