I remember when (keep this going)

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:51 am

you had to remove the lid from the tooth past to get some out + alka saltier came in a long glass bottle with a blue label inside the bottle. and ever median cabinet has that bottle that looked like a small fire extinguisher and a white top with antiseptic in it. 2 or 3 will do.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:33 am

Spent razor blades getting pushed through the slot in the back of the medicine cabinet.

Les Staley · Post by **Les Staley** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:44 am

If you got out the door before the phone rang, you had the WHOLE day to yourself, no interruptions from a phone in your pocket(???). What a concept!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:11 am

Watchin' 'pops' cut himself with the new-faangled "safety" razor!!!

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:44 am

A crooked politician was the exception -- and people actually WORKED to get their money.

Old No7

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:59 am

There were .22s (S, L and LR!) and shotgun shells at the checkout stand at the grocery store.

765x53 · Post by **765x53** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:35 am

The Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs had pages of guns of every kind, including hand guns, that the mail-man would deliver to your door.

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:46 am

I remember when insurance companies really helped people...

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:51 am

I remember when I could go to a gun shop with my moms permission and buy ammo and reloading components without any govt bs paperwork... and I was only 15.

Joe

harry · Post by **harry** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:51 am

My dad used to send me to 7-11 with a bad tube out of the TV so I could get him a new one.

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:59 am

Adjusting the points was a semi-annual event on our rigs, and it was a really painful deal on the old GMC v6 whose engineers thought it would be cute to bury the distributor back under the firewall...

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:16 pm

I remmember when this country had REAL leaders !

Daggone sure haven't had any for the last eight years !

1894cfan · Post by **1894cfan** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:21 pm

Being able to buy a firearm without background check or waiting period!!!!!! Just plunk yer money down and walk out with ammo and go shoot at the city dump, or even the back yard (actually the garage)? Anybody remember Homer Parish (Harold Russell) in BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES?

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:22 pm

earlmck wrote:Adjusting the points was a semi-annual event on our rigs, and it was a really painful deal on the old GMC v6 whose engineers thought it would be cute to bury the distributor back under the firewall...

Earl,
Did you ever notice that the majority of the vehicles with easily accessible distributors needed adjusting more often?
Our Buicks, (dist in the front) always needed adjusted. The Chevys, ( dist in the back) seemed to go till the points wore out before you had to replace them.

Joe

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:23 pm

6pt-sika wrote:I remmember when this country had REAL leaders !

Daggone sure haven't had any for the last eight years !

This country hasn't had a real leader since Reagan.

J

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Ray Newman · Post by **Ray Newman** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:28 pm

I participated in my first presidential election -- November 1952. I was 6 yrs, 8 mos. old and proudly wore an "I Like Ike" button!

Camel73 · Post by **Camel73** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:29 pm

I remember when as a kid I thought all adults were mature responsible people that could be trusted. Lol

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:01 pm

Yea, I remember the days when we could get sloppy drunk, smoke the tires on our 400 hp muscle cars, and the cops only took our beer..........and when men wore the pants and women were glad of it.-------6

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:24 pm

I remember, a long, long time ago, when prayer, and the Pledge were in schools. When profanity was only with "the guys" and not laced into every line of so-called music. I remember when there were good actors, and actresses that had talent, and didn't rely on special FX to carry the movie. I remember mail ordering guns, and there was just a fraction of the mayhem in the streets, like now with all the drugs, and thugs owning the cities. 8 dollar bricks of .22

Free coffee, or tea when you ordered a meal.
I actually remember Free Lunch at a bar in Coal Town Pa in 1971 when I was traveling with the Clyde Beatty/Cole Bros Circus Band. A table with a big roast beef, a ham, a turkey, bread, cheese, and 10 kinds of mustard. I think happy hour was 10 cent glasses of Bud.....Dang, I've got good memories.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:33 pm

18¢/gal gasoline, AND they aired up your tires, checked the oil, radiator, washed the windows... AND gave you S&H Green Stamps!

