Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Apr 24, 2018 11:47:09 GMT -5
Windows 95 is 23 years old, and watch this video and you'll be amazed of the some of the comments that kids today makes about our computing system back then. Don't know why these kids are so confused about turning a computer on and off. The monitors and the PC unit still have a power button. They're acting confused because it's in the script. Those types of videos are so contrived. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 24, 2018 12:20:38 GMT -5
We had encyclopedias at home too. I think we got them at a local grocery store my dad worked at then. But I think they were Funk & Wagnall's if I remember right.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 24, 2018 14:06:44 GMT -5
I think we had a set of F&W too. "Look it up in your Funk'n Wagnalls," we used to say.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 15:19:31 GMT -5
I had World Book Encyclopedias & Collier's Encyclopedia in our home as a kid.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 24, 2018 15:27:33 GMT -5
I spent hours and hours reading and looking through our Colliers Encyclopedia.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 16:29:01 GMT -5
Howard Miller Grandfather Clock This clock is at my brother's home -- My Parents had this clock for 20 years and my Dad had the internal clock movement repaired once in the year 1996 or 1997 (I just have a foggy memory on this) because my Dad had to take the clock in the shop and I had to make sure the clock stays in motionless over to the shop. It's beauty of a clock and we had it upstairs in my parents bedroom and it's only chimes everyday at Noon and the rest of time it's remains noiseless -- My Dad had it rigged like that and it's works just fine until he did that repair job in 96 or 97. It's about 6 feet tall and weighs around 200-220 pounds (I think) and Mom had a painstaking job of dusting it and make sure that the dust didn't get into the clock movements and delicate gears as well. Anyway, it's a great clock and it's chimes everyday at Noon ... just wonderfully and during Spring Break -- My Mom and I usually wait until the clock chimes before we make our lunch together and that's a tradition at our house to listen to it and enjoy the 12 seconds melody that this clocks brings to our ears!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 3:27:05 GMT -5
Old Sewing Machine
My Great Grandmother My Great Grandmother had this Singer Sewing Machine looking like this one pictured above and during our disposal of this machine we (the four brothers) decided to let my eldest niece to have this sewing machine with no problems whatsoever. She was thrilled because as a young girl she made herself a skirt using this machine and my Mom (her Grandmother) showed her the tricks of how to use this machine and she became quite adept to it. In the first three months of disposing the contents of my Parents home my brother and I decided to let her take the sewing machine away and she was thrilled to have it. She still use it today making stuff for herself and her two daughters. This is a 1925 Singer Model that my Grandmother first bought with the money that she received from her parents so that she can make clothes for herself and her husband back then. Someday, that Sewing Machine will pass down to her eldest daughter that already learned how to use it and made herself a skirt for her own to wear ... how ironic it is.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 3:42:06 GMT -5
Sears Kenmore Sewing Machine
from 1985 For more modern and more difficult jobs to do my Mother use this sewing machine that was made in 1985 and used it for nearly a decade until her hands gave up. My sister-in-law often come over to help my Mom to do some sewing and when my Parents died -- one of the first items that we gave away is this sewing machine to her and she was happy to get it. She does make herself clothes from time to time -- but that machine gets it's workout by repairing jeans, shorts, shirts, and what not when they get torn or ripped. And, that machine made by Sears gets used a lot and according to my sister-in-law this machine gets used about a hour a week repairing things. I used once or twice to repair a jean or two in the late 80's and it's was pretty neat machine back then and my Mother taught me how to use it. It's took me a couple of hours to master it. The hardest thing to do is to thread the needle and most of all -- it's was fun to get a chance to use it. Anyway, I was thinking about sewing machines today because one of my pants needs to be sewed up and I'm taking it to my sister-in-law tomorrow and she can fix it on the machine that I posted this picture just a few minutes ago.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 25, 2018 8:58:10 GMT -5
