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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 20, 2018 14:44:21 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten
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Post by mga707 on Dec 20, 2018 15:05:39 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten Eh, 'five and ten', dollar store, same concept...
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Post by Hervard on Dec 20, 2018 16:28:25 GMT -5
^In the same vein, Bryan Adams mentioned the five and dime where he bought his first real six string.
(Forgive me if this has already been pointed out elsewhere in this thread)
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Post by slf on Dec 20, 2018 19:15:01 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten An even more anachronistic line from that song is "A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots is the hope of Bobby and Ben." For not just one but two reasons: 1. "Hopalong" refers to the popular movie cowboy Hopalong Cassidy from the '30's and '40's (played by the late actor William Boyd). There are probably few people younger than age fifty who have even heard of him. 2. Furthermore, the whole idea of a little boy wishing for an actual GUN THAT SHOOTS as a gift would be enough to send the PC crowd into a traumatic frenzy. Child Protective Services would yank that kid out of his home, perform a psychiatric evaluation on him, and then prescribe him Ritalin. (Yet, ironically, back when that song was first a hit, we DIDN'T have school shootings. Go figure.)
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Post by mga707 on Dec 20, 2018 20:39:52 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten An even more anachronistic line from that song is "A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots is the hope of Bobby and Ben." For not just one but two reasons: 1. "Hopalong" refers to the popular movie cowboy Hopalong Cassidy from the '30's and '40's (played by the late actor William Boyd). There are probably few people younger than age fifty who have even heard of him. 2. Furthermore, the whole idea of a little boy wishing for an actual GUN THAT SHOOTS as a gift would be enough to send the PC crowd into a traumatic frenzy. Child Protective Services would yank that kid out of his home, perform a psychiatric evaluation on him, and then prescribe him Ritalin. (Yet, ironically, back when that song was first a hit, we DIDN'T have school shootings. Go figure.) The "Hopalong Cassidy" movie serials from the '30s/'40s got a second life in the 1950s--they offered to TV stations in hour-long increments and became wildly popular as afternoon/after school programming for children. Ol' 'Hopalong' was one of the main precursors to the 'western boom' on prime-time TV in the late '50s and early '60s. He was TV's first big 'cowboy star'.
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Post by DJ Particle on Dec 21, 2018 13:49:47 GMT -5
Don’t think this has been mentioned yet, In "Crazy About Her" Rod Stewart mentions the now obsolete Walkman. I see her jogging in Central Park, with one of those Walkman’s on her head She was hot,young and beautiful And I said to myself She’s destined to be mine Not as obsolete as you may think. Whereas the last cassette Walkman rolled off the lines in 2010, Sony still uses the name to sell digital music players. www.sony.com/electronics/walkman-digital-music-players/t/walkman
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Post by chrislc on Dec 21, 2018 22:08:15 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten An even more anachronistic line from that song is "A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots is the hope of Bobby and Ben." For not just one but two reasons: 1. "Hopalong" refers to the popular movie cowboy Hopalong Cassidy from the '30's and '40's (played by the late actor William Boyd). There are probably few people younger than age fifty who have even heard of him. 2. Furthermore, the whole idea of a little boy wishing for an actual GUN THAT SHOOTS as a gift would be enough to send the PC crowd into a traumatic frenzy. Child Protective Services would yank that kid out of his home, perform a psychiatric evaluation on him, and then prescribe him Ritalin. (Yet, ironically, back when that song was first a hit, we DIDN'T have school shootings. Go figure.) And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again. I'm surprised more people haven't voiced offense at that in an age when Rudolph and Baby It's Cold Outside are being criticized.
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Post by bobbo428 on Dec 22, 2018 22:13:01 GMT -5
Forty-five years ago next week, Jim Stafford entered the top 40 with "Spiders and Snakes," where he mentioned "I call her up when I've got a dime"
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Post by bobbo428 on Dec 22, 2018 22:14:47 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten However, in a decade or so, dollar stores may eventually become "Five-and-Ten" (as in $5 and $10). I was just telling a friend that the phrase "dollar store" is a bit of a misnomer already. LOL.
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Post by DJ Particle on Dec 22, 2018 22:17:32 GMT -5
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmas: Everywhere you go take a look in the five-and-ten However, in a decade or so, dollar stores may eventually become "Five-and-Ten" (as in $5 and $10). I was just telling a friend that the phrase "dollar store" is a bit of a misnomer already. LOL. You're not far off...ever hear of a chain of shops called "Five Below"?
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Post by bobbo428 on Dec 22, 2018 22:20:45 GMT -5
No, not yet--around here we have Dollar Generals and Dollar Trees. The Family Dollars and the Dollar Bazaars, which used to be in our area in the '90s and 2000s, must have gone defunct.
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Post by Michael1973 on Feb 15, 2019 11:57:15 GMT -5
From the song "I Wish The Phone Would Ring" by Expose...
"Can't go anywhere at all. So afraid I'll miss your call."
Try explaining that to a present-day teenager...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 1, 2019 12:26:16 GMT -5
Energy Crisis '74 mentions King Faisal and Golda Meir
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Post by chrislc on Mar 1, 2019 22:31:58 GMT -5
Carole King in Hard Rock Cafe
You can always sit down and watch the color TV
Color. Wow.
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Post by palmer7 on Mar 2, 2019 1:58:01 GMT -5
"I got a little change in my pocket, going jing-a-ling-a-liiiiiiiiiiiing"
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