You Know You Are Old When

[goeduck]

Or see your county replace your high school twice since you graduated.

Around here the public school districts want to tear down schools after 20 or 30 years and build new at taxpayer expense. The school I went to (Catholic) is still standing after 100 years and going strong.

 

[masscity]

What was that noise?

My shirt fell.

It sounded louder than that.

I was in it.

 

[Oaktree]

The road at the bottom of the picture is US33.

Seems odd there isn't even a fence between the plane parking area (I'm sure there's a proper term for it ) and the highway.

 

[BackRoad]

And guess what will happen to the author of that one day? Welcome aboard.

Mr. Sixdogs, somehow I found my way into the ol' fart's club!!! It's not a bad place to be...

 

[ultrarunner]

Seems odd there isn't even a fence between the plane parking area (I'm sure there's a proper term for it ) and the highway.

We had several local airports growing up without any fences…

Simpler times maybe?

 

[WinterDeere]

Around here the public school districts want to tear down schools after 20 or 30 years and build new at taxpayer expense. The school I went to (Catholic) is still standing after 100 years and going strong.

There's been a lot of that around here, the last 10 years. The story I keep hearing is that building new is cheaper than retrofitting the old, which I suppose could be true.

The need to retrofit the "old" is population growth, and current requirements to remove lead and asbestos really drive up the cost of retrofitting the old.

 

[ultrarunner]

We keep paying for lead and asbestos remediation and at this point if these buildings still have lead and asbestos people need to go to prison…

On the flip side schools continue to close due to declining enrollments… families leaving or staying but pulling kids from the public school system…

 

[Engineer42]

We had several local airports growing up without any fences…

Simpler times maybe?

Or possibly more common sense.

 

[steve tym]

We had several local airports growing up without any fences…

Simpler times maybe?

Smarter people maybe?

 

[BravoXray]

Seems odd there isn't even a fence between the plane parking area (I'm sure there's a proper term for it ) and the highway.

Those were different times, more respect for other's property, and more common sense as far as safety was concerned.
Did you notice the helicopter in flight to the left of center of the picture?
here is an amazing spectrum of planes in that picture form a Mooney Mini-Mite to a P-51 to a B-25. At one time they flew B-17s in and out of that strip. They also converted the B-25s to corporate planes, putting seating in the area where the bomb bays had been. Of course, the bomb bay doors were permanently fastened in place.