Those were the days !!!!!!.......Graham
Feb 18, 2018 11:38:20 #
John N wrote:
Talking to a neighbour the other day, remembering how me and brother in law used to walk down the street with my air rifle and set up a few cans to plink can. Kept us quite all afternoon.
"But you had to keep it in a case didn't you" he enquired?
Sort of, I used the box it came in - with a picture of the rifle on the outside that was life size. Can't recall a single complaint, except maybe PLOD who advised us to make sure there were no people behind the cans!
"But you had to keep it in a case didn't you" he enquired?
Sort of, I used the box it came in - with a picture of the rifle on the outside that was life size. Can't recall a single complaint, except maybe PLOD who advised us to make sure there were no people behind the cans!
Thanks John, perhaps we should explain the Cockney Rhyming slang, "PLOD" our American friends won'y know it's "Police" and Plodd is
slang for Sweeney Todd which is slang for Flying Squad which is part of our Police Force.
Cheers and Beers Graham
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Feb 18, 2018 12:01:47 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
I remember those days very well!!!! We even carrie... (show quote)
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Manglesphoto
It was quite grown up to have a smart "Pen Knife" we called them, the Swiss Army red multi bladed were very, very popular here in England. I honest of God never heard of anyone getting stabbed threatened or hurt because of a pen Knife (pocket knife). Now in England we have a new craze for teenaged boys to think it's cool or gangsterish or just plain and simply, bloody stupid, to carry knives I thinkit's cool to call them "blades", to prove they are hard men. There have been a few deaths, but nothing to write home about as yet. Thank God it's not guns.
Cheers and Beers Manglesphoto, thanks for your time and contributing.
Graham
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Feb 18, 2018 12:30:22 #
Back in time. Spring of 1963, a history teacher in the high school I was at, came up with idea of having a display of WWII items as a history project. What happen next you would not believe. Getting on a bus to go to school carrying a rifle, seeing other kids on the bus holding rifles, get to school seen kids walk around with Japanese and Germany military items that their father had from WWII. For some thing that was just for a class room display, end up fill up all the display cases on the first floor of the school. Also it was just to be for one day, turn out to be a week. This was not made up, for the history teacher was my mother.
Feb 18, 2018 12:36:00 #
I too grew up in that era, but it wasn't all beer and skittles.
I had a good friend who was accident-prone. He'd come to school bruised up or with his arm in a sling. I knew if I stopped by his house, his mother would have had an accident too and be sporting a black eye or be limping again. The one time a neighbor called the cops because of the screaming, the cops said it was a domestic matter and none of their business.
I knew a girl who was raped when she was thirteen and labeled a whore ever after.
I remember the Sunday a black man walked through our neighborhood, and half the fathers on the block got out their guns, just in case.
Oh, and we had polio and scarlet fever and whooping cough too.
Yes, those were the days.
I had a good friend who was accident-prone. He'd come to school bruised up or with his arm in a sling. I knew if I stopped by his house, his mother would have had an accident too and be sporting a black eye or be limping again. The one time a neighbor called the cops because of the screaming, the cops said it was a domestic matter and none of their business.
I knew a girl who was raped when she was thirteen and labeled a whore ever after.
I remember the Sunday a black man walked through our neighborhood, and half the fathers on the block got out their guns, just in case.
Oh, and we had polio and scarlet fever and whooping cough too.
Yes, those were the days.
Feb 18, 2018 12:47:09 #
Thanks for these, Graham. Not sure how any of us survived.
We always had lots of mercury around to coat dimes an nickles. We must be dead for sure...
We always had lots of mercury around to coat dimes an nickles. We must be dead for sure...
Feb 18, 2018 12:49:53 #
Yes, htbrown those were the down side of the "good old days" which people don't want to talk about. I remember a friend of my, his brother had scarlet fever and the whole family was quten for a week.
Feb 18, 2018 13:57:09 #
Thanks for the reminders of my growing up Graham. Yours and several others could be my story also. I remember taking the discarded refrigerator or washer/dryer boxes and flattening them so you could climb inside and move with it like a tank trax. Bringing back returnable bottles for the change and buying wax lips and pixey stix. And the whole block of kids would would stake out their 3 lines on the sidewalk to pitch pennies,aiming for a liner or a bridge to pay double,then feeling all cool by putting baseball cards in the spokes of our highhandle bar,bananna seat(with a sissybar) bikes.
Thanks again,
Mike
Thanks again,
Mike
Feb 18, 2018 14:46:05 #
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. We'd sing and dance forever and a day. Yep, RIP a wonderful childhood. Wish we could have preserved it for future generations.
