How old are ya?
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Old enough to have watched Stan the Man Musial play at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Old enough to remember gas at $.23 a gallon and they pumped it for you and checked under the hood. Old enough to remember waiting for the day when the next year's cars were going to be introduced. Old enough to remember when "Return to Sender" came out. Old enough to remember shopping for fallout shelters when people were selling them off the street in 1962 and old enough to remember the look on my mother's face when JFK was killed.
I was born in 1954 in Memphis Tennesse and about 400 yards from where I was born Rock and Roll was also being born at a place called Sun Studios.
I was born in 1954 in Memphis Tennesse and about 400 yards from where I was born Rock and Roll was also being born at a place called Sun Studios.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
I consider myself very lucky. I was blessed with haveing great, if not the best parents (christian), born at the right time, (april 41), a great area, rual wisconsin. Durring the war my mom ran a large country general store in a small village, auroaville wisconsin. A mill pond was a few yards away, a Dam, mill and the willow creek ran behind the store.
I was brought up listening to the old timers spinning yarns sitting on the loafer benchs in front of the store in summer and chairs around the old stove in the store in winter. My job was to guard the cookie case and ice cream freezer when ma had to do stuff in the back. I did a bad job of it as it seems a bunch of ghosts got by me and raided it.
We knew everyone in the county and mom let me roam for maybe a mile radius everyday from 4 years old up! (She would be jailed for that now!) Good fishing was a few steps outside. I know I ranged the area with a .22 rifle from 8 or 9 years old. Across the road from the store a cripled guy would set up a movie screen in a empty lot one night a week for free shows. They would pass a hat.
One mistake. My mother sent me to school somehow at 4 years and 4 months old in first grade! I was a big kid but still in over my head with my schoolmates that were always two years older than me all the way through school. They literaly shoved me through all the grades and I do think it in ways affected my life.
Age for age, I am glad I wasnt born 30 years latter! I never knew one kid all the way through even high school that was on drugs. It didnt exist in my time frame in our area. I went to a 100% white high school. Of course I am sure that had nothing to do with not knowing what drugs, graffiti, gangs and bars over windows were.
Jobs working on truck farms in summer was available to all of us kids from about 13 years old. You could always get a job pricking strawberries, cukes, or haying etc. Most of the kids did work and had pocket money. Fist fights were common but stabbings and shootings were unheard of. Drinking and smokeing was far more common than now. In the smaller towns and outback countys police and deputys leo`s had little training and mostly no acadamys. It was common to be hired off the street and go right to work! Yet it seemed there was far more respect for the officers! For the most part they were by themselves and had no real backup. I once actualy was hired in a town of about 5,000, but never went to work as my boss promoted me to foreman when I started to quit. They were going to put me on the street without any training!
We didnt have computers, most of us didnt have tv, bathrooms or air conditioning, but I belive it was better times for most of us.
I was brought up listening to the old timers spinning yarns sitting on the loafer benchs in front of the store in summer and chairs around the old stove in the store in winter. My job was to guard the cookie case and ice cream freezer when ma had to do stuff in the back. I did a bad job of it as it seems a bunch of ghosts got by me and raided it.
We knew everyone in the county and mom let me roam for maybe a mile radius everyday from 4 years old up! (She would be jailed for that now!) Good fishing was a few steps outside. I know I ranged the area with a .22 rifle from 8 or 9 years old. Across the road from the store a cripled guy would set up a movie screen in a empty lot one night a week for free shows. They would pass a hat.
One mistake. My mother sent me to school somehow at 4 years and 4 months old in first grade! I was a big kid but still in over my head with my schoolmates that were always two years older than me all the way through school. They literaly shoved me through all the grades and I do think it in ways affected my life.
Age for age, I am glad I wasnt born 30 years latter! I never knew one kid all the way through even high school that was on drugs. It didnt exist in my time frame in our area. I went to a 100% white high school. Of course I am sure that had nothing to do with not knowing what drugs, graffiti, gangs and bars over windows were.
Jobs working on truck farms in summer was available to all of us kids from about 13 years old. You could always get a job pricking strawberries, cukes, or haying etc. Most of the kids did work and had pocket money. Fist fights were common but stabbings and shootings were unheard of. Drinking and smokeing was far more common than now. In the smaller towns and outback countys police and deputys leo`s had little training and mostly no acadamys. It was common to be hired off the street and go right to work! Yet it seemed there was far more respect for the officers! For the most part they were by themselves and had no real backup. I once actualy was hired in a town of about 5,000, but never went to work as my boss promoted me to foreman when I started to quit. They were going to put me on the street without any training!
