Growing up, I remember...

I remember those cigarette vending machines. I also remember those tube tester at the stores. I remember when the cashiers had to punch the numbers, no scanning. There was a price tab on everything, no bar codes.

 

Bttt

 

National Anthem at the end of the night when tv would "sign off" at midnight...........say goodnight, Gracie

 

I remember sitting in the driveway on the 4th of July and being able to see the Detroit Fireworks over the river in the late 50 & early 60's,... And sometimes seeing Dad (a WWII combat veteran) jump a little when the report of the shell took him by surprise..... A jump I would be all too acquainted with in years to come, watching the fireworks with my own family.

 

The 'Sonomatic' tube radio in my '52 Buick Super warming up
and making a warm tone that you can't equal today...
and its adjustable, roof mounted antenna.

 

What's an xbox???...

 

waiting for the guy at the service station to finish washin the windows and checkin everything he could there at the pumps. and dad giving him the ashtray to empty also.gettin somekinda toy ro glass with a fill up.dad sending me to the gas station on my bike with a 2 gallon gas can and a dollar. got 2 gallons of gas a pack of smokes for dad and a coke and candy bar for me. and it was all the dollar would buy..lol bb gun wars at my house when my parents were gone.ridin my bike 15 miles from home and havin dad come and get me cause I was to tired to ride back.and never got on trouble for it.when my parents wanted me they yelled my name out the door not call my cell phone... me and my late cuz lookin at the sears and roebuck catalog gun section .lookin at the pistols and rifles we were going to get when we moved up into Canada to live in the woods.

 

"when we moved up into Canada to live in the woods". now you live in bama,in the woods!! lol
I remember trying to listen to WLS out of Chicago on a clear night here in the deep south
with a reverb no less

 

And in the early '70s we were tuned into Beaker Street. Little Rock AR late at night. On a tiny transistor radio no less....

 

Cigarettes at 2 packs for $1.00.

Lap belts only.

First year of the 3rd brake light.

Cracked Magazine

Slot car races

 

I do remember that! Great memories.

 

Yep, we could get it in Atlanta, and sometimes WSM out of Nashville. Sure wish we could have gotten The X.

 

and 5 cent pin-ball machines that paid -off if you won!! wow I miss that...
well those were in tn. anyway..to racy for Alabama!

 

Early to mid 60's , on vacation in N/C Wisc. , listening to WWL New Orleans thought that was really cool !
dave

 

... I remember dancing to this in order to get my first feel of boobage... off Wanda Nichols.... and then getting beat up by a girl. Well worth it.

 

I remember the cigarette coupons. my neighbor smoked camels, and a lot of them.....we both sent off the coupons for 2 new fishing tackle boxes.......he had a heart attack about a year later.

 

Going to the drug store for cherry-cokes or over to the grill in town for some pinball and a burger off the flat-top. We could get quite a few games off a quarter. Penny candy. 4 digit phone number and 3 channels for tv and who cared we were too busy living to watch it.

rg

 

I remember smokes going for .45 cents a pack.. I'd by 2 packs for a buck and have a dime left over for a candy bar... And those were BIG at the time...

 

I remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon. Someone came out, pumped the gas, cleaned the windows and checked the oil.

Jack Par was on late and nobody else was.

Looney Tunes was the best thing going on Sat mornings.

Doctors said smokes were good for you on TV.

You wore sneakers when you played football in the street.

Computers were great big things that needed their own floor in a building and only large corporations could afford them.

We used to hide under our desks when the air raid siren went off once a week.

If you were gay it meant happy.

I had to hide my long hair under a short hair wig to get a job anywhere.

I had to fight cowboys on the weekends because I had long hair.

Women had big hair and used lots of spray lacquer getting it to stay put.

The coolest guy on TV was Maynard G. Krebs.

Almost forgot - Green and Blue Chip were stamps that got you stuff from a special store. Often found under the seats when you cleaned your car.


Remembering that makes me feel old...

 

You can't be that old.... I'm 53 and still have the long hair....

 

Since it is the 4th weekend....
I remember sittin in Ed Roth's front yard and watching the fireworks at Maywood park....with Howard,Dennis,George,Charlie and Darryl.

 

KAAY. I had an AM car radio mounted in an upside down peach crate with a car antenna on top powered by a train transformer with an old TV speaker for a sound system.

Blue

 

Don't know if anybody else put this in and I cant afford the time I have left looking!
...... But does anybody remember the smell of Blue Sunoco 104 octane?

 

Hot summer nights with no air conditioning, Just a fan.

Fizzies ! (Especial the root beer flavor)

Listening to Ernie Harwell or George Kell announcing the Tiger Baseball games.

Staying in the basement and listening to Dad's Victrola during Tornado warnings.

Building houses of cards.

Reading the "Funny Papers"

The Sears & Roebuck catalog.

Downtown Detroit Hudson's toy department at Christmas.

Saunders Hot Fudge Sundays,... at there sandwich bar.

Ruben Sandwich's at the Onion Roll Deli on Woodward Ave.

The feeling of a warm summer night, the sound of cool exhaust produced by a snotty engine, cursing Telegraph, The tinney sound of WKNR "Keener 13" Or "The Big 8" CKLW on the radio .... And the faint smell of a cigarette,.... Looking to meet girls, and looking to "go to war" with all who would dare to challenge you.....

Trying to act tough and not scared, when you were getting closer and closer to your departure date for boot camp.........

Wondering if it all would wait for you until you got back,....... if you got back.

 

I don't remember it smelling different from regular gas, but I remember my dad calling it, "race car gas".

 

I remember the BiG 8 and all the top 40 tunes they used play....
My uncle got me a blue Rapsody(sp) AM transistor radio that I used to stuff under my pillow at night and listen to music...

 

I had one almost identical to this one,....

 

You and me, brother. Glad your memory is still intact.

Well, he's older than you if he remembers 25 cent gas.

Love it.

Great post, this reminds me of something: your grandparents' (mine were born in the 1880's) cool ancient crap, like the 1910 typewriter that would take off a finger if you missed a key, the foot pedal sewing machine, the block ice shaver that looked like a carpenter's block plane, the balance scales, the open tub washing machine with the wringer on top . . .