I remember when (keep this going)

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 2:11 pm

65 GRENDEL wrote: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.

A big bottle of Red Pop, and a big bag of Sweet Tarts was 25 cents. Just about right to get me through the paper route.

65 GRENDEL · Post by **65 GRENDEL** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 2:15 pm

Those were the days.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 4:20 pm

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

Hey now! Mine still is! And the p/u out in the barn has the starter button to the right of the foot feed! And a knob on the dash to adjust the choke! Oh, what's a choke, you ask? LOOK IT UP!

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 5:59 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.

Service men and Merchant Marines, ink was likely the least of their sins. From a fellow who comes from a Navy family with the exception of one who couldn't pass the physical so he joined the Merchant Marines. Ever here of the Murmansk run?

Edited, Grandpa was a China Sailor. And knowing all the good and bad about that, I'm still proud of him.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 7:17 pm

Human remotes.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 8:42 pm

OI get a King James AV1611 Bible and read Leviticus chapter 19 verse 28, that should answer your question about where he got that bit from.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 9:41 pm

JerryB wrote:OI get a King James AV1611 Bible and read Leviticus chapter 19 verse 28,

Sorry, When it comes to OT I use Hebrew.

ושרט לנפש לא תתנו
בבשרכם וכתבת קעקע
לא תתנו בכם אני
יהוה׃

JerryB wrote:that should answer your question about where he got that bit from.

So, I suppose he told everyone to grow payot (פֵּאָה) (sideburn curls) and beards too? (see vs. 27)

לא תקפו פאת ראשכם
ולא תשחית את פאת
זקנך׃

Note that vs. 28 is specifically prohibiting mourning scarification, to include taking on tattoos to honor the dead - kind of like how people today drive around in mobile tombstones with "in loving memory of young dead guy" on the back windows of their vehicles.

Latin puts it in perspective a bit:

19:28 et super mortuo non incidetis carnem vestram neque figuras aliquas et stigmata facietis vobis ego Dominus

"stigmata facietis vobis" does in fact translate to "marks upon you", but the term "stigmata" contextually again refers to "death marks", (see also "stigmata" re: Christ v. St. Thomas) as was a common practice in Ba'el funerary/mourning rituals.

But really... Levitican law? You can't just pick and choose. Levitican Law is an all or nothing thing. That's why Christ came to Fulfill the (Jewish/Levitican) Law...

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:52 pm

Yeah, and I remember the gallons of milk in glass bottles with a cardboard stopper and paper cap. 25 cents deposit on those bottles!

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 12:26 am

claybob86 wrote:glass bottles with a cardboard stopper and paper cap...

They are called "Pogs".. and a few years ago those round discs had some sort of pre-teen value so various Game companies started selling "pogs" that had no connection to milk bottles...

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 5:41 am

did not pepsi taste better back when it came in a bottle.and not even the ones with the bottle with foam on them had the same taste.
I know all about the sugar change , a good friend worked and retired from pepsi and drinks the pepsi throw back but it's still not like chipping a tooth on the old 16 oz bottle while drinking it as mom drove you home from the store and popped the clutch a bit to fast. and what was a seat belt back then but a futuristic dream.You could even ride in the back if it was a pickup truck,not a SUV 4 door thingy they got now that cost 50 grand.and no chain to hold the tale gate.

Hawkeye2 · Post by **Hawkeye2** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:38 am

Riding home from high school in my buddy's '50 Merc with a hopped up flathead. Hanging out at the Gulf station across from the drive-in theater where I could get a Pepsi, a Drake's Devil Dog and a game on the pinball machine for a quarter and have 2 cents left over.

Coke always tasted better in the small glass bottle which cost 6 cents + 3 cent deposit. We always asked a customer if he were going to drink it here or take it with him so we could charge the deposit or not.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:21 am

JOHNNY WACKO wrote:...You could even ride in the back if it was a pickup truck...

I learned to not stick my head over the roof to look down the highway. A grasshopper to the forehead at 70mph makes a lasting impression!