We didnt have computers, most of us didnt have tv, bathrooms or air conditioning, but I belive it was better times for most of us.
No, it wasn't. It was by Little Richard; Pat Boone did the cover.
$47. FOR THREE DAYS!! You were born in a high class hospital. I have the bill from Sept. 1941 when I was born and the bill for 12 days was $57.50. Larry
GB
Member
Every kid in the neighborhood was welcome at our house. I was welcome at theirs. Kids would come to our house to see us and if we were gone they would ask if the dog could come out and play. If I was at a house and we did something that was cause to get a spanking, we all got one. And if Mom found out, when we got home, might just get another. At the very least you would be banished to your room to think it over. Nothing to do but read or listen to the radio. Same was true at our house. Don't ever remember any parents being upset by the fact that someone disiplined their little darlings. Simpler way of life.
But I don't miss the two or three times when I would go to school and find out that so and so would be out for the rest of the year because they had polio. Or the summers we couldn't go to the swimming pool because of the polio scare. Or the six weeks that my mom spent in the hospital with a heart attack. (the same attack today is an overnighter to get you stablized and then home for a couple of days with a followup at a specialist.)The good old days have a way of seeming better that they really were. OK, this is going down hill, I think I will end it now. GB
But I don't miss the two or three times when I would go to school and find out that so and so would be out for the rest of the year because they had polio. Or the summers we couldn't go to the swimming pool because of the polio scare. Or the six weeks that my mom spent in the hospital with a heart attack. (the same attack today is an overnighter to get you stablized and then home for a couple of days with a followup at a specialist.)The good old days have a way of seeming better that they really were. OK, this is going down hill, I think I will end it now. GB
deralte
US Veteran
Born in 33 and these posts bring back a lot of memories. Gas was 10 cents a gallon and cigarettes were 9 and 10 cents. Cost 10 cents to go to the saturday movies. To young for WWII but old enouth for Korea and Vietnam. Payed 9 cents a pack for cigarettes in 52 on Okinawa. Took a rifle to my high school class for show and tell and my first car was a 37 Ford coupe. Had indoor plumbing but the toilet flushed out into the creek in front of the house. Good thread.
sipowicz
Member
Three elderly ladies are sitting around. First one says, "I'm 70
years old but (rap, rap, rap) knock on wood, I'm still sharp. But,
some times I go to the store for two items and I'll forget one of
them."
Second one says, "Well, I'm 75 years old but (rap, rap, rap) knock
on wood, I'm still sharp. But, some times I'll call someone, dial
the number, and by the time they pick up the phone I've forgotten
who I've called."
Third one says, "Well, I'm 80 years old but (rap, rap, rap)...
Come in!"
An elderly gentleman came home one night to find a homeless girl
of about seventeen ransacking the place. He grabbed her by the arm
and was just about to call the police when the girl dropped down on
her knees and pleaded, "Please don't call the police, mister, oh
please!! If you don't, I'll let you make love to me and do whatever
you want with my body!"
The old man thought for a moment and decided to give in. Soon they
were naked and in bed together. The old man tried hard and tried hard,
but he couldn't get up an erection. Finally, he rolls over, exhausted,
and embarassed.
"I'm sorry, young lady...but it's no use," he gasped. "I'm afraid...
I'm going to have to...call the police...after all."
Three old-timers are sitting on the front porch of their retirement
home, kinda' quiet when the first old fella says "You know, things
just ain't what they used to be. I used to get up in the morning,
take myself a good piss, and I'd feel great for the day. Now, I get
up and it's hardly a trickle anymore... Hurts like hell, too"
Second old timer says "Yeah, I remember waking up, and after a
cup of coffee or two I'd take a really good ****. Now I gotta
strain 'til I get dizzy, just for a couple small rabbit turds"
That third ole' boy is just sittin' there, so one of the others
asks "and what about you, you ain't said nothin"
The man answers, "Well sir, every morning I take a real good leak
at 7 o'clock, and at 7:30 I take a pretty healthy dump, too"
First guy says "man, you really got it all together, dontcha?"
