billcoe Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 8 track tapes, pop tarts, lazing around Blue Lake park all summer. Working at McDonalds when I was 14 and having a key to open the store in the morning before lunch, at 10 am. 1968, Carl Buscels Road Runner car with a spoiler. Quote
G-spotter Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 i remember redwood trees bumper cars and wolverines Quote
builder206 Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 I got the first Chouinard catalog and the first Great Pacific Ironworks catalogs in the store a few days after they arrived. Still have them. Used the Chouinard catalog to clean seeds from the ditchweed that passed for smoke in the 1970s, a little green stain still in the crease in the back cover. Goldline and diaper harnesses of 1" webbing. Gerry, Holubar, Eastern Mountain Sports mailorder, Bill Forrest. 2 pages of ice axes in REI's catalog. Being able to buy fabric and zippers from REI. Before REI became a joke. Kelty frame packs when Dick Kelty still made them. Still the best at load carrying. Not one thing worn or broken on mine after 36 years. Sack: BB4. Quote
builder206 Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 licking the beaters Jeebus, I can't believe you'd post that. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 linky Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — claims aliens exist. He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview in Birmingham, England, that sources at NASA who had had contact with aliens described the beings as "little people who look strange to us." He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a "small gray" — short, slight frame, large eyes and large head. Mitchell also claimed human technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as the aliens' and "had they been hostile," he warned "we would be been gone by now." Quote
olyclimber Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 Peter, does this bring up memories of your abduction? Quote
John Frieh Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Not needing to own a lawn mower $0.99/gal gas Only needing one form to do my taxes Not stressing out because I hadnt checked my work email in 24 hours Being debt free Climbing every weekend. Quote
olyclimber Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 heh...john just try the urban jungle approach. i just gave away my last lawn mower. Quote
John Frieh Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Actually I'm thinking about doing the natural plants thing... that or a BMX track for the neighborhood kids. I think I mentioned it just because my friends and I would often joke "you know your life is over when you buy a lawn mower" or "your life is over when you buy a new couch" Quote
kevbone Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 I remember drag racing at Woodburn drag strip on the weekends with may father. He has a bad ass muscle car...... Quote
olyclimber Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 yes i remember seeing how fast my brothers ford fairlane (302 with 4 barrel) would go. it sure seemed fast for $300. Quote
olyclimber Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 4 door just like this car VgQHj1R8x7s Quote
ZONK Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Being in the High School parking lot with a Rifle in the Back window of the truck and taking Bong hits before class. Quote
DPS Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Its been a while since I've carried Space Food Sticks, the first commercial energy bars which were sold to us as having been taken to the moon on Apollo missions. I LOVED those things. My parents only let us have them when we went hiking. Quote
mattp Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 1969, Crag Camp, Randolph New Hampshire. At a hut just below timberline on Mount Adams I was as a young lad treated to Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" on a hand crank record player - one of those with the big trumpet coming right outta the tone arm. Hut keeper Tad Pfeif was quite a character. Quote
hafilax Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Going to the library to look in an encyclopedia in order to settle an argument. wikipedia Quote
olyclimber Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 using the Sears catalog to wipe my butt in the family outhouse while using the bra section of the catalog as reading material Quote
kevbone Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Anyone remember before cell phones or the web? How did we survive? Quote
StevenSeagal Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Having to get to the bank by 5 PM on friday or you were broke for the entire weekend. Quote
StevenSeagal Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 When spending extra to treat yourself to 'good' beer meant upgrading to Michelob instead of MGD. Quote
akhalteke Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 painter's pants, rugby shirts, and EBs... Yep. 2004 was a pretty killer year. Quote
builder206 Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Having to get to the bank by 5 PM on friday or you were broke for the entire weekend. Quote
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