Remember when...

[bmoeller]

I'm 28 and remember being around most of that stuff. Most of my dads side of the family are/were farmers. Still see a lot of some those things in the barn or house.

Metal ice cube trays and all.

 

[DWeiler]

Also remember grandma(god rest her soul) cooking on a old wood burning stove in the house,it used to heat the whole house,no hot water tank. She would bath me in a big black tub and heat the water on the stove. Grandpa tried to modernize her with one of them electric stoves,she never ever did take to it,cooked on the wood one until she passed on.

 

[jnelson]

Remeber when.....



teenagers would actually work

people didnt expect something for nothing

the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer every morning at school

going to church was a good thing

young people respected their elders

school teachers were held in high regard

coke was a good thing

and Elvis was the king... .



yep those were the good ole days.

 

[Mike Ellis]

I remember:



- being able to ride bareback on my horse in shorts and cowboy boots with legs toughened up enough the horse sweat didn't burn



- riding a homemade mini bike with a lawnmower engine



- every department store, grocery store, and gas station selling shotgun shells and . 22 bullets



- being able to take my rifle and my dogs and wander for miles across farms neighboring ours and the owners content to let me thin out the varmints



- a time when upon meeting adults for the first time you respected them instead of fearing they would molest you. Didn't know what "Molesting" was back then, heck we boys would have used our ever-present pocketknives to carve on anybody that tried such a foolish thing



- how pretty girls and young women looked in nice dresses



- when girls didn't curse like drunken sailors and get tattoos on the small of their backs



- when the average girl in high school was someone that you wistfully fantasized about making love to, and had not accumulated more bedroom experience than all of the teachers combined



- Yes sir, no ma'am, thank you, please



- Driving the tractor and hay truck when still elementary school age



- High expectations from the parents. It seemed perfectly reasonable that I should be responsible for taking care of all the animals and farm chores from middle school on.



- Never telling the parents about getting licks at school, because it meant another whipping at home sure as the world. Mom and Dad never assumed their precious child was guilt free, if you got a whuppin' there must have been a reason.



- Gravel roads in the blistering Texas heat, with no wind a plume of dust from a pickup would hang there for what seemed like hours



- Granny crocheting and knitting while she would sit there and talk to you, her gnarled arthritic hands churning out beautiful table cloths and such seemingly by magic. Her hands hurt, but all the ladies thought they should be doing SOMETHING constructive all the time - so they did.



- Sunday dinners with the family and the enormous feast that would result when everybody brought their favorite dishes. Fried chicken, homemade pies and cakes, everything dripping with butter and sugar and fat - and the old folks who had been eating that way still in good shape in their 80's because they worked hard on their farms instead of sitting at a desk their whole life.



- People not needing to exercise, because they WORKED



- Going to Six Flags once every year or so, a tremendous undertaking. Buying Confederate flags and huge pocket knives there, with never a worry that some nut would start hacking people.



- . 22 shooting galleries at the fairs, with no chains on the guns. Just pump-action Winchester gallery guns.



- slashing a finger with that first Cub Scout pocketknife and sneaking a bandaid to avoid getting a whuppin' for being careless. LESSON LEARNED, knife contact with finger meat should be avoided :-laf



- Black and white re-runs of the Mickey Mouse Club, and that one summer when I suddenly noticed Annette was a girl Hmmmmmm



- Black and white TV westerns, to this day the opening music from the Lone Ranger makes my heart beat faster. Who knew that it was classical music? :-laf



- Cashiers who could run the cash register without looking at it, with lightning speed and rarely making a mistake



- "Eating out" only every couple of months or so. A Jack in the Box or Dairy Queen hamburger was a huge treat



- Little Cokes in glass bottles, 6 or 8 oz - plenty enough to quench your thirst



- A large Dairy Queen soda in a waxed paper cup that was smaller than the "small" size today. Dilly Bar and a coke = 50 cents



- The only pizza ever encountered was the huge square slabs of school cafeteria pizza or the French's pizza that came in the cardboard box kit. They were both AWESOME