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:38 pm

earlmck wrote:Adjusting the points was a semi-annual event on our rigs, and it was a really painful deal on the old GMC v6 whose engineers thought it would be cute to bury the distributor back under the firewall...

I have had several GM products with that distributor location. I used to gripe about it until One day I had it into a REAL shop for a tune up. A friends shop , and I watched him do it , he pulled the distributer out of the engine,installed the points and condencer on his distributor machine, set the dwell and had it back in the engine and timed in about ten minutes. That would have taken me at least an hour. After that, I never messed with it again.
Now the new engines don't even have a distributor.
When I hear someone say they don't "makem like they used to" I remind them that the Ford Mod. T
Needed the valves ground every 15K miles and cars today go 100K on a set of sparkplugs.

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:45 pm

In the small Iowa town ,where I lived as a kid, one of the local cops would set up a bullet trap in his driveway and shoot his .38 revolver. I watched him split a bullet on an axe blade and pop two baloons. He was a cool guy !!!

The local hardware store would brake up a box of .22 shorts and sell me a dimes worth.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:56 pm

Chuck 100 yd wrote:In the small Iowa town ,where I lived as a kid, one of the local cops would set up a bullet trap in his driveway and shoot his .38 revolver. I watched him split a bullet on an axe blade and pop two baloons. He was a cool guy !!!

The local hardware store would brake up a box of .22 shorts and sell me a dimes worth.

For a School Project, I brought in my Mossy Pump 12ga with several types of ammo, including an old Lee Loader....Can you imagine? Not one person batted an eye. My old hometown went ghetto a long time ago....I won't drive thru it anymore.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:26 pm

I can remember meeting a "foreigner"and being real welcoming to them because they were a rarity......

I can remember buying a "gun license" from the post office for 10 Bob aka 50 pence.

I can remember knowing which day of the week it was by which "western" was on TV

I can remember "policemen" just carrying a truncheon and a whistle.

I can remember "kids" playing outside.

I can't go on it's getting too depressing.........

Marvin S · Post by **Marvin S** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:31 pm

Cars where made in the USA and an "airbag" was someone who talked too much.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:11 pm

BlaineG wrote:For a School Project, I brought in my Mossy Pump 12ga with several types of ammo, including an old Lee Loader....Can you imagine?

Yes.

I remember when the HS JROTC kept the HS RIFLE TEAM RIFLES in a vault by the gym (along with a whole lot of other military cool stuff) and that we would, on occasion SHOOT those rifles (.22 Targetmasters) IN the gym.

Occasionally we would go to the Armory and shoot in their range, and shoot M16s with the .22 kits.

And I got my first HS Letter, and Letterman's Jacket for shooting. Not sportsball, Shooting.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:54 pm

I remember when blowing stuff up (without a permit) was just what (pre-computer) Geeks did... rather than being a one-way trip to Fedtown...

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:01 pm

In the vein of autos.

I remember when you used to adjust timing, lifters, carbs, brakes and actually fix things instead of just changing parts.

I remember when I could ride my bike with a .22 rifle across the handle bars and no one looked askance.

I remember when mom or dad would send you to the store, we walked barefoot in the summer and climbed redwood fences on the way, with a note for cigarettes, beer or hard liquor. And when you got there the counter guy, that you had known all your life, would say smoking would stunt your growth, and you both laughed.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:37 pm

Ok, I'm not quite as experienced as you fella's, but I can remember everyone learning to drive a car with a clutch! I won't own a car with an auto trans!
I remember if you ( I) lost self control, acted up, didn't pay attention, showed elders respect, etc there was H€!! to pay from your folks.
I'm sickened by the lack of respect these days. You don't respect the flag-GET OUT!

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:20 pm

People who take a knee doing the nA should take a hike.
that was a typo.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:39 pm

I thought that is what 12 step is all about...

Les Staley · Post by **Les Staley** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 7:22 pm

Brought my first 03-A3 home on the school bus. Bought it from my math teacher for $25. Bus driver asked me to sit in front so the little kids near the back wouldn't get hurt on the sharp front sight. (1962)

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:06 pm

3 on the tree, a lost art and outdated froze.

