Old Enough To Remember?

ReSTored said:
I can remember stopping at McDonalds in '76 or '77 and getting 3 value burgers and a fry and then change for a buck. Killer deal when you're a perpetually starving teenager.
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And Carrols, before McDonalds. Might have been even cheaper. Were they in Canada?
 
…when people looked out the airliner window?
Good grief, I was on a flight, San Francisco to Tokyo, in the center rows, along the coast of Alaska, over the Alaska Peninsula and back across the Aleutian Islands during the daytime and every shade was shut.
And now if you look to your right you will see Mt. Fuji. The sound of 40 shades going up in half a second. WTH. Nothing else in the last 5000 miles?
Oops ranted. Got a more fun one next. At least I did get to see Fuji.
 
Everyone here is probably old enough for this one but it’s been a while.
This is especially for Ohioans.

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Turns out there are thousands in Japan and other places in Asia.
Two in Honolulu and plans for more in the states.
 
I remember growing up in a small town in northern Alabama, where our emergency alert system was a siren on a central water tower. Upon hearing the siren, you would turn to the local AM radio station for the news alert. Our volunteer fire department often got their dispatch from the AM station, as not everyone had phones.

However…..The very first 911 call originated in my home town in 1968. A local phone engineer designed the system and the first 911 call was made by Senator Fite from the mayor’s office to the police/fire dispatch, which was located in the same building. They still hold an annual 911 parade in the towm, to celebrate.

John
 
sirbike said:
… you went to the department store and you could find these?
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It still exists. First sight when I walked into a department store here in Kyoto.
And two big racks of paint.
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I would spend hours looking at models in the Longs Drug store when I was a kid. Longs had a huge aisle full of models. Funds were limited so it took a long time to select one.
 
Back when I was in the USAF, my best friend and I spent a weekend building a model car. It was a Mopar that could be built as a family car, a police car, or a hot rod.

Of course, we went with hot-rodded police car.

I got paint in every color I could think of. Sprays of white and deep blue, little bottles of red, yellow, silver, brown, etc. Toothpicks made great detail applicators.

Three thin coats on the body parts, colors for side-marker lights, door handles and locks, wood-grain in the interior. I even put dots on each of the raised bumps in the gauges and radio.

We went with chrome for most of the optional parts, larger tires and suspension, headers and side exhaust, and we used the siren-and-light bar and police decals.
 
for burgers my best deal was at White Castle, one of my sisters worked there until '73. in high school ( '75 ) most of the girls my sister worked with were still there so i would order three cheese burgers a fry and a coke. i walked out with a big bag of cheese burgers and another big bag full of fries, i took my three cheese burgers w/o onions and a fry and the coke. i gave the rest to my fellow high school friends and to some i didn't even know
all that and i only paid for three cheese burgers without onions, a fry, and a coke
as for the models well i was a spoiled kid so my dad took me to Joe's hobby shop pretty much every week, if he didn't he gave me the money to get my next project
 
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