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LouderVol said:
I remember when gas used to be $4.00 a gallon on a good day. Kids these days have it too easy.
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Did you live in Georgia during hurricane Katrina? The governor had to get on tv and threaten to shut down gas stations over price gouging. It was horrible for a couple of days.
 
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I remember the first tornado Super Outbreak on April 3, 1974. I was 16, mom and dad were out of town, and my sister and two brothers and I were hunkered down in my brother's bedroom in our house in Huntsville, AL. We did OK, but some of our neighbors lost a lot.
 
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ZZ13 said:
I remember the first tornado Super Outbreak on April 3, 1974. I was 16, mom and dad were out of town, and my sister and two brothers and I were hunkered down in my brother's bedroom in our house in Huntsville, AL. We did OK, but some of our neighbors lost a lot.
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Before my time, but the stuff I watched on it was bad.
 
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ZZ13 said:
I remember the first tornado Super Outbreak on April 3, 1974. I was 16, mom and dad were out of town, and my sister and two brothers and I were hunkered down in my brother's bedroom in our house in Huntsville, AL. We did OK, but some of our neighbors lost a lot.
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I was 5 at the time, but I have a cousin that lives in Huntsville. I've heard.
 
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Other things from an old guy:

- Staying up and watching Neil Armstrong step down that ladder onto the moon. You youngsters have no idea how much fun the Gemini/Apollo space programs were.

- Watching Hank Aaron bash #715 into Tom House's glove into the bullpen. And those two young guys running out of the stands with him from 2nd to 3rd. Darn security measures - fans can't do fun stuff like that anymore.

- Being home sick and getting to watch game 6 of the 1968 World Series with my mom. Series games were played during the day during the week back then.

- Sitting on a hospital bed with a broken femur watching the coverage of Bobby Kennedy assassination. Made a huge impact on my 10 year old mind. Probably a key reason why I evolved into the liberal side of center.
 
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Slydell said:
5 cent Cokes from a vending machine. We used to make badges with the caps. The caps had cork on the inside. You would separate the cork from the cap, place the cork on the inside of your shirt and press the cap over it from the outside of your shirt.

Memories, anyone?
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I remember 25 cent coke machines
50 cent hamburger from McDonalds
88 cent a gallon gas.
 
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I remember getting my Atari for Christmas as a kid. My dad worked in the mines, and Santa would come in the middle of the niggt Christmas eve. We got it hooked up, and he stayed up for hours playing it with me. He only had that day off, and he stayed tired, but that time we had playing means more now than the game itself.
 
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Some of my best memories are going with my best friend on a friday to Blockbuster and renting Nintendo games to play all night and try to beat.
 
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ZZ13 said:
I remember the first tornado Super Outbreak on April 3, 1974. I was 16, mom and dad were out of town, and my sister and two brothers and I were hunkered down in my brother's bedroom in our house in Huntsville, AL. We did OK, but some of our neighbors lost a lot.
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@ZZ13 And I was in Athens watching the Hwy 31 trailer park get hit twice within 2 hours. Was about 4 miles S of our house.
 
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