If you are my age you remember........

[dben002]

18 cents a gallon gas and a old TV show entitled the Joy of Painting (Bob Ross)......a talented painter.....well I have been watching cable reruns of his TV show and he makes it look so easy and effortless and enjoyable so I thought I would give painting a try and sure enough it is relaxing and enjoyable......

Here is my foray into a relaxing past time.....Let's see yours.....

 

[Old 44 Guy]

dben. When I was a kid gas was 10 cents. My family mined gold for a living in the Sierras. log cabin was home, no radio, elect, etc. Water was in the creek. Neighbor had a battery radio.TV wasn't invented yet, My gun is one I whittled out of wood. That was in 1936 or 6, Now I have a safe full. Yes, I'm an old bugger.

 

[Roofuss]

At my age, I have forgotten a lot more than I remember. I some cases, that may be a good thing, lol!!

 

[Imissedagain]

I remember attaching a piece of flexible plastic, to the B&W TV screen,
then tracing along with the artist's work.

 

[ladder13]

You picked a great audience.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Back in the day one of my associates was touring around up near Taos, NM.
He managed to get stuck in the snow.
Two local dudes came along and helped him get unstuck.
He asked them, what kind of work you guys do?
They replied, we are painters.
Residential or Commercial?
They laughed and replied, we are Artists.
He was thinking all those folks were deceased.
He had seen their paintings in Museums!

 

[fiasconva]

How many of us had that early morning paper route where you got up at 5AM or so, 365 days a year, rain or shine, and rode your bike with the huge basket on the front, throwing papers on front porches for very little money in return?

 

[erikpolcrack]

dben. When I was a kid gas was 10 cents. My family mined gold for a living in the Sierras. log cabin was home, no radio, elect, etc. Water was in the creek. Neighbor had a battery radio.TV wasn't invented yet, My gun is one I whittled out of wood. That was in 1936 or 6, Now I have a safe full. Yes, I'm an old bugger.

I remember single-digit-point-nine gas as well. Years later I remember my grandfather being excited about unleaded gas coming in because he remembered the price of gas going up when they first started to add lead. He could hardly wait for the price to go down when they didn't have to add the lead anymore. Boy was he disappointed!

 

[sophie]

How many of us had that early morning paper route where you got up at 5AM or so, 365 days a year, rain or shine, and rode your bike with the huge basket on the front, throwing papers on front porches for very little money in return?

I had an evening paper route for quite a while growing up. We had morning newspapers and evening newspapers. I carried my newspapers in a shoulder bag furnished by the Amarillo Globe News and walked my paper route. My route was 3 blocks long on 3 adjoining streets. Delivering the evening paper was easy. Whichever one you chose you got the Sunday morning paper as well. I hated getting up at 5 am on Sunday morning to roll and band the papers because Sunday’s edition was thicker and had lots of ads. My Mother helped me on the early mornings as well. I remember the day my Dad took me to the bank and I opened my first bank account with the money I made. Being a paperboy was a tough way to make money. Good memories

 

[Rustyt1953]

I 1963 I had a route selling GRIT. That's how I got my X-Ray specs and Sea Monkeys.

Also, our phone number was MUrray 2-4606. 4 longs and a short.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

I 1963 I had a route selling GRIT. That's how I got my X-Ray specs and Sea Monkeys.

Also, our phone number was MUrray 2-4606. 4 longs and a short.

Ahh......The party line.....Ours was 2 longs and one short.

 

[Hair Trigger]

18 cents a gallon gas and a old TV show entitled the Joy of Painting (Bob Ross)......a talented painter.....well I have been watching cable reruns of his TV show and he makes it look so easy and effortless and enjoyable so I thought I would give painting a try and sure enough it is relaxing and enjoyable......

The last time gas was 18 cents a gallon (average price in the US) was 1940. That was 14 years before I was born.

I loved to watch Bob Ross paint his "friendly little trees" and he made it look so easy, but he's predated as a TV artist by Jon Gnagy, who had a show that started in 1947 called "You Are an Artist" and it morphed into "Learn to Draw" that continued into the 1960's. I used to watch it as a kid and I had his book showing basic drawing techniques. I learned a lot from watching his show and practicing what the book taught. Gnagy died the year Bob Ross's TV show started, in 1983.

