OT don't ya just love...OT

[Frank Elder]

reminds me of my son who sat down in a rental in Holland (he was 4 or so , so 17 years ago) and that car had manual roll down windows.

He was used to the Subaru which had electric.

He was excited when asking " heee , is that something new?"

Also the time when we showed an LP and explained there were two sides with music, totally different concept compared to CD's they were familiar with !

John

John I have a rotary phone hanging in my 50's kitchen, one of my grandbabies was staring at it for 5 minutes or so and finally said "Gramps that is a really weird phone...........how much music does it hold?

[Roadkingcoupe]

2011 Mustang is a speedometer light that changes colors. Didn't the plymount speedo arrow change colors back in the late 40s?

1939 Chrysler cars were unique in that the speedo was equipped with a feature that would change colors as the speed of the vehicle increases (visible at night). The color went from green to orange to red as you reached higher speeds. The speedo (lighting) changed color not just the needle. This was accomplished by installing a thin "film" in front of the speedo bulb. This allowed the "window" to shine different colored light into the speedo face. As the speed increases the "window" rotates with the speedo needle that exposes different colors representing vehicle speed.

The push button starter was on the floor in 1939 (as well as many other years) and then moved up to the dashboard after that (1940? 1941? Chryslers not Plymouth). So by 1941 there had already been a speedo that changed color as speeds increase and a dash mounted starter button.

Technical note: If your 1939 Plymouth, Chrysler, Dodge or Desoto speedo does not have this feature the "film" has faded and no longer projects the colors. This can be fixed easily be replacing the "faded" film with colored acetate or any kind of colored translucent film.

Edited October 19, 2010 by Roadkingcoupe

[Roadkingcoupe]

reminds me of my son who sat down in a rental in Holland (he was 4 or so , so 17 years ago) and that car had manual roll down windows.

He was used to the Subaru which had electric.

He was excited when asking " heee , is that something new?"

Also the time when we showed an LP and explained there were two sides with music, totally different concept compared to CD's they were familiar with !

John

I was at a swap meet and the guy beside me had a great old Coke cooler like the ones in the nickle and dime store. You know the one....two horizontal sliding doors on top and you would reach down to the bottom and pull out a cool one.

The guy was selling cold Cokes bottles out of the thing and as kids came up to buy them he would hand them the bottle (unopened). Without fail no one under 18 knew how to use the bottle cap opener mounted right on the Coke cooler. Even after he showed them where the opener was.

Not that there is anything wrong with it.......but some of my fondest memories are of racing to the "smoke shop" to dive into the coke cooler reaching to the bottom, pulling out a cold one and then (with a fair bit of alacrity) decapitated that bottle and swigging on a coke.

p.s. the pull tab was the end of that era. Anyone remember how the original pull tab fully detached from the can, leaving a sharp metal shard?

the good old days....?

[Niel Hoback]

We learner quickly that the early round pull tabs when straightened out, can be used to fool a parking meter. Just stick it in and pull it out and you get two parking periods. I think thats why they went to an oval shaped tab that didn't work so well.

Did you ever pour a bag of M&Ms into a 6 0z. Coke and see if you can drink it without spilling any?

[Reg Evans]

Back in the late 60's when I lived in Bezerkeley we had a really groovy hanging curtain in the door way leading to the kitchen made from pull tabs all linked together. It was really trippy man. My friends thought it was right on.

Peace.

[Plymouthy Adams]

talk about dating yourself and profiling at the same time...

[Reg Evans]

talk about dating yourself and profiling at the same time...

What do you mean Tim ?

Oh....the flower child thing !

[Plymouthy Adams]

no words could decribe what that picture says....you know..you can always blame your parents.....lol

[Edward Roberts]

What I want to know is, Where is the VW van in this photo?

[Reg Evans]

Here it is Edward. Couldn't afford to get a hair cut after buying it.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Alices' Resturant Revisted...Kid..we found your name on a envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbarge and wanted to know if you knew anything about that..(got 8 x 10 glossies to prove it)

[Edward Roberts]

HA! Love it. Bob Weir would be proud!

Do you still have this van? I grew up with Bugs, but always wanted a van. Some day.

[John Mulders]

John I have a rotary phone hanging in my 50's kitchen, one of my grandbabies was staring at it for 5 minutes or so and finally said "Gramps that is a really weird phone...........how much music does it hold?

ROFL - that is too funny !

[Reg Evans]

no words could decribe what that picture says....you know..you can always blame your parents.....lol

Actually the van was my step dads so you might have something there Tim.

Edward, I wish I had that van now. It would probably be worth as much as my entire collection. I have owned a couple of Bugs,a Fastback,a Squareback,and a Bus with just the side windows but I've usually leaned a little to the right politically speaking on most issues.

[greg g]

You're sick of hangin' around and you'd like to travel;

Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down.

I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin',

Get out of the door and light out and look all around.

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;

Other times I can barely see.

Lately it occurs to me, What a long, strange trip it's been.

Truckin', I'm a goin' home. Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong,

Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin' on.

[Big_John]

John I have a rotary phone hanging in my 50's kitchen, one of my grandbabies was staring at it for 5 minutes or so and finally said "Gramps that is a really weird phone...........how much music does it hold?

I have an orange rotary phone in my garage! Works just fine for me.

Back when my sons were young, maybe 15 or so years ago, the neighbor boy was at our house playing and had to call his Mom. At the time I still had rotary phones as I refused to pay the extra money for touch tone service. He looked at the phone and had no idea how to use it.

[TodFitch]

I have an orange rotary phone in my garage! Works just fine for me.

Back when my sons were young, maybe 15 or so years ago, the neighbor boy was at our house playing and had to call his Mom. At the time I still had rotary phones as I refused to pay the extra money for touch tone service. He looked at the phone and had no idea how to use it.

The funny thing about having to pay more for touch tone: It actually cost the phone company less to support touch tone than the rotary dial. They charged more for it because they found they could as a feature. So they loved getting people to sign up for touch tone, it lowered their costs at the same time as it increased their revenue. Pure profit for them.

[Captain Neon]

I can't remember how many times we got sales calls from the telephone company wanting us to switch to touch-tone. My parents never did switch, and I think the rotary on the wall still works. I dunno. I haven't used that phone in over 10 years. Cordless phones on Dad's desk and by his chair are more convenient if I have ever needed to call any one from his house.

[Big_John]

The funny thing about having to pay more for touch tone: It actually cost the phone company less to support touch tone than the rotary dial. They charged more for it because they found they could as a feature. So they loved getting people to sign up for touch tone, it lowered their costs at the same time as it increased their revenue. Pure profit for them.

I never did pay for the touch tone. Once I went with digital cable for TV and computer, I bought the cable company's phone package too. Then I switched to touch tone phones.

Now I am starting to wonder if I really need the land line... All my calls come through my cell these days.