Remember When
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On top of that the oil was so close to the surface that he was shooting his cap and ball rifle and oil came up out of the ground where it hit. One day Jeb was shooting at some food and up through the ground came a bubbling crude. Oil that is. Black gold, Texas Tea. First thing you know old Jebs a millionaire.
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That was written during an era when it was fashionable to give the audience the whole backstory in the theme song. Gilligan's Island, F-Troop, Beverly Hillbillies, Brady Bunch and I'm sure other people can remember a few more.
It makes sense for business because a few people were still buying and tuning in to TVs for the first time, they could be totally unfamiliar with the show but once they hear the song, they know what's going on and if it's something they want to watch and they can become a fan who understands the story just seeing it once.
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Green Acres
When criminals in this world appear
And break the laws that they should fear
And frighten all who see or hear
The cry goes up both far and near
For ___,____,____,___
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder
Fighting all who rob or plunder
____, _____!
When in this world the headlines read
Of those whose hearts are filled with greed
Who rob and steal from those who need
To right this wrong with blinding speed
Goes ____, ____, _____, _____
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder
Fighting all who rob or plunder
____, _____
They gave us a boy who gained the ability to breathe underwater by chewing gum. Then they gave us an Android who was powered by atomic-powered cigarettes. America countered with a cartoon superhero who popped pills whenever he was in trouble.
Is it any wonder we are what we are?
They gave us a boy who gained the ability to breathe underwater by chewing gum. Then they gave us an Android who was powered by atomic-powered cigarettes. America countered with a cartoon superhero who popped pills whenever he was in trouble.
Is it any wonder we are what we are?
I always thought that The Adventures of the Gummi Bears could be summarized as turning to drugs (gummi berry juice) when life became too challenging.
This would have been back around 1970 when most of the Baby Boomers were still kids, so families were larger, shopping wasn't as convenient, food wasn't as cheap relative to what it is now, and I suppose one cart wouldn't be enough for a large family that has to buy things in quantity.
Quote: billryanI remember going shopping with my father, and we'd occasionally need a second cart, but I don't recall people pushing two attached carts. We'd do bulk shopping every two weeks or so. My second job was a cart boy for the local A&P. I started in May. The second day that I worked, there was a torrential rainstorm, and the manager expected me to be outside rounding up carts. There was no third day.
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I'm sure that's how you kept your young boyish figure as slim as it is by avoiding physical work that's expected of you.
Quote: rxwineExpress lane 10/15 or 20 items should only be wide enough for a mini size cart.
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(sigh)
https://www.ada.gov/
Quote: DieterQuote: rxwineExpress lane 10/15 or 20 items should only be wide enough for a mini size cart.
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(sigh)
https://www.ada.gov/
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Easy. Do it like the casinos, when they have a separate line for preferred customers, only disabled people can take the next spot in line at the regular cash register or check out area. They get their own parking spaces, so why not?
Yup, put narrow bars to keep the regular people trying to use the express lanes with larger carts.
Quote: rxwineQuote: DieterQuote: rxwineExpress lane 10/15 or 20 items should only be wide enough for a mini size cart.
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(sigh)
https://www.ada.gov/
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Easy. Do it like the casinos, when they have a separate line for preferred customers, only disabled people can take the next spot in line at the regular cash register or check out area. They get their own parking spaces, so why not?
Yup, put narrow bars to keep the regular people trying to use the express lanes with larger carts.
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Separate, but equal?
Restricting an egress path?
As someone who used to use the express lanes to buy a big cart full of 20 cases of soda at a time, I would be annoyed.
I understand if a clerk shoos me to a different lane if it's obviously way over the quantity limit. I understand if a self-service checkout starts taking longer and longer to scan items beyond the quantity limit.
addendum: When I'm tired, I'm not above using a big cart to lean on, even if I'm only getting 6 things.
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As someone who used to use the express lanes to buy a big cart full of 20 cases of soda at a time, I would be annoyed.
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Just stack them or I'll make you use a hand carry basket instead. : )
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addendum: When I'm tired, I'm not above using a big cart to lean on, even if I'm only getting 6 things.
