Eating Pop rocks and daring your friends to drink a coke with them.

Buying BB's from the store when you were 7 or 8 without getting ID'ed.

Banana seats on you bike.

Getting up early on Sat. and watching the Indian pattern on TV before the cartoons started.

Whoever said that about the wax lips earlier, man that brought back some memories. Those things tasted horrible and supposedly like mint but you tried to chew on them anyway!

 

Boy, I wish I was born about 40 years earlier than I was. I'm 18, and I say to myself I was born in the wrong generation. I wish we could go back to how it was when you were all young(er).

 

You folks have brouhgt back some great memories, but what about you guys that remember the poor days when we had out houses and slop gars. I was 6 years old before my Dad got a job in town and we had indoor plumbing. I was scared of the toilet when it flushed, I thought it would suck me down with it. My grandparents lived that way for years after we moved

It has all changed fast when considering how long man has inhabited the earth.
deerhunter3814What does tommorow hold for us?

 

boy do i remember those days penny bubble gun 5 cent pops, gas 29.9 for high test, grand parents used horses to work the farm "the 4 leged kind". a out house in upstate ny in jan and feb.milking cows by hand,starting gramps first tractor with a crank. smokes at 27 cents,a dime in the service, stoped at 37 cents,the 54 ford was a new car and had ohv's, we still had packard,stud, hudson "wet clutch", kieser, desoto. boy where those the good days

 

7-11 opened at 7am and closed at 11pm? There was actually a losing team in Little League? Black & White TV? Your TV only had U thru 13, and you had to turn the channel selector slowly and in one direction only to keep from wearing it out too fast? Not to mention trying to fine tune the TV with the tuning ****.

 

I remember it all fondly. I recall no TV, no air conditioning, telephones with no dials (the first phone number I ever learned was 123, the local police), a nickle for a newspaper or a 12 oz. Pepsi, never locking our doors, gas as regular or Ethyl, my first job (at 14 -.$50 a day and $1.00 on Saturday), a double feature movie with popcorn and coke for a quarter, shaves at the barber shop, ice boxes, no credit cards, no automatic transmissions, no dope on the streets. We have made a lot of progress, but we have left a lot of good things behind.
Dono

 

Boy, am I old

I remember near all those things, except we only had 1 channel in Canada, the CBC. And Ethyl gas was called Number one.
I remember practicing diving under a desk for cold war air raids, and singing the National anthem and saying the Lord's prayer every morning in school, too.

Remember flat spots on the first fiberglass belted tires?
Getting a huge bag of Mojos for a quarter?
The Beatles first hit?
The Monkees?
Alvin?
Batman?
My Mother the car?
The Munsters?
"Your next car is a Mustang?"
"Wide tracking Pontiacs?"
The green Lantern?
Lucy?
Ramblers?
Soupy Sales?
Topo Gigio?
Man from U.N.C.L.E.?
Red Skelton?
Get SMART's Sunbeam Tiger?


Greybeard Ringo

 

The only computers where big old hulking things in sci-fi movies!

 

On ALL Holidays every store in town was closed except for the 7-11. I remember when I was really young growing up in Santa Fe, NM we could'nt go visit my Grandma because my dad forgot to gas up the car before Christmas day! (our 7-11 didn't sell gas)
James

 

Dallas Cowboys winning the Superbowl
Gillian's Island
Tucker the car
Chitty Chitty bang bang
spankings in school then at home
The Wizard of OZ
old leather razor straps
hand me downs
kids doing chours
as dad says; "counting two by two as each animal went up the plank"
as a freshman in high school pushing the marble down the hall with your nose. on carpert
thinking that you were cool looking up the dress of a mannequin
3 foot sticks of bubble gum

 

The Beach boys

Jan and Dean

The hottest girl in the neighborhood drove her mom's Impala SS with a 409 in it- and you were in third grade

$20 filled up the car, bought dinner with a date, a movie, and you came home with change

The only neighbor with a pickup lived down the street, and he was a contractor (yea, it was a Ford)

Sister Mary Terrible would beat you if you stepped out of line, and your folks approved.

The hottest girl in the neighborhood went off to college in a new GTO, and you were in the 8th grade

The first color TV set

Calling the overseas operator to call overseas

Driving cross-country involved mostly two lane roads

Cruising "the gut" on a Saturday night

ah....

 

Here is some more:
Straight six hot rod engines
Straight eight engines
Hydramatic transmissions- you can go full auto or shift it manually on the column
AM radio only with ONE speaker
Good tires lasted 20,000 miles
Hi/ Lo headlite switch on the floor
Starter button on the dash
Starter button on the floor
Hand crank windows
No window tint
Standard transmissions with overdrive and a "passing gear"
Standard transmissions with "free wheeling".
Vacuum windshield wipers that seldom worked
Six volt batteries
Eight volt batteries
Generators instead of alternators
FULL service gas stations that pumped your gas and cleaned the windshield
Air for tires was FREE
Points- a type of shoe
Pegged jeans
Ducks- a type of haircut
Curls- a type of haircut
Monogramed wrist braclets - men and women
Hippo soda
Nehi soda
Grapette
Double bubble was a .01
Bowling for dollars
S&H Green stamps
Mc Hales Navy
Uncle Milty
Ed Sullivan
Whats my line?
Jimmy Durante
"Old" Marks Brothers movies
Newsreels at the beginning of a movie
Mighty Mouse
Looney Tunes
Red Skelton
Freddie the freeloader
Clem Kadiddlehopper
Jacky Gleason
The Honeymooners
BIG first grade pencils

Your turn

 

How about:
Up draft carburators
One windshield wiper on drivers side (vacuum operated)
Oil bath air cleaners
Choke & throttle on the dash
Windshield wiper switch on the top middle of the dash
Cowl vent in front of the windshield
MpPar's with right hand thread lug nuts on one side and left hand thread on the other side.
Spark plugs that you could take apart and clean
Blue dot tail light lenses
Red innertubes
Boots in tires
Hot patches

 

forgot about a few. ford with positive ground,kingpin front ends, grease fittings,a new vw with 36 hp,nash cars, starter bottons on the floor, drive in movies back row, the english cars and bikes.
boy we most be a bunch of old timers here

 

I'm 62 years young!