Are you this old?

[lman]

1972. What a year!
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I bet all those girls fit in the car.

 

[GeneV]

It is funny how we remember the past as being better. In truth, aspects of it were definitely better, but overall when you get down to it, life is better now. For every positive there is a negative.
I remember how changing plugs and points in a car every 15,000 miles was a must, flat tires were a way of life, and 100K miles was major milestone. My everyday truck now has 220K miles, no plugs or points and never had a flat tire.
I remember the nice kids in my class, but not so much the bullies. I'd prefer to forget how the black kids in my town were treated.
I could come up with a bunch more but would rather not. It is much easier on the mind to remember the pleasant things. And I suppose that is not all bad.

I agree. Nostalgia is great and all, and I roll with it like the best of em, but I sure do love living today! I remember going to the library to research something...books with already outdated info. Yeh, I prefer the modern age, reach into my pocket and pull out my cell. I don't even have to type it in, just mumble some words into the phone, and I get a bunch of info in all sorts of formats: website, pdf, video, whatever.

Remember something like TBN 50 years ago? Yeh, me neither. We're over here chatting at each other, from all over the US, some dudes from Australia and New Zealand, Europe, etc, sharing info, sharing pix of how we live, helping each other out with projects and repairs. It's amazing, how cool is that!

I mean the list goes on forever how life is so much better today. People are too hung up on societal ills. Just do your own thing, be what you want others to be, set a good example for your family and those who surround you. And also remember that local elections have consequences.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

When I was a kid, all gas stations, most stores and businesses here were closed for the day on Sundays and holidays. If you needed gas or anything besides a quart of milk or a loaf of bread, you waited 'til Monday morning or you borrowed it from a neighbor. Most of the residents here were of Scandinavian ancestry, and wouldn't consider going downtown or anywhere but work without a suit and tie. A new wooden commercial fishing boat used to cost about a thousand dollars a foot to build. Now they are all steel and 'Tupperware' costing upward of a million dollars. My first brand new pickup was a 1968 F-250 camper special with nearly all options. Cost was $3255....Dan

Mom and pop shops closed so the owners could have a day off, but the bars stayed open. Stores stayed open Friday nights until 9 so people could collect their pay (in cash in those days) and go shopping. It was pretty common to get paid on Friday and be broke by Monday. I guess that part hasn't changed...

Oregon has never been big on churchies; only about 1/3 of the population bothers. The blue laws were an East Coast thing. The biggest morality law I remember was having to have a liquor license to buy hard liquor.

 

[CADplans]

My brother had one of those, they were tiny. He was not. Don't know how he drove it.

I purchased a '74 Toyota Corolla,, new at a dealer.
When I went to purchase it, I told the salesman that I did not fit,, (I am 6'7" tall)

He said, "No PROBLEM!! There are seat rail extensions to move the seat back."

So, for a $20 option, my car fit me just fine!!
IIRC, the extensions moved the seat back about 4 inches,,

That was about half the leg room of the back seat, I did not care, I did not ride in the back,,,,,,,,,

 

[Molalla1]

Mom and pop shops closed so the owners could have a day off, but the bars stayed open. Stores stayed open Friday nights until 9 so people could collect their pay (in cash in those days) and go shopping. It was pretty common to get paid on Friday and be broke by Monday. I guess that part hasn't changed...

Oregon has never been big on churchies; only about 1/3 of the population bothers. The blue laws were an East Coast thing. The biggest morality law I remember was having to have a liquor license to buy hard liquor.

OLCC card . . . (until 26)

 

[Oaktree]

75 mph according to the ad. That would get run over like a bug on the interstate today.

Maybe, if you waited long enough. ISTR the 0:60 time on my brother's was measured in minutes.

Mom and pop shops closed so the owners could have a day off, but the bars stayed open. Stores stayed open Friday nights until 9 so people could collect their pay (in cash in those days) and go shopping. It was pretty common to get paid on Friday and be broke by Monday. I guess that part hasn't changed...

Oregon has never been big on churchies; only about 1/3 of the population bothers. The blue laws were an East Coast thing. The biggest morality law I remember was having to have a liquor license to buy hard liquor.

I remember stores staying open late one night, but for whatever reason around here it was Thursdays, but I think that's when people got paid.

Liquor laws are a whole topic into themselves, seemed every state had some oddball law regarding it, and not much consistency from one state to another.
Most of the so called blue laws had ceased being enforced by the late 50s/early 60s, at least where I grew up.

 

[JethroB]

My dad owned the drug store in our little town from 1950 to 1990 when he retired. My grandfather owned it before him. 9-7 on weekdays, 8-8 on Saturdays. Closed for lunch. NO Sundays ever. Saturday was the day people shopped or paid the charges they made during the week. Trusted farmers paid their tab in the Fall. He was the pharmacist so he pretty much had to always be there. He closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas and every other New Years to take inventory. We four kids grew up working there, worst punishment he could come up with. “Oh brier fox, please don’t throw me in that briar patch” always comes to mind.

 

[Molalla1]

Maybe, if you waited long enough. ISTR the 0:60 time on my brother's was measured in minutes.

I remember stores staying open late one night, but for whatever reason around here it was Thursdays, but I think that's when people got paid.

Liquor laws are a whole topic into themselves, seemed every state had some oddball law regarding it, and not much consistency from one state to another.
Most of the so called blue laws had ceased being enforced by the late 50s/early 60s, at least where I grew up.

Oaktree . . . it all emanated from the time when liquor was illegal.

 

[Jstpssng]

There are still towns in Maine which are dry on Sunday.

 

[JethroB]

There are still towns in Maine which are dry on Sunday.

Our little town was totally dry until about five years ago. Only one beer seller now, the other wannabe is too close to the church.