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If anyone has anything to add to these lists, please feel free to do so. All entries are welcome. 
How's This For Nostalgia?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
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 savor 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'?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Howdy Doody.
Hi-If'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 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
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 - flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
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I swam in the irrigation ditches and didn't get polio.
I think the sugar cubes protected me.
Yes I wore white socks.
I refused to wear hand me down saddle shoes.
I never could kiss my elbow.
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sarge wrote:
If anyone has anything to add to these lists, please feel free to do so. All entries are welcome.
How's This For Nostalgia?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
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 savor 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'?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Howdy Doody.
Hi-If'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 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
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 - flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
I remember most of them. I remember when there was no TV. Lone Ranger, Superman, Sky King, Sergeant Preston, Amos and Andy and many more were on the radio.I remember the coal men delivering coal to our house. The milk man delivering milk to our house. The bread man delivering Bakery to our house. The ice man delivering Ice for the ice box. I could go on and on, but I don't want to get boring. "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
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POGO STICKS! Buckle up boots! All the cheap stuff was made in Japan. Hood ornaments that lit up with the face of an Indian or looked like steel jets a foot long. Teachers wore suits, the kids were not allowed to wear sneakers and it was okay for the principal to paddle your butt.
I remember mail being delivered TWICE a day and the post man WALKED and CARRIED a mail sack and they STILL had time to have coffee with a couple people on their route and a postage stamp was 5 cents.
How about the five and dime or five and ten cent store where you could actually buy tangible items for five and ten cents! Strike anywhere wooden matches... LONG before Flic Your Bic was even thought of and there used to be cigarette machines all over the place and I quit smoking because of the ridiculous price when it was raised to 55 cents.
Now I KNOW I am getting old... I went to Perkins yesterday and ordered my first "Senior" meal.Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Wow, fun topic Greg. Thanks!
I was shocked the other day when a fast-food cashier automatically added a senior discount to my meal.
It had not happened before or since.
I must have looked old that day. LOL
I remember many of the things listed above.
Terry has us beat, remembering ice being delivered for the ice box. Wow.
I need to show Terry a little more respect, he is definitely the elder of us two. LOL
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? - Galatians 4:16
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Hi all, I rememer the techer's wore suits and dressed nice. I remember a lot of it but not the ice and milk delivery. Wow
This is a great topic.
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sak1 wrote:Hi all, I rememer the techer's wore suits and dressed nice. I remember a lot of it but not the ice and milk delivery. Wow
This is a great topic. When I was very young The milk man came with a horse drawn wagon. A produce man came around in a horse drawn wagon. A rag man came around in a horse drawn wagon. And garbage and ashes were collected in horse drawn wagons. I believe the garbage was collected into the 50s by horse and wagon. "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
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Terry wrote:I remember most of them. I remember when there was no TV. Lone Ranger, Superman, Sky King, Sergeant Preston, Amos and Andy and many more were on the radio.I remember the coal men delivering coal to our house. The milk man delivering milk to our house. The bread man delivering Bakery to our house. The ice man delivering Ice for the ice box. I could go on and on, but I don't want to get boring. I still have coal delivered for heat and also I use some once in awhile for my antique coal/oil stove. I still have milk and cheese truck delivery every week. We don't have the old "bottled milk" anymore but rather plastic or cartons. We can buy smoked meats too from the same guy. The cheese is Amish made and is the BEST! We also have "the ice cream man" making his rounds through town with music playing twice a week in the summer months here.
We also have a drive through ice cream place with fifties music and lots of neon signs too. Its the original building and paved lot with intercom to make your order in the parking lot. No girls on roller skates anymore though. Folks go there cause the ice cream is great and its a nice place to show off our antique cars and hang out.
Keep posting Terry, its never boring, just good memories!
Sarge
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sarge wrote:Terry wrote:I remember most of them. I remember when there was no TV. Lone Ranger, Superman, Sky King, Sergeant Preston, Amos and Andy and many more were on the radio.I remember the coal men delivering coal to our house. The milk man delivering milk to our house. The bread man delivering Bakery to our house. The ice man delivering Ice for the ice box. I could go on and on, but I don't want to get boring. I still have coal delivered for heat and also I use some once in awhile for my antique coal/oil stove. I still have milk and cheese truck delivery every week. We don't have the old "bottled milk" anymore but rather plastic or cartons. We can buy smoked meats too from the same guy. The cheese is Amish made and is the BEST! We also have "the ice cream man" making his rounds through town with music playing twice a week in the summer months here.
