I was pumping gas in 1981. It was over $1.00/gallon, but our pumps only had 2 digits. So the price was always set to 1/2 and then we had to double whatever the total was.
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I started driving in 1975 & gas was 50-something cents.
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I don`t know what started this thread, but I remember my dad filling 5 , 55 gal. drums up at 19 cents a gallion for ethel once. Ethel back then was way over 100 octane too !
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That camera flash brings back memories. How about the rotating flash cube....
I burned my fingers on one of those flash bulbs when I was a kid!
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Those flash bulbs used to make great targets for a pellet gun. If you hit them straight on, they'd go off.
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Personally had very little trouble with that (and knew how to fix/splice, if I did).
I had a Sony deck 2-ish models up from that one and it never ate a tape.
Started with a Realistic that ate about 3 in the 6 years I had it.
However, those prerecorded tapes were generally not of a very good quality.
I preferred to buy vinyl and use Maxell UDS II (after extensive cost vs quality testing).
Also practiced "safe tape insertion" and refused to put my package into a known tape eating deck or low quality deck.
With EQ, level control, and a dolby trick, I could make a tape that sounded better than the vinyl it came from and also make a decent stereo system sound better than it was.
I had a Sony deck 2-ish models up from that one and it never ate a tape.
Started with a Realistic that ate about 3 in the 6 years I had it.
However, those prerecorded tapes were generally not of a very good quality.
I preferred to buy vinyl and use Maxell UDS II (after extensive cost vs quality testing).
Also practiced "safe tape insertion" and refused to put my package into a known tape eating deck or low quality deck.
With EQ, level control, and a dolby trick, I could make a tape that sounded better than the vinyl it came from and also make a decent stereo system sound better than it was.
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Its very dangerous to stand so close to a steam raditator
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