General Questions

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

sheltie dave — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:24:12 GMT

I have two of those exact Jensen Duette speakers on the bottom of the cart in the first photo. There is nothing that screams 1950s more than that in our house of 50s stuff.

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

colterphoto1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:01:22 GMT

jacksonbart:
RichardP:

To me, this in nothing less than eerily prophetic:
Was that Kid's father?

There's a David Lynch movie in there somewhere...

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

jacksonbart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:15 GMT

RichardP:

To me, this in nothing less than eerily prophetic:

Was that Kid's father?

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

RichardP — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:09 GMT

To me, this in nothing less than eerily prophetic:

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

jacksonbart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:32:47 GMT

I miss lead paint, asbestos, filterless cigarettes and transfats

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

Islander — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:46:19 GMT

skonopa:

Islander:

Some of those reminded me of how you could always get a burger and a milkshake at the drugstore. I wonder why all the drugstores dropped the diner section?

We still got one right here in good'ol downtown Fredericksburg, VA - Goolricks Pharmacy: And dmn fine milkshakes at that!

Now that's a drugstore!

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

DU73 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:10:34 GMT

i love the pictures of the old turntables, if not for those retro record players we probably wouldnt have the audio systems we have today.

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

DU73 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:54:02 GMT

I used to love those old money boxes, not that I had any money.. but the one I had was like a 3 qtr apple which had a button on the bitten qtr, you put a coin on the button and a worm pops out of the apple and eats your coin. It was so cool.. very retro. They just don’t make things like they used to…

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

skonopa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:23:27 GMT

I love this one..

After all, how many of us computer geeks wear that kind of outfit to work today. Seems to be blue jeans and t-shirts (and if you are lucky, maybe a polo shirt), pretty much as far as the eye can now-a-days. Not a one of us would even THINK about wearing a tie these days! And the sad thing is that my cell phone probably has several hundreds of thousands of times the processing power and memory storage as that big ol thing did back then, plus it fits in my pocket! And to think, there was period of time when I used to actually wear my hair like the guy standing up in the back.

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

skonopa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:15:51 GMT

Islander:

Some of those reminded me of how you could always get a burger and a milkshake at the drugstore. I wonder why all the drugstores dropped the diner section?

We still got one right here in good'ol downtown Fredericksburg, VA - Goolricks Pharmacy: And dmn fine milkshakes at that!

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

Edgar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:56:48 GMT

http://www.retrothing.com/

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

seti — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:18:47 GMT

ace168516:
I have seen the cobra-matic here before...did not someone sell one of these recently or post pics?

alas, it was our own Seti who has or had one

Yup someone at work gave it to me and I'm going to restore to a hopefully usable state.

Here is the outside. It is really big.

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

JerolW — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:00:47 GMT

Most of my childhood looked just like that.

***, I'm old.

jerol

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

ace168516 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:09:19 GMT

I have seen the cobra-matic here before...did not someone sell one of these recently or post pics?

alas, it was our own Seti who has or had one

Re: Retro world - pictures of the past

oscarsear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:46:22 GMT

Yessir, feeling like a real old timer now.