If you remember doing this...

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/15/2018 at 11:44 • Filed to: None

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...you’re old like me.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:49

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Psshh! back in my day

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:50

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cold war survival training?

“Lovely day we’re having isn’t it comrad?

“    ,    ?”

lone_liberal > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:52

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Guilty. I also remember the books that came with little flexible records in them.

ttyymmnn > lone_liberal 06/15/2018 at 11:53

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Do you remember red records?

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:54

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Not quite, but in college we did have to sign out the cassette tapes to listen in the language lab. None of it was DIY or at home, much like a lot of the college experience until just a decade ago. Ironic that college prices are through the roof, yet overhead costs are down and professors and students are phoning it in all over the place.

But all of my first albums were vinyl, at least for a couple years. Dire Straits, Michael Jackson, Madonna...

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:55

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Up to my teens, I used a Singer portable turntable handed down from my dad. Not this new, but you get the idea.

vicali > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:57

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lone_liberal > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:00

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Oh yeah, and picture disks, but I think those have made a bit of a comeback.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:05

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Yeah, I’m 50 this coming election day.

I tried explaining to my kids a few years ago about party lines, and having just one phone in the house. They looked at me like I was from Mars.

Calling someone and asking “Hey, where are you right now?” was never a thing, as they were ALWAYS AT HOME.

E39, K5. Whatever it takes. > lone_liberal 06/15/2018 at 12:07

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Still have a Black Sabbath Greatest Hits picture disc. Bought it around 1982...Same year I saw The Who with the Clash as the opener.

ttyymmnn > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 06/15/2018 at 12:07

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I had a friend whose phone number ended -2999. That was a PITA to dial. Also, those phones could be used to kill people, as often demonstrated on TV. You can’t kill somebody with an iPhone.

ttyymmnn > E39, K5. Whatever it takes. 06/15/2018 at 12:10

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The Who with the Clash as the opener

Holy shit....

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:14

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Wanna bet?

jimz > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:14

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before the current Emergency Alert System

I remember wondering as a kid how that radio tower was supposed to support itself.

Alfalfa > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:34

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We had that same set up, but with a cassette player. So that counts for something, right?

E39, K5. Whatever it takes. > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:38

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Still have the ticket stub too!

Oakland Coliseum hosted “Day on the Green” concerts. Here’s the list of the ones I attended.

1982

Day On The Green #1: Journey, Santana, Toto, Gamma, The Tubes (June 26, 1982)

Day On The Green #2: Foreigner, Loverboy, Scorpions, Iron Maiden (July 18, 1982)

Day On The Green #3: The Who, The Clash, T-Bone Burnett (October 23, 1982)

1983

Day On The Green #1: Journey, Triumph, Eddie Money, Night Ranger, Bryan Adams (July 30, 1983)

Day On The Green #3: The Police, The Fixx, Madness, Oingo Boingo, and The Thompson Twins (September 10, 1983)

Day On The Green #4: David Bowie, The Tubes, Translator (September 17, 1983)

1985

Day On The Green #1: Scorpions, Ratt, Y&T, Metallica, Rising Force, Victory (August 31, 1985)

1987

Day On The Green #1: Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead (July 24, 1987)

Day On The Green #2: Mötley Crüe, Whitesnake, Poison, Jetboy (October 10, 1987)

Day On The Green #3 & 4: U2, The Pretenders, The BoDeans, The Soup Dragons (November 14–15, 1987)

ttyymmnn > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 06/15/2018 at 12:45

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Well, yeah, but I was thinking more about braining somebody with one.

SmugAardvark > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:46

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Yeah, and if you ever come across a copy of the Flaming Lips’ Heddy Fwends special edition “blood vinyl” anywhere, grab it.

Despite how gross it is, it’s worth a metric shit-ton. Yes, the vinyl was pressed with a liquid center. Yes, that liquid is in fact real human blood. Supposedly, if you didn’t keep it refrigerated, the blood started to coagulate and turn into a somehow even more disgusting brownish goop.

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:56

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Not quite, but I did get one of these for Christmas one year:

ttyymmnn > E39, K5. Whatever it takes. 06/15/2018 at 12:59

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Damn. You must be about 53 years old, like me.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 13:01

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That Califone garbage made crappy am radios seem audiophile quality.

ttyymmnn > SmugAardvark 06/15/2018 at 13:01

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Damn.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 13:05

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Time for some High Fidelity

E39, K5. Whatever it takes. > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 13:19

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Just hit 50, 5 months ago.

Also, I love reading your aviation history posts. Awesome! Thank you!

ttyymmnn > E39, K5. Whatever it takes. 06/15/2018 at 13:23

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Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for reading!

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 15:32

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What about Conalrad markings on am radios

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 21:14

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I remember using something like that (though I think with a cassette) when I was in about 3rd grade, sometime in the mid 80s.

ttyymmnn > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 06/15/2018 at 22:16

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I graduated from high school in the mid-80s......

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ttyymmnn 06/16/2018 at 00:22

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No, but i hade to explain “shake it like a polaroid picture” to an intern

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > ttyymmnn 06/16/2018 at 01:33

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I’m pretty sure that was about the tail end of the time those were used, I only remember seeing those headphone splitters in storage rooms after about that time.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 06/26/2018 at 10:30

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They didn’t have speakers when you were a kid?

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/26/2018 at 10:40

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They did, but libraries aren’t exactly the place to play loud music.