Necro's old things

[serenity now]

Here is another item that the younger generation will not remember.
Floorboard mounted dimmer switch.

now let's go way back...




clutch and brake with the round pads, all metal accelerator that pivots from the firewall mount, that next button to the right is.... wait for it.... the foot controlled starter switch

 

[serenity now]

hard to accept that this gorgeous machine is 60 years old ...

 

[menotyou]

Roger Moore,rocks as 007
Roger Moore as James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die trailer - YouTube

He was so doooable.

 

[Necropostophiliac]

Chiclets

 

[Nimnim]

Chiclets

I miss those, except for the fact that one pack is like 2 sticks of gum.

 

[Necropostophiliac]

Beech-Nut use to make gum.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

This is a picture of the closed Beech Nut factory as taken from the NY Thruway just outside of Albany:

 

[Necropostophiliac]

From the past

 

[Nimnim]

From the past

I remember seeing these in Angel's Diners when I was a kid.

 

[serenity now]

From the past

really cool * looks like about 30 years of syrup and sausage grease on those selector buttons * don't clean them now, that's patina baby * cha-ching

 

[moreluck]

When I saw the table-top juke box, I immediately heard this...............
(skip ad after 5 seconds)

Vic Dana - Red roses for a blue lady - YouTube

 

[serenity now]

high school years?

 

[moreluck]

high school years?

Maybe the Wayne Newton version.......around '65

 

[moreluck]

Funny, I just heard "Blue Velvet" yesterday.
Bobby Vinton was big at the time !!!

Plus we had a slew of Phillie boys trying to make it big too!

"During the 50's and 60's Philadelphia music exploded and it was heard around the world. Philly singers set the standards that others would follow. A partial list of Philly's contributors to the music of the era:The Dovells (Bristol Stomp), Bill Haley and the Comets (Rock Around the Clock), Danny and the Juniors (At the Hop), Chubby Checker (The Twist), Lee Andrews and the Hearts (Long Lonely Nights), Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles (I Sold My Heart to the Junkman), Frankie Avalon (Venus), Bobby Rydell (Wild One), Fabian (Turn Me Loose), Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes (If You Don't Know Me by Now), The Orlons (South Street) and James Darren (Goodbye Cruel World)."

 

[rod]

This is what came to mind for me:

Animals - House Of The Rising Sun - YouTube

 

[moreluck]

The House of the Rising Sun was playing all the time at the darkened clubs like the Fifth Quarter at the Kent State Campus.......

Those were the days.

 

[Necropostophiliac]

Gerber baby Ann Turner Cook, now 85.

Ann's smiling face still graces the advertising campaign.
She got her modeling start in 1927, when family friend and artist Dorothy Hope Smith asked her mother if she could
use Ann as a model.

Just like this year's search winner, Ann's image was entered into, and won, a nationwide contest.
She became the first Gerber baby in 1928; in 1931, the portrait was trademarked, and she's been the face
of every Gerber product ever since.

 

[rod]

The House of the Rising Sun was playing all the time at the darkened clubs like the Fifth Quarter at the Kent State Campus.......

Those were the days.

Did you attend Kent State? Those were some trying times:

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Ohio" (1970) Kent State University - YouTube

 

[moreluck]

Hubby did.........for 2 years.

Everyone from around Akron, Hudson & Cuyahoga Falls went there on the weekends for 3.2 beer and dancing.

My classmate from St. Mary's was standing next to one of the students who was killed there

 

[Necropostophiliac]

59,000,000 people have spoke that they concur with our current path.

How much more debt can we substain? Last post from the Necro.