boy this thread seems to have those of us old timers in it,
yes i remeber all to well the jfk shooting. got sent home from school early and since we were bused mom asked what are you doing home? jfk was killed . she past'd out
all to well many of the items stated,
like my first date, first car a 50 2 door v8,my second car a hudson and doing a clutch job on it, cork disc,wet clutch with a special oil. my first brand new ford a 64 gal,500 xl 427, 4 speed, boy what thats worth today,my first tuna fish a 1200 lb'er,sex was safe ? never my daughters proof of that, 20 dollar oz. how about 10? woodstock? guess many of us could go on forever, who ever you are that started this one. THANKS FOR THE MEMORYS,"bob hope"

 

I had two weeks to go on my first enlistment in the Navy when JFK was assinated.

 

25 cent allowance and you had chores

every kid in the house bathed in the same water on sunday night, just before walt disney, and bonansa

needed a can opener for canned pop

pretty much walked everywhere or road your mustang bike

were told to go outside and play, so you played cowboys and indians with the neighbor kids till someone got hurt

got our first dial phone

they had the strap at school, then you got it again when you got home( oowww!)

fought with you parents so you could grow hair over your ears

everyone had a garden, and fun was raiding one(yuck health food)

kanvas running shoes if you had a pair of addidas you were cool

playing on the train tracks

using a tape recorder to tape music off the radio(ok maybe we were just poor)

balloon sleeve shirts

ok I'll quit

 

Wooden /Glass Scrub Boards for washing clothes > Then the wringer washer came out.
Oil Lanterns (No Power yet)
Laundry Day
Burning day
Coal Scuttles
An Ice Box to keep food cool
Cars with wooden wheels/spokes
Spats
When the first passenger jet was being used.
Crank Phones with Party Lines

 

i keep looking into this one.something i have not seen
watching the first super bowl.

 

Remember:
Trolleys
Steam trains
No air conditioning in cars or houses
No power windows
Window air conditioning that smelled like a freezer
Mostly AM radio, very little FM and that was classical music
Hoola hoops
Ben Franklins 5 and dime, and you could actually buy a metal toy truck for a dime
Grapette
Fire engines with sirens
There was NO five o'clock rush hour
You could fill the tank and eat a burger for $5.00
You could fill the trunk with groceries for $20.00
You got most of the years clothes at Christmas
You only had one set of Sunday clothes
Transom windows over doors
Ceiling fans in the barber shops, and the smell of the powder afterwards
Getting a lolipop after a haircut
Having mom kiss it to make it better
Going to sleep in the back seat of the car and dad carrying you into bed
Your first hunting trip
Your first fish
Learning to ski
Learning to drive
The smell of the art gum eraser in school
Art class
The first time a girl looked good to you and she didn't have cooties
Mr Potatohead
The game Battleships
The game Clue
The card game Battle
Being the first to see a "slugbug" on a road trip (volkswagen)
The first time under the mistltoe with that favorite girl
Ram air induction
Spotlights on cars at the windshield column

Am I the only old geezer here with a memory? Next.......

 

Fantastic thread!!!!!

Getting asked to the Sadie Hawkins Dance by the best looking girl in your class, and thinking (and actually knowing) that you are the ugliest guy in the class?
(It happened to me!) Her name was Sherri. Wow! What a knockout!
We dated for 2 years! Ahhhh. . . the good ole days.

The Berlin Wall being built
The Berlin Wall falling
Watergate
Polio vaccine
Seeing 'Sputnik' w/ a telescope on a clear night
Watching a DC-6 fall out of the sky (The horror. I can still see it.)

Alan Shepard being #1
Gus Grissom being #2
John Glen being shot into space and the 'Heatshield' problem

Actually being able to see more than a few stars in the sky
The air was clean and sex was dirty
Your first speeding ticket (all the rest were downhill, from there.)
Family 'get-togethers' at G'-Ma's on Sunday afternoon
Fried Chicken for lunch by the creek w/ G'-Ma (and a fishin' line in the water, trying to get a Rainbow Trout)
Actually catching your first Rainbow Trout!!!

Your first Whitetail deer (heck, your first 'anything'!)
When Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's birthdays were not combined into "President's Day"



Roy Clark. . . "Yesterday when I was young. . . . . ."


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I don't remember Sputnik, (too young) but I remember Dick and Jane. I learned to read with those Dick and Jane books. I also remember the first word I learned to read. Box.

