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Ashtray in the back seat. No car seat for kids, but they could light up a heater. Now if a kid eats a peanut he goes into anaphylactic shock.
In case of an emergency stop, Mom’s arm was the seat belt.
The way her arm came out and whacked you on the chest, I used to think hitting the truck that pulled out in front of us might be easier going…
Nobody drove too fast and the cars were build like tanks.
Great theme song for this…
My buddy Alan’s dad used to cruise pretty good in his 421 Bonneville.
My grandparents lived 35 mile away and it took over an hour to get to their house. Small 2-lane road and about 4 little towns to go through. Max speed limit was 45 and towns were 25. There is a 4-lane bypass now and it is a 25 min trip.
I had totally forgotten about those ropes in the gym. What a disaster.
Our school was poor. We only had one rope. By far, the fastest kid in gym was the guy cripple (polio) guy who could only walk with crutches. Nobody had better upper body strength.
We had indoor archery. Just bales of hay laying along the wall at one end of the gym. Shot from half court. Plenty of shattered arrows off the block wall. And we had giant rectangular trampoline and the only safety was all your classmates standing alone the sides with arms raised to catch you if you flew off.
Yeah, that too!
My elementary school gym had ropes AND these:
I used those a lot in high school, but I don’t see elementary kids having that much upper body strength, but then they don’t weigh anything, either.
I think I was the only kid in class who couldn’t climb to the top.
One of the guys in my high school class (’65) was a really muscular type — did loads of calisthenics and swimming. He did the rope climb withOUT using his legs … and the gym teacher disqualified him — made him come back after school and do it again — so he did it twice then …
On pole vault team we would use the ropes to practice jackknifing our lower body upwards as in the vault. We had a cool volunteer pole vault coach who was also LA sheriff. Small dude, could swing his legs up and climb the rope upside down.
Sliding down was the worst…ripe burns and then THE KNOT!
When I was a kid, all the boys could do it.
When I was a kid, only a few of the girls would do it. They got passed around a lot. Oh, you meant ropes?
I remember buying smokes for my father when I was only 6. He would give me 50 cents to ride my bike to the store. I would get his smokes and have a quarter to spend. That would get a bag of chips, candy bar and a Nehi.
Melty, Me too! Afternoon out 50 cents would buy a snickers and a soda and left enough for supper, hamburger, fries and a soda. My father’s income for the month at that time from a WWI disability pension was $360, our only income. We got a new car, Hudson, every 5 years till they quit making them. (his first was a 1922). Our garden was huge and we supplied many other people with vegetables all summer long. Meat came from the farm from my sister. Chicken butchering day was special. Mom and Sis would pop their heads off and let them run. I would go collect them up wherever they stopped (running like a chicken with it’s head cut off) and put them in boiling water and pluck the feathers. Best Part of the day was a large platter of fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. Good times!
Wrung first chicken neck at 8 yrs old.
Shot my first bunny at the same age.
Pheasant a year later.
25 cents bought me two ten cent Hershey bars and a 5 cent bag of sunflower seeds. 1974.
Did the same, except store was on corner and it was about 35 cents, and on weekends it would also be bromo seltzer time.
50 cents…
And… if you tipped the machine forward and stood it back up you got about ten packs of smokes… not that I ever did that… or that you can prove…
Gas station vending machine. Big brother would send me down. Never felt nervous til I decided to buy a pack in 5th grade for me. Felt like the machine was a polygraph.
Hated everything about smoking and couldn’t understand why both parents and sibs did it.
Yep, fresh pack of Luckies cost me 25 cents.
Need to add a Dodge here,how about a 6 pack Road Runner!
I would add some music from the era!
My friend you do so well and then… a dodge… sigh….
Brian,we had a pony puke mustang and a mint Chevy,Dodge deserves a mention!
lol… just give’n you the gears my friend…
Waat about the Studebaker??
I am old,but…….,not as old as dirt!
I’m old as dirt remember that 33,45,78. Smoked Marlboros for years don’t remember that pack design.
My first car was a 1949.
I had a 1949 and it was a real POS.
That’s what our living room looks like TODAY. Not old fashioned at all.
With Hot Wheels!?
