TOTALLY GEEKED!

karl271 · Guru

Eat your heart out, folks

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

I can't see the pic!

NAOW · Vette's SS

Me neither :(

jlbear71 · Guru

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I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Ok so when I was 13 or so I could go anywhere and get a hamburg, fries, and a coke for .99

Tangerine · Guru

Wow. Fresh squeezed orange juice sounds awesome.

What is ham salad??

jlbear71 · Guru

Ham salad is similar to chicken or tuna salad. Ham, Mayo, and egg. Maybe some mustard, relish and/or other vegetables like onion or celery.

Tangerine · Guru

Oh. I love tuna salad, but ham?

No, thanks.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

I love ham salad.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Tangerine wrote:
Oh. I love tuna salad, but ham?

No, thanks.

Real Ham, not the lunch meat. It's awesome, possum.

Tangerine · Guru

No. I'm sorry. It just seems like it would be very slimy.
Ham doesn't soak up mayo the way tuna or chicken does.

More for you, right?

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Tangerine wrote:
No. I'm sorry. It just seems like it would be very slimy.
Ham doesn't soak up mayo the way tuna or chicken does.

More for you, right?

You shred the ham. It's fine with the mayo. Yummy!

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

We used to get fresh bagels for .16 cents each.

karl271 · Guru

Thanks jlbear71. I can see the picture; wonder why others could not?? The computer age is just not for me, I guess.

ed11563 · Guru

oops, duplicate

-- Edited by ed11563 on Wednesday 7th of September 2016 09:45:14 PM

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

As a teenager, for $20 each, my friends and I could spend an entire Saturday at a local amusement park. Admission, unlimited rides, eat well, play games, and have a little left over.

Now, admission and unlimited rides are $40.

Forget anything else.

WYSIWYG · Guru

As a teenager, for $20 each, my friends and I could spend an entire Saturday at a local amusement park. Admission, unlimited rides, eat well, play games, and have a little left over.

Now, admission and unlimited rides are $40.

Forget anything else.
- lilyofcourse

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$40? Not any good parks.

Disney is $105 per person for one day. And that doesn't count parking fees. Also, that's just for the Magic Kingdom. If you want to try and squeeze Epcot into the day as well, a "Park Hopper" is $155.

(just checked their website disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets/, for a ticket, for tomorrow)

That's also the "before taxes" price, so add an additional 6%(? that's the base rate, I don't know if there are any local option taxes that would raise it) for taxes.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

WYSIWYG wrote:
As a teenager, for $20 each, my friends and I could spend an entire Saturday at a local amusement park. Admission, unlimited rides, eat well, play games, and have a little left over.

Now, admission and unlimited rides are $40.

Forget anything else.
- lilyofcourse

________________________________________

$40? Not any good parks.

Disney is $105 per person for one day. And that doesn't count parking fees. Also, that's just for the Magic Kingdom. If you want to try and squeeze Epcot into the day as well, a "Park Hopper" is $155.

(just checked their website disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets/, for a ticket, for tomorrow)

That's also the "before taxes" price, so add an additional 6%(? that's the base rate, I don't know if there are any local option taxes that would raise it) for taxes.

This is an awesome park.

It began as a picnic spot over a century ago.

It has developed into what it is today over the years.

No. It isn't a big theme park.

But it's still a good value for family entertainment.

Here. A little history of the place.

In 1924, Carl and Minette Dixon purchased approximately 100 acres (40 ha) surrounding a 9-acre (3.6 ha) lake in Rossville, Georgia. They opened the park on May 30, 1925, entertaining over 5,000 visitors with amenities for boating, fishing, and picnicking. It was named Lake Winnepesaukah in reference to a Native American word that means “bountiful waters” or “beautiful lake of the highlands”. The following year, they opened a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m²) swimming pool, the largest in the southeastern United States at the time. Carl Dixon later designed a mill chuteattraction which began construction in the winter of 1926 and opened as Boat Chute in 1927. The National Amusement Park Historical Association (NAPHA) considers it the oldest operating mill chute in the United States.^[1]^[2]

In the 1940s and 1950s, several flat rides were added to the park, and in the 1960s, the first roller coasters appeared beginning with Mad Mouse in 1960 and a John C. Allen wooden roller coaster called Cannon Ball in 1967. In the 21st century, the park saw the addition of modern thrill rides such as the drop tower ride OH-Zone! and a compact, looping roller coaster called Fire Ball. The latest addition is the park's SoakYa water park, a 5-acre (2.0 ha) expansion that debuted in 2013.^[1]^[3]

TrudyML · Guru

Tangerine wrote:
Wow. Fresh squeezed orange juice sounds awesome.

