Post #168,259
8/9/04 11:17:01 AM
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24 of 25 because . . .
. . I couldn't figure out what #9 was.
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Post #168,261
8/9/04 11:30:38 AM
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I think many of them are regional.
E.g. NYC and Chicago probably still have old billboards on old buildings with things like "Call Klondike5-1234". And if you were ever an old radio show junkie, you heard things like that.
P.F. Flyers were sneakers. They were around at least until the late 1960s, I think, at least in Georgia. They were similar to Converse, IIRC.
I've heard of all of them, but only had personal experience with many of them. But I think this list has gone around before...
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #168,263
8/9/04 11:33:50 AM
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Yup; may have been in Oh, Pun. At least a *very* similar one
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Post #168,265
8/9/04 11:38:24 AM
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In California...
the television ads (Ronco?) had the phone numbers to call for their products as "RIchmond 9-xxxx". Sometimes they'd say "Richmond", later just "RI".
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #168,266
8/9/04 11:42:45 AM
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and . . .
. . the girl I was sweet on in high school was a Thornwall 6-3239.
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Post #168,779
8/11/04 7:00:05 PM
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{sniff}
WTF are You doin with Miss Nancy's home phone # !?
Why that two-timin shameless hussy... and after a l l I did for her!
Oh the ignominy of it all :(
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Post #168,454
8/10/04 12:25:32 PM
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Can't believe nobody even mentioned
Transylvania6-5000!
~~~)-Steven----
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He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
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Post #168,474
8/10/04 1:38:29 PM
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In Chicago it's "Hudson 3- 2700"
pronounced "Hudson three - two seven hundred" on the TV and radio ads.
lincoln
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Post #168,284
8/9/04 12:41:28 PM
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whoops 24 of 25 then
cause I coulda swore PF Flyer's were a wooden sled with thin red rails and a crude frontal steering system.
thanx,
bill
"delayed incessantly by people whose prevalent qualification was an excess of free-time" Philip Atkinson
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Post #168,287
8/9/04 12:46:23 PM
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Flyers...
Are you thinking of Flexible Flyers? (my favorite sled, growing up)
American Flyers were model trains...
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Post #168,289
8/9/04 12:47:32 PM
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thats it flexible flyers
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Post #168,288
8/9/04 12:47:26 PM
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Flexible flyer sled?
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Post #168,290
8/9/04 12:48:59 PM
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thats the one, neat link
[link|http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:5ZKPkQdH_80J:www.needak.com/ff100y.pdf+flexible+flyers+sled&hl=en|http://64.233.167.10...flyers+sled&hl=en]
last 100 hundred years
thanx,
bill
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Post #168,291
8/9/04 12:49:42 PM
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That was the Flexible Flyer
[link|http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/flexflyr.htm|http://www.uspto.gov...kids/flexflyr.htm]
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Steve
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Post #168,293
8/9/04 12:55:15 PM
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Yes, I knew it wasn't a sled . . .
. . and in my area everyone wore Keds.
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Post #168,359
8/9/04 8:55:07 PM
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Sort of cheating...
..as I had PFs as a small tyke...by the time I was being a pain about what shoes >I< wanted we were firmly planted in converse country.
We called them All-Stars. I've come to learn that in Philly they called them "Chucks" because they were officially "Chuck Taylor All Stars".
High top canvas. The coolest.
HOWEVER, while knowing that I had PFs, I don't remember them from my childhood...I was told later in life that I wore them. I know PFs from later life and family members working for BF Goodrich, who invented and sold the PF Flyers.
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Post #168,374
8/9/04 10:05:40 PM
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They've always been Chucks. Or yer a commyoonist.
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Post #168,391
8/10/04 1:01:29 AM
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or a hick
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