What are you old enough to remember?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, CJK said:

...Some kids at the VoTech tried to sell us sixth graders quaaludes, so there is a second memory of something I remember - when quaaludes were the drug of choice!

 

Why would a 6th grader be interested in Quaaludes? They basically just make the user sleepy. Not even very useful as a sleeping pill, since the lethal dose is pretty close to the effective dose for inducing sleep. And it's probably even more deadly when used in combination with alcohol than barbiturates are. Add to that: a long half-life/duration of action. Just the opposite of cocaine. I wonder if they're still manufactured anywhere on the planet. 

Edited May 19, 2022 by Unicorn

[+ 7829V]

I'm old enough to remember going to Blockbuster and Netflix mailing DVDs.

Black and White TV too...

[CJK]

10 hours ago, Unicorn said:

Why would a 6th grader be interested in Quaaludes? They basically just make the user sleepy. Not even very useful as a sleeping pill, since the lethal dose is pretty close to the effective dose for inducing sleep. And it's probably even more deadly when used in combination with alcohol than barbiturates are. Add to that: a long half-life/duration of action. Just the opposite of cocaine. I wonder if they're still manufactured anywhere on the planet. 

I cannot provide an answer about why the drug was popular, but in the mid-seventies it was the drug in Central PA. 

[CJK]

9 hours ago, 7829V said:

I'm old enough to remember going to Blockbuster and Netflix mailing DVDs.

Black and White TV too...

I remember when there was no Blockbuster. Or VCRs. We got our first VCR in 1984 when I was already in college. Neighbors got theirs in 1977 which was pretty early.

We had B&W TVs in my earliest memories. One day, my dad, who was doctor, mad a housecall to patients who lived in a poor section of town and who he knew were on public assistance. They had a brand-new color TV. My dad thought if they could have a color TV then their doctor should be able to have a color TV. He and my mom went to Penn Furniture the next day and bought a console TV. 

Note: two more things I remember: Housecalls and console TVs.

[CJK]

I remember when companies like Zenith would run ads for TVs on TV. In the ads, they would turn on their TV and ask viewers to see how clear the picture shines. The thing is most people did not realize the picture would only be as clear as the picture on their present set. Many people actually swore they were seeing a clearer picture on the set being advertised which was, of course, impossible.

[BabyBoomer]

Idlewild Airport.

~Boomer~

[+ WilliamM]

On 5/19/2022 at 2:13 PM, Unicorn said:

Why would a 6th grader be interested in Quaaludes? They basically just make the user sleepy. Not even very useful as a sleeping pill, since the lethal dose is pretty close to the effective dose for inducing sleep. And it's probably even more deadly when used in combination with alcohol than barbiturates are. Add to that: a long half-life/duration of action. Just the opposite of cocaine. I wonder if they're still manufactured anywhere on the planet. 

You likely never tried  Quaaludes more than just a  a few times. 

[samhexum]

On 5/17/2022 at 4:44 PM, Unicorn said:

We had a milkman in Oakland deliver milk well into the 1980s. I think my godmother in Beverly Hills had a milkman deliver her milk into the 1990s!!

I'm sure she did...  The milkman, he delivers...

[dbar123]

Setting dwell time on points and using a timing light to set engine timing to x degrees BTDC

[samhexum]

On 5/19/2022 at 2:13 PM, Unicorn said:

Why would a 6th grader be interested in Quaaludes? They basically just make the user sleepy. Not even very useful as a sleeping pill, since the lethal dose is pretty close to the effective dose for inducing sleep. And it's probably even more deadly when used in combination with alcohol than barbiturates are. Add to that: a long half-life/duration of action. Just the opposite of cocaine. I wonder if they're still manufactured anywhere on the planet. 

 

23 hours ago, CJK said:

I cannot provide an answer about why the drug was popular, but in the mid-seventies it was the drug in Central PA. 

 

27 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

You likely never tried  Quaaludes more than just a  a few times. 

The first time I ever heard the word quaalude was in connection to the death of Anissa Jones, who played Buffy on FAMILY AFFAIR.  That was 1976.

Shortly before noon on August 28, 1976, Jones was found dead in a bedroom of a house belonging to the father of a 14-year-old friend named Helen Hennessy.  The coroner's report listed Jones’ death as a drug overdose, later ruled accidental; cocaine, PCP, Quaalude, and Seconal were found in her body during an autopsy toxicology examination. The police report also indicated a small vial of blue liquid next to Jones at the scene, which was never identified. The coroner who examined Jones reported she died from one of the most severe drug overdoses he had ever seen. Jones was 18 years old.

