Absolutley OT: Growing Up
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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
I glued together an He-162 model. Don't tell anyone, but I mounted the wings backward with the straight edge to the rear.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Loved that show - used to stay up to watch it all the time.
I just saw Richard Boone in Rio Conchos the other day (first time since it came out decades ago) - he was good.
I just saw Richard Boone in Rio Conchos the other day (first time since it came out decades ago) - he was good.
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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.
And I thought it was just me. Difference was none of mine survived.[:)]
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I did it as well.ORIGINAL: rustysi
I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.
And I thought it was just me. Difference was none of mine survived.[:)]
I also built two identical car kits. I melted one into a resemblance of a wrecked car and put them both in my fathers' Body Shop as a "Before and After" show for customers coming in.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
I built the motorized Hood, lindberg model, pushed it out into the lake and realized I didn't do a good job on the shaft seals .....
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Let's not forget one of my big faves growing up....'The Beverly Hillbillies'.
And I'm going to make another turn here. The good olde drive-in movie theaters. Always great fun. The dusk to dawn nights. The lot.
There is still one operating about 40 miles northeast of here in Warren, Minnesota.
And I'm going to make another turn here. The good olde drive-in movie theaters. Always great fun. The dusk to dawn nights. The lot.
There is still one operating about 40 miles northeast of here in Warren, Minnesota.
This is one Czech that doesn't bounce.
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Yup I think i was there forever and ago since i had relatives outside Donaldson i used to stay with.
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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
When I was growing up Hogan's Heroes was one of my favourites. However, on the tv before HH was Gilligan's Island, and the Ginger vs Mary-Anne debate was one that I have never really solved.
After HH was Lost in Space, another favourite, so it was a great 2 hrs of TV!
After HH was Lost in Space, another favourite, so it was a great 2 hrs of TV!
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Oh, Mary-Anne [:D]
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... However, on the tv before HH was Gilligan's Island, and the Ginger vs Mary-Anne debate was one that I have never really solved.
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I did it as well.ORIGINAL: rustysi
I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.
And I thought it was just me. Difference was none of mine survived.[:)]
I also built two identical car kits. I melted one into a resemblance of a wrecked car and put them both in my fathers' Body Shop as a "Before and After" show for customers coming in.
But which was the "before" and which was the "after"? [:D]
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I built the motorized Hood, lindberg model, pushed it out into the lake and realized I didn't do a good job on the shaft seals .....
A close friend did that with a Mogami half carrier version. It went straight out and then capsized in the middle of a pond. Guess he didn't ballast it properly. [:-]
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Let's not forget one of my big faves growing up....'The Beverly Hillbillies'.
And I'm going to make another turn here. The good olde drive-in movie theaters. Always great fun. The dusk to dawn nights. The lot.
There is still one operating about 40 miles northeast of here in Warren, Minnesota.
I liked the x-rated ones that you could see from outside the park. [:D] Didn't even need binoculars. The '60s and '70s were a lot different.
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I was at one drive in that had three screens you could see from anywhere in it. Two screens were G-rated and one was X-rated. There were little kids there. "Mommie, what are those people doing?" [&:] "Just watch Mary Poppins and keep quiet"[:-] Every parking spot had three of those speakers you could hang on the door so you could listen to whichever one you wanted. [&o]
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
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Here's the best show of all time :
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No argument here. Green Acres was the best. Got to watch it in re-runs in College in the 80's and it's still hilarious.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
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The '60s and '70s were a lot different.
The best time to be little kid.
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I know that I am taking this to a whole other level, but what the heck? I still get a little warm when I see an old photo of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. I preferred to watch this show alone, without my pants around...
....and here I thought I was the only one! [:D]
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I was at one drive in that had three screens you could see from anywhere in it. Two screens were G-rated and one was X-rated. There were little kids there. "Mommie, what are those people doing?" [&:] "Just watch Mary Poppins and keep quiet"[:-] Every parking spot had three of those speakers you could hang on the door so you could listen to whichever one you wanted. [&o]
I remember watching "Star Wars" at a drive in with hundreds of mosquitos biting when I was just a runt. I think I feel asleep during the movie.
Did anyone remember to mention, "I Want My MTV!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZSWdh17l0
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Do you remember Tom and Jerry at the Symphony? Beethoven's Lenore Overture # 3 was playing.


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Here we separate the boys from the younger boys. Who was old enough to see this:


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