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Post by sittingduck on Jan 23, 2019 14:51:40 GMT -6
I'm 62... not the oldest, thank goodness! Hey, watch that.  Now, I remember duck and cover from elementary school. Ich!! Half way to 130... going downhill and the grade's gettin' steeper and steeper. Party Line telephones, Sonic Booms, all those different styles of Coke Machines. Heck, I remember General James Longstreet's wife's death being on the 6:00 news (I was nine)! |
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 23, 2019 15:58:46 GMT -6
Hey, watch that. Now, I remember duck and cover from elementary school. Ich!! Half way to 130... going downhill and the grade's gettin' steeper and steeper. Party Line telephones, Sonic Booms, all those different styles of Coke Machines. Heck, I remember General James Longstreet's wife's death being on the 6:00 news (I was nine)! aHH yes, party lines. My grandmother and mother would go into high speed Italian when they wanted to talk about someone, on the party lines. I also remember sonic booms and the heavy guns on Point Loma being tested every Monday. I also remember the air raid siren tests on the same day. I also remember the ferry to Coronado and the Nickel Snatcher used to get employees to North Island. Fond memories of a time not forgotten. I remember going to the Sky Room on the El Cortez and all the tuna boats in the bay. |
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Post by sittingduck on Jan 23, 2019 16:23:05 GMT -6
Half way to 130... going downhill and the grade's gettin' steeper and steeper. Party Line telephones, Sonic Booms, all those different styles of Coke Machines. Heck, I remember General James Longstreet's wife's death being on the 6:00 news (I was nine)! aHH yes, party lines. My grandmother and mother would go into high speed Italian when they wanted to talk about someone, on the party lines. I also remember sonic booms and the heavy guns on Point Loma being tested every Monday. I also remember the air raid siren tests on the same day. I also remember the ferry to Coronado and the Nickel Snatcher used to get employees to North Island. Fond memories of a time not forgotten. I remember going to the Sky Room on the El Cortez and all the tuna boats in the bay. I was in the backyard playing when what turned out to be the F-111 was showing off at Wright-Pat. Navy colors, light grey, white nose and control sufaces. Swept wing would scissor out as it turned back to Dayton, and then back to full sweep as it dashed back. Maybe four passes. Dad didn't believe me at dinner that night. What I miss most are the stars. Could be out at night and see the Milky Way. On the other hand, who would have dreamed about the phone I'm using in my hand right now. |
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 23, 2019 17:05:32 GMT -6
aHH yes, party lines. My grandmother and mother would go into high speed Italian when they wanted to talk about someone, on the party lines. I also remember sonic booms and the heavy guns on Point Loma being tested every Monday. I also remember the air raid siren tests on the same day. I also remember the ferry to Coronado and the Nickel Snatcher used to get employees to North Island. Fond memories of a time not forgotten. I remember going to the Sky Room on the El Cortez and all the tuna boats in the bay. I was in the backyard playing when what turned out to be the F-111 was showing off at Wright-Pat. Navy colors, light grey, white nose and control sufaces. Swept wing would scissor out as it turned back to Dayton, and then back to full sweep as it dashed back. Maybe four passes. Dad didn't believe me at dinner that night. What I miss most are the stars. Could be out at night and see the Milky Way. On the other hand, who would have dreamed about the phone I'm using in my hand right now. I always enjoyed watching that plane fly, it was great. The first USAF squadron used the bombing scoring unit at Fallon NAS to test their skills. Unfortunately, one didn’t make IT and crashed into the ground. We could see the flares at night as they made their runs. The USAF also send a bunch of us NCO’s to Wright-Pat to see the museum, as an airplane nut, I loved that trip. Living near an air base is great, isn’t it? I agree about the stars. In college I used to be the astronomy assistant and I setup the telescopes. I still enjoy looking at the stars, when I can see them. I missed the blood moon here the other night due to overcast. I still research astronomy mainly the ancient astronomy of the SW Indians and the near east. We still see MV-22 Osprey’s, CH-53’s and F-18C/D along with E/F’s from Miramar fly over the house daily. I had to go to Miramar when it was a naval air base to train sailors in the testing of F-14 avionics. I am not a big fan of cell phones because of the safety issues during driving. It is nice to get messages all of the time from my kids, but my wife just uses a flip phone. She isn’t big on phones; retired from AT&T so I understand her problem. A lot of good memories. |
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Post by corsair on Jan 23, 2019 17:57:49 GMT -6
Another 17 here, Found the game through Tortugapower and I loved it ever since. I mostly play Paradox’s grand strategies. Besides Vicky 2, screw that! I'm significantly older than you, and had heard about RTW from a forum I sometimes frequent, but in wanting to know more about the game, I watched Tortugapower's playthroughs of it. I'm an old fart, but I do the YouTube thing a fair amount.  |
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Post by vonfriedman on Jan 24, 2019 3:24:28 GMT -6
I remember taking a look from the windows of the bridge of the old battleship Duilio when I was ten. An impressive sight!