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:29 pm

JOHNNY WACKO wrote:People who take a knee doing the nA should take a hike.
that was a typo.

People who won't stand for the national anthem should be taking a knee home in a doggy bag like the dogs thay are .
the men and women who laid dead on foreign soil to give them the freedom they are using to disrespect there sacrifices makes me sick.
as i watched a young girl sing that song while on 1 knee made me so sick that i wanted to punch my tv.Her biggest sacrifice she ever made was giving up her lip gloss for lipstick.and has no idea what went on to give her the freedoms she takes for granted when she wakes every morning to a free world of free people built on the blood of others that gave it all in the name or freedom we takes for granted every day. school kids that never gave anything but a hard time to people they should be respecting.
My dad would have smacked me up side the head for a dumb act that disrespects my elders,and i would have grown up loving him for teaching me the respect of others.
SORRY i got off my own topic there a bit.

jdad · Post by **jdad** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:48 pm

I remember when your high beams were controlled by a push button, on the far left side of the floor board.

I remember when you had to get off the couch to go and change the TV station.

soon 2 retire · Post by **soon 2 retire** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:55 pm

I remember when a person's choice of which restroom to use was based on which junk they were packin'.

Bob in Friday Harbor, WA

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:56 pm

I remember when "one" of the buttons on the floor actuated the starter.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:22 pm

i remember as a kid that all of the older guys could get a good paying job at Boeing, Scott Paper, Pepsi, Coke, Congoleum, two different steel factories, merchant marines, Reynolds Al. and about 20 other factories...by the time I was 18. (1972) they were mostly gone.---6

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:35 pm

Crank phone first TV & 22 shorts for 30 cents

Brad

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 9:28 am

when you could quit 1 job to go to a better 1 and many did.

donw · Post by **donw** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:08 am

surplus mausers, springfields, enfields and arisakas at the end of the counters of dime stores in barrels for $2.50...

kick starting motorcycles...

ten cent grape sodas...

ten cents a gallon leaded gasoline...

party line telephones...

air raid sirens wailing at noon every monday...

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:52 am

I memmer in the early '60s I was astonished when a student actually made a muzzle loader in metal shop and did all the woodwork in wood shop. I was living with relatives in Dallas, TX...

Ben_Rumson · Post by **Ben_Rumson** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:44 pm

When the National Anthem played before TV went off the air at midnight

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:47 pm

FYI: (Geek Alert...)

mohavesam · Post by **mohavesam** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:49 pm

I sat in church (with my feet not touching the floor) and watched our pastor call everyone with a tatoo to the front - while he forgave them for violating God's will and repeating vows to not place ink upon their skin ever again.
- Back then I guess it was only servicemen (and merchant marines?) who had tatoos anyway.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:52 pm

mohavesam wrote:I sat in church (with my feet not touching the floor) and watched our pastor call everyone with a tatoo to the front - while he forgave them for violating God's will and repeating vows to not place ink upon their skin ever again.
- Back then I guess it was only servicemen (and merchant marines?) who had tatoos anyway.

Like to know where he got that bit from.

Heck, CAIN was "tattooed" (put a mark upon) by G_d as protection before banishment...

Ben_Rumson · Post by **Ben_Rumson** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:59 pm

Tooth paste came in soft metal squeeze tubes... Pure Tin IIRC

Rube Burrows · Post by **Rube Burrows** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 1:20 pm

I remember when me and my cousins would ride the John Deer the 8 miles to town to get us an ICE COLD Mountain Dew out of those old style drink machines. We would sit there on the porch of that old store talking with the store clerk about this and that enjoying the Mt. Dew. One of my most fondest memories. Cutting hay was hot and the tractor was all we had to take to town at that time.

65 GRENDEL · Post by **65 GRENDEL** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 1:30 pm

I remember when I could start for the Jiffy Store on my bike and pick up enough Soda bottles on the side of the road that I could buy all the Candy (junk food) I wanted and leave with money in my pocket.

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 2:01 pm

I remember as a kid thinking it was a piece of cake to be a good Christian.
Boy was I ever wrong.