Remember when?

[amazinblue82]

Where did 56 years go.

Sorry ... ya gotta be of a certain vintage to get any of this....


1968

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2022

 

[Mid70's Chrysler Fanatic]

Denver’s local independent TV station showed Family Affair reruns in the late ’70s - early ’80s. That’s where/when I watched it as a kid.

Speaking of getting old:

 

[amazinblue82]

Denver’s local independent TV station showed Family Affair reruns in the late ’70s - early ’80s. That’s where/when I watched it as a kid.

I am in the first-run on network TV genetration, more in Buffy/Jodie's age group. We got our first color TV somewhere in this time frame, and that intro really popped

Cissy ... I was wishin' I was older, had a car, and she lived next door. Her character was a little too "goody-two-shoes" .. so my Dad explained I'd "figure that out" (wink, wink) when I got older.

 

[My three 67 Polaras]

 

[amazinblue82]

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Never saw a single episode, or even knew this was a show. Eight episodes then cancelled -- just about the time I got my first car

These ladies (Barnstable twins) are still around ,, in their 70's now.

 

[67newport]

 

[carguy300]

Nicks Bar and Grill in Hanover square Horseheads new york had these. What a flashback!

 

[67newport]

 

[67newport]

 

[67newport]

 

[3175375]

 

[3175375]

 

[3175375]

Remember how LA used to be filled with oil derricks?

This James Cagney movie highlights it:

White Heat - Wikipedia

 

[Justin Plant]

wow, Gavin Newsome would've had a stroke!

 

[3175375]

wow, Gavin Newsome would've had a stroke!

I remember seeing the remnants of the oil industry as we drove through the Long Beach area as my parents hauled us to visit friends in Huntington Beach back in the late 60’s…

I also remember seeing as we drove down the 405 tails of DC-9s overhanging the fence at the McDonnell Douglas factory in Long Beach.