Dec. 6, 2006 marks the tenth birthday of theBubbler!
We've put together a retrospective of ten years of the face of theBubbler: Click Me! We've come a long way in that time, gone through many changes, and like a child, we've "growed up" alot since December of 1996.
But enough about us! Let's talk about you!
Where were you when you were ten? Tell us where you were, the things you remember, and most especially... post a picture of yourself when you were ten!
After all, it's only fair. You see the ten-year-old Bubbler every day. It's only fair that we get to see the ten-year-old you!
It's mine too... much older than 10 though. :wink:
I remember my 10th birthday... I wanted snow for my birthday very badly! It didn't snow, so my dad shaved enough ice for a snowball! Made my day! He's still my hero!
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- Ronald Reagan
Age 10... oh, those were the days! I remember summer vacations spent eating popsicles and reading the Little House books. I remember Dells camping and ballet class. I also remember bad 80's hair and neon clothing... not all memories are good!
I've been around theBubbler since 1999. I think only theBubbler and Dolly Parton have actually looked better as they've aged!
10 years!!! 1996, I had been on the internet since 1995 but only found the Bubbler a year ago. I know some peole are soooooooooooooooooooo
s l o w.
It was soooooooooooooo long ago that I was 10 that, I just do not even have a clue what I was doing. I do remember that I attended a Catholic grade school and right across the street was a bakery and that cream filled chocolate doughnuts were get this, $00.06 each yes 6 cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and coke and pepsi came in 12oz returnable bottles. The deposit was 2 cents each. No aluminum cans at that time.
and for those smarties out there, yes we had automobiles!!!!!
President Kennedy was still alive!!!! In those days a car with 50,000 miles needed an engine rebuild.
It would take me another ten years to dig up a photo of me at ten but my avatar is very close as I was 5 at the time.
At 10 i was probably cruising the streets in my banana seat 3 speed sissy bar bike going to play football or baseball somewhere. Gas if i remember right was about 1.00 per gallon and cigs cost 78 cents a pack. Movies were 2.50 for an adult...anytime of the day. Open Pantry stores still existed on almost every corner in town. As far as a pic goes...well.......i was just a lil bean back then. Sorry no pic available
I suppose since I was the one who posted the thread I should probably pony up a picture, huh? :lol:
This is my brother and I at his fourth birthday. We lived in Missouri at the time. When I turned ten, we were living in N. Richland Hills, TX, the school where I routinely got detentions for refusing to say "under God" in the morning Pledge. Sometimes I would insert other gods' names instead of omitting it, like "one nation under Zeus!" That usually got me in extra trouble but I like to think I was making a pointed statement. And I thought it was amusing to watch the supposed public servants turning apoplectic over it.
I remember glass coke bottles too
I played Mrs. Claus when I was ten, in the school play, whose name I forget. Santa's Rocking Christmas, or something like that. I think I still have the script somewhere. Part of my costume got turned into the tree skirt for a mini Christmas tree, which I also still have.
I think it was the year of "We Are The World", because it was a big, important thing in our Christmas choir concert. Ah, the days of Duran Duran and back when Michael Jackson was famous for being a great musician instead of, well... for who he is now. Big bangle bracelets and flock of seagulls hair (well, _I_ never had "flock of seagulls" hair, but...). I got my first Madonna cassette tape and in Missouri I collected a whole packing box full of interesting rocks, some of which I still have, some Petoskies and a sweet calcite geode.
I remember I was really into ghosts and UFOs back then. I was just starting to understand how to debunk a bad ghost photo... I guess some things never change. One of my projects in my spare time is putting together a spot on my website with examples of photographic errors that are often mistaken for ghosts and for ways to spot an intentional fraud.
I was ten when I got my first computer, a TI something or other. You might say that what I'm doing now, including working on theBubbler, is a direct result of getting that computer and the manual that taught me how to program in BASIC.
At 10 i was probably cruising the streets in my banana seat 3 speed sissy bar bike going to play football or baseball somewhere. Gas if i remember right was about 1.00 per gallon and cigs cost 78 cents a pack. Movies were 2.50 for an adult...anytime of the day. Open Pantry stores still existed on almost every corner in town. As far as a pic goes...well.......i was just a lil bean back then. Sorry no pic available
OK mr Bean you sparked some onf my memories.
When I was 10
Gas was no more than $00.25 / gallon
movies were $00.25 and we did not know they had movies at night!!!!!
Open Pantry stores did NOT exist
But we had Hoiday Gas stations, fill your car up with gas and get a free roll of toilet paper... now does that tell you was the gas was good for?
Cigerettes were about $00.25/ pack
and the idea of a 3 speed banna seat with high handler bars on a small bicycle frame was not even a dream. But we would have thought it was cool.
Sissy's were girls,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze anyway
Oh yes and we had burger joint in town that had 7 hambergers for $1.00, no McDonalds existed in our town, and cool pinball machines ( No Video) $00.05 for 5 ball play
When I was 10, I was very involved with dance - ballet, tap, point and acrobats. It consumed most all of my freetime.
I was in the choir at church, played the bells and choreographed a dance
with friends for the Christmas Program. I was a girlscout, played the violin and had a pet parakeet with LOTS of personality, named Charlie. I went to Parkview Elementary school on the northwest side of Milwaukee. My best friends were twins; Laura and Debbie Fireherd and Janice Funk, who taught me the love of camping.
I had a record player! Talk about hi-tech - It was a big console model with a T.V., and it was huge, the size of a dresser! I liked to listen to Elton John, The Beach Boys, The Beatles and at this time of year - The Chipmunks.
Summers were filled with swimming at the local pool or Lannon quarry.
A night on the town included Shakey's Pizza, listening to their player piano,
and pinball and I... was a pinball wizard.
It took some searching, but I found a pic. It was a group picture, so I had to crop it. Nothing like a blast from the past to make to make us realize just how old we are getting! lol
sorry crys cant help ya here. i don't think there are any pictures of me at ten years old. (besides perhaps a mug shot, but were not going to go there) i was to busy fishing all the time. i pretty much lived all day on lake Michigan. there might have been a school picture somewhere, but i probably skipped school that day to go fishing.
don't remember how much gas was, that might have been different if i would have had a boat to put some in.
i dont know how much cigerettes were because we had an account at the store. my parents would send us to pick them up and the clerk would just add it to the account. the first time i actually had to pay for them it was $.75 a pack.
if the open pantry didn't sell bait, i didn't have much use for it. i got all my candy from a neighborhood store. Swedish fish for a penny! yum mm. ok i would slip a few pieces of bazookas in there. as far as food goes it just kinda showed up when it was meal time.
but i did have my uncles old bike, complete with banana seat, and sissy bar.
the old two piece fishing poles would strap to the bar just right. yep that was the coolest bike i ever had, no brakes,no thread on the handlebars, but as long as there was air in the tires it was going fishing.
i guess even then i had a one tract mind.
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