A Trip For Our Older Board Members

[Pete44ru]

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A trip down Memory Lane..............


Aluminum Christmas Trees
$0.05 baseball card packs
Beanie and Cecil
Brownie cameras
Brylcreem
Burma-Shave signs
Chef Boy-AR-dee
Cork pop-guns
Car Hops
Cigarettes for Christmas
$0.05 Cokes
Ding-Dong, Avon calling
Drive-in Movies
Drive-in restaurants
Erector sets
Falstaff Beer
Fire escape tubes
Flash bulbs
The Fuller Brush Man
$0.25/gallon gasoline
Green Stamps
Gum wrapper chains
$0.15 hamburgers
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Lincoln Logs
Marlin Perkins
Metal Ice cube trays
Old Yeller
Penny candy
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Roller-skate keys
Sky King
Snap-Jack shoes by Thom McAnn
Speedy Alka-Seltzer
45rpm vinyl record spindles
$0.05 stamps
Studebakers
Timmy and Lassie
Tinkertoys
Topo Gigio
TV Test patterns
Washtub clothes wringers


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[Larkbill]

Hey, I resemble that remark!

And remember ALL of it.

Plus riding my bike over public roads with my .410 tied to the bar and then riding home with the basket full of rabbits. I was 13-15. The only thing passing adults did was wave.

[Pitchy]

What I regret is not being an adult when those things were around, I`d of loved driving the old cars and motorcycles.
I remember those times but was too young.

[dennie]

I remember them all. I cannot remember the other saving stamps that were available.
How 'bout:
Free glasses/dishes with a fill up at Bonded gas stations
Sears farm stores
Free towels in a box of laundry soap
Cruise nights at Frisch's and Country Kitchen restaurants
Henry Js
Opel Cadets
Playing mumbly peg with our pocket knives at recess
Cheater slicks
25 cents for Lucky Strikes-and what LSMFT really stood for
Pall Malls
Golf clubs with wooden shafts
Ford Skyliners
Making boats/canoes out of Ivory soap-because it floats
telephone operators plugging in the line you wanted
party lines
trips to the "outhouse" in the middle of the night, and below zero temps

That is enough for now.
dennie

[Grizz]

What I regret is not being an adult when those things were around, I`d of loved driving the old cars and motorcycles.
I remember those times but was too young.

they weren't old then Pitchy

cars with huge tail fins

first corvettes

schwinn paper-boy special

Roy Rodgers, Trigger, and Dale Evans

four inch televisions

ice-cream trucks

propellor driven airplanes big ones

quiet streets at night

turning vaccuum tube tv into ham radios

using morse code

straight boy scouts

[pwl44m]

Boy !! U Guys are really Old, I could pick some out of the first list but those others r either really old or Geographically specific. Cheatr Slicks "HUH"
Perry

[Pitchy]

What I regret is not being an adult when those things were around, I`d of loved driving the old cars and motorcycles.
I remember those times but was too young.

they weren't old then Pitchy

cars with huge tail fins

first corvettes

schwinn paper-boy special

Roy Rodgers, Trigger, and Dale Evans

four inch televisions

ice-cream trucks

propellor driven airplanes big ones

quiet streets at night

turning vaccuum tube tv into ham radios

using morse code

straight boy scouts

By golly your right Grizz

[jdad]

I remember buying all my fishing and camping supplies, at the "original" Dick's Sporting Goods store, when we lived in upstate NY (1960's), when it really was a "sporting goods" store.

[Les Staley]

If I reminded you about Gold Bell gift stamps, Mackinaw Bridge tea glasses with a fillip of 22.9 cent gas, the attendant that pumped your gas would bring your dipstick around to your driver's window and make sure the level was up to your approval.. free coffee cups (nice glass ones) you would know I'm old...so I won't mention 'em....

[mikld]

A few more;
"church keys"
.49 cent for a qt. of beer.
Blue Chip stamps
Sad Sack surplus stores.
Soda fountain in Woolworth's.

[Griff]

The other stamps were "Orange".

How about Hudsons?

Tommy Dorsey?

Wolfman Jack?

Doctor Demento?

The last two might be location specific.

