Do You Remember ?

[skeet]

Heck can y'all remember the Dumont Network?? The fourth TV network. And the coming or going car...The 1949 Studebaker??

[BILLY D.]

WHAT'S THIS TV CRAP. WHAT A BUNCH OF CANDIES. I BET YOU WEAR PEPPERMINT STRIPPED UNDERWEAR. I DIDN'T SEE A TV UNTILL I WAS 12 YEARS OLD.

I REMEMBER RUNNING HOME FROM SCHOOL TO HEAR THE LONE RANGER, SGT. PRESTON OF THE YUKON AND HIS WONDER DOG KING, JACK ARMSTRONG THE ALL AMERICAN BOY AND SKY KING AND PENNY, ON THE RADIO.

DURING THE EVENINGS IF YOU GOT YOUR HOMEWORK DONE YOU GOT TO LISTEN TO LUX PRESENTS HOLLYWOOD, KATE SMITH, THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE, FIBBER MAGEE AND MOLLY, JACK BENNY AND ROCHESTER, BOB HOPE, MILTON BERLE. I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS.

NO REALITY BULLCRAP BACK THEN. YOU HAD AN IMGINATION. THESE COUCH POTATOES NOWADAYS WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND. OH YES, AND SELF ESTEEM WAS SOMETHING YOU EARNED NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS BESTOWED UPON YOU SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU WERE BORN. YOU GAINED SELF ESTEEM BY WORKING AND DOING WELL IN SCHOOL HELPING OUT AROUND THE HOUSE ETC.

BUT IT'S A MUCH BETTER WORLD NOWADAYS

I JUST CAN'T CONVINCE MYSELF.

[Nulle]

The Great Gilder Sleeve - on radio.

[Valigator]

Man.....you guys are old.....

[Valigator]

not sure what year

[Nulle]

My God = Your just a snot-nosed kid lmao

[BILLY D.]

HEY VAL

1937 WAS A GREAT YEAR FOR THE WINCHESTER MODEL 70 AND THE DC-3 AIRLINER AND ME. THE DC-3 LATER BECAME SPOOKY THE GUNSHIP IN VIETNAM. YES I FLEW ON IT. I WAS A GUNNER.

WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR PICTURE, A 55 OR 56 MERCURY? THEY WEREN'T FAST ON THE HOLE SHOT BUT ONCE YOU GOT THEM MOVING THEY WERE QUICK. I HAD A 56 FORD VICTORIA WITH A 312CI AND 225 HORSE ENGINE. SUNSET CORAL AND WHITE. IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS CALLED T*&&% PINK. WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING IT TOOK ON A DIFFERENT AURA AND LOOKED LIKE THE SUN SETTING IN THE WESTERN SKIES. I CAN'T DESCRIBE IT, IT WAS JUST GORGEOUS. I LOVED THAT CAR.

IT WAS ABOUT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE THAT I FOUND OUT HOW OUT OF TOUCH MY FATHER WAS WITH LIFE. WHAT A GRUMP, AND HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LIFE. SEVERAL YEARS LATER WHEN I WAS IN MY MID TWENTIES I COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH HE HAD LEARNED IN THOSE INTERVENING YEARS. THE MAN JUST MADE A TOTAL TURNAROUND. HA. HA. WE BECAME FATHER AND SON AND GREAT FRIENDS.

WHEN I WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL, YES WE HAD THOSE THEN, OUR CIVICS TEACHER POSED A QUESTION TO US. "WHAT WOULD WE BE DOING IN THE YEAR 2000". DON'T LAUGH, BUT MOST OF US THOUGHT WE'D BE DEAD. LOL NOW HERE WE ARE PREPARING FOR OUR 50TH SCHOOL REUNION THIS SUMMER. GONNA BE A BLAST. I WONDER IF A 6 PACK STILL COSTS 98 CENTS? IN YOUR DREAMS BILLY BOY. GEE I'LL BET GAS HAS RAISED SINCE IT WAS 17 CENTS A GALLON ALSO.

