Steppenwolfe
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Very nice... I just knew Sharn Jean was a looker!
Are you this old?
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Larry Caldwell
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Nope. The liquor license was issued by the county sheriff and attested that you were neither a criminal nor habitual drunk. It came in after prohibition, and was required for anyone of any age to purchase hard liquor. It was dropped in the early '50s.
Larry Caldwell
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They put the C in WCTU.
beowulf
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1964. Driving through Dallas on the way to the Mardi Gras. We decided we would like to stop and have a beer. Nowhere to be found. When we stopped to get gas we asked the attendant where we could get a beer. I will never forget how many times we had to have him repeat what he said: Wallgottabotlager. We finally got it straightened out and got directions to a house. The set up was that you drove across some ruts in a lawn next to a kitchen window and honked. A guy appeared at the window, you told him what you wanted, paid, got the product and left. One of many memorable memories from that trip.
Larry Caldwell
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Better than the Honda 50 all the high school kids were driving. If you wanted highway speed, you needed at least 90cc, and I remember slipstreaming semis to get up to freeway speeds.
the old grind
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MI law has required 125cc or more on freeways since I can remember. btw, I slip-streamed a semi in '71 with a passenger on the back of my '62 305 Super Hawk just to stay warm. It was a cool night and the smell wasn't bad, but we got pelted with chicken feathers all the way to Kokomo. The last 30 miles w/o that were numbing cold at 55 mph. Fun days, looking back.
Molalla1
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Sucked you right along did they . . .
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I remember having a coal furnace in the basement. The milk truck picking up 10 gallon full cans and returning empties. The party line phone. Old 3 channels on TV which went off the air at night.
PILOON
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Back in the '70's Ontario closed the bars @ 6:00 and reopened @ 7:00.
That was so the workers had to go home and the wife could grab the pay. Back then pay was cash in little envelopes.
As a teen I had motor boats.
The local marina had a shore pump with a long hose to the end of the pier.
When I filled up I had a buddy holler when the pump showed $2.00 and shut it off.
Since I payed what the pump showed I'd then drain the hose and fill up my tank.
Usually about $3.00 worth!
Also remember caddying at the local golf @ $1.00 for 18 holes.
I did that 100 times to pay for my 25 HP Jonson outboard.
Dad did not believe in 'allowances'.
Save for what U want was his logo.
Later in life I wanted a $500. loan to buy a hot car deal.
Bank refused the loan due to lack of credit rating.
Next day I borrowed $50.00 from HFC and re-payed next day.
Back to same bank that day with my newly established rating and the bank made out that loan.
Ontario had a 'fishing car' license policy.
That was usually for an old wreck of a car that you'd use on rough back roads in order to preserve your nice daily driver.
Cheap, like $20-30.00 but limited to 4/50 mile radius from home.
LOL, remember those details (plus many more) but now days usually forget why I crossed the room!
Need to add more ROM.
That was so the workers had to go home and the wife could grab the pay. Back then pay was cash in little envelopes.
As a teen I had motor boats.
The local marina had a shore pump with a long hose to the end of the pier.
When I filled up I had a buddy holler when the pump showed $2.00 and shut it off.
Since I payed what the pump showed I'd then drain the hose and fill up my tank.
Usually about $3.00 worth!
Also remember caddying at the local golf @ $1.00 for 18 holes.
I did that 100 times to pay for my 25 HP Jonson outboard.
Dad did not believe in 'allowances'.
Save for what U want was his logo.
Later in life I wanted a $500. loan to buy a hot car deal.
Bank refused the loan due to lack of credit rating.
Next day I borrowed $50.00 from HFC and re-payed next day.
Back to same bank that day with my newly established rating and the bank made out that loan.
Ontario had a 'fishing car' license policy.
That was usually for an old wreck of a car that you'd use on rough back roads in order to preserve your nice daily driver.
Cheap, like $20-30.00 but limited to 4/50 mile radius from home.
LOL, remember those details (plus many more) but now days usually forget why I crossed the room!
Need to add more ROM.
2LaneCruzer
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Great shot! SJ should trade you in!
That was 8 yrs ago. Still have them curls? btw, you had more hair then than I do at 60.
I think this one is only a couple years old.
OP
Pixguy
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Lucky man. I hope I look that good at his age! Must be that great wife and daughters. Good barbecues don't hurt either.Told ya Pixguy . . .
Bird
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Oaktree said, "Never understood the aversion to alcohol in the Bible belt, the Bible is full of references to drinking wine."
You know my college degree is from Abilene Christian College (now Abilene Christian University), so I had to take some Bible courses and I'll never forget one day when one of my classmates asked the professor if he thought the wine that Jesus drank was real wine or just grape juice as some believe. The professor said it was real wine. So that student asked, "Then why are you so opposed to people drinking alcohol?" And the professor's answer . . ." You go right ahead and drink alcohol if the contaner says bottleed and bonded by Christ; otherwise you leave it alone." How's that for an intelligent answer?
You know my college degree is from Abilene Christian College (now Abilene Christian University), so I had to take some Bible courses and I'll never forget one day when one of my classmates asked the professor if he thought the wine that Jesus drank was real wine or just grape juice as some believe. The professor said it was real wine. So that student asked, "Then why are you so opposed to people drinking alcohol?" And the professor's answer . . ." You go right ahead and drink alcohol if the contaner says bottleed and bonded by Christ; otherwise you leave it alone." How's that for an intelligent answer?
