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If I could go back to the 1960s and bring something back to 2022…
Common fucking sense!
Maybe a little empathy and some manners.
My three grandfathers I knew (one G-), as well as my grandmothers, and my father and uncles. All of whom would have kicked the living shit out 2022 the second it tried to happen.
Al Bundy Rule Number Seven: Bring back the word “stewardesses.”
It IS the longest word you can type with one hand.
Bullshit. I’ve typed 10 thousand word essays with one finger. It’s slow, but can be done.
If I could go back to the 1960s and bring something back to 2022…
I wouldn’t come back.
Me too.
By far, the best answer.
Oh Raquel, how I loved you.
The 1960’s: In Lancaster County PA many of the high schools had rifle clubs and the schools provided the .22 rifles. Some of the schools had rifle ranges or used local gun club ranges. Many of the high school color guards had old military rifles and they were usually painted white
Some time before 1960, my brother and I ( we were about 10 years old) walked to the Jax Fl bus line and rode the bus to town; we each bought a .22 rifle from a pawn shop and brought it home on the bus; nothing unusual.
8th and main pawn shops?
Is that special? It was just west of downtown, past the barber college, low buildings and small shops along the bus routes. Crowds of people waited for the busses along that long stretch of road & sidewalk.
If I could go back to the ’60s, I’d bring back the United States that existed up until November 21, 1963 … before the shit really hit the fan — starting with LBJ’s taking the oath of office the next day and all the destruction that he and his policies brought upon US.
Actually, he took the oath on AF-1 before departing Dallas that afternoon, but I agree with the rest of your statement.
Good catch …
Is it still AF-1 if the President is dead and boxed in the cabin and the new guy hasn’t been sworn in yet? Seems to me, the aircraft designation only became AF-1 after Johnson removed his hand from the Bible…
…but that’s one of those grey-ass areas.
If I could go back to the ’60s, I would shoot LBJ in the head until the clip emptied. Not kidding. Then I would avoid arrest by immediately coming back to the present.
Of course, these time travel situations always involve tricky conundrums. What if LBJ boinked my mom and produced me? If I killed LBJ, wouldn’t I immediately cease to exist also? Fuckit, I’d shoot him anyway. One of the worst presidents in American history.
If I could go back to the 60’s , I’d bring back some sweet sweet guns…some I stupidly sold.
Berkshire Hathaway stock. $1,000 invested in 1962 would be worth almost $61 million today.
Sure with an unchanged purchasing power.
That 1k woud be 10k in today’s dollars. Over half the median cost of a house.
If I had any money: a 57 T-bird full of gold coins and I’d tell them what is ahead in 2022; they would consider it impossible and me crazy.
Nobody from back then would believe ANY of this shit if you told them.
I sure as hell wouldn’t have believed it.
Remember J C Whitney … their catalogues were the Sears & Roebuck of auto parts catalogues …
Damn right, and some it was good stuff too. Unlike the ChineChine shit.
My favorite “library” material. I used to read it until my legs fell asleep.
Should be up in pretty much every neighborhood these days.
And that child’s silhouette should be of a fat kid.
With a phone in his hand, wearing headphones, with head down and definitely not running
… and lots of today’s children are really, really slow — on the uptake … just like their parents (and even their grandparents) …
37 Pictures!
ONLY THREE PICTURES HAVE KNEEGROWS IN THEM!!!
Avalon, please show more Diversity in your future submissions. TY.
Avalon, please do not pay attention to Stucky. He thinks the demographics of NJ are nationwide and wants to see more POC.
There’s a difference between a white Christian nation and diverse shitholes.
… and that difference was, in the case of these United States, the blink of an eye — school prayer was ended; JFK was assassinated; the borders were opened (thanks LBJ); the welfare state was created (thanks again, LBJ); Roe v. Wade … and that’s just from the end of WW2 until January, 1973 …
Difference = 50 years
When I was in my first job out of school, I used to fly Braniff Airlines and loved them. They had wild colored planes and the most gorgeous stewardesses who were also quite friendly. I will never forgive American Airlines for putting the nail in their coffin. AA’s stewardesses were typically older, frumpy women with zero fun genes. Thank goodness Southwest came to town soon after the demise of Braniff and it was back to good looking stewardesses who made the flight fun.
I would bring back muscle cars without any environmental devices from the 60’s. Nothing like having having a 400HP engine and the sound of the 4 bbl Holley when you mashed the accelerator.
I would also like to bring back closets for all the sexual deviants.
I remember saying when I got older that I was going to get one of those one day from the mid 60s Now unobtainium.
I bought a red ’67 corvette convertible in 1975 for $3K & sold it 5 years later for the same amount. Dumb, Dumb me.
I saw a “Vette” yesterday, the only thing that was “Vette” was the emblem. The rest was Ferrari! Why ruin a good thing?
