Begging ice from the Starland Dairy milk man off of the delivery truck that was horse drawn.

I am 73 - Savannah, Ga.

As a military dependent living in West Germany, we had several cases of C-Rations stacked in the closet, provided by Uncle Sam, in preparation for the evacuation if there was an overrun of Russian tanks through the Fulda Gap. To go along with that craziness we also had the "everyone crawl under your desk" drills in elementary school. Those are some interesting memories for sure.

I remember the Ice Man delivering 50 lb. blocks of ice to the family store every 2-3 days. We broke those up and then ran them through a HAND grinder to make chips of ice for the soda fountain drinks. Also, kerosene was delivered for $.11/gal for the small stove to heat water. The store was heated in the winter with ONE coal burning pot bellied stove......coal shed out back.

Well, I remember when Gene Autry came out with a brand new Christmas song. It was calld Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Then maybe the next year the newest Christmas Song was Silver Bells. Oh ya, the Manor Bread man delivered bread and sweet rolls in horse drawm rig. KCMo mid 40's. right after the war.
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When I was a teen and the family B&W tv would start acting up, I'd ride my bicycle to Radio Shack to test the tubes and buy a replacement for any that were bad.

The milk man would open the little access hatch to the cold pantry and put in fresh milk. He took away any empty bottles my mom left on the porch.

Excuse me while I whip this out.

I write using full sentences. I use proper punctuation. I use an apostrophe correctly.

Telling about what a test pattern on the tv was.

I remember before Rock was young.

The Beatles, who were they? That was Paul McCartney's band before Wings. Wings?

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Being your fathers tv remote control

And antenna rotor...

I remember the milk man and the cold, glass bottles of milk-delicious! The bread man always honked at me and waved when I was playing in the yard.

Listened to Gunsmoke on the radio and loved it. William Conrad sounded really tough as Marshal Dillon. My grandmother got the first TV I ever saw. We got one a year or so later.

Dad bought a gas station when I was little older and summers and weekends were never the same-he made me work there-imagine that!

At school, I got my fanny beat with the paddle, the dreaded paddle with the holes drilled in it to make it fly into my rump harder. Happened many times-I was a slow learner. Even in High School!

Bob

I'm as old as my tongue, and a little bit older than my teeth....

Many of the male teachers at school had wood paddles hanging in the classroom, and actually used them.

Basis Training was with the M14.

I bought my first shotgun from a gun shop at age 15 and it was legal.

I remember only being able to buy gas on alternate days based on your tag number. But I'm so old I was a federal agent at the time, and we had lots of different tags to switch out, always from out of state.

I don't want to party, just buy groceries and Diesel like it was 1999.

We had a smoking lounge in high school. Not for the teachers but for the kids. (1984)

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Sky King, Spin and Marty, Roy and Dale, and best of all The Lone Ranger.

Sea Hunt!

When phone numbers started with letters (our home number was DIamond2-0575).

Hotel room keys were really keys.

Collecting for my paper route with punch cards.

Left arm tan from hanging it out the driver's window.

Hand crank phones, gas ration stickers on car windshields, VJ Day.