I regularly use a full size cart even if I am only buying a few things.
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addendum: When I'm tired, I'm not above using a big cart to lean on, even if I'm only getting 6 things.
I regularly use a full size cart even if I am only buying a few things.
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I get all my groceries delivered to my door, that way I don't waste an hour of my day doing what I'm paying other people to do for me.
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I get all my groceries delivered to my door, that way I don't waste an hour of my day doing what I'm paying other people to do for me.
I live most of my life having others do what I do not want to do. Grocery shopping I enjoy.
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addendum: When I'm tired, I'm not above using a big cart to lean on, even if I'm only getting 6 things.
I regularly use a full size cart even if I am only buying a few things.
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I get all my groceries delivered to my door, that way I don't waste an hour of my day doing what I'm paying other people to do for me.
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According to the medical team, I need the exercise.
Being "of no fixed address", arranging deliveries is a special challenge. Part of the charm of the lifestyle is the opportunity to visit different grocery stores and sampling the regional specialties.
I rather enjoy getting a box of apples from a roadside fruit stand in Washington, and then visiting the deli counter at a place in Pennsylvania a few days later.
Sadly, with the current egg situation, there just isn't a great option - but it reassures my simple mind to verify this as I travel.
Quote: ChumpChangeI got to the supermarket the other night at 11:50pm and as I passed the cashier she got on the PA and said the store will be closing in 10 minutes and no transactions can happen after midnight. So when I got in line 5 minutes later after picking up several items, the person in front of me was fumbling with the payment system and it was unclear if she would finish anytime soon. Thankfully she did. So I asked the cashier if she was in the process of cashing out someone at midnight, could she finish the process; she said no, the cash register locks up and the ring up is voided. I got done at 11:58pm and two other employees were in line behind me with their single items to buy. I tried to watch the register clock at 11:59. The cashier said the screen doesn't change at midnight, and I was shooed out the door by an employee that was checked out behind me before the clock struck 12. There was also the bouncer at the door who saw me come in who was shaking his head as I was coming in, he's seen me before at this time of night.
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Sounds to me like they told you a tall tale to keep you from straggling. An issue in retail is people think "Closing at 5" means "Get in the door at 4:59 then you can still take all the time you need." Bad and weak managers let customers get away with this sort of thing. With good and strong managers it goes like this:
"Sir, we are closing, please check out."
"I am not done shopping yet."
"That's a shame, because we are done working, please check out."
Back in the 80s I worked the overnight and had to "close and reopen" the store. I did it about 230 or so, A 15 or so minute process, checked people out on paper then manually entered it all. If they wanted a "real" receipt they had to wait, none ever did. This was also the cutoff for expiring WIC.
I want one. If you have one and want to sell it, let me know.
Quote: DRich1968 Oldsmobile. I remember seeing one of these as a small child.
I want one. If you have one and want to sell it, let me know.
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28 feet long? 185" wheelbase?
Weren't these used back before jetways became common, to shuttle passengers across the tarmac from terminal to plane?
When you were riding in a Cadillac station wagon, the news was bad. Either an ambulance or a hearse.
And back then the guys in the ambulance weren't EMTs or paramedics, they might be the guys who wanted to be firemen but weren't brave enough to go into a burning building. If you got lucky a guy who was a medic in the service saw you, he's all about preserving life.
Paramedics were rare and not familiar to the public until a certain show came out in the early 70s. Emergency! was one of the most entertaining and educational shows on TV. Starring paramedics Gage and DeSoto, the fellow who wrote "Get Your Kicks On Route 66" and his lovely wife Julie London.
It also had an actor who never was- Fireman Mike Stoker, played by a Los Angeles fireman named Mike Stoker. It turns out driving a firetruck is a big deal, same as driving a tractor-trailer and you'll have a disaster if you don't know what you're doing, so the insurance company made them hire a real fireman to drive it on the street during the filming. They found one who also happened to be in the Guild, so he got the role. KMG365!