We also have a drive through ice cream place with fifties music and lots of neon signs too. Its the original building and paved lot with intercom to make your order in the parking lot. No girls on roller skates anymore though. Folks go there cause the ice cream is great and its a nice place to show off our antique cars and hang out.
Keep posting Terry, its never boring, just good memories!
Sarge
I didn't think anyone used coal for heat anymore. Does it come in a truck with a hopper? Do the delivery men fill canvas baskets and Carry them on their shoulder to a chute that leads to a coal bin in the basement? Are the delivery men covered with coal dust? I live in WI so I'll have to disagree on the cheese. I live in the country now. No ice cream trucks or bikes. That reminds me. We had a horse drawn popcorn wagon come around in the summer when I was young. When I get back to the south side of Milwaukee Arnold's custard is a must stop. It's similar to the place you described. No intercoms or fifties music though. We call it a drive in. You park, go to the window, place your order, take it to your car, eat it and leave. I remember car hops, not on roller skates though. We have one drive in movie that I know about. They used to be very popular. "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
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TerryD wrote:sarge wrote:Terry wrote:I remember most of them. I remember when there was no TV. Lone Ranger, Superman, Sky King, Sergeant Preston, Amos and Andy and many more were on the radio.I remember the coal men delivering coal to our house. The milk man delivering milk to our house. The bread man delivering Bakery to our house. The ice man delivering Ice for the ice box. I could go on and on, but I don't want to get boring. I still have coal delivered for heat and also I use some once in awhile for my antique coal/oil stove. I still have milk and cheese truck delivery every week. We don't have the old "bottled milk" anymore but rather plastic or cartons. We can buy smoked meats too from the same guy. The cheese is Amish made and is the BEST! We also have "the ice cream man" making his rounds through town with music playing twice a week in the summer months here.
We also have a drive through ice cream place with fifties music and lots of neon signs too. Its the original building and paved lot with intercom to make your order in the parking lot. No girls on roller skates anymore though. Folks go there cause the ice cream is great and its a nice place to show off our antique cars and hang out.
Keep posting Terry, its never boring, just good memories!
Sarge
I didn't think anyone used coal for heat anymore. Does it come in a truck with a hopper? Do the delivery men fill canvas baskets and Carry them on their shoulder to a chute that leads to a coal bin in the basement? Are the delivery men covered with coal dust? I live in WI so I'll have to disagree on the cheese. I live in the country now. No ice cream trucks or bikes. That reminds me. We had a horse drawn popcorn wagon come around in the summer when I was young. When I get back to the south side of Milwaukee Arnold's custard is a must stop. It's similar to the place you described. No intercoms or fifties music though. We call it a drive in. You park, go to the window, place your order, take it to your car, eat it and leave. I remember car hops, not on roller skates though. We have one drive in movie that I know about. They used to be very popular. Yes, Coal heat is still very popular around here because of the availability. This is a big coal mining area and employs a large part of the population.
True Story; I bought this hose 5 years ago. It had oil heat but I had it replaced with a brand new oil furnace. The one that was here was very old. I paid big bucks for that thing and it was VERY convenient but the costs were outrageous! When the price of oil exploded I was going through about 10 gallons of heating oil a day. 300 gallons a month in the winter at or above $4.00 a gallon. Depending on the price of oil on any certain month were looking at $800.00 to $1200.00 a month for heat! WOAH!!! It didn't take me long to sell it. I shopped around and bought a very old Lennox(sp) coal furnace and did all the pipe work myself. I found old cast iron radiators and run a series and zoned everything. Now I use between 4 to 5 ton PER YEAR!!! The price of coal is very stable, not like oil which can literally double when the cold weather comes. Coal is right at $100.00 per ton year around. So $800.00 to $1200.00 per month with oil VS. $100.00 per month with soft coal. See what I'm saying?
