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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:23:48 AM EDT
As I read the posts lately I see a lot of post about getting older. Well I thought I would add a few. Some of these may date you as to age after reading some replies I will post the year I was born to give you an Idea of my age.
Do You Remember When.... Coca cola was sold from horizontal vending machines for 25cents and in 6 oz green glass bottles You could ride five miles to the little store on your bike and spend the 50 cents you had for a box of .22 ammo and you were 12 The TV was for watching the news by your parents The windows were open at night in the summer You worked all summer to earn money for a shotgun and you only needed a ride to the store to buy it not buy it for you You could buy five shotgun shells from the store You had rabbit traps in the winter for extra meat and you could sell the skins for Christmas money A hardware store was for nails, guns, glass, paint, ammo, and small animal supplies You got up early to finish you chores so you could spend the day in the fields and fishing A meal came from the stove and not a microwave Sunday was for church and family came over for a big meal Bacon came from the family or the farmer you knew Space food sticks were neat Tang was a treat Hot chocolate involved the stove and a pan not a package Gas was 25cents a gallon Lunchmeat came wrapped in paper You got in trouble a school and you din't want to go home because you were going to get it a lot worse at home The family car had a three on the tree Baseball was what you did all day long in the summer You worked all day heping build a house or loading hay and it was 100 degrees and at the end of the day they gave you a cold beer because you were a MAN now If you got into a fight you were told to win, and the next day you were best friends with the kid you were fighing with These are a few of mine feel free to post your own I think it will be interesting to see what some of you remember |
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Sweet, I'm still not getting old |
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Dang, I'm getting old, I can remember 90% of everything on the list.
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I remember those. You got in trouble in the store and some stranger helped your dad catch you so he could give you a whoopin You spent the entire summer outside, and ate dinner as fast as humanly possible to get back outside before it was too dark to see. |
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What about riding for miles on a bicycle just to get to the comic/candy store. Even better yet just do it because you were bored . Dont see much of that anymore. We used to have little biker gangs. If someone would catch a flat tire we would ghost ride the bike to the nearest home and ride the extra passenger on the handlebars. Fix the flat then head back out.
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I remember taking my BB gun down to the creek behind the houses and shoot birds.
I also liked to shoot streetlights. They never broke but they did fill up with BBs. And 5 cent candy bars. |
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I dont think I was thought of then
Some of my oldest memories... A meal came from the stove and not a microwave Gas was 59cents a gallon and you can get regular or unleaded Lunchmeat came wrapped in paper If you got into a fight you were told to win, and the next day you were best friends with the kid you were fighing with ( Still am ) Bacon came from the family or the farmer you knew (Grandfather was a farm hand on the weekends) Reagan got elected Beirut is one of the first things I remember about the news I pledge alligance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One Nation under God indvisable with liberty and justice for all ... Was how every school day started in grade school You got in trouble in the store and some stranger helped your dad catch you so he could give you a whoopin Disco sucked |
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Comic books were .10 or .15 cents and the titles were Sgt.Rock, Our World at War, etc.
You could carry a knife to school and even a rifle or shotgun at times. Book reports were typed on a typewriter not a word processor. Every kid had a BB gun. |
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I'm too young to remember a lot of that stuff.
But boy do I miss it. |
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Most of those.
I didn't have access to firearms when I 6 so I can't relate to some of them. I do remember looking forward to the one weeked a month that I went camping with the Boy Scouts over Friday and Saturday night. I remember $0.25 packs of cigerettes that I would buy for my mom and dad ... and knew better than to smoke them. I remember when any adult in the neighborhood could spank you - and if they said a word to your parents they'd spank and ground you. I remember when kids played outside - hockey in the winter, baseball in the spring, and basketball and football on the empty grass field that we'd cut down and maintain. I remember when mom would let you stay outside until the street lights came on ... not when she dialed you on the cell phone. I remember chatting face-to-face over a camp fire built at the city park ... not over the Internet. I remember drive-by eggings or moonings not drive-by shootings. I remember when you could buy a rifle through the mail and have to wait ten days for the mail ... not your background check! I remember when congress wrote laws not judges. I remember every kid in my school had a mother and a father ... except the one or two that had died. I remember when the right to choose meant riding on the front or the back of the bus. I remember $1 would get you a burger, fries, and a drink. |
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I wish it was now. |
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I remember frequent trips to my friend's house who lived on a lake (Irish Hills, MI). In the winter, we'd get the other kids together & have neighborhood hockey games.