ONE GOOD ONE BEFORE I GO. WHEN I WAS IN GRADE SCHOOL WE STILL USED INK PENS. THIS WAS BEFORE BALLPOINTS. EVERY SCHOOL DESK HAD AN INK WELL THAT YOU DIPPED YOUR PEN INTO TO WET THE QUILL SO YOU COULD WRITE. AND YES WE DID DIP THE GIRLS PIGTAILS INTO THE INKWELL. THIS GIRL THAT SAT IN FRONT OF ME WAS A REAL WENCH. I HATED HER AND THE FEELING WAS LIKEWISE. ANYWAY I DIPPED HER AND SHE TOLD THE TEACHER, A NUN. BOY I GOT THE SNOT BEAT OUT OF ME FOR THAT ONE. HAD TO SWEEP FLOORS AND POUND OUT THE ERASERS AND CLEAN AND WASH BLACKBOARDS FOR A WEEK. HE. HE. HE. IT WAS WORTH IT. LOL.

BY THE WAY, I STILL USE A FOUNTAIN PEN. I'M OLD SCHOOL.

OH, AND BEING OLD, IT SURE AS HECK BEATS THE ALTERNATIVE.

[Nulle]

Oh don't go Bill I got a big smile on your recounts of the good days. Yes I remember alot of it and the ink wells were on their way out when I started but the desks still had the places for them. You know I don't think I could go up these days and would sure as heck be in jail. But god we had fun !

ps. Yes I do remember where I came from when dealing with kids as a cop and I wished more cops would . lol

[BILLY D.]

HEY NULLE

TODAY IS SATURDAY AND I HAD A BRAIN %$#@ ABOUT WHAT I USED TO LISTEN TO ON SATURDAYS.

EVER HEAR "LET'S PRETEND". BROUGHT TO YOU BY CREAM OF WHEAT, CREAM OF WHEAT IS SO GOOD TO EAT WE HAVE IT EVERYDAY.

LETS PRETEND WAS FOLLOWED BY THE SMILING ED MCCONELL SHOW WITH FROGGY THE GREMLIN. PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER FROGGY. AND FROGGY WOULD MYSTICALLY APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE AND SAY "HI YA KIDS HI YA, IT'S ME FROGGY THE GREMLIN". NEVER DID FIND OUT WHERE IT WAS HE APPEARED FROM. BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUSTER BROWN SHOES. REMEMBER BUSTER BROWN AND HIS DOG TIDE. WHEN YOU BOUGHT A PAIR OF BUSTER BROWN SHOES THERE WAS A LITTLE TRANSFER OF BUSTER BROWN AND TIDE IN THE HEEL EVERY SHOE.

THOSE SHOWS WERE FOLLOWED BY THE NATIONAL FARM AND HOME HOUR FROW CHICAGO. EVERY WEEK THE ANNOUNCER WOULD START WITH THE SAME SPIEL, "IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN CHICAGO". THEN YOU PICK UP THE NEWPAPER THE NEXT DAY AND FIND OUT THE WIND WAS BLOWING 40 MPH AND SNOW WAS THICKER THAN FLEAS ON A DOGS BACK AND IT WAS 5 DEGREES IN CHICAGO THE DAY BEFORE. BEAUTIFUL DAY? I NEVER TRUSTED ANNOUNCERS AFTER THAT. LOL

WELL, I'M OFF. GEEEEZ BILL WE ALREADY KNEW THAT. I'LL SEE IF I CAN COME UP WITH ANY MORE OLD STUFF.

[Nulle]

I remember it well and wonder if they still have Buster Brown=probably not. Bates mens store in Aberdeen carried them along with top of the line stuff. Thats back in the days when we still had a "Main Street" no shopping malls.

[rubicon]

how about the company stores? The miners in the town I grew up in lived in company housing and were paid in company script which was only accepted in the company store which sold virtually everything. I remember the store sold black rubber boots to the miners and another store in the town sold some brown rubber boots cheaper. A few of the miners managed to trade their script somewhere and bought the brown boots. When they went to work and the company officials saw the brown boots they were told there will be no work for you until you get your boots from the company store.

[fastsixgun]

Remember when James Arness Played the thing in the original movie. So many good westerns back then!

[Nulle]

GunSmoke

[Jack]

Yup classic show..
Marshall Dillon, Miss Kitty, Doc, Chester, Festus........

[Valigator]

Ed Sullivan show

Allen Funt

I love Lucy

Captain Kangaroo

S&H green stamp stores