46th Street 1959
Norma Jean at 14
”The Boys of Bandstand”. Fabian, Dick Clark, Bobby Rydell & Frankie Avalon.
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Interesting about the station wagons and kids. I met a guy back in 88 who had lost his daughter the year before. They went on a trip in a station wagon and the kids were in the back. Got into a wreck flipping the car and killed is daughter who was about 6 or so.
Sad. I remember an entire family from down my street dying in a jimmy carter era compact car kids and parents alike. Poor kids.
Yeah, well kids are dying now because people are to addicted to get off their cell phones. There will always be reasons for deadly accidents. They are always sad too.
Yeah, was going to say – I miss a lot of this stuff, but the lack of auto safety is nothing to miss. I’m lucky to still have my Dad – he was in a severe crash in a Ford Pinto when I was young.
Other than that, seeing all the happy feminine women is just terrific.
Fuck your auto safety.
Kids nowadays dont even want to drive cars because all their lives they been strapped in, buckled up and told how dangerous they are.
Pansy ass shit is what’s helping to kill our young’s sense of adventure and risk taking.
Everyone dies eventually.
Instead of daredevils like Evil Knevel, we get overgrown manchildren like jackass.
I still love braunschweiger, aka goose liver.
With raw red onions on rye bread
And horseradish mustard.
I haven’t had braunschweiger since the early 80s and I actually liked it.
Actually–smoked pork liverwurst is what braunschweiger is. I have 2 in the freezer right now–from Aldi’s.
I loved all the dangerous toys they used to make.
Lawn darts?
Crazy dangerous. And we were reckless immediately. Those were disappeared by the “superior authorities” [parents] quick.
Throwing “flowers” – they were throwing discs with “petals”?
I saw a kid throw one on the playground [circa78], it came back down and one of the “petals” took out another kid’s eye!
Blood everywhere.
Please Notice: No counselors were called in to deal with the trauma. And it was pretty frigging traumatic.Life went on as if nothing had happened. Except one kid wore an eye patch.
Anywhoo..
Toys and such reminds me of this vintage snl skit:
South Park made an episode featuring that fateful day!
Yeah lawn darts could be dangerous, but the heavy metal tips worked great. The replacement tips sucked. I know people that still have the originals. They would never play with the new safe ones
“Pure candy drives away fatigue – this is the latest finding of science” (pure bullshit even then).
My dad was a bit Braunschweiger fan, so I ate it too. Not all that bad still. Vienna sausages however were disgusting then and disgusting now. Never liked jello salad, but my wife still has that Tupperware mold.
And I can guarantee that NO KIDS died in hot car deaths in that Nash, when they were still considered a part of the driving experience (rather than being treated like luggage in the back seat). Camping used to be a lot of fun. My parents had a ’71 VW bus that they had a conversion done on. The company installed a fold-out bed behind the back seat. When it opened, and you hooked two straps into clips on the ceiling, you had a nearly full-sized bed that extending from the back window into the bus. It was great laying in the bed while they drove. My dad removed the middle seat and carpeted the floor so the dogs could lay there. Can’t imagine some of our very long trips in it without being able to lounge in the bed or play on the floor with the dogs. And miraculously, nobody ever died in it. Go figure.
Vienna sausages now are the vienna sausages then. There was giant batch of it processed in the 1930s and they have been canning pieces of that same batch to date. True fact
I remember my older cousin finding a box of those nasty things like in a shoebox in a closet and proceeding to ingest same which sickened my tiny tummy to watch
Can of it in a shoebox i meant.
On a similar note:
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.8FC2zLyduydEJN2lp1xWYQHaDW&pid=Api&P=0&h=180
(sorry its a bing….couldn’t find a .jpg one)
My wife makes a jello mold for Christmas & Thanksgiving and sometimes in the summer. It is quite tasty and we eat on it for days.
As a kid, I would never have made it through a day of fishing without Vienna sausages, saltines, hoop cheese and a Nehi grape. Spam was a special treat that we seldom got because it was so expensive; The Hawaiians love Spam and still eat a lot of it.
I buy spam by the case. Also grape Nehi is THE BEST
Whatever happened to the good ole days and the music which was. I posted this on a different thread now I can’t stop listening to it. Please don’t click on it or you’ll be cursed like me.
Oh My Gosh didn’t EVEN have to hit the play button………..now its stuck in my head!!!
Sink the Bismark was another one
Oh must be the 1970 m carlo. I wemt with dad as a tyke to the chevy dealer the day he took delivery of his and later i learned to drive in that beast. My sister and i left a new box of crayola 64 in the rear deck behind back seat on our trip to disney world and oh boy that made a colorful mess
My uncle later bought one a few model years later and it never felt quite right to ride in haha.
Also had that pedal stang and sure was sad when i outgrew it
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Curiosity piqued by the V-RROOM!
We had “Jarts” as a kid. Basically used them to play chicken, not the legit game. Never bought it in the foot, not once.
The Mopar muscle car advert: I have restored a Roadrunner – top left. Sold at Mecum in Kissimee for $48,000 5 years ago. I am currently building a Hemi Challenger which should fetch around $90-100,000, and also building a Dart GTS – same car 340, 6 pack, 4 speed – should fetch about $50, 000 or so. I used to think those cars (mopars)were buckets of bolts, now people pay buckets of money for them. My how times have changed.
Love those old Mopars!
How d’ya know they’re girls? Duz u be a biologisss, ‘n’ shit?
Well Teen Vogue is doing their best to be Woke biologists, since they know adults are not paying attention to it:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-have-had-non-binary-genders-for-thousands-of-years?utm_source=pocket-newtab
This is serious. I certainly had not been aware of it. No wonder young girls are so confused, poor darlings.
Some of the other articles ask teens, “What is Pansexual? A Guide to Pansexuality,” and “The Balaclava Trend Going Viral on TikTok Can be a Learning Opportunity.”
I just can’t.
Men like women or use to.? What is different?
Every degeneracy on full display today was already fully planted and in progress with this consumerist, trinkets, media and star worshipping era.
Not one reference to nostalgia for Christ as the anchor of the culture.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nostalgia
TL;dr: “nostalgia” for Christ is more of the problem than the solution, especially if you think Christianity is a good thing.
I missed directly, a lot of this stuff growing up in the mod 80-90s. But liked the older stuff. Grandparents had jarts, love the older music, cause whatever on the radio today… I don’t know, I would assume they wanted to make money. Growing up small town, I got to experience longer than urban folk I think.
Nostalgia for a time when Christ was the anchor of culture. Not nostalgia for Christ you illiterate degenerate.
Hulu hoops, pogo sticks, the best thing as a kid then was toys were kid powered, few had batteries, the toys ran out of power when you did !
My dad bought his 70 Road Runner $3695 new.
Those smoking latinas yowza!!
Anyone remember? Someone does. Ole CROTCHETY.
Well all I want is to just be free
Live my life the way I wanna be
I’d sure love to take my today money and time travel back to the late 60s-early 70s and go car shopping. I’d pay a visit to that Dodge/Plymouth dealer and a few Ford lots as well.
Thanks, Avalon. Dad owned a 78 Monte Carlo. It had old school stuff like a carburetor, air filter that you could replace, and other things.
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Oscar Meyer braunschwieger—That and the Farmer John brand—I was raised on that stuff. A couple thick slices on Romam Meal wheat bread with mayo, mustard and onion–the base of many lunches growing up. Now I buy Aldi’s braunschweiger–better flavor and lasts longer in the fridge. Dark real rye bread and whole grain mustard with red onion are what sandwiches are made of these days. Now I’m getting hungry….