My first hearing aid in 1961 looked similar to this one..9v can battery...
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The 1st time I bought smokes, they were 19c/pk and gas was 20c/gal. I started buying both of these the same time. Cigs were $2.00/carton when I was in the Navy and 3 miles off shore Still buy gas. The local dairy had Marshmallow Ripple ice cream. Chocolate ice cream with 'liquid' marshmallow swirling about. The best ever, of course it was real ice cream and not ice milk. Not much of a candy person then as now.
The little corner store sold "loosey's". They would put loose cigarettes in a little box and sold
them for a penny apiece. No matches came with them but the owner would strike a match and light it for you if you wanted . Ah, the good old day's.....
tim
them for a penny apiece. No matches came with them but the owner would strike a match and light it for you if you wanted . Ah, the good old day's.....
tim
I set my points with a matchbook cover. About once a year per vehicle.
I quit smoking in 1976 when a carton of cigarettes in the commissary went up to $1.10. Highway Robbery!
What are they now? $7-$10 a pack?
What are they now? $7-$10 a pack?
I have smoked one and one half cigarettes in my life. Both were camels.
Can't say the same about other leafy smoking material.
Can't say the same about other leafy smoking material.
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First bike I remember riding on the back of was Dad's Ariel Square Four. Legs just stuck out 'cause they were too short to reach the pegs. You could still ride down to the dealers and buy parts for it. The dealership was either in Margate or Ramsgate... don't remember which. Just remember it was the first time I'd seen that much water and smelled the salty channel air. It's stuck with me all these years.
The same year i got my first hearing aid my Dad bought this for my Mom..1961 this was $5000..Yrs later i learned to drive on this car and also took it to highschool...
My conservative Dad had the moped, his free spirit younger brother was always coming to our house on the latest BSA’s , Ariels, and the ones that left the most impression on me and hooked me on motorcycles forever.....his string of Norton’s. 
In New Zealand many years ago my favourite was a Chocolate Peanut Slab:
This is a modern looking one with a wrapper. They used to be supplied to the shops in bulk without individual wrapping and when you bought one the shop assistant would pick one out with their fingers and pass it to you. Of course those were the days before they discovered that millions of people were being killed by someone touching their chocolate...
This is a modern looking one with a wrapper. They used to be supplied to the shops in bulk without individual wrapping and when you bought one the shop assistant would pick one out with their fingers and pass it to you. Of course those were the days before they discovered that millions of people were being killed by someone touching their chocolate...
I remember the x-ray machines in Buster Brown shoe stores that showed how your feet fit in your new shoes.
Well germs or no germs you are at risk if you get too close to my chocolates!
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I was just starting kindergarten when 9/11 happened, and my first car was a non-running 74 chevy nova. sucker still doesn't run lol. but it's looking a lot less worse for wear.
Cracking an international market is a goal of most growing corporations. It shouldn't be that hard, yet even the big multi-nationals run into trouble because of language and cultural differences. For example...
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