We also don snowmobile suits & fencing masks & have BB gun wars. Never had an injury - even point blank shots weren't felt. We'd double up on the snowmobile suits, put on motorcycle helmets and tobbogan down cliffs. There was one called "suicide hill." You'd gain recognition if you had a successful trip (stayed on the toboggan). When we were 12, we'd sneak the cars out of the drive & have drag races down the dirt road. Nobody ever drove down that road (except his parents and the part-time neighbor who only visited the area during a few weekends in the Summer) so we never worried about collisions. There were about 6 or 7 lakes connected by channels. We'd jump in the rowboat in the morning, try to reach the end & make it back by dark (stopping to fish, of course). Back then, being gone all day was a treat for moms - not a cause for worry. |
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I hate to say it but you don't sound old you kinda sound like a redneck! No 'fence intended! Who the fuck has a pig they can slaughter? Or knows someone who does? Unless they lived on a farm? Even in 1920 you could'nt do that in NYC! Tang and space food treats? this has gotta be the 60's right? i was'nt born then but i think that was space race stuff right? As for TV, well up until the 70's most people in the sticks could'nt get it anyway cause reception was so bad. Well at least up in NY state mountain ranges.
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[Homer] mmmmmmmmmmmm, space food sticks...[Homer]
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Me and my brothers used to either ride our bikes with guns across the handlebars or hitchhike.And no one batted an eye!
Played baseball all summer,and football all winter.didn't know ANYONE really into basketball,and what the hell is soccer???? Left the house after breakfast and choresand didn't come back until suppertime. Can't imagine letting kids do that nowadays.They're missing out on alot. |
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Non-contact...for he most part. No pads necessary. Mommies like that I bet. I do remember my Mamma not liking it when I suited up for football, but I turned out alright... Man, do I remember spakings. Kids just don't know what they are missing today. ByteTheBullet (-: |
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A shotgun and rifle in the gun racks parked at school. And missing out on a few dates cause there was always something dead in the back of my pickup.
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I remember when I only had a 2400 baud modem. Man, those were the days.
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Man.... I remember the good old days.
Like when your legs quit working..............................It's Polio!!!! Or the fact that people never ever had more that one heart attack...............The first was always fatal!!!! I could go on and on *sigh*..... |
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I had the problem too |
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I remember:
Riding my bicycle two miles to my friend's house Riding my bicycle seven miles to school Hitchhiking home from football, basketball, or track practice Having to walk one mile from school to the hospital where my mom worked, wait until 8:00pm until she got off shift...if I didn't want to walk seven miles at 5:00pm Being trusted with a Red Ryder BB at age 10 Dad bringing out his rifle and shotgun about once per year to shoot them in the field...unless there were woodchucks that needed killing Getting a bunch of old clothes, putting them on, stuffing hay in all the openings, sitting down in a chair beside the road holding a pumpkin with a bag over my head at Holloween. Whenever cars would go by I would jump up from the chair Taking an old bike that my dad ran over with his dump truck, putting it on the side of the road along with a dummy me and my best friend made...and then smeared ketchup all over the road BB gun wars Walnut wars Making $27 one fall by putting together a Haunted Trail in the woods behind my best friend's house Making walking and dirt bike trails in the woods...for hours Thinking that it was stressful to have to do chores for my parents (heheheh) Hating my overprotective mother at times Playing tackle football against my younger brother and cousin in the gravel driveway...even after dark Wanting to be just like my dad My two favorite toys: Legos and Matchbox Cars. Hot Wheels cars weren't quite as good, imo When so many things each day were brand-new to me Being a fairly new volunteer firefighter, pulling up to a fresh accident and asking the only policeman on the scene if he needed help...and being told to get the hell out of there Being a fairly new volunteer firefighter and coming up on a fresh accident scene while on my way home from playing football one Sunday afternoon...and directing traffic at the intersections of Routes 21 and 44 for an hour...in my football uniform Working construction with my cousin all day, lifting weights when we got home, running sprints after the weights, and then running laps around my field after dark Being on a strict 7,000 calorie-a-day diet Looking forward to school-clothes shopping day...and dreading it at the same time My first few years of realizing that girls were beautiful creatures Seeing an empty kissing booth at the local country fair when I was 13 and stepping into it for a while Riding on the floor of my parents' 1950 Ford pickup while my dad drove on my left and my mom held my baby brother in her arms on my right Being poor but never having to want for things I needed Appreciating the internet, where someone hundreds of miles away can post a thread like this to get me to reminisce about my childhood.... |
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Yes. I remember it well.
Then again...I suspect I'm one of the original Old Farts here. |
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I remember bringing a bucket full of COKE bottles to the store to get the deposit money and then spending it on a comic book or if I saved enough , a HOT ROD magazine . I remember the Barber using a straight razor to shave my neck and sideburns . |
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Ah djohns6.
