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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dadsguns on December 04, 2010, 05:53:49 PM
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I can remember some of these things growing up..... what can you remember about prices and things during your childhood that were memorable to you?
.... you could go to the store and buy a 100 pieces of candy with a dollar.... :rock
.... 1 gallon of gas was 75 cents.
.... you could get an Ice Cold Coca Cola and other flavors in a vending machine that served it in a ice cold glass bottle for 25 cents. :rock
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I must've been on the trailing edge of that time. I remember penny candy, but the lowest I ever paid for gas was $.88
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I can remember some of these things growing up..... what can you remember about prices and things during your childhood that were memorable to you?
.... you could go to the store and buy a 100 pieces of candy with a dollar.... :rock
.... 1 gallon of gas was 75 cents.
.... you could get an Ice Cold Coca Cola and other flavors in a vending machine that served it in a ice cold glass bottle for 25 cents. :rock
I pumped hgas at a Hess station when I was a kid....was 36.9 cents/gallon....still remember when candy bars when from a dime to 15 cents.....had to walk a mile back to the house for a @#%@##$$!@# nickel.....THEN the lady tells me there's TAX :furious
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I pumped hgas at a Hess station when I was a kid....was 36.9 cents/gallon....still remember when candy bars when from a dime to 15 cents.....had to walk a mile back to the house for a @#%@##$$!@# nickel.....THEN the lady tells me there's TAX :furious
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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I remember when Min wage was 1.95/hour...I was too young to have a job but it sounded like a crapton of money at the time. Bought my first car in June of 1981...a candy-apple red, 1970 Mach 1 Mustang...60's on the back, 70's on the front with a 351 Cleveland that had a Holley QUAD Double pumper carb....$2900.00 and it was C H E R R Y because the prior owner LOVED it like a son....and it ran like it stole something. I wish I had that car back!!! lmao
Changeup
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.... you could get an Ice Cold Coca Cola and other flavors in a vending machine that served it in a ice cold glass bottle for 25 cents. :rock
I sure remember that Coke Dad. They had a Coke machine with the crank at the golf club I caddied at...10 cents for a 6oz bottle for caddies only. Man was that stuff COLD!
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I sure remember that Coke Dad. They had a Coke machine with the crank at the golf club I caddied at...10 cents for a 6oz bottle for caddies only. Man was that stuff COLD!
Oh yeah, one of the most memorable simple pleasures on a really hot day was to head down to the store that had that machine with a glass window maybe 3ft x 8 inch, always frosted since it was so cold, you would open that door and grab the neck of a bottle of your choice and pull it out, pop the top and slam it down. Man were those good!
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I remember all of that and more.
Going to visit my grandparents in Denver City and what a treat it was to be given some change and walk to the store for an Icee and bubble gum.
How about the popularity of CB radios? CONVOY!!!!!
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When I first got my drivers license, gas was at .59 a gal. Smokes were .75 a pack ( I said I would never pay and was furious when they jumped to 1.50 shortly after :rofl)
Now is it just me? Or can anyone remember a time when KFC was actually awsome and a BigMac actualy tasted better than the crap they put out now.
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Oh yeah!
Gas was in the .35 cent area per gallon, if you had a dollar you could get a ton of candy (some were 2 for a penny whoohoo!)
And yep, nothing was better than a cold coke in a glass bottle right out of the machine.
good old days <G>
RTR
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I remember when the World trade centers collapsed.
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I remember when we all used to think 1$ a litre in fuel was an extortionist price :rofl
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I remember logging into Compuserve on my 300 baud modem...and my first taste of air warrior was on my 14400 baud modem again through compuserve years later..joining a b17 crew for a crazy bombing mishun as a waist gunner...those were the years...:D
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I remember logging into Compuserve on my 300 baud modem...and my first taste of air warrior was on my 14400 baud modem again through compuserve years later..joining a b17 crew for a crazy bombing mishun as a waist gunner...those were the years...:D
Death Stars!
LOL..fun times
RTR
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I had a TRS 80 and thought I was king s.... well you know. Wish I had been informed enough to get in on the AW bit. Probably would have saved me a ton of money and two family practitioners :D
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I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID
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I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID
You sound like a Man that I used to know.
Salute sir,
Melvin
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yep :salute and thank you sir
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When I first got my drivers license, gas was at .59 a gal. Smokes were .75 a pack ( I said I would never pay and was furious when they jumped to 1.50 shortly after :rofl)
BigMac actualy tasted better than the crap they put out now.
Big Macs in the styrofoam clamshell container :aok Oh and the deep fried apple pies that would give you 3rd degree burns on the roof of your mouth, man they were awesome!! I remember the coke bottle vending machines, gas not so much ( born in '71 ) Penny candy ruled!! :rock .25cent candy bars, cracked plastic steering wheels in the cars from the 70s lol,
Great thread :aok :aok
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I can remember gas at around 15 cents a gallon and about 10 or 12 years later, cigarettes were 35 cents.
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I can remember Minimum wage at $1.30/hr.
I can remember picking strawberries at 2 cents a pint/20cents a flat.
I can remember going to "Bob's 15 cent Hamburgers" and my friend Steve and I eating a hamburger each .30, a shake each .50 and splitting a small Fry for .20. One buck would buy both of us lunch (There was no sales tax in Oregon).
I can remember seeing The Sound of Music, Patton, and Kelly's Heroes, Tora Tora Tora, The Battle of Britain, and Midway in the Theatre.
I can remember a time before Jane Fonda was a traitor.