- Eating restaurant pizza in the city for the first time WOW



- Pep squads and pep rallies, beautiful girls in short skirts, cheerleaders with pom poms, when winning the big game against the hated rivals was the most important thing in the world



- Woodsy Owl "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute", the crying Indian litter commercial



- After watching Mutual of Omaha and Sea Hunt, fishing with a cane pole at a muddy tank in a pasture and imagining every scrappy perch was a huge blue marlin leaping in the wake of the boat :-laf



- The amazing experience of going to Fort Worth and wandering around Sears or Montgomery Wards, unimaginably vast stores with every form of merchandise known to man! Guns! Tents! Canoes! Flannel Drawers! Female mannequins in dresses with no underwear! (I checked) and most fascinating of all... ESCALATORS! To this day I enjoy riding on escalators...

 

[Texas Diesel]

I remember: Female mannequins in dresses with no underwear! (I checked)

Good, I'm not the only one... :-laf



I had forgot all about the crying Indian. I wonder what he would be doing now if he could see.

 

[nickleinonen]

Old Age Barometer

How many do you remember ?





3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

9. Slingshots

23. Drive-in Movies



If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young

i don't know if #4 counts, as the current varity of pop machines pop out plastic bottles of soda. . if you mean glass, well that don't count



[was digging around in the basement and came across my old slingshot. .

 

[DJW]

I remember when all the women wore dresses or blouse and skirt, if one could get them in pants, jeans etc, i. e. for motorcycling, or horse riding, you were sure of getting what you planned, with Great Pleasure. (2 day's without shaving was an added incentive)

 

[Crazy Horse]

Here's a good article: Living on the Edge. .



You old snakes will like it.

 

[daytripper63]

Remember watching

1ADAM12 and EMERGENCY / SQUAD 51

 

[Texas Diesel]

Yea! "This is RAMPART, start a line of D5W and transport immediately" :-laf

 

[daytripper63]

Remember "HOGANS HEROES"

Col. Klink

Schultz (I know Nothing NOTHING)

 

[RGardner]

The old pop machines that used water to cool the pop, it was a real treat to put your hand in the cold water and then snake out a bottle of pop. When the county fair was a BIG deal. Riding to high school sports events in school busses or if it were far enough away, parent would haul us in there cars.

 

[GCroyle]

Man, did this one make my day! Thanks guys.



How about popping holes in Iron City beer cans with my Dad when I was old enough to hold his . 22 bolt action Stevens 84C Springfield.



My Dad buying re-cap snow tires on a winter trip on the Ohio Turnpike somewhere around Youngstown.



My Grandmothers Sand Tart cookies, or PA Dutch "Sugarpie" no one seems to have that exact recipie anymore. Those of you in the Laurel Highlands of PA might remember Paunhaus (spelling?) or Scrapple I think it was everything but the Oink!

 

[RGardner]

How about when people had common sense and we didn't have to have 15 different safety switches to start or get off of a piece of equipment!

 

[MEby]

My Grandmothers Sand Tart cookies, or PA Dutch "Sugarpie" no one seems to have that exact recipie anymore. Those of you in the Laurel Highlands of PA might remember Paunhaus (spelling?) or Scrapple I think it was everything but the Oink!

I dont remember the sand tart cookies or the sugarpie but I have eaten my share of scrapple. you are certainly right that it was everything but the oink. :-laf. ask me how I know.

 

[azpete]

The metal cleats you stuck in the heal of your shoes to sound cool walking down the hallways in school.

 

[MLimpert]

Reebok Pumps Anyone? These were all the rage when I was in about 4th grade

 

[Texas Diesel]

Turning on the TV and going to get a snack while the tubes warmed up.

 

[bighammer]

Turning on the TV and going to get a snack while the tubes warmed up.

Some of those old sets could warm your snack. :-laf

 

[MEby]

here's something for you old guys to think about. :-laf When my dad first bought his 90' cummins it cost him approximately 4-5 cents per mile in fuel to run the truck. Now it costs me between 6-7 cents per mile to run my 1100 honda shadow that averages 50mpg. now if you go waaaaaaaaay back before my time, i'll bet there's a much larger gap. :-laf am I being nasty or what?