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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Looking back at that meme, I see I left out the off the air TV patterns. New memory just hit me. TV stations would play the National Anthem when thy came back on the air.
    Had three stations as a kid and then a fourth as a teen when Panama City, FL, reached Dothan, AL.
    It was a half hour drive to the state line.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 4 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Remember all them things. Even remember that my mom's friend the next town over had a phone with a crank for ringing the operator to place a call. Bottle of soda was a dime. Ice cream cone was a nickel. Our 7-inch TV showed us the Lone Ranger, and also Howdy's old-timer pal Phineas T. Bluster.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 months, 4 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    In Alabama in one of several "satellite cities" surrounding the outskirts of Birmingham.
    Weather report predicts the sun will break the gloom tomorrow afternoon.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 months, 4 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Morticia Addams loves such gloomy weather.
    Me dino no knows what to say about your holiday eats.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 months, 4 weeks ago
    Happy Thanksgiving! Me a Bama dino waits to take an hour drive to a large gathering by a "lake" that's really a large inlet beside the Coosa River.
    So me an old age 77 dino asked to share more than 4 memories?
    Forgot I once bought candy cigarettes until I read that item.
    Remember dropping 15 cents into a soda machine that would then drop thick glass bottles.
    Thought 25 cents too much during a visit to Atlanta but a year later it cost 25 cents in Dothan, Alabama.
    Remember table-side juke boxes and milkman home deliveries but not the cardboard stoppers.
    Yep for phone party lines, Butch Wax the raise the front of my flat top crewcut, Howdy Doody with kids in the Peanut Gallery~~whoa! Recalling Buffalo Bob, Claribel the Clown and Howdy's puppet buddy Dilly Dally!
    Me dino acquired a collection of 45 RPM Rock 'n Roll records played on a small battery-run record player and I recall Hi-fi's later to evolve into stereos.
    Don't recall newsreels at movie theaters but I do recall movies running on a loop with a cartoon and previews (way before I heard them called trailers), Recall taking dates to the middle of a movie and waiting through the loop to see the first half.
    Recall my parents having metal ice trays with levers and messing with S#H Green Stamps.

    As for the Meme with Putin in it, he must have watched The View. Fake News must use what Lenin said as a model.
    Whoa! It's 11:15. Time to get ready to go at 12:15. Bye!
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