[rangerider7]

As a 9 year old boy my first job was selling Lone Star Donuts door to door in Austin, Texas for 35 cents a box. I did not stop working for the next 54 years. I lived on Griff's 15 cent hamburgers in college. Let me add to the list: mowing yards for 2 dollars, turning in soda bottles for 2 cent refunds, washing your own car, spinner hubcaps, drive in theaters, parking with your girlfriend, being able to ride my horse on Doc Turners ranch for hours without seeing a fence. Thanks for the memories guys, except for the outhouse full of yellow jackets and that slick Sears catalog. RR7

[Mdl53]

I must be older than I think. Remember all of them except the "Snap-Jacks". Remember Thom McAnn but not the shoes. I do remember running faster and jumping higher in "Keds"

[jdad]

Oh boy, I just remembered a BIG one........the milk man.

[jkbrea]

PF Flyers
Seatbelts were an option in cars
Banana seats on bikes
Clothes line
Bluechip stamps
WesternAuto
Push mowers
Electric football

[jnyork]

Oh boy, I just remembered a BIG one........the milk man.

Many grandmas probably remember him too. Or was it the iceman?

[GoatGuy]

Here's a few more that come to mind. Great exercise this. Too many, many more to take up space here. I was a "city" boy in Dallas during all my school years.

Knowing names of all neighbors living on the block.
.50 cent per hour after school job
19.9 cent gasoline
Woosie (sp) Root Beer
Grapette
BB gun fights
Earl Scheib paint jobs
Howdy Doody and ClaraBelle
Ozzie & Harriett
Sky King
Balsa wood gliders
Pea shooters
Clothespin match guns (way too dangerous for current times)
Riding bikes all over town w/o parents worrying
Riding bikes or walking to school (except during downpours or ice/snow)
No school buses (Dallas)
Black & white TV
Dodge ball at recess
Army & Navy stores with tons of WW ll surplus
Staying after school because of bad behavior
Paddling by Principals
School sponsored newspaper drives
Pledge of Allegiance over PA during “home-room”
Chesterfield Cigarettes
Accountability for actions
Respect for elders
Church members taking presents and food baskets to ”poor folks” at Christmas time
Soap sud “snow” on Christmas trees
Lunch at a cafeteria after church on Sunday (a rare & special treat)
Only one telephone in house (of course, dial type)

[Pitchy]

Paddling by Principals

Boy do I remember that one

[GoatGuy]

Paddling by Principals

Boy do I remember that one

No, really Pitchy? I find that really hard to believe.

[Blaine]

Not old, so didn't read it....

[Mescalero]

Who you trying to BS?

[GoatGuy]

Not old, so didn't read it....

Read the post title: "Older", not old.
Surely if you're 50 + years old, you're older than all those younger than you, AND you've trod this earth for more than half a century. Sounds like older to me.

[Dave James]

Iron City Beer
Hey Mady dial Cecil over at d653
watching TV with English sub titles while over seas
brick of 22 at Sloan's for 2.50
walking through the little town where my gr-parents lived with a 22 on the hip and shooting road apples just out side town

making summer money shooting coyotes for 50 cents
pumping the handle to fill up the glass tank for gas, and for bringing water into the bucket

Watching my great grand father at 90 still bull whiping rattle snakes for fun

[AJMD429]

Some of us surely remember these...



...or at least these...



Gosh. . . that makes me think of [link >] Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. . . time to sit a spell and just listen. . .

[Pete44ru]

Not old, so didn't read it....

Who you trying to BS ?

Yer in denial, TTT.

Anybody remember the Horn & Hardart Auto-Mat restaurants - where you looked over all the hot meals, each in it's glass windowed compartment, then fed coins into a slot next to the item chosen to get your food ?


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[.45colt]

My favorite is taking My Mossberg shotgun to School to do a demonstration on Gun Control for Speech Class in 1971........and in the late 50's/early 60's at My Grandfathers Picnics and clambakes All the Men had a can/bottle opener in their pocket........just to open Beer. .

[WinM71]

What's this "one telephone - dial type". That's a modern convenience! When I was a kid, you picked up the phone and a voice said "number please?". You gave her the number & she connected you. We had a "party line" with 2 or 3 other families on it, so sometimes when you picked up the phone there was a conversation going on & you had to hang it up & try again later.

[Ji in Hawaii]

My Dad's cars:

'51 Henry J


'53 Ford Mainline


'58 Ford Custom


'60 Mercedes Benz 190D


'71 VW Van

[Blaine]

Who you trying to BS?

Yer so old ya forgot what a spring chicken I was.....

[765x53]

I remember $.25/gal. gas and $1.25/hr. wages.
According to my current wage, gas should be $4.34/gal.

I also remember the Western Auto store was the only place in town to buy bicycles and all the parts to repair them.
It was also the only gun store in town but, you could order any gun you wanted from Sears or Wards and it would be delivered to your door by the mailman.