The barbers chair, The "man place" no salon for us then. The talk, the magizines, and if your dad was a real regular, a cold beer for him from the back. We were not sheeple then. And if you are not a recent resident to the bayou state, Blood boudan, a real Mardi Gras. a chicken run. Stores didn't sell Gumbo. Cajan music that was real. French/Arcadian |
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I remember when a "snickers" bar was called a "Marathon "bar
Do you have them over there? Taffy I remember taking lemonade bottles back to the shop for the refunds on the bottles. Then climbing over the back fence of the shop to retrieve the bottles to once again take them into the shop for refunds..... Was that wrong? |
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I remember when Coke was made with sugar and not high-fruitoise corn syrup crap and McD's fries were made with peanut oil and not that corn oil....
You can get that from Mexico, though. |
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Trying to place the flag, but my brain power is dulled right now. Marathon bar where was that?
Micky dees FF's with salt. How long has that been? And they were cooked in lard. |
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Remember when TV went from black and white to color? Shows were advertised as being shown "In Living Color" NBC peacock with color in the feathers.
Beer cans you needed to open by punching holes in them. Then the can pull tabs and the pull tab chains? Those pull tabs were terrible on bare feet. Counter checks. Local businesses had a stack of checkbooks on the counter for each of the local banks. People would grab a check from the right book and fill it out. No account name or numbers on the checks. Growing up I had a checking account I rarely used. I was overdrawn for about 4 months before I found out, because the banker said he knew we'd be in sooner or later to add money. Riding home in the backseat of the car listening to radio mystery theater. ETA: Candy bars were 10 cents and big, then the price aent to 15 cents, then 20 cents. Then the candy bars started getting smaller instead of proce increases. |
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Coca-Cola 10 cents
gasoline 19.9 cents per gallon cigarettes 25 cents a pack going to the drug store and buying a box of cigars for my dad for his birthday and on father's day... no questions when I went by myself! pay telephone 10 cents... or if you hit the coin return as you dropped in a nickel, it was only 5 cents. picking up pop bottles and beer bottles from the side of the road to return for a 2 cent deposit milk at school was 2 cents reel to reel tape recorders, the one my dad bought to replace his old wire recorder dreaming in black & white (since TV was black & white) penny candy hearing my parents talk about some well to do family which lived in a big $10,000.00 house! Unfortuately, where my mom still lives (in the house my dad built) there are still $10,000.00 homes. New cars for well under $2,000.00 just off the top of my head! |
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I remember no TV only radio. Don McNeils (sp) Breakfast club, Lone Ranger. Green Hornet, Fibber MaGee and Molly, Intersanctum (sp).
In HS gas was 10-15 cents and they had gas wars (price) Worked afer HS for .75 an hour Army sold Cigarettes for 10 centsw a pack in the PX Other stuff I should remember but I'm too old. Gerry |
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I remember the time before we had unleaded gas.
IIRC it was .17 per gallon most everything from the original list too |
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I remember when they were a nickle and came in a vending machine that had a big shoe-horn shaped handle on the front one pressed to dispense a coke. You young whipper-snapper! I also remember gasoline at 24.9, cigaretts at 25 cents a pack, Wild Turkey Whiskey cost 4.50 a fifth, and you picked up your paper AND your milk on your front porch. I'm older tha God's dog. In 1963 you could buy a Plymouth Fury III with a 383 and automatic transmission for $1295.00 Today don't hold a candle to it neither! They WERE the good ol days! ETA: Incidently.....the alternative to getting older.....well, it's a bummer!! |
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I remember making love to the girls while in high school and the only thing you had to worry about was crabs!
I remember making love to the bar girls in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malysia, The Philippines, and Thailand and all you had to worry about was the clap. |
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I remember me and my friends keeping our shotguns in the trunks of our cars so we could go duck hunting after school. I remember an older guy telling me they used to have a gun rack in the principles office to hold your shotgun so you could hunt to and from school. Maybe it's time to being a new country that doesn't allow lawyers, politicians, or nutjob liberals.
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I lived in the country, our milkman came once a week. We left the front door unlocked(didn't have a key for it anyway) and he'd put the milk in the friDge, and ice cream in the freezer. We'd place softball in a cow pasture, you REALLY didn't want to slide into second, which was often a cowpie This thread is really sparking some memories |
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Yea remember most of that plus going to the movies on a Ben Franklin and that included popcorn and coke.
Mostly I remember men were men and women were women. Metrosexual wasn't a word. Gay meant you were happy and a fag a cigerette butt. Children had the roam of the streets and child molesters were given the death penalty instead of being rehabilitated after the six chance. Divorce was a bad word and adultery frowned upon. A criminal was a person who stole or hurt not your uncle Bob cause he drove a car drinking. John Wayne was everyones idol not Woody Allen. People had actual real friends not imagenary ones on TV. Welfare was commodity food and a doctor visit not a three bedroom apartment, credit card, and weekly visits to the chiropractor. Most of all, I remember family and how they were more important than everything and the concept me only didn't exist. No, looking back isn't fun anymore. Tj |
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