Remember when all you had to worry about was catching the Chicken Pox?
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Remember when all you had to worry about was catching the Chicken Pox?
Marv, I was watching the news last week and they were saying that the "older population" was at most risk from COVID-19. I was thinking that was cool until I realized that I'm probably part of the older population.
Remember when you saw gray haired people and they were your grandparents and great aunts and uncles and not your friends?
Haaaaaaaaaa.me too,now they call me-grampa-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh what happened???
Hey remember those old headboards with the sliding doors that our folks had back in the day? I don't know why i thought of that oh well just nastalgia i guess.
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What's nastalgia??? Is that nasty memories that you LIKE???
What is a "headboard"??? Where I come from, a headboard is the wood board at top of the bed [[side where the pillows and the sleeper's head lies [[either connected or not to the entire wood or metal bed frame [[not connected to a metal one). I don't see how THAT kind of headbord can have sliding doors.
Haaaaaaaa,robb where i grew up there were headboards that were attached to the bed that had sliding door,where things were stored,in all this conversation here i'm surprised that nobody mentioned one.
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Wow! In Europe the rooms for normal middle and upper middle class families are small, so they usually have the bed headboard against a wall. The wood bed frames may have drawers under the bed, but they almost always fill the whole length of the bed, and open from the side of the bed. That's where the linens [[comforter covers) and blankets are kept. In my many years in Canada and USA, I've NEVER seen drawers in a headboard. Are you sure you didn't mean "bedframe", which includes the boards under the mattress, and all 4 sides of the bed? The "headboard is just the board that goes behind the sleepers' heads, and is generally higher than the foot board.
Thanks marv,you so good at showing these things,would you have a pic of one so our brother robb can see it?
Remember when we could go to the park and have picnics with lots of folks,seems like just a couple weeks ago!!
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Remember these turtles you could buy at places like Woolworth's?
I think they finally banned that. I would hope so. I think they carried
salmonella.
Awww poor little snappy!
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JoAnne Worley was smoking hot! Little boy crush!
Makes me thing about how my dad bought a satellite dish about six months after I moved out of the house. That thing was probably seven feet across and pulled in feeds from all over the world. I was mad because if he'd bought it earlier, I would never have left. To make it worse, my big brother moved home from California and got my bedroom AND the benefit of watching every basketball and baseball game [[in addition to all of the country's superstations) that I missed out on. C'est la vie.
My folks had to pay somebody to come salvage and remove that thing about 10 years ago. It was obsolete since all of the satellites began encrypting their feeds. I guess using the little dish from Directv and paying a monthly fee was more economically sound than paying some guy $100 or so every month or so when their box got scrambled again.
Jerry, we always had rooftop antennas when I was growing up until I got to Jr. High. That's when my father got one of those antenna towers that go up from the ground past the roof of the house. The tower was connected to the TV and to a control box inside. You could turn the antenna in the direction you wanted just by turning the dial on the box. I had to use it most when it would get late if I wanted certain Canadian tv channels. That tower still stand behind my mother's house near her driveway.
Wish I had a good antenna right now. Since Congress made all stations go digital, I can't get all of the broadcast channels on my downstairs TV. If I adjust the antenna to get some, I lose others. We have six network TV stations but each of them has low def subsidiaries. I call it Poor Man's Cable because we have 37 channels that we don't need cable to get.
I know what you're going through Jerry. I remember back to when I first moved to Long Island. I wanted to see if I could get away without ordering cable. I had a good-sized indoor antenna I bought from Radio Shack. By coincidence, there was a television broadcast tower right across the highway from me. Even with my antenna, I got zilch in the way of broadcasts. I had no choice but to order cable. I never thought the day would come where we had to pay to watch TV. The cable companies have been so rich and so arrogant that they act like the utilities do.
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We finally have a photo of a headboard with shelves and drawers built in. OldiesNusicFan sent it to me to upload:
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I've seen those before, but I would never have called it a "headboard". To me, a headboard is a flat board that is placed between the sleeper's head and keeps him or her from hitting his/her head on the hard wall. This looks like a shelf placed behind a bed.
I'm good though. I cut the cord over 20 years ago and with my streaming devices, I'm accessing most cable channels and getting content from all of the major streaming services for free. Curiously, it's the "free" TV that I have trouble watching through broadcast and the paid TV that I find it easier to get through the internet.
Way to go robb,way to go!!