Bird
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All this talk about the ridiculous alcohol laws all over this country reminds me of a few things.
I NEVER knew of my Dad to have anything at all to do with the bootleggers in southern Oklahoma, but I know from the age of 10, even I knew who and where the bootleggers were. It was common knowledge. What a lot of people, including me, didn't know for years was that if you were in an unfamiliar area and WANTED to buy liquor, you could just ask any police officer and he'd tell you where you could get it.
When I became a police officer, and for many years later, in Texas it was perfectly legal to drive down main street sipping your whiskey from a bottle, as long as you were not "intoxicated", i.e., would blow less that .10 on a breathalyzer. I don't know how many times I had someone see me in uniform or in a squad car and they quickly try to hide the bottle (usually beer) from which they were drinking, since they didn't know that was NOT illegal. Of course in later years it was made illegal to have an open container in your car.
I have been known to stop on the way home from work, buy a 6 pack, and drink one on the way home. The first time I ever heard of it being illegal to drink while driving was in 1971-72 when I went to Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and lived in DesPlaines, Il. We could stop on the way home to buy beer but couldn't legally open one in the car.
One night when I was an officer on patrol I found 3 teenagers in a car parked behind a big tree. They had a 24 can case of beer and had just opened one each. They almost immediately started begging me to not arrest them, and one especially said his dad would give him a terrible beating if he found out. I guess when he said that, they noticed me smiling . . . because that kid was probably 6' 2" or more, certainly taller than me, but then one of the other boys said, "He's not kidding. Don't you know who his dad is?" He was about a 6' 6" state politician. So I told them, "Well, I guess if all those cans were empty I wouldn't have any evidence, would I? So they opened all the cans and poured it all out on the ground.
I NEVER knew of my Dad to have anything at all to do with the bootleggers in southern Oklahoma, but I know from the age of 10, even I knew who and where the bootleggers were. It was common knowledge. What a lot of people, including me, didn't know for years was that if you were in an unfamiliar area and WANTED to buy liquor, you could just ask any police officer and he'd tell you where you could get it.
When I became a police officer, and for many years later, in Texas it was perfectly legal to drive down main street sipping your whiskey from a bottle, as long as you were not "intoxicated", i.e., would blow less that .10 on a breathalyzer. I don't know how many times I had someone see me in uniform or in a squad car and they quickly try to hide the bottle (usually beer) from which they were drinking, since they didn't know that was NOT illegal. Of course in later years it was made illegal to have an open container in your car.
I have been known to stop on the way home from work, buy a 6 pack, and drink one on the way home. The first time I ever heard of it being illegal to drink while driving was in 1971-72 when I went to Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and lived in DesPlaines, Il. We could stop on the way home to buy beer but couldn't legally open one in the car.
One night when I was an officer on patrol I found 3 teenagers in a car parked behind a big tree. They had a 24 can case of beer and had just opened one each. They almost immediately started begging me to not arrest them, and one especially said his dad would give him a terrible beating if he found out. I guess when he said that, they noticed me smiling . . . because that kid was probably 6' 2" or more, certainly taller than me, but then one of the other boys said, "He's not kidding. Don't you know who his dad is?" He was about a 6' 6" state politician.
So I told them, "Well, I guess if all those cans were empty I wouldn't have any evidence, would I? So they opened all the cans and poured it all out on the ground.
buckeyefarmer
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Bird, didn’t know you went to ACU, my best friend went there a couple years. It’s actually a pretty liberal Christian university now.
2LaneCruzer
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I didn't intend to post this picture, but there it is anyway. Me, Sharn Jean and out 5 grandsons and one grand daughter. Too bad it's about 10 years old
JohnDeereJoey
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I'm old enough that what I don't recognize is only because I don't remember it!
Molalla1
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The Grandkids 2Lane . . .
nice bunch.
2LaneCruzer
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Thank you kind sir; they have made me very proud.The Grandkids 2Lane . . .
GeneV
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Where abouts did you stay in Des Plaines?All this talk about the ridiculous alcohol laws all over this country reminds me of a few things.
I NEVER knew of my Dad to have anything at all to do with the bootleggers in southern Oklahoma, but I know from the age of 10, even I knew who and where the bootleggers were. It was common knowledge. What a lot of people, including me, didn't know for years was that if you were in an unfamiliar area and WANTED to buy liquor, you could just ask any police officer and he'd tell you where you could get it.
When I became a police officer, and for many years later, in Texas it was perfectly legal to drive down main street sipping your whiskey from a bottle, as long as you were not "intoxicated", i.e., would blow less that .10 on a breathalyzer. I don't know how many times I had someone see me in uniform or in a squad car and they quickly try to hide the bottle (usually beer) from which they were drinking, since they didn't know that was NOT illegal. Of course in later years it was made illegal to have an open container in your car.
I have been known to stop on the way home from work, buy a 6 pack, and drink one on the way home. The first time I ever heard of it being illegal to drink while driving was in 1971-72 when I went to Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and lived in DesPlaines, Il. We could stop on the way home to buy beer but couldn't legally open one in the car.
One night when I was an officer on patrol I found 3 teenagers in a car parked behind a big tree. They had a 24 can case of beer and had just opened one each. They almost immediately started begging me to not arrest them, and one especially said his dad would give him a terrible beating if he found out. I guess when he said that, they noticed me smiling . . . because that kid was probably 6' 2" or more, certainly taller than me, but then one of the other boys said, "He's not kidding. Don't you know who his dad is?" He was about a 6' 6" state politician.
