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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1217285, member: 26030&quot;]thanks for the VAM tip, CPM ... will do!</p><p><br /></p><p>Great Memories Post!</p><p><br /></p><p>yes, we are all so old ... we all remember when you had to get up out of your chair to change the channel on the TV.</p><p><br /></p><p>i am so old I remember (barely) my dad pulling out vacuum tubes from the back (inside) of our black and white TV and testing them in the &quot;tube tester&quot; machine at a local drug store and then buying replacement tubes when the machine said they were bad, whenever our tv would blink out (that was probably around 1961 or so).</p><p><br /></p><p>that really does seem like an eon ago</p><p><br /></p><p>one of my fondest memories was when we bought our first home air conditioner for our living room&nbsp; It must have been around 1964.&nbsp; A window unit that seemed to weigh about 300 lbs and needed a special 220V outlet.&nbsp; It was so magical that the whole family slept in the living room for several weeks (3 kids 2 adults) to enjoy the magical cool air in the middle of july</p><p><br /></p><p>i remember that candy bars cost 5 cents</p><p><br /></p><p>and i loved the little small (separate) triangular shaped windows in the cars (in the front) where you could direct air flow (I miss those)</p><p><br /></p><p>if you wanted seat belts, you had to buy them and have them bolted to the floor.&nbsp; No cars had carpeting, but instead a funny plastic flooring where the dust and debris would fly up when you drove.</p><p><br /></p><p>when you could open a car hood and identify all the parts (remember that!)&nbsp;&nbsp; ... and it was SPACIOUS!</p><p><br /></p><p>coke machines that dispensed glass bottles (I miss the old 6.5 oz bottles) with the metal racks on the side for the empties ... and the little hole where you could pop off the top (no easy off caps)</p><p><br /></p><p>and who can forget that horrible invention called &quot;fizzies&quot; ... tablets that you dropped into water to give it color, flavor and fizz (worst tasting stuff ever)</p><p><br /></p><p>later they came out with TANG ... a really bad orange flavored powder ... not much better[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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