Remember when

Thats my dream car

 

They are one of my favorites as well. My cousin has one, black, been sitting in his temperature controlled basement for 40 years that I know of. Haven't seen him drive it in a few years.

 

Funny movie. Almost everyone had a Yugo.

 

Better to be honest then embellish things in the other direction.

It is the attempt that counts if no one has been air lifted to the Hospital your doing good.

 

I remember... It came in that heavy green 6-1/2oz glass bottle . . .

 

Machines were designed around that bottle when you could no longer find the bottles .

Many people refilled the bottles to use the cooler.

 

I remember in the early 1980s they were making small glass bottles that resembled the old style bottles so you could still use the original legacy vending machines.

There was a mechanic shop down the street from our house that had one of those machines.

You would put it in the money, which would then unlock the refrigerator style door of the vending machine and then you had to grab one of the bottles and pull on it like pulling a sword out of a stone or the bottle would get jammed. I think it was because the new bottles were slightly different from the ones the machine was designed for.

The guy who owned the shop and the vending machine always claimed that “he just let Coca-Cola put it there,” but everybody knew that he was making a fortune off the money that machine ate.

 

I call BS on this one, I see kids out riding bikes in my neighborhood all the time.

 

Actually that one didn’t come around until I was in high school.

She had a stainless steel one first that was exactly the same principle, and when my mom died it was still in the back of the cupboard. My sister probably sent it to Goodwill.

 

Why just this morning out in my cul-de-sac…

 

I think I recognize that kid!! He was driving the pedal-car in the earlier pic!!!

 

I used to sit on the top of the Rocky Mountains with the five watt Realistic and I could skip all the way to Florida.

I had the CB that looked like a car phone with a telephone handset.

 

Remember these?

 

You see herds of young kids 1st grade and younger out riding tricycles and big wheels ??

All the time!!

 

Only being able to look back and compare the two.

 

We had a few of those held back a few years!!

Being able to drive to elementary school they were quite popular.

 

Never could tell where your skip might end up.

Then the next day talking a 1/2 mile is difficult .

 

We used to have some terrific atmospheric conditions. If you’re sitting on a mountain at 8000 feet, And there is clear, cold air with a cloud cover at 12,000, you might hear something amazing.

 

You didn’t need to be a drug dealer to own a gram scale. Just a turntable owner.