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jb63 said:
Why don't we let Elvis explain this one:

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I'm curious what kinda reaction that man would get In current times, I can honestly say I've never really watched an Elvis video.
Very strange, but nobody can deny what the man accomplished.
Nothing but respect for the man from me but having been born in the late 70's and growing through the 80's & 90's it's kinda funny. Sorry
 
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Richland123 said:
Everybody used to have one of these - a transistor radio.

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Then everybody used to have one of these:

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I want you to look carefully at this photo, and see if you can identify the feature this Walkman has, which no device today has, or will ever have again. It has nothing to do with the tape media.

It has two headphone jacks, so you can listen to music with a friend. Can't have that today, that would encourage IP infringement. :rolleyes:
 
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Funky Ghost said:
OK, that was equal parts very cool and holy hell what was that all about :D
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Being from the north, I had never heard of polk salad until I was in Nashville, and heard someone play the song. Now that's about as backwards as it gets!!!! Hell, I didn't know that people ate turnip greens until I was well into adulthood. I figure polk is like swiss chard or kale, cook it long enough and it's not so bad!:p
 
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runmikeyrun said:
Do kids still build tree forts?
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We didn't have trees in our backyard at our old house, where I lived until the age of 7, but I really wanted one so my dad and I (I thought I was helping, I was probably more of a nuisance though) built a two storey fort as tall as a two storey building. It was absolutely fantastic. We had locking doors and I had my very own keyring with keys to all three door locks. The bottom "floor" was like a shed for all my toys (I had many large toys that wouldn't fit in the garage), and the top floor was the fort, which I had furnished with my little kiddie chairs and a little plastic table. It had two ways in, we built stairs to the big main door and then on the other side we took apart my play structure and attached the monkey bars to the fort with a little locking door. It took almost three months to build IIRC (my dad was gone for work a lot) but it was truly the greatest fort ever, way better than the tree fort I could've had!!! Sorry for the epic post but I kinda got carried away on memory lane there...it's still at the house I think, I'm 14 and still miss it....it had full sized windows and everything.
 
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In the spirit of that first incredible slide - there was "Dennis the Menace Park" (not a theme park, just a city park with a theme) in Monterey. It's since been redone, but survived into the 90's with great old playground equipment.

Including this - an awesome old slide that was all metal rollers:
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Definitely said:
We didn't have trees in our backyard at our old house, where I lived until the age of 7, but I really wanted one so my dad and I (I thought I was helping, I was probably more of a nuisance though) built a two storey fort as tall as a two storey building. It was absolutely fantastic. We had locking doors and I had my very own keyring with keys to all three door locks. The bottom "floor" was like a shed for all my toys (I had many large toys that wouldn't fit in the garage), and the top floor was the fort, which I had furnished with my little kiddie chairs and a little plastic table. It had two ways in, we built stairs to the big main door and then on the other side we took apart my play structure and attached the monkey bars to the fort with a little locking door. It took almost three months to build IIRC (my dad was gone for work a lot) but it was truly the greatest fort ever, way better than the tree fort I could've had!!! Sorry for the epic post but I kinda got carried away on memory lane there...it's still at the house I think, I'm 14 and still miss it....it had full sized windows and everything.
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Good story. I'm 35 and still remember details about the forts and lean-tos we built as kids. Mostly my dad yelling at us for taking his tools into the woods and not bringing them back! lol. We got really into it- digging holes, putting water balloons inside, and covering them with sticks/leaves; rope ladders you could pull up after inside the fort; hinged panels to cover windows for protection; lockable trap doors; even movable battlements to hide behind (our one fort had a deck off the second story). That was way more fun to me than Nintendo ever was.
 
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