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speaker.guy Exile Island Resident
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 260
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: Is the forum OK? |
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Haven't seen any new posts in a couple of days....... |
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The Robman Site Owner
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 21237 Location: Chicago, IL |
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speaker.guy Exile Island Resident
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 260
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks. Guess it is just extra slow (little activity ) for some reason....... |
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vickyg2003 Site Admin
Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 7073 Location: Florida |
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Rob, Thank you for that link!!!!!!! I do my JP1.x development on a laptop, but I do my interneting on my desktop. Occasionally I need to download things on my laptop and then miss out on reading the rest of the "new posts" I'm so happy that I now have a way to see what's new without going back into each topic. That was extremely helpful to me. |
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The Robman Site Owner
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 21237 Location: Chicago, IL |
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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No probs, I use a link just like that every day. You can change the last digit of the URL to how ever many days back you want to go. (And just FYI, %2A in the URL is really an asterisk *, but the forum software wouldn't make it a clickable link, so I had to convert it to hex). _________________ Rob
www.hifi-remote.com
Please don't PM me with remote questions, post them in the forums so all the experts can help! |
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underquark Expert
Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 874 Location: UK |
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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In other words, do a Search and stick an asterisk in the Author field and then pick a time-frame under "search Previous". |
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The Robman Site Owner
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 21237 Location: Chicago, IL |
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly, but doing that doesn't give you a URL that you can bookmark, so I figured out what parms were needed and I generated the URL that I posted. _________________ Rob
www.hifi-remote.com
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underquark Expert
Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 874 Location: UK |
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, but some of us have way too many bookmarks as it is for functions that we don't use frequently.
Low activity from UK members may be due to local holidays; I have been in the middle of a forest for the past 4 days, here, new baby notwithstanding. Has this been a vacation weekend in the US? |
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The Robman Site Owner
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 21237 Location: Chicago, IL |
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jimdunn
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 544 Location: NSW, Australia |
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Ok, that's a pretty cool map site, let's all play:
Here's where I was born: Crumpsall, Manchester
But I lived around Croydon for about 8 years as well, Rob - so your map woke a few memories. |
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The Robman Site Owner
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 21237 Location: Chicago, IL |
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Did you ever frequent Beanos, the second hand record shop on Crown Hill? As a kid, I used to live there! _________________ Rob
www.hifi-remote.com
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jimdunn
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 544 Location: NSW, Australia |
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:39 am Post subject: |
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The Robman wrote: | Did you ever frequent Beanos, the second hand record shop on Crown Hill? As a kid, I used to live there! |
Absolutely
I feel sorry for my daughter and her generation that they will never understand the joy of searching through musty old vinyl for a scratched copy of 2 songs, one on each side of a 7 inch disc.
I had special cardboard sleeves with polythene inserts which I used to use to store my acquisitions - after labelling in black biro underlined in red.
I seem to remember being especially pleased with getting a used copy of "Dancing Queen" by Abba from there...
For some reason I'm not sure I should have said that
edited: when I noticed Rob's initial reference was already a link to Beanos - removed my superfluous additional link - damn that subtle blue colo(u)r...
Last edited by jimdunn on Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:46 am; edited 3 times in total |
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jimdunn
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 544 Location: NSW, Australia |
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Were you old enough to discover "Cinatras" night club before you left - or were you spared that ? |
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The Robman Site Owner
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 21237 Location: Chicago, IL |
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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Yup, I've been to Sinatras, and the Office, Goodies, the Underground, etc. I can't tell you how many bands I got to see at the Underground, some of the names that come to mind include Eddie and the Hot Rods, Sweet, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Captain Sensible, We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It and Divine. I used to work for British Gas on Catherine Street and we used to pile down to Goodies after work alot, so I was definitely a regular there.
Wasn't Sinatra the nightclub in the basement of the Croydon Greyhound pub? I don't think I went there as much, but I definitely was there a few times.
What was the name of the nightclub on Crown Hill? They used to let the alternative crowd in on Thursday nights, so that's when I used to go.
Back to Beanos, I've only visited their current location once when I was visiting, so all of my childhood visits where to their old location (which was just around the corner). They had LPs downstairs and 45s upstairs. I used to do alot of "dumpster diving" in their cheap bins. Upstairs they had this huge rack of 45s which were "20 for £1", so I bought a ton of those. Generally, this section had scratchy copies of popular 45s and good copies of not-so-popular 45s. But none the less, I was able to build up my collection of Sweet, Slade, Gary Glitter, etc from that rack. Downstairs they had a junk bin for LPs where they put these stickers on them that had 20p, 40p, 80, £1 prices listed. When they first added LPs to this bin they would be £1, then after a week they would cut the ones that were left to 80p, then 40p, then 20p. I remember picking up an un-labelled copy of the Sex Pistols "Spunk" bootleg for 10p because they didn't know what it was. I remember noticing the matrix number on the run out groove and thinking that it sounded familiar, so I bought it not knowing what it was, so I was quite pleased when I played it and discovered what I had found.
I just read on the Beanos web site that they almost had to close down, so I Googled the story. It's a sad part of life that as technology changes, some businesses will go under. Back in the day, I used to live in record shops, but I can't tell you the last time that I was in one, not now that you can buy CDs online, and of course to the younger generation even that is outdated as they will just download everything. _________________ Rob
www.hifi-remote.com
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jimdunn
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 544 Location: NSW, Australia |
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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The Robman wrote: | Yup, I've been to Sinatras, and the Office, Goodies, the Underground, etc. |
Wow, I remember all of those places - Goodies I used to drink in a fair bit.
One of our favourite things to do around Croydon was to drive out into the country to a pub near New Addington, I think, called the "White Bear".
The Robman wrote: | Wasn't Sinatra the nightclub in the basement of the Croydon Greyhound pub? I don't think I went there as much, but I definitely was there a few times. |
Can't remember the pub name - but it sounds right - it was definitely a basement (had a bit of a ""grab a granny" reputation)
The Robman wrote: | What was the name of the nightclub on Crown Hill? They used to let the alternative crowd in on Thursday nights, so that's when I used to go. |
I can't remember - it was 20 years ago
The Robman wrote: | Back in the day, I used to live in record shops, but I can't tell you the last time that I was in one, not now that you can buy CDs online, and of course to the younger generation even that is outdated as they will just download everything. |
Yeah - memories they'll never have ...
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