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Re:#16 Mike, It could be that your 4 to 5 year old LG Flip Phone was 3G. I don’t believe that there is a cell service left that still supports 3G. They've all gone to either 4G or 5G. The phone itself may still be functional but without a 3G network it just won’t work. Both David and I...

I stopped using any kind of fabric softener almost a year ago. The liquid softener leaves a greasy build up on the washer which I despise and the dryer sheets really don’t do much in adding a fragrance to the laundry, the only thing they are really good for is to use to take the lint off the...

In 1971 I was 20 years old and had already been living on my own for a year. I worked for commission and my average weekly take home pay was between $55 to $65 per week,or and average of $60 per week. My rent was $80.00 per mo. util. incld. and my car payment was $70 per mo., my Kaiser health...

Re:#96 I well remember the first time “Peter Pan” was televised in 1955. I was 4 years old and that night my Dad and a new Manitowoc Bottom freezer refrigerator delivered which was just as big a deal as “Peter Pan” on TV. Eddie

Holy Cow! Would you look at the prices of these TV’s, $795 and $895! That was a fortune in 1955! Minimum wage was $0.75 per hr. You could buy a nice used ‘52 Chevy or Ford then for about $500 to $600 in 1955. No wonder my family didn’t have a color TV until 1969. Eddie

I made an Italian Sausage, olive, green pepper and onion pizza tonoght for dinner ad for tomorrows dinner too. I let it rise for about 45 miins before baking 18 mins @ 425 F. Eddie

Re:59 I remember when just about everyone had these Ekco kitchen tools, especially the offset turner and the basting spoon, both very useful tools. Eddie

Re:#102 John, I’ve been told that I was the longest serving HOA board member in the history of the State of California . I worked for the County of Sonoma for 20 years and retired with a nice pension. I received diddly squat for 30 years of service on the HOA board. It was a tremendous...

For cryin out loud, there is really nothing special about attending school for 12 years, that’s the mandatory number of years in just about every school district in the nation and has been for over 100 years. BTW, K thru 12 equals 13 years of school, not 12. Eddie

Re: #98 John, I just retired as the president of my HOA this past Monday after being on the BOD for the past 30 years, the last 15 years as president. Although our HOA is much smaller than yours, with only 20 units, I know just what your talking about. I’ve been through the residing of all the...

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...