"Not really", says the third, "I don't get up until 8 o'clock"
years old but (rap, rap, rap) knock on wood, I'm still sharp. But,
some times I go to the store for two items and I'll forget one of
them."
Second one says, "Well, I'm 75 years old but (rap, rap, rap) knock
on wood, I'm still sharp. But, some times I'll call someone, dial
the number, and by the time they pick up the phone I've forgotten
who I've called."
Third one says, "Well, I'm 80 years old but (rap, rap, rap)...
Come in!"
An elderly gentleman came home one night to find a homeless girl
of about seventeen ransacking the place. He grabbed her by the arm
and was just about to call the police when the girl dropped down on
her knees and pleaded, "Please don't call the police, mister, oh
please!! If you don't, I'll let you make love to me and do whatever
you want with my body!"
The old man thought for a moment and decided to give in. Soon they
were naked and in bed together. The old man tried hard and tried hard,
but he couldn't get up an erection. Finally, he rolls over, exhausted,
and embarassed.
"I'm sorry, young lady...but it's no use," he gasped. "I'm afraid...
I'm going to have to...call the police...after all."
Three old-timers are sitting on the front porch of their retirement
home, kinda' quiet when the first old fella says "You know, things
just ain't what they used to be. I used to get up in the morning,
take myself a good piss, and I'd feel great for the day. Now, I get
up and it's hardly a trickle anymore... Hurts like hell, too"
Second old timer says "Yeah, I remember waking up, and after a
cup of coffee or two I'd take a really good ****. Now I gotta
strain 'til I get dizzy, just for a couple small rabbit turds"
That third ole' boy is just sittin' there, so one of the others
asks "and what about you, you ain't said nothin"
The man answers, "Well sir, every morning I take a real good leak
at 7 o'clock, and at 7:30 I take a pretty healthy dump, too"
First guy says "man, you really got it all together, dontcha?"
"Not really", says the third, "I don't get up until 8 o'clock"
JcMack
Member
What a waste. She coulda at least changed his depends or something.
jlrhiner
US Veteran
I'd of had her paint the house!
labworm
US Veteran
Has Michael Anthony been in anyone's neighborhood lately? I've been waiting 50+ years for him, so far he is a no show.
andrewb70
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So.......judging by the responses, you all may not even know that I am talking about....
I am old enough to remember, and care, that almost 21 years ago a little band from Seattle, called Nirvana, had a little hit called 'Smells like Teen Spirit".....
Andrew
I am old enough to remember, and care, that almost 21 years ago a little band from Seattle, called Nirvana, had a little hit called 'Smells like Teen Spirit".....
Andrew
jlrhiner
US Veteran
I remember the Ed Sullivan Show and watching a band called the Beatles. They sung about hand holding or something.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Seems it was a excellent 1917 for 65 bucks.
Can't be!!!
That was our ring for the first phone we had out in the country!!
Let's see, I was in the 4th grade.......so that would have been 1947.
Lordy, how time flies..........
Keep the old stories coming.
I was 18 in 1960 and it was a 4 in. .44 spec. for $40 used. I remember it had a shrouded ejector rod and magna grips. I wish I had it back. Larry
deadin
US Veteran
My first S&W was either a Lend-lease or Victory, I can't remember which, that had been sleeved to .22. I was around 13 or 14 at the time, so I'm pretty sure I traded for it. Didn't have much money at the time...
Another gun I remember was a German WW1 GEW98 that someone had filled the chamber and bore with lead so the kids could play with it. I was probably around 12 and thought it was really neat to have a real rifle to go with my helmet, gas mask and cartridge belt while playing "War".
I do recall that that thing was HEAVY!!!
Another gun I remember was a German WW1 GEW98 that someone had filled the chamber and bore with lead so the kids could play with it. I was probably around 12 and thought it was really neat to have a real rifle to go with my helmet, gas mask and cartridge belt while playing "War".
I do recall that that thing was HEAVY!!!
Bought a NIB Model 10 when I went to work for a PD. Paid $65.00 plus tax. Traded it for a NIB Model 58 costing $81.00 a few months later.
Combat Magnums cost $125.00 back then so I bought the cheaper .41 M&P.
Combat Magnums cost $125.00 back then so I bought the cheaper .41 M&P.
snowman
Member
Love it!Andy
P.S. Does your forum name have anything to do with antique tractors, by chance?