Yes, closets … buried 6′ under ground …
We did not have shooting clubs, but in HS, all of the guys carried shotguns in their vehicles from the start of dove season September 1 until the end of quail season February 28 and most of the vehicles were not even locked.
We had no shooting clubs, but we had rednecks and every redneck had a rifle, shotgun , pistol or very often multiples of each, in his car or truck, just for general purpose. People assumed that if you were male and breathing, you could shoot.
But that was then, this is now. All the rednecks are long gone and the proof of this, if you happen to be a native Southron, is obvious.
There are no bullet holes in highway signs. When I was young, every rural speed limit and stop sign was riddled with bullets holes. I really miss rednecks….you see, times was different then…
We liked throwing empty beer bottles at them, too.
yep… we never locked our either…
The college I went to had a rifle range in the basement of the student union (22 rimfire only), and that was in the late 80’s.
Yup. Every Thursday would head off to school with my books, lunch and rife. A Mossberg 144LS. We were fortunate to have the range in the basement of the high school.Of course we were kinda backwards back then as we only shot paper targets, not each other….
South Okanagan High School, before it burned down a few years back had a small range in the basement. Anyone that was a hunter back then had the rifles in their vehicles, I had a 68 gmc 4×4 then and two rifles in the back window, 270 and 22. And nobody ever locked their doors. The school had a few rifles for those that didn’t have a gun and I think they were all .22’s.
There was a shooting club and instructions during certain times of the year when it was either rifles or bows, you had a choice. I’m sure they don’t have rifle instruction anymore but I think they ‘teach’ bow still… not sure.
Thank you! I brought back my Memories of growing up in a culture which embodied the American way of life our Founders envisioned. Sure, there were a few thorns among the roses; but it was still an idyllic garden, quite contrary to the briar patch of today.
Mayberry vs Sodom
That America was as fake as the current version. Then and now America’s myths serve the ruling class agenda
Thanks for setting me strayt
In shop class my senior year in 79 we each got a small block Ford, Chevy, or Pontiac engine from the junkyard and rebuilt it. I built a mild mannered 351 Windsor. The block was bored .030″ over and I was able to reuse the crank. The local NAPA auto parts co-sponsored the program with the guy that had an auto junkyard.
And back then I mighta been the guy boring your block 0.030″.
I could have ground your crank and valve seats, or replaced the seats if needed too.
Time and money well spent
No rifle clubs but had archery for a month in Jr. HS each year (1965-67) in Jackson MS.
I guess in 1912 peeps knew wtf they were doing.
‘69- ‘71, I’m certain a shotgun in a gun rack in the rear window of a pickup truck, even living between Dallas and Fort Worth, no one thought twice about it., That was before the “extended cab”. Laugh!
I would bring back SuperSport 427 Chevelles and Quaaludes, and the girls that loved eating them.
Awesome match, till a streetlamp ends it all…but just for a 24 hour time period.
Why Ludes? Did you mean posi rear end?
Cause, quadra trac was/is jeeps.
Here’s to 714’s and the girls who liked them.
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My high school had a rifle range under the gym. A semester marksmanship class only available to seniors. You could use the schools .22 or bring your own. I carried mine back and forth every day on the school bus.(1971/1972)
I would have had JFK stay in Houston a few more days.
My high school alma mater:
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I thought those two were twins until I read the names (and rank)
I loved laying on the deck behind the back seat while going down the road.
IT ALL DEPENDED ON WHAT PART THE THE COUNTRY YOU LIVED IN. MOST MAJOR CITY SCHOOLS DID NOT HAVE GUN CLUBS AND IF THEY DID THE FIRE ARMS WERE 22 LONG RIFLE BOLT ACTION AND SCHOOL HAD INDOOR RANGES USUAL IN THE BASEMENT. BUT RURAL COMMUNITIES WERE A DIFFERENT MATTER, YES THERE WERE GUN CLUBS AT SCHOOLS AND MANY STUDENT IN HIGH SCHOOL IF THEY OWNED A PICKUP TRUCK HAD GUN RACKS. DURING HUNTING SEASON THOSE RACKS CARRIED RIFLES OR SHOTGUNS FOR HUNTING AFTER SCHOOL OR EVEN EARLY MORING BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED. SURPRISINGLY THERE WERE NO MASS SHOOTINGS. BUT LIKE I STATED EARLIER I MY COMMENT, IT JUST DEPENDED WHERE YOU LIVED IN THE COUNTRY.
There was time when products for sale on shelves of retailers did not have tamper proof packaging, indicating that 200 million people trusted one another not to be so insane as to poison some unknown person. Now that was a society worth something!
There was a target range in the basement of our old elementary school.
In Australia, some of the schools had army cadet training. Not unusual for a student to carry a .303 rifle on the train.