Today's the day
Newzed
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Well, well…………here we are, 85 years old today. Still going – not full speed, mind you – more like a shuffle. How times have changed. I can remember when:
Bread was 10 cents a loaf.
A bottle of Coke was a nickel.
You could get a BIG hamburger at Pop’s Log Cabin for a dime.
We took a bath every Saturday night. (But we washed our feet every night.)
A chocolate malt at the soda fountain was 15 cents, complete with nutmeg and two cookies. Really miss the old soda fountains – they always smelled so good when you walked in.
You could go to the Rialto Theater on Saturday and watch a cartoon, a serial and a movie for 15 cents. Sometimes we’d get a Coke at the little shop next to the theater, and have them punch a hole in the lid with an icepick so we could just suck on the Coke, trying to make it last as long as possible.
Camel cigarettes were 12 cents a pack.
Tempus does fugit, doesn’t it? Oh, well…….everybody say "Happy Birthday, Sid".
Sid
Port Richey, FL
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift.
That is why they call it the present.
Don't have VGA?
Newzed@aol.com
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Bread was 10 cents a loaf.
A bottle of Coke was a nickel.
You could get a BIG hamburger at Pop’s Log Cabin for a dime.
We took a bath every Saturday night. (But we washed our feet every night.)
A chocolate malt at the soda fountain was 15 cents, complete with nutmeg and two cookies. Really miss the old soda fountains – they always smelled so good when you walked in.
You could go to the Rialto Theater on Saturday and watch a cartoon, a serial and a movie for 15 cents. Sometimes we’d get a Coke at the little shop next to the theater, and have them punch a hole in the lid with an icepick so we could just suck on the Coke, trying to make it last as long as possible.
Camel cigarettes were 12 cents a pack.
Tempus does fugit, doesn’t it? Oh, well…….everybody say "Happy Birthday, Sid".
Sid
Port Richey, FL
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift.
That is why they call it the present.
Don't have VGA?
Newzed@aol.com
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May you show us youngin's the right way to achieve!
Cheers
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I wish you a lot of happy and healthy years to come and .. please us with another 2429 posts.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
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Parallax, Inc.
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Shawn Lowe
My last words shall be - "NOT YET!!!"
And here I thought I was getting along at 65!
Ron
My Grandmother is 92 and still going like a bat out of hell!· I tell her how lucky she is to have lived through such "magical" times as these.· Folks from my generation (and the younger generations for sure) have lost the abilty to have "facination".· Having grown up with computers, the Internet, microtechnology has left us feeling that nothing is inconceivable!· You could'nt have ever conceived of something like the Internet... Can I conceive of nanobots going through my body to cure me of disease?· Sure!· I know it doesn't exist today, but there is no reason to belive that my children won't live in a world where it is commonplace.
For this, you are truly a fortunate individual, and I wish you the happiest of birthdays!
Steve
When I was a kid we would go to my grandmothers house every Saturday.
When it came time to leave, my grandfather would be at the door ready to slip me a quarter.
I would spend the quarter that night on a Coke and bag of Humpty Dumpty BBQ chips.
That makes me not a kid anymore, but still love a 12oz Coke and some HDBBQ chips.
Nice to know that some things do not change. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
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Perfection in design is not achieved when there is nothing left to add.
It is achieved when there is nothing left to take away.
Chris
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I'm not scared of your robot. I'm covered by Old Glory (youtube)
QuattroRS4
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'Necessity is the mother of invention'
Holy Smile! You're 85?!! I'd never have guessed; it's obviously a very youthfull 85! I look forward to congratulating you again on your 95th!
Happy Birthday, dude!!
-Phil
Or possibly instead of "hello world" on an LCD, today we use "Happy Birthday Sid"
Seriously though, Happy Birthday!
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Brian
uController.com - home of SpinStudio
Did you know that at age 81 the human body stops aging?
OSOK
mightor - no new toys, but then I haven't finished playing with my old ones yet.
Paul-Coriolis - You and your staff are as thoughtful as you are professional.
Steve Joblin -· I think I was about 12 or 13.· And the things we take for commonplace today were inconceivable then.· You only saw them in the Buck Rogers comic books.
pljack - My favorites were Mr. Goodbar and Baby Ruth.· A nickel a bar!
CCraig - Thank you!
phipi - I think 95 may be pushing it a bit - we'll see.
benettdat - If I recall correctly, gas was about 14 cents a gallon at the Conoco station at Seventh and Main.· The Gulf station across the street had freee comic books every Sunday morning.· Couldn't wait to get out of Sunday School so we could go get one.
OSOK - I don't think my body knows that!· Seems to me it is still againg.
Thanks again, everyone.
Sid (going on 86)
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift.
That is why they call it the present.
Don't have VGA?
Newzed@aol.com
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If you get up to Texas, north of Dallas, lemme know and I'll take you to "City Drugs",
a local drug store here "in town" -- they still have the old soda fountains!
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**Out yonder in the Van Alstyne (TX) Metropolitan Area**
Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
And thanks for the Happy Birthday.
Sid
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift.
That is why they call it the present.
Don't have VGA?
Newzed@aol.com
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Great to have some senior skills around to keep the whipper-snappers in line.
Sincerely,
Ken Gracey
Parallax, Inc.