HOUSTON RICK
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Is that young Eisenhower boy still President?
How old are ya?
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When I was young I only walked a couple of hundred yards to school. But it was uphill both ways. There was a low spot in the middle.
Gunslinger808
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Two of the top 3 songs of the year I was born were by Elvis, the other by Pat Boone.
Damn Yankee
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Chains and studded Snow Tires
Remember when a cross link would break and it would hit the fender every time the wheel went around.
Alcohol instead of Etheline Glycol and the alcohol would boil out. Steam.
Ration Books for food items and a Gas Stamp on the windshield during the WW 2 We had a A. 4 Gal a week
You have brought back many memories of the 40's and 50's.
Remember when a cross link would break and it would hit the fender every time the wheel went around.
Alcohol instead of Etheline Glycol and the alcohol would boil out. Steam.
Ration Books for food items and a Gas Stamp on the windshield during the WW 2 We had a A. 4 Gal a week
You have brought back many memories of the 40's and 50's.
labworm
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When I was 19, gasoline at the Flying A Station was 32 cents a gallon.
jeffsmith
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I am old enough that I remember a Democratic President
who was a Life Member of the NRA
who was a Life Member of the NRA
USAF385
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I was born in the same year that the man who discovered the Quantum Hall Effect won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
DeathGrip
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South Beach in the early '60s. Nice.
Hippies on Peach Tree St. Atlanta in the mid to late '60s. Interesting.
Stoner's everywhere in Fla. in the '70s. So what?
Cocaine cowboys in the '80s. Miami Vice.
Crack and AIDS in the '90s. Lot of fun I'm sure.
Fast forward a few years. I don't even care to know what the next trend might be. I gots bills.
I just want to wake up in the morning kiss my wife and play with my dogs.
Hippies on Peach Tree St. Atlanta in the mid to late '60s. Interesting.
Stoner's everywhere in Fla. in the '70s. So what?
Cocaine cowboys in the '80s. Miami Vice.
Crack and AIDS in the '90s. Lot of fun I'm sure.
Fast forward a few years. I don't even care to know what the next trend might be. I gots bills.
I just want to wake up in the morning kiss my wife and play with my dogs.
Sebago Son
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I used to ride along with my old man when he drove his DeSoto down to the local Flying A station. Chet would fill it up "filterered" and bring Dad two packs of Camels. Dad would give Chet $2 and tell him to keep the change. Chet would be really greatful for the .22 cent tip!
JayBird686
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This thread reminds me of of The Night Hank Williams Came to Town:
Johnny Cash- On The Night Hank Williams Came To Town - YouTube
Johnny Cash- On The Night Hank Williams Came To Town - YouTube
Rubbers were two dimes in the machine......
Don't ask how I know...........
You mean Head Gaskets for Hot Rods?
LouisianaJoe
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When I was a kid, we could go to the movie for a dime and we would buy Dr Pepper bottles at the bottling plant for a nickle. We could ride our bikes away from home for the entire day without our mother getting freaked out. If she knew what we did sometimes, she would have. Charlie and my cousin liked to blow up stuff.
Sebago Son
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Today the school would see to it that I got therapy for doing some of the kid-stuff that was common then....
I bet Charlie and LeLand Ray skipped those sessions too...
Love this thread...and what? Tennis balls used to be white? LMAO. what a great line.
I was on the cusp of a lot of transitions from good old traditions and services being born in the later sixties. so I got a taste of the 60's 70s and 80s for my childhood. so I can relate to alot. the 50's sure sounded like a great time to be a kid I must say.
anyhow, also remember when phones had cords - if you wanted a private conversation that thing stretched across the room and under a closet door. there were no answering machines or voice mail, when you called it rang and rang and you hung up if they weren't home. Rotary dial phones too...(taken from Louis CK, but true), if the person you were calling had zeros in their number it sucked. LOL I'm sure some of you remember cranking a hand crank and speaking to the operator to connect you right? LOL.
There were no atms. If you needed money you went into a bank. When you were out of money that day, you were out of money.
TVs with 3 channels, and 25 channels of fuzz. The TV ended everyday with the national anthem at midnight or so. a dime went a loooong way in the candy store. You had a quarter and you were King Midas in there.
Doing a book report or paper meant going to the library and researching and reading...no cut and paste from the interwebs like these kids today. Writing in full sentences instead of 142 characters or less. People wrote letters to each other.
Milk got delivered to the house in bottles.
Record players gave us music on vinyl, no skipping ahead, fast forward or anything. and if you messed up the needle you were in big trouble.
we as kids were gone all day playing from dusk dill dawn - in fact parents expected it...be home when the street lights came on.
Kids sports actually ended with a clear winner and loser. Yes we kept score and some kids were actually NOT good enough to play and that's the way it was.
I remember when gas was cheap and then I remember the lines at the pumps too when it started to change.
Toys were made out of metal not plastic. Toy guns looked like real guns. They didn't break after 48 hours like my kids toys do.
Corner drug stores still had soda fountains in them. Pharmacy in the back.
You flew on a plane and the guy in front of you was smoking. You went into an office building and the guy in front of you was smoking. You went into the doctor's office and the physician just finished smoking. You went into...well you get the idea.
