Air raid sirens every Wendsday at noon, duck and cover (AKA kissing your ass goodbye) B-36s climbing out of Fairchild A.F.B. no sound like it! (six 28 cylinder R4360 radials plus four J47 turbo jets) shook the ground!! Curtis Lemay was the SAC commanding general at the time and he was a car guy. The story goes that he encouraged his officers to bring interesting cars back form Europe, so here in Spokane as a kid I saw; prewar Delahayes, Bugattis, Hispanosuiza, and later Ferraris, Maseratis, and others, quite a treat as a kid!
jumping the ignition on my brothers 49 chevy with a quarter. puting peanuts in your pepsi. riding your bike for miles just to play with friends. getting a whole quarter a week allowance those were the days
i remember me and my little brother taking our red wagon loaded with coke bottles to the store so we could buy some of those wax teeth and rubber band powered plane then when we got a little older we would mow yards so we could buy hot wheels..models...or slot cars got my first job when i was 16 had a nice 57 nomad worked at an exxon full service station we all would wait for the good looking girls to come in so we could wash there wndows and check there tires and oil ...ha..ha...i could go on and on those were the days........
Getting my stomach pumped after trying to convince my stingray buddies that a quart of ethel won't hurt ya. Remember Ethel? Yummy!
Baseball cards with that sweet sugar bomb of gum.. Pez dispensers..reading comics at the Drug Store on the way home from school. Getting a soda at the fountain..mixed cherry/coke. Maybe a greasburger at the counter at Woolworth's or Ben Franklin's Sneaking in to Wrigley.."My Dad gonna' be mad at us..we were just playing and got outside the field"!! Every possible manner of postions in a '57 Vette with the hardtop on..windows fogged to no visibilty..and several hours of fun..Dick Biondi on the radio.. Finding her panties in the morning still in your car.. Sometimes actually borrowing Mom's Pontiac so you had the entire HUGE back seat.. Vasoline smeared rubbers from the gas station I worked at.. THE PILL.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 18 Beer..21 Hard Liquor
making out at the local drive in . That sumbitch with the flashlite always caught me . THE DRAFT & LOW LOTTERY NUMBER. ..... never was very lucky.
When you could drink beer at the pool hall when you were over 16 or so.. legally had to be 18....... but I was never checked..... When you had to be at least 15,(I think it was, might have been 14?) to take a loaded gun to school because that was the age you had to be to get a hunting license. English Literature class. Once a week the assignment was recite a Ribald Classic Poem. The only class I think that I consistently got straight A+ grades. Yes, grades were A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc. The teacher that taught the class was a WWII Vet, twice wounded, marched in the Battle of the Bulge. We called him Mr. and at the last class reunion he attended a few years ago, we still called him Mr. He kept a .45 revolver in his desk, I forget the manufacturer of the pistol (British I think) but it was made specifically to chamber the .45 ACP cartridge, due to the array of guns the military had for that caliber, Tommy-gun, Grease-gun, 1911A1, etc. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round TAble sat around the table, slinging shit at Random. Random ducked, the king got hit square in the face. The king said! " etc. etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I remember thinking when Jimmi Hendrix died that it wouldn't be long before somebody else would come along that was as gifted...
I got that chill when I first heard Robin Trower..... And then a Dallas boy brought it all back again.
Spending countless hours on a 80 JD with a four bottom plow. Chopping corn in the Fall with old two cylinder's. I'm 27
[ And then a Dallas boy brought it all back again.[/QUOTE] stevie ray vaughn ? i thought he was from austin
You know what I remember Larry, from my latter years,let's say the 70s Is YOU. Yeah! We were both skinny.
Rubber guns using red rubber intertubs Monkey links for tire chains Purplel Triton motor oil Red Rider BB guns
I remember buying Henrietta the '38 Ford pickup (avatar photo) for $15 on 8/30/1966, paid Seabron Brown $8 to pull it home for me. I was 14. After school, $23 in my pocket, walked from the school down to Seabron's garage. Seab had two wreckers, a smaller 1 ton International and his heavy wrecker, a cabover C-700 Ford. It would have been more practical to use the smaller International, but he accomodated my request to have my old Ford brought home by a Ford wrecker.
My first phone number - 262M2 Lead icicles on the Christmas tree Davey, Davey Crockett Angel hair under all the rods at the armory car show Seeing Ted Williams walk right past me in my hometown Trying to get in one of the Mustangs at the NY World's Fair Annette's sweater meat Buying ammo for my .22 at the age of 16 4 guys lifting my Bugeye Sprite into the back of a delivery van Wax "soda bottles" with colored water inside Clear plastic seat covers with little gold stars Going to see Roy Rogers at Madison Sq, Garden Aluminum Christmas Trees Moose & Squirrel Cheater Slicks Suicide knobs
.....early moning paper route,shovelen snow and mowing lawns .... saving for my first car...66 impals SS ......try to find a kid to do that now....forget about it...
Nope, raised in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. My stomping grounds were 30 miles west of the assassin city. I was 8 when JFK last visited Dallas.
Larry ....oddly enough the price of three candy bars still equals one gallon of gas! one thing i remember is, when i washed my car on saturdays the job wasnt finished till the tire black was applied!
* Card & peg on a tricycle wheel. * Model kits in Cornflakes * dirt floors * wooden wheels * English cars (they smelled good too).. * Quarter vent handles * Wetting Water bags - Still setting those points..
Kids saying "yes Sir or Yes Ma'am" full service only service station no computers you actually had to play no microwaves Mom actually cooked every meal having to get film developed laying in the back of the suburban playing cars while parents were driving pull top beer cans oil can spouts everything did'nt give CANCER "California Jab" tubes in tires baseball cards with stale ass gum inside having the school bus stop in front of each kids house people were proud to be AMERICANS Pac Man Bazooka Joe going to the store to buy a pack of smokes with a note from the old man OK I'm done but there are a million more
Remember: using baseball cards or balloons against your bike's spokes to make that "motorcycle" sound? when the ice cream man actually spoke English? the original TV dinners? waiting for Howdy Doody to come on? new car introductions in September? those weird feelings that you got watching Annette Funicello? pouring the whole tube of glue in your model's interior tub because it smelled so good!? I wanna go back!!! WF
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