Me, too. Same time frame. We used the entire skate (that type that clamp to your shoe). It was SO hard to cut the back of the metal heel piece that stuck up behind your shoe. Haacksaws and tinsnips, then a sledgehammer to flatten them, so we could nail them onto… 1x4’s (we’d progressed from 2x4’s).
And we didn’t know they had a name, so we called them “Sidewalk Surfers”.
I’ve just driven from the UK to Austria and back. At this time of the year winter tyres are a legal requirement in many places of continental Europe and I have a set mounted on steel wheels for exactly that purpose.
Also, I hired a car in Iceland a few years back and was provided with a standard 2wd drive Golf with metal studded winter tyres.
Colossal Cave was one of the caves that was linked together in the 1950s and 1960s into the Flint Ridge cave system, which was later linked to Mammoth Cave. Will Crowther’s wife Pat was on the 1972 connection trip that linked Flint Ridge with Mammoth, and Will was on one of the trips leading up to the connection trip. So he actually knew his way around both caves and code.
My step-father wired the town for cable TV. We got two channels. One of them quite snowy. In black and white. It was better than no channels.
My Mom would call him when he was out in the field via “radiotelephone”.
I remember the time when hundreds of people flocked to a local public site for children to get polio vaccines in the form of a sugar cube. Later as teenagers something else was sometimes provided in sugar cubes.
Yep, especially in uniform. I hitch hiked the length and breadth of the US several times. It was not unusual for someone to pick me up and turn over the driving because they were tired.
Anyone else have the task of kneading the color pellet into the white margarine to make it yellow?
Okay, I’ll throw this in while it’s still legal: All those posts from last December about cleaning disks reminded me of the process we used to use: If your old vinyl records were getting a bit worn and scratchy, you could “rejuvenate” them by wiping them down with a soft cloth moistened with Vicks Vapo-Rub. It worked like a charm (who’da thunk it?), but there was a limitation: It only worked on records of Baroque classical music – Vivaldi and stuff like that. If you tried it on other records, it pretty much ruined them.
So, if it ain’t Baroque, don’t Vicks it.
The booster polio vaccine, right? I recall taking more than one.
For real? What was the point if you knew it was margarine already? Did it look like yellow mashed potatos when you were done?
You’re next up against the wall. We keep a list, you know.
Do us a favour: do not look at the “I like bananas a bunch” thread in Thread Games. That list will lengthen and that wall would get pretty crowded.
Aha! A new lead, I never looked in Thread Games before. I could really push up my average with that.
You know where I’ve seen these still in use recently? In certain banks. There’s a bank (maybe several) near here with two drive-through lanes. So one lane is alongside the teller’s window, but the other lane is away from the window. So they use the pneumatic tube to do transactions with the car in the far lane.
ETA: Pic found with google image search: Not the bank near me, but apparently these are common.
Why don’t they just use ATMs? Drive-thru ATMs at banks are as common as dirt here in Canada.
I suppose there are some kinds of transactions that can’t be done with an ATM?
True that. But I’d suggest that those transactions (such as getting a bank draft or cashier’s cheque or shifting funds around between investment accounts) are worth parking and going into the bank for. For such simple things as getting cash, or depositing a paycheque, an ATM is just fine.
Never underestimate the laziness of some people (especially a lot of us 'Mercans apparently). I myself never use a drive-through – I park and walk up to an ATM usually or else park and walk inside. I’ve noticed that a lot of banks don’t even have walk-up ATMs anymore – only the drive-through kind.
Can you put heavier items through those pneumatic tubes? I’m thinking of the times I go to the bank to get rolls of quarters. I don’t know of any ATMs that will dispense coins.
Not me personally – I was too young to do it reliably – but I remember my parents doing it.
Because white margarine spread on bread looks remarkably like Crisco or lard. It looked like a bag of yellow margarine.
Nevermind.
Not if you want certain denominations like $500 with $400 in hundreds, $60 in twenties and $40 in tens.
Actually, I began using the drive through at my bank during the pandemic when they shut down the lobby for 99% of business. The lobby has reopened, but I’ve stuck with the drive through.