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:29 am

your lucky you did not have your mouth open.or we would be calling you grasshopper and you would be rubbing your knees together to talk.

Hawkeye2 · Post by **Hawkeye2** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:35 am

Riding home standing on the bed of a flatbed truck with no sideboards after picking cucumbers and squash for $.50/hr ($.75/hr. if we really humped).

Hoeing corn in the hot sun while the farmer ran his 2 cylinder JD with a cultivator and sang hymns at the top of his voice.

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:39 am

turning the sheller hooked to a 55 gal drum as 1 sister husked the corn and the other fed the machine,still have the tool you put on your hand to grad the husk with.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 7:53 pm

I remember when folks didn't sit around a cry, both men and women, when the person they voted for didn't get elected.

plowboy 45 · Post by **plowboy 45** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 7:54 pm

When corn in a sack was shell corn, not whole kernel corn, that stuff comes in a can

jdad · Post by **jdad** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:15 pm

Hawkeye2 wrote: Hanging out at the Gulf station across from the drive-in theater where I could get a Pepsi, a Drake's Devil Dog and a game on the pinball machine for a quarter and have 2 cents left over.

"Devil Dogs" you really brought back some memories.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 2:28 am

Griff wrote:
jdad wrote:I remember when your high beams were controlled by a push button, on the far left side of the floor board.
Hey now! Mine still is! And the p/u out in the barn has the starter button to the right of the foot feed! And a knob on the dash to adjust the choke! Oh, what's a choke, you ask? LOOK IT UP!

I switched out some of the early automatic chokes for the manual cable kits a couple different times. The knob/cable just worked mo betta....

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:38 am

My cousin and my friend to this day Pecker deem and I skipped the first day of school when we went from middle to high school and he put his pap's Ithaca 16g s/s shotgun that folded in 1/2 that i still own today in his back pocket when he left home that morning and we spent the day at the river bottom shooting grown hogs out of a 60 falcon. and the next day getting call to the office and got my first of many 5 swats like a man and stood at the office door in the hall for 3 days and became one of 3 the most respected guys in 7th grade.
boy could that high school principle hit herded that the middle school 1.who after we got into a fight over the lunch lady sending me to the office every day gave me 3 swats a day at lunch time for almost a month till I wore him down and he stopped hitting me in the hall 3 swats in front of the hole middle school. I would eat lunch get up walk to his office and say lets go lard butt and go out and lean on the wall in the hall hands first and take 3 swats and then go set down at my desk.My butt was black and blue for months. BUT HE GAVE UP before i did.
he thought drilling holes in the paddle would brake me,but it did brake the paddle.
he dies a drunk,i would kick his bar stole out from under him every time i seen him drunk as a skunk laying on the bar face down for years .He got caught humping a young girl in his office and got fired.

I was known as a guy you could wop but never brake,i would be back the next day till i won or they surrendered to me all through school.and still to this day people talk about that about me.I never had to wait in line at lunch time or be woke up in study hall by anyone. Teachers walked around me all 125 pounds of me in the halls.Carried my smokes in my shirt pocket and dared any 1 to take them. and i won,they all ended up drunks or fired for sex with students and i knew that and never bowed to any of them EVER. wore my cut off blue jen jacket with FIRE painted on the back every day. My last name is Flaim(flame). even though they wever forbidden to ware in school.

RandyC · Post by **RandyC** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:46 pm

Cardboard fans in church.

"Yes, sir" and "Yes, ma'm" to grownups.

Taking your hat off indoors or meeting a lady.

Using your left arm as a turn signal.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 4:44 pm

Any of Ya'll old enuff to remember the lesson about peeing of the back of flatbed truck on a dirt road???

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 6:01 pm

claybob86 wrote:

Yeah, and I remember the gallons of milk in glass bottles with a cardboard stopper and paper cap. 25 cents deposit on those bottles!

Gallon? Dad worked in dairies when I was a kid. I remember quarts, but no gallon bottles. The racks the delivery men used were sized for the quart bottles. They also were designed so pints wouldn't slip out. Pints were usually cream and half & half. Buttermilk could be had in quarts or pints.

