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They left a greasy spot on the walls and my dad would be so pissed at us when we got those.

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On 4/11/2018 at 3:21 PM, Cousin Strawberry said:

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I used to sit downstairs with my hand on the dial in case my parents came down.  If I thought they were coming, it'd move from 43 (HBO or Cinemax) to some other channel that had appropriate content (determined ahead of time).  Watching hours of television for the < 10 second payoff of the promised "partial nudity." 

37 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

They left a greasy spot on the walls and my dad would be so pissed at us when we got those.

Our living room has a ceiling (sloped) that ranges from 12 to 18 feet.  My son threw a sticky eyeball (made of the same material) at the ceiling.  It stuck.  I figured it would fall off.  After a few days, it didn't.  I tried to knock it down.  It just smeared around.  Eventually, when our housepainter was over, I had to hire him to use his scaffolding, scrape it off, and then repaint the ceiling there.

I tried really hard to be mad at the boy.  But shit, man....throwing a sticky eyeball at the ceiling?  Who WOULDN'T try that?

Austin Aquafest.  

Looking at the first concert thread on the music forum and started thinking of the acts I saw at AAF overthe years - Roy Orbison, Bad Company, Eric Johnson on the kiddie stage . . .

K-98 Raft Race was held in conjunction with or around the same time as AAF.  In high school some buddies and I built and entered a raft.  I recall swimming from raft to raft with a solo cup getting keg beer.  Also recall the worst sunburn of my life.

21 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Austin Aquafest.  

Looking at the first concert thread on the music forum and started thinking of the acts I saw at AAF overthe years - Roy Orbison, Bad Company, Eric Johnson on the kiddie stage . . .

K-98 Raft Race was held in conjunction with or around the same time as AAF.  In high school some buddies and I built and entered a raft.  I recall swimming from raft to raft with a solo cup getting keg beer.  Also recall the worst sunburn of my life.

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56 minutes ago, swTXSU said:

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Loved AquaFest......bands to numerous to name were seen there over the years. And the raft race was always '"entertaining"

Were on the topic of video games earlier today.....some great memories hanging out at places like this:

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Some of my favorites

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There's a video game hall of fame museum in Frisco.  Took the kids a few weeks ago.  Thought I'd be bored because I've never really been in to playing video games.  That being said, it was really cool.  They had a room set up like an old arcade where you could play the actual games.  They also had a stand-alone Dragon's Lair game.  When I was a kid, there was a Dragon's Lair game at a local pizza place.  I couldn't really afford to pop in quarter after quarter, so I'd watch other kids play the game for hours.  Memories.

14 hours ago, PencilPusher said:

 

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Those egg pooping flying ostriches kicked my ass back in the day.

There’s an Arcade place in Asbury Park, NJ that has a lot of old pinball machines, a few video games, skee ball and a few various other games, went last fall and had a blast playing some of the pinball machines of my childhood. 

1 minute ago, RPM said:

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That last one, the disk shooter, well they would break Christmas ornaments. I found that out the hard way.  

12 hours ago, KaiserSoze said:

Tracer guns were fucking awesome

You could kill a man if you loaded it with pennies. 

On 4/12/2018 at 6:02 PM, PencilPusher said:

 

 

Some of my favorites

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TEMPEST!!! Holy shit!!! 

I haven’t thought about that game in years. Now I must have it.

On 4/11/2018 at 10:25 AM, Steamboat1874 said:

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What a cool picture:

Milt Plum, Bobby Layne, Sam Etcheverry, Bill Wade, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Norm Snead & Zeke Bratowski

Jim Ninowski, Fran Tarkenton, Don Merideth, John Brodie, Sonny Jergensen & Y.A Tittle

Tittle, Starr, Unitas and Merideth were the only ones I could name without googling.

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Somehow a Chose Your Own Adventure book survived my childhood to to my great surprise my 12 year old actually liked to read it.

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Freddie King and Leon Russell

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And maybe the most famous painting in Austin music history from the above show......

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Image taken from that hotel looking north....

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Our first integrated football team...1970

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Before it was even open....

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Soap Creek Saloon

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SRV at Steamboat

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Steamboat - thanks for those pics.  Love the Freddie King poster.  I think I earned a couple of minors with my hours at the Armadillo.   Afternoons in the beer garden, evenings inside at the show.

The Fat Boys...
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Relatively slim, by today's standards.

choose your own fucking adventure.  I found some and gave them to my son.  Still great today.

On 4/12/2018 at 7:12 PM, retread said:

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That is the only one I was even remotely average at playing. I sucked badly at every other video game. As in a total waste of quarters.

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15 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

That is the only one I was even remotely average at playing. I sucked badly at every other video game. As in a total waste of quarters.

Many of them would limit how fast you could shoot -- slight delay b/w shots (fraction of second). It was even more fun to find one that would shoot on every button press.

I don't remember if Excitebike was 80's but it had to have been close.  I could play that for a good 40-50 minutes on one quarter.  Only game I was ever able to get my monies worth on.

7 hours ago, DougO said:

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Fairly accurate prediction, right down to me fucking your mom.

On 3/27/2018 at 6:14 AM, AUinHsv said:

 

Running your computer program with punched cards

 

Fucking COBOL.  

On 4/1/2018 at 9:17 PM, Chewy's Hairy Horn said:

Seems like they didn't open until noon though.

And they put up plastic on all the non-food shit. 

I remember as a kid, running to the tv whenever I heard this theme song intro...

 

I should still have one of those stashed away in a tube somewhere in my archives.

4 hours ago, beer said:

Fucking COBOL.  

Fortran.
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On 4/12/2018 at 6:04 PM, PencilPusher said:

And of course the greatest football game of all time:

TEMCO BOWL!!!!!

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On the 30 for 30 for Bo one of the people they interviewed said - Bo only had one play in that game because to give him two plays would be totally unfair...

25 minutes ago, Stoogey said:

Fortran.
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 Think I knew more than my Fortran professor - which wasn't saying much..  He also demanded we turn in punch cards but never realized that I was using TSO and then the PUNCH command.  So much easier to correct a mistake and never worried about dropping the program deck.

 

Still have a couple thousand unused punched cards - but not from them. Before retiring from IBM I ordered a couple of boxes of them. I used them all the time for notes instead of postit notes so I keep using them.

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Many careers would be in jeopardy if all those phototech pictures became digitized and made public.

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