I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my mom and paging through the catalog pointing out things we might want to get and how many stamps we'd need.
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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I always wondered why my parents didn't get the automobile in the back of the catalog.
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So cool. I've never seen its like.
Who wouldn't want to jam an amp named after our planet? 
That is probably true - plus I'm thinking most of the family would have died off from the accumulation of toxins in the glue you had to lick to affix them to the books after that many stamps.
You would need to wear the shoes with the same name as the amp. That's probably why there isn't a Crocs amp.So cool. I've never seen its like.
So I thought about this and yeah I think it is no longer a thing
the light held on by a magnet on the roof
the light held on by a magnet on the roof
Oh man you knew they meant business when the hand came out the window with the flashing magnetic light!So I thought about this and yeah I think it is no longer a thing
the light held on by a magnet on the roof
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Of course (as with Clark Kent's glasses) the rest of the time, the bad guys never figured out it was cops in that generic, bright red car with the swoopy-spike stripe down the sides.
I just saw something today that is fairly rare now, but was common when I was a kid in the 1970s.
Parents pitch a tent in the backyard during the summer and make their kids sleep outside as sort of a poor man's camping.
Back then, AC was a lot less common, and in the working class neighborhood where I grew up, lots of kids would sleep in a tent outside to beat the summer heat.
Plus it gave the parents some privacy at bed time.
Parents pitch a tent in the backyard during the summer and make their kids sleep outside as sort of a poor man's camping.
Back then, AC was a lot less common, and in the working class neighborhood where I grew up, lots of kids would sleep in a tent outside to beat the summer heat.
Plus it gave the parents some privacy at bed time.
When we were kids, every year in December, our parents would throw us some department store catalogs (Sears, JC Penny, etc..) and we'd take a highlighter and circle whatever items we wanted for Xmas.
We'd circle about 100 items and hope to get 2 or 3.
Rather than the arrival of pumpkin spiced lattes at Starbucks the harbinger of Christmas for me was the Sears Christmas Wishbook in the U.S. Mail. Like dreaming of what one might do with lottery winnings the time spent with that catalog was all about imagining fantastic possibilities.
It really was a Book of Dreams that got thicker from paging through the Toys.
Millions of Kids looked forward to their Christmas Catalogs!
3 inputs? Wow Vocals, Guitar and Bass for that 60’s garage Band! I actually remember bands doing that!