That’s fantastic!
Nice 1-5 spare if he was bowling.
I forgot that I would crash into things just to see what would happen.
James, Roadrunner was a Plymouth. Charger was the Dodge. And I got A brand new 383 1971 Charger right out of high school with the money I saved for college. I decided not to go and that was my best decision ever, even in those days.
Sigh……,you are right Ben.
Beep!Beep! My Ass!
Late 70’s almost bought me friends older brothers 383 Runner,was 16 and folks nixed that idea!
My buddy Gene has a 383 convertible and had his doors blown off by a Caddy.
I will add Plymouth/Dodge like Chevy/GMC,same basic stuff with different badges.
True. But later on I bought GMC trucks as I felt they were somehow better than Chevy.
Just got up (9:30AM)and found this article. What a day beginner! So many memories. Remember folks, life is a series of memories, both great and not so great. 75 years of fantastic memories tempered just a bit by a very few nasty people I met on the journey.
Ahhh vinyl records. I have a good collection going back decades. Recently I went to a record shop looking for some 25 cent deals and much to my surprise records were going for more than CDs and digital albums. Turns out they are part of “a new trend” by the younger crowd. I know one such kid in his 20s that bought a record player and goes on eBay spending sometimes $100 on an album. His record player is connected to his stereo via bluetooth. As usual, the trends that bring back once great things end up ruining them in the long run. I appreciate my Technics direct drive, all analog to the speakers, as it should be!
I already feel old, because I pick the car I buy based on whether it has a CD player or not.
Someday, wrist watches will make a comeback. Or pocket watches on a chain. No joke.
Preppers need to invest in a good wristwatch that will keep on running, especially after SHTF scenarios that take out smartphones and other electronics that tell time. Aside from keeping and telling time, a watch offers other uses related to survival in a post-collapse world.
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Not sure why I’d need a watch if I’m not having to clock in anywhere… Personally, I haven’t worn a watch in probably, since early 80’s, however long ago that was…
A good mechanical watch is nice to have. But skills to tell time by relative position of the sun is also useful, especially if one bugs out and does not have a watch.
I’ve got my Grandpa’s retirement pocket watch and the last time I used it (50 years ago), it still kept the time.
Yep my Zodiac went all the way through ‘nam with me and kept on ticking until it got stolen.
I buy cars now based on weather they start.
Look around carefully and you will still see people wearing a wristwatch.
I saved ALL my vinyl.
My wife tried forever to get me to lose them.
Boxes and boxes full all the way back to the 60’s.
Perhaps 500 albums.
I wonder what they are worth?
I sold a lot of albums from the 60’s and 70’s and they weren’t very valuable. The store had lots of copies of the albums I was selling (since they were mass produced) and so did other stores I visited. The only ones that do have real value are the ones first off the press.
People think that because they have (for example) a Beatles album from 1967 that it will be worth hundreds of dollars. Nope. You might get three or four dollars for it.
A mint, probably
My high school in Germany still has a designated smoking area. It is outdoors though.
Hospital laboratories doubled as smoking and eating lounges into the 1990s, and when I was in Japan in the early 2000s nobody used gloves to touch formalin fixed human organs unless you wanted to be considered a wimp.
At our high school, the only discipline problem was a crisis of girls smoking in the bathroom…
HS class of 86. Smoking was not allowed, but turned a blind eye to if you were in the area that was known as smokers corner. Hung out there cause that’s where the metal heads were. I was the one wearing leather, spikes, and carrying my AP calculus book.
A few months ago I reread the article about Pete Rose in Sports Illustrated. It was written just after the Phillies came into Chicago to play the Cubs. I remember getting home from school and figured I catch the last couple innings of one of the games. The Phillies were winning 17-6, but the Cubs came back and tied it 22-22 in the bottom of the 8th inning. Neither team scored in the 9th, then Mike Schmidt hit a home run in the top of the 10th to win the game. The Cubs went meekly in the bottom of the 10th, as usual for them. Dave Kingman hit one of the longest home runs I’ve ever seen. The worst part is my mom came home from work, before the game was finished, and said we had to go to the store. So, I grabbed the car keys and turned on the car radio in time to hear the home run by Schmidt in the 10th. One of the greatest games I’ve watched, even though the Phillies won.
