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Not sure how many will get this right off

I do love me some retro vibe, but that’s odd some commitment there! I have 2 of them, 4ft and 7ft. Had the big one up this year. Use to take the small one to work and put it on the table for the ‘kids’

Where’s the tassels??

Anyone who worked retail in the early 80’s or before. Remember the weekly bank published books of bad credit cards that you had to look up manually. No slide and go. I remember thinking oh great, when I saw someone in line with their card out. Cash was still a thing back then.

More challenging without the reels!

Tube tester and Vacuum Tubes. . Having to go down to Thrifty the day after your TV died to use their tube tester after you’d numbered and pulling all the tubes.

Sorry to hear @pop pop, I hope it stabilizes for ya. After I hit 50, my memory took a turn. Its normal, matters of degree with how it effects everyone. @Grayfox54 hit the main point about how the body ages. You pay for what you did (or more like over did) earlier. Ortho doctors love me. I don't how many of them I have helped buy new cars and houses. The brain health is a crapshoot. My mom had Alzheimer's, seeing it that close makes me appreciate every day. I hope all here don't ever had to deal with that for themselves or their loved ones.

Unfortunately, bring unconstitutional doesn’t prevent such things from becoming law. CA just passed an additional tax on Firearms a few months ago. They didn’t get the number they originally wanted, but effectively doubled use tax. Like any number of bad gun laws, they may get tossed years down the road, but never underestimate the mass of uninformed voters in believing leftist propaganda to pass inane legislation.

Working with his ATF proxy to create laws without congress again. Biden will extend 2022 abuses of FFL’s to declare all gun owners as FFL’s, requiring backgrounds on sales, moving to ban private party sales. https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/whistleblowers-allege-atf-is-drafting-rule-that-could-effectively-ban-private-firearm-sales/

Aluminum Christmas Trees!

Really, not kidding, there was no Google or internet. Libraries and Britannica

you were nobody in high school during the early 80’s if you didn’t wear these with your 501’s

One of my favorites from when I was a kid. Spinning around in circles while flyin a Cox glow plug P-40. marginally safer for bystanders than lawn darts

cold war drills thru the early 80’s. subdue dropping the big one and duck and cover would (some how) save you.

Some may have this with remote acreage, but the idea of not just turning on the faucet would be foreign too many

one of my favorite old time cookers was the HOTDOGGER. It worked by electrocuting the poor dogs after they were put on metal spikes. They let out juice and sounded like they were screaming lol As a teenager I got get a kick out of it. The burnt ends were not great, it was about the process. I’m starting to think I have a hotdog problem.

Any partial concern you might have had around health benefits will get taken off by Grilled cheese and hotdogs