What is ham salad??

Jeez, I have a tub of it in the fridge. Gag. He made it with Spam! I laugh everytime I open the door. WTF

Ohfour · Hooker

Kennywood...I just love that place. Season tickets are $125 and you can bring in your own food. It's also very clean and I've never been there when it's crazy crowded...

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Where is Kennywood?

Only the big parks are crazy expensive. Many of the smaller parks owned by Cedar Fair are about $40 to get in.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

I like ham salad every now & then. I make it with mayo & sweet relish. I accidentally used dill relish once & it made it so salty it was inedible. Chicken salad I could eat almost every day & not get tired of it.

FNW · Guru

Ham salad...isn't it like that underwood devil spread? Gag. My brother used to love that stuff growing up.

Amusement parks are so expensive these days. And I don't know about anywhere else, but the ones around here then decide to put in all these arcade stands everywhere, enticing kids to spend even more money trying to "win" a big stuffed animal. Save that crap for the county fair. I hate it.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

From 1977-78 to around 1986ish, it was 2.75 to skate all day on Saturday at Roller Disco.

A movie was 4.25.

Arcade games were a quarter.

McDonald's cheeseburgers were about .20.

Nikes were less than half what they cost now.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

1986

Economy

President:	Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President:	George Bush
Population:	240,132,887
Life expectancy:	74.7 years
Dow-Jones
High:	1,955
Low:	1,502
Federal spending:	$990.34 billion
Federal debt:	$2120.6 billion
Inflation:	1.9%
Consumer Price Index:	109.6
Unemployment:	7.2%

Prices

Cost of a new home:	$111,900.00
Cost of a new car:	$
Median Household Income:	$24,897.00
Cost of a first-class stamp:	$0.22
Cost of a gallon of regular gas:	$0.93
Cost of a dozen eggs:	$0.87
Cost of a gallon of Milk:	$2.22

-- Edited by lilyofcourse on Thursday 8th of September 2016 01:29:31 PM

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

I like the phrase 'dippers of ice cream'

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

1970

Economy

President:	Richard M. Nixon
Vice President:	Spiro T. Agnew
Population:	207,660,677
Life expectancy:	71.1 years
Dow-Jones
High:	950
Low:	790
Federal spending:	$210.17 billion
Federal debt:	$408.2 billion
Inflation:	5.7%
Consumer Price Index:	40.5
Unemployment:	4.9%

Prices

Cost of a new home:	$28,300.00
Cost of a new car:	$
Median Household Income:	$9,028.00
Cost of a first-class stamp:	$0.06 ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas:	$0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs:	$0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk:	$1.18

FNW · Guru

When I first started working full-time, sometime around 1981 or 1982, I used to go to the $.10 hamburger stand for lunch.

Momala · Great cook-happy wife-superb fisherman

FNW ~
Nooooooooo! Underwood ham spread is like a pate (sort of like mushed up
liverwurst). Yuck.
Ham salad is real ham, diced/minced finely, with a little mayo and maybe
some relish. No where near Underwood spread.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

First job I was paid 4.15 an hour.

I was 16 and thought I was rich.

Divine Geek · Guru

Lawyerlady wrote:
Where is Kennywood?

Only the big parks are crazy expensive. Many of the smaller parks owned by Cedar Fair are about $40 to get in.

Outside Pittsburgh.

karl271 · Guru

FNW wrote:
When I first started working full-time, sometime around 1981 or 1982, I used to go to the $.10 hamburger stand for lunch.

Was that White Castle by any chance. "Gut burgers" as I recall some people called them.

FNW · Guru

No, I didn't hear of White Castle until I moved back East. This was a hamburger stand in Irwindale, CA when I worked out there for a savings & loan.

WYSIWYG · Guru

Thank you for the information, lilyofcourse and Lawyerlady. I was unaware that the little parks were even still around. I thought that they'd all pretty much died. Either that or I thought that the survivors had been bought up and expanded into mega-parks themselves.