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jstan
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 3, 2014 - 11:35am PT
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After watching this video all the youngsters will realize their parents screwed up, badly. Being born too late had a terrible price.
http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Most youngsters know that already.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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"Well Tonto, looks like we're surrounded by indians! What you mean we Kimosabe?"
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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JStan:
Why don't you take a clear position on whatever point you are trying to make with this thread?
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Nice walk through my early childhood. Thanks John.
TY
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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WHOA! Locker's gett'in deep.
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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The three "things" at 3:28 I wonder how many 20 somethings know what those are :D
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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In the video I see many many products that were touted as the next big thing, they would revolutionize, they would make life so much easier, cleaner...
None of it was true.
It was very profitable.... But not always true.... And the American public bought it all. To the detriment of future generation.
Nobody asked any of the important questions that would have saved us so much...
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2014 - 01:12pm PT
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The three "things" at 3:28 I wonder how many 20 somethings know what those are :D A/F
I was living where the cows and trees all voted. What are those three things?
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redrocker
climber
NV
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Tami,
Maybe the bigger holes in the 45's had something to do with their use in juke boxes. Just guessing though.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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things are more the way they are now than they have ever been before.
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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Andy Fielding
The three "things" at 3:28 I wonder how many 20 somethings know what those are :D
Ha! I'm 36, when I was in the Air Force in Turkey I had a friend that DJ'd and was really into electronic music. He had a shirt on with that "symbol" on it, it was being used by some clothing company I never heard of, I asked him if he new what that "symbol" was and he thought it was just something that company made up. I explained what it was to him, not really sure why I even knew what it was, the few records I had as a kid were LPs.
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2014 - 03:01pm PT
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Thanks Tami. We grew up without any records.
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MH2
climber
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If there were a thread on How Many of the 50s Classics Have You Done? I'd have a high score.
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WBraun
climber
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lol ....^^^^
Classic .....
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2014 - 09:11pm PT
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We did have a player that got the sound off cylinders and the sound came out of a big horn. I tired pretty quickly of "Mary had a little lamb." Wasn't into lambs much.
Stannard you nut. Herodotus created records. How the heck old are you?
The reason I have never changed is because
I was born senile.
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MH2
climber
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Yeah. And then there was
What fun?
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Man---I know every damn thing in that video. I went from age 7 to age 16 in the fifties (and started climbing at age 14). My wife was once in the Peanut Gallery on the Howdy Doody show (the video has a shot of the clown Clarabelle squirting Buffalo Bill with a seltzer bottle.)
I think the different hole sizes in records were at least partially an attempt by RCA to produce something incompatible with Columbia, which had introduced 33 1/3's with a small hole. (The earlier 78's also had the small hole.) But the compatibility issue was pretty easily solved with a press-in hole adapter, two of which are shown in a frame of the video.
The 45's were meant to be stacked, as many as 10 high, on a fat spindle, and would drop down sequentially and be played. The small hole in the Columbia records was more sensitive to deformation when those records dropped down a thin spindle.
My wife and I have two shelves of 33 1/3 vinyl and a turntable to play 'em on. My daughter, who is now a professional musician, grew up with that stuff and knows it pretty well. So maybe, just maybe, we didn't totally screw up the parenting.
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MisterE
climber
Bishop, CA
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Time marks and tells the ongoing story of nothing ever being the same, John.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Being born in the I.G.Y. means I was more a child of the sixties. I can recall convincing Mom, when I was four or five years old, to buy me the record "Meet the Beatles". She said she didn't like their long hair but she bought me the LP anyways. "A Day in the Life" was just on the horizon. However, I did grow up immersed in the fable that science and technology were going to fix our lives, which I suppose was a sort of a remnant from the fifties.
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