Remember When

[Spankey]

11 minutes ago, Hammer 4 said:

Born in 1948.

 

Here in so. cali, we had simple things like the Good Humor ice cream truck that drove around neighborhoods. We also had the Helms bakery truck, great donuts, especially the jelly filled donuts.

You could walk to the out lying of homes and pick figs, pomegranates ect. to snack on. 

Did you Good Humor guy drive around in a three wheeled trike service car type?

[Hammer 4]

4 minutes ago, Spankey said:

Did you Good Humor guy drive around in a three wheeled trike service car type?

No, was a 1/2 ton pick up..But I have seen the trike that your talking about.

[Spankey]

7 minutes ago, Hammer 4 said:

I recall when reg. gas was 18 cents per gal....ahh, the good ole days.

I don't remenber the lowest I can recall seeing it. But when I first started driving it was 42 cents. 48 cents something like that. I'll have to ask my buddy.

[Hammer 4]

1 minute ago, Spankey said:

I don't remenber the lowest I can recall seeing it. But when I first started driving it was 42 cents. 48 cents something like that. I'll have to ask my buddy.

When I was 16, I could get a 1/2 tank of gas in my 55 Chevy for $ 1.50. 

[Spankey]

4 minutes ago, Hammer 4 said:

No, was a 1/2 ton pick up..But I have seen the trike that your talking about.

I can sort of remember him also driving around in this old service type truck with the ice box in the back but his cab was small and had no roof, just a wind shield. I think it had a soft top that was rolled up. Rolled back.

Heck all I know is when we were kids, and someone asked us where an egg comes from, we knew it was a chicken.

 

Today 75% of kids would most likely say Food Lion. 

[Bankbeater]

How about garage doors you had to manually open and close. 
I remember when they started the national 55 mph speed limit. That seemed so slow. 

[813basstard]

46 minutes ago, Hammer 4 said:

I recall when reg. gas was 18 cents per gal....ahh, the good ole days.

Yikes ?

 

How bout taking turns what shows to watch on TV because there was only one in the house. 
Growing up with a mom and sister I have a deep seated hatred for Lifetime or Hallmark network. 
Hatred.

[MN Fisher]

7 minutes ago, 813basstard said:

Yikes ?

 

How bout taking turns what shows to watch on TV because there was only one in the house. 
Growing up with a mom and sister I have a deep seated hatred for Lifetime or Hallmark network. 
Hatred.

NBC Mystery Movie

and

ABC Movie of the Week

 

Both were big with dad and I...the first one more so.

[Crankin4Bass]

My parents saving green (or was it blue) stamps and filling books to get our first black and white TV.

[Hammer 4]

2 minutes ago, Crankin4Bass said:

My parents saving green (or was it blue) stamps and filling books to get our first black and white TV.

S&H stamps...We got more than a few items with those stamps.

[MN Fisher]

Just now, Hammer 4 said:

S&H stamps...We got more than a few items with those stamps.

Yep - same here

 

Also, Raleigh/BelAir cigarette coupons - both parents smoked and on the back of each pack was a coupon...save up enough and get things like dishes, flatware, appliances. Cartons came with 10 extra coupons.

[GrumpyOlPhartte]

Dang … talk about dredging up the past!

 

I remember our ‘37 Terraplane with a back seat on which you could play football … or so it seemed.

 

I remember my dad letting me have a sip of his Falstaff beer.

 

I remember the milk freezing on the front porch and pushing the cardboard tops off the bottles if we didn’t get up early enough to get it.

 

I remember going fishing with my dad; he had a square steel rod with a round reel and I had a long bamboo pole with a bobber, hook, and worm.

 

I remember listening to Gunsmoke, Dragnet, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar on the radio. And on Sunday morning the local radio station had a program that read the comics section while I followed along.

 

I remember going to our neighbor’s house on Friday night to watch Gorgeous George wrestle (and get my sip of Falstaff). It was a 12” black-and-white TV. (The first time I saw color TV I watched a Felix the Cat cartoon.)

 

I remember having a party line and our phone number was BL 51327.

 

I remember using a slipstick (slide rule) for my math homework.

 

I remember my first four-function TI calculator costing $99.95.

