Olden day Pictures

[TonyR]

My class was huge. My 50th would be in '27 but I never got an invite for the 25th I know they had.

Like IPCT I think I pissed off too many people

Another thing we have in common, my man....we're on some of the same shit lists!

 

[StevenFromTexas]

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Looks like a picture from California in about April 2025. Yeah, I know it's only January 14, 2025, but still, spring is around the corner.

 

[gwminor48]

 

[lulu5kamz]

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You can read this issue here:

Popular Science 1973, No. 7 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Popular Science 1973, No. 7

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[TonyR]

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My first cell phone was an analog Nokia bag phone, circa 1992. It was connected to a huge 12vdc GSM AGM battery in a leatherette bag with a shoulder strap. Battery life was about 2 hours or less, IIRC. It was powerful and sucked juice because the towers were far apart, even in the Silicon Valley at that time.

 

[gwminor48]

Actually a new picture of olden days site, I don't think there was a McDonalds there during the cold war.

 

[paul@austins.tv]

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Is that the current lie detector used by the UK police?

 

[gwminor48]

I thought my brother and I knew all the cars in the 50's & 60's but I don't recall ever seeing one of these on the road

1956 Mercury XM Turnpike Cruiser

 

[gwminor48]

Bomber gas station, Milwaukie, Oregon. I don't know the year but those cars look like what? 40's or early 50's? Can you imagine trying to build something like that now and dealing with govt and our litigious society?

 

[Parley]

^^^^ I would say that the Buick is from circa 1949 going by the grill.

 

[gwminor48]

Not exactly olden day. He seems to still wear lots of hats in a different way and maybe his hammer now is DOGE.

17 year-old Elon Musk, wearing two hats and holding a hammer

 

[gwminor48]

If you remember these you might be an old fart.

 

[Parley]

^^^^^ I remember them only too well.

 

[TonyR]

^^^^^ I remember them only too well.

The strange language that eminated from them was a dialect of that comes out today from hamburger joint drive-thru speakers. It sounds strangely like English but with either holes in the cone of the paper speaker or a rag stuffed in the mouth of the employee taking the order.

 

[looney2ns]

If you remember these you might be an old fart.

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There are several still around.
Including one about 20 miles from me that does a bang up business.
In the past few years, a few new ones have opened.