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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: mooseman on January 26, 2018, 08:06:37 PM
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Some of us will smile and remember and some of us will never know, real happy I could look back and remember I was there and can add a few memories of my own..............................
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it was me playing in my stone driveway with my construction trucks.
Cars with metal dash boards and no seatbelts
7 digit phone numbers eccept two of the digits were LETTERS
street cleaning machines you ran behind to get cooled of in the summer time
smokey black smudge pots burning all night marking pot holes in the road
police cars with a big single red rotating light on top
the way you ran home to get a few cents to buy some ice cream when you heard the Mr Tastee truck comming your way.
super sugary candy liquids sealed in wax tubes and other shapes that you bit into to reach the flavored drink inside...then chewed on the wax the drink came in
penny candy
collecting Mallo cup points
A time BEFORE SALES TAX
saving cereal box tops to send in for prizes
Balsa airplanes you bought for a quarter put together and flew till the rubber band broke..remember the Skeeter
sonic booms from military airplanes flying over head
Civil Defense drills
black bakelite telephones that weighed a ton and had a metal rotary dial that you stuck your finger into to dial...and they all had the same ring tone
Real live telephone operators that we needed for person to person calls
mom and pop grocery stores that would deliver your grocery order to your house
a time before color tv and remote controls
going to the movies Saturady afternoon for $.35 to watch 101 cartoons and the Three Stoges
large orange trucks with a huge blower that drove down your street spraying insecticide into the tree tops ....probabbly was DDT
when smoking was cool and stylish
Hop Along Cassidy...Sky King....Zorro...Rinn Tin Tin...The Cisco Kid.... Howdy Doody
your best bike, it had a torpedo style light smack in the center of your handlebar,
a metal platform over the back wheel where you could have your friend hop on for a ride
and a mouse trap contraption over the front wheel, fenders with mud flaps that had little red & green reflectors stuck in them.
Metal wheel roller skates that strapped to your shoes and the skate key you always lost
red ball jet sneakers
steel beer cans you opened with a can opener in two places
Speedy Relief the Alka Selser character
gas pumps that had a little bell that rang out as you filled your tank with $.24 cent a gallon real UNLEADED GAS
Two hour summer prades with families lining the street far as you could see
Cocka Meme tattoos you bought for a penny, licked your arm and transferred the image to your skin with your spit
the Ed Sullivan show, Ted Mack original amature hour, Father Knows Best, The original Batman series
Gilette Friday Night Fights
;D :'( mooseman
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I was raised in the inner city of Saint Louis amid row houses with front steps to the door.
I feel blessed that I have lived long enough to remember almost all of those things too. That link had me at "Hide and Seek" at dusk.
Here are a few of my memories:
Radio serials when the daily newspaper carried the evening line ups and times. Serials like:
Johnny Dollar, The Green Hornet, Amos and Andy, Lone Ranger and many more. Before most had a TV, of course
I must be older than Moose (actually I know Mike and know I am) because our movie theater only cost me .07 on Friday Nights and .03 for a candy bar including the 3 Musketeers that had 3 easy break sections to split with 2 friends....HA, like that ever happened
Green Stamps and the books you accumulated to exchange for merchandise in the catalog
Candy buttons on strips of paper you popped off and ate...usually ingesting bits of the paper too
Red Goose Shoes
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- Andy's Gang with Andy Devine (HiYa Kids, HiYa, HiYa) and advertised by Buster Brown Shoes
Ipana Tooth Paste
Walt Disney....himself hosting the Disney Hour on Sunday evenings
The first time you saw COLOR on a TV....but was at a restaurant and not in your parent's budget for years to come
Playing bounce ball on the steps where a fly was worth 10 points and a one bounce was 5. (Had to hit the point of the steps to get a fly to happen). Two bounces and you lost your turn
The guy rolling the Tamale cart down the street at dusk calling out
"Red Hots, Get Your Red Hots Here!"
When you could go to the local church, Mason's or Knights of Columbus in the summer that had a baseball field and could find others that just happened to drop by and chose sides to play a pickup game
Sitting in front of the TV on Saturday morning waiting for the Test Pattern and that annoying audio tone to stop and the programming to start
When TV went off the air at 12:00 by playing Perry Como singing the Lords Prayer
When you were 12 and could ride the bus (okay, streetcar) to the Ice Rink on Saturday afternoon and nobody worried about you being snatched or worse
That's all I can think of for now.............
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cootie catchers
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- Keds high top tennis shoes
- Transistor radios
- Milk delivered in glass bottles to the doorstep
- RedRover-RedRover send Johnny right over
- vinyl 45's on a stacking turntable
- "fizzies" tablets
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Red Goose Shoes
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- Andy's Gang with Andy Devine (HiYa Kids, HiYa, HiYa) and advertised by Buster Brown Shoes
Cancer machines in the shoe stores!
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Still thinking about the old days, my family was in the grocery business until mid 60's. It was an IGA store.
I pretty much , within reason, would be free to grab an ice cream, candy bar or two and such whenever I wanted.