Quote: DRich1968 Oldsmobile. I remember seeing one of these as a small child.
I want one. If you have one and want to sell it, let me know.
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Big enough to camp in. However not suitable for off-roading.
Quote: rxwineQuote: DRich1968 Oldsmobile. I remember seeing one of these as a small child.
I want one. If you have one and want to sell it, let me know.
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Big enough to camp in. However not suitable for off-roading.
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I remember when the Toronado came out, the lawyer across the street bought one and we laughed and laughed at him. Front wheel drive, what a stupid idea for a car. Little did we know in the winter front wheel drive is your savior because you hardly ever get stuck like you do with a rear wheel drive. I live on a hill and it was so impossible to drive up the hill in the winter we always parked at the bottom and walked up. Once we got front wheel drive cars we never had to park down there again.
Quote: rxwineI came across a rock polishing video recently. That's something I remember seeing as kid. Yup, apparently a lot of rock polishing still going on. I watched a 30 minute video on it, 'cause I still was curious about what people do.
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That was my fathers hobby in the 1970's. He had quite a setup in the basement of our house.
Quote: DRichQuote: rxwineI came across a rock polishing video recently. That's something I remember seeing as kid. Yup, apparently a lot of rock polishing still going on. I watched a 30 minute video on it, 'cause I still was curious about what people do.
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That was my fathers hobby in the 1970's. He had quite a setup in the basement of our house.
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What did he do with the rocks once they were polished? I guess there is a market for small bags of polished rocks on places like Etsy.
…rim shot.
Quote: rxwineQuote: DRichQuote: rxwineI came across a rock polishing video recently. That's something I remember seeing as kid. Yup, apparently a lot of rock polishing still going on. I watched a 30 minute video on it, 'cause I still was curious about what people do.
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That was my fathers hobby in the 1970's. He had quite a setup in the basement of our house.
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What did he do with the rocks once they were polished? I guess there is a market for small bags of polished rocks on places like Etsy.
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There must be a dozen stone shops in Tucson, and I'm aware of two co-ops that share big rollers. I don't get it, but they are out there.
Quote: rxwineQuote: DRichQuote: rxwineI came across a rock polishing video recently. That's something I remember seeing as kid. Yup, apparently a lot of rock polishing still going on. I watched a 30 minute video on it, 'cause I still was curious about what people do.
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That was my fathers hobby in the 1970's. He had quite a setup in the basement of our house.
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What did he do with the rocks once they were polished? I guess there is a market for small bags of polished rocks on places like Etsy.
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He made tacky jewelry and gave it away to friends. I still remember being forced to wear a bolo tie with my baby blue leisure suit. There was a stone about 2x2 shaped and polished as the state of Ohio. That was the Bolo tie clasp.
I think in Nevada they based it off of the "value: of your car. A $60k car would set you back close to $1000 a year.
If there was a debt default in August 2011, the price of stamps could have escalated like the value of bitcoin.
Quote: ChumpChangeI bought 13 books of self-adhesive Forever stamps at $8.80 a piece on August 1, 2011, so 44 cents a stamp. I used to mail more bills, now it's just the rent check and the occasional odd thing. I've still got a lot of stamps left. I haven't been paying attention to the rate increases. But I tried to return something last month in a small Post Office Cardboard Box and if I didn't use the free RMA label it would have cost me $20 plus the following. I had to pay $3+ for the bubble wrap they had on sale and a dollar to have them wrap the box up in mailing tape.
If there was a debt default in August 2011, the price of stamps could have escalated like the value of bitcoin.
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I probably use 3 stamps a year for the odd bills that show up.
Quote: EvenBobAnybody here remember when you would roll into a gas station and you would run over an air hose that would set off a ding dong bell inside the station. That's so the attendant would know a car was out there because he was probably working on a car in the garage. And when you pump your gas the pump would ding every so often. We're talking 1950s here because most of this had disappeared by the mid 60s. We spent a lot of time at gas stations because the cars got 10 or 11 miles to the gallon if you were lucky. And at some intersections there was a gas station on every corner.
