My 1st grade school picture

[dlstewart01]

It was 1950. I got a Hop A Long Cassidy cowboy suit and a set of Colt 45s with tooled leather Roy Rogers holsters for Christmas. I wore them to school the day of school pictures. Can you imagine what would happen if a kid did this today. The way it was

 

[dlstewart01]

It was 1950. I got a Hop A Long Cassidy cowboy suit and a set of Colt 45s with tooled leather Roy Rogers holsters for Christmas. I wore them to school the day of school pictures. Can you imagine what would happen if a kid did this today. The way it was

 

[mississippi revolverman]

My wife's boss several years ago was a vintage toy collector. I had a pair of Mattel colt 45 in the dual plastic weastern holster. He showed me a colt trademark on the toy guns. Per his story Colt actually allowed the Mattel to use an orginal SA 45 model for the plastic toy.

Sounds good to me

 

[RDak]

Nice picture!

I wish I had kept my old cap pistols but I still have my Daisy BB gun. It doesn't have any air pressure any longer but I still have it.

I wish I knew how to post pictures, I sanded down the stock and made it look pretty nice for a 10 year old kid.

 

[dlstewart01]

Originally posted by RDak:
Nice picture!

I wish I had kept my old cap pistols but I still have my Daisy BB gun. It doesn't have any air pressure any longer but I still have it.

I wish I knew how to post pictures, I sanded down the stock and made it look pretty nice for a 10 year old kid.

Yeah, two Christmases later I got the holy grail of Christmas presents, a Red Ryder BB gun. I wore it plum out and didn't shoot my eye out either.

 

[Iggy]

My parents told the teacher to send me home early one day.. That meant I had to ride my horse home.

I didn't know what was going on and was
scared that I was in big trouble.

My folks loaded me in the car and we drove the 40 miles to town and to the UPRR station there.

I was taken into the Depot there stood the Lone Ranger.

I shook his hand and he gave a "silver bullet."

Up until that day I had been Hopalong Cassidy when the 3 other boys in school and I played at recess, but from then on I was the LONE RANGER!! and I had the bullet to prove it.



I still have it.

 

[pbslinger]

Watch "I need to get a gun" or some such BS on 20/20 tonight and you guys will find out what is wrong with you. Maybe you can sue your parents.

Seriously dlstewart01 that is the best school picture I have seen.

Iggy- Ride your horse to school? Too cool!

I was deprived since I was never given an option to ride my bike or walk to school. Had to ride the bus.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Here you go. Little first grade boy is pulling on his privates in class. The teacher questioned him and found out he had recently been circumsiced and it was itiching

She told him to go to the Principle and call his mother. He return shortly later. The teacher here the class erupt in laughter and looked to see the little boy exposing himself.
When questioned about calling his mother and exposing himself he replied

"Mom said to hangout till noon and she would pick me up"

 

[Titan]

My two favorite 'guns' as a youngster...

A Mattel 'Fanner 50' with an exceptional leather holster rig and...

A Mattel 'Snub Nose 38' with a simulated leather shoulder holster. It actually fired rubber bullets from spring loaded cartridge cases loaded into the cylinder.

I can't imagine the Snub Nose, in particular, making it to toy store shelves today.
.

 

[yashua-p]

The Lone Renger was at the airport at Griffin Georgia in 1948 or '49. My Mother drove me there from Barnesville. I wish that I still had that silver bullet

yashua

 

[Iggy]

Yup, 49 was the year I saw the Lone Ranger too.

PBslinger,

Round about Dec and Jan that horse ridin' to school was definitely cool!!!

 

[pbslinger]

Round about Dec and Jan that horse ridin' to school was definitely cool!!!

Only because that was before global warming!

 

[parallel]

LOL... holy crap! That picture would get you sent to juvenile detention now days. I wish we could just turn back the clock.

 

[marine2541]

Where I lived, in Detroit, Michigan, The kids would have beat the crap out of me if I dressed like that! You were a cute little guy, though!

 

[RDak]

Originally posted by marine2541:
Where I lived, in Detroit, Michigan, The kids would have beat the crap out of me if I dressed like that! You were a cute little guy, though!

I grew up in Detroit also. But in the fifties you would have been ok. Now the sixties and beyond........hmmm........?

Of course, with my big mouth, I got my butt kicked regardless of what I wore!

 

[VAdoublegunner]

Great photo, dlstewart01. I have one like that somewhere too, although mine was a bit later, around 1961. Schools, and life, were much different then. Our schools were also segregated until 1963/64 as were most school systems, not just those in the South. It's stange to relate that to many folks nowadays, it seems like such ancient history.

In Greensboro, NC, there was a local kids TV show, "The Old Rebel". There is actually a website about it. They had a (maybe once a month?) "Armed Forces Day" where all the kids would dress up in their army/navy, etc. paraphenalia and take their toy guns with them, the same stuff we'd run around the neighborhood playing "army" in, to the station to be in the Peanut Gallery audience for the live broadcast. They also had a Western Day, where we did the same except with our cowboy clothes. Boys and girls both did it. That all seemed to end around '64/'65.

It was a much different and simpler world to be a kid in those days.

 

[redlevel]

Originally posted by parallel:
LOL... holy crap! That picture would get you sent to juvenile detention now days. I wish we could just turn back the clock.

Yep.

More and more I remember the words written on the
Charlie Daniels Band album cover for "High Lonesome":

"What a Hell of a fine place this world used to be."

Great picture, by the way distewart01.

 

[ChinaSeaSailor]

great pic - I think this sums up what has happened to our country:

An old Indian Chief sat in his hut on the reservation, smoking a ceremonial pipe and eyeing two
US government officials sent to interview him.

"Chief Two Eagles" asked one official, "You have observed the white man for 90 years.
You've seen his wars and his material wealth, seen his progress, and the damage he's done".

The Chief nodded that it was so.

The official continued, "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?"

The Chief stared at the government officials for over a minute and then calmly replied,

"When white man found the land, Indians were running it.

No taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, women did all the work, medicine man free,
Indian man spent all day hunting, fishing, all night having sex."

Then the Chief leaned back and smiled,

"White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that!"