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 7:44 pm

The smell of every school lunch room i was ever in.

Mossyoak1957 · Post by **Mossyoak1957** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:25 pm

This about sums it up,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxmLlGJztBE

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:35 pm

jeepnik wrote:
claybob86 wrote:

Yeah, and I remember the gallons of milk in glass bottles with a cardboard stopper and paper cap. 25 cents deposit on those bottles!

Gallon? Dad worked in dairies when I was a kid. I remember quarts, but no gallon bottles. The racks the delivery men used were sized for the quart bottles. They also were designed so pints wouldn't slip out. Pints were usually cream and half & half. Buttermilk could be had in quarts or pints.

Yep, the gallons came from the grocery store. Never saw a milk man deliver gallons, just quarts.

spaceman spiff · Post by **spaceman spiff** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:03 pm

I remember taking my cub scout knife to school for show and tell

spaceman

KiwiKev · Post by **KiwiKev** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:54 pm

Dad sent me to the corner store to buy his smokes for him.
They sold low alcoholic beer (1.5 %) to kids
TVs had a vertical and horizontal hold knob.
You could bike down high street with a gun on your back.
The police would happily beat up the crooks as a way of keeping down crime. (mainly the members of one family in town)
Being hit by my teachers (regularly)
Using asbestos mats in science class with the gas burner.
Child labor - actually encouraged!
Shooting birds in my backyard with a slug-gun and not having the police coming around.
The Flintstones in Black and White.
Listening to the moon landings on a radio at school. (or did I?)
Coca Cola which could rust a nail.

piller · Post by **piller** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:13 pm

Learning how to double clutch in order to downshift on a non-synchronized transmission. Learning how to sharpen a knife on the bottom of a coffee mug.

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:33 pm

If 3 guys skipped lunch you had enough money to drive a 63 ford galaxy around till midnight with a 390.
pushing a 65 mustang out of the school parking lot so not to be heard with glass packs.Then pop the clutch + burning out when you hit the street and getting caught any way.

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:17 am

when tv got only three or four channels, maybe six on a clear day, now with cable and dish, you can watch till you get the zombie stare.

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:19 am

JerryB wrote:Any of Ya'll old enuff to remember the lesson about peeing of the back of flatbed truck on a dirt road???

no! how does it go?

t.r. · Post by **t.r.** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:34 am

I remember when homosexuals kept their activities private and hidden. Then the 1980's arrived along with gay pride parades.

TR

piller · Post by **piller** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 8:53 am

I remember when movies arrived at the theater in metal boxes of 3 reels of 25 minutes each and had to be spliced together onto the big 60 minute reels. The projectionist had to watch for the dots in the upper right corner of the screen to know when to switch the other projector on. The big reel then had to be rewound.

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 9:35 am

rossim92 wrote:
JerryB wrote:Any of Ya'll old enuff to remember the lesson about peeing of the back of flatbed truck on a dirt road???
no! how does it go?

not while moving.....

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:27 am

claybob86 wrote:
jeepnik wrote:
claybob86 wrote:

Yeah, and I remember the gallons of milk in glass bottles with a cardboard stopper and paper cap. 25 cents deposit on those bottles!

Gallon? Dad worked in dairies when I was a kid. I remember quarts, but no gallon bottles. The racks the delivery men used were sized for the quart bottles. They also were designed so pints wouldn't slip out. Pints were usually cream and half & half. Buttermilk could be had in quarts or pints.
Yep, the gallons came from the grocery store. Never saw a milk man deliver gallons, just quarts.

Considering what dad did for a living, it explains why I don't remember gallons.

What, no one has mentioned the Good Humor Man or, out here at least, the Helms Bakery truck?

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:13 pm

jeepnik wrote:What, no one has mentioned the Good Humor Man or, out here at least, the Helms Bakery truck?

Now that you have, I don't have to! Loved the smell of the Helm's truck!

