Nostalgia Lane

[Brucex]

The original personal database:

I summarised all my degree on to index cards as a way of revising for finals. I still have it and the boxes of cards with summaries of all the references for my PhD. Absolutely no use to me or anyone else now but I can't bear to put them in the paper recycling bin because of the sheer amount of effort I put into making them.

Edited May 15 by Brucex

[Horace12]

37 minutes ago, Brucex said:

The original personal database:

I summarised all my degree on to index cards as a way of revising for finals. I still have it and the boxes of cards with summaries of all the references for my PhD. Absolutely no use to me or anyone else now but I can't bear to put them in the paper recycling bin because of the sheer amount of effort I put into making them.

I can relate to that.  Had a very similar card index from work on my dissertation, but I discarded them some years back when space in the office became a premium.  Students these days have it so easy with digital advancements.  I used to stay up all night typing term papers in graduate school from hand-written drafts.  God, the hours it took!

[cdadbr]

2 hours ago, Brucex said:

The original personal database:

I summarised all my degree on to index cards as a way of revising for finals. I still have it and the boxes of cards with summaries of all the references for my PhD. Absolutely no use to me or anyone else now but I can't bear to put them in the paper recycling bin because of the sheer amount of effort I put into making them.

Card files and Rolodexes were important for many things, back then.  No worry about power outages or hardware crashes.  Always reliable and portable.  I have piles of magazines for my hobby and later work activities.  Nobody understands why I kept them, but there were MY database and reference for many years.  Now, they'd be termed a "fire hazard".  How times have changed!  LOTS of memories as I look back through them!

[JackFTwist]

13 hours ago, Brucex said:

The original personal database:

I summarised all my degree on to index cards as a way of revising for finals. I still have it and the boxes of cards with summaries of all the references for my PhD. Absolutely no use to me or anyone else now but I can't bear to put them in the paper recycling bin because of the sheer amount of effort I put into making them.

13 hours ago, Horace12 said:

I can relate to that.  Had a very similar card index from work on my dissertation, but I discarded them some years back when space in the office became a premium.  Students these days have it so easy with digital advancements.  I used to stay up all night typing term papers in graduate school from hand-written drafts.  God, the hours it took!

Same here.  I still have my 5 ½" x 8" note cards and 3" x 5" bibliography cards for my dissertation, the computer cards with all my basic data, the final printouts of the statistical analyses that I used in the text (printed on the standard 14 ⅞" x 11", 132-column green-bar paper with perforated sides), and my final draft of the text.  As @Brucex said, the sheer amount of time and work that they represent makes me unable to part with them.  They'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.  I wonder if they could be put in my coffin with me? 🤔 

 

Edited May 16 by JackFTwist

[Steve]

[smokeshadow]

16 hours ago, Brucex said:

The original personal database:

I summarised all my degree on to index cards as a way of revising for finals. I still have it and the boxes of cards with summaries of all the references for my PhD. Absolutely no use to me or anyone else now but I can't bear to put them in the paper recycling bin because of the sheer amount of effort I put into making them.

those individual indexes were on par with prehistoric Google 

 

 

[Kawika]

In early May in 1970... MGM auctioned off practically everything on the lot... the costumes were what interested me most... I met Debbie Reynolds... nice lady and boy did she have plans... I wrote about it here Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

[Ogrebeast64]

On 5/10/2024 at 4:14 PM, Sk8rDipity said:

70's Haircutting Guide

I notice that the infamous "Bowl Cut" isn't on there. 🤪

[mac0ck]

On 5/7/2024 at 4:07 PM, Kawika said:

I didn't have this but it seems like I knew a lot of people in college who did...

I know of someone who had a similar image, but it was a reddish maroon colored image on the plate.
He said he got them when a youth back in the 1960's or before from the First National stores as so much a plate each week.  He was getting plates for a home and marriage that never happened.
But the set reminded him of his uncles farm (all males on the dairy farm) and so he liked the set (and them).

[mac0ck]

12 hours ago, smokeshadow said:

those individual indexes were on par with prehistoric Google 

 

 

The same thing happened as when using a search engine.  You search for one subject and something else looks interesting and soon you have spent 4 hours on something else and never got to look up the thing you were after.  But sometimes those other topics were really hot, like on the internet.  

[Ricattatore]

2 hours ago, mac0ck said:

The same thing happened as when using a search engine.  You search for one subject and something else looks interesting and soon you have spent 4 hours on something else and never got to look up the thing you were after.  But sometimes those other topics were really hot, like on the internet.  

This always happened to me when I was looking for something in an encyclopedia.

[smokeshadow]

2 hours ago, mac0ck said:

The same thing happened as when using a search engine.  You search for one subject and something else looks interesting and soon you have spent 4 hours on something else and never got to look up the thing you were after.  But sometimes those other topics were really hot, like on the internet.  

My late Mother treated the family encyclopedia like that.  She'd pull out a volume to read about something; then, at the end of the article would be those words "For further information, see:" with a list of other subjects.  I'd go home for a visit and find 8 or 10 volumes of the encyclopedia spread out of the sofa 

[mac0ck]

On 5/15/2024 at 10:52 PM, smokeshadow said:

those individual indexes were on par with prehistoric Google 

 

 

Remember the narrow ones for index cards from research in books you fond in a library while doing research papers?

 

[lowserotonin]

On 5/7/2024 at 11:08 PM, Ludwick said:

My husband has a set of similar dishes from his grandmother. Made by Royal, in the U.S.A. - though pieces aren't always marked, even within the same set. Apparently they were also sold through other outlets, like Sears.

