We didn't treat hall monitors too kindly at my grade school. LOL! Except back then they were called patrol boys.
You know you are getting old if you can remember (fill in the blank).
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We didn't treat hall monitors too kindly at my grade school. LOL! Except back then they were called patrol boys.
In all likelihood, your parents didn't have those luxuries when they were kids and hence wanted you to have the things they didn't have.
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WOW! Now that is a memory to be proud of.
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Clutch Cargo
Swede Hanson
Leaving on vacation for two weeks without even locking the doors at your house.
Full Service Gas Stations
Learning exactly where to park my VW Bug so that I could get it rolling and pop the clutch to start it if necessary.
Swede Hanson
Leaving on vacation for two weeks without even locking the doors at your house.
Full Service Gas Stations
Learning exactly where to park my VW Bug so that I could get it rolling and pop the clutch to start it if necessary.
Doctors making house calls.
19 cents a gallon gas.
I was in college during the Fogler years, but was able to stretch that college ID several years into the Odom regime. I “lost” my ID late in my senior year and got a new one so I would have the latest version as long as possible
As a boy, visiting my grandmother for a week in the summer and sleeping on the big bed in the front room near the window. Light streamed in all night from the street light in front of her house. She lived on Dunlop Street in Marion, S.C. Walking with her (she never owned a car) to the A&P "uptown" almost every day to pick up a few groceries. She had a little cart that she pushed. She could take a big block of cheese and turn it into the best pimento cheese anyone has ever tasted. And being out in her garden every day which she cared for with my great-aunt, who lived with her. And being carried for rides out in the country in the evenings with the windows down, driven by another great-aunt who had a car but no air-conditioning - just to get out of the house. And I remember how cool the movie theater was when she took me to the "picture show" because it had air-conditioning but the house did not. And a 23" black-and-white TV with rabbit ears that could get only one channel - channel 13 in Florence. And every night ended with some Bible verses and prayer.
The PF Flyer commercial said the shoes would make you “ run faster and jump higher”. Showed a boy jumping over a six foot fence. Soon as I got a pair I tried to jump over our tall fence. Didn’t make it. Told my mama something was wrong with the shoes
Yeah for some reason I'm thinking it was a whistle or kazoo like thing at some point.
The Man from UNCLE, Beatle boots, chucka boots, dickeys, spyder bikes, Apollo, telstar, penny loafers, Ramblers, Grants, Wards, J M Fields, hubcaps, Road Hugger raised letter tires....
George left, Johnny Wright.
My Dad's white porcelain Old Spice bottles.
Outfitting your bike with butterfly handlebars and banana seats.
Bactiene. Boy did we ever go through this stuff.
My first band (insert HUGE euphemism here) and navigating through all the cords that went to the mikes, bass, rhythm and lead guitars.
Learning to shave with a razor that felt like a 5lb flyweight. You had to lean very fast how to properly replace the blades.
Outfitting your bike with butterfly handlebars and banana seats.
Bactiene. Boy did we ever go through this stuff.
My first band (insert HUGE euphemism here) and navigating through all the cords that went to the mikes, bass, rhythm and lead guitars.
Learning to shave with a razor that felt like a 5lb flyweight. You had to lean very fast how to properly replace the blades.
That was classic. Thanks for posting. I remember when Nelson Royal and Johnny Weaver were the big stars. In 86, Weaver was retired and Royal looked to be the oldest guy in this clip. Great memories.
No air conditioner at our house
I wonder how many families have Sunday dinner like we use to and if everyone in the immediate family eats together on Sunday,
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A bus taking me and my Mom 15 miles from our small town to the big city.
American Bandstand w/Dick Clark shown in black and white
I’m from Greenville & remember all of these. Inc. a few trips to the Beacon & a couple to South 29 Drive-In!! 😀
As a teenager, reading West Coast Vans magazines and talking your dad into buying you a '63 Chevy van from a local electrician's company for $800. Added blue metal flake paint job, chrome reverse wheels, blue shag carpet and wood paneling. Everyone loved it but my mom who refused to ride in it and made me park in the backyard!
Monday through Friday for a long time, on ABC.
We have it, but at home only occasionally now.
We did this a lot when I was young. We always ate at my grandparents' house every Easter and Christmas. Some of my extended family still does. My wife's family didn't. So she doesn't feel the need to now.
I had been home from the service in France for about a month, and was with my parents at my aunt's house. She and her husband had an outdoor toilet and that was it. You came to the toilet through a chicken yard. A neighbor came over and told us that "someone had killed that son of a b.....", and we went home and watched tv for three or four days without stopping.
A lot of people particularly in the South were rather glad to hear President Kennedy had been assassinated but not me. He was one of two great US Presidents in my lifetime, President Reagan was the other one, imo.
Saw that as an impressionable teen and just knew there was a werewolf just waiting to attack me as I walked by neighbor's 4 ft hedge on the way home at nite.
Used to use keys to tighten roller skates. How can you roller skate in sneakers?
Was in AF and a fellow airman came over and told me about it(he was close to radio). We were all standing around listening to the radio. Our supervisors were mostly civilians in the drafting dept. The head civilian came back and said and I will never forget this-we gotta get back to work even if the President has been shot. What an A-hole. As if an hour would have made any difference.
Yeah. There is still one here in Richmond, IIRC. There was one near the airport here until about 5 years ago.
I feel that way too, Freddie. I think Kennedy was really smart and would not have gotten us into that war in Vietnam. Reagan was a great President.
But it was the early 60s and that was the way management was in those days. Thank goodness for better days.
A string with two hard acrylic balls attached to the two ends. By holding string in the middle you could knock the balls together, until eventually going up and down with your arm— having the balls colliding above and beneath your hand. Had mine in the 70’s.
