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Old 07-19-2019, 04:16 PM
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Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.
OMG, I forgot about those..........
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OMG, I forgot about those..........
Not me; the town I grew up in (population 714) had relatively little subway system, other than the moles.
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This is a great thread. I remember none of these things you all talk about... since I wasn't born until almost 1970... but fun to read about them anyway!

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Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.
I grew up in London during WW2, and we had ours at the bottom of our garden.
Nothing more exiting to a five year old to come out of it in the morning and find half your house gone.
Mum was a bit p****d off though!
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Car Floor Mounted Headlight Dimmer Switches? What year did they take the High Beam/ Low Beam button off the floor and put it on the steering wheel?
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Car Floor Mounted Headlight Dimmer Switches? What year did they take the High Beam/ Low Beam button off the floor and put it on the steering wheel?
....and vacuum windscreen wipers. Faster you went, the slower they worked!
Foot hard down on gas pedal, they stopped, lift off gas, they worked, foot hard down, they stopped, lift off gas, ad infinitum.
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....and vacuum windscreen wipers. Faster you went, the slower they worked!
Foot hard down on gas pedal, they stopped, lift off gas, they worked, foot hard down, they stopped, lift off gas, ad infinitum.
I just came up with another idea for a new thread after reading your reply. I will start it.... Please jump in.
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Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.
Many of the public schools in our state had fallout shelters in the basements. Many of those schools are still standing and in use as either schools or other education/municipal buildings. The yellow and black bomb shelter signs are still there on the corner next to the emergency entrance. I don't know if those shelters still have in them what was put in them, or if they were ever converted into storage or other kinds of rooms. But the rooms are definitely still there!
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Dumping nickle bag of peanuts into a nickle bottle of Coke.
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Another post on a different thread made me think of this.... Did any of the guys out there have BB gun fights with your friends as kids. My friends and I did this all the time. It's amazing we never lost an eye. We had a rule you could only shoot from the neck down. Like we hit what we aimed at!
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Dumping nickle bag of peanuts into a nickle bottle of Coke.
In Florida while in the USMC more than 50 years ago.
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29 cent per gallon of gas. Vacuum tube testers at the corner store. The egg man, the ragman, Louie the peddler selling fruits and vegetables from a truck.
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