09-25-2007, 09:23 PM
I love old newspapers, funny how in this one the prices haven't changed much, but the wages have.
whatever happened to Tandy?
whatever happened to Tandy?
09-25-2007, 09:37 PM
09-25-2007, 11:11 PM
09-27-2007, 12:38 PM
tenaciouscj Wrote:
Oh bum! I don't know why the picture won't come up on the screen.
Your missing a [ at the beginning.
It's classic how the boss offers Smith a cigarette (from a fancy tin, no less), and later the doctor is smoking a pipe.
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Mum sent me an English Women's Weekly from 1953 and I must take photos of some of the pages because there are some really interesting ads for various products such as teething gels, deodorant soaps, home permanents and so on.
I wonder what people will think of today's ads 54 years from now.
09-28-2007, 12:04 AM
GuessWho Wrote:
1994 was a very good year. I was in semesters 2 and 3 of grad school, made Alpha Kappa Delta honorary society in sociology, some friends got married, one on the day Shoemaker-Levy Nine hit Jupiter, etc.
Oh wow, thank you Electric Dragon & GuessWho! Here I was feeling left out, you see, I did not read many papers in 1994 because I was nine (until the September) 
I remember being at an 'Adventure Playground' that my parents took me to during the summer holidays, because they worked and the playground was designed for looking after youngsters.
I was speaking with some other kids about Shoemaker-Levy Nine (I would not have remembered the name, but presumably not many non-terrestrial* bodies have hit Jupiter , they were brothers. They had heard that the exact day it was going to hit Jupiter was "like having a baby, you can't predict it exactly".
I disliked the unpridictability of that statement, and at the time believed that modern science knew everything (I was nine at the time) so I argued with them that scientists had very acurate telescopes and that we could 'do the Maths' by mesuring how far it was and what speed it was going at.
I would be interested to know if I was right, and that we could predict it to within a few minuetes at the time, and if not, could we do that now? I have to admit, I could well have been wrong, I had a very poor education overall at that point in my life anyway (accept what my parants taught me).
You have both bought back some good memories for me, and I am greatful for that. I thought this thread was a joke at first because I am tired and drinking lager, and missread the title as 'Going back to 1994...'
*by non-terestrial, I mean not terestrial to jupiter. Is that the correct term? I was going to put extra terestrial, but that just bought back images of pointy fingers!
09-30-2007, 01:59 PM
Neo Wrote:
You have both bought back some good memories for me, and I am greatful for that. I thought this thread was a joke at first because I am tired and drinking lager, and missread the title as 'Going back to 1994...'
I meant to write:
I thought this thread was a joke at first because I am tired and drinking lager, and missread the title as 'Going back to 1944...
Then I saw the newspaper images and thought, they could not be from 1944 because they have pictures of SKY TV and mobile phones, lol 
09-30-2007, 02:24 PM