The thing I regret most ,today, were the packs of baseball cards ...i would get them for the gum and to have the cards to play pitch with my friends.
Most of all i remember the cards I would clip to the fender bracket on my bike with a spring clothes pin, sometimes 4 at a time two on each wheel.
Mickey, Roger , Hank, Yaz , Duke, Willie , Roberto, Sandy and many others rode shotgun on my spokes until they were tattered and grey from my spokes. Then i simply went and got more........ :'( ::) Who knew....
mooseman
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2 things for sure come to my mind:
Our TV was a 13" black and white, of course no remote and the tilt knob on the back to adjust when it started rolling. Also, the national anthem that would wake you up around midnight followed by static.
My Dad used to send me to a cigarette vending machine to buy his cigarettes for a buck 75.
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My God, you're young.
I used to pay .50 a pack in the late 60's.
Mike, regarding your access to ice cream at the IGA. In the mid 60's my parents owned what they called then a 'dairy store' where they had a complete soda fountain and sold milk in glass containers along with bread and confectionery items. I know I must have gained at least 25 pounds as I could make my own sundaes and banana splits (without strawberry topping, mine was marshmallow, fudge and caramel) before they sold and we moved to Texas.
I did the same thing with the playing cards in the spokes and years later I found out my mother tossed my cigar boxes of baseball cards when we moved, ughhhhh. Oh, I gave away the gum, lol.
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Still thinking about the old days, my family was in the grocery business until mid 60's. It was an IGA store.
I pretty much , within reason, would be free to grab an ice cream, candy bar or two and such whenever I wanted.
The thing I regret most ,today, were the packs of baseball cards ...i would get them for the gum and to have the cards to play pitch with my friends.
Most of all i remember the cards I would clip to the fender bracket on my bike with a spring clothes pin, sometimes 4 at a time two on each wheel.
Mickey, Roger , Hank, Yaz , Duke, Willie , Roberto, Sandy and many others rode shotgun on my spokes until they were tattered and grey from my spokes. Then i simply went and got more........ :'( ::) Who knew....
mooseman
As I drove over to our new shop to do some painting yesterday, I drove past my elementary school, (which has not been a school in over 50 years) and thinking how many priceless baseball cards I flipped away, all the bigs stars of the 50's... (and in my spokes too). I'm on Medicare now, but it seems like yesterday...
Steve
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Still thinking about the old days, my family was in the grocery business until mid 60's. It was an IGA store.
I pretty much , within reason, would be free to grab an ice cream, candy bar or two and such whenever I wanted.
The thing I regret most ,today, were the packs of baseball cards ...i would get them for the gum and to have the cards to play pitch with my friends.
Most of all i remember the cards I would clip to the fender bracket on my bike with a spring clothes pin, sometimes 4 at a time two on each
wheel.
Mickey, Roger , Hank, Yaz , Duke, Willie , Roberto, Sandy and many others rode shotgun on my spokes until they were tattered and grey from my spokes. Then i simply went and got more........ :'( ::) Who knew....
mooseman
As I drove over to our new shop to do some painting yesterday, I drove past my elementary school, (which has not been a school in over 50 years) and thinking how many priceless baseball cards I flipped away, all the bigs stars of the 50's... (and in my spokes too). I'm on Medicare now, but it seems like yesterday...
Steve
If it makes you guys feel any better, even the ones we didn't destroy in our bike wheels, or lose the corners flipping against walls, were not placed in acrylic cases to keep them mint which is what's expected nowadays. Hurts me to see that cool toys aren't played with for the same reason.
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Still thinking about the old days, my family was in the grocery business until mid 60's. It was an IGA store.
I pretty much , within reason, would be free to grab an ice cream, candy bar or two and such whenever I wanted.
The thing I regret most ,today, were the packs of baseball cards ...i would get them for the gum and to have the cards to play pitch with my friends.
Most of all i remember the cards I would clip to the fender bracket on my bike with a spring clothes pin, sometimes 4 at a time two on each
wheel.
Mickey, Roger , Hank, Yaz , Duke, Willie , Roberto, Sandy and many others rode shotgun on my spokes until they were tattered and grey from my spokes. Then i simply went and got more........ :'( ::) Who knew....
mooseman
As I drove over to our new shop to do some painting yesterday, I drove past my elementary school, (which has not been a school in over 50 years) and thinking how many priceless baseball cards I flipped away, all the bigs stars of the 50's... (and in my spokes too). I'm on Medicare now, but it seems like yesterday...
Steve
If it makes you guys feel any better, even the ones we didn't destroy in our bike wheels, or lose the corners flipping against walls, were not placed in acrylic cases to keep them mint which is what's expected nowadays. Hurts me to see that cool toys aren't played with for the same reason.
Thanks Frog,
not really feeling bad, my point poorly made possibly was , it goes to show "if you only knew then what you know now" and the golden value of those days that only contine to grow in value with the added patina of time.
In many respects the best times of my life, remembered and still enjoyed.
mooseman
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There was an episode of Spielberg's Twilight Zone-like Amazing Stories in which a magic gnome type character advised a kid to keep a bunch of Action Comics #1 and other similar things so that many years down the line, when he needed it, he had a fortune in old goodies!