Women's curves were real.
And the village raised the kids and no one thought twice about that. If you messed up in front of someone else's parent and they knew you...you were in trouble. Nowadays, you can look to get sued keeping another family's kid in line.
where has the time gone...and today's kids are inundated with so much information so fast, they are growing up at light speed, and its not all good information. I often long for a slower simpler time, then at times I think how far we've come technologically and realize it too is a great time to be alive. I feel fortunate to have lived through the end of the 60s, 70s, 80s 90s till now...the sheer change over those decades is amazing...and what the heck were we wearing!!?!?!!!
I was on the cusp of a lot of transitions from good old traditions and services being born in the later sixties. so I got a taste of the 60's 70s and 80s for my childhood. so I can relate to alot. the 50's sure sounded like a great time to be a kid I must say.
anyhow, also remember when phones had cords - if you wanted a private conversation that thing stretched across the room and under a closet door. there were no answering machines or voice mail, when you called it rang and rang and you hung up if they weren't home. Rotary dial phones too...(taken from Louis CK, but true), if the person you were calling had zeros in their number it sucked. LOL I'm sure some of you remember cranking a hand crank and speaking to the operator to connect you right? LOL.
There were no atms. If you needed money you went into a bank. When you were out of money that day, you were out of money.
TVs with 3 channels, and 25 channels of fuzz. The TV ended everyday with the national anthem at midnight or so. a dime went a loooong way in the candy store. You had a quarter and you were King Midas in there.
Doing a book report or paper meant going to the library and researching and reading...no cut and paste from the interwebs like these kids today. Writing in full sentences instead of 142 characters or less. People wrote letters to each other.
Milk got delivered to the house in bottles.
Record players gave us music on vinyl, no skipping ahead, fast forward or anything. and if you messed up the needle you were in big trouble.
we as kids were gone all day playing from dusk dill dawn - in fact parents expected it...be home when the street lights came on.
Kids sports actually ended with a clear winner and loser. Yes we kept score and some kids were actually NOT good enough to play and that's the way it was.
I remember when gas was cheap and then I remember the lines at the pumps too when it started to change.
Toys were made out of metal not plastic. Toy guns looked like real guns. They didn't break after 48 hours like my kids toys do.
Corner drug stores still had soda fountains in them. Pharmacy in the back.
You flew on a plane and the guy in front of you was smoking. You went into an office building and the guy in front of you was smoking. You went into the doctor's office and the physician just finished smoking. You went into...well you get the idea.
Women's curves were real.
And the village raised the kids and no one thought twice about that. If you messed up in front of someone else's parent and they knew you...you were in trouble. Nowadays, you can look to get sued keeping another family's kid in line.
where has the time gone...and today's kids are inundated with so much information so fast, they are growing up at light speed, and its not all good information. I often long for a slower simpler time, then at times I think how far we've come technologically and realize it too is a great time to be alive. I feel fortunate to have lived through the end of the 60s, 70s, 80s 90s till now...the sheer change over those decades is amazing...and what the heck were we wearing!!?!?!!!
Wayne
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Fridays and Saturday nights, a bunch of 12 year olds racing slot cars, Cox La Cucarachas with rewind motors, on a high banked figure 8, or stock cars on a 220' road course, listening to Steam on the Juke Box, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.
Well you have to grow up sometime I guess, I never new age 56 existed back then !
Well you have to grow up sometime I guess, I never new age 56 existed back then !
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Ike was in his first term as President, and Smith & Wesson had not yet started stamping model #'s in the yoke area.
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ogilvyspecial
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It's amazing that any of us older folks survived our childhoods.
I remember rolling down the road standing up on the front seat next to my Dad in his / our 1955 Cadillac, which he bought used by the way.
I also remember playing with Mercury in school, moving it back & forth between hands. Now, if even a little bit gets spilled they evacuate the School.
Don't even get me started on eating lead paint chips & playing around in piles of asbestos while getting sprayed with DDT.
I remember rolling down the road standing up on the front seat next to my Dad in his / our 1955 Cadillac, which he bought used by the way.
I also remember playing with Mercury in school, moving it back & forth between hands. Now, if even a little bit gets spilled they evacuate the School.
Don't even get me started on eating lead paint chips & playing around in piles of asbestos while getting sprayed with DDT.
Revolver-time
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Could walk down to the woods carrying my 22 or shotgun on the street. Shoot a couple of squirrels or a rabbit if I got lucky. Drove a car with "three on the tree" after school to my job at the paint factory. Never spent more than $5.00 to fill the tank on my 62 Falcon. I always had a a "Barlow" in my pocket at school. I made a bet with my Dad that I could eat on $1.00 a day. I ate alot of canned tuna and fried eggs on white toast but I won the bet. I had to have my Mom sign for it but I bought my first pistol, a Ruger standard auto, for $49.00 at Western Auto.
You can't go back I guess but, everytime I see some guy holding his pants up with one hand so he can walk, I wish I could.
You can't go back I guess but, everytime I see some guy holding his pants up with one hand so he can walk, I wish I could.