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As I recall, my first job at the local airport was selling Avgas 100LL for 79.9 cents a gallon...and a Cessna 150 rented for $16 per hour, Instructor added $6 per hour. Those were the days!
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I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID
I must be from the same era. I remember going to the corner gas station and getting a hot dog and coke for a nickle. :D
Fred
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Oh, and I can remember "duck and cover" drills in school.
And I can remember the PT-109 tie clip Senator Kennedy threw during the parade in my home town when he ran for President.
And I can remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot and killed.
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Gas was 29.9 at the Texaco station in Cairo. IL...everywhere else from Waukegan, IL to Booneville, Miss. it was 36.9. It was Highway 45 from home to there and back.
Penny candy....yes...two quarters got you a small paper bag full of sugar buzz for 4 days.
Ice cold Pepsi, Coke, Mt Dew, Choclit Soldier, Dr Pepper, in the old stand-up coolers with double lid handles and an opener on the side.
You could get 4 FULL SIZED candy bars (not the chincy sized now) for a buck.
A Pepsi & "Nabs" was lunch. Everyone put Spanish Peanuts in their Coke. You could get 3 songs on the jukebox for a quarter.
Places had to put gas prices and milk prices on different signs because the price was so close. Every kid had a flat-top haircut, wore short sleeved shirts and wore blue jeans with a 3" cuff at the bottom. Mom's and grandmothers had the old "peddle it with your own feet" sewing machine...and washed clothes with the old "hand crank" stand up washer (electric if they were lucky). Everyone had a outdoor clothesline.
Everyone had the Gulf gas station orange horse-shoes on their back window and Sinclair gas stations gave out an inflatable "Dino" the dinasaur toy with every fill-up. Texaco had discounts on red fire engine toys with every fillup.
TV was in "Living Color"(but we didn't get one until 1970)...but that didn't make the tv news on the "growing" problem of Viet Nam any easier to watch. Green Hornet, Batman, Lost in Space, That Girl, Bewitched, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett, and (ugh) Lawrence welk....but then there was Ed Sullivan (Elvis & The Beatles), and My Favorite Martian. My fav was the Jack Benny Show because he was from my hometown and the first 2 years of Star Trek.
Apollo 1 My kindergarten teacher cried--and so did we. Apollo 8 was at Christmas and was definitely moving. Sitting and watching Apollo 11 "LIVE" and the Armstrong first step was surreal for a 9 year old.
Oh...and Mc Donalds didnt have seating...none...you went up, ordered at a window and took it back to the station wagon and ate it hot---just don't spill anything or daddy would take a cherry switch to your backside.
Gawd....I a phreeking OLD.
ROX
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Falstaff beer. I remember gas was like .50 cents. I remember when gas was rationed. You could only get gas on a odd on even day, depending on what # your license plate ended in.
Walter Cronkite reading the wounded and killed report on the CBS evening news during Nam. I remember all that talk about a cease fire and thinking, "wow that must be some big fire" :lol
Green stamps at the grocery store
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I remember 17.9 as the lowest for gas. That, and they checked the oil, washed the windows and gave you stuff for buying the gas. Getting a quarter from Grandpa and going next door to the little store in town and getting two candy bars and change.
Seems like we got 15 cents to spend after little league games and that got something to drink and a pack of baseball cards.
99 cent model airplanes were good too :)
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Wow, some old timers checkin in on this one.
Perhaps we should be nicer to the squeekers. :neener:
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I can remember when I was 13 going to the corner store with $1. I would get a 10oz. Coke, 2 candy bars, and 7 pieces of gum and still have change.
Gas was about 75-80 cents a gallon and my parents cigs were .65 cents a pack.
You could get a sno-ball in a 32oz. cup for 40-50 cents depending on which stand you went to.
Been a long time since we saw those kinda prices. Never gonna see 'em again though. :cheers:
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Oh and I also remember the battle of Konnigratz...
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I remember comic books being 10 cents. I could get a comic,and an ice cream bar for under 50 cents. wow.
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,,,, cracked plastic steering wheels in the cars from the 70s lol,
Great thread :aok :aok
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Oh man does that bring back some memories of my Dads car.... lol
Very nice guys.... all of these bring back some good memories.
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I remember the penny candy but the glass bottle cokes were 35 cents each instead of 25.
A bunch of us kids would scrounge up enough loose change and go to the local meat store and get a whole little brown lunchbag sized sack full of penny candy, maybe a dollar or two worth. We would buy a soda for a quarter and find a shady place under a tree and stuff ourselves silly until our tummies couldnt take another sugar packed delight without the fear of puking it up all over everything.
Our biggest worry back then was finding something to do. Now its bills and a mortgage
Man I miss those days :cry
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
Oh man does that bring back some memories of my Dads car.... lol
Lmao Mine to My Dads 77 Merc Marquis....that thing was a battleship on land.....friggin huge. Only flaw in the thing was the cracked plastic steering wheel.
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The guy at the smoke shop would hold a "Spiderman" for me till I could get down there with my dime. Running down to get smokes for my Mom, 4 packs for a buck.
The kid down the street got a 3 speed bike (cherry picker I think it was) and we were all amazed!
Streets closed in the winter because the cars couldn't make the hills... great time sledding in the streets ... with a real sled with steel runners (Flexable Flyer)
McDonalds slogan was "change back from your dollar" You could get a burger, small fry, and a small coke for 99 cents.
Our CB radios only had 4-6 channels... if you had that many crystals to put in.
Riding in the back of a station wagon with the back window down and just sucking in the exhaust fumes. Hoping for big bumps and/or hard braking just so you COULD get thrown around inside the car.