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And the Back to the Future movie where Old Biff gave Young Biff the Sports Book with all the future score results.
Man, what I could have done with that, lol.
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Cancer machines in the shoe stores!
Oh, yes. Now I have bad feet, occasional gout and need cataract surgery in both eyes.
Somewhere I still have an autographed picture of Duncan Renaldo (Cisco Kid). Don't forget
Romper Room. I was actually on one. Kids today just can't imagine. My dad would send me
to the drugstore on my bike to get him a pack of Lucky Strike for a quarter.
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Still thinking about the old days, my family was in the grocery business until mid 60's. It was an IGA store.
I pretty much , within reason, would be free to grab an ice cream, candy bar or two and such whenever I wanted.
The thing I regret most ,today, were the packs of baseball cards ...i would get them for the gum and to have the cards to play pitch with my friends.
Most of all i remember the cards I would clip to the fender bracket on my bike with a spring clothes pin, sometimes 4 at a time two on each
wheel.
Mickey, Roger , Hank, Yaz , Duke, Willie , Roberto, Sandy and many others rode shotgun on my spokes until they were tattered and grey from my spokes. Then i simply went and got more........ :'( ::) Who knew....
mooseman
As I drove over to our new shop to do some painting yesterday, I drove past my elementary school, (which has not been a school in over 50 years) and thinking how many priceless baseball cards I flipped away, all the bigs stars of the 50's... (and in my spokes too). I'm on Medicare now, but it seems like yesterday...
Steve
If it makes you guys feel any better, even the ones we didn't destroy in our bike wheels, or lose the corners flipping against walls, were not placed in acrylic cases to keep them mint which is what's expected nowadays. Hurts me to see that cool toys aren't played with for the same reason.
Thanks Frog,
not really feeling bad, my point poorly made possibly was , it goes to show "if you only knew then what you know now" and the golden value of those days that only contine to grow in value with the added patina of time.
In many respects the best times of my life, remembered and still enjoyed.
mooseman
I still have a lot of comics, and a couple of vintage Fender and Ampeg amps, but yeah, the rest is gone...
Steve
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Wow just reading you guys post, you all have some great years to remember....7 cent and .35 cent movies and me at 53 I've never lived what you all have and I'm betting 10 years might separate us in age. How fast has time moved for us all.
darryl
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You and I are separated by exactly 20 years.
Imagine the things that you will have experienced as a kid that will no longer exist when you reach 70+
;)
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You and I are separated by exactly 20 years.
Imagine the things that you will have experienced as a kid that will no longer exist when you reach 70+
;)
this... most every place I went as a kid is gone, and I mean gone, demolished, redeveloped. It's OK, that's just the way it goes.
Steve
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Grew up in Neptune Beach, Fl right on the ocean!
Thoughts from 1960 to 1970
Monkey sent up in Mercury space mission. So
Happy when the monkey returned safe.
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo space programs with resulted with men
On the moon.
Cool cars from the 50’s and earlier.
Cold war. Citizens build bomb shelters at home.
Cuban missle crisis. We were a navy town. Shetchy few days.
Watching John F. Kennedy get killed on live tv.
TV was 19” oblong black and white. Only 3 channels
Then watch Oswald get kill the day after on live TV
Elvis comes to the Florida theatre. Girls flipped out. City fathers said it was against the law to film from
Waist down!
The British invaison rock n roll invades the USA
The Beetles on the Ed Sullivan show
007 , Secret Agent man., The man from UNCLE. Everone spy paronoid.
Beach Boys USA goes surfing crazy.
Vietnam
Hurricane Dora destroys our house
Civil rights movement. Got slapped by some ole ugly white women for drinking at the “colored”
Water fountain at the A&P store. My mom led me away with a stare the was ment to kill the old bag.
It was my first WTF moment i remember as a child.
Thank God I was raised in a family where color did not matter at all. Nada!
Martin Luther King Killed! I was sad!
Vietnam
Great music!
Football played by men who play for the love of the game, not at all like the pu$$ys of today.
Custom cars, hot rods.
Airbush t-shirt Daytona beach boardwalk.
Rat Finks. Ed Roth
Stockcar racing, Drag Racing, Dune buggies
Surfing
Flower power, Flower children
Acid rock
LSD
Bobby Kennedy Killed.
Air raid drills every week
Hippies
Protest all over America
Great music!
More surfing
DNC riots Chicago
Ban the bra. What a great time to be a young man. Couldn't wait to go to school
Hair
Age of Aquarius
First shopping mall
The Movie Bullet
Hawaii FiveO
Woodstock
More great music
Go carts, motocross
Vietnam what a cluster phuck
Richard M. Nixon
More surfing
Kent State my Second WTF Moment
What a hoot!
Winston
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Nice List.
Moving to Texas from St. Louis in 1963 was the first time I ever saw 3 rest rooms in a grocery store. I'm sure y'all can figure what was on the doors.