tkdguy Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 Magazines that cost $3.50 and miniatures that cost $1.25 USD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 25 minutes ago, tkdguy said: Magazines that cost $3.50 and miniatures that cost $1.25 USD. Comics that cost $0.35 and miniatures made of lead. pinecone, tkdguy and Hermit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 13 minutes ago, Old Man said: Comics that cost $0.35 and miniatures made of lead. The cost increase from 25 cents to 30 cents to quickly 35 cents was a killer. I remember trying to find names and addresses of different printers to recommend to them so that they could reduce their costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 Dr. Kimble catching the one armed man Luke & Laura's wedding Tiny Tim's wedding Who shot JR? Who killed Laura Palmer? tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 14 minutes ago, Old Man said: Comics that cost $0.35 and miniatures made of lead. I remember buying comics for $0.12. In fact I remember when typewriters had a key for the "cents" sign. Cancer and Duke Bushido 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 21 minutes ago, Old Man said: Comics that cost $0.35 and miniatures made of lead. Prices in miniatures began to go up when the sale of lead miniatures was banned. Then the scale got bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 10 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: I remember buying comics for $0.12. In fact I remember when typewriters had a key for the "cents" sign. I remember comics were 12 cents. But I didn't have access to money until comics were 25 cents. My parents weren't much for buying unnecessary things like comics and my dad actively discouraged things like imagination, fantasy, fiction, and most anything that wasn't grounded in his philosophy of "poverty is noble and struggling is a sign of virtue". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 39 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: I remember buying comics for $0.12. In fact I remember when typewriters had a key for the "cents" sign. I remember typewriters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 Baseball games that ran 1:45 to 2 hours... 8-9 man pitching staffs World Series games *in the daytime* NBA Finals games were still shown on tape delay heck, for that matter...not shown at all. I remember listening to the radio broadcast in 1970 when Jerry West hit the 60 footer. OK, it's possible we chose to listen to the radio broadcast because it was Chick Hearn, the best basketball broadcaster ever. But certainly...if it was on TV, it wasn't heralded. In fact, in general, sports TV was...pretty limited. MLB: the game of the week on Saturday. That was it. NBA: I think live coverage of the later playoffs and finals kicked in a bit later...mid 70s? The NFL had their Sunday slots and got the coverage because of that. BUT, they still got hammered with the Heidi move. Regular season games were broadcast on local channels, off-network...and quite often with spotty reach and mediocre signal quality. Even for the day. And NOT every game by any means. The Dodgers trumpeted their *radio* coverage; the TV coverage was an afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 31 minutes ago, tkdguy said: Prices in miniatures began to go up when the sale of lead miniatures was banned. Then the scale got bigger. I mean, the lead minis ban wasn’t wrong. But Warhammer quickly went from “outrageously expensive” to “lol no”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 1 minute ago, unclevlad said: Baseball games that ran 1:45 to 2 hours... 8-9 man pitching staffs World Series games *in the daytime* NBA Finals games were still shown on tape delay heck, for that matter...not shown at all. I remember listening to the radio broadcast in 1970 when Jerry West hit the 60 footer. OK, it's possible we chose to listen to the radio broadcast because it was Chick Hearn, the best basketball broadcaster ever. But certainly...if it was on TV, it wasn't heralded. In fact, in general, sports TV was...pretty limited. MLB: the game of the week on Saturday. That was it. NBA: I think live coverage of the later playoffs and finals kicked in a bit later...mid 70s? The NFL had their Sunday slots and got the coverage because of that. BUT, they still got hammered with the Heidi move. Regular season games were broadcast on local channels, off-network...and quite often with spotty reach and mediocre signal quality. Even for the day. And NOT every game by any means. The Dodgers trumpeted their *radio* coverage; the TV coverage was an afterthought. When I was a teen, we followed our state university's college basketball religiously. Mot of the time they showed it on TV tape delay on the local station after prime time and the news. But when they showed it live on TV, we watched the game on TV with the sound muted and listened to the radio. That was in the days of real basketball with no shot clock and no three point line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 5 minutes ago, Old Man said: I mean, the lead minis ban wasn’t wrong. But Warhammer quickly went from “outrageously expensive” to “lol no”. Then they introduced the "slotta base" idea which I never liked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 21 minutes ago, Old Man said: I remember typewriters. When the Resident Evil 2 video game was remade in 2019 (the original having come out in 1998), I noticed that saving the game still involved finding a typewriter within the game world. If played on the "Hardcore" mode, you also had to locate a typewriter ribbon before you could save a game. I wonder how many players had no clue what that was supposed to be. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 In a similar vein, I wonder how many games include the numerous Easter eggs that you could only find be clicking practically *everywhere*...and how many players that would go to the trouble of finding them. Argh...games that *didn't* have automaps !!!!! Sprite-based graphics only...at EGA or maybe VGA resolutions. Action movies with no CGI whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 The death of Mr. Hooper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 3 hours ago, Cygnia said: The death of Mr. Hooper. Too soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 5 hours ago, unclevlad said: Mr. Rogers Fred Rogers got a big boost in recent years due to his movie biography and the Tom Hanks film based on his life. You can find episodes of his show and other materials on YouTube. I think he'll be in the public consciousness for quite a while longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Starlord Posted April 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 Cocaine was a key ingredient in Coca-Cola. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 9 minutes ago, Starlord said: Cocaine was a key ingredient in Coca-Cola. But removed in 1903. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted April 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 1 minute ago, unclevlad said: But removed in 1903. Hence the 'was'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 31 minutes ago, Starlord said: Cocaine was a key ingredient in Coca-Cola. anyone here really that old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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