Playing Little League ball and everyone having fun. Icecream for the winners.
Riding in the "rumble seat" to the beach in my Dads old Ford (7 years old with my 5 year old sister, no seat belts, on the highway LOL!!!)
Visiting Epcot before it was open.
I too remember the Coke machine. Ours was at the corner gas station. Always thought I'd get my hand caught in that thing.
I think I was 10 before we ever got a color TV. Rox's list is good for shows but you have to add My 3 sons, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligan's Island, and the Ghost and Mrs Muir. Later it was, It takes a thief, I Spy, and the Avengers. and in color Laugh-in and Smothers Brothers.
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And I can remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot and killed.
Everyone remembers that.
Drove away from the Exxon station one day because the gas was 41 cents/gallon. What an outrage, those SOBs will be out of business before you know it.
"King Size" cokes were something we couldn't afford. I think they were the first 12-ounce cokes. Same with the Hostess Twinkies, ten cents for a pair of those, a very rare treat.
Started at McDonalds wrapping hamburgers in October 1968. Minimum wage was $1.10/hour, big deal when I got a raise to $1.15 because I could wrap so fast. No women, men only. The hamburgers then were $.18 each, made it a nightmare to mentally figure out what to charge the customer, so there was a matrix on each order pad.
Remember getting the Revell Fokker DRI triplane model for my birthday in July, 1959, the summer between 2d and 3d grade. $1.98 made it the most expensive birthday present I'd ever had. I treasured that thing.
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Who remembers "pop rock" candy, and the inevitable dare by your buddies to pour as many packs as you could into your mouth at one time? :rock
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"King Size" cokes were something we couldn't afford. I think they were the first 12-ounce cokes.
Ok now I dont feel so old remembering the Coke- 3 liter bottles :rofl
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I'm a 1973 brat.
One of Dad's cars I remember from my early years, a '74(?) Mazda 808 two door, only yellow.
(http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mazda808_priceisright-560x417.jpg)
The yellow wall mount rotary phone with the 500 mile long cord in the kitchen of our 12X60 Detroiter mobile home.
We still have Dad's 1976 Chevy Luv pickup with a CJ-5 front-end (before the factory started putting in their own 4x4 package).
Of course, in the 80's, our first computer, a Commodore 64 initially with a TAPE drive. Later I got hooked on SubLogic's version of Flight Simulator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCehXfpJVUA
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lol ya i remember my step mom giving me a note so i can get her butts at the store, she gave me two dollars and I was able to fill my pocket with candy from the change.
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As I recall, my first job at the local airport was selling Avgas 100LL for 79.9 cents a gallon...and a Cessna 150 rented for $16 per hour, Instructor added $6 per hour. Those were the days!
:airplane: No the days were when I could rent a T-craft for $4.00 hr wet and instructor cost me $5.00 hour. Soloed in 6 hours so cost me $54.00 to get my student ticket. To be fair I grew up around airplanes my dad started flying when I was 2 years old. :old: Cigs in the vending machine were 25 cents. Bear in a glass was 15 cents in a mug 25 cents.
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When I grew up we had a hand pump in the kitchen for water, and outhouse for a toilet (try that at -30F in N. MN), a seperate building with a sauna and took baths once a week and a crank phone on a party line. No joke. My aunt and uncle had a wood fired stovetop and oven in their kitchen.
Once I grew up a little we got running water for a toilet (still relied on the sauna... no tub or shower) and a black and white TV (a HUGE Zenith console with about a 15" screen).
Once I started driving I remember gas at $0.29 per gallon.
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That's because you're 9 years old now................ Don't bring up watermelon that you don't know about boy.
I remember when the World trade centers collapsed.
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You can get glass Coca Colas again for $7.00 at Target. First and last time I had one was about 8years ago.
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Lmao Mine to My Dads 77 Merc Marquis....that thing was a battleship on land.....friggin huge. Only flaw in the thing was the cracked plastic steering wheel.
Heh! I inherited a 1978 Mercury Marquis from my grandfather. When I drove it to San Diego past the air bases, I had to wave off jets trying to land on the hood.
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Heh! I inherited a 1978 Mercury Marquis from my grandfather. When I drove it to San Diego past the air bases, I had to wave off jets trying to land on the hood.
:rofl Yep thats the car.
I remember my dad bringing me home one night after football practice, snowy as heck and the roads were a mess. We were just heading thru a green light when all of a sudden an old AMC Rambler blew thru the light and BAM...... we nailed him broadside. My dads Merc pushed in the whole ( and i mean the WHOLE ) drivers side of that Rambler, it had to be totalled. My dads car suffered a scratched bumper and a cracked headlight :lol. The only difference between that car and a tank, was the tank had tracks.
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<S> to all the gents that replied to my post.I forgot about the hot rods in high school.My baby was a 51 Ford with 2 two dueces.Lot of good times in that ride!Yes you could get a good meal for a buck back then.I noticed a lot of fellows that posted, seem to be in my age group.You know the saying about WWII vets leaving us at an ever increasing rate,well soon we Viet Nam era gents are going to fall into that situation.Change Up typed in a humorous blip on 200 the other night,Jesus is coming back soon.....look busy!!I have diabetes,and I see where Ron Santo,one of my heros,died the other day.He suffered from diabetes.We lost a good one there!I haven't led a sinless life,but I'm hoping to be one of the Marines guarding Heavens Gate when the good Lord punches my ticket!
