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HollyGolightly

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Well, we did when our night sort of abruptly ended.
Lol - like when someone hurled in your car or on your shoes - those nights we'd have to call it an early night for sure.

My first boyfriend drove his grandfather's hand me down Grand Torrino - that thing must have been from 1972 - big boat of a party car.

Did you ever move your turn table backwards to hear messages from the devil? They all sounded like creepy devil words that way.
 

Dana Jean

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Lol - like when someone hurled in your car or on your shoes - those nights we'd have to call it an early night for sure.

My first boyfriend drove his grandfather's hand me down Grand Torrino - that thing must have been from 1972 - big boat of a party car.

Did you ever move your turn table backwards to hear messages from the devil? They all sounded like creepy devil words that way.
It was called Sch*tz night for a reason. :ambivalence:

Does anyone remember the song that if you looked into your rearview mirror while driving at night, you would see someone in your back seat? There's a scream on the song and that is supposedly when someone was killed and they caught it on the song tape. It was huge around my parts. And scared the crap out of me when I had to drive home at night and it came on the radio. And I was by myself. And I was out in the country. And I just couldn't take my finger and change the channel.
 

Neesy

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Lol - like when someone hurled in your car or on your shoes - those nights we'd have to call it an early night for sure.

My first boyfriend drove his grandfather's hand me down Grand Torrino - that thing must have been from 1972 - big boat of a party car.

Did you ever move your turn table backwards to hear messages from the devil? They all sounded like creepy devil words that way.
Kind of a thread hijack here, but have you seen Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino? I really like that movie! (It's in my PVR)
 

GNTLGNT

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I was mightily tempted to buy one of those old reel-to-reel tape players when I saw one in a garage sale a couple years ago, complete with a library of music on reel-to-reel tape. Today most kids probably only would know about those if they saw the one in Pulp Fiction...and even that movie is pushing 20!
...I know how to use them...recorded dozens of commercials on them back in the day...editing was a bee-yotch...
 

HollyGolightly

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It was this song. Obviously not the live version but the recorded version. There is a scream and if you looked in your rearview mirror, you would see the killer in your backseat.

I totally missed out on that urban legend. Sounds worth trying. Let's get some Schlitz, hop in Claire's Mustang and put Love Roller Coaster on the 8 track and give it a try.
 

DiO'Bolic

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I was mightily tempted to buy one of those old reel-to-reel tape players when I saw one in a garage sale a couple years ago, complete with a library of music on reel-to-reel tape. Today most kids probably only would know about those if they saw the one in Pulp Fiction...and even that movie is pushing 20!
My father had a reel to reel system. In 1966, when I was 9, I would use it to record the two songs they played every week on The Monkees TV show. Setting up the system was always quite a production. And I would sit there in anticipation ready to press the two buttons which started the recording process. I demanded complete silence from everyone, and was a real (pun intended) P.I.T.A that evening LOL. Kept that up for the entire run of the show.
 

Grandpa

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Who cared what kind of car you drove back then - as long as you had wheels and some music you could party anytime, anywhere!

Yes... and no. I will talk about the '67 Barracuda sometime. Maybe.

I was one of the few with a motorcycle. The girls loved going for rides on the motorcycle. I enjoyed giving them rides and having them snugged up behind me. It wasn't a perv thing. It was an appreciation thing.

I don't remember when poptops came out, but I certainly remember using the pointy end of the church key - one big opening on one side of the lid, and another smaller opening on the other so the air pressure would let you drink.

Pabst was our beer of choice in college. It was cheap and when you talked of it by its initials, PBR, it sounded sorta like a drug.

Penny candy was actually a penny. Everyone smoked everywhere. The advanced cars had an AM/FM radio and maybe even an eight-track, but more often it was AM radio. WLS Chicago was the mainstay back in Central Illinois.

Twinkies cost 10 cents, but some company made a "banana flip" treat for 12 cents, and I'd splurge the extra 2 cents. I really liked it. We got it at the corner grocery store. There were a lot of independent groceries and very few chain stores. Now, of course, it's reversed.

I was a paperboy, and almost every house on the route got a paper.

Memory lane. Make it stop.
 

GNTLGNT

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memorylane.jpg
 

DiO'Bolic

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Yes... and no. I will talk about the '67 Barracuda sometime. Maybe.

I was one of the few with a motorcycle. The girls loved going for rides on the motorcycle. I enjoyed giving them rides and having them snugged up behind me. It wasn't a perv thing. It was an appreciation thing.

I don't remember when poptops came out, but I certainly remember using the pointy end of the church key - one big opening on one side of the lid, and another smaller opening on the other so the air pressure would let you drink.

Pabst was our beer of choice in college. It was cheap and when you talked of it by its initials, PBR, it sounded sorta like a drug.

Penny candy was actually a penny. Everyone smoked everywhere. The advanced cars had an AM/FM radio and maybe even an eight-track, but more often it was AM radio. WLS Chicago was the mainstay back in Central Illinois.

Twinkies cost 10 cents, but some company made a "banana flip" treat for 12 cents, and I'd splurge the extra 2 cents. I really liked it. We got it at the corner grocery store. There were a lot of independent groceries and very few chain stores. Now, of course, it's reversed.

I was a paperboy, and almost every house on the route got a paper.

Memory lane. Make it stop.


LOL. Merely knowing they were referred to as "church keys" officially makes you older than dirt. ;)