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:23 pm

I remember when we would follow the mail man around the neighborhood and help him deliver the mail. He had a huge leather bag on a three wheeled cart. And, there was a drop box that was refilled at some point during the day because they had TWO deliveries a day.

Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:42 pm

I grew up next door to one of the many sawmills that used to be here, and I remember many of the logging trucks coming in with a full load that was just three or four logs, with an occasional one-log load.

Shasta

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:01 pm

jeepnik wrote:
What, no one has mentioned the Good Humor Man or, out here at least, the Helms Bakery truck?

I don't think the ice cream trucks were called Good Humor where I grew up, but whoever it was, the sound of that bell was ELECTRIFYING! Run into house at top speed, beg for a dime, run back out at top speed and catch the truck before it got away. Those popsicles came out of there so cold your tongue would stick to 'em!

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:29 pm

JohnnyWacko must have tried it!!!!!!!!!! I learned by watching my cousin try it.

geobru · Post by **geobru** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 2:48 am

Driving to school with a shotgun in the gun rack so me and my buddies could go hunt pheasants after school.

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:41 am

i remember when my parents had a 1964 ford falcon and i used to stand up in the front seat. my mom had an accident and i kissed the front metal dash mighty hard. that might explain a few things about me !

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 5:05 am

I kissed a few in my day also.

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 8:46 pm

Old Ironsights wrote:

FYI: (Geek Alert...)

I remember TV test patterns being alternating wide vertical bars of the primary colors.

I remember (in parochial elementary school) Sister Mary Elephant laying a wooden ruler repeatedly across the knuckles of the extended hands of (us) miscreants, whose behavior in class was somewhat less than exemplary.

I remember buying/building a crystal radio kit, before a standard radio became a household appliance of ours.

I remember getting out first TV set about 1951 (IIRC, it had a 7" screen).

I remember listening to late nite (after 8PM) radio programs like Gangbusters, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet & such - at least until one of my parents caught me listening after I went to bed.

I remember being forced by my school to wear knickers (knee pants worn with knee socks) to Kindergarten (UGH !)

I remember getting my first 2-wheel bicycle only after joining a Boy Scout group based in the next town (so I could attend meetings).

The best thing I remember is spending my weekly allowance ($1) by going (5 miles) to the movie section (2 city blocks of theaters) in city of Mount Vernon (NY) on Saturday mornings, where/when cartoons & John Wayne movies ran in endless loops - which translated to going to as many theaters as I could ( $0.10 admission each), watching whatever until the loop go to where I came in, then moving on to the next theater, until my allowance for that week was gone. (of course, I always tried for a front row seat

)

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Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 8:50 pm

That's the color TV test pattern. The one I posted is one of the original B&W patterns.

See lots:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+test ... J1-7YyM%3A

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 11:02 am

and that guy saying as we slip the bounds of earth speech as the TV shut off at midnight

Ben_Rumson · Post by **Ben_Rumson** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:24 pm

Hopping a freight train.

Ben_Rumson · Post by **Ben_Rumson** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:26 pm

Tramp Steamers to South America or to New Zealand.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:48 pm

One room school 1st thru 8th with one teacher for all 8 grades. Couple students drove a car to school.
Teacher demonstrating and shooting his dad`s civil war musket behind the school to us kids.
Outhouse at said school. Pump the water.
Same as above at home.
When you dressed up to go to church or fly.
Aunt Jemima pancakes.
Street evangelist`s.
Still crank some cars.
Selling Cloverine salve and Christian motto's that glowed in the dark.
Buying Taxidermy lessons from the Northwestern School of Taxidermy.
Killing a pigeon with chloroform for my first lesson.
Selling worms and night crawlers.
"Free movie night" in a empty lot and a pass the hat donation for the old crippled man who set it up.
Wrestling match's at the local Eagles or VFW.
Old steam Locomotives.
All the Mexican Bracero program crop pickers that camped every summer.
When the Gypsy`s came through.
Air raid siren tests.
Airplane observer program for "holes" in the dew line.
I gotta take a break.