Do You Remember ?

[Nulle]

Jane Wymans fireside theater.

[buckhunter]

"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."


Was there a university or schoold our parents went to when we hit about 20 or so. Same thing happened to me. Also my kids tell me the same. Kinda spooky

[Bluegunner]

Boy Bill D., you sure stired up a bunch of memories!!!! Here's a few for you.

Milking cows by hand, turning the cream seperator by hand.
Going to the ice box before and after each meal for butter and milk.
Getting a sliver of ice from the ice man on a hot day.
White ole with a yellow bubble that you had to squeeze.
Friday night movie with 25 cents to spend, 10 for the movie, 5 for popcorn, 5 for candy, and 5 for an icecream cone or fountain soda at the drug store after.
Serials at the begaining of each movie - Superman, Durango Kid, Flaming Arrow, Lashlaroo (sp.)
On Radio, Cisco Kid and Poncho, Grand old Opera, Amos and Andy,
Creaking Door, Green Hornet General Electric Theater
Being able to take your rifle or shotgun to school to do a talk about cleaniing and gon safety.
Hauliing an outhouse to main street on Halloween, or moving one slightly back on its hole. (You young guys know what an outhouse is???)
Street cruising on a Sat. night
Outdoor movies, filling up the trunk to get in free.
Raiding watermellon patchs
Tee shirts, blue jeans and engineer boots
Poodle skirts and saddle shoes.
This could go on & on!!!

Bluegunner

[Bluegunner]

Thought some of you might enjoy this!!

Bluegunner


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!




First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup on a w arm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. Remember making and walking on home made stilts.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We mad e up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms (only with some tomato sauce for me) and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!


And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!



You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[Nulle]

Fantastic Blue = these were great ones and great times for sure!

[Cal Sibley]

Hello buckhunter,

I got the same thing from my son (now 31). We were taking a walk, and he popped out with, "Thge older I get, the smarter you become." It really made me feel good! Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

[BILLY D.]

HI ALL

HAVEN'T BEEN BACK TO THIS THREAD FOR A WHILE. DON'T KNOW WHY I GUESS IT JUST DROPPED OUT OF MY COMPUTER BANK.

BABY MOONS WEREN'T REAL POPULAR IN MY AREA FOR SOME REASON. WE WERE ALL INTO OLDSMOBILE SPINNER HUBS. REMEMBER IN THE CENTER THEY HAD THE PRETTIEST BLUE INSERT. BOY THEY LOOKED GREAT ON ANY CAR.

GENERAL MOTORS MUST HAVE MADE OLDSMOBILES NUMBERING IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DURING THAT TIME FRAME BECAUSE EVERYBODY THAT WAS ANYBODY HAD FOUR OLDS HUBCAPS ON THEIR CAR. THEY WERE VERY EASY TO PURCHASE AT NUMEROUS JUNK YARDS OR AT THE CORNER OF GRABBIT AND RUN. REMEMBER THE SONG ABOUT DEIONE AND THE BELMONTS? WHILE DEIONE WAS SINGING IN THE AUDITORIUM, THE BELMONTS WERE OUTSIDE STEALING THE HUB CAPS OFF OF CARS. "MAN THOSE SPINNER HUBS WERE SO HIP THEY HAD TO WALK SIDEWAYS."

HEY, ANYBODY EVER CATCH ANY OF BILL COSBY'S OLD GIGS? ONE OF THEM USED TO REALLY CRACK ME UP. HIS SON AND HE WERE HAVING ONE OF THOSE REAL SERIOUS DISSERTATIONS ABOUT DADS AND SONS. COSBY TELLS HIS SON " BOY I BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD AND I CAN TAKE YOU OUT, AND YOUR MOTHER AND I CAN MAKE ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE YA". REMINDED ME OF MY DAD. WHILE I WAS GROWING UP? I THOUGHT HE WAS THE WORLDS BIGGEST HARD A$$. HE WASN'T, HE WAS JUST TRYING TO INSURE I GREW CORRECTLY.

HEY BLUEGUNNER, I MISSED OUT ON THE MILKING BUSINESS BEING FROM CLEVELAND. BUT I DID FIND A BUNCH OF MILK BOTTLES IN AN ALLEY ONE DAY WHEN I WAS A KID AND THOUGHT IT WAS A COWS NEST. GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY THAT WAS HORRIBLE. MY ATTEMPT AT THE JOKE, THAT IS. I DO REMEMBER THE ICE BOXES THOUGH. AND THE ICE MAN THAT WOULD COME DOWN THE STREET DELIVERING.

WHEN WE MOVED TO DAYTON THERE WAS A BAKERY COMPANY THAT USED TO DO DOOR DELIVERY. PASTRIES, BREAD ROLLS, DOUGHNUTS ETC. THEY USED TO HAVE THE BEST BROTCHENS IN THE WORLD. BROTCHEN IN GERMAN IS LITTLE LOAF OF BREAD. ONE SERVING SIZE. I THINK OF THOSE AND MY MOUTH STILL WATERS.

AND THE OLEOMARGARINE WAS A REAL TREAT DURING THE WAR, BECAUSE EVERY THING WAS RATIONED. BUTTER WAS A TWICE A YEAR TREAT. CHRISTMAS AND EASTER. I SQUEEZED MANY A BAG OF OLEO. THE STUFF HAD THE COSISTENCY OF FROZEN REAREND GREASE. DID ANYBODY EVER FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT STUFF WAS MADE FROM? MAYBE WE DON'T EVEN WANT TO GO THERE.

I STILL THINK BACK TO THE 40'S AND FIFTIES. WE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH IN THOSE DAYS BUT I THINK IN THE LONG RUN WE WERE HAPPIER TO A CERTAIN EXTENT.

BUCKHUNTER YOUR TAKE ON MY QUOTE ABOUT MY FATHER IS AN HONOR AND A TRIBUTE. I STILL MISS MY POPPA.

WELL GOTTA GIT. I'M LATE FOR SUPPER AND I'M HUNGRY. KEEP ALL THE OLD STUFF ROLLING IN. I SURE ENJOY TI.

[royinidaho]

How about "ate a peanut"

'55 Chrysler w/shifter on the dash.

I even put moonies on it - gag.

Filed it up for 5 bucks.

How about "pink & black"

White Bucks

Pegged pants.

Hell I otta visit down here more often.

How old ya gotta be to be a senior. I'm 62

[ringneck 1]

Had one of those 55s that was a big boat.

what was your first car.Mine was a 41 oldsmobile hydra shift .wish I still had that it would be worth a fortune.
My brother girl friend wreck it .that was hard to explain.
like what was she doing in your car!!!!

[royinidaho]

First car was '54 Ford 4-door, flat head V8. Drove between Lynchburg VA and Butler Pa on trips home. Boiled over on the turnpike every trip, waiting at the tunnels. Popped a v-belt once late at night on one of those trips. Just kept on driving. Turned the lights off and finished the trip.

Second car was a brand spankin' new 1963 Corvair convertible. Used ta haul Piney River Apple Brandy to PA in it on the home trips. Pretty good stuff. Rigged it so the spare tire would hold it. All the other guys from PA would get stopped on the turnpike if the vehicle was riding low in the back. No prob. w/the Monza with the spare up front.