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The ding-ding hose I remember even in the early 70s. I was thinking of asking here who remembers having to pull up to the pump that had the grade you wanted? In the 80s if you needed regular leaded you might have to wait longer because only 1 pump had it. And if someone on the other side of the island needed it you had to wait for them.
Did anyone here have one of those "adapters" that let you put the regular nozzle in an unleaded car? My dad had one. Nobody cared about emissions anyways and regular was both cheaper and higher octane.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: EvenBobAnybody here remember when you would roll into a gas station and you would run over an air hose that would set off a ding dong bell inside the station. That's so the attendant would know a car was out there because he was probably working on a car in the garage. And when you pump your gas the pump would ding every so often. We're talking 1950s here because most of this had disappeared by the mid 60s. We spent a lot of time at gas stations because the cars got 10 or 11 miles to the gallon if you were lucky. And at some intersections there was a gas station on every corner.
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The ding-ding hose I remember even in the early 70s. I was thinking of asking here who remembers having to pull up to the pump that had the grade you wanted? In the 80s if you needed regular leaded you might have to wait longer because only 1 pump had it. And if someone on the other side of the island needed it you had to wait for them.
Did anyone here have one of those "adapters" that let you put the regular nozzle in an unleaded car? My dad had one. Nobody cared about emissions anyways and regular was both cheaper and higher octane.
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In NJ where to this day there is no self service for gas the pneumatic bells were everywhere and can still be found, because the attendant really does have to come out.
When I started driving unleaded was the same or maybe a little cheaper than leaded gas. I've never had a car that needed high octane gas except for one SUV where you should use it if you are towing something heavy. The other time I bought high octane gas was for diagnostic purposes- you can diagnose the need for a new timing belt that way. High octane gas can make a car difficult to start in the cold or at elevation which is why you can find 85 octane gas in mountain areas.
Remember when muffler shops were everywhere? Unleaded gas put most of them out of business. Compounds formed with the lead corrode the exhaust from the inside. All the manufacturers switching to stainless steel exhaust put the rest of them out of business. Now the only way to lose an exhaust is to drive over a curb and tear it out.
After operating as an independent shop since the 1930s, Arthurs finally sold out to a major chain in the 1990s, and ended up closing when the chain went bankrupt a few years ago.
The business got slower each year and shifted into installing and servicing AC for used car lots, but by the time my friend took over the business, there was no money for employees, and he and his brothers were working long hours and barely breaking even.
He kept it going until his Dad died and sold it immediately. The sale price was based on their parts inventory.
Quote: billryanI briefly worked in an auto parts store, and after about a week I was put in charge of the exhaust pipe. Each time a pipe got sold, I had to order a new one and put it in the proper place when it arrived. There were hundreds of different pipes, and a six-cylinder version of a car might have different pipes than an eight-cylinder. The pipes took up more than half the space devoted to parts. I stopped in about ten years ago, to get a part and was surprised the entire pipe room had been repurposed. Exhausts were a major revenue stream that seemed to dry up completely.
After operating as an independent shop since the 1930s, Arthurs finally sold out to a major chain in the 1990s, and ended up closing when the chain went bankrupt a few years ago.
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One of the modern applications of computers is computer controlled manufacturing. I seem to remember a lot of the premium exhaust shops got computer controlled tubing benders in the early 2000's, and now could just stock a few common diameters of straight tube.
Load a stock piece of material into the machine, and less than 10 minutes later, you've got a custom formed tube from the header to the cat or the cat to the muffler or whatever you need. Just need to weld on hangers.
Sure beats the hassle I had one weekend with galvanized pipe and a hacksaw, trying to patch up a roommate's Camaro's exhaust.
Quote: DieterQuote: billryanI briefly worked in an auto parts store, and after about a week I was put in charge of the exhaust pipe. Each time a pipe got sold, I had to order a new one and put it in the proper place when it arrived. There were hundreds of different pipes, and a six-cylinder version of a car might have different pipes than an eight-cylinder. The pipes took up more than half the space devoted to parts. I stopped in about ten years ago, to get a part and was surprised the entire pipe room had been repurposed. Exhausts were a major revenue stream that seemed to dry up completely.
