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You know, fellow members, this list is getting long. With that I get to feeling older. Tinyman ______________________________ Stupid people are like glo-sticks. I want to shake the shit out of them till the light comes on | |||
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delicately calloused |
Meeting someone at the airport at the gate. No security. Just walk right to the gate. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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A lot of things, but the one I miss the most is the M-80's we use to buy. Thousands of fun uses. Of course we couldn't buy them in NY, but we would go crazy buying them on trips to Southern states. _________________________________________________ "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." --- G.K. Chesterton | |||
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Lawn darts with very sharp spikes called Jarts. | |||
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Political Cynic |
Neighborhoods where all the kids played outside all day Building tree forts and overnight camping in the woods Model rockets and balsa airplanes Filling the gas tank for under $5 Getting a real education There are a lot more but they are all family and friends that have passed away [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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Muzzle flash aficionado |
I have one of those, but it hasn't worked in 40 years. The record changer mechanism is a hoot to watch! It was my parents' 5th wedding anniversary purchase. clip-on roller skates? amusement parks with REAL fun houses cherry bombs push reel-type lawn mowers Red Rover, Crack the Whip, and Dodgeball terpin hydrate cough medicine OTC mercurochrome castor oil (one tbsp every morning) Coca Cola with codeine buying cigarettes (for my parents) at the drugstore as a child (a task I hated!) teeter-totters playground slides with steel surfaces milk delivery at the home (my dad was a Milkman) Saturday matineés (cartoons, serial, 2 features) upright manual typewriters keypunch machines and IBM cards dot-matrix printers mimeograph machines and their special paper hektograph copy process (may still be extant) slide rules mechanical slot machines That's enough for now. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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A Grateful American |
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Being able to walk into a gun store of any kind - Sears, Army-Navy, Western Auto or just plain hardware store and purchase a gun. Cash and carry, get a receipt and walk out the door. Cheap guns and ammo, too. Usually military surplus. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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Master of one hand pistol shooting |
Person. Beverly SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs, Mercurys and Plymouths. | |||
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Nosce te ipsum |
Clouds of DDT sprayed in the summertime streets. We used to pretend we were angels floating in the clouds. I liked some of my kin a whole lot more back then. Ignorance was bliss. | |||
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Fly High, A.J. |
With tin/aluminum foil wrapped around them for better reception. | |||
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Many people mentioned phone related things, but no mention of the Phonebook Big, heavy, yellow, dropped off at your door. So very necessary. | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
Antenna rotors Guns sold in just about every hardware store - and Sears Being able to burn anything you wanted on your property Howard Johnson restaurant s and motels on all the highways Being a kid and being able to walk around with a rifle and not getting a second look Kerosene pumps at the gas stations Timex 'test' watches Making your own fireworks - you'd get arrested doing that now Comedians that were actually funny Not having ticks with diseases everywhere Real Coca-Cola "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Tube testers at the drug store. Muntz brand electronics. JJ Newberry _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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Back, and to the left |
Hard to find stuff not already mentioned. I thought of a few restaurants and roadside places, like: Stuckey's - seemingly as ubiquitous as Howard Johnson's. Sambo's - like Denny's but much better. Zuider Zee's - fast seafood. Dutch if you can believe it.
Wow, I would not have thought of this. The most recent reference to those I can remember is their use as a redneck fishing tool, a kind of get fish quick scheme. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 | |||
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Fiddling with the UHF dial on the analog TV hooked to cable TV so we could get glimpses of static-filled boobs from the playboy station. | |||
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TV repair shops. | |||
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Three Generations of Service |
A plain-jane, standard shift bench seat single cab pickup you could buy for $4000. Dodge D100 bought in 1974. According to the online inflation calculator, that'd be about $21,000 today. No such thing as far as I know. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Just because something is legal to do doesn't mean it is the smart thing to do. |
Edsel also. I must be really old, many of the things mention were new when I was an adult. 8 tracks, cassettes, VCRs Integrity is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking. | |||
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