Oh yeah, The coal is delivered by truck with an auger. Takes about 10 minutes to unload 4 ton into my coal room in the basement right next to my furnace.
We still have 2 drive-in theaters in our area. I HATE sitting in a movie house. Drive-ins are hopefully here to stay!
Thanks for sharing Terry,
Sarge
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TerryD wrote:When I was very young The milk man came with a horse drawn wagon. A produce man came around in a horse drawn wagon. A rag man came around in a horse drawn wagon. And garbage and ashes were collected in horse drawn wagons. I believe the garbage was collected into the 50s by horse and wagon. WOW... you REALLY are OLD!I remember the milkman, we used to have a door built into the side of the house. We would put our empties in from the door inside and the milkman would put the fresh milk in from the outside. Some people just had a little insulated galvanized box on their porch.
I remember the breadman too. On the passenger side of the delivery truck was a rack filled with penny candies. If we were really good we would get three cents to buy whatever we wanted!Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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sarge wrote:Yes, Coal heat is still very popular around here because of the availability. This is a big coal mining area and employs a large part of the population.
True Story; I bought this hose 5 years ago. It had oil heat but I had it replaced with a brand new oil furnace. The one that was here was very old. I paid big bucks for that thing and it was VERY convenient but the costs were outrageous! When the price of oil exploded I was going through about 10 gallons of heating oil a day. 300 gallons a month in the winter at or above $4.00 a gallon. Depending on the price of oil on any certain month were looking at $800.00 to $1200.00 a month for heat! WOAH!!! It didn't take me long to sell it. I shopped around and bought a very old Lennox(sp) coal furnace and did all the pipe work myself. I found old cast iron radiators and run a series and zoned everything. Now I use between 4 to 5 ton PER YEAR!!! The price of coal is very stable, not like oil which can literally double when the cold weather comes. Coal is right at $100.00 per ton year around. So $800.00 to $1200.00 per month with oil VS. $100.00 per month with soft coal. See what I'm saying?
Oh yeah, The coal is delivered by truck with an auger. Takes about 10 minutes to unload 4 ton into my coal room in the basement right next to my furnace.
We still have 2 drive-in theaters in our area. I HATE sitting in a movie house. Drive-ins are hopefully here to stay!
Thanks for sharing Terry,
Sarge
We have used coal and wood to heat our house for the past ten years. Before it gets really cold and stays that way we would burn wood since it would barely carry though the night. When it got really cold we would switch to coal... one 40lb bag would fill the stove and carry through til nearly noon.
Our stove was built in the very early 1900's and was originally in a caboose on the Pennsylvania Railroad. We brought that little stove with us when we moved here in 2006. I ripped out the pretty little fireplace in the corner and put in something practical. We also have an outdoor wood furnace for when it gets REALLY cold. The original furnace here burns propane and that is beyond ridiculous in price... we could only afford about $1,000 worth to put in the tank and bring it up to 40%.
You must have a large house, although I know I had a very small house... just under 1,000 sq. ft. When my grandfather built it in 1931 it had a coal/wood furnace with one big grate in the floor... it was later converted to oil. In the early 60's we had a new oil burner installed that had actual heat distributed by ducts to every room... no more ice on the windows in the morning. Back then oil cost up to about two dollars a gallon and on the colder days it would burn five gallons a day.Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Intangible wrote:TerryD wrote:When I was very young The milk man came with a horse drawn wagon. A produce man came around in a horse drawn wagon. A rag man came around in a horse drawn wagon. And garbage and ashes were collected in horse drawn wagons. I believe the garbage was collected into the 50s by horse and wagon. WOW... you REALLY are OLD!I remember the milkman, we used to have a door built into the side of the house. We would put our empties in from the door inside and the milkman would put the fresh milk in from the outside. Some people just had a little insulated galvanized box on their porch.
