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NBachers

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61. Yup- On a twisty mountain California road last summer, I was downshifting into first on coastal hairpin turns. You'd be
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going downhill, hit the hairpin, the road would start a steep incline, and you'd need to clutch into first to negotiate the uphill. I was glad i had a synchro 5-speed.

Later on, we hit some coastal pea-soup fog and decided it's saner to abandon the Coast Highway and head inland instead of hanging our wheels over the drop-off to the Pacific.

We must be the same age! MLAA Sep 18 #1
Yup, all of the above! WestMichRad Sep 18 #2
Well, at 78 I figured I was old, but good grief I recognized everything. Biophilic Sep 18 #3
I'm old too. MiKenMi33 Sep 18 #4
I found a Spirograph NJCher Sep 19 #51
What a great find! MiKenMi33 Sep 19 #66
Every one of those things is familiar to me. Ocelot II Sep 18 #5
EVERY single one Kali Sep 18 #6
We had a rotary phone Delmette2.0 Sep 19 #67
I know all of these, and have comments or anecdotes about all of them ms liberty Sep 18 #7
Good gravy, I'm old! LoisB Sep 18 #8
I didnt recognize three, but that was FUN !!!! Karadeniz Sep 18 #9
Didn't know 64 was so old pat_k Sep 18 #10
Yep. Every one of 'em! some_of_us_are_sane Sep 18 #11
Yep Charlie Chapulin Sep 18 #12
You're old when the rebellious songs of your youth are played in the elevator - on the pan flute. oldfart73 Sep 18 #13
Got all of them! birdographer Sep 18 #14
Remember all of them and both my cars still have wind down windows and 5 on the floor transmissions. sinkingfeeling Sep 18 #15
Okay, ACED IT Just Jerome Sep 18 #16
Looking at these pictures brought back a bunch of forgotten stuff in my life! kimbutgar Sep 18 #17
Waterbeds were hard to get out of NJCher Sep 19 #52
Every last one of these takes me down a memory hole. Ferrets are Cool Sep 18 #18
I am old. Lots of memories there. Thank you. BoomaofBandM Sep 18 #19
I remember all of them wendyb-NC Sep 18 #20
Waterbeds. :) highplainsdem Sep 18 #21
Damn. sorcrow Sep 18 #22
I remember all of these. Come on! Being old is FUN? sueh Sep 18 #23
I must be reallllly old. I remember all of them. niyad Sep 18 #24
The Gods Must Be Crazy mountain grammy Sep 18 #25
I wanted to watch this with my grandchildren but it was nowhere to be found. NH Ethylene Sep 19 #43
I will always be able to drive a manual transmission OAITW r.2.0 Sep 18 #26
I remember all of these things. Especially the window crank. Well...all of them...n/t PatrickforB Sep 18 #27
Kids, I was doing DOS before windows 95 came along. Enter stage left Sep 18 #28
I loved 3.1 with the little lines of file folders happybird Sep 18 #30
Windows 7 was the last iteration I ever liked. Enter stage left Sep 18 #31
I was there for Windows I Picaro Sep 19 #62
Apologize if off topic but early Windows OS-s weren't really GUI EverHopeful Sep 19 #48
I can even remember NJCher Sep 19 #54
49 and I remember all of them happybird Sep 18 #29
I felt like we needed one more Bristlecone Sep 18 #32
What I wouldn't give to watch Grandma narrate a slide show happybird Sep 19 #36
Still have mine ... and hundreds of old slides. Winder if KPN Sep 19 #42
Yeah, I'm old Picaro Sep 19 #33
Thanks for the blast from the past! Kittycatkat Sep 19 #34
I remember all BUT the Spirograph. No idea what that was. DFW Sep 19 #35
Here's a spirograph video for you: femmedem Sep 19 #53
That was fun! NJCher Sep 19 #55
Looks like a discovery rating just behind electricity, antibiotics and the wheel DFW Sep 19 #64
I remember ALL of that ... dchill Sep 19 #37
I never had a waterbed, but... LudwigPastorius Sep 19 #38
You can't get one now NJCher Sep 19 #56
Try two kittens playing on a waterbed mattress during the seconds it's uncovered while you're highplainsdem Sep 19 #68
I remember them all. FuzzyRabbit Sep 19 #39
We mixed it up NJCher Sep 19 #57
Oh, c'mon Windows 98 isn't even old. (And more stuff too) hvn_nbr_2 Sep 19 #40
Oops. Forgot to mention: The road with the 3000 foot cliff had no guardrail. nt hvn_nbr_2 Sep 19 #41
What an interesting life you must lead NJCher Sep 19 #58
Yup- On a twisty mountain California road last summer, I was downshifting into first on coastal hairpin turns. You'd be NBachers Sep 19 #61
I remember, and used most of these. Never did a "will not talk in class" type punishment... electric_blue68 Sep 19 #44
The crank is part of a pencil sharpener. Ocelot II Sep 19 #46
The crank is for rolling down the windows... 3catwoman3 Sep 19 #47
Well, I'm officially old. bamagal62 Sep 19 #45
The Gods Must Be Crazy is one of my favorites EverHopeful Sep 19 #49
Yes yes yes I'm 73 I remember all those 👍😁 TommieMommy Sep 19 #50
Every now and then, it dawns on me.... Think. Again. Sep 19 #59
Too funny. I still have mine. Phoenix61 Sep 19 #60
To get ice cubes, there was actually this chrome crowbar-type thing that was used to dig & pry the ice trays out of the NBachers Sep 19 #63
I was using Windows 98 when I first signed onto DU. hunter Sep 19 #65
I had an Osborne for my first computer, was using it when I first ran on online forum on politics and tech in highplainsdem Sep 19 #69
Every freekin one. Prairie_Seagull Sep 19 #70
I didn't think fifty-five was old. Aristus Sep 19 #71
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