Penny candy getting a nickel back for pop bottles Revelle made the best 1/25 scale models For $2.50 Pouring model glue on the $2.50 revelle model and lighting it on fire , and rolling it down the nearest gulley 3 gallons for a buck the Oklahoma credit card ( swallowing half a pint to get two gallons ) getting caught siphoning, and made to work it off mowing lawns for $5 Being followed home , or given a ride home from the local Constabulary, instead of being arrested for DWI $3 a carload nite at the drive inn , and still putting three guys in the trunk Driving one of Dad's school buses to $3 a carload night Taking a note , @ 7 years old to the store for Mom's Pall Malls Mom's Call to dinner , 120 decibles , a block away JOEEEY DINNER!!!! Gentleman's fight, if one was knocked down , nobody got 'the boots' put to 'em . they were allowed to get back up. and usually shook hands and had a beer together after , and sometimes , became friends, This note made me feel good , But, old,, Joe
Looking for '32 Fords in my dad's Sunday paper ads was cool. But the bra section in my mom's Sears catalog was inspiring.
Smoking and non smoking sections in restaurants The puzzles in the cap of Lucky Lager Grandma's Pall Mall's Milk man coming to the neighbor's house Riding my bike all over the place and not worrying about strangers Sitting in the "way back" of my parents 72 or 73 Gran Torino wagon with no A/C, brown vinyl interior, and trying to get truck drivers to honk at us Stores were closed on Sunday Stores were closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Family was much more sacred
Good God almighty.Do I ever remember.Good times with Mom,Dad and little sister.You could call in requests for a particular record.Western swing,country/western,rock and roll,the big bands.You know like Glenn Miller,Dorsey Brothers,Benny Goodman.THOSE big bands.2lb loaf of sandwich sliced bread for 10 cents at the 7-11.Go anywhere and everywhere without worrying about the wolly boogers getting ya.Remember Dads 29 Ford rumble seat roadster.Dark green body with black fenders.Got to drive it one time before Dad sold it.Me and sis in the front seat.Mom and Dad in the rumble seat with the top down.What a blast.Saturday afternoon matinee at the walk in theater was 10 cents.Thought it was outrageous when the price went to 15 cents.Royal Castle burgers were 10 cents each.As the old song went."Those were the days".Never again.BUT damn,they were FUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. Thanks for the memories.Oopsssssss.Thats another song. By the by.I just turned 67 last month. Good luck.Have fun.Be safe. Leo
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stopping at the Mobile gas station and buying a soda that pulled from the bottle machine for .25 cents, and taking the girlfriend to the drive-in for a buck!
Remembering as a little kid in the late 1950's seeing - 1) - the very last of the horse-drawn door-to-door milk and bread delivery wagons, starting by then to be replaced en-mass by the by the then ubiquitous, DIVCO delivery trucks and - 2) - seeing the very last 'Canadian National', 'Canadian Pacific' and 'Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Rwy' steam locomotives still in regular, day-to-day operation.
I recall a junkman with a horse drawn wagon in the streets of Detroit in the mid 60's. The guy that pushed the cart street, rang a bell & yelled "scissiors sharpened". Early 60's "Dave" the ice cream man w/his truck. We didnt need no stinkin Good Humor man.
Growing up, I remember....chocked full of tetraethyl lead goodness, 102-plus octane, 60-cent a gallon 'Sunoco 260'! Mart3406 ==================
Wrapping a blown fuse with tinfoil from a cigarette pack to get the headlight back on and smelling tobacca burning in the car...!!
Growing up, I remember.... my Papaw (grandfather) who grew up before WWII, talking about the kids who grew up in the 50's and 60's being spoiled and not knowing the good things in life. And I remember him also talking about how his parents (who settled the area in wagons when they were young) talked about how kids who grew up in the 20's and 30's were spoiled and didn't know about the good things in life. And I remember my Nanny (grandmother) talking about sitting on her grandfather's knee, and him talking about how the kids who grew up after the Civil War were spoiled and didn't know about the good things in life.
Me too. "Well I spent all of that day and the rest of that night trying to find my brother Bill. I finally found him 'bout six the next mornin', naked singin on the wind mill. Said he flew up there, I had to fly up and get him he was about half crazy . . ." ================================================================ "I'll tell you what growing up I remember being able to remember anything whether it happened or not."Mark Twain
Glad this thread is back up...I got to ride in the KRL"A"...was on leave from the Navy and decided to spectate at Irwindale, the "A" was there, driven by Steve Lacatos, who had crewed on the car in my avatar...told me he had built it, and gave me a ride in the pits, think they were there supporting Doug Robinson's fueler that KRLA sponsored.....wasn't the KRLA studios in the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena??
Me too, Seth Miller's Union 76 station on calif blvd in Pasadena, full service (there was no other kind then)...checked tires, oil, washed windshields, and filled batteries with what we told you was distilled water (!)
Ha I had a Jelly Roll the summer of '69. Did it just to screw with the "Cool Jocks". For some of you fellas it is like a cross between a Flat Top with Fenders and a Pompadour, more like a Pimp-adour
Riding around with my Dad in his 52 Chevy truck (which I still have), and his arm as the seabelt when we stopped to fast. Selling Rosebud Salve and Grit door to door, wouldn't let kids do that now. Pouring used motor oil from my Dads Mack treck on the dirt road in fron of the house to keep the dust down. Going with my Grandfather to sit in front of the Courthouse and whittle, and him laughing when I cut mself.
I remember all of these had family and friends I watched race at Westboro The Mamoth Mart that opened in the 70s in Putnam Ct. had a full restaurant in it! remember shopping at the first Ames Store in an old mill in Southbridge as well.
One of those things that one day you suddenly realize "What happen to those" all utility poles had L shaped rungs that started about 10 feet off the ground up to the wire cross bars. When lineman used spurs you would get arrested and fined for "Tresspass" out here if you were caught stapling/nailing anything to a utility pole because it could injure a lineman trying to climb a pole.The law is still in effect but no longer pushed.
A few things I remember and miss is the Sears Wish Book, those old comic books like Archie, Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Sad Sack, Baby Huey, and those trading stamps (Blue Chip Stamps in my case). Man, I used to collect those stamps like crazy and I used to get some really cool things like a telescope, walkie talkies, slot car set. The Blue Chip catalog was just as much fun to look through as the Sears Wish Book.
Picking up pop bottles and cashing them in to buy fireworks, the Fourth of July was a big thing for a kid back in the 50's and early 60's, the same with the State Fair.
Anyone remember "Bazooka Joe" bubble gum??? The wife picked me up a box at a bulk foods store here in town... They are now made in Mexico...
I remember way back 45 years ago when my father or grandfather would drive up to a filling station run over the bell hose (ding ding) and two or three guys would run out and start checking oil and tires and washing windows and pumping the gasoline. They had these little coin change makers on their belt. Tires on display were wrapped up in foil or paper and cans of oil would be stacked neatly on the shelves. Those were full service fuel stations. TM
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