I think we had a set of F&W too. "Look it up in your Funk'n Wagnalls," we used to say. The only reason I think they were F&W in my memory is because at that age "funk" was just as much to snicker at as "fart". The quality of the volumes I don't necessairly remember. My aunt (my mother's sister) did give my sister and I some fairy tale volumes that she had when she was a kid, that my mother long ago gave away that I wished I had now. One story I remember in particular is a guy fooling a giant, to save himself. He said he could eat more than the giant, and the giant didn't believe him. So he challenged the giant, if he could eat more (I think it porridge or something like that) than him, the giant would have to set him free. So when they started eating, the guy would through slight of hand, drop the food in his shirt. Well eventually the giant couldn't eat anymore. But he also wasn't going to let the man go. So the man said he could open his stomach and empty out all the food. So he cut his shirt open and all the food came out. Well the giant wasn't going to let the man upstage him. So he slit opened his stomach and died. I remember it because it seemed pretty graphic for a kid's story. Wish I knew the publisher and name of the volumes. It would be neat to find them and get them again. |
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Post by badwolf on Apr 25, 2018 9:59:00 GMT -5
I think we had a set of F&W too. "Look it up in your Funk'n Wagnalls," we used to say. The only reason I think they were F&W in my memory is because at that age "funk" was just as much to snicker at as "fart". The quality of the volumes I don't necessarily remember. My aunt (my mother's sister) did give my sister and I some fairy tale volumes that she had when she was a kid, that my mother long ago gave away that I wished I had now. One story I remember in particular is a guy fooling a giant, to save himself. He said he could eat more than the giant, and the giant didn't believe him. So he challenged the giant, if he could eat more (I think it porridge or something like that) than him, the giant would have to set him free. So when they started eating, the guy would through slight of hand, drop the food in his shirt. Well eventually the giant couldn't eat anymore. But he also wasn't going to let the man go. So the man said he could open his stomach and empty out all the food. So he cut his shirt open and all the food came out. Well the giant wasn't going to let the man upstage him. So he slit opened his stomach and died. I remember it because it seemed pretty graphic for a kid's story. Wish I knew the publisher and name of the volumes. It would be neat to find them and get them again. F&W was good I think, but Britannica was the gold standard. I also remember using World Book Encyclopedias in grade school; they were more simplified (less dense) than the others. If you are on Goodreads (a reading activity/book cataloguing site) there is a group called "What is the name of that book??" where you can try to find old books you've forgotten. I used it recently to find some old scary stories I remember being read to me as a child. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 11:34:36 GMT -5
Happi Time Sears Roebuck Tricycle
 Got back from my Sister-In-Law place and she sewed up my jeans that needs mending and I asked my brother who retired what the name of the Tricycle that our Dad bought from Sears that you and I had for nearly ten years and he said to me -- Happi Time Sears Roebuck Tricycle. I've don't have a picture of me riding it -- but my brother did and he shared on picture of him riding it and it's was red like this one pictured above. I did not ride that tricycle from 9 to 11 because it was too small and we had to give it away at the time that I've entered 3rd Grade. According to my brother he loved that Tricycle and I did too ... the problem is that my Parents did not want me on that thing at an early age and I was restricted to ride on it in the driveway in the afternoon and that's one of the reason that I did not have any pictures of me on it. My street awareness kicked in around 10 and by that time -- I was able to ride a bicycle and so on. The problem is that this tricycle didn't have much memory and that's why I don't recall riding it that much except in our driveway of which it was rather a moot thing on my part. That's why my brother had this thing for the longest time and when around 1969 and/or 1970 ... that's the time that I gave it up. So, I thanked my brother and sister-in-law for mending my jeans (she did it last night) and my brother will convey that thanks for me.
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 25, 2018 12:48:32 GMT -5
If you are on Goodreads (a reading activity/book cataloguing site) there is a group called "What is the name of that book??" where you can try to find old books you've forgotten. I used it recently to find some old scary stories I remember being read to me as a child. A bookstore called Loganberry Books has a similar feature on their site called "Stump the Bookseller": www.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/I used that site to identify a book series that I half-remembered - it turned out to be the Mushroom Planet books by Eleanor Cameron. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 14:58:13 GMT -5
Family Camera in 1970Agfa Iso Rapid 1 Agfa Iso-Rapid 1 - 1968 AgfaI don't know much about this camera and my Mom and Dad loved this camera back then. I suggest that you read the links that I provided and we used Agfa film to shoot it from. I wished my Mom was still living -- she would greatly assist me in the understanding of this camera back then.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 18:33:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 18:51:35 GMT -5
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