Are you old enough to remember when................

[Dadsguns]

A&W was a true drive in. They brought your burger, onion rings and rootbeer out to your car on a tray that hooked onto your window. You could buy a gallon of rootbeer in a glass jug. When you emptied it you could bring it back and get it filled up again

Things just tasted so much better them days, of course we all know now that "everything that taste good" must be bad for you.....
Seriously, the root beer floats back then tasted different to me than today, not only that: its really hard to find a place that fries up "real" fries in lard and that salts the heck out of them the old fasioned way....... I am sure it was all unhealthy compared by today's standards but boy you cant beat the taste that's for sure....

[thndregg]

Things just tasted so much better them days, of course we all know now that "everything that taste good" must be bad for you.....

Reminded me of this great movie. I love this show.

[Hajo]

Speaking of A&Ws...we still have one that is a drive-in.  There is a hot rod and muscle car cruise there every friday night.

We have Car Cruise nights just about every night in the week in my area.  A few I participate in.

I remember the guys (we in the late 60s)...well,,, we all had muscle cars.  We would hang out at McDonalds or Arbys'.

We'd pick up matches for the street drags we had later that night.

[mbailey]

fries up "real" fries in lard and that salts the heck out of them  

I know alot of very old ( 80+) farmers..........I dont think Lard is bad for you, on the contrary, looking at these guys, i think it may be the fountain of youth  

I know exactly what you mean by things tasted better. Remember rootbeer with a head so thick you could practially float a coin on it?  And ill refer back to my deep fried McDonalds apple pies, that was the life brother!!! Not sure what those dried out baked things are that they serve. Things are getting smaller and cheaper ( 1/2 gallon of ice cream, is no longer a 1/2 gallon and is the same price) Klondike bars use to be over an inch thick, now they are thinner and just nastier a pathetic shell of its former self. Everything now has an odd chemical taste to it as compared to when i was younger    ( Ok im off the soap box now, I just get a little emotional when people screw with my junk food   )

[Brooke]

Ah . . . I loved the A&W drive in.  Best foot-long chilidog anywhere, along with a rootbeer float.  Mmmmmmm!

[thndregg]

As a 9 year-old in 1982, I loved when the TV show Knight Rider came out. That was one bad-a** car, man.

[IronDog]

You sound like a man with whom I'd love to spend an evening with sharing beers, a few "toasted Lucky's" and listening to your stories.   Sir!!!

Hawk55 I would gladly sit and chat with you sir. !A couple of beers is about all I drink these days,as most the meds I take don't like alcohol!Stories,I have many,but my "shrink" tells me I shouldn't,as it releases the demons!Up her kilt!I will do as I please!If I ever get back east to visit my best Marine Corp buddy in N.C.,I will swing North,and we will have them two beers!
Corky brought back memories with the way one got treated at a filling station.I worked at a gas station,and my boss had us running to incoming vehicles,washing the wind shield,checking oil,and looking for worn belts,or equipment was all routine.Going to a gas station these days is just plain emotionless!A&W's,skating rinks,...met my wife there,yes a lot of memories indeed.
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[Tyrannis]

im not nearly any of your guys age (only 18) but in my town we have one of those old fashioned coke machines that many of you have mentioned inside a grocery store. 1 glass bottle for .75 cents. or you could buy a "six pack" version in the grocery store. i have fond memories of this machine actually, whenever i got done hanging with friends/playing baseball or football, i'd allways go to this machine. alot of my friends allways asked me why i bought these glass bottles, they are used to the $1.25 plastic pepsi bottles and such, and they actually call these glass bottles "small". but frankly, the glass bottles are better. it seems like they keep the coke taste "clean" and gosh do they get COLD 


just thought i'd mention that, sorry if i seem out of place 

[R 105]

 As a kid we had 3 TV channels and TV signed off the air at 11:30 PM. I watched The Lone Ranger, Superman (George Reeves) The Roy Rogers Show Hopalong Cassidy, Sky king, Ren Ten Ten, Sgt Preston of The Yukon, Gun Smoke and many more great shows. We always had something to watch and every TV show had a good message.

 You could buy 5 packs of baseball cards for a quarter or a huge Baby Ruth candy bar for .5 cents. Soda came in a bottle and the milkman delivered milk to the door. We had a farm so our gas was delivered to a 500 gallon standing gas tank we had and it cost about a $100.00 to fill it up once a month in the late 50s.

 Every thing we cooked was cooked in lard my family is from the south and we would fry water if we knew how. Food was better then for sure. As for fried food being bad for you. Well my Mom is 93 and doing fine. I have had five close relatives live to over 100 yrs old. I never saw a McDonald's until about 1965 but I remember 15 cent burgers and 10 cent fries and the fries were great then. Hi Tech toys had a wind up key on top of it and every kid had a transistor radio. Our phone was on a party line and you had your own ring so you knew the call was for your house. Our ring was 1 one long and three short rings.

 How many are old enough to remember the Eddie Turtle Duck and cover drills we had to do in school and fall out shelter signs. One of the things I miss most is Drive-in Theaters and Drive-In restaurants like A&W. I think the good old days were the good old days for sure. I am glad I am an old dude.

[Tyrannis]

^ come to ohio, we have the starlite drive-in, one of the few remaining outdoor movie theaters, my town alone has the only single screen movie theater left in the country.

and i actually know of the eddie turtle. was he on a poster that showed a bomb, and he would be like "oh no! danger!" and then he'd withdrawel into his shell?

[Shuffler]

I remember gas at 10 cents a gallon.

I remember sitting in front of the TV and watching JFK's funeral.

I remember times and places all over the country and out of the country in my travels as a kid.

I remember my Mother....... and I remember the date and time she passed away. Hug your Mom..... you never know.

[Simaril]

I remember my mom trying to get me inside to see Armstrong step out on the moon. Three minutes later, nothing happened - so out to play i went.

I remember catching frogs at the crick behind a friends house, coming home with a coffee can packed with green squirming stuff.

I remember The Man From UNCLE... Kuryakin was cool!

I remember before people heard of environmentalism - when lake Erie was dead as a post, and when the Cuyahoga River caught fire. (Well, one of the times, anyway.)

Wacky Packs. Rockem Sockem robots.

[dkff49]

Speaking of the drive in, I remember piling into the back of the pick-up truck with as many people as you can fit, driving down to the drive in and getting in for the car load price. Man I always thought the back was the best seat in a truck and spent many summers riding back there, now realize just how dumb that was.

[SWkiljoy]

very interesting info, just keeping a tab on this to read, sorry no info.   

[ebfd11]

I can remember 80 cents for gas, penny candy was the schiznit, i would hit my dad up for a dollar for a bag that would last me 2 days. (if my brother or sister didn't get their mits on it) I can remember the Real 5 and dime stores. But the things i remember the most was no cell phones, the first VHS that came out you could cook off the top if it, and teh intardnet was just thing of imagination.

But here is a questionwho can remember being able to leave you doors unlocked and leaving the house???