IronDog
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I remember when gas was 49.9 cents a gallon, monthly cable bill was $8.00, drive in movie theaters were in abundance, parents could actually discipline their kids.
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I saw a Datsun B510 on my way to work the other morning. Brought back a lot of memories as well.
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Older then that.......Gas was 28 cents a gallon.........coke was a dime and a candy bar was a nickle.
Saturday Movies....double feature with Cartoon was 50 cents. Saw The Magnificent 7 and a Cartoon for 50 cents.
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I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID
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. :salute Sir!!!
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In the 70's in grammer school, we had the weekly Air Raid drills where you went to the bomb shelter in case Russia sent the 'big one' over.
I find this one of the best threads ever here...after reading each post I find myself saying 'Oh Yeah, I remember that too'! :cheers: Well done Boys! :salute
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As a kid i remember going to the movies at the local theater, could get in but a bag of popcorn, a good and plenty box of candy, and a drink for just a 0.25 cents, 1961 gas was 18 cents a a gallon and witheach gallon a 16 oz drinking glass, McDonald's hamburgers .15 cents, was a treat when your parents took you there, not like now. radio was the main entertainment, with long ranger, Zorro, green hornet, jack Benny show and others. Vietnam was no picnic in the delta area around ca may.
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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 :)
Dad bought a tiny portable TV so we could watch Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon. black and white of course.
Crewcuts, jeans and short sleeve shirts with a collar and pocket.
Neighborhood Moms were Moms.
Dairy queen was a walk up ice cream parlour.
Those really were the good old days. :aok
RTR
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im old enough to remember when i didnt give a dam about money. no issues no and ifs or buts. i remember clearly being a kid and not giving a dam about anything just living life at the fullest. oh n copenhagen was 2.45 a can.
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I can remember some of these things growing up..... what can you remember about prices and things during your childhood that were memorable to you?
.... you could go to the store and buy a 100 pieces of candy with a dollar.... :rock
.... 1 gallon of gas was 75 cents.
.... you could get an Ice Cold Coca Cola and other flavors in a vending machine that served it in a ice cold glass bottle for 25 cents. :rock
candy = yes
Gas = 65 cents
Dad's mortgage = 135 a month including taxes and insurance
those were the days :rock
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For the English amongst us I remember-
Ben Sherman shirts with button down collars, Doc Martin boots. Being able to go into town on the bus for 2d.
The change over to that new money, think it was 1972 it started.
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<S> to all the gents that replied to my post.I forgot about the hot rods in high school.My baby was a 51 Ford with 2 two dueces.Lot of good times in that ride!Yes you could get a good meal for a buck back then.I noticed a lot of fellows that posted, seem to be in my age group.You know the saying about WWII vets leaving us at an ever increasing rate,well soon we Viet Nam era gents are going to fall into that situation.Change Up typed in a humorous blip on 200 the other night,Jesus is coming back soon.....look busy!!I have diabetes,and I see where Ron Santo,one of my heros,died the other day.He suffered from diabetes.We lost a good one there!I haven't led a sinless life,but I'm hoping to be one of the Marines guarding Heavens Gate when the good Lord punches my ticket!
IronDog
When we are both gone....and I hope its a long time from now, I will he HONORED to have you check my ID and pass this request up the chain...."Changeup, reporting as ordered, requesting permission to come aboard sir"...until then, thank you for your service and watch the diabetes. My father was an O-1, O-2 and O-3 with the 173rd LRObserver(Airborne and Ranger)...1965-1967.5 and has diabetes as well. We have to beat him to death to leave the chili alone...not that chili is that bad but he likes to add and entire pack of Ballpark hotdogs to his pot of chili, whole, so that for leftovers, he can have chilidogs with onions, cheese and mustard!!! lmao.
Changeup
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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 :)
Dad bought a tiny portable TV so we could watch Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon. black and white of course.
Crewcuts, jeans and short sleeve shirts with a collar and pocket.
Neighborhood Moms were Moms.
Dairy queen was a walk up ice cream parlour.
Those really were the good old days. :aok
RTR
I FORGOT ABOUT A & W!!!! My Dad would take me there after every baseball game!!! It was awesome! Cold, frosty mug of rootbeer with a burger and fries....great way to end the day. I can't believe those bozos couldn't figure out how to make money seeing how Sonic has made a damn fortune!!
Changeup
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Wow yalls stories are a kids dream, sure wish i was alive in yalls time period <S>
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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 :aok
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 :old: ( Ok im off the soap box now, I just get a little emotional when people screw with my junk food :lol )
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Ah . . . I loved the A&W drive in. Best foot-long chilidog anywhere, along with a rootbeer float. Mmmmmmm!
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As a 9 year-old in 1982, I loved when the TV show Knight Rider came out. That was one bad-a** car, man. :D
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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. :salute Sir!!!
Hawk55 I would gladly sit and chat with you sir. :salute !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.
ID
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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 :lol
just thought i'd mention that, sorry if i seem out of place :salute
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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.
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^ 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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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very interesting info, just keeping a tab on this to read, sorry no info. :salute
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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???
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We leave our doors unlocked most of the time, but we have 4 big dogs and a 6foot fence.
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When I was a tot visiting my Grandma, you only had to dial the last four digits to connect a local number. (She lived in the sticks.)
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Aces high use to be fun :(
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A sad thought occured to me this weekend at the store...
I remember when an hours minimum wage in this country could buy you at least two loafs of bread.
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Im old enough to remember when i didtn have to worry about another country blowing us to smitherines!!
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<----39 here but I remember a bunch of that stuff. Simply because living in Alabama (still do and am proud of it) as a kid we were always behind the times a little.
