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

you could recognize the sound of these trucks from 5 houses away...

 

..When you have kids older than the 'dudes' telling you how it was "back in the day"..

cc

 

Your old enough to remember "patina" when it was called RUST! And that was BAD thing!!!

I used to say that I was older than dirt.
Then I read that dirt actually rebuilds itself after about 32 years.
I guess I was older than dirt a long time ago.

Ok.. it's past 11:30 here. WAY past my bedtime but I'm too tired to get out of my chair.
I may not be in my 70's but I remember all the things you guys have written here and you are making me feel really old and tired. Thanks for that.

Maybe I'll tilt the chair back all the way I'll sleep here.

 

>>> "DANGER WILL ROBINSON!".>>>

THAT was the very first thing that popped into my head when I started reading this thread.....

Al in CT

 

oh chit,i forgot what i was going to rite this may be a sign

 

When guys ask you if you were the guy that helped Henry design the T.

 

33-45-78

 

Saturday mornings with Fury, Heckle & Jeckle, Sky King, Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers & Trigger, Dale Evans & ****ermilk and of course Bullet. Bee Hives, Flat Tops, DA's, 77 Sunset Strip.

 

When you use your Social Security checks now to buy hot rod parts.

TV...What TV? What's wrong with listening to the good ole Philco upright radio for entertainment?

Winter is coming on..going out to the shed to get some corn cobbs to start the kitchen stove.

Going to the well, and priming the pump so you could have water in the morning.

Getting a new pair of Paratrooper boots that had the two buckles around the top for Christmas.

Getting your first Red Ryder B B gun.

Changing a tire with a hammer and a big screw driver, and cold patching the inner tube.

Or buying re-capped tires.

Draining the engine block of water at night, so the engine wouldn't freeze up, when it got below zero.

Being able to push start one of the old hydromatic equiped cars, when it wouldn't start.

Using chains to get around in the winter.

Using coal oil to run in your Model A, when gas was rationed. (It would run, but you had to rejet it, and it smoked like hell)

Listening to the Indy 500 on the radio instead of seeing it on TV.

Cars would drive with their lights on during the day, for Vets day, like today.

Double dating, cause only one of you had a car. (and that was probably your parents car at that)

Buck night at the Drive In.

You now can comb your hair with a wash cloth, instead of a comb in your back pocket.


You would be home before midnight!!!!!!

The cop cars only had the one red bubble on top for the light and the siren on the fender.

In the smaller towns, there was still a night watchman, who would walk the main streets and rattle the doors to see if they were locked.

Street lights only had a clear bulb and a white porcelain reflector.


I'm not old, but is is 10:00, way past my bed time. I've got to take my "Carter Little Liver Pills" before I do.


HellRaiser

 

When you remember crying at the end of the last episode of Howdy Doody#@!

 

You remember turning on your high beams with your foot.
Your new Plates came in the mail with 2 mini plates for your key chain.
You could start a 55 chevy without a key as long as the ignition switch wasnt locked.
All GM divisions had there own engine and put it only in that divisions car.
The high point of your week was watching 77 sunset strip.

 

Remembering how long it took your body to get those indentations from plastic seat covers you stuck to..
Picking out the free gl*** "tumblers" with your fill up.."10 gals or more"
Having three guys run out to Dad's car..checking gas..oil..tires..filling your tank..then clean your winshield..leaving a 25 cent tip..AND THEY SMILED !

Remembering..going to a gas station on my JC HIGGINS..asking the attedant "how much for air for my tire"

"Son..air and water are things you'll never have to pay for"............

 

You remember this. That's the steel for our cars being made in the back ground....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2tEndWTifA

 

* Dad gives you a buck & sends you to the store for a pack of Luckys, the Sunday paper and a jelly roll for breakfast - and wants the change back.
* Dad would load all the trash into the back of the '53 Ford panel truck and take it over to the dump. He'd back up to the trench and let toss all the stuff down the hill. Stunk to high heaven!
* Dad bringing home a brand new '57 Ford F100 - with no radio....
* Mom bringing home a brand new '60 Ford - with no radio...
* Meeting Michigan Governor Romney and remembering his staff car was a Rambler Amb***ador...
* Going to the VFW for trick or treat cuz those "old farts" gave the best candy and made the biggest fuss over our costumes.
* "Doc" was mowing hay with his Army surplus Jeep that he put a flathead V8 in so it would "haul"(pull the mower behind it) ...
* "Jess" would come tearin' down our long dirt driveway in his '47 Merc convertible wearing his wide brim cowboy hat and "Hank Williams" shirt, and showing us his "police reserve" badge. I don't think he ever had a driver's license.
* We'd all get together at the neighbors on Sunday night to watch Bonanza in color.
* Remembering the real day the music died - that Ed Sullivan show with you-know-who that started the British Invasion and killed American rock 'n roll. (Milner thought it was the Beach Boys?)
* I got my first Draft Card. cl***ified 1A

 

remember when world war 2 ended
gasoline rationing cards
our car was a 40 ford sedan that my dad bought new.

 

You know you're on a old fart on the HAMB when...
You keep forgetting things you've just done.

 

You know you're on a old fart on the HAMB when...
You keep forgetting things you've just done.
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your acid reflux wakes you up in the middle of the night, and you realize you have to pee, and then you look at the HAMB until you have to pee again.

 

[rotary telephones....

I use one every day! I hear better on it than those ****py digital poosh****on messes
Fearless

 

Hopalong C***idy,The Lone Ranger,Lash LaRue,Death Valley Days,Roy Rogers,Howdy Doody

 

You know your an old Fart on the HAMB when....
you bought a 67 Camaro new and you still have it!

 

Social security checks to buy hotrod parts?.............Good idea!

 

You guys make me think I'm getting old I remember most of the stuff your talking about & the cars,people etc. guess so!

 

........your first job was a pump jockey at Esso where i would fill er up, check under the hood, clean the windshield, all for 31 cents a gallon....

 

Watching the Hit Parade tv show for the lastest songs because rock n roll hadn't been invented yet.

Do you have your Captain Midnight secret decoder ready?

 

When Uncle Milty and Jack Benny were the funniest comedians, the Ed Sullivan show was the coolest thing, getting to stay up late to watch the Twi-Light Zone with Rod Serling and then topping it off with a Ma and Pa Kettle movie >>>>.

 

When fire was still just a theory.
Dirt had that "new" smell.

 

I remember waiting all week to see the Beatles on Ed Sullivan but then I saw Elvis on his show the first time he was on there.

Had a babysitter when I was five or six who watched Queen
for a day every day. I could sneak out and run off to my grandmothers and get back and never be missed.

When guys sent in a request to **** Clark to have a certain gal on the show stand in front of the camera so he could take a photo of her on the tv set.

 

Sunday clothes
Sunday drives
Percolators
Door to door salesmen

Had a similar discussion with my Mom a few days ago. After talking it over, we agreed that the simpler times were better, and we would both enjoy going back to them... with one single exception...
We could not live without a microwave!