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DonnaHar
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what was the "other name" for the jukebox?
Who knows what "Bosco" is?
Anybody rent a TV , for the home, that required a coin to play it? Before the middle class could afford to buy one.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
« Reply #1 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 8:13am » |
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Bosco was the mix for chocolate milk.
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 7:51am, DonnaHar wrote:what was the "other name" for the jukebox? Wall Box
Who knows what "Bosco" is? Chocholate drink mix, right up there with Fizzies Tablets 
Anybody rent a TV , for the home, that required a coin to play it? Before the middle class could afford to buy one. |
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No, but I remember the round cathode ray tube that used to pass for a TV screen and the morning farm reports that used to be broadcast out of NYC just after the start of the broadcast day. It followed the National Anthem.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
« Reply #3 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 10:32am » |
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I remember paying over $700 for a microwave, and the same for a VCR and the first year of MTV and that they actually played music, I have not watched it in years now.
I remember getting our first color TV
I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV 
I remember my mom having a beehive hairdo 
I remember the 5 and dime store and all the candy you could get for a quarter
I remember dodge ball 
I remember getting gas for the mower for 35 cents a gallon
I remember going to the neighbors and collecting coke bottles so we could use the money for candy.
I remember if you liked a girl you gave her a saint Christopher medal to go steady
I remember the coolest pants where giant bell bottoms
It was cool for a guy to ware a necklace oh wait that one came back
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
« Reply #4 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:05am » |
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This is Bosco. Mouse eater,porcupine biter,chicken herding,skunk fighting,ankle biting toughest ranch dog in the world.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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Here's old.
My baby pictures are in black and white.
I rode a stingray bike with a banana seat.
I bought baseball cards for 10 cents a pack, and got gum.
Comic books were 12 cents.
Player autographs were FREE!
My first dozen cars (yea, dozen, I have had a lot of cars) used leaded gas @ less than 50 cents a gallon.
I watched Captain Kangaroo
Sonny Fox was the star of Wonderama
The Mets were an expansion team
The Jets were a team in the AFL
White castle hamburgers were a dime
Men wore fedora hats to work
The subway was a dime
Life was good
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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I remember Drive In Theatres.
I remember Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Clanton, Everly Bros., Duane Eddy & Ritchie Valens.
I remember when Dadddy said no, I did not have the right to ask "why or why not".
I remember when I paid 19 cents for a gallon of gas for my '57 Chevy.
I remember Princess Drive Inn (best hamburgers around)
I remember the day JFK was asassinated, I was in high school, in Art class.
I remember the Pinkie Lee Show....
I remember when Roy Rogers was my hero
I remember Viet Nam
OK...Wurlitzer comes to mind on the juke box....Bosco was a staple at our house....No coin TV, that I can remember 
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
« Reply #7 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:10pm » |
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I didn’t know there was another name for Juke Boxes. But, I do remember most restaurants had the playlist and coin slot on each table.
I remember Bosco. Never liked it. Hershey’s syrup from a can, opened with a church key, mixed in the milk was best.
I can remember coin TV’s in motel rooms but never knew anyone that had one at home.
I remember the day JFK was assassinated, I was in high school, in history class. And I remember the day Elvis croaked.
I remember Viet Nam. Got to spend 23 months visiting the Southeast Asian War Games ’66-’68.
My first car was a 1947 Ford that I bought from my father in 1963.
Pharmacies had soda fountains and Cokes were 5 cents.
And it still pisses me off that the Dodgers left Brooklyn.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
« Reply #8 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:11pm » |
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Not that I remember this  ; not that my Great Aunt had one in her basement or anything like that  .. but I remember seeing this big box and it was called a "Seeburg"...
Bosco was like a chocolate syrup..
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Good job, peeps!
I'm waiting for Charlie's answer before I give the jukebox answer......but
doesn't anyone remember Theresa Brewer singing about puting another nickle in the --------?
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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What the heck was the name of the space food bars? I remember them the where about 4" long and round, they where individually wrapped and they said the astronauts ate them in space. I also remember they tasted like crap.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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I think those were just called space food bars. I loved them. We used to have Tang with them because that's what the astronauts ate and drank.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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Well then, who remembers Wings and Avalon cigarettes?
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
« Reply #14 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:30pm » |
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WOW!! 
...no comment!
The youngin 
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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I remember when I could remember!!!
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:08pm, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
This is it!!!!
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:30pm, Mrs Deej wrote:WOW!!
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Aw Steph.......you're just a "babe" 
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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LMAO!!!
Well, look on the bright side of having a "babe" married to the Boss, I can keep y'all up on the "now"!
Love you woman!!
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:43pm, Mrs Deej wrote:LMAO!!!
Well, look on the bright side of having a "babe" married to the Boss, I can keep y'all up on the "now"!
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You got it EEB....nickelodeon.
Now, what kind of dog was associated with the RCA Victor record player?
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:08pm, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
Isn't that a cable network for KIDS??
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:04pm, DonnaHar wrote:You got it EEB....nickelodeon.
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He was a purebred Hintz-57 Named Nipper.
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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I remember selling gas for 30 cents a gallon and people would drive all the way to Grand Rapids (50miles) during a gas war (remember those?) to buy it for 28 cents a gallon. That was my first job. 75 cents an hour and my boss hated anyone just standing around. I had to wash the windshield, check the oil, ask how the tires were and ask if there was anything else. What I hated at the time and never see anymore is someone counting your money back. O.K. let's see. That was two forty, so you gave them 60 cents and said there's three and two ones make five, the amount they originally gave you. When's the last time someone did that for you? Not at McDonalds I can guarantee!
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Re: OK, if you're so old,
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Quote:| Bosco was the mix for chocolate milk. |
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Kids always parodied the Bosco commercial: "I love Bosco. It's rich and chocolatey. Mommy puts it in my milk when she tries to poison me."
People still called juke boxes Rockolas for a time.
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My mother went nuts. If she lived in Brooklyn, she would have been jailed for assault. No one was a bigger Dodger fan.
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