When I started driving gas was $.75 a gallon. For $20 I could take a girl out to dinner, a movie, fill up my car and still had enough to buy a 12 pack of Michelob to drink while hanging out with my buddies at the McDonalds parking lot. AFTER they closed for the night and all us boys were waiting on sun up so we could head to the river at day light for fishing or water skiing.
I remember my how simply life seemed when I was working all summer long to save up enough to buy my first dirt bike...cost me $200 for a used 1982 Honda XL185. I was 14 and the man I bought it from held it on my word that I would pay cash for it in 4 months. He even let me come ride it whenever I wanted to but I had to ride my bicycle 4/5 miles through the national logging trails forest to get to his house just to ride it around for a while. It was his sons and his son died in Army parachute training jump; chute never opened on him from a low level training jump up at Ft. Bragg in 1984. I still have that bike just as way to remember that sometimes bad things happen in peace time just because.
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I remember we had a crank telephone on a party line with 4 other people listening in on every conversation! Bummer. Ever try to get a date with heavy breathing going on in the background or worse yet...laughing? :uhoh
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I remember getting off the bus and running to the house, toss the books and grab my Dads 12 gauge Ithaca side by side, vest, and heading to the barn for the dogs. Would spend the evening making a round hunting quail. Then return home for one heck of a chewing for taking his dogs before he could get home to go! Started when I was 10-11.
I remember watching wrestling when BlackJack Muligan was the devil on earth, Rick Flair was a young man, Art and Oley Anderson were the dynamic duo!(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Fvp7G1qBhjawVM:http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv259/paly1-2009/BlackJackMulligan.jpg&t=1)
I remember shooting the wind-vane on the barn with an old Marlin single shot .22. You know the one with the 4 inch foregrip and an octagon barrel. The neighbors didnt mind so long as it was my familys wind-vane!
I remember when being a Boyscout was something special. Boys Life came in editions 8x12 or so......
I remember when having a police officer(calling one a cop would get you a public lashing!) call your parents was a heck of a lot worse than prison!
How about concrete highways......cathump, cathump, cathump.............and gravel/dirt secondary roads.
Bouncing to the roof in back of the school-bus and thinking it was the best part of school when someone had a split scalp????
I remember having my head thumped in church for sleeping during the pastors sermon.......
I remember being more afraid of meeting my girlfriends Dad than of what the future could hold for her and I. Oh the things I would change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about cock-fights and running like mad when the county deputies showed up on a raid?
Or the smell of smoke coming off the creek when the neighbors were brewing?
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My mum just sent this via E-mail to me. It came with a few Black and white photo's of time gone by. I decided to just copy and past this and leave the pics out as you all have your memories of people, places and shows of this time
(Under the age of 40? You won't understand this but this is how
we lived, And we are still here to talk about it.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,?
'Good Night, Johnny.' 'Good Night,Dad.'
My Mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayonnaise
on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach,
but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mum used to defrost mince on the counter AND I used to
eat it raw sometimes.
Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown
paper bag, not in ice-pack coolers, but I can't remember
getting sick.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the dam
instead of our public pool (talk about boring).
There were no beach closures then either.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a
jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took PE .. and risked permanent injury with a pair of
high top sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic
shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors.
I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened
because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the
national anthem, and staying in detention after school
caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an
archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses?
Ours wore a hat and everything.
Then there was the milk left in the sun for us to drink each day. Good wasn't it?
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something
before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers,
Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 34 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit
when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant
construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the
48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it
didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our bum smacked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a
10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics,
and then Mum calls the attorney to sue the contractor
for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such
a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbour's house either because if we
did, we got our bum smacked there and then we got smacked
again when we got home.
I recall 'Bluey' Barnes from next door coming over and doing his
tricks on the front porch, just before he fell off. Little did his
Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead,
she picked him up and clipped his ears for being such a dill.
It was a neighborhood run amok.
To top it off, not a single person I
knew had ever been told that they were from a
dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger
management classes? We were obviously so duped by so
many societal ills that we didn't even notice that the entire
country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive??
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL
WHO DIDN'T; SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T
TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.
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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.
LOL!
Kuryakin WAS cool!
I had Rockem Sockem Robots...they were the best!
Verti-Bird.....wish I still had that one!
Hotwheels!
I wanna be 10 again :(
RTR
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Man the memories this thread has brought back. Here's a few more from my youth. When Saturday rolled around it was up at the crack of dawn to mow the "yard", that yard consisted of a pasture and mowing it old school with a push mower. Once chores were done then I could blast off with my buddies, usually this was sometime around noon. My dad had an old Volkswagen beetle and I used to lay on my back on the front passenger floor board. I'd put my legs up on the seat and pretend I was a ball turret gunner.....once a week without fail I'd sit on the back bumper of that old car right after my dad would come home and burn the back of a calf muscle on the tail pipe. Buster Brown shoes and corduroy pants, family camping trips to lake hemit in the pinto station wagon, my mom giving me a quarter to play pac-man at Bob's Big Boy while we waited for our meal. Dr. Pepper tasted different and better than it does today, flying to Catalina Island in a Cessna with my dad and calling out "bandits" for him and him always sneaking in a stall or a spin just because he knew it was better than any roller coaster ride I'd ever been on. Changing the channel meant getting your rear up off the couch and having to adjust the "rabbit ears". Missing a holiday Charlie Brown cartoon special meant waiting til next year to see it. My mom standing on the back porch hollering "dinner is ready" and racing my dogs back to the house. I remember the gas shortage, blue chip stamp books and catalog stores(used to get some really cool stuff from there). Tearing up the neighborhood on my mean-green-machine and rolling around the property on our big wheels pretending we were rat patrol. Man I miss those times. :cheers:
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:old: those were the days, as apposed to the overly techie all seeing society we live in now
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I remember my Mother....... and I remember the date and time she passed away. Hug your Mom..... you never know.
