The Nostalgia Thread!

[KG4CGC]

I grew up with this guy. Age 2 to 4 in Brooklyn NY.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4A3mdG5zbQ

[WZ7U]

Oh no, I remember him! He was on the tv and I'm sure it was mom watching his show because I think I was really young then too.

Which made me remember another one. Do you remember Charles Atlas? Something about a guy who would pull a boxcar with a rope?
Here - https://www.charlesatlas.com/atlas_strength.html
Crazy memory jog Charles. Wow

[KG4CGC]

Yeah, Atlas was in the back of all the magazines at some point, including Boy's Life.

Here's a throwback. Commercial jingles are short and have a tendency to stick, as is the goal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPn5hATkLk

[kb2vxa]

Jack LaPennylane was always on grandma's TV. She looked so funny trying to do his exercises grunting and straining against a tight girdle. She went from one diet to another and always was barrel shaped never losing a pound. She was fat from WAY back, she had one of those 1930s or 40s electric flab shakers in an upstairs bedroom never used. Still, grandma was cool, I loved going shopping with her, I just HAD to get a bag of hot fresh roasted peanuts from the peanut wagon on the corner under the clock. Speaking of clocks, I found two working steam powered clocks. Check the Internet, you can find them too.

[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oywdI5q5SOE

[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZ8HHRR1A0

[kb2vxa]

Tang, the astronaut drink that NASA didn't invent. I'm glad I didn't have to eat and drink out of plastic bags, poo in a vacuum toilet, drink recycled pee, or send dehydrated crap home in a rocket. I'm glad I didn't have to use The Intergalactic Laxative to get me from here to Mars either!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWghCdIqedA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCpnwJQhoYY

[KG4CGC]

The Schwinn Stingray bicycle.

I had a 1970 Jet Star.

[kb2vxa]

Backing up a bit, commercials WERE short following the 10 & 2 format, 10 minutes of program, 2 minutes of commercials, mostly 30 second spots. Now they're 10 & 10 mostly 60 second spots and the ID "bug" disappears by day and 1 hour after 1 hour "infomercials" by night. Those are Biblical, the same thing repeated 3 times per 1 hour slot. Then come Sunday the Bible thumpers with their send money and I'll pray for you lectures come out of the rat infested woodwork......

I stopped that cigarette commercial dead in its tracks when the lying bastard said only Chesterfoof dog ends don't irritate when irritation doesn't show up in x rays. I smoked and cigarettes didn't irritate my ears either, ROTFLMAO! They irritated everything else as the poisons carried by blood circulated throughout my body. Now I have COPD and use a maintenance inhaler daily, heart disease and have a pacemaker with defibrillator, and PAD so I can barely walk, and nothing from the waist down works as intended. Like most ex-smokers I have become an adamant anti-smoker for 2 reasons, the selfish one being the stink drifting in through cracks in the courtyard door from the smokers intent on slow suicide brings on craving that drives me up a wall, and the selfless one admonishing smokers of what they're doing to themselves. Frankly I'm surprised the government hasn't stamped out what used to be considered "a filthy habit" now a known addiction entirely through taxation. How anyone can afford a national $6.65 average and Rhode Islanders paying $10.15 a PACK is beyond crazy!
Rant mode off.

I had an I don't know how old used 3 speed Columbia bike I smoked the brakes on trying to stop when the light at the bottom of a hill went red, I went through and luckily didn't get hit. My friends and I went on long rides, they had 10 speed Schwinn English Racers and waited an hour for me to show up.

Now for some REAL nostalgia, a badass Defibrillator with Achmed The Dead Terrorist at the wheel. I recognized it as a show deuce coupe, what once was a 1932 Ford 2 door aka coupe. Also pictured is a road version that Bruce Springsteen sang about, "Ripped off by a deuce, another runner in the night." covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band and misheard as "ripped off like a douche, another runner in the night". Mondegreens only get worse. (;->) Funny that album, Greetings From Asbury Park when "The Boss" is from Freehold and The E Street Band likewise phony, there are NO alphabet streets in Asbury Park.

