reading though here again, any one remember a henry j car. milking cows by hand. or pulling the cream off the top of a milk bottle

 

The job I had in high school was working at a dairy from 5am to 7 am, then off to school and going back at 5pm to 7 pm. We used machines and milked by hand. I also remember the Henry J and the Kiaser, Wllys, Desoto, Imperial and
Sock Hops
Archie comic books
Baseball cards
Lets make a deal
Truth or consequences
Our Mss Brooks
My little Margie
Drugs in school like aspirin
Buffalo nickels were common
Paper currency was Treasury notes
Penny postcards
Socks and underwear were white
Fins on cars
Fountain pens
NO calculators- you had to use the noggin
Food was better- much better
Women cooked
NO microwaves
NO heat and serve groceries

 

let me dream on a little bit,i remember when the town i live in had no stop lights, we finally got one right downtown by the police station [one cop], and it was a blinking yellow light, turns out our police officer wanted a little more security coming back from the coffee shop.

 

Getting Fast food was a treat

Listening to My great grandma talk about taveling to Texas from Missouri while we were watching the Space Shuttle launch.

Getting whipped with a switch off of the tree

When baseball cards were traded among kids and not on e-bay

 

Ok how many of you remember "rabbit ears" t.v. antenna's?

Or these classics:
Going to the barber for a haircut (instead of the hair stylist)
American Flyer red wagons
metal rollerskates the buckled to your shoes
the Ed Sullivan Show
when "Rock and Roll" was the evil of the world
duck tail hair styles and poodle skirts
drive in movies

 

Yep, I remember those. Also when you used to watch the old B/W cartoons from the 30s and 40s or the "Mighty Mouse/ the Walter Lanz "Heckal and Jeckal" cartoons on Saturday morning TV that would be considered very "unPC" now with their antics. But you knew YOU did not bounce off the ground if you dropped over a cliff or get whacked in the head with a bat. You knew it was all fantasy.

10-15 cent Hershey bars that were also huge. 10 and 12 cent Comic books. Paperback books were 25 and 35 cents. For less than a dollar, you could go to the Saturday Matinee to see a double feature/cartoons. Buy a big popcorn/soda/candy and still have money left over to go to a toy store with.

TV shows like "Our Miss Brooks", "Topper", "Science Fiction Theater", "One Step Beyond", "Robin Hood", "Dragnet", "Highway Patrol", "Space Patrol", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Wild Bill Hickock", "Have Gun Will Travel", "The Rebel" and so many more.

I also remember the Scott Carpenter/Alan Shepard flights before John Glenn's. Going to school with Dick and Jane before Sputnik came along. Remember having to get those early 50s Polio shots in elementary school. (Ugh)

All those great 50s and 60s cars/trucks when new. But I am 53 and my husband, being 64, remembers a whole heck of alot more "good stuff" from earlier times.

Well, yes....memory can be selective. A man went to work and the woman stayed home with the kids to cook, cleaned and whatever else needed to be done. My husband's mother would have agreed with the rant as she grew up on a rural SE Missouri farm. I found out what some this "other side" was about while living up on a Placer Mining Claim with my husband back in the 70s after growing up in San Diego for a number of years. We had to haul our water and heat any for laundry. Raised chickens/rabbits and goats for their products and learned early to butcher/clean any of them for the pot. Used a Propane stove, though and did have a propane Servel Refridgator to keep some things cold. Just had to keep an eye out when the propane went out. Didnt freeze in any blizzard...we lived in the Arizona Desert mountains then. We just roasted in the Summer heat....especially my husband when he worked at a coalfired blacksmith forge.

But in someways, it was still the "good old days when you remember when". At least you got more exercise, food tasted better and the streets for kids seemed safer!

 

Momma Cass on HR Puff n Stuff
Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner hour
My Brother-in-Laws Mopar Roadrunner (Boris)
Daisy BB gun
Punt Pass & Kick
Frisbee
I am from Wy. Snow storms so bad that our neighbor had to take my Mom to work (@ the VA) on his Ski-Doo.
4 track
8 track
Jefferson Airplane
Merle Haggard
Hee Haw
Hawaii Five O
FBI
Adam 12
Dragnet
Mr. Rogers
The heroine epidemic
Racial Tension
ERA
R vs W
My oldest Brother going away to Viet Nam and the reel to reel tapes that he used to send home.

 

How about some of the first TV's that had mineral oil in front of the tube to increase the size of the picture.
The clear colored plastic to put infront of the black and white TV screen to made it a colored TV.

 

ok i've got one who else was at woodstock? i mean woodstock 1 1969, 4 days of a great time. still have the tickets as it was free when we got there

 

.......coke was still cola and joint was a bad place to be....

 

that last one I remember and I'm only 21. home in VA, we had a group of about 15-20 kids all about the same age. (Navy housing) We left at about 9 and didn't come home till 8 or 9. lunch was at a different house every day...God, I miss that and am saddened that My kids won't know that feeling...

 

Wow.... this is the first time I've looked at this thread and I can relate to just about all of it. Guess I'm too old to die young.

How about watching the Cuban missle crisis unfold on tv as a kid, thinking we were all going to die soon.

Or putting a 're-verb' in your car.

 

I'm only 18, so I don't have as many "remember whens" as some of the old people on this thread do, but here goes...
I remember when...
gas was $.99 9/10 :eek
G.I.Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Macarana (sp?)
Nap time (Kindergarten, still have nap time, called study hall)
The Dodge Omni
Snow durring winter time (no more blizzards here in central Minnesota)
I know, short list, but as I get old...er...older...the list will get longer...

 

Speaking of missles...who remembers the Apollo space missions? And the ultimate - the moon landing!

 

Ahh the Moon Landing, Asked my wife to marry me that night after we watched it.

Henry J's? Brother had one.

I bought a ****** Car, 1952 Areo Lark, for 25 bucks. Drove the snot out of it. Saw one at an antique auto auction a couple of years ago. Same color and everything. Went for 78 grand.................sigh

And the Cuban Missle Crisis, the first time in my young life that I ever saw my Dad visibly worried. I had no idea what was going on, but we had a 'duck and cover' drill every day at school for a few weeks.
(In retrospect, after doing some deep digging I am shocked and frightened at just how close to Ragnorak we came.)