After operating as an independent shop since the 1930s, Arthurs finally sold out to a major chain in the 1990s, and ended up closing when the chain went bankrupt a few years ago.
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One of the modern applications of computers is computer controlled manufacturing. I seem to remember a lot of the premium exhaust shops got computer controlled tubing benders in the early 2000's, and now could just stock a few common diameters of straight tube.
Load a stock piece of material into the machine, and less than 10 minutes later, you've got a custom formed tube from the header to the cat or the cat to the muffler or whatever you need. Just need to weld on hangers.
Sure beats the hassle I had one weekend with galvanized pipe and a hacksaw, trying to patch up a roommate's Camaro's exhaust.
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Galvanized pipe? You didn’t have any beer cans? Lol
By 1964, the Three Stooges had lost all the momentum their 1959 revival had generated. For their final big screen offering, they decided to make it a Western and transform the hosts from their long-running afternoon TV shows into villains out to start a war between the US Army and the Indian tribes.
It's an incredibly stupid movie to begin with. I can only imagine the audience's reaction when their favorite hosts show up as bad guys.
Joe Bolton was a fixture on WPIX as friendly Officer Joe Bolton on the Stooges and Chief Joe Bolton on the Dick Tracy Show. Suddenly, he is a cold-blooded killer in this movie.
It also features Henry Gibson as the first college-educated Indian and Adam West in his last pre-Batman role.
It was simply a sad final act. I remember going to the theatre to see their previous film, Around the World in a Daze, and hating it. When I mentioned it to my Mom about halfway through, she offered to buy me ice cream if we left. This was much worse.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: DieterQuote: billryanI briefly worked in an auto parts store, and after about a week I was put in charge of the exhaust pipe. Each time a pipe got sold, I had to order a new one and put it in the proper place when it arrived. There were hundreds of different pipes, and a six-cylinder version of a car might have different pipes than an eight-cylinder. The pipes took up more than half the space devoted to parts. I stopped in about ten years ago, to get a part and was surprised the entire pipe room had been repurposed. Exhausts were a major revenue stream that seemed to dry up completely.
After operating as an independent shop since the 1930s, Arthurs finally sold out to a major chain in the 1990s, and ended up closing when the chain went bankrupt a few years ago.
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One of the modern applications of computers is computer controlled manufacturing. I seem to remember a lot of the premium exhaust shops got computer controlled tubing benders in the early 2000's, and now could just stock a few common diameters of straight tube.
Load a stock piece of material into the machine, and less than 10 minutes later, you've got a custom formed tube from the header to the cat or the cat to the muffler or whatever you need. Just need to weld on hangers.
Sure beats the hassle I had one weekend with galvanized pipe and a hacksaw, trying to patch up a roommate's Camaro's exhaust.
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Galvanized pipe? You didn’t have any beer cans? Lol
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Beer can exhaust?
On a Camaro?
We were working under a tree, not at CaRx.
Quote: rxwineAbout every gas station had a garage to work on cars.. Now every gas station has a store. (some are really small though)
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That kind of sounds like "service station" vs "filling station".
The shift in business model may have something to do with modern radial tires lasting 50,000 miles, fan belts hardly ever snapping these days, and ignition points not having to be set every 4000 miles anymore.
Cokes and Moon Pies have always been popular.
A few years passed, and an Asian gentleman offered to lease the gas pumps and the office for almost the total rent. Tommy had his shop and parking, and the guy had the pumps and the office. Everyone thought he'd come out way ahead on the deal. The man spent some serious money transforming the office into a mini-store with a cooler for soda and an ice cream freezer, and above the counter were racks of cigarettes, by the pack and the carton. They stayed open until midnight and were cheaper than 7-11. The two businesses thrived for a decade or so, but Tommy's car repairs went down year by year until he sold out, so the mini-store expanded to the whole business. Tommy did okay; he retired early and restores 1930s raceboats as a hobby.