I remember the breadman too. On the passenger side of the delivery truck was a rack filled with penny candies. If we were really good we would get three cents to buy whatever we wanted! We lived with my grandparents when my dad was in WWII. They had a milk shoot like you describe.When my dad came home we moved into housing that they built for GIs. Tree families in a row. they had no shoot or insulated box. The milk man left the milk on the concrete stoop. In the winter it would freeze and you would have a column of creme. It was not homogenized. I think during the war, cars, tires gas and such were hard to get, thus horse power. "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
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TerryD wrote:sarge wrote:Terry wrote:I remember most of them. I remember when there was no TV. Lone Ranger, Superman, Sky King, Sergeant Preston, Amos and Andy and many more were on the radio.I remember the coal men delivering coal to our house. The milk man delivering milk to our house. The bread man delivering Bakery to our house. The ice man delivering Ice for the ice box. I could go on and on, but I don't want to get boring. I still have coal delivered for heat and also I use some once in awhile for my antique coal/oil stove. I still have milk and cheese truck delivery every week. We don't have the old "bottled milk" anymore but rather plastic or cartons. We can buy smoked meats too from the same guy. The cheese is Amish made and is the BEST! We also have "the ice cream man" making his rounds through town with music playing twice a week in the summer months here.
We also have a drive through ice cream place with fifties music and lots of neon signs too. Its the original building and paved lot with intercom to make your order in the parking lot. No girls on roller skates anymore though. Folks go there cause the ice cream is great and its a nice place to show off our antique cars and hang out.
Keep posting Terry, its never boring, just good memories!
Sarge
I didn't think anyone used coal for heat anymore. Does it come in a truck with a hopper? Do the delivery men fill canvas baskets and Carry them on their shoulder to a chute that leads to a coal bin in the basement? Are the delivery men covered with coal dust? I live in WI so I'll have to disagree on the cheese. I live in the country now. No ice cream trucks or bikes. That reminds me. We had a horse drawn popcorn wagon come around in the summer when I was young. When I get back to the south side of Milwaukee Arnold's custard is a must stop. It's similar to the place you described. No intercoms or fifties music though. We call it a drive in. You park, go to the window, place your order, take it to your car, eat it and leave. I remember car hops, not on roller skates though. We have one drive in movie that I know about. They used to be very popular. Correction The custard drive in is Leon's. I must have gotten mixed up by Happy days. If you ever have the opportunity The hot fudge Sunday with pecans will make you think you died and went to heaven. "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
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Greg wrote:We also have an outdoor wood furnace for when it gets REALLY cold.
You must have a large house, although I know I had a very small house... just under 1,000 sq. ft. The house isn't really so big it was just poorly insulated when I bought it. I have insulated all the outside walls since then.
I used to have an outside wood/coal burning furnace years ago. I wish I had it back but lost it through the divorce. It would have worked very nicely had I set it up in the basement. It was all stainless steel and really good grates.
I have learned alot over the years about heating. Most was from experimenting and always trying to improve on something else. I think I have it down to a fine science now. LOL!
EDIT; I wanted to mention the Amish build some very fine furnaces too. They are all homemade and the designs are theirs. Very, very efficient wood stoves also and they actually have a waiting list for most because of the efficiency especially after the price of oil shot up.
Sarge
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Remember When?
Some things I remember as a kid were building forts or tree houses. We could spend a whole summer building a tree fort out of scrap or anything we could find or get donated. Of course that was when we weren't working, helping our parents with yard work or chores, btw, something alot of kids today know nothing about or the meaning of the working end of a shovel or rake. Anyhow, I remember helping Dad tear down old sheds or rotting buildings and my brother and I would straighten nails for hours to reuse them on our forts. A hammer, nails and hand saw were all we needed to keep us busy. We had something that was very rare compared to alot of the kids growing up today, its called, REAL IMAGINATIONS! Initiation for membership and entry into the tree house was required and was definitely the best part. We could be wickedly cruel to each other but nobody cried to their mothers and nobody was ever seriously hurt, well except for our pride a little but that was part of growing up and YES, we had FUN!!!
