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Ah, yes. Back when the weatherman said there was a 50% CHANCE of snow – not a “threat” of snow – or rain . . . everything’s a “threat” or a “bomb” or “problematic” today. Jumping off the roof into the snowpile – before the age of TOTAL SAFETY. So, d’ya feel safe now? Well, do ya, serfs? Here, have a vax. Safety. Yeah . . .
The man was brilliant.
On Thanksgiving a friend’s son asked me about weather warfare and about how much snow was normal in the past. I told him about us jumping off the roof into the snow. Good times.
If I were Major Nelson, Jeanie would always be walking a little bowlegged.
How about Miss Hathaway from Beverly Hillbillies? Ay caramba!
At my age, if I couldn’t get Ellie May’s attention, I’d be happy to spend time with Miss Hathaway.
She was a lesbo and a leftist.
Gotta ruin everything doncha.
When I wasn’t doing her, I would stick my Willy into her bottle.
Who was the bombshell with Clint Eastwood again?
Maybe Mamie van Doren or Jayne Mansfield?
I think it’s Mansfield, but not sure.
Image search says publicity photo of them. Yes, Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield’s daughter: Mariska Hargitay from LAw & Order SVU.
Look at that disapproving look, or is it wishful thinking? A nasty ex told me that women check each other out.
Sondra Locke?
Mansfield.
Can you imagine being Clint Eastwood in the 60’s?? Guy must have screwed himself raw. Heard he had, ummm, quite a few offspring that don’t have his last name.
We were watching a movie where the characters had to wrestle and stand just right for the tv antenna to get a signal. My daughter didn’t understand the reference or why it was funny; that’s when I realized I’m an old man.
We were told that we are an antenna, and they were right. Even more so now that they have been prepping us for the Internet of Bodies.
Fox viewing positions.
I was traumatized by this installment of The Good Old Days. TRAUMATIZED
In all the winter activities shown there was not ONE person shown wearing any kind of safety gear. Not one. I’m betting ALL those people are now dead and so they should be having disregarded personal safety in such reckless fashion.
Thank you again for some really fond memories.
And where is the diversity? No POCs or fags, WTF?
Too cold………
The guy on the airplane with Clint Eastwood and Jayne Mansfield looks a little light in the loafers.
When I lived in northern Michigan, we’d go to a place called Duke’s Lake which was surrounded by huge hills, one of which kids named Suicide Hill. We’d go to the top and four or five of us kids would get on a toboggan and go flying down the hill at breakneck speed and shoot across the frozen lake at the bottom. Great times!
So … just how did you get to the bottom of a frozen lake?
Helps if you fill your pockets with rocks
Right we used to play ice hockey on the San souci lakes not a pad or helmet in sight lol.
That was kind of special; thanks. I now realize what a privilege it was to be a kid and grow up in the last great decades of America, a time that will be referenced in the future as: Once upon a time…
The Life Savers Butter Rum struck a nerve.
Yeah why can’t anyone buy butter rum life savers anymore??
Do you remember that little book filled with an assortment of rolls of Lifesavers?
Walmart sells them. They even come in bulk bags. Plenty of on-line sources.
Christine McVie died yesterday
Very talented lady who brought us some great music.
Rest in Peace, angel voice.
She was a classy lady to be sure
I cannot relate to all of the snow pictures. We very seldom had any snowfall in OK.
My wife’s family is from down the road a piece in Munising and Hubbel.
The whole coastline along Superior up there is incredible. We spent a three months there in 2012 and were considering buying some property. Then we ran into that very same “snow meter” by the road. We took the easy way out and ended up in Idaho instead!
Wife’s grandfather had 80 acres (40 cleared, 40 hardwood forest) near Torch Lake on the Keewena peninsula of the UP. They don’t plow the roads up there in winter, and all of the grandchildren lived in CA, TX and NV when the land became available. Everyone passed. Given Whitmer and the tyranny that spreads from the lower peninsula, it was probably a good move. Beautiful place though. Disgusting how they became part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin. If they ever became an independent state, we’d consider moving there.
I think the Free State of the UP would be an excellent idea.
Same.
yea, Im near Bonners Ferry and the snow isnt bad at all.
We need a bad snow winter up there every ten years or so to scare the newbies away.
We go camping at 12 mile beach campground every so often, just outside Munising. Gorgeous area.
Got pictures of our place where you could walk off the roof and couldn’t see the car in the driveway from any angle except straight on. More of a tunnel like the pic above.
I was in the first and second grade in a town in the panhandle of Florida back in the early 60’s. We only had snow one time and it was just a flurry lasting only several minutes. We were at school when it happened and all the teachers let the kids run outside to enjoy the moment. Many of the kids had never seen snow except in movies or in pictures.
I was the remote for my mom and when she wanted the tv station changed, I would point at others in the room while i mowed them down with my make believe machine gun. After that she would appoint somebody else then.
I remember my parents telling me to look in the back of the tv to see if the tubes were all heating up if it wasn’t you had to take the tube to the tv shop for a replacement lol.
the grocery stores had tube testers and spare tubes too, in Stockton Ca, back around 1960.