Every grocery store sold ammunition. It was the first ingredient in many recipes.

[Blaine]

Some of us surely remember these...



...or at least these...



Gosh. . . that makes me think of [link >] Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. . . time to sit a spell and just listen. . .

As a 3(?) year old, I remember being on the last Steam run between Columbus, and Cambridge Ohio.....I can remember the Black, uniformed Porter treating me like a little prince, and looking out the window. The smoke, noise, smells will always be with me...

[J Miller]

S&H Green Stamps
Gold Bond Stamps
were two of them.

I remember most of all that's been mentioned. Still have many of those things around. Some was before my time though.

I do so miss the old round head light cars. Made from real American steel right in good old USA.

I've still got an old black rotary dial phone. It works too. Problem is nobody ever calls me so it's downstairs in a box.

Joe

[Chuck 100 yd]

I can remember my grandmother cooking on wood burning range and lighting the house with kerosene lamps before they were on the grid in northern Iowa.

Later when they got electricity pumped in (surface mounted wiring) grandpa did`nt have to milk cows by hand using a lantern with three feet of snow outside on the ground. And we got to use
lectric (as they pronounced it) lights and we even had a lectric radio !!!

[Ji in Hawaii]

Anyone remember the DDT trucks driving through the neighborhood spewing poison laden fog? One time my older brother got the bright idea of chasing the DDT truck with me on the handlebar of his Stingray bike, we got close enough to be in zero visibility and ran right into a telephone pole me hitting it first an cushioning my brother's impact. I'm surprised we did not grow up sterile.

[Blaine]

Anyone remember the DDT trucks driving through the neighborhood spewing poison laden fog? One time my older brother got the bright idea of chasing the DDT truck with me on the handlebar of his Stingray bike, we got close enough to be in zero visibility and ran right into a telephone pole me hitting it first an cushioning my brother's impact. I'm surprised we did not grow up sterile.

Yup...right thru all the housing......Mom didn't let me ride bike behind it, but, I'd go down to the fence and get a sniffer-full...smelled sweet

[Old Ironsights]

A trip down Memory Lane..............

Aluminum Christmas Trees - Now = a Festivus Pole...
$0.05 baseball card packs - Valued at $10,000+ unopened...
Beanie and Cecil - created by Jed's smarter brother Bob...
Brownie cameras - Have 2...
Brylcreem - A little Dab will make you look like you stuck your head into a crank-case...
Burma-Shave signs - Caused Accidents
Chef Boy-AR-dee - unseasoned tomato sauce & dhurum pasta...
Cork pop-guns - became interesting once the string was removed...
Car Hops - on rollerskates...
Cigarettes for Christmas - now with X-T38... because they are mild...
$0.05 Cokes - got me there... coke came by the gram when I was buying...
Ding-Dong, Avon calling - dumbest ad ever. Avon used the Telephone to set up appointments...
Drive-in Movies - paradise by the dashboard light...
Drive-in restaurants - for those without girlfriends...
Erector sets - better than legos
Falstaff Beer - only slightly better than Billy Beer
Fire escape tubes - still useful...
Flash bulbs - still useful if you are into IEDs...
The Fuller Brush Man - genuine boar bristles...
$0.25/gallon gasoline - 8 mpg cars...
Green Stamps - granny hoarded them.
Gum wrapper chains - who could afford gum?
$0.15 hamburgers - now $0.20-0.25... not much inflation there.
Jiffy Pop popcorn - hot air poppers...
Lincoln Logs - I had real BRICK building bricks...
Marlin Perkins - And now watch Jeff as he gets eaten by the magnificent African Lion... Good thing he had Mutual of Omaha Insurance...
Metal Ice cube trays - and? my freezer still has them.
Old Yeller - Strom Thurmond didn't cry...
Penny candy - now $0.05...
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders - my reels still play... only a few have had magnetic bleed...
Roller-skate keys - only Girls failed to nail them to boards...
Sky King - since when do cowboys use a plane rather than a horse?
Snap-Jack shoes by Thom McAnn - penny loafers with real pennies...
Speedy Alka-Seltzer - plop plop, fizz fizz
45rpm vinyl record spindles - used to be thrown as frisbees by Radio DJs at town events...
$0.05 stamps - neither rain nor sleet nor federal employee's union...
Studebakers - the Tea Party of the 50s...
Timmy and Lassie - Timmy was too stupid to live... How many wells did he fall into?
Tinkertoys - made great toy guns...
Topo Gigio - Elvis's Hips made more of an impact...
TV Test patterns - National Anthem played before & after...
Washtub clothes wringers - cloth diapers...

