I was going to mention the hum that the radio in my dad's '50 Buick made while it warmed up. Listening to the local radio station on a snowy morning and hoping to hear your school on the list of closings.
hahah had fogot the warmuptime on the tv but now i remember. remember every gas station had a Willys jeep or a Landrover The springy sound of the clutch pedal in a Volvo Amazon Blonds with big hair and miniskirt Kodak instamatics And everybody had 4-5 guns hanging right by the door when you came in to the house and nobody even tought of stealing a gun Nobody locked the door just put the broom in front of the door so you could se nobody was home
Mom giving me $1.00. Riding my bike 2 miles to get a glass bottle 1/2 gallon of milk. filling my pockets with the candy from the penny jar. Returning home and giving mom some change back.
Refillable glass oil bottles with metal spouts, 19cent gas, gas wars, ice boxes, hill holders, electric hand shifters...where the hell did I put my glasses?
Mazooma's box of roll caps just reminded me...used to take the whole box and lay it in the street, then take a big boulder and smash it ...only problem was with both hands on the boulder you couldn't hold your ears and they would ring for an hour. punks...no not those punks, "cat tails" remember the national anthem and the patriotic movie playing when T.V. stations "signed off" for the night.... tune up kits(points, condenser, rotor, cap, etc.) on a card you could buy from Pep Boys or R&S .
My bro and me collecting bottles for the deposits.... 10 tacos for a buck 12 donuts for a buck paper routes where kids did the delivery on their bikes
Having to use little adapter wheels in 4 track tapes to be able to play them in an 8 track player. A FM radio adapter that went into the 8 track player. Sitting on the side of the highway waiting for my girlfriends parents '53 Ford to cool down and get over vapor lock on HOT afternoons. First time I was ever in a building that was air conditioned. S& H green stamps, got them @ the gas station, grocery store, etc. I could go on for days cause I'm old but have a good memory of lots of good memories when life was simpler.
helping my grandfather bondo the headlight eyebrows on his '58 Chevy 10 years old...turning the ignition key and (car in gear) running the front bumper into the garage wall (same car) thick caked on grease on the garage floor you could curl it back with a putty knife (can still smell it) kneeling between the front seats in the family Valiant spraying foaming engine cleaner in the engine bay of my friend's '62 Impala...watched the wiring harness catch fire and burn the car to the ground . .
I remember all that shit....but 1/25 models were a buck when I started building them in '58, A couple years later I drove delivery truck for a toy distributor....my price then was $0.50 per model with the employee discount. Even cooler....I still have every one of them....sick. Charlie
when road construction zones were marked by kerosene smudge pots , my Mom collecting S&H green stamps
I still set points with a feeler gauge. as for the candy bars... yep... regular oil is close these days, but not the good stuff..
OK..How many of you guys lived with no electricity??Kerosene lamps after dark,,A two hole toilet out back and a "slop jar" under your bed for use at night....draw well water to drink and fill the old iron wash pot in the back yard to heat it up...Lower your milk and spoilable food down in the well in the bucket to keep it cool... Yes,I remember all too well...
Taking a Japanese WWII military rifle (complete with bayonet) that my dad brought back to my 4th grade class for show and tell. The principal made a special trip to the class...just to see the gun.
sunoco 260 gas that a 13:1 compression engine could run on,and it was cheap too if i remember right it was 49.9 a gal
only phones service on the farm was a party line and ol lady Johnson ( farm about 1 mile away ) listened to everyones conversation. Driving the Minneapolis Moline ZA all day culivationing corn, My dad farming with horses, and the smell of fresh cut hay.
..cutting the hollow forks off a 10-speed and hammering them over the regular forks to make a "chopper" Ross Apollo 3-Speed shifter bikes a Schwinn accesory windshield so my stingray could look like the Bat Cycle...lasted all of one day before it was broken contest to see who could leave the longest skid mark in the street by locking up the rear slick sissy bars....no, not those kind of sissy bars. .
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