Is that Ozzy with Motley Crue?
In the L.A. area, the lower knob had about 5 stations that came in, but they were either religious or PBS (but back before all the political crap, so lots of Sesame Street, Monty Python, and other good things).
None of us can ever go home again. Stow it in memory and move on. It’s the best we can do from here.
They are memories of awesome days past. Def can’t go back but we can share those experiences with our kids and grandkids by allowing them to get a little crazy. Help them to enjoy a little freedom that we once enjoyed.
Forget the TV antenna- remember when the vertical hold would go crazy and you’d have to keep trying to keep the picture from constantly scrolling up by adjusting a little knob? You’d get it stabilized, sit down and then it would do it again!
I’ll wait for the little knob jokes to pour in. Don’t disappoint me!
When my knob gets adjusted, it goes vertical, as well.
Happy now?
Man, I forgot all about that. I remember going to my friend’s house to watch Gilligan reruns. They had color TV. We never had that until I got out of high school. Same with AC. We had a basement for when it was real hot.
You needed to check and replace the vertical hold tube using your local 7-11 Tube Tester Machine.
Summertime treat. We’d all pile into the station wagon with no AC and sit in car until the waitress brought cold mugs of A&W root beer. No food. Just drink a little glass of root beer and leave. It tasted like heaven.
Yep, and the Mug was frosted. So good on a hot July day!!!
After enjoying our mugs of root beer, my dad would get a gallon jug for home.
It was the best root beer. My Dad would take me to the A&W on Saturdays — love that memory.
Who remembers these?
Yep. Used to use them on the big glass soda bottles after you opened them.
Yessir. Drinking an entire 16 ounce bottle of Pepsi yourself would’ve been unthinkable. Now 16 oz is a “small”. We did go through about 5 gallons of milk each week.
I remember how the nuns — when teaching us both printing and cursive — would use that chalking device to make the lines across the blackboard so we’d know the upper and lower limits (ascenders and descenders) of the letters … and, when I was taking music, they’d put chalk in all 5 locations to make the G-clef for music notation …
My earliest experience of multi-tasking …
Does any body remember Fig Newton Cookies???
And yes, my Grandmother cooked on a Wood Cookstove. Sunday Dinner (Country Folks call the Noon Meal Dinner and the Evening Meal Supper) was a home butchered Chicken fried on top of the Cookstove in Crisco in a huge Cast Iron Skillet. SO FREAKIN’ GOOD!!!!
Fig Newtons never vanished. They are way expensive these days, but they never vanished.
And taste awful.
Personally I love them. In one MASH episode, Col. Potter pulls some out and hands one to Hawkeye and says “Fig Newtons are great with Scotch…you gotta dunk ’em.”
When I was a kid the Great South Bay would freeze solid and people would drive their cars out on it more than one broke through the ice lol.My friend had a house on shore road in Oakdale NY .on The connetquot river . The river was like a glacier in January we could cross over to the Bayard Cutting Estate lol.I don’t ever remember any one ever telling us not to go on the ice we wouldn’t have listened anyway.
1968…
That 3rd pic from the top might be RiNS…The Early Years, but probably not.
I seriously doubt a shinny player would have sported a day-glo yellow sweater while ankle bending outside with lumber in hand.
He might’ve been the cause of a donnybrook on the lake.
By the way, for serious hockey lovers, that photo has a connection to the Chiclets picture, but not the mini Chiclets. The larger white ones.
Many a pro and amateur player have lost a few Chiclets from catching a disc of vulcanized rubber in the chops. Or worse, if they ran into the likes of Bob Probert, Joey Kocur, or Darren McCarty. Right Claude?
(for my good rivalry buddy Colorado Arteest.)
Bolts lead Philthy Plhyers 1-0 after one..
Rave on, Lightning!
just drinking a Yuenling that some Youngling left here..
1000 career points for Stamkos!!!!!
One December in Flagstaff, AZ (elevation 7,200 ft.) a friend and his wife and I dragged an old, abandoned and upside-down automobile hood to the top of a snow-covered hill about fifty feet high and about300 feet long. Think kids had been using it. The three of us all climbed in and got it sliding down the hill. The second we pushed of we knew we had made a big, big mistake. The hood started spinning out of control. Near the bottom we hit a large Ponderosa pine. Very, very bad wreck, yet we walked away with only cuts and bruises. Amazing what a little alcohol will do to make one do stupid stuff.
As a kid you do stupid stuff like that totally sober.
MMMMM…Sophia.
Thank you Avalon and Admin. These soothe the soul (mine at least).
When I was a Kid it was called the Police service and if you stepped out of line you got two things, a boot up the bum or a clip in the ear and Fathers 2inch butchers belt just as a reminder…….. Then it became to the Police Force and punishment was frowned upon and crime and disrespect grew….. Now it is the Police Command and the crime is not punished but accepted ….. spare the rod and spoil the child has come home to even the Government and its agencies.
I despair that it, the good old days, will ever see a sunrise