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[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9Cz68-rhE

[KG4CGC]

Warren, your post reminds me of the 60's rat rods and the sticker packs that came with an old, dried up piece of hard bubble gum.
Ah, mammaries!

https://www.google.com/search?q=rat+rod+stickers+and+bubble+gum&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALeKk015AyVV4Sq0hvmueC2RkWNahi6EmA:161318957 0126&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3h6G6_-XuAhVopVkKHfkCB8oQ_AUoAnoECA8QBA&biw=1280&bih=579

[KG4CGC]

And that reminds me of Wacky Stickers!

https://www.google.com/search?q=wacky+stickers&sxsrf=ALeKk01418xDcvZ4CWlcACPC3uQxXsl5Ag:161319050 8119&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF2sP5gubuAhXp01kKHaLWA9AQ_AUoAnoECBUQB A&biw=1280&bih=579

[kb2vxa]

Like Jack Benny's signature song Thanks For The Mammaries. Rat rods like "Big Daddy" Ed Roth, Rat Fink and The Sadies providing musical accompaniment rivaling The Beach Boys' surfing music. I wonder if anybody ever made a Maxwell into a rat rod. Oh, I don't care what Brian Wilson thinks, I'm not fond of California girls that look like this!

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[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzCPZDs9d8


You best not be smackin' that ass these days.

[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrWk96DMHs

[WZ7U]

I grew up with this guy. Age 2 to 4 in Brooklyn NY.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4A3mdG5zbQ

I wonder if Richard Simmons got his motivation from Jack? :icon_twisted:

[KG4CGC]

I wonder if Richard Simmons got his motivation from Jack? :icon_twisted:

The Gay Caballero?

[kb2vxa]

I don't know about inspiration, but you can bet your bippy on his masturbation. Now where did that "you bet your bippy" come from?

[WZ7U]

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/You+bet+your+bippy

[ad4mg]

Laugh In.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062601/


I don't know about inspiration, but you can bet your bippy on his masturbation. Now where did that "you bet your bippy" come from?

[KG4CGC]

Laugh In.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062601/

That is so totally the 60's vibe.

[kb2vxa]

Yep, there were love ins, be ins, and one of the best comedy shows ever, right up there with MAD TV, Rowan & Martin's Laugh in. Ruth was Buzzi but it was the flies, my attention was focused elsewhere.

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[KG4CGC]

Remember the Beatles?

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[kb2vxa]

Speaking of The Hard Shell Insects, John Lennon read a comment by Mick Jagger about them in a magazine he was reading, and his response was the song And Your Bird Can Sing. For those on this side of the big pond, bird is British slang for girlfriend.

Speaking of Micks, Mick Jones of The Clash in their iconic song London Calling, a direct reference to the BBC opening line on shortwave, referenced "phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust" and frankly I'm glad it did. Mind you I like Beatles music, but screaming teenage girls was just a BIT much. When they performed live on The Ed Sullivan "really big shoe" the engineers in Master Control had the audience mics up WAY too high and all we heard was screaming that ruined it. Another big mistake was recording it off the air feed instead of studio channels that made every record of it just as bad as the original live performance.

Before leaving the discussion, another phony Beatlemania DJ was "Cousin Brucie" Morrow on Shit Radio 77 claiming to be "the 5th Beatle" when "The Fab Four" had nothing to do with him. The REAL 5th Beatle was "Murray The K" Kaufman on 1010 WINS (pronounced as a word) who interviewed them several times during their stay in New York. Then there is the George Harrison nostalgia song When We Was Fab.......

I rather feel sorry for the kids who can only get their kicks watching You Tube when their grandparents and I watched it all go down as it happened. Then Paul McCartney did that song on The Magical Mystery Tour (the movie is insane) "Let's all get up and dance to a hit before your mother was born. Your mother should know, your mother should know."... and suddenly I woke up!

[KG4CGC]

Dobie Gillis

I still call him Gilligan even though that came later.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis

[kb2vxa]

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, <toot>
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. <toot>
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me spinach.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.

I'm one tough gazookus
Which hates all palookas
Wot ain't on the up and square.
I biffs 'em and buffs 'em
And always out roughs 'em
But none of 'em gets nowhere.

If anyone dares to risk my fisk,
It's boff an' it's wham un'erstan'?
So keep good be-hav-or
That's your one life saver
With Popeye the Sailor Man.

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, <toot>
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. <toot>
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me spinach.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. <toot> <toot>

Then there was an alternate version...

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, <toot>
(Wait a minute, that made a mess.)
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, <ssssss>
(There, cough, that's better.)
I live in a garbage can.
I'm stoned to the finish
'Cause I ain't smokin' spinach,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man! <ssssss> <aaahhh>

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[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ilBsr9n3o

[WZ7U]

Ho ho ho...

[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mQz44pPY4