How many remember
Mar 26, 2015 11:26:26 #
My grandpa (and his friends) took rifles to school to maybe get some protein on the way home. All rifles had to be kept with the coats in the back of the classroom during school.
My dad said it was expected of every boy to carry a knife. It was required if your friend got in trouble because the teacher made you go down to the pond and cut switches so he could be punished in front of the class.
My dad said it was expected of every boy to carry a knife. It was required if your friend got in trouble because the teacher made you go down to the pond and cut switches so he could be punished in front of the class.
oldtigger wrote:
on the subject of weapons
In high school i carried a shotgun to school in the fall months and kept it in my locker so i could get in some birding on the way home and no classmate or adult ever commented on it.
But if you got caught with a sharpened motorcycle chain in your locker it meant expulsion.
In high school i carried a shotgun to school in the fall months and kept it in my locker so i could get in some birding on the way home and no classmate or adult ever commented on it.
But if you got caught with a sharpened motorcycle chain in your locker it meant expulsion.
Mar 26, 2015 11:29:36 #
Mar 26, 2015 11:34:07 #
EdM wrote:
and walking to school was always uphill, both ways....
:lol:
Mar 26, 2015 12:09:21 #
Mar 26, 2015 12:14:40 #
My parents took us on travel/camping trips. We, the Edwards Family, devleloped "Edwards Law" long before Murphy. It has to do with choosing now or waiting for later. Example: If you are driving down the highway and you are hungry looking for a restaurant, if you stop at THAT one there will be a better one later; if you pass it by hoping to find a better one, there won't be one. We found it to always be 100% accurate!
EE wrote:
here was a machine IN FRONT OF MY HIGH SCHOOL,that... (show quote)
Mar 26, 2015 12:18:36 #
I just got off the phone with my father who's been in Florida for about 30 years. He's working on a new chronologically ordered family photo album and remarked how things were simpler and somewhat easier years ago. He grew up on a farm during the depression and WW2 and had food and not much more,but would gladly return to days of yesteryear. He said it was simpler and much time was spent with family. They did have a radio! Unsolicited.
Mar 26, 2015 12:30:07 #
They just started showing reruns of "The Lone Ranger" which had the catchphrase "The Days of Yesteryear" (I think is how they said it).
DaveO wrote:
I just got off the phone with my father who's been in Florida for about 30 years. He's working on a new chronologically ordered family photo album and remarked how things were simpler and somewhat easier years ago. He grew up on a farm during the depression and WW2 and had food and not much more,but would gladly return to days of yesteryear. He said it was simpler and much time was spent with family. They did have a radio! Unsolicited.
Mar 26, 2015 12:39:58 #
I remember all that but don't really miss it. I like technology. I wish I could have lived from the time airplanes first started to fly till now.
bigwolf40 wrote:
When Life Was Fun br br All the girls had ugly gy... (show quote)
Mar 26, 2015 12:41:59 #
A million thanks for the memories. Here are a few of mine.
Born in 1926, In the 30s I walked to the drug store to buy Marlboroughs with Ivory Tips (cigarrettes) for Mom.
At our Oneida Lake cottage I took a can, which looked like and probably was a milk can, to a restaurant nearby to have it filled with beer for my parents and their visiting friends.
I walked to our public elementary school and home for lunch too.
In the first grade at a private school, I took a trolleyalone5 miles to the school.
Born in 1926, In the 30s I walked to the drug store to buy Marlboroughs with Ivory Tips (cigarrettes) for Mom.
At our Oneida Lake cottage I took a can, which looked like and probably was a milk can, to a restaurant nearby to have it filled with beer for my parents and their visiting friends.
I walked to our public elementary school and home for lunch too.
In the first grade at a private school, I took a trolleyalone5 miles to the school.
Mar 26, 2015 12:44:01 #
I remember all of those. Still reach in the gutter to pick up pennies. Saw a quarter on the ground and our niece wouldn't pick it up. It's not worth it. So I did.
Mar 26, 2015 12:53:23 #
Yes, I love the technology too, but it doesn't balance out. We were happier then. I truly believe that. My father took us on summer camping trips. He said it was actually cheaper than paying bills at the house. You can't afford to travel nowadays like that, you have to rich, not poor! There was nothing like eating a can of Salisbury steaks from a can heated over the fire, with a potato wrapped in foil in the embers, baked. You can't buy Salisbury steaks in a can anymore. You can't even get in campground without a reservation.
This place sucks! Technology or no.
This place sucks! Technology or no.
Mar 26, 2015 12:58:08 #
yeh, I agree with most of the above... I believe historians of the future will mark the death of JFK as the beginning of the downward slide into 30,000 years of chaos...
Mar 26, 2015 13:09:06 #
bigwolf40 wrote:
When Life Was Fun br br All the girls had ugly gy... (show quote)
I would still stick my hand into a dirty gutter, as finding a penny is "good luck." And I owned a '57 Chevy. We should not stop doing things that brought joy to us as youngsters, don't you think?
Good post. Thanks for the good memories.
Mar 26, 2015 13:26:15 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Rich, except for the weapon at school thingy, all of those still happen in Montana!! :lol. :lol: :lol:
Let's see if I get hate mail?!?!
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Let's see if I get hate mail?!?!
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Did them all and really miss Montana!
:-(
Mar 26, 2015 13:46:36 #
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