Schmidt hit 4 home runs in that game.
We had a rifle club in our jr high school. I still have my dads old Savage bolt action target .22 with peep sights front and rear! We were seen as kinda nerdy… 😊
I have a 1906 Savage single shot bolt,passed thru generations in me family,a really accurate gun as far as iron sites will take it!
I used to have a Winchester Model 88 .22 short that belonged to my great-grandfather It now belongs to my grandson for the 6th generation. You could almost see the bullet as it traveled. I remember shooting a bull frog one day, about a 20 yd shot. Went and picked him up and put him in the sack. About 15 min later he began to kick. I got him out and the only mark on him was a crease along the back of his head that did not even break the skin. Apparently, I just knocked him out as the bullet ricocheted off his spine. After that, I only hunted with hollow points, which were difficult to find for the .22 short.
I hope you gave the frog a pass!
Nope. His legs went in the skillet with the rest of them.
One of my all time favorite cartoons.
I have a Savage 3C single shot that was my pappy’s as well… Still shoots straight but is in rough shape which I’m going to leave as is. He kicked it around as a kid as did I… He wrote on it with a marker. stolen from Daniel Boone… Good memories in it…
Manufactured sometime in the 30’s to 40’s… not much info on them
I suppose that tis a “Bedded Barrel” in Canuk land!
Uh…..,is that a lefty bolt?!
Brain,not all but a fair amount of parts it seems if needed:
https://www.gunpartscorp.com/gun-manufacturer/savstevspgfld/rifles-sav/3c,guess home machining for the few not available!
Oh Thats a good find for parts… I searched a few years back and could find little. Especially year of manufacture which was a vague 30 – 40’s.
Standard righty bolt, just in the pic its open. Its a bedded and black tape held together stock… I changed the tape once and that was about 5 years ago… Still shoots amazingly straight on the sights… Never adjusted them once in my time I’ve had it…
My .22 my grandfather bough in 1920.
Still shoots perfectly. An 11 round autoloader.
Handed down from my dad.
One of my sons will get it and hopefully one of his.
Very nice…
It loads through the stock.
That is cool.
I have an old Marlin .22 that loads from the very end of the stock. Very hard to find parts for that one.
If I had it, I would make it a new stock and refresh it to be as good as new.
What caliber?
Brooklyn HS
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SOOOO TRUE… Our school had an indoor range in the basement and when I had a pickup my .22 and 270 were parked on the rear window gun rack like many others did as well…
I never lock any doors, even to this day and nobody ever thought of stealing the guns or using them to settle disputes. If you had issue with another guy you went fist’t’cuffs till things were settled. None of this cowardly douche bag thing where they were brave with three or more and all kicked the shyte out of you. Like the antifa cowards…
Even in black and white the differences seem obvious.
(I saw what you did there.. 😉
Yup………
Climb the ropes!…with a 2″ canvas covered pad on the floor stuffed with horse hair that was old during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration.
At least we had a wrestling mat under ours, but I never remember anyone ever falling off the rope and hurting themselves. Some of the chunkier kids could not climb very high, but the coach made them try.
Tetherball… was big back in the day…
https://i.postimg.cc/wjHhH5kd/teherball.webp
Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame.
If there are going to be putting steroid-taking batting champs in…..
He was banned for gambling.
Picked up one just like that at a church rummage sale in 2001. Hung it in the kitchen at the last house for lulz and nostalgia. Never lost it like the wireless handsets.
That one has a short unlinked cord. Ours growing up probably reached 8-10’ and was only perfectly coiled the day ATT installed it.
I remember gas selling for 28 and 32 cents/gallon. 1963
19 cents in 1963 in Texas
49.9 SoCal summer of 86 AT ARCO. There was a pricing war IIRC. Could fuel my ‘84 Datsun Nissan Sentra for 5$. Yes it had both brand names.
My 65 Mustang convertible was my 5th car and my favorite of all the cars I have ever had, and I had a lot of them.
My (future) mother in law had a Toronado. No hump in the middle and seats the size of twin size beds 😉 Sure enjoyed that car.