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Lighten up Matt! That was 69 years ago and I’m still here. Lots of kids ate paste and lived to tell about it. It tasted like Beeman’s Chewing Gum, which tasted like wintergreen mint to me, YUM! Eddie

I too used to love to eat the paste in elementary school! The teacher in kindergarten used to tear off 4”x4” pieces of brown paper towels and take a wooden tongue depressor and drip into the BIG glass paste jar and smear an glob of paste on the paper towel squares and dole them out to each...

Gee our old Lasalle ran great!...... those were the days! When my parents got married in 1948 my Dad had a ‘39 Lasalle coupe. They spent 4 days honeymooning on the Russian River in Gureneville, Calif. When they got home my Mom told me that they had $14.00 to their names and no pay expected...

The very first time I ever drove in LA was in a ‘71 Vega that belonged to the friends that I was visiting in Eagle Park. They both had to work one of the days I was there and Jeff loaned me his Vega to drive and see the sights. Armed with a AAA map I drove that little Vega all over LA. It...

In ‘70 when I moved to Petaluma, Calif. for my first job out of Beauty College I worked with a woman that owned a ‘69 Impala that she bought new. Cheryl was a very good friend of mine and I had occasion to drive her ‘69 Impala many times. It was a wonderful car to drive. It had a 327 V8...

Ralph I remember that when I first started to drive most service stations kept a barrel of used motor oil that they collected from oil changes and they sold it to drivers of oil burning old heaps like your sister’s ‘56 Bel Air for something like 10 cents a quart. Back in the late 60’s I think...

Glenn, thanks for posting the photos. That was a special order ‘69 (maybe a ‘70 they look almost the same) Chevy Biscayne if I ever saw one. That’s a 427 V8 390 hp, paired with it looks like a 4 speed, I can’t see the shift knob. With the special order of the 427 engine I’m pretty sure...

Yes, Ralph those old American cars with a 3 on the tree manual trans were very easy to master the clutch on. Much easier to drive than a Volkswagen with a 4 on the floor and their terribly temperamental clutches. The older more expensive cars in the 30’s and 40’s had so much torque that you...

I wonder how large the screen was on this 1945 Dumont TV? From the photo in the ad it would appear to be at least 17” which would have been pretty big for the very early days of TV. Most of the photos of the TV’s from the late 40’s look like the screens were only about 9” to 12”. The first...

The lid lock on my Roper TL isn’t too problematic since all during the fill and wash cycle it remains unlocked so I can add another item if necessary. The lid lock only locks once the draining begins for the wash portion of the cycle and then is functional throughout the rest of the rinse...

Years ago, before we moved to our home 31 years ago I used to make Pizza frequently using the Chef Boy Are Dee Pizza mix that came in a box. Then when we moved here and there was a Papa Murphys Take and Bake Pizza right across the street so I stopped making pizza and bought our pizzas from...

Tom, yes in ‘67 all of GM’s mid size cars were built on the same chassis as you ‘67 Pontiac Tempest, so was the ‘67 Pontiac LeMans, the ‘67 Oldsmobile Cutlass and the ‘67 Chevrolet Malibu/Chevelle. To me the ‘67 Skylark felt kinda upscale because the interior fit and finish was really nice, it...

harvastgold68, I’m sorry that you never got to own a ‘67 Skylark. They were such wonderful cars! I’ll take a Buick over a Cadillac any day , and I’ve owned both, I had a ‘55 Cadillac 62 2dr HT for 8 months in ‘73 and it was a wonderful car, but no where near as wonderful as the ‘67 Skylark...

In 2001 I bought a new Buick Century. When the salesman was finishing up on the paperwork he took me out to the car to show me how the OnStar system worked for making telephone calls. At that time neither of us had cellphones and this was an attractive feature. He explained there was a...

I owned one of these wonderful A50’s from ‘76 thru ‘81 and I never had this problem. But I do have one suggestion. Have you tried just putting the rubber disk in the spinner and closing the lid to see if the spinner will operate without any water in it? Maybe that will get to operate...

I have one of these same Maytag dryers, it’s also about 11 years old and it still works like a champ! I’d keep it if I were you and have the dryer vent cleaned out. Eddie

I believe that Maytag still built the Model ELS up to about 1980 or 81. My Mom bought a brand new Maytag Model ELSP in 1969. And I believe that Speed Queen also built wringer washers all through the 80’s. If we had either a laundry tub or a bathroom with enough room to use the tub for rinsing...

Chet, I find that directions for frozen foods that are supposed to be crispy usually don’t require a high enough temperature and a long enough time in the oven. For example, on the bag of the Market Pantry tater tots that I buy it calls for 16 to 18 mins at 400 F for a half bag. This just...

Our neighbors had a Sparton console TV much like the one in the ad. Eddie

Gee Eugene I don’t any other advice to offer. And I wholeheartedly agree with you that they do seem to love to pick onus old gay geezers! I have limited tolerance for computerized crap that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do when you follow the directions given. You could try calling LG...