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Without stating your age: How old are you?
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Our 1st TV was a black and white (forgot the name) that had 20" picture tube in a 17" box. Dad bought a acetate cover that had red, blue and yellow tints that you put on the set for 'color' TV....1st show I remember was Buck Rodgers. I did walk to school everyday through 6th grade.
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Gas station promotions? In the 50`s there was a dinosaur movie in 3D. When you purchased a "Fill Up" at the Sinclair station you got a family pass to see the movie. I`ve still got the red & blue lens glasses and a souvenir cardboard dinosaur somewhere up in the attic.
GAS WAR
GAS WAR
It was my first job. It lasted me three years, until I went to the USMC.
Here's another clue.
My 1st job was mowing lawns and shoveling snow before school. I had 3 customers. I delivered handbills door to door. I sold Spudnuts (glazed donuts) to business's every week day one summer When I was in 7th grade.
5 or 6 yrs old.... every boys dream toy for Christmas... an Erector Set. By Christmas dinner I knew my lot in life was a wrench turner. 
I recall the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launches. TE5-XXXX phone number. Walked to C. A. Lindbergh Elementary School K-6. HO model railroad layouts. Propeller driven airliners. The Kennedy shooting. Beatlemainia. Control line Cox models.
Pasting S&S green stamps into books for mom.
Grocery store glassware and dish sets, buy a piece a week.
Grocery store glassware and dish sets, buy a piece a week.
I can remember watching Popeye on our first TV, the cabinet was massive and the screen tiny. The picture kept rolling but hey we didn’t know any different.
I remember our first TV. It was a gigantic 17" Admiral in a blond ash cabinet. At least the cabinet was gigantic. A little brown flat cord that was neatly tucked under the window at the sill and ran up the side of the house to the roof antenna. I think my dad spent the first year on the roof turning the antenna and shouting down at my mom "is that any better", "how about now?"
I can still see Betty Furness selling those appliances.
I can still see Betty Furness selling those appliances.
I got my first Erector set for my 4th birthday. Wish I still had it. I do however still have the little white scar on the 3rd finger of my left hand from sticking it in between the gears on the motor.
Still got the Gilbert Chemistry set and Microscope set though. The Gilbert Halls of Science you know.
I do however still have the little white scar on the 3rd finger of my left hand from sticking it in between the gears on the motor. Still got the Gilbert Chemistry set and Microscope set though. The Gilbert Halls of Science you know. 
Dang, you guys are a bunch of old farts 
I remember watching the Challenger explosion on live TV in the 4th grade. It was very confusing at that age.
I remember watching the Challenger explosion on live TV in the 4th grade. It was very confusing at that age.
Yup. JUniper2-3638, a long and a short.
Howdy-Doody. Micky Mouse Club. Spin and Marty. The Lone Ranger. S&H Green Stamps. School milk in glass bottles with paper tops. I could buy a box of .22Long at the Rexall for about 50¢ and get a soda at the counter where the guy actually dispensed syrup into the glass and added soda water.
Howdy-Doody. Micky Mouse Club. Spin and Marty. The Lone Ranger. S&H Green Stamps. School milk in glass bottles with paper tops. I could buy a box of .22Long at the Rexall for about 50¢ and get a soda at the counter where the guy actually dispensed syrup into the glass and added soda water.
Remember Kmarts "blue light specials?" First rifle I bought... Marlin Mod. 60 22LR, 3X Tasco scope and a brick of 100 rounds. Blue light special... $29.95 for the whole package. Was 13 or 14. Didn't need anybody's permission. Took it home across the handlebars of my Schwinn 2 speeder.
