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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:52 pm
by geofflambert
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
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:27 pm
by Big B
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.
ORIGINAL: witpqs
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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:14 pm
by 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.[:)]
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:15 pm
by rockmedic109
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 did it as well.
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
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:59 am
by oldman45
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
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:26 pm
by Schanilec
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.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:20 pm
by sventhebold
Yup I think i was there forever and ago since i had relatives outside Donaldson i used to stay with.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:26 pm
by Eambar
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!
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:34 pm
by Big B
Oh, Mary-Anne [:D]
ORIGINAL: Doggie3
... 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.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:44 pm
by Lecivius
Mary Anne, or Jeannie?
JEANNIE!!
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:53 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: rockmedic109
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 did it as well.
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]
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:55 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: oldman45
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. [:-]
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:58 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Schanilec
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.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:04 pm
by geofflambert
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
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:37 pm
by 98ZJUSMC
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Here's the best show of all time :
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
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:39 pm
by 98ZJUSMC
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
The '60s and '70s were a lot different.
The best time to be little kid.
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:43 pm
by 98ZJUSMC
ORIGINAL: crsutton
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]
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:30 pm
by Footslogger
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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
RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:30 pm
by geofflambert
Do you remember Tom and Jerry at the Symphony? Beethoven's Lenore Overture # 3 was playing.

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:39 pm
by geofflambert
Here we separate the boys from the younger boys. Who was old enough to see this:
