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Vo-Tech,mental institutions and adding machines
Smith-Corona student typewriter, just like the one I had.
Jimmy Carter as a respectable individual…
Hope…
Ford Pinto Hatchback, my first car in high school
My friend had a Chevy Vega
Signs
by Five Man Electrical Band
Signs
The 5 Man Electrical Band
And the sign said “Long-haired freaky people need not apply”
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said “You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you’ll do”
So I took off my hat, I said “Imagine that. Huh! Me workin’ for you!”
Whoa-oh-oh
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
Signs on the van that said If this van is rockin, don’t bother nockin.
another sign said Smash your TV.
Another 70’s song,
Ray Stevens, The Streak
LOL
Bang and Olufsen sound systems.
I spent a lot of my hard earned money on that.
Worth every penny. I worked construction when it payed well.
The beaners hadn’t ruined it yet.
MY first car…bwahaha!
It ate Chevy Chevelles for breakfast!
My first car. 1974.
Dad gave it to me for $200.
My VBS councilor had one just like it…only it was beige/tan? I always admired the lines of that rear glass. Very nice. Like most car models, it changed radically in design and appearance before being discontinued. At least we’ve got fond memories of the past. What do today’s teenagers have…besides mental problems, tattoos and gender issues?
STREAKING!!!
Saw one official streaker at an event and one with his naked old lady on a motorcycle by the beach. Didn’t see much of her. Today the cops would probably kill you or at least charge you with domestic terrorism following a severe beating.
Affordable college tuition. Multiply these semester prices by 6 ot 7.
Fall 1970, $108 at Miss. State.
Fall 1974, $354 MBA at Bama.
Still have the cancelled checks.
I was able to pay my way at Athens State (Athens Al) for about $260 per quarter full time (1981). Graduate degree at Jacksonville State was a total cost of under 5k (1982), including room and board.
FSU seemed expensive as hell but I finished 4 years owing $2500 and paid it off the first year (class of 69).
That was before admin started making half million a year salaries
My 2 years at CU were $1200 per semester with a full load.
(78-80)
Finished undergrad with 10K debt. Paid it off with 2 summer jobs. Went to law school and racked up another 30K. Paid it off with hard work (and a referral fee). Now retired and trying to knock out a 30K
Parent Plus loan for my daughter. It’d tougher as a retiree.
CB Radio, Chia pets, 8 track players, to name a few.
You can still buy Chia Pets.
Even seriously disturbing:
Or really, really disturbing…guess who?
Before that were tubes, HF radios, several catalog parts suppliers, for do it yourselfers.
Radio Shack
High School Civics classes
Elementary school mandatory Music and Art classes.
Drafting with pencil and paper or pen and ink instead of a computer.
Manufactured wooden boats (Lyman etc.)
Brazilian rosewood and elephant ivory.
Critical thinking and every day common sense.
Slide Rules from 3 to dozen scales.
slate chalkboards that you could raise hackles by scratching your fingernails on.
Mom and Dad
too sad?
Ok, 12% interest rates on a CD I opened with the insurance proceeds of my dad’s death. Still too sad? Made up for the fact that I got a pretty crappy settlement that my lawyer, a friend of the family, still charged me 25% on.
Ok, here’s happier. LBJ, Nixon, H.W. Bush, Howard Cosell, Gerald Ford, Charles Manson, Madeline Albright….
The births of millions of the great generation to bring us out of this mess…
The abortion of the most people of the great generation to bring us out of this mess
Dukes of Hazzard…need i say more?
Louis Rukeyser and Bill Buckley and analogue.
Embrace of the truth as a good thing on principle, not situation by situation or by political party.
Stucky offline.
A jungle of pubies at the crotch of the real, sexy looking women adorning the pages Playboy, Penthouse magazines for real men.
No more Jungle Love.
Nowadays, no more rugs or thigh-to-thigh carpeting.
It’s Either polished hardwood floors, or artistic, subtle landing steps of peach fuzz that is oh, so attractive, alluring, and seductive.
Backed with some lingerie with a touch of class, and a little bit of tease, and Stiffie is not going to last more than a dozen thrusts, before it’s Blastoff!!!!
Trim it up, or shave em bald, Bebe’s. Just keep ’em coming.
Braless women with perky nipples and normal sized breasts
Yes! Lib.
Frothy concurs.
High beans rule.
Perked means they work!
Even for gals in the IBTC.
…Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Ah yes, those were the days.
Super Balls! The big blue/black original ones. You could bounce those bitches to the moon!
They perfectly hid themselves in our St. Augustine grass and my dad would end up “finding” one with the mower. Needless to say it didn’t quite bounce as well.
My Dad was a hoot. He wouldn’t hesitate to throw my shit right in the trash if I didn’t “do right” with it.
One day I was in the back yard practicing my archery and Dad was working in the garden. He headed into the shed to sneak a beer behind Mom’s back, stepped on the hoe he had left leaning against the door frame and hit himself right between the eyes with the handle.
Naturally, I busted out laughing…it was a 3 Stooges classic!
Next thing I know I’m picking myself up off the ground wondering why my ears were ringing while my entire archery set went into the trash.
Good times!
John Wayne
Billy Graham
Ronald Reagan
Rush Limbaugh
George Carlin
Frank Zappa
Johnny Carson
Rodney Dangerfield
Rich Little
My father
My nephew
My best friend
My dog…
shit, this is depressing!
My 6 pack abs
my good friend Cow Doc.. We miss you,brother…
How about Common Sense?
Nah. We still got some of the good stuff left. We only break it out on very special occasions though.
AM Radio with a statistically relevant audience.
Dean Martin’s Celebrity Roasts – how else would I have learned of Henny Youngman and other Vaudville acts from before my time?
Bob Hope’s Celebrity Classic Golf Tournament
Wild Kingdom
Johnny Carson & Ed McMahon & Doc Severson
Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy Telethons
Sugar-sweetened soft drinks
Toy Stores
Easy access to wilderness or beaches
The cane, and as a result, common courtesy.
Also Golliwog Biscuits and the family’s Bren Gun.
Gold backed money.
All night wood.
Grand Funk Railroad
Sony Walkman cassette player.
The neighborhood MD. If you could get there under your own power his office was in the living room and he would stich you up or set a broken bone while his wife finished dusting the coffee table with Lemon Pledge. No X-rays if the bones weren’t poking through your skin and you mom wrote him a check at the end of the visit.
Penny candy that really was a penny. Big jars of it and these little metal scoops you’d dip in and fill up.
PF Flyers every September right before school started. They made you run faster and jump higher. Or BoBo’s if your parents couldn’t afford the good sneakers. They came with the laces tied together in a big wire basket at the grocery store. BoBo’s, they make your feet feel fine, BoBo’s, they’re just a dollar ninety-nine.
There weren’t warnings on everything. If you hurt yourself that was your problem.
Personal responsibility
Meat rabbits; poor mans protein. Lots of people used to have them but I’ve been looking all Summer everywhere with no luck so far. I’ll find some if I have to go 30 miles.
Disco!