Do you remember

[Scrapper]

Originally Posted by rracer5

Going out to play & only coming in for lunch, dinner and just before dark!

Getting into mischief away from home but, somehow mom know about it by the time you got home! And then, those dreaded words "Just wait til your father gets home!"

How about "Don't make me stop this car & go back there!"

I heard both of those a lot of times. With 6 boys & 1 girl there was plenty of repeat performances of those famous words.

[Oaklevel]

.............and Grandpa would say boy when I was your age i walked 10 miles to school in three feet deep snow uphill both ways ..... and it got further each year....... now I'm the Grandpa............. but the county makes them ride the school bus even if the school is around the corner.

but I rode my Schwinn bike 15 miles to downtown to go to the Hobby Shop ......... wouldn't see the kids able to do that today........

Speaking of that remember the gas powered COX airplanes that you flew in circles on tow cords in the field........

[youroo]

Originally Posted by Oaklevel

.............and Grandpa would say boy when I was your age i walked 10 miles to school in three feet deep snow uphill both ways ..... and it got further each year....... now I'm the Grandpa............. but the county makes them ride the school bus even if the school is around the corner.

but I rode my Schwinn bike 15 miles to downtown to go to the Hobby Shop ......... wouldn't see the kids able to do that today........

Speaking of that remember the gas powered COX airplanes that you flew in circles on tow cords in the field........

They had "Cox Planes" inside the Original WPAFB Wooden Museum,you crawed inside a Cage and flew them! Until the "Smoke & Noise" got to the workers,then they would say "Boy's that is ENOUGH! Then we would go outside in the "Plane storage lot and climb in and shoot down Jap's and German's"! Youroo!!

[hdmtnrider]

How many remember selling "True Grit" newspapers for .15 cents to earn spending money?

[Papa GLS]

Repairing your own TV. Take tubes out & go to local hardware store where they had a tube tester & replacement tubes (darn that vertical hold).

Had to turn TV antenna by hand toward major cities to get reception.

Glass milk bottles with cardboard stoppers

[tande]

Originally Posted by Papa GLS

Repairing your own TV. Take tubes out & go to local hardware store where they had a tube tester & replacement tubes (darn that vertical hold).

Had to turn TV antenna by hand toward major cities to get reception.

Glass milk bottles with cardboard stoppers

& a "Horse/Drawn" milk wagon (in the city)

[bob caldwell]

The guy that would sharpen your kitchen knives...

[BandJCarm]

The first Salk vaccine. And Red tinted sugar cubes. Both. Everyone took one, no objections allowed. "Debit" life insurance, .50 a week, collected at the door. Paper route (I actually had one from age 12 through college!!), and when you collected door to door and tore off the little tab (receipt) some folks paid in silver dollars (still have all of them).

Levi jeans that were not 'sanforized'. You bought them one size too big, and went and jumped in the pond and got them wet, and 'wore them dry'. Then you stood them up in the corner and if Mama washed 'em, you threw a fit.

And about the tv commercial comment that cable TV didn't have commercials.......I laughed. What was 'cable tv'? Our TV came over the air and telephone via cable!! 3 channels, on about 14 hours a day, and the commercials were limited to 30 seconds on the half hour and 1 minute on the hour.

[Papa GLS]

Drinking water out of a pitcher pump, not a plastic bottle labeled Evian, Dasani, etc. And it didn't seem to cause us any harm.

[Evereddie]

Toys were made out of metal. Actually most things were made out of metal. Now they're made out of air.

[bob caldwell]

What a pencil and paper were used for.....

[Papa GLS]

Originally Posted by bob caldwell

What a pencil and paper were used for.....

And in my case, an eraser.

[bob caldwell]

Learning the alphabet

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by Papa GLS

And in my case, an eraser.

Speaking of erasers..... we had to use these in school. It was always fun trying to get the paper back aligned correct to insert the correction after using this tool.

[fella10]

Originally Posted by rracer5

Going out to play & only coming in for lunch, dinner and just before dark!

in our small rural neighborhood, each family had a certain car horn signal (2 or 3 short quick blast, 1 short & 1 long, ect,) for calling us kids to come home from the woods, neighbors house, playing ball, ect., ... the first one to hear a car horn would yell "quiet, I hear somebody calling", so we would all listen to see who it was that was being called, sometimes it took repeated efforts for them to get our attention, ..... nowadays, if you did that twice, neighbors might call 911 for disturbing the peace,.....

[wmdave17]

The rag man

[BandJCarm]

Sliderules for my physics minor. Still have them.

The rumor was that the Admin Office had a computer. We weren't sure what that was though.

[dcheatwood]

Originally Posted by BandJCarm

50,000 watt, clear channel, KAAY 1090 AM, Little Rock, AR. "Beaker Street" all night long........(probably what Jimi Hendrix learned to play from.........LOL)

WLS Chicago

WWL New Orleans

But the biggie.......WSM in Nashville. Grand Ole Opry!

WWL New Orleans. 11:00 pm, Charlie Douglas and the road gang. Every night started with "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" by Buck Owens.

[GerryK]

First job was a paper route. Bought my first bicycle on credit for the paper route from Western Auto. Thing was built like a tank. In the summer mowed yards with a Yazoo mower with the big handle to turn on the self propulsion and hang on for dear life. Got kicked off the school bus permanently the second time the driver broke the axle by dropping it in the culvert. Pointed out that even a dumb ass mule doesn't step in the same hole twice. A phrase I learned from my Dad. She was not amused. Go figure. Remember flipping the breather cover over on the car for that deep sound when you punched it. Timing chains rarely broke and when they did it didn't destroy the engine. It just stopped running.

[Evereddie]

Originally Posted by wmdave17

The rag man

The knife, scissors, and other blade sharpening man. Pushed a cart around the neighborhood and would sharpen anything.