 

I remember building my North Star Horizon computer and Lear Seigler ADM-3 terminal; had to solder a million sockets to the motherboard and a 16K memory board was another $495.00.

 

Life has been a wild, exciting ride and I wonder if any other generation will see the number of changes we have experienced.

[Log Catcher]

Dad smoked Chesterfield for a while then switched to Parliament.  We had the S&H Green stamps and Top Value stamps. Dad got me my first rod and reel with one of them. It was a South Bend spincast setup. Depending on the season there were always a bunch of us getting a baseball or football game going after school or in the summer. No such thing as staying in the house unless the weather was really bad. 

 

Gas station attendants came out to you. and put gas in the car, checked the oil, and cleaned the windshield for you. 

 

Born in 51. The good old days.

 

Edit. Forgot to add we had several restaurants where they had car hops. Place your order over a speaker and they brought the food to your car.  One of them is still operating that way but they did add some inside dining rooms. Also remember going to the drive in movies.

[HaydenS]

3 hours ago, Spankey said:

 

Today 75% of kids would most likely say Food Lion

Heck is a food lion?

[Columbia Craw]

YOU guys are awesome! Great memories.

[desmobob]

4 hours ago, Smalliefan2 said:

...setting the push buttons for your five favorite stations.

 

That's one little memory I would have forgotten.  ?  Pulling out the flat tab "button" and then pushing it back in to set the station.

[Koz]

'64 here.

 

Bicycles with banana seats and sissy bars. You would stomp back on one pedal to brake. If you did it right on the pavement you would get tire squeal and leave a nice skid mark.

 

Riding your bike 5-10 miles to go to the town park, the store to buy candy, or go fishing.

 

Heading out at first light to go and play with your buddies and not come home until sunset. There were always 8-12 kids hanging out together.

 

Playing army with plastic guns.

 

Having neighborhood wiffle ball and football games in the yard. No parents allowed, If you got hurt you spit on it, rubbed some dirt on it, and kept on playing.

 

BB Gun wars. Metal Jarts. Acorn wars with wrist rockets. Kill Ball (hit a tennis ball high in the air and then stand under it and let it hit you in the noggin).

 

Walking a mile to the bus stop in the rain, snow, or heat.

 

Encyclopedias.

 

Doing real chores as a kid. Having a job as a teenager while going to school, playing sports, and dating.

 

[desmobob]

3 minutes ago, Koz said:

'64 here.

Bicycles with banana seats and sissy bars. You would stomp back on one pedal to brake. If you did it right on the pavement you would get tire squeal and leave a nice skid mark.

 

 

Mine was a Schwinn Manta Ray.  We all wanted one of those nice Schwinn bikes that Mr. Green Jeans would wheel out and show off during the Captain Kangaroo show...

[Columbia Craw]

And attach playing cards with clothes pins on the forks.

[Spankey]

8 hours ago, HaydenS said:

Heck is a food lion?

Grocery Store chain. 

[MN Fisher]

10 hours ago, desmobob said:

 

Mine was a Schwinn Manta Ray.  We all wanted one of those nice Schwinn bikes that Mr. Green Jeans would wheel out and show off during the Captain Kangaroo show...

The bike I traded in for the 10-speed Kabuki Super Light in '75 was a 3-speed Schwinn Racer with the shifter by the right handle instead of centered on the handle-stem.

[desmobob]

The shifter on my Manta Ray was a big stick-shift mounted on the top frame tube.  The bike had 24" instead of 20" wheels.

Mine was the same as the bike on the right:

 

(photo from bikehistory.org)

 

My dad was not the least bit mechanically inclined.  After several years of suffering with an out-of-whack derailleur and poorly adjusted caliper brakes, I chose an old-school single-speed 26" Schwinn as my next bike.

[MN Fisher]

1 minute ago, desmobob said:

The shifter on my Manta Ray was a big stick-shift mounted on the top frame tube.

Ya - here's a pic of the racer - shifter by right handle, bell by left

[desmobob]

It's not a bike without a bell...  ?

 

I have a small bell on both my current bikes (Bianchi Axis and Motobecane Le Champion).

[J Francho]

I'm so sure I want to reminisce and wax poetic about the 70s.  They sucked.