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Back in the days when fat people were the exception, not the rule.
Before there were more than 50 million illegal aliens invading the United States … before LBJ’s horribly misnamed ‘Great Society’ … before the family unit was destroyed in order to get ‘welfare’ … before HFCS was invented and put into so many of our prepared ‘food’ products … before JFK was assassinated …
When I was a young lad I carried my six shooters every where I could, fully loaded with 50 caps each. Now I just carry one .45 acp everywhere I go.
Didn’t need a gun back then… only a hammer!
I thought I was cowboy, loved everything about the old westerns. Personal Favs “The Lone Ranger”, “The Wild Wild West” and “F Troop”
F troop imagine the outcry today lol.I never see reruns of that anymore.
“Beulah”
Nor one of the other great TV comedies of the ’50s — ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’ …
The radio shows from 1929 onwards are available on Spotify.
Love me some Jack Benny!!!!!!!
I still see that on metv I think
Don’t forget Roy Rogers and Randolph Scott and Jimmy Stewart.
U old ..kidding, older.
I knew kids that liked to eat that stuff. As far as I know they may be alive today.
“Pictures you can smell”
My mom had that exact jewelry box.
And Maureen McCormick was probably banging Swayze in the bathroom at the rink knowing what we know about her now.
We had it good.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. Thomas Paine.
yep, I’d rather be on the field in the game than sitting in the bleachers a spectator.
just me
I remember building a lot of plastic models,tanks cars glow in the dark Godzilla ,Frankenstein and the creature from the black lagoon.Collected stamps and coins .Also ice hockey on the San souci lakes in winter wiffle ball in spring. Had chemistry sets and erector sets .kids only interested in their mobile devices now.
Stamp collecting was pretty big in the ’50s … had lots of plate blocks and first day covers … when first class mail was 3¢ … and mail was delivered twice a day.
The crazy thing is you can buy mnh stamps for less than face value on eBay I use stamps from the 60s through the eighties when I send out Christmas cards put a total of 60.cents on the envelope . That’s also a dying thing sending cards I the mail lol. Assholes sent you an email with a gif as a card now lol or worse a fucking text .
I built a lot of models too, mostly cars and airplanes. I built this pick-up truck call “desert rat” with parts from a semi truck. Dualies, front and back…way cool (for a 10year old).
Makes me think of another show rat patrol!
My 15 year old daughter and I watch together.
My roots were military so hanging from the ceiling of my bedrooms between age 6-10 were model airplanes of war vintage the pieces “glued” together. People use to say glue was manufactured from the carcasses of old dead horses. Whatever, one could smell glue, only years later did idiots start sniffing glue in paper bags. I never understood that as even the most “hard up” could come up with illegal cold beer.
Testors lemon scented model glue lol.
Well, notice the “reindeer” , notice the “turf”, like the tundra, real. 🙂
I learned college had corrupted my older brother when I found his Playboy stash in our shared room……
One was the Farrah issue… Holy Shit!!!
I had a poster of Farah in a swimsuit in the 1970s
Me too. Loved that poster as a 15 year old…..just sayin’.
It was cool playing “Army” taking it and dying then maybe next time your friends took it and died. No paint ball…WTHIT?
I played army so much it is no wonder I tried to make a career out of it.
When I was about 8 a kid across the street age 10 was big into being a Marine so we aspired to be Marines. Granted Fort Worth , Texas population was about 55k so it was a small neighborhood.
Off topic, the public schools would call all the kids into the auditorium and discuss things like evil peeps trying to get kids on drugs. “Hey , kid, want some candy.” I walked home maybe a mile then and passed by a mom and pop grocery to buy…candy. But I was on my toes.
Growing up from ’47 onward … the State of Ohio used to issue Prepaid Sales Tax stamps … proof that you’d paid the state’s sales tax …
Drive in pic, older cars, dang bro, u is old(er).
Mid Cities Drive-In, 60’s and early 70’s peeps be driving Mustang Sally, Chevy SS 396, dad’s station wagon…
I think the drive in’s address was Euless, Texas. I “grew up” in the most awesome part of the country at the time, Hurst-Euless-Bedford , Texas, more modern , HEB. Talk about Baby Boomers…
Later on we found Haggard and Jones so that what drive ins were left in Texas we backed our pickup trucks next to the speakers. Cold beer ( as before) but lawn chairs in the bed of the PU etc.
Every “generation” has it’s own account of what it be for them.
I loved the old drive ins . When I look on a site called historic aerials you can tell the drive ins by the piles of stones in a 90 degree concentric Rings moving out from the screens.
The research is nostalgic. There was a drive-in in Gatesville, TX that was still going into 2000ish. Another in Granbury , TX may still be. Too bad that sort of thing is gone. Fort Worth had and perhaps still does the Wolf Drive-in. Last time I drove that area the parking lots must have had hundreds of beer bottles and cans so I don’t know if the movies still go on. Sounds like Texas anyway.
We still have a drive-in theater in Maryville Tennessee just south of Knoxville. There’s also one in Loudon just west of Knoxville.
That’s awesome!
The one in Gatesville is still going…
Awesome. It’s been , uh, 20 years. Yikes!
Correction , the Fort Worth drive-in is named Coyote Drive-In. It opened in 2013.
Check south of San Saba , Texas an abandoned drive-in on the east side of Hwy 16 headed for Llano , TX. In the past I’ve stopped there and not trespassed so much. Maps will show it, past Hillcrest Cemetery on the west side of Hwy 16 south of San Saba and past Smokin J’s The Drunken Pig whatever that is on the west side of 16 as well. Resembles the outline of a baseball field. Kool . 🙂
Maps sure makes the world smaller but for nostalgia freaks , I’m ok with it.
I SEE THE DEVIL!
Damn! Joanie grew up!
I never had a tin pedal tractor as a kid but I got a real one now.
I still have my first car…a stamped steel Tee Bird pedal car…convertible, of course. Still got the original paint job too!
That is awesome. Wish I still had all my Tonka trucks from the late 50s & early 60s. Same with my baseball cards. 🙁
Ow! Painful memory!
I let my nephew’s play with my Tonka’s. They left them in the driveway under my back tire. Backed right over the clamshell crane on the way to work the following morning.
I grew up a lot that day, what with restraining myself from beating the living shit out of them and all.