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My earliest memories are often set to the music of Donovan, since my mother really liked his music when I was small. I remember looking at View Master picture discs of Buggs Bunny, the Coyote & Roadrunner, etc. while hearing Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Hurdy Gurdy Man & all of that. I still associate Looney Tunes cartoons with Donovan songs.
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We were the first family on the block to have Pong. Also first dishwasher and microwave.
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I remember the big old style hand crank ice cream maker we had. Those were a necessity growing up in hell (I mean Texas) in the 1960s. Ice cream makers were the most used kitchen accessory during the summers. Those hand crank models did a better job than the electric motor ones which tended to bog down a lot and stop. We would all take turns turning the crank until we got tired. In late June the watermelons came into season, so we ate a lot of those. We put them in a large ice chest with ice and let them get ice cold. Nothing helped to beat the hot hellish (Texas) summers better than ice cream and ice cold watermelons! BTW, we didn't have AC in our house. It was too old and drafty for AC to be effective, and it would have cost a small fortune to use in a 100+ year old house built without any insulation. From mid-July through mid-August we rarely slept much as it was so hot you couldn't get comfortable lying in a sweat soaked bed with several fans blowing on you. I wish my ancestors had kept going westward until they got to the mountains where the weather was better. But they didn't. No big deal today with electricity and HVAC, but in the early 1800s it must have been brutal.
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![]() For me, back in the darker ages (read: mid-1950s), the Viewmaster was black phenolic and one of my favorite reel sets was from Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". |
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Oh hey JS, remember you are in the wetter but cooler part of hell. (Texas). And I don't think we want to visit Orla in the summer. Last edited by Cinisajoy; 02-11-2017 at 02:03 PM. |
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![]() ETA: But we were more or less used to the heat as none of our schools had HVAC until they built a new high school in the mid-1970s. And none of my relatives had HVAC in their homes either. The only time we were around HVAC was when we went to shopping malls, restaurants, and other retail places. So I guess you don't miss what you are never around or never had. Now though I could never live without AC in the summer. I got old and spoiled by it! Last edited by jswinden; 02-11-2017 at 02:39 PM. |
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Funny thing about this house, the owner was offered an HVAC system in 1970. Cost of unit only. (Wholesale not retail). She turned it down. I am glad. Our electric runs about half or less than a refrigerated house. We do have standard little fans in every room. We have a big stand fan on top of a file cabinet by the heater to circulate the heat in the winter. Redneck central heat. The house stays around 70 in the winter. Just adjust the flame. |
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When our grandparents were children in the late 19th century they were using this older version.
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Back in college I had to use stereoscopic air photos often enough that I taught myself to view (most) stereo pairs in 3-D without using a viewer. It's not too hard.
In the 90s I bought a Loreo 3D camera -- mine was marketed under the Argus name -- and had a lot of fun with it. I got 3D pictures of the kids on swing sets, flying kites, etc. It was discontinued long ago, but there are still some references on the web. https://www.stereoscopy.com/reel3d/loreo.html |
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