I Officially Feel Old

Check this craigslist posting, obviously from someone a whole lot younger than I am, who doesn't know that an "8mm Video/Reel Player" is called a "projector". Sigh.

I've been looking through some boxes of stuff from my mom's condo tonight, and came across a 1974 S&H Green Stamps catalog.

When I looked through the catalog, there was something on nearly every single page that either we owned, or someone I knew owned. In many cases, we still have the items somewhere in my mom's condo either packed up or waiting to be packed.

Also...last weekend my hubby wanted to go take a stroll through an antique mall. I love antiques. But I had the same experience as in the Green Stamps catalog -- I kept saying "OMG, I had that!" or "OMG, my grandma had that."

Now...you KNOW you're getting old when you go to the history museum and some of the stuff on display is just like the one you had as a kid. In a MUSEUM. (sigh)

What is that thing? Some kind of freaky cyclops transformer something? Does it hook up to the internet? Wow, that just gives me the creeps.

I remember when my parents got one. They still have some of my old soccer games on 8mm. It's pretty comical because of the lurchy speed.

I can't remember what I use to have . . . spent too much time sniffing that purple mimeograph ink . . .

As a Radio-TV-Film major, we were required to do several projects on old Super8 cameras. They told us this was to build our experiences with film from the ground up, as well as to teach us how to be creative when we couldn't have fancy things like sound in our movies... but really, it was because they had all this old equipment lying around and weren't going to let us use the expensive digital video cameras.

Juniper;504497 wrote:

I've been looking through some boxes of stuff from my mom's condo tonight, and came across a 1974 S&H Green Stamps catalog.

Oh oh oh, order me a "Big Beam" light! The one that takes a 6 volt battery, has a red enamel paint job, and a flashing red light at the back end of the handle. Take me back...:drool:

Wait... 1974? shucks. By then they were probably plastic, if they even had them any more. Drat. :(

lookout123;504500 wrote:

I remember when my parents got one. They still have some of my old soccer games on 8mm. It's pretty comical because of the lurchy speed.

We just got all my parents' 8mm home movies transferred to DVD. There were a TON of them, and it's so much fun to watch.

Bruce -- LOL, I'm thinking about scanning that catalog and posting it on the web just for nostalgic grins, whaddaya think?

I've got a bunch of old Woman's Day, Family Circle, and a few BH&G from 1973-1980, too. Wow.

In a friend's family's garage I saw some 1950s Reader's Digests.

I mostly remember the add for chlorine .... to paraphrase (very loosely):

This 4 mile irrigation pipe was blocked with weeds and algae. The technicians from XXXX company added pure chlorine until saturation level was reached, and now the pipe flows clear and smooth. Chlorine, wonder chemical of the modern era - also a crucial component of the new insecticide DDT! Safe and effective!


Errrrrrrmmmm.....

Holy shit.:eek:

Results 1 - 10 of about 276,000 for S & H green stamp catalog

xoxoxoBruce;504510 wrote:

Oh oh oh, order me a "Big Beam" light! The one that takes a 6 volt battery, has a red enamel paint job, and a flashing red light at the back end of the handle. Take me back...:drool:

Wait... 1974? shucks. By then they were probably plastic, if they even had them any more. Drat. :(

I'm sorry it can't be less virtual, but...

I've got a erection. :joylove:

xoxoxoBruce;504617 wrote:

I've got a erection. :joylove:

Does it have a red flashing light on the end?

No, but the light on the back end of the handle folds up and down the same way.

I have a great really old radio that has tubes and it still works. Takes about 3 min to warm up and it is am only, wooden box style desk top about 12x8x8 (LHW)

I will have to take a pic of it. It was at my great uncles house in Gotebo Oklahoma when I got it as a kid.

regular8, not even Super8 /oldenough2byurgranddad

My sister has our family collection of 8mm reels of us as kids.
It might be interesting to see those again.

There are companies that convert 8mm to digital for a high fee.

years ago I set up our camcorder on a tripod, aimed it at the screen, and played all the family's old super 8 movies. I filled two videotapes. Then years after that, my brother converted those VHS tapes to DVD.

I wonder if my parents still have a working projector and if the reels are in decent shape? I bet my digital camera would make a better transfer than the VHS tapes were.

Aaah. You should watch them on the projector, it's just not the same...I like projectors. I wish I had a working one, of any age.

That would be the fun of doing another transfer. I'd get to watch them on the projector again while I was doing it.

barefoot serpent;505142 wrote:

regular8, not even Super8 /oldenough2byurgranddad

Duh! There's no Y in oldenough2burgranddad . You old folks, tring to act cool, so lame...

Mind you, oldenough2burygranddad works. :p

ZenGum;504520 wrote:

In a friend's family's garage I saw some 1950s Reader's Digests.

I mostly remember the add for chlorine .... to paraphrase (very loosely):

This 4 mile irrigation pipe was blocked with weeds and algae. The technicians from XXXX company added pure chlorine until saturation level was reached, and now the pipe flows clear and smooth. Chlorine, wonder chemical of the modern era - also a crucial component of the new insecticide DDT! Safe and effective!


Errrrrrrmmmm.....

Popular Science mag (1939): Have Fun With Quicksilver

"Mercury, the Liquid Mystery Metal, Offers a Fascinating Field of Experiment to Amateur-Chemistry Enthusiasts ...."

Scaaary! :eek:


Edit: Apropos de "chlorine", there is more: Fun with the halogens

" .... Uniting bromine with hydrogen yields hydrogen bromide, or hydrobromic acid just as chlorine and hydrogen form hydrogen chloride, or hydrochloric acid. Hydrobromic acid reacts with substances to form bromides, as does its better-known relative, hydrochloric acid, to form chlorides.
...
To make hydrogen bromide, place a half ounce of potassium bromide or sodium bromide in an Erlenmeyer flask or a retort, with a capacity of sixty to 200 cubic centimeters (two to seven fluid ounces). Cover the chemical to a depth of an eighth of an inch or so with strong phosphoric acid, which you can buy at any drug store under the name of eighty-five-percent, or sirupy, phosphoric acid. ...."

Juniper;504497 wrote:

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Now...you KNOW you're getting old when you go to the history museum and some of the stuff on display is just like the one you had as a kid. In a MUSEUM. (sigh)

Happened to me a few years ago. There was a display of kitchen utensils hardly anyone alive would recognize, some of which I have actually used myself at my grandmother's. :D

Also I took some of my grandfather's collection of 1932+1936 Olympics picture albums to the antique shop only a few weeks ago.