OT You know you're on a old fart on the HAMB when...

when you were waiting for the 49 fords to come out

 

Yes!- that cubby in VW beetles. And the Beatles.

And you don't hear clickers on kid's bikes now- and whoaa...... Too hip- gotta life to live..

 

Watching Captain Video and his Video Rangers.

The black and white TV not working, so you removed all the tubes, went to the grocery store or pharmacy, plugged them into the tube tester, bought new tubes to replace the bad ones and got your TV to work again.

The Howdy Doody Show with Chief Thunder Thud, Princess Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring and others

Bozo the Clown

Damn, am I old..........

 

Re: OT You know you're on a old fart on the HAMB when...

..You wanted to race the Little Rascals car down the hills of LA.

 

Who remembers the Show with the theme Song "The Gr*** is always greener in the other fellows yard" im guessing this was a New England based show
What was the Hosts name?




That was "Big Brother" Bob Emory, out of Boston.

 

O K Guys,anyone ever sit and listen to Pres Roosevelts fireside chats????
ever use the telephone and hear the operator say "number please"
or want to use it and the other person on your "party line"was already using it?
ever eavesdrop on what they were talking about? now be honest
I can even remember standing in line to see Hank Sr on stage.
When I started driving all the cop cars were 46 Fords....
Hell,If I go on any longer here I'll really feel old...but I'm still lovin it

 

When you remember "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" being the number one song in America.

 

How about Superballs and getting burned by the clear plastic seatcovers on a hot summer day.

 

you remember the only choice Mom had for taking your temp was with a rectal unit...............

 

you can remember when *** was safe and cars were dangerous.

 

YES YES YES the best

 

anticapating sunday night for l***ie and sea hunt,and popcorn. chopping models with a red hot ****er knife on the stove.you f$%kn guys are too much

 

You know who these guys are, or use to be!

 

You are an old fart when this little trinket wouldn't work on your once state of the art wooden console radio,record player, TV set because it only played 78. When you remember thinking the Beetles were ruining your rock and roll music. (I didn't convert until Abby Road.) If you remember where "my dog Tide" lives. If you remember the plastic Ford cars that came inside the cereal boxes. If you watched 77 Sunset Strip just to see Kookie's ride. If you know why a poker hand of 10's and 4's was once called a Broderick Crawford. If you got your feet Xrayed in a shoe store when you were a kid.

Beenie and Cecil
Kookla fran and ollie
Howdie Doodie

When you can remember all the *****en details of the cars you've seen on the HAMB but can't remember the name of the guy that built it and posted it.

What was the TV show that asked you to put a plastic film over the TV screen so that you could use a crayon to draw in the bridges so that the cartoon characters could cross over the river?

 

Thanks for the memories!! I could relate to most of them, even gathering around the radio to hear "The Shadow Knows", and listening to the Indy 500 on the radio. Remember the back seat speaker with the re-verb thingy that was real high tech. Even a rear seat speaker was a big deal. I feel a little sad sometimes as I see the momentum build in this hobby wishing I had more years to enjoy it, but I am sure as hell going to do my best to enjoy the ones I can. I remember my Dad installing turn signals on cars that didn't have them from the factory, ordering them from Warshosky (sp?) a division of J.C. Whitney that was wholesale only for dealers. Detailing his used cars and painting the rubber floor mats with tire black!! Older yes but smarter? Doubt it!!~Sololobo~

 

Winky Dink.....the f@^#%$# box is on top of my shelf here in my office.....that is really old

 

Man, I'm not that old and I remember nearly all of these...
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I was kind of hoping this was going to be a reminiscence of the early days of the HAMB, but it's kinda like one of those chain emails that do the rounds every now and then about 'Do you remember when?'

If you were really an old fart on the HAMB, you would know who Germ and Mud were and remember that you could write your whole post in the subject heading.

I'm so old...

 

AMEN !!

 

You remember Buckwheat and when he became a muslim and changed his name to Kareem owheat

 

Your new Plates came in the mail with 2 mini plates for your key chain.



man i remeber these...we used to collect them for the different cars we owned..new car, new ring for the "baby plates" for that car...had a drawer full of em..........thanks for joggin the gray stuff...........

 

Watching my dad farm with his horses, Dewey, and Louie.
Having an outhouse as the bathroom, at home on the farm.
Studebaber New car dealers ( my great uncle was the last one in the US ).
$.15 hamburgers, and $.17 cheeseburgers.
When it was cool to be politicly incorect.

 

I hate to break it to you but the HAMB ain't that old.

Officer spell check and the Pokeymon thingies. Is that what you want?

 

When you can remember portions of seven different decades but not much of the 60s.

 

When buying a new General Kinetics Camshaft from Detroit High Performance Warehouse for $24.95 seemed like tough task and the lifters cost a whopping $19.95 and it just seemed immpossible to save up the dough to pay for it. And you could pick up a used Offenhauser with 2--4-s, air cleaners, and linkage kit for $150.00. And the the Full Service Gas Station you worked at sold DELUXE for 49.9 cents a gallon. Then add all this together and figure that your boss really trusted you at the age of 15 so he gave you a CHARGE ACCOUNT. Now here comes the best. That engine with all the goodies that you built guzzeled the 49.9 cent a gall fuel at a rate of 5 MPG and you were having a **** fit trying to figure out were you were going to get $46.00 to pay your monthly gas bill for that fire breather so your boss wouldn't kick your *** >>>>.

 

Remember when:
Domino Cigarettes were 15 cents a pack, Lucky Strike were 16 cents.
A bottle of Coca Cola was 5 cents, and you got 3 cents back for the empty.
A haircut was 15 cents, a flattop was a quarter.
A movie and a box of popcorn was 25 cents.
Howdy Doody was on Television. Long time until color came around!
Walt Disney was my HERO, and still is! Long Live Walt Disney!
Video Games weren't even a thought!
We got all our information (gossip) on the crank ring telephone via party line, or from one of the women on the switchboard!
Lobster Fisherman still used Model A engines in their Boats!
AND WHEN I WAS FIRST MARRIED AND MOVED INTO A REBUILT HOUSE, #2 FUEL OIL FOR FILLING A 275 GALLON TANK WAS $42.00.
Not that I would want to relive (some) of those times, but the fuel oil prices would certainly be welcome now!
Enjoy!

 

65 or 68 Try package shelf of a 38 plymouth
Or when you went to a gas station ,you asked for 5 or 10 and it wasn't dollars it was gallons.

 

You were at the first showing of the Edsel in July 1957

 

........hitch hiking home to Simi Valley from Lion's Dragstrip on a Saturday night because the guy you rode down there with spun a bearing in his 413 Dodge Polara......and when a guy finally picks you up at 2am he says...."Simi Valley???.......where the hell is that?"

 

And the Vietnamese guy... what was his name? Wun Long Dong or something. LOL