Skip N Barb Team
Dickinson, Texas
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Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!!
Happy New Year to all!!
With a new year around the corner, I've been thinking about some years past. I'll start with some memories, and hope you guys will add to the fun.
I remember going to the B&W TV to change channels...all three of them, by using a crank style knob.
While working in a gas station, I filled the tank, checked the oil and air, not forgetting to clean the windshield.
Remember going to bed and leaving the screen doors to provide air at night?
How about that crazy looking jack that hooked to the bumper of the car to change a flat.
A few others com to mind....
Our family doctor made house calls.
Wore jeans with the rolled up cuffs so we could unroll a knotch the next year, instead of buying new.
Never....I mean never....played inside when the weather was above freezing.
We built tree forts from old discarded lumber.
Stole old tires for our $50.00 cars from the back of old gas stations. I'm talking about tires so slick that if you rolled over a dime, you could tell if it was laying heads or tails!!!
Sock-Hops
Pep rallies
Leaving home never to return as a resident.
You get the idea......
Let's hear from you guys that are more than a half of a century wiser.....
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JiminDenver
Denver, Co
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Joined: 09/09/2011
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Well I'm close to the requirement. lol
Glass belt tires
One set of tires for summer, another for winter.
when you could tell the make, model and year of a car just by seeing it's lights at night.
3 in a tree
C7 Christmas lights
ZippiyDoo and Breelcream
cooking with lard
Real toys in Cracker Jacks
Ferrys across the Great Lakes
Happy New Year everyone! Be safe
JinD
2011 GulfStream Amerilite 25BH
2007/2003 Ford Expedition
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Old-Biscuit
Across the USA
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Push button transmissions
3 ON the tree
Wing windows
Vacuum operated wipers
Single stack 45's and 78's albums
4 track tape players
$.19 hamburgers
$.25 pack of smokes
Every woman in the neighborhood was 'Mom'
All the kids in neighborhood played together outside until dark
First paying job at 12
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travelnutz
West Michigan - On the Lakeshore
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Well, we sure did like gasoline at the pump for the insane cost of $.25 to $.32 per gallon, diesel was about $.16 a gallon, ground chuck was expensive at $.25 a pound, and rib steak (now called a Delmonico Steak) was the outragous price of $.59/lb and was boneless choice. Haven't seen that in over 50 years now! Also, a new loaded classy Cadillac luxury convertible set you back $900 TO $1000 bucks out the door and $45 "bucks" a year for $100 deductable insurance.
Of course, wages were roughly only $2.50 - $4.00 and hour om average but nearly 85% of your gross check was take home pay and sales taxes wire about 3%. Regulations and mandates were actually sensible and a 2000 sq ft home with a full basement and a double attached garage on a 80' X 200' lot in the good area of town was the astronomically price of $16,000 with closing costs of a bout $125. A buck went a long way back then as if you didn't work, no matter what you job was, you won't be eating let alone have a roof over your head and that was a real incentive and motivator because there were NO government handouts to be had period other than unempoloyment for a max of 26 weeks of $23 to $44 per week, Off your dead a-ss or starve JERK!
A superb CC LB 4X4, GM HD Diesel, airbags, Rancho's, lots more
Lance Legend TC 11' 4", loaded including 3400 PP generator and my deluxe 2' X 7' rear porch
29 ft Carriage Carri-lite 5'er - a specially built gem
A like new '07 Sunline Solaris 26' TT
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Rvpapa
Alberta , Can.
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And for all those who worked service stations in the mid 50's, remember all the car models playing "hide the gas tank filler"?
Art.
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travelnutz
West Michigan - On the Lakeshore
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Hamburgers at McDonalds in about 1960 (we had one of the early stores here and just had a window to order at and no inside seating) was $.15, cheese on it made it $.19, fries where $.15, and a real chocolate shake was $.15 also. Eat for less then $.50 including the sales tax unless you felt rich and wanted cheese on your burger. Then your meal was blossomed to just over $.50. Was a real pleasure alway to eat in your heated car in winter no matter how cold it was outside as you had no other choice!
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travelnutz
West Michigan - On the Lakeshore
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Rvpapa, yup!
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johnrbd
San Joaquin Valley
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My 1st car, after returning from Vietnam, was a 1955 T-Bird with 8-volt electrical system. 6-volt batteries resulted in dim headlights and 12-volt batteries burned out something under the hood (don't remember was the item was called). Should have kept this car.
How about nylon ply tires - first thing in the morning they felt like they were square, until you made a turn, then it really become fun. The flat patch hitting the road at different cycles.
At 3 yrs old took first driving job. Standing on the seat of the jeep with throttle set pulling trailer while dad loaded hay onto it.
First accident, at 3rd yrs old ran into a ditch (oops). Dad was not too happy with his volunteer driver.
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rvten
Crossville,TN
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Gas tank was filled in front on the hood.
Front windshield used to open up for ventalation.
Running boards and spare tire was kept there also on some cars.
Chain drive on trucks and some had no doors.
Rag man came to collect old rags.
Knife and scissor sharping man also came door to door.
Milk delivery.
No dial phone. You told the operator the number. Also Party lines on phone.
Used to carry fuel oil into the house for the stove for heat.
Coal bins in the basement for the coal fired furnace.
Fruit and vegetable peddler with his horse drawn wagon.
Some people still had block ice for there fridge.
Sit out on the front steps and not worry about getting shot at.
Gas 15 cents a gallon.
I could go on and on.
Tom & Bonnie
Crossville, TN.
Aspect 29H 2008 Type C
Ford Flex SEL 2010
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Dutch_12078
Great Sacandaga Lake, NY
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Getting up at 5 AM to stoke wood in the parlor stove in cold weather and start the coal fire in the kitchen stove in any weather.
My father and I milking 20 cows by hand before breakfast.
Cleaning the barn with a manure scoop and wheelbarrow.
Weeding fields with a forked knife and bucket.
Running all the way to school to make it in by the last bell.
Helping my father with the 6 miles of dirt road the county paid him $20 a year to grade and plow with our 2-cylinder John Deer tractor.
The whole family taking baths in turn in the wash tub in the kitchen on Saturday nights while the kettles on the stove kept the hot water coming.
The whole family playing board games in the parlor on Sunday afternoons after church.
My sister helping Mom and Grandma make pies and fried chicken for the county fair while I groomed my goats for the 4-H judging.
Chasing my screaming sister around with a garter snake.
My father laughing watching me chase my sister with a snake.
Getting yelled at by my mother for chasing my sister with a snake.
The whole family singing while picking rocks to clear a new field for planting.
After a hot day of rock picking, plowing, weeding, or crop picking, waiting for my father to say the magic words, "Last one in the pond is a rotten egg!", when we'd all take off running. Well, except for Grandma. Clothing would start flying off when we hit the tree line near the pond, and in we'd all go with a great splash. Well, except for Grandma. She'd come along at her own pace, carefully fold each item as she disrobed, and then tip toe into the cool water. No one ever mentioned that she was the "rotten egg"...
Dutch
1995 Coachmen Catalina 322QBXL
F53 chassis, 460 V8, TST TPMS
Quadra Bigfoot EZ Levelers
2011 Toyota RAV4 4WD/Remco pump
ReadyBrute Elite tow bar/Blue Ox baseplate
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