Some of you are remembering where you were when JFK was shot. I'm too young for that too. But I vaguely remember Elvis, and John Lennon. I guess both times, my mom had the radio on, and all I remember hearing was Elvis or the Beatles. And to think I wasn't even 6 yet.

How many of you remember the time your dad took with you to teach you how to ride a bike? And how you got 10 feet before falling. Then leaving him in the dust for an hour?

Ah, the memories...

 

Saddest day of my life, Dec 8/80.
No one dying, including my own relatives (parents are still alive) ever affected me like the death of John Lennon. I was 22 at the time. Still makes me sad thinking about it. Dedicated the last 1/3 of his short life to World peace.Such a waste.
I will NEVER set foot in New York City.

RF

He would have been 64 this year.
"will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64"

 

Setting down to the table to eat. Meals cooked by hand by Mom. 3 horn honks meant it was time to come home. Going fishing with Dad after he got of work, of course that was after 5:30 supper. Days lasting for 24 hours, now it seems as though it doesn't last that long. All this technology is great, but no one appreciates time anymore. It is just run, run, run.

 

A lot have been said, but as I am only 35

Finally getting a/c
The phone company stoped the lines from party line bleed over in 95, party lines offically ended locally in 87. Pulse phone (still on pulse service, too cheap to pay the extra $2 and now only tone option) and tone phones do work on it.
Being able to see the night sky, instead of being able to read a book by it (at night sky is purple)
Being able to leave the house open.
Hanging clothes out on the line (only person in the neighborhood who still has one)
Being able to talk to a neighbor or a stranger without worrying about being shot.
Playing in the street, and the cars drove slow enough that you watched for them and they for you and no one got hurt.
I still have green stamps and I played with a roll of material that I used as a treasure map. Fire resistant gravity furnace duct roll of asbestos.
Weeding the lawn meant weeding the lawn, no weedwackers..
People getting their first gas mowers.
Hearing about when people first got electricity (grandma was second in town, her rich fiance she never married was first), and always having oil lamps and candles as backups.
People being afraid of electricity, and unpluging things like tv's when done with them.
B&W tv's and movies, 1960 color zentih that you adjusted the hue and tone, and off course clickers.
Stereo's were big, like the old radio in the basement, 8 tracks and am only. Listening to Rock and roll (my mothers 45's) and not discovering it was still there till FM. Big band, Jazz, Bluegrass and (old) country music.
All in the family (favorite show of all time, taught me a lot of my values, like look at both sides of an issue)
Staying up late with grandma watching Johhny Carson
Bob hope, Rich Little, George burns, Larry, Curly, Moe, Joe, Shemp, Our Gang, Shirley Temple (Untill I was 5 I thought they were new shows, and had a crush on her), The Lone Ranger, Poncho and Cisco, Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk (still have autographed autobiography), HR puff and stuff, Love American Style, Shazamm (way more tv and movies then I should know as this could be a whole thread)
Thinking gas was high when I turned 16 and it was .68 cents a gallon, same year as my car.
Playing on the train tracks (although got in trouble about that one) and by the creek.
Shooting arrows in the back yard.
Selling candy door to door for school, and being able to trick or treat door to door (only in your own neighborhoods).
Getting a switch (thankfully not too often)
Playing cards was enterntainment and done only on special occasions or sometimes after Sunday dinners (which felt like 5 courses)
Always having candy around, yet never eating myself sick or wanting to.
Playing in the funeral home, till they opened the pop machine and gave me a couple, to quiet me down, while gramps gave his respect to Harry Truman. (grew up next to his cousin and there were a lot of people on this street who were connected to him)
Tuffskins, zeds, my blue polyester leisure suit that I always seemed to wear with my smokey the bear shirt.
Playing records and having to get spare needles.
Once I discovered cassettes, recording the radio and making my own tapes. (compiliations to project bluebook "files" stories.
Put Puts (anyone know what I am talking about here?), plastic army men, dinasours, making your own tents, a healthy imagination
Genuine real artifical imitation leather.
My first watch (still have that Timex I got when I was 5)
Never really having anyone around to play with on a regular basis, so being able to keep myself entertained.
My BMH bike (garage sale, handed down) and wearing hand me downs.
Mills (state sales tax tokens)
Radial tires
Finding tools that were not made in USA was difficult

 

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