I also remember playing with GI Joe's before all the accessories were out we made our own stuff. Yes, we played with "male" doll's! LOL! We would recycle wheels off of old toys and collected shoe boxes and any small box we could find, cereal, milk cartons etc... and ask Dad for a roll of wide masking tape or whatever he had laying around. We would tape together the boxes, attach the wheels and use model paint to create the best GI Joe war vehicles, tanks, jeeps, armoured personnel carriers and planes in the world, complete with hatches, radar and gun ports. Straws were used to create the cannons. Towards the end of our daily battles (usually late August before school started) we would have an all out WAR. This usually was the end of our stuff we spent hours upon hours making cause it was time to pick sides, dig out roads and tunnels, strategically place our plastic army men ever so carefully and commence to throwing dirt clods at each others fortresses and air fields until the last man was standing and all the homemade toys were completely destroyed. That is who won the war and of course there was always a huge argument/debate about who really won. Again, we had a BLAST!
Ah yes, Those were the days my friend!
Marbles anyone? That's another whole story I'll tell y'all about someday....
Sarge
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sarge wrote:
Remember When?
Some things I remember as a kid were building forts or tree houses. We could spend a whole summer building a tree fort out of scrap or anything we could find or get donated. Of course that was when we weren't working, helping our parents with yard work or chores, btw, something alot of kids today know nothing about or the meaning of the working end of a shovel or rake. Anyhow, I remember helping Dad tear down old sheds or rotting buildings and my brother and I would straighten nails for hours to reuse them on our forts. A hammer, nails and hand saw were all we needed to keep us busy. We had something that was very rare compared to alot of the kids growing up today, its called, REAL IMAGINATIONS! Initiation for membership and entry into the tree house was required and was definitely the best part. We could be wickedly cruel to each other but nobody cried to their mothers and nobody was ever seriously hurt, well except for our pride a little but that was part of growing up and YES, we had FUN!!!
I also remember playing with GI Joe's before all the accessories were out we made our own stuff. Yes, we played with "male" doll's! LOL! We would recycle wheels off of old toys and collected shoe boxes and any small box we could find, cereal, milk cartons etc... and ask Dad for a roll of wide masking tape or whatever he had laying around. We would tape together the boxes, attach the wheels and use model paint to create the best GI Joe war vehicles, tanks, jeeps, armoured personnel carriers and planes in the world, complete with hatches, radar and gun ports. Straws were used to create the cannons. Towards the end of our daily battles (usually late August before school started) we would have an all out WAR. This usually was the end of our stuff we spent hours upon hours making cause it was time to pick sides, dig out roads and tunnels, strategically place our plastic army men ever so carefully and commence to throwing dirt clods at each others fortresses and air fields until the last man was standing and all the homemade toys were completely destroyed. That is who won the war and of course there was always a huge argument/debate about who really won. Again, we had a BLAST!
Ah yes, Those were the days my friend!
Marbles anyone? That's another whole story I'll tell y'all about someday....
Sarge
Remember when things used to come in wooden crates instead of cardboard boxes? There was a grocery store in the neighborhood that put them outside in the back of the store once they where emptied. We were always going there picking out boxes for projects. One that was quite popular was a scooter. A 2x4, a skate, a wood crate, something to use for a handle and some old nails and you had the makings for your scooter. "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Henry David Thoreau
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Rotary phones.
I want Terry to tell us about the old wind up phones.
I've seen them before, I don't recall anyone using one.
Rotary phones I remember. Especially the "dailing" sound.
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? - Galatians 4:16
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stevelundgren wrote:Rotary phones.
I want Terry to tell us about the old wind up phones.
I've seen them before, I don't recall anyone using one.
Rotary phones I remember. Especially the "dailing" sound.
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You don't remember rotary dial telephones!?! I must be getting old. Better move on over Terry... there is another old geezer moving in.
I remember getting our very first Princess push button phone. A friend of mine still didn't have push button service until the early 1990's. When I was a kid phone numbers started with a name... ours was Garfield 1-1604 and by odd coincidence the phone at my grandmother's house was Shadyside 1-1604.
Back in the day of rotary dials... if you were good enough you could just click out the number manually by clicking the the hang up cradle and you got an actual living, breathing PERSON when you called the telephone company!Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Intangible wrote:You don't remember rotary dial telephones!?! ... No, the rotary phones I do remember.
It's the old wind up phones that I don't remember anyone using, except in the movies.
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? - Galatians 4:16
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