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Post by sittingduck on Jan 24, 2019 11:01:18 GMT -6
I remember taking a look from the windows of the bridge of the old battleship Duilio when I was ten. An impressive sight! Yep. That would have been neat. Before '49 while Duilio was still active? |
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Post by vonfriedman on Jan 24, 2019 12:16:21 GMT -6
I remember taking a look from the windows of the bridge of the old battleship Duilio when I was ten. An impressive sight! Yep. That would have been neat. Before '49 while Duilio was still active? 1948. The view was more or less that of the attached photo. There were no red and white stripes on the forecastle and there were several anti-aircraft machine guns on turret B.  |
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 24, 2019 12:47:53 GMT -6
Yep. That would have been neat. Before '49 while Duilio was still active? 1948. The view was more or less that of the attached photo. There were no red and white stripes on the forecastle and there were several anti-aircraft machine guns on turret B. That would be interesting to see that, I did visit the USS Alabama and the Arizona Memorial. I also visited a WW2 US submarine near the submarine construction base in Groton, Connecticut. I have also visited the USS Midway in our harbor. I worked on the Nimitz, Vinson, Conny, Chicken Hawk and the Ranger. I've been on the USS Constitution also. |
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Post by axe99 on Jan 24, 2019 13:53:25 GMT -6
I remember taking a look from the windows of the bridge of the old battleship Duilio when I was ten. An impressive sight! That is very cool . |
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Post by director on Jan 24, 2019 23:18:02 GMT -6
I remember staying up late to watch Carson's Tonight Show on New Years Eve (I was in junior high school in Arkansas, so no partying). One of the guests had just joked that New Year's Eve was the perfect time for the Soviets to launch a sneak attack... and our power went out. And stayed out. Went outside, looked around - no lights anywhere. Did not soil the couch but I do remember amusement turning to real concern.
The next morning I found out some fool had gone outside a local bar to fire off his pistol at midnight, not noticing the massive power transformer overhead... witnesses said it tried to reset over and over, throwing up balls of fire like a roman candle. The entire southeast quarter of the state went dark as the system collapsed... and the fool got arrested and billed $50,000 for the transformer, which in the 1970s was serious money. No idea if he ever paid - I suspect he wouldn't have earned that in five years or more.
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Post by corsair on Jan 25, 2019 23:16:37 GMT -6
I remember staying up late to watch Carson's Tonight Show on New Years Eve (I was in junior high school in Arkansas, so no partying). One of the guests had just joked that New Year's Eve was the perfect time for the Soviets to launch a sneak attack... I've heard it the opposite way, where a former Soviet officer had said the best time for NATO to launch a sneak attack against Russia was on New Year's Eve, as just about everyone was drunk. |
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Post by director on Jan 25, 2019 23:24:31 GMT -6
corsair - I'm sure more than one person thought of it. I can tell you I spent a good half hour wondering if it had actually happened.
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