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9 years ago
mo4040
Check out this web page: Ed Thelen's Nike page
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9 years ago
mo4040
I remember Green River being carbonated in 12 oz cans and being uncarbonated in larger, 32 oz cans. I drank a lot of that stuff back when I was real young.
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9 years ago
mo4040
Saw the LA 'Thunderbirds' (rollerderby) at the Amphitheatre back in the mid-70's.
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9 years ago
mo4040
StrayKitten Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was one in South Shore at 79th & Jeffrey. > When you walked in the door, the whole area in > front of the window had shelves of 10 cent items. > Everything from cheese curls to bubble bath. Sometimes, my grandparents took my brother and I there when they did their Saturday grocery shoppin
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9 years ago
mo4040
BTRIPP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I spent a lot of time (and a LOT of quarters) at > the 2-story arcade that used to be at 1160 N. > State St. (half a block south of Division, > currently home to TeaGschwendner) ... I don't > recall the name, however.... That arecade was called 'The Rubus Game Room.' I also remember the aforementioned
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9 years ago
mo4040
My brother and I used to go and visit Downtown Hobbies (the subway Arcade location) back in the mid 70's to early 80's. Whenever we were downtown, we would at least stop and take a look around. Money was tight, but we managed to occasionally get Tamiya military 1/35th stuff, some model rocketry stuff, and drooled over the trains and R/C planes. Back then, we had no money , but a ton of time to dev
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9 years ago
mo4040
I remember the Sox games and the afternoon cartoon Line up. Spiderman, The Hulk, Ultraman, Iron Man, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, and The Space Giants. Cheesy as all get out, but, it was cool back then.
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