Old Timer Quiz...Do you remember?

I guess the coolest thing from the present times is the term Asshat

The one that bothers me most is that there's no shame in being a whiner.

Another bitchen thing from the 21st century is the scroll wheel. If you are bothered by a nostalgia post on a traditional hot rod & custom board, pass it by. Maybe remembering how it really was helps some of us get our cars more traditionally correct. Making it forgivable during Tech Week, IMO.

An example, if I could find some Park's Texaco coupons to throw on my dash at Long Beach area car shows, I sure would.

Grumpy, uptight young people is another 21st century thing I don't care for. Remember what Thumper's mom told him in Bambi? Good advice today too.

Actual mileage may vary

 

GIRDLES!!! I hated Girdles on thte girls!!

 

Damn, I need to file some of these away for my boys!

Remember the mosquito fogger truck coming thru the neighborhood during the summer, spraying a DDT fog everywhere? We used to ride our bikes behind it, wonder I'm not dead. (or am I?)

 

Brylcream - "A little dab will do ya"

"Weekly Reader" - drawing scars on the Breck girls on the back.

Soda chests that had Ice and Water and you had to slide the Soda around and out of top

3 longs and a short ring was your phone on a 13 party phone line

Drive Inn's rented heaters and visors when it was cold and wet.

77 Sunset Strip

Sky King and Penny

76 Union, Minute Men (I was one in Lompoc California)

Blue Chip Trading Stamps

45's and 78's that were red or yellow

Fuzzy Dice

Old Gold, Raliegh and Chesterfields cigarettes

Fake white side wall inserts

Free drinking glasses from Shell with a fill up.

Wax lips

Man I 'mold but I feel 25

 

How about buying Model A's for $50.00 out of the barns and putting a primer paint job on them with a pump up fly sprayer.

 

you forgot bubble gum cigars and hell I'm so old I fart dust

 

Penicillin would cure anything you could get from foolin' around with some girl you shouldn't have. You had to "steal" condoms from your brother in law, 'cause they didn't sell ten different kinds at Safeway like now days. Not that I would really know about any of that stuff.

 

thanks for the memories, now that I'm 59, its time for my afternoon nap...

 

How about silver money.
Beehives with lots of hair spray.
When ya cleaned spark plugs in a little sand blaster instead of replacing them.
Rebuilding generators and starter instead of replacing them.

Summer vacations to the west coast along Route 66 and visiting real indian shops, 10 cent cokes in a refundable bottle when you stopped to fill up, then when you filled up the kids got tickets for free ice cream cones at the Dairy Bee next door, and motels with a swimming pool, and yeah, as mentioned before, those Teepees.

I forgot most of this stuff.

 

Prince Albert, Bull durham, Bugler, We had a cigarette machine and my dad rolled his own on sunday after noon. My mother would would put them in a tupper ware box and put in the freezer. Doctor made house calls. 2 milk carton tops would get you in the walk in movies on sunday after noon. How about drip gasoline? oilfield thing. my dad would pick up a piece of copper 1" long and throw it in a barrel. At Christmas we would burn the plastic covers off and we would have enough money to buy gifts. Sunday evening I'd watch "Lassie and Flipper. Sunday morning it was "SkyKing"- he was bad to the bone. One episode he had to parachute out of the plane. Not good for a 7 year old to see. Later that day I jumped off the football stadium bleachers with a sheet for a parachute. One broken leg later I figured out, that was just Hollywood. That was before they told you not to try this at home. Hell yes I miss it. Does anyone remeber a character names "Stoney Burke"? He was a cowboy. TP

 

When I was in high school, I was in Interact, which was SUPPOSED to be like a junior Rotary. In reality, it was more like a junior Animal House. One of our initiation stunts was to send a recruit to the drug store (which, as you said, was the only place you could buy condoms then) to buy condoms with pennies. If he managed to pull it off, we didn't even let him keep them--we kept them for ourselves!

 

Flash Gordon
Blackhawks
Wonderwoman
Plastic Man
Lash Larue
The Cisco Kid
Inner Sanctum
Fucking Liberache, and the baby sitter controlled the TV
HomemadeTransistor radios wired to the bed springs, hell, bedsprings.
Genuine tree cut, innertube powered, badass slingshots
Tipping toilets on halloween
Gas engined washing machines (made great go kart motors)
pegged pants
two tone shoes
girls in mohair sweaters
hickeys
nash ramblers (these last three are stuck together in my mind for some reason)
Playing baseball till the cover came off, then playing some more.
Your first...................

Maybe that's the trouble with getting old, not many more "firsts"

 

my grandma was still on a party line afew years ago...i bought my first motorcycle with pop bottles.i have some green stamps hiding somewhere.how about saturday morning cartoons?gas wars? tonka trucks that where made out of metal...OTASCO?

 

How about respect for our flag.
Buying american because it was american,
prayer in schools,
holdin the door for a lady,
and motor oil that came in a cardboard can.

 

How about having more hair than your dad???

 

First game I played "Bombs over Tokyo"....It was PC at the time!!.....OLDBEET

 

Jim, I think I like the sound of your old times as well as any. I slapped the cap off of a young fella a couple of years ago because he would not remove it during the "National Anthem". I did ask him first. I write "In God we Trust" on all my mail today. Thats for the 13% that it pisses off. Thanks you for reminding me. TP

 

classic, the joys of being in N.Z. you can be like 10 years younger and still remember these things as they were still current here
Our milk came with tin foil tops (at least in my day) recently you could still get it this was perhaps you still can.
I was in my 20's in the early 90's and owned 3 cars all of which shifted on the tree and had floor mounted dip switch and were all older then me..... hell the falcon from memory had more things to do with your feet then hands, dip, gas,brake, clutch, pedal for the w/sheild wiper washer (I think) and i'm sure there was something else......