 

[llowry61]

I had an evening paper route for quite a while growing up. We had morning newspapers and evening newspapers. I carried my newspapers in a shoulder bag furnished by the Amarillo Globe News and walked my paper route. My route was 3 blocks long on 3 adjoining streets. Delivering the evening paper was easy. Whichever one you chose you got the Sunday morning paper as well. I hated getting up at 5 am on Sunday morning to roll and band the papers because Sunday’s edition was thicker and had lots of ads. My Mother helped me on the early mornings as well. I remember the day my Dad took me to the bank and I opened my first bank account with the money I made. Being a paperboy was a tough way to make money. Good memories

This brings back memories. I had an evening route (the Columbus Dispatch) and a buddy had the morning route (the Columbus Citizen Journal) we would sub for one another as needed.

I hated Wednesday and Sunday. Wednesday had shoves that came separately, and you had to put them together just like Sunday, but the Sunday paper was huge and heavy to boot.

I think I had 85 weekday and a hundred Sunday only. Collecting was another chore.

My dad used to get pissed when the phone would ring during dinner with people complaining they had not received their paper, or it got wet so out the door I went to deliver a fresh one. I spent a lot of time clipping the top date and paper name of damaged papers so I would get credit for them when I had to pay the bill.

Taught me basic business, buy wholesale and sell retail. I learned to give folks a deal if they would pay one month at a time. I learned about collections as well you would be amazed at the people who would stiff the paperboy.

Oddly enough when I was quitting a you lady took over the route. I think she was one of the first papergirl in the area. I had to train her. She was smart and tough. She never complained and hauled the papers as well as I could.

I moved up in the world and started caddying and cutting grass. It was a big pay raise and kept me in .22 and .410 shells come hunting season.

 

[jaguargolf]

The earliest I remember noticing the price of gasoline was 1973 when the embargo started. It was $.39/gal. We lived in downtown NYC and we didn't own a car so it was not something I paid attention to. Guys I went to high school with lived outside of the city and to them it was a big deal. My family was so removed from the gasoline shortage that after I took driver's ed, we didn't know anybody with a car so I could take my road test. I bought a car when my ship was in the yards; ...1975? I owned a car before my father owned a car.

 

[Walkin Horse]

Does anyone remember Professor Berry the dog and horse trainer? An older friend of mine talks about getting his book when he was young. I’ve never found anything about him.

 

[Alpo]

>The last time gas was 18 cents a gallon (average price in the US) was 1940. That was 14 years before I was born<


Maybe at the name stations - phillips, texaco, standard. But there was a tide station about a half a mile from my house, and that's where Mama bought gas. When I was getting of the age to drive, so gasoline prices was something I needed to pay attention to - this would be the late '60s - gas was regularly around 15 cents. During gas wars I saw it as low as a dime. Don't ever remember seeing single digit gas, but I've seen it close.

 

[JcMack]

I learned to drive in the mid '50's when I was 13. My Grandma had a small farm in SW Missouri.. My uncle had given her the farm because he raced Quarter horses and he kept them there. Grandma had a '54 Olds 2 dr and she gave me the keys and couple bucks for gas. Gas price war was on and it was .19 cents a gallon. So I tore up the gravel roads between Oronogo and Webb city in the Olds for the 2 weeks I was there. My cousin introduced me to a 15 yr old sweetie and me and the cousin double dated to a drive in somewhere around there. I liked that very much.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Back in the day, I was heading West.
Got into Phoenix mid afternoon.
They were having a Gas Price War! Yes, Virginia, in times of Yore there were Gas Wars. Bought gas for 17 cents a Gal.
Later that night, got over in the Cali desert. Paid 34 cents a Gal.
Complained to the station manager and told him about paying 17 cents. He said it costs more to get gas delivered here.
Besides - I heard Phoenix is having a Gas War!

 

[djohns6]

Back in the mid 80's I saw Bob Ross doing an appearance thing at a book store . Couldn't mistake that hairdo ..

 

[H Richard]

I enjoyed the 40's, especially the army surplus stores that opened up after the WWII was over. All my camping gear was GI.