[Becket]

I remember the first time I felt lust and longing.  I was nine years old and the camp counselor of the cabin next to mine was just so beautiful.  I remember my stomach doing flips every time I saw him.  And when he spoke to me.......A dios mio! Spent the rest of the summer wondering what that feeling was, and day dreaming about him while I let the warm water from the bath tub faucet pour onto my crotch.  Didn't know why that felt so good either......

[+ WilliamM]

On 5/19/2022 at 2:13 PM, Unicorn said:

Why would a 6th grader be interested in Quaaludes? They basically just make the user sleepy. Not even very useful as a sleeping pill, since the lethal dose is pretty close to the effective dose for inducing sleep. And it's probably even more deadly when used in combination with alcohol than barbiturates are. Add to that: a long half-life/duration of action. Just the opposite of cocaine. I wonder if they're still manufactured anywhere on the planet. 

You have a lot to learn, my friend.

[+ sync]

I remember when automatic transmissions were a wonder.

Yikes!

[+ azdr0710]

 

[Rudynate]

2 hours ago, WilliamM said:

You have a lot to learn, my friend.

Really - It's no accident they were popular - even though they were a sedative,  they felt very stimulating.  And they were very disinhibiting - you would do things on quaaludes you would never imagine otherwise.  I loved to do a quaalude and go to the baths. 

I was a corpsman in an Army hospital in Germany. There was a German sleeping, pill, called Mandrex (MX for short) and they were the same drug as quaaludes - very easy to OD on.  It was a rare weekend that a GI wasn't brought into the ER for ODing on MXs.

[+ Charlie]

I remember listening to my mother talking with a neighbor about sending a CARE package to refugee children in Europe. (The war in Ukraine resurrected that memory for me.)

[Luv2play]

On 5/16/2022 at 3:06 PM, sync said:

I remember when a bar of bath soap (Ivory) would last until it was boring.  These days a bar of bath soap is gone in no time.   🤨

More skin to cover?

[Luv2play]

2 hours ago, sync said:

I remember when automatic transmissions were a wonder.

Yikes!

You must be very old. My grandmother drove cars from the 1920's till her death during WWII. All were standard gearshift and the early ones did not have syncromesh.

I have a letter of hers describing her first drive in a Cadillac that had automatic transmission in 1942. Unfortunately she died before she could get one for herself.

Edited May 21, 2022 by Luv2play

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19 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

You must be very old. My grandmother drove cars from the 1920's till her death during WWII. All were standard gearshift and the early ones did not have syncromesh.

I have a letter of hers describing her first drive in a Cadillac that had automatic transmission in 1942. Unfortunately she died before she could get one for herself.

Your grandmother's dream car had an automatic transmission of sorts, but it was General Motors' 1948 Oldsmobile that was equipped with their first true automatic transmission.

It wasn't until 1969 that General Motors' Turbo Hydra-Matic ignited automatic transmission technology.

I became aware of the technology from one of our neighbor's 1950's Chevrolet equipped with GM's Powerglide transmission (smoooooth).

Transmission History Basics | Mister Transmission

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58 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

More skin to cover?

The voice of experience?  😄

[Guest]

11 hours ago, WilliamM said:

You have a lot to learn, my friend.

You may have a lot of experience with drugs in the 6th grade and beyond, but look where it got you... 😜

[Rudynate]

6 hours ago, sync said:

Your grandmother's dream car had an automatic transmission of sorts, but it was General Motors' 1948 Oldsmobile that was equipped with their first true automatic transmission.

It wasn't until 1969 that General Motors' Turbo Hydra-Matic ignited automatic transmission technology.

I became aware of the technology from one of our neighbor's 1950's Chevrolet equipped with GM's Powerglide transmission (smoooooth).

Transmission History Basics | Mister Transmission

We had a '62 Ford station wagon that had an automatic transmission.   My mother had a lot of difficulty getting used to it.  She just couldn't get used to not having a clutch and not shifting between gears.

[+ Charlie]

4 minutes ago, Rudynate said:

We had a '62 Ford station wagon that had an automatic transmission.   My mother had a lot of difficulty getting used to it.  She just couldn't get used to not having a clutch and not shifting between gears.

My father started driving in 1924; he got his first car with automatic transmission in 1958. I don't remember him having any difficulty adjusting to it. After all, he had already adjusted to not using a hand crank to start the car. I do remember him having a hard time adjusting to having a gear shift on the steering column instead of the floor, in our 1947 Pontiac.

[+ WilliamM]

1 hour ago, Unicorn said:

You may have a lot of experience with drugs in the 6th grade and beyond, but look where it got you... 😜

I played Ed Norton in a six grade take off onThe Honeymooners. I also wrote the script on my own. The teacher had such confidence in me that she never asked how I was doing.

We ran out of the script and the audience said, keep going, even if you have to make it up.

[+ sync]

I remember when divorce was spoken only in whispers, now it's one of the potent drivers of mainstream and social media.