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Maurice Boscorelli said:
Come on oldtimer...
Early 70's (you remember that era right?) Mac's Convenience was called Mac's Milk.
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Come on oldtimer...
Early 70's (you remember that era right?) Mac's Convenience was called Mac's Milk.
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yeah, Beckers and Mac's were a BIG competition.....I was a Becker's kid...never went into Mac's....They even had their own Milk and pop product lines......their own bread, everything....
Their milk bottling/bagging plant was on warden south of st clair.
Speaking of Becker's.....I guess CG might recall the 10 cent loaf of bread then......
Their milk bottling/bagging plant was on warden south of st clair.
Speaking of Becker's.....I guess CG might recall the 10 cent loaf of bread then......
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tboy said:
Nope... Sorry... not in your league at all! :tongue:
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tboy said:Ok, who remembers these?
Looks like a knock off of the Schwinn "crate" series back in the mid 60's...
Rayden said:Tboy that's my stolen bike from the 70's!!!:grrrrrr:
Anyone remember using clothes pins and hockey cards on the bike spokes to create the brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooom sound.
hey thats Tboys real ride...he calls it a sportster....
I had one of these bananna seat high handle bars like a chopper....and yes clothes pins and baseball cards......we were the wild ones....
damn kids today have no imagination...just sit in front of their xbox lol
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Cycleguy007 said:
I was being sarcastic there, I thought it was obvious
I don't think it was a knock off per se, kind of like how most 4 dr sedans today all look alike. I think it is just the style of the era.....
There's a few custom bicycle builders around who build custom bikes (some pretty cool looking) and then you have the "chopper" style:
I don't know how much force you can put on the pedals from that position but you'd get great thighs from it.......
There's a few custom bicycle builders around who build custom bikes (some pretty cool looking) and then you have the "chopper" style:
I don't know how much force you can put on the pedals from that position but you'd get great thighs from it.......
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I loved the banana seats, it never made my underwear go up my ass like todays seats do!LOL
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Wear a thong! :gasp:
Or real bike shorts- problem solved!
One thing no one has mentioned yet...
I remember getting up early on a summers day, packing a lunch and leaving the house first thing in the morning to explore EVERYWHERE, go swimming in the river, hiking all over gods creation etc with my buddies only to come home at dinner time... Imagine the amber alerts that would happen if kids did such things today. :shock:
Remember glass jugs of milk?
I used to ride from Beckers carrying one on my handlebars, once it shattered on me but they gave me another one for free. :he:
My brother and I converted our bikes into a three wheel tandem once, nobody bothered us about doing stuff like that.
I used to ride from Beckers carrying one on my handlebars, once it shattered on me but they gave me another one for free. :he:
My brother and I converted our bikes into a three wheel tandem once, nobody bothered us about doing stuff like that.
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I used to have a wood boat that had cables and pulleys to work the steering, it was a cedar strip with a 40 hp, wood bench seats for everyone. Took that boat everywhere.
This past summer the rear sound system control panel ( not the front one or on the radio itself but the one that you can use while siting on the swim platform)stopped working and I had to walk all the way up to the drivers seat to change the volume.
This past summer the rear sound system control panel ( not the front one or on the radio itself but the one that you can use while siting on the swim platform)stopped working and I had to walk all the way up to the drivers seat to change the volume.
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There is a dairy who is doing chocolate milk in the old style glass bottles.
Milk tastes better in glass bottles.
Milk tastes better in glass bottles.
LOl glass bottles of milk, with the little cardboard stopper with the tiny wire pull tab.....now we're getting somewhere lol......
Ah pulleys and cables for steering, and they were always stretching so you'd have to keep correcting or jumping off the pulley entirely so you could only go in circles.....
Cedar strip boats: you'd have to fill them up with water in the spring so it'd swell so it wouldn't leak when you launched it.....
CG: yup, I remember those days well. I remember one time a buddy and I rode out to mississauga and into a new development. Spent the day exploring the 20 model homes.....didn't get home until 9 o'clock that night and damn we were bagged. Got up the next day and did it all again lol....
UP at the campground my parents used to keep a trailer at, I had a 125 trail bike and since I didn't have a licence, I'd have to stick to the dirt roads.....found all kinds of interesting things travelling those back roads. Did that again when I was 19 on my 400 honda, found a general store next to a waterfall who sold coke bottles in a water cooler......
Ah pulleys and cables for steering, and they were always stretching so you'd have to keep correcting or jumping off the pulley entirely so you could only go in circles.....
Cedar strip boats: you'd have to fill them up with water in the spring so it'd swell so it wouldn't leak when you launched it.....
CG: yup, I remember those days well. I remember one time a buddy and I rode out to mississauga and into a new development. Spent the day exploring the 20 model homes.....didn't get home until 9 o'clock that night and damn we were bagged. Got up the next day and did it all again lol....
UP at the campground my parents used to keep a trailer at, I had a 125 trail bike and since I didn't have a licence, I'd have to stick to the dirt roads.....found all kinds of interesting things travelling those back roads. Did that again when I was 19 on my 400 honda, found a general store next to a waterfall who sold coke bottles in a water cooler......
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I remember the first time I saw a DOWN winter coat. A rich kid at school had one.
"My name is BIB, and I am the Michelin man!"
Of course the rest of us who were laughing at him were freezing our tiny balls off.
At least those of us whose balls had dropped.
"My name is BIB, and I am the Michelin man!"
Of course the rest of us who were laughing at him were freezing our tiny balls off.
At least those of us whose balls had dropped.
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My dad brought me home a digital watch, at that time they had just hit the market.
Wore it to school and was a big hit with my friends.
After school played touch football with my buddies at the local park.
Looked down to see what time it was and the watch said 20:00 ( it didn't do military time,lol)
My friends I agreed sometimes things are better left alone.
Wore it to school and was a big hit with my friends.
After school played touch football with my buddies at the local park.
Looked down to see what time it was and the watch said 20:00 ( it didn't do military time,lol)
My friends I agreed sometimes things are better left alone.
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They were right! Go to any place of business where there are younger people as cashiers... they are clueless on how to make change! :grrrrrr:
Same thing is now being said about cell phones and texting- ruining the writing/ grammar skills...
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+1..........Remember back when the orders had to be manually put in the registers and when the change had to be calculated in your head.
Sh$t they would be totally lost if they had to do that today.
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