Feb 18, 2018 14:59:22 #
sirlensalot
Loc: Arizona
Memories of sandwiches in brown paper bags (saved the bags) or metal lunch pails that sat for hours before eating the contents with no ill effects. Coats and lunches were stored in the "cloak" room. Playing "keepsies" with marbles using your favorite "shooter" on the playground during recess by drawing any size circle in the dirt, or trading baseball cards with peers and trading back sometimes unless they were lost playing "heads or tails" with them or "closest to the wall" (usually 3-5 players) in which winners were determined by standing about 10'-12' from a wall and attempt to get closest to the wall using your own cards by throwing them similarly like a frisbee. Winner was whoever threw a "leaner" onto the wall unless some butthead (all of the others) could knock it down with one of their cards. Winner collected and kept all cards thrown.
Anyone caught disrupting a class felt shamed vs today when they tend to feel like a martyr. Haven't thought of things like this for years. Thanks for the mental jolt Graham. It has been fun.
Anyone caught disrupting a class felt shamed vs today when they tend to feel like a martyr. Haven't thought of things like this for years. Thanks for the mental jolt Graham. It has been fun.
Feb 18, 2018 15:18:00 #
808caver
Loc: Maui
Hey, I'm there w/ you. Snowball fights, climbing trees, no special gear. My grand daughters (2= and 7+) come up to our place w/ the cousins and we tell then to take the dog and go up the mountain. A while later they come tearing down, yelling and carrying on off to the swings and trampoline having a ball. They then take off to the lower forest to play and explore, they fall, get cuts, no worries. When our 2+ grand daughter had to go home she was crying and saying , I dont want to go home. I think they had a ball. No electronic toys, just trees, grass and some stones, the way I/we grew up using our imagination, not needing to be protected against everything.
AND yes, we need to get our guns here controlled and not goverened by special interests. I would hate to lose a grand daughter or grandson (in Colorado near some of the shootings there) This is nuts, our president is nuts, where is his common decent sense?????
And that's for all the laughs you publish, it does make my day better.
Aloha from Maui
Rob
AND yes, we need to get our guns here controlled and not goverened by special interests. I would hate to lose a grand daughter or grandson (in Colorado near some of the shootings there) This is nuts, our president is nuts, where is his common decent sense?????
And that's for all the laughs you publish, it does make my day better.
Aloha from Maui
Rob
Feb 18, 2018 15:48:48 #
Graham Thirkill wrote:
Those were the days!! br br Yep, that’s my era………... (show quote)
this was my era also Graham all parents out playing rounders and kick the can with all the kids no one went home till dinner time now kids are sanitized if they get a speck of dirt on them
Feb 18, 2018 15:52:22 #
I get the feeling you were secretly following me around recording my days in those days of yore. I remember all the things you mentioned. Plus we used to walk about a half mile to a creek that we played in and came home all wet and filthy. Thanks! I wouldn't trade it for anything either!
Feb 18, 2018 16:12:17 #
Living in Louisville, I-65 was put in just about 150 feet from our home. From the time the houses were torn down, to the fill dirt being added, to the driving of pilings, to the concrete poured for trestles and road surface, we were constantly on the job site. The workers kept their eyes open for us, and even let us ride with them on the road graders, and sit in the crane cabs. We had a few skinned knees and elbows, and they applied mercurocrhome liberally. My mom was thankful that we were out of her hair.
One of the expressway to street ramps was used for their equipment, but each day, they'd grade it so we could race our bicycles down the ramp. I've never had as much fun since.
One of our neighbors used to pack a lunch for her son, so he could stay on the site all day.
Fond, fond memories!!
One of the expressway to street ramps was used for their equipment, but each day, they'd grade it so we could race our bicycles down the ramp. I've never had as much fun since.
One of our neighbors used to pack a lunch for her son, so he could stay on the site all day.
Fond, fond memories!!
Feb 18, 2018 17:00:03 #
Reminds me of the times as a child when I ate cake batter and cookie dough (with raw eggs) I also drank unpasteurized cows' milk and rode my bike without a helmet.
I would take long walks and no one worried that I would meet up with some pervert. We could only get 3 tv stations and I lover watching the westerns.
Oh well, there's good things about today also. We just have to count our blessings.
#1: Moderately good health.
#2: Not having to get up early to get on the school bus.
#3: Not having to get up early and go to work. Retired.
The list could go on.
I would take long walks and no one worried that I would meet up with some pervert. We could only get 3 tv stations and I lover watching the westerns.
Oh well, there's good things about today also. We just have to count our blessings.
#1: Moderately good health.
#2: Not having to get up early to get on the school bus.
#3: Not having to get up early and go to work. Retired.
The list could go on.
Feb 18, 2018 17:19:05 #
I'd hate to be a kid today. No freedom at all. Every game you play has to be organized and controlled by adults. What happened to the sandlot baseball game or tackle football without pads on the front lawn? And teenagers now are tied to the phone and the phone is tied to them. They can't go anywhere where the parents won't be able to find them. Kids are smart enough to figure away around it, I'm sure but being tracked everywhere you go has to suck.
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