[Shasta]

Yes, old enough to remember...

Here's a real favorite of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZrS5A-C_gM


SHASTA

[DadsMod12]

Okay, I guess I am getting old. GoatGuy mentioned paddling by the principal. I remember when I started teaching I was on the other side of the paddle. I was just as nervous as the kid I was paddling.

Do you remember when school started with the morning prayer and the Pledge?

How about the milk at school in those little glass bottles?

[Booger Bill]

This might show my age.

[pwl44m]

Bill is that U on that 37 Hudson Terraplane ?
Perry

[Booger Bill]

Yeah, me and my sister wendie. I figure its just after the war. I remember that my uncle bought that car soon as he was mustered out. He lived with us for about a year when he first come home. (82nd AB, he was a glider guy). Thats in auroaville wisconsin. My family owned the old country general store. Heres a picture of uncle eldon over there.

[Ben_Rumson]

Candy cigarettes... Buster Brown Shoes ....Hand crank ice cream...The bakery truck... Gunsmoke on the radio...Gang Busters... Big John & Little Sparky.. ect ect... Rabbit ear 3 channel TV that didn't start until 2pm and went off at midnight when the national anthem got played as they showed the Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi before the test patern...The F-86....Being afraid the Red Chinese might attack...

[Ji in Hawaii]

I remember going to the marina and my dad filling his Mercedes Benz 190D diesel for 10 cents a gallon.
Dad's favorites shows were Combat, 12 O'Clock High, and McHales Navy.
Walking through my suburban neighborhood shooting doves with my pellet rifle raised no alarms with neighbors back then.
Watching a Ed Sullivan Show a regular weekly family event.

[piller]

My favorite is taking My Mossberg shotgun to School to do a demonstration on Gun Control for Speech Class in 1971........and in the late 50's/early 60's at My Grandfathers Picnics and clambakes All the Men had a can/bottle opener in their pocket........just to open Beer. .

That opener is a Church Key. I am only 48, and I know about all of the things mentioned. How many on here fired a P-38 while out camping, and what did you fire it at? I fired it at cans.

Remember Hurd rod and reel combo rods. They were made of a steel rod and the handle was the reel. Remember when Arbogast made the Hellbender. Remember Remington Baby Magnum shotshells? Barlow pocketknives? Square fiberglass fishing rods? Knucklebuster casting reels? Daisy pop guns? Rolls Razor?

[GoatGuy]

I'm an older board member and here's an experience I can vividly remember, and which most of you have only seen in movies. House call from a doctor.

We lived in Dallas and I was probably 6 yrs old or so,and was sick, sick. Momma called our family doctor and he drove over. Carrying his little bag he came into my room where I was in bed, diagnosed what was wrong with me and treated me there at home. How could I forget. The treatment was an enema and some horrid stuff on a spoon.

I must assume he was paid his fee as he was leaving. Certainly no paper work, except cash, was involved. Different times for sure.

[Booger Bill]

By the way thats a 36 ford, not a 37 hudson terriplane but my dad DID own one about that vintage. Someone mentioned buster brown shoes. Anyone remember those X ray machines they had to see how the foot fit? When I was a kid I wrung my forearm and hand through a washing ,machine wringer mowing down a bunch of krauts. Folks took me to a buster brown shoe store and had me lay down to check out the bones in my hand and arm. They were poor and didnt have insurance. My arm glowed in the dark for awhile. No fooling, I knew a guy that claimed one of those machines made him steril! Guess they outlawed em.

[pwl44m]

Booger, that was a wild guess on My part. Good thing I wasn't betting which would be rare as I don't bet.
Perry

[ollogger]

Doctors that made house calls, the out house, hand pump for water, kitchen wood burning
cook stove that got moved to the porch in the summer, crank phone & the first TV I saw




ollogger

[AJMD429]

I'm an older board member and here's an experience I can vividly remember, and which most of you have only seen in movies. House call from a doctor.

When I was a kid, my Mom told me that on one of the rare occasions my Dad was home at a decent hour (he was a country doctor), they had just relaxed and gone to bed, when someone knocked at their bedroomdoor and she thought it was me, but when she said 'come in', it was a total stranger who wanted 'doc' to come out to his place and check his wife or kid or something. We evidently didn't lock our doors back then, even at night.

[AJMD429]

Timmy and Lassie - Timmy was too stupid to live... How many wells did he fall into?

Glad I bought some keyboard-cleaner. . .