God do I know that feeling, its only been about 3 months, feels like 3 years.
I was born in 1994.
I remember the 9/11 attacks when I was 5, and complaining why Pokemon wasn't on.
I remember when Pokemon and Yugi Oh were the number one crazes.
I remember Windows 95 being the most bada** operating system around.
I remember 50c/ a litre for petrol
And I remember the VERY FIRST Toy Story.
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Damn good thread!
I remember when RC Cola came in a 12 oz bottle while coke and Pepsi were in 8 oz bottles for the same dime. Add a bag of planters peanuts for a nickel and you had lunch.
I remember the gas wars ... prices would drop into the teens and you got double green stamps and a plate, cup or saucer with each fill up.
I remember a quarter would get me into the movies and buy a bag of popcorn.
I remember swimming in the crik (aka mud slew) that ran behind the farm. If we got in the mood we would catch a dozen big bull frogs and mom would cook frogs legs for dinner.
I remember delivering papers on my bike.
I remember the family sitting around the radio on Sunday night listening to The Shadow, Inter Sanctum, Gunsmoke, (with William Conrad as Matt) Fibber McGee and Molly and Jack Benny.
I remember when every mom in the neighborhood was your mom ... and there was nothing worse than than doing something that got you reported to dad. (or grandma)
I remember when the day started before the sun was up and ended only at full dark.
I remember leather football helmets.
I remember my first full 40 hour paycheck was $38.56.
I remember seeing Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash live.
I remember dime a pack smokes on the base ... being short enough to parachute off a dime ... the mixture of pride, hate, fear, pain, smoke, wet, hot, hell in OD and green.
ahhh well ..........
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Hawk55 I would gladly sit and chat with you sir. :salute !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!
I'd love that Sir! I own a house in Myrtle Beach SC to get out of the CT cold on occasion, so NC would be a quick trip. Please give a shout when you make that trip east. I'm sure a couple of Marines could 'tolerate' an ole' Air Force boy for an evening, lol. :salute
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I'd love that Sir! I own a house in Myrtle Beach SC to get out of the CT cold on occasion, so NC would be a quick trip. Please give a shout when you make that trip east. I'm sure a couple of Marines could 'tolerate' an ole' Air Force boy for an evening, lol. :salute
You'd better let me know when you're headed to Myrtle Beach to meet these guys as well, IronDog, so I call buy all of you guys a beer! You've got a few years on me, but it would be my honor, sirs. :salute
<---- proud Horry County native since 1971, Conway, actually, so I'm 10 minutes from Myrtle Beach but far enough away to get away from it
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Man the memories this thread has brought back. Here's a few more from my youth. When Saturday rolled around it was up at the crack of dawn to mow the "yard", that yard consisted of a pasture and mowing it old school with a push mower. Once chores were done then I could blast off with my buddies, usually this was sometime around noon. My dad had an old Volkswagen beetle and I used to lay on my back on the front passenger floor board. I'd put my legs up on the seat and pretend I was a ball turret gunner.....once a week without fail I'd sit on the back bumper of that old car right after my dad would come home and burn the back of a calf muscle on the tail pipe. Buster Brown shoes and corduroy pants, family camping trips to lake hemit in the pinto station wagon, my mom giving me a quarter to play pac-man at Bob's Big Boy while we waited for our meal. Dr. Pepper tasted different and better than it does today, flying to Catalina Island in a Cessna with my dad and calling out "bandits" for him and him always sneaking in a stall or a spin just because he knew it was better than any roller coaster ride I'd ever been on. Changing the channel meant getting your rear up off the couch and having to adjust the "rabbit ears". Missing a holiday Charlie Brown cartoon special meant waiting til next year to see it. My mom standing on the back porch hollering "dinner is ready" and racing my dogs back to the house. I remember the gas shortage, blue chip stamp books and catalog stores(used to get some really cool stuff from there). Tearing up the neighborhood on my mean-green-machine and rolling around the property on our big wheels pretending we were rat patrol. Man I miss those times. :cheers:
Wow.....sounds pretty much like my childhood. Rabbit ears on the TV initially, then the rotary antenna on the roof and the ChannelMaster antenna control on top of the TV set... remote control? My brothers and I were the remote! We didn't get cable where I lived til I was almost in high school. Our first VCR loaded from the top, and I remember the thing cost over $800, and that was a lot of money then! Rat Patrol and Blacksheep Squadron were the coolest shows ever put on TV.
We (my brother and I) used to make money by walking the roads for miles around our house collecting glass bottles from the ditches to each side of the road so that we could take them to the old country store and get $0.05 each for them. We couldn't have been more than 10 and 8, respectively, and just roamed the countryside with no one worried about child abductions. That was the '70's though, when mom could go in a store to shop and leave us in the car, and not worry about being arrested for doing it.
