Those were the days
Apr 11, 2022 13:16:19 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Yes!
My Dad’s 55 Chevy had ignition switch with Off so no key needed to start
In ‘58 my Mom just moved to El Paso was adviced to keep kitchen door unlocked.
Milk man left milk in refrigerator dry cleaner delivery left clothes hanging in closet
I worked in VA hospital Salem VA from 72 for several years then asked politely to provide ID proof proof of visa and training, until then everyone trusted just your word
Many things wrong in old days but also many pleasant
My Dad’s 55 Chevy had ignition switch with Off so no key needed to start
In ‘58 my Mom just moved to El Paso was adviced to keep kitchen door unlocked.
Milk man left milk in refrigerator dry cleaner delivery left clothes hanging in closet
I worked in VA hospital Salem VA from 72 for several years then asked politely to provide ID proof proof of visa and training, until then everyone trusted just your word
Many things wrong in old days but also many pleasant
Apr 11, 2022 13:57:57 #
nimbushopper wrote:
This is long and if you're under 65 it might mean little or nothing to you. For those over that age, take a walk down memory lane....
Good memories all! Thanks for a feel-good start to my day.
Any other Captain Video or The Cisco Kid and Poncho fans out there from those days?
Apr 11, 2022 14:00:00 #
koratcat wrote:
Good memories all! Thanks for a feel-good start to my day.
Any other Captain Video or The Cisco Kid and Poncho fans out there from those days?
Any other Captain Video or The Cisco Kid and Poncho fans out there from those days?
And back in the 50s there was a series called "Boston Blackie" but I cannot recall who starred in it.
Apr 11, 2022 14:01:48 #
If you grew up in Phoenix it was Wallace and Ladmo Show everyone watched after school!!!
I never got a Ladmo Bag full of goodies!!!
I never got a Ladmo Bag full of goodies!!!
Apr 11, 2022 14:01:54 #
nimbushopper wrote:
This is long and if you're under 65 it might mean ... (show quote)
A quarter? That's what I made an hour on my first job, at 14, which was score keeping youth baseball. I did two games for, four mornings a week during the summer. I made sixty dollars and bought myself a Bulova watch, similar to my Dad's, which I had for decades. The next year I was able to umpire games at twice the rate. Best job I ever had. We had a great supervisor who taught us a lot about umpiring. Many of us went on to umpire high school baseball.
Apr 11, 2022 14:11:50 #
koratcat wrote:
Good memories all! Thanks for a feel-good start to my day.
Any other Captain Video or The Cisco Kid and Poncho fans out there from those days?
Any other Captain Video or The Cisco Kid and Poncho fans out there from those days?
Yes!
Apr 11, 2022 15:39:14 #
MikeG
Loc: Northern Wisconsin
"Run, duck and cover", meatless Fridays, iron lungs, bias ply tires, Ford Edsel, b/w standard def tvs, the draft, etc........wasn't all lollipops and unicorns but, then again, no era is.
Apr 11, 2022 16:20:42 #
MikeG wrote:
"Run, duck and cover", meatless Fridays, iron lungs, bias ply tires, Ford Edsel, b/w standard def tvs, the draft, etc........wasn't all lollipops and unicorns but, then again, no era is.
When my wife and I got married in '74 we had a 19" b&w television. When it died we bought a 27" color tv and thought it was fantastic!!
Apr 11, 2022 16:31:22 #
Apr 11, 2022 16:39:36 #
Lets not forget Sheriff John and Crusader Rabbit and on the radio it was Bobby Benson and the B bar B riders and in school we had the Weekly Reader to read. Yes I remember it all.
Apr 11, 2022 16:46:26 #
FiddleMaker wrote:
And back in the 50s there was a series called "Boston Blackie" but I cannot recall who starred in it.
It was Kent Taylor who sported the “pencil thin moustache” that Jimmy Buffet wishes for👍
Apr 11, 2022 17:22:20 #
[quote=nimbushopper]This is long and if you're under 65 it might mean little or nothing to you. For those over that age, take a walk down memory lane.
Remember when?
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...
to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a...'?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
...as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that?
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601).
Party lines.
Peashooters.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do You Remember a Time When...
Decisions were made by going "one potato, two potato...."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with coloured sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines dispensed glass bottles.
Dear Nimbushshopper,
Remember most but not all happy thoughts. I was getting gas the other day and young boy tried putting air in his bike tires goofed and the air pump machine ran out of time & shut off. You never saw a sadder look on a young boys face as he wheeled the bike away with 2 under inflated tires. Naturally just as any of us hoggers would do I put the money in for him after giving him a lesson on how to fill correctly. As I watched him bike away with a big smile on his face I thought about the big bean counter for the oil company who first had the idea years ago, he either never had a bike or was never a child himself. ( probably got a big bonus for his idea)
Now I think I'll send a letter to the big oil companies, I will either ask to drop the air fee's or maybe we can start a go-fund me for the big oil companies. UHH's which shall I send ?
Remember when?
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...
to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a...'?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
...as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that?
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601).
Party lines.
Peashooters.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do You Remember a Time When...
Decisions were made by going "one potato, two potato...."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with coloured sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines dispensed glass bottles.
Dear Nimbushshopper,
Remember most but not all happy thoughts. I was getting gas the other day and young boy tried putting air in his bike tires goofed and the air pump machine ran out of time & shut off. You never saw a sadder look on a young boys face as he wheeled the bike away with 2 under inflated tires. Naturally just as any of us hoggers would do I put the money in for him after giving him a lesson on how to fill correctly. As I watched him bike away with a big smile on his face I thought about the big bean counter for the oil company who first had the idea years ago, he either never had a bike or was never a child himself. ( probably got a big bonus for his idea)
Now I think I'll send a letter to the big oil companies, I will either ask to drop the air fee's or maybe we can start a go-fund me for the big oil companies. UHH's which shall I send ?
Apr 11, 2022 17:47:46 #
nimbushopper wrote:
This is long and if you're under 65 it might mean ... (show quote)
Little Rascals, Sheri Lewis and Lambchops, The Three Stooges, Lawrence Welk, drive-in movie theaters, fizzes made at a soda fountain with stools you could spin on like a top, TVs actually shutting down at midnight, American Flags burned only by foreign countries, bicycles with only 3 speed gears, sports teams that didn't change their names because theirs wasn't politically correct, Lionel Trains for Christmas gifts, lawnmowers whose blades were a twisted cage that rotated between the two wheels it moved on, songs you could actually understand the words to, etc., etc.
Apr 11, 2022 18:08:51 #
Apr 11, 2022 18:12:18 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Lionel trains Wow those are memories
My brother just sent me our 1948 set
Next project is to clean it up and see if it still runs
Smoke and whistle
My brother just sent me our 1948 set
Next project is to clean it up and see if it still runs
Smoke and whistle
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