Show Your Age!
The following list is for "a mature audience" names of devices long ago. Do you remember them. Post one reply per person por favor unless responses run out of steam. Explain what each phrase or name m...
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wing_zealot wrote:
I was just thinking about this the other day, not a car thing but it is "showing your age". When I was a kid you use to hear the sonic boom from jets breaking the sound barrier all the time. I probably haven't heard that in 50 years. I'm sure in some locales, due to special circumstances, folks may still hear it from time to time. But when I was a kid it was pretty common.
When I was young, I used to see the Navy Blimps from Lakehurst, NJ, headed out on Submarine Patrol and returning later on. We used to wave to the crews!
I lived on Staten Island at the time.... oh yeah, I remember the Searchlights searching the sky for enemy planes every night.
