Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

[jamespowers]

Interesting that the 80s have come up in the conversation. I was just thinking back to them myself. I just had to run to the store, and I noticed that wal mart now sells jordache. Weren't they a pretty high end brand back then? Now they sell'em in wally world. Back in those days there wasn't even such a thing as walmart in my home town. We had k mart, but if you wanted jordache jeans or a stray cats or pink floyd album you had to come into the city and go to the mall.
Good times.

Things have changed for Jordache......

 

[jamespowers]

The mall....:laugh:
We had a few free standing music stores (not in the mall or a strip center).
The most famous was Pop Tunes.
Then Cats music moved into town, inflated prices....idiots.

Music stores have done the way of the Dodo here. There used to be dozens of the darned things years ago though…..

 

[Gregg Axley]

It is blasphemy of the highest order :laser::hippie:
If you want something from over there that was not hippie:
http://youtu.be/qlJbwfxVTnc

Egads, that's almost has horrid as Rick Astley.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I didn't have that good of insurance on it lol.I paid 1300 bucks for the car, I'd end up paying that in insurance premiums in a couple years with full coverage lol

A tree fell on it and the insurance made up the difference?

Yeah, I notice a lot of that goes on around here

And having a blast at Tom's expense.

 

[dh66]

Music stores have done the way of the Dodo here. There used to be dozens of the darned things years ago though…..

Same as here. The internet drove the nails in that coffin for sure.

But at the same time, the internet has opened up so much access to stuff that was practically unavailable before. No more having to special order something and wait weeks or months to listen to it. Or worse, you read or heard about something cool, then after waiting all that time to get it, it really sucked. At least now you can find out right away if you like it or not.

Still, I miss going in the record shop and spending an afternoon browsing for something new. It's just not the same experience sitting around in my living room.

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[Touchofevil]

Same as here. The internet drove the nails in that coffin for sure.

But at the same time, the internet has opened up so much access to stuff that was practically unavailable before. No more having to special order something and wait weeks or months to listen to it. Or worse, you read or heard about something cool, then after waiting all that time to get it, it really sucked. At least now you can find out right away if you like it or not.

Still, I miss going in the record shop and spending an afternoon browsing for something new. It's just not the same experience sitting around in my living room.

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Yep. I do agree.

 

[Old Rogue]

Music stores have done the way of the Dodo here. There used to be dozens of the darned things years ago though…..

I remember buying 45's at a music store when I was a teenager in the 70's. You walked up to the counter and they had a listing of the top 100 songs on a piece of poster paper. You told the clerk which ones you wanted and they pulled them from cubby-hole shelves that lined the wall behind the counter. That was the iTunes of my day!

 

[dh66]

I worked at a record shop back in the mid 80s and that's how it was done then. We had a shelf full of popular hits, and a shelf full of r-n-b hits. Those were the two biggest sellers. I don't remember a lot of people coming in asking for country hits on 45s.

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[Gregg Axley]

Sorry to interrupt, but I saw this and had to share it.
Being a fan of MST3K, this type of thing strikes me funny.

Lip reading of NFL players.
[video=youtube;rRqKYXcL-2U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

That was hilarious!

Sorry to interrupt, but I saw this and had to share it.
Being a fan of MST3K, this type of thing strikes me funny.

Lip reading of NFL players.
[video=youtube;rRqKYXcL-2U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqKYXcL-2U[/video]

 

[Gregg Axley]

That was hilarious!

Yeah, I thought so too.
They did a few others I'll have to check out.

 

[GHT]

What's nicer than a Cadillac?

A vintage Cadillac.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Well, that goes without saying. They haven't built a real Cadillac since 1996!

A vintage Cadillac.
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[vitanola]

A vintage Cadillac.
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What's nicer than a vintage Cadillac?

Perhaps a vintage Lincoln:

or a Peerless:

A Hispano-Suiza:

A Packard:

or mayhap a Peirce Arrow:

 

[GHT]

All those cars gave me quite a blood rush, but, if money was no object:

 

[GHT]

But if you prefer a more British flavour there's the SS Motors, the name Jaguar traded as until WW2, only changing to Jaguar because of Hitler's SS.


Jaguar, later bought out The Daimler Company, they too, made aesthetically attractive cars.



Nowadays, we have windtunnel euroboxes, all mpg and no character.

 

[vitanola]

I've always thought the Daimler machines were a might stodgy. Here's a 1935 example:


and a post-war model:


Were I to have a sleeve-valve machine I'd prefer a Stearns-Knight:


For comfortable, though boxy coachwork, I'm rather attracted to the likes of this '14 Winton:


'Though my personal preference is for a light car, say a Templar:

or this little Rollin sedan:

 

[Gregg Axley]

What's nicer than a vintage Cadillac?

Perhaps a vintage Lincoln:

or a Peerless:

A Hispano-Suiza:

A Packard:

or mayhap a Peirce Arrow:

:eusa_clap

BTW I've heard the Templar wasn't really made for the days, but instead it was made for the Knights.
Sorry.

 

[1mach1]

Well, that goes without saying. They haven't built a real Cadillac since 1996!

1996? Didn't you mean 1966?

 

[jamespowers]

What's nicer than a vintage Cadillac?

Perhaps a vintage Lincoln:

or a Peerless:

A Hispano-Suiza:

A Packard:

or mayhap a Peirce Arrow:

Definitely not the backward Lincoln, the really dated looking Peerless, the too short top Hispano or the out and out weird Peirce Arrow. The only one that comes close is the Packard. That Duesenberg is in a class by itself.