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humanregularbeing t1_je0g9ik wrote

Reply to comment by Travelgrrl in Sigmund and the sea monsters 1970s by steroidamoeba

:-)!

We made a model of the town in Here Come the Brides out of a shoebox. You lifted the lid and the sides fell down. The long part became the main road. One long side stayed up and became the saloon and the place where the girls lived. The other long side lay flat and was the water, the dock with some ships. We also made stand-up cardboard characters (and maybe horses?). Then you could put it away at the end.

We must be remembering the same couple of years, although maybe I'm a bit before you. You forgot the Jackson 5, the Partridge Family (went with my younger sister to a David Cassidy concert!), the Brady Bunch, Johnny Whitaker, the guys from Emergency (?!)… I'd better stop.

Another part of it was the fold-up posters. Do young people have posters these days (they also came in LP albums)? They have to have fold marks and the corners have to be torn from all the times they've been taped and re-taped to the walls.

Such fun.

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ValyrianJedi t1_je0fsa3 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Dolly Parton 1970s by down_bears

110%... I have to travel like 100+ nights a year for work, and probably 75% of those nights have to do dinner with clients. I usually tell them to pick whatever they want since it just goes on the company card, and 9 times out of 10 they pick some fancy steakhouse and we all go do the filet and lobster deal or whatever... If you'd told me a few years ago that I'd get tired or good steaks I wouldn't have believed you, but it is absolutely true for pretty much everybody on my team. When we don't have clients to take out we go for street cart hot dogs or Waffle House or cheap pizza or something...

I guess it isn't necessarily always the case, because I've had eggs Benedict for breakfast 4-5 days a week for like 2-3 years and am still not tired of it, but I'm guessing that's the rare exception not the norm.

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