Cars from childhood were an old Ford station wagon then had the fold-up seats in the far rear area where we rode, with no seat belts that I can recall. Later on it was a blue '62 VW Beetle that had an oil leak somewhere, so when the heat was opened up oil smoke came from the heat vents on the edges of the floorboards. I remember my big-wheel, mowing with the push mower, and my dad's black & white instant camera. I had Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, GI JOE was a foot tall and I had his helecopter, and my younger brother and I used to love it when it rained during the summer because we would take our model USS Missouri battleship and our aircraft carriers to the dirt drive where we'd sit in the huge puddles in our underwear and recreate the Pacific War. I saw Star Wars when it first came out, in the Main Street theater in Conway. One screen, and part of the way through the movie the projector operator obviously hit the projector and knocked it off the table or to the side because the movie image went flying off the screen, then came back and it took him a few seconds to get it back where it was supposed to be. I think I was 6 years old or so...
My dad had bought a 1967 Corvette new and sold it right before I was born for $3500. 327/350, factory sidepipes, Marlboro Maroon with black leather interior and headrests and shoulder harness seatbelts (both optional accessories). That car is still around and my dad met the current owner in Michigan a few years back while on one of his cross-country motorcycle trips (must be nice being retired :) ) and the car still looks just like it did when he had it, except for the Bloomington Gold certification and the fact that is now is worth well over $100K. I remember when the 1984 Corvettes were unveiled to the public and the price tag of over $20,000 caused dad to just about have a stroke.
I still have my Atari 2600 and all of the games and controllers. My parents got it for us for Christmas when they first came out. Other than a few switches that stick, it still works. I upgraded from the 2600 to my first computer, and Atari 400. Membrane keyboard and 4K of RAM. We 'hot rodded it' with a full-stroke keyboard and upgraded it to 16K of RAM. I had a cassette drive, so games were a bit of a pain, I'd put the tape in, type "CLOAD" in BASIC, then wait for the game. most games took long enough to load from tape that I could go outside and play for a while. I was a real bad dude when I got my first floppy drive, 5.25" RANA Systems 1000. No more tape drive for me.
damm where has the time gone........
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For any of you who grew up in the 50's, I highly recommend the book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson. It is an excellent and hilarious (Bryson is an excellent writer) nostalgic tale of his growing up in the midwest. I would recommend it to folks who didn't grow up in the 50's, too, if you like Bryson-type books.
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I was the Remote for my Dads TV.................. :rofl
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See Rule #14
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I can remember waaaaay back when......
1 penny bought 5 pieces of cheap bulk hard candy or 2 wrapped real nice candy.
I could go to the movies with $1 and get a Balcony Seat and so much popcorn and candy it would make me sick.
I didnt need to buy gas for my lawn mower to mow lawns cause nobody had a power mower... we pushed the mower.. I would hook it to the back of my bike and travel across town to make some cash. Later when my Dad got a power mower it cose 19-21 cents a gallon for gas.
The only way we could watch TV was stand in the street and look through neighbors front room window cause almost nobody had one.
A skateboard was a pair of roller skates mounted to the bottom of a 2X6.
There was no minimum wage back then... my first Real job I got paid 50 cents / hour.. and I was RICH!!!
Jeans cost $2 ... yeah Levi Strauss jeans not that crap you call Jeans now.
Records were 5-10 cents (45 rpm) then when the LP (Long Play 33rpm) records came out they were $1.25
Brand new Cars were about $1500 and a Home was about $10,000
Cruising was driving up and down the Main Drag being COOL for penny's
Only Dummies messed with Dope
The only reason we shut our doors at night was to keep the scorpions and rattlesnakes out.... Locks??? we didnt know what those were.
My first car got what seemed to be 2 gallons to the Mile... but nobody cared cause it was just Gasoline.
Global Warming was when the Sun came up.
Later,
KayBay
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See Rule #14
Wow...it was an example of the time period, not a political discussion Skuzzy....geezus.
Changeup
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You'd better let me know when you're headed to Myrtle Beach to meet these guys as well, IronDog, so I call buy all of you guys a beer! You've got a few years on me, but it would be my honor, sirs. :salute
<---- proud Horry County native since 1971, Conway, actually, so I'm 10 minutes from Myrtle Beach but far enough away to get away from it
You're IN Reap. :salute
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I was the Remote for my Dads TV.................. :rofl
LMAO. Touche Dads...me too!
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Gas was .19 cents a gallon when I was 8 years old... :old: (That's $1.16 cents in 2009 dollars, inflation calculated in)
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...you couldn't watch cartoons because the <Censored> was on EVERY channel and you had to actually go outside and play?
:noid
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I remember buying gas at .18 cents a gallon. I made $5.00 a week last for a tank of gas, a quart of oil, and 2 movie tickets for a date. Tuition at the University of Arizona was $200 a semester and books averaged $50.00. I remember buying a texas instrument calculator for $100.00 that I needed for statistics. I had already learned to use a slide rule calculator. The calculators were brand new on the scene and used lighted bulbs to make the symbols. There was no way they could fit in a pocket.
I had a phonograph (record player), tape decks were reel to reel. VCR's, cell phones, personal or home computers hadn't been invented yet.
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Here's an eerie thought-
I'm still a kid, and not more than a decade ago I would go out with my friend to a small grove of trees and practice my geology with him. We collected Mica, Quartz, even Pyrite in there! We'd climb trees, ride our bikes for hours on end, and sneak out of the house to do it again. We'd make movies, spy on the grown-ups (the latter involved extensive R&D on our part) and concoct wild fantasies!
We each have little brothers, and all they do is sit about half a meter from the TV, eating Chips Ahoy cookies, and playing with legos (not that we didn't play with legos, but our creations had some practicality).
:cry
-Penguin
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Penguin, that is a very interesting observation. What change seemed to cause your little brothers to do that instead of the nifty things you and your pal did?
