What time period would you live in, and where, if you had to for one year?

[jamespowers]

I remember that clanking noise. Probably loose screws rumbling around in each model.

Makes sense. They were cheap.

 

[jamespowers]

Umm.....no

Aw, come one. You like the 70s shirts.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Nothing outrageous like that.

Remember, there were as many men wearing Archie Bunker styles as John Travolta styles in the seventies.

Aw, come one. You like the 70s shirts.

 

[rocketeer]

So you loved the energy crisis over there during that time eh?

i was probably to young to really know what it was about.
like I said in an earlier post, we probably love these era's but cherry pick the best bits. Northern Ireland anyone?

 

[jamespowers]

Nothing outrageous like that.

Remember, there were as many men wearing Archie Bunker styles as John Travolta styles in the seventies.

True but Archie was still wearing polyester. lol lol Then again, this wasn't completely horrible---just bad:

 

[Gregg Axley]

True but Archie was still wearing polyester. lol lol Then again, this wasn't completely horrible---just bad:

AND HE WAS SMOKING WITH IT ON!
Truly a man that lived on the edge.

 

[rocketeer]

Archie Bunker; he was based on the English character Alf Garnet I believe from the 1960s 70s series Till death do us part. A series that also starred Cherie Blair's dad Anthony Booth.

 

[jamespowers]

AND HE WAS SMOKING WITH IT ON!
Truly a man that lived on the edge.

Yes and smoking a cheap stinky cigar no doubt. The kind that would make that shirt go up like a Christmas tree.

 

[newsman]

If you smoked a cigar that bad...you might just want your shirt to go up and put you out your misery.

 

[jamespowers]

If you smoked a cigar that bad...you might just want your shirt to go up and put you out your misery.

You never smoked a 1970s era American cigar then. They all were lousy.

 

[newsman]

Not sure I ever smoked an American cigar. Maybe a Swisher once...but most of the ones I enjoy are from Central America and sometimes some small island off the coast of Florida.

 

[vitanola]

Gee, I wish that I could still get my old favorite, "Factory Smokers No. 80"

 

[jamespowers]

Gee, I wish that I could still get my old favorite, "Factory Smokers No. 80"

Hmmmm.... I just happen to have a box handy....

 

[vitanola]

Hmmmm.... I just happen to have a box handy....

You're kidding!

I used to buy them at Davis Cut Rate Tobacco on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland. "Ike" Davis was pushing 90 back in the early '80's. The store had been founded by HIS father in the McKinley days. Used to go through a box of those old "Factory Smokers" every week. Then there were my other favorites, the "Canaria D' Oro", "Joyo de Nicaragua", Partagas "Perfecto" and Hoyo de Monterey Double Cronoas were my favorite weekend and special occasion smokes. Ike had 'em all.

 

[jamespowers]

Not sure I ever smoked an American cigar. Maybe a Swisher once...but most of the ones I enjoy are from Central America and sometimes some small island off the coast of Florida.

The Little Forbidden Island?
The Old Coronas, Dutch Masters and White Owls etc. They all are lousy machine made messes. They are just as bad now as then. :eusa_doh:

 

[jamespowers]

You're kidding!

I used to buy them at Davis Cut Rate Tobacco on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland. "Ike" Davis was pushing 90 back in the early '80's. The store had been founded by HIS father in the McKinley days. Used to go through a box of those old "Factory Smokers" every week. Then there were my other favorites, the "Canaria D' Oro", "Joyo de Nicaragua", Partagas "Perfecto" and Hoyo de Monterey Double Cronoas were my favorite weekend and special occasion smokes. Ike had 'em all.

Well, they might be a little dry now....

Joyo de Nicaragua? They are a full bodied smoke. One of my favorites to this day. I prefer the Partagas from that Little Island.

 

[Gregg Axley]

If you smoked a cigar that bad...you might just want your shirt to go up and put you out your misery.

:eusa_clap
I heard a rimshot on that one.

I didn't smoke one of those either James, it's against the law for a kid to smoke, especially a cigar!
As for the shirt, I like some of the styles but not all of them.
How about a pull over shirt in velour?
Let me look through the Sears Wishbook and find a few pics of shirts I like.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Not sure I ever smoked an American cigar. Maybe a Swisher once...but most of the ones I enjoy are from Central America and sometimes some small island off the coast of Florida.

Shhhh....don't tell anyone about that last part.

If you're in Florida, you should try some of ones made there, either in Tampa or Miami. They make some pretty good smokes for really good prices.

 

[newsman]

Shhhh....don't tell anyone about that last part.

If you're in Florida, you should try some of ones made there, either in Tampa or Miami. They make some pretty good smokes for really good prices.

Fellers I was in Ybor city about six years ago...right in the old heart of Tampa's cigar industry and there are still masters rolling private label cigars in front of the tobacconists shop. Some of them are old men who made the in Havana in the day.

If you ever happen to be in Tampa you'll enjoy darting into Ybor. The first of a series of family owned eateries called The Columbia House is located there. It had the first air conditioned room in Florida. Today it is the bar...and it is the original bar from the 1920s.

It's also famous for coffee.

As for the cigars that can't be mentioned...I have an old flame...a lovely blonde Russian girl who manages to get me a few a year.

I could have listened to that girl read a box of corn flakes and found it interesting.

 

[jamespowers]

:eusa_clap
I heard a rimshot on that one.

I didn't smoke one of those either James, it's against the law for a kid to smoke, especially a cigar!
As for the shirt, I like some of the styles but not all of them.
How about a pull over shirt in velour?
Let me look through the Sears Wishbook and find a few pics of shirts I like.

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Wishbook?! For the 1970s it was a nightmare book. lol lol