In Albany NY in the '60s they were also sold by the A & P grocery line (formerly:  Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) as a weekly special & my mother bought the entire set of settings & stupid extras like a sugar bowl etc. etc. and I was terribly embarrased by this banal crockery - life, I thought should have more to offer than picturesque etchings of New England & its primitive ways

 

[mac0ck]

On 5/16/2024 at 2:38 PM, smokeshadow said:

My late Mother treated the family encyclopedia like that.  She'd pull out a volume to read about something; then, at the end of the article would be those words "For further information, see:" with a list of other subjects.  I'd go home for a visit and find 8 or 10 volumes of the encyclopedia spread out of the sofa 

I think I love your late Mother, a searcher fro knowledge.

 

[mac0ck]

On 5/15/2024 at 4:41 PM, JackFTwist said:

Same here.  I still have my 5 ½" x 8" note cards and 3" x 5" bibliography cards for my dissertation, the computer cards with all my basic data, the final printouts of the statistical analyses that I used in the text (printed on the standard 14 ⅞" x 11", 132-column green-bar paper with perforated sides), and my final draft of the text.  As @Brucex said, the sheer amount of time and work that they represent makes me unable to part with them.  They'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.  I wonder if they could be put in my coffin with me? 🤔 

 

Dot Matrix computer printer.  My friend had me come down to his college and he had saved up computer time, he thought he had enough time but he did not.   We printed out a playboy bunny starting from the head with characters to make it look good from a distance. 
But we ran out of time about half way through her ankles..

But we were happy we got that much and I think he taped it to the inside of his dorm room door.

 

[mac0ck]

52 minutes ago, mac0ck said:

Dot Matrix computer printer.  My friend had me come down to his college and he had saved up computer time, he thought he had enough time but he did not.   We printed out a playboy bunny starting from the head with characters to make it look good from a distance. 
But we ran out of time about half way through her ankles..

But we were happy we got that much and I think he taped it to the inside of his dorm room door.

 

Wow, neat idea.  Put them in the coffin under the layer they put your body on.  If they did you up they will wonder what that was.  Confuse some future archeologists big time.

[smokeshadow]

8 hours ago, mac0ck said:

I think I love your late Mother, a searcher fro knowledge.

 

Well, she was born in 1920, so graduated high school in 1937 (only 11 grades back then); and, loved learning new things throughout her life. . .except how to operate a microwave oven 

Edited May 18 by smokeshadow

[JackFTwist]

On 5/8/2024 at 12:08 AM, Ludwick said:

My husband has a set of similar dishes from his grandmother. Made by Royal, in the U.S.A. - though pieces aren't always marked, even within the same set. Apparently they were also sold through other outlets, like Sears.

On 5/16/2024 at 11:46 AM, mac0ck said:

I know of someone who had a similar image, but it was a reddish maroon colored image on the plate.
He said he got them when a youth back in the 1960's or before from the First National stores as so much a plate each week.  He was getting plates for a home and marriage that never happened.
But the set reminded him of his uncles farm (all males on the dairy farm) and so he liked the set (and them).

On 5/17/2024 at 1:30 PM, lowserotonin said:

In Albany NY in the '60s they were also sold by the A & P grocery line (formerly:  Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) as a weekly special & my mother bought the entire set of settings & stupid extras like a sugar bowl etc. etc. and I was terribly embarrased by this banal crockery -

life, I thought should have more to offer than picturesque etchings of New England & its primitive ways

"Banal crockery"?  There's no accounting for tastes, of course.  It's like one person arguing that his favorite color is better than another person's favorite.  One man's "banal crockery" is another man's fond reminder of an uncle's farm or, more generally, of the art of Currier & Ives, which is still highly prized by collectors.  And a cereal bowl or dinner plate could be a child's introduction to the wider world of fine art.

On 5/17/2024 at 1:30 PM, lowserotonin said:

life, I thought should have more to offer than picturesque etchings of New England & its primitive ways

And, by extension, the "primitive ways" of the eras of Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, et al.?

On 5/17/2024 at 1:30 PM, lowserotonin said:

stupid extras like a sugar bowl etc.

I always bought those because it gives me pleasure to use them.

On 5/17/2024 at 1:30 PM, lowserotonin said:

(formerly:  Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company)

The full name was the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company.

 

[Kawika]

When I worked for Pan Am I could find my way though most all my destination cities very easily... but Melbourne (MEL) I think I could have done it blindfolded... I was there usually twice a month... I was feeling sort of nostalgic because I just ordered Cadbury Cherry Ripe from Amazon (I used to buy them by the box when I went to Australia frequently... I still have a few very good friends who live there that I met in my journeys in and out over the years...

[mac0ck]

Me thinks she might have been right in shunning the microwave

 

[Brucex]

50 years since got my first Piriton prescription to stop hayfever and make April to June bearable.

[Kawika]

Who remembers listing to Robert Westin Smith aka Wolfman Jack on the Wolfman Jack Radio Show? I can still hear his voice in my head.

[cdadbr]

3 hours ago, Kawika said:

Who remembers listing to Robert Westin Smith aka Wolfman Jack on the Wolfman Jack Radio Show? I can still hear his voice in my head.

In the Rock and Roll 1950s - 1970s, every state had at least one radio station with a well-known DJ.  DFW TX had stations in Fort Worth and Dallas, as Houston was similar.  Then came FM radio and it continued into the 1980s.  WJ seemed to be the most nationally-known iconic one of the bunch, though.  He was great.

[Ogrebeast64]

9 hours ago, Kawika said:

Who remembers listing to Robert Westin Smith aka Wolfman Jack on the Wolfman Jack Radio Show? I can still hear his voice in my head.

I remember him well, especially from his movie and television appearances.