Here's an eerie thought-
I'm still a kid, and not more than a decade ago I would go out with my friend to a small grove of trees and practice my geology with him. We collected Mica, Quartz, even Pyrite in there! We'd climb trees, ride our bikes for hours on end, and sneak out of the house to do it again. We'd make movies, spy on the grown-ups (the latter involved extensive R&D on our part) and concoct wild fantasies!
We each have little brothers, and all they do is sit about half a meter from the TV, eating Chips Ahoy cookies, and playing with legos (not that we didn't play with legos, but our creations had some practicality).
:cry
-Penguin
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Robert Conrad as Greg Bowington in Blacksheep squadron...The beginning of my love for the Corsair
and all the other stuff us 40 something pilots mentioned
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How many remember steam trains? Would stand with the brothers and watch them for hours when visiting the grandparents. There house was at the end of a freight yard at Hurdman's Bridge.
(http://www.railways.incanada.net/Articles/art2004_19.jpg)
This photo could have been taken from the spot we watched the trains from as I remember the small building.
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Digging a cave in my backyard, camouflaging it so well that most people didn't know it was there, and hanging out in it with my friends swapping stories. Building ramps to see how far we could jump our bikes. Rabbit hunting with PA in West Texas and going to oil spills with him was a treat. Being saved from a big rattlesnake by Rip the German Shepherd. I remember watching Neil Armstrong step on the moon then running outside to see if I could actually see him. Building a model of the rocket with my dad because it was just that cool. Playing football in the front yard knocking the crud out of each other in the summer then the fire department would fill up a big hole in the vacant lot across the way in the winter so we could play hockey. And yes you never EVER wanted mom to get a call from the neighbor so you watched your mouth and your manners around adults.
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How many remember steam trains? Would stand with the brothers and watch them for hours when visiting the grandparents. There house was at the end of a freight yard at Hurdman's Bridge.
(http://www.railways.incanada.net/Articles/art2004_19.jpg)
This photo could have been taken from the spot we watched the trains from as I remember the small building.
Rode one between Brandon and Winnipeg back in the 50's ;)
shamus
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Dichotomy, that brought back memories.
And yes you never EVER wanted mom to get a call from the neighbor so you watched your mouth and your manners around adults.
If a neighbor gave us a boot in the bellybutton and we went home and complained we would get another boot in the ass. The second boot was because we were doing something we shouldn't have been doing and for whining.
Who remembers 4" firecrackers? In the spring we would build dams of mud in the main ditch (some were 3-4' tall). Just before the water would spill over the top we would light up to 6 of the 4"ers. Mud and water would be flying everywhere. On getting home the water hose would be turned on us to get the mud off before being let in the house in our underwear. Oh yes, we were not yet 13 years old.
Shamus, there is something about steam trains isn't there? In the early 60s took one from Ottawa to Pembroke and back in the winter.
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I remember as a kid buying regular gas (versus unleaded) for about $0.30/gal for the old lawn mower. We were the high falut'n people in the neighborhood as most people still had the push mowers. Ours pushed though it had a little 2 horse power motor with it. The others pushed, no mower. People were skinnier back then.
As for cheap candy, we would go around the neighborhood and collect glass bottles, take them to the gas station and get a nickel for them then buy loads of candy.
And I was born in the late 1960's. The Federal Reserve has inflated our dollar to junk, though technology has really taken us to new heights...now riding lawn mowers. :old:
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Penguin, that is a very interesting observation. What change seemed to cause your little brothers to do that instead of the nifty things you and your pal did?
Their lack of interest in the outside world, my brother's inability to ride is bike without training wheels (He's in third grade, for crying out loud!), and his friend's general wimpiness. That, along with our widescreen TV right next to the toys, guess which one gets more attention.
-Penguin
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I think the last Drive-In Theater I went to was the Blue Sky Drive-in in Barberton Ohio In the late 1970s. We had one here in Ruskin Florida that was open up to a few years ago. It may still be I am not sure. How about all the little amusement parks that were around Like Chippewa lake Park in Chippewa lake Ohio. I worked there from 1968 to 1971 before I went in the Army. Seems like every state had a few small parks like this. I think they are long gone now.
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I remember getting on a C-130 in 1979 when the Sandinista Army overthrew Somoza. We were evacuated from Nicaragua to Panama. I will never forget. I was drawing cars in my bedroom (7 years old) and my mom threw a suitcase on my bed and told me to put all my clothes in the case. The next AM, our lives changed.
I remember living in Bogota, Colombia from 1980-1983. To conserve electricity you had power three to four nights of the weeks. We did our homework by Coleman lantern. When the power would come back on the M-19 would blow another terminal down. We could not go beyond the block to play for fear of kidnapping or robbery.
I remember sitting on the can in Santiago, Chile in 1984. A car bomb went off two blocks away, rattling the house and sending chunks of car into our back yard. They had a shoot first curfew in the late night early am.
I remember watching the value of the Austral in Buenos Aires Argentina go from 1 to 1 with the dollar to 14 to one with the dollar in under two years.
I remember a lifetime of seeing truly poor and destitute people with little or no hope. The favelas in Rio de Janiero for example.
I remember the simple life of the people in Paraguay who lived day to day on next to nothing, had little in terms of material possessions, yet seemed to not look for hand outs or blame the world for their circumstances.
I remember the faces of every Iraqi family I disrupted when my boys would kick doors in looking for bad guys.
I remember that all.
Thank whatever you thank, that you were born in a country where things like this are not the day to day standard.
---Crusader