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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | 'Bell Bottoms'. That's one reason I didn't join the Navy! :eek:
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| My oh my we're getting very nostalgic stephen...... It's not a healthy sign. Get a grip and buy yourself a new guitar. :p |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That's NOT ME!
I would never have those little figurines in my room! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Brad, that twinkle in your "friends" eye has me a little worried. Did he grow up to be a ukulele player or something? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You could drive a '68 VW MicroBus up those pant legs. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by stephent28:
I would never have those little figurines in my room! I think that's a Hamm's Beer bear! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | the one on the right looks like a "Toby" |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I wish bell bottoms would come back in style... then I could market a line of tropical bell-bottom shirts for guys like us! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | From the Land of Sky Blue Water. Hamm's the beer refreshing!
I grew up in Milwaukee. My first song was probably a beer commercial. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's in the water! (that's why it's yellow..) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Turned out that Sky Blue Water and Tumwater were a lot alike, or that's what they said when Hamms and Oly merged. I thought Tumwater was kinda skunky, but it did smell like the paper mills in Wisconsin.
Back to the topic, my pants are so much bigger at the top now that they would have to be huge to have any bell at the bottom. |
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Location: CA | Actually, bell bottoms is one of the reasons I DID join the Navy. How ridiculous is that? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | While the Seafairer's were certainly comfy, the original dungarees were certainly more durable and made a heckuvlot better floatation device. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Oly Some of the BEST commercials EVER (70's)! "It's the Artisan water."
Excuse while I go and try to find some of those oldies on line...
cholloway ,
Make sure they have the Flexon(TM) waists bands! :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Originally posted by stephent28:
I would never have those little figurines in my room! I think that's a Hamm's Beer bear! |
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Location: closely held secret | I seen um! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Stephen... what in the world inspired you to dig up that photo & post it?? Don't you have an anniversery or something to celibrate???
Yep.. A Hamms beer bottle... and it was unopened. If it had not fallen off the shelf I bet I could have got a pretty penny for on e-bay. A Blatz beer thingy is to the right of that... and to the right of that... it's GODZILLA!!!
I'm sure my friends 12 string has long turned to sawdust. But the Balladeer lives on!!
p.s.... the Blatz guy was playing a banjo. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Stephen... what in the world inspired you to dig up that photo & post it?? Well, some people like Jeff will scour the internet looking for strange unexplainable photos.
I choose to go to the OFC social site :D .
I was wondering when you would discover the thread and chime in. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I don't think that characterization is justified, Stephen
(my apologies beforehand, Clifford) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You mean Blatz, Milwaukee's finest beer? I forgot some of the words to that one, "smoother........less filling, that's clear. Blatz is Milwaukee's finest beer." Had a keg, bottle and can sing that tune.
Jeff, I knew Cliff played the flute, but you didn't have to out him in such a cruel fashion. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | In the '60s a commercial for a local brewery in New Orleans used to advertise... "Drink JAX, the beal jeer!" (hic) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Oly Some of the BEST commercials EVER |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Wow...didn't know Mark was in a beer commercial! No wonder his first song was about beer. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Now this is the real deal: and Preston on the Hammond to boot...so fine!
Bell Bottom Blues |
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Location: big island | do you still own that ovation, brad? how 'bout the pants? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Guitar---- yes
Pants ---- no
Bell Bottom Blues has always been a song I'd like to learn to play. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | That was style! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The pants are cool and his haircut is cute in the photo but Brad ultimately suffered the same fate as many of us who had long hair back in the day...........
I am glad I grew mine long while I had it. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I have a theory... nothing to base it on, so I'm just putting it out there.
Short Hair in youth = full hair later in life.
Long Hair in youth = less hair later in life.
I had short hair for most of my life under age 30. Once out of the Navy, I tried growing it longer, just cause I could. I still can. I know others in the same, but they all "grew up" with short hair. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I certainly can't argue with that theory. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I had a crewcut in my youth, Miles. Then gradually got longer through high school and college. I prefer the grass doesn't grow on a busy street theory. |
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Location: closely held secret | Doesn't grow on rocks, either... |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | God only made so many perfect heads. On the rest, He put hair. Mine is approaching perfection.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I started losing my hair rapidly as soon as we had our first kid. I also turned 30 about the same time, but I prefer to blame it on the kid. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Balding seems to be more prevalent today as opposed to years ago. An older gent back in my 20s had a theory relating to that.
He said that showers removed more natural oils than did baths. As a result the reduced natural nutrients and protection results in more hair loss.
In my case, the hair that resided on that little bald spot on the back of my head has migrated to places unpopulated in the past!  |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I had a crewcut in my youth, Miles. Then gradually got longer through high school and college. I prefer the grass doesn't grow on a busy street theory. Yeah, people are walking all over me too. This topic is depressing me, and to top it off, my beard is almost as grey as Beal's........ |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I got a chuckle out of Wabbit's rocks comment. I'm notoriously hard-headed. |
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