I miss this..

[gauthier]

My gradeschool principle used to smoke outside with us older 6-7 graders,,,he used to whip us [when he wasn't smoking with us] with his belt.

Many of my co bus riders had to walk over a mile just to catch the bus,school was never called off due to snow,we used to help the bus driver put on and take off chains to get up a hill,,sometimes we had to help put on chains because of mud,not snow.

Only got one channel on a black and white tv.

Used to help my grandpa harness the mules to do anything you would do now with a tractor.

Used to carry water from a outside pump[we had an inside pump to ],to fill wash tubs up with that were heated over a fire to fill a wringer wash in machine so we could wash clothes.

Never lived in a house with running water till I was 16.

I am only 28:laughing:

 

[clemsonfor]

Yep gauthier i have seen "those" places in Kentuky, like around Hazzard, in coal country. I beleive there are still places with out indoor plumbing there. Thinking about places like that it makes me sick that we give so much to foriegn nations or so much to those inner city folks for entitlement programs.

 

[77transam]

Yep G/Clem, I agree.
While I'm all for helping my fellow man, I firmly believe we should take care of our own first and foremost.:thumbsup: If Old Uncle Sam would take the billions of dollars we send overseas in foreign "aid" (To country's that hate us no less!)and instead invest it in local infrastructures,our country would most assuredly be in better shape!

It's hard to believe, but there are still a lot of places in America where people live in 3rd world conditions. (No running water/indoor plumbing, no access to jobs or public transportation,etc.) We need to fix things at home before we try to fix the world.

 

[sweettractors]

Yep G/Clem, I agree.
While I'm all for helping my fellow man, I firmly believe we should take care of our own first and foremost.:thumbsup: If Old Uncle Sam would take the billions of dollars we send overseas in foreign "aid" (To country's that hate us no less!)and instead invest it in local infrastructures,our country would most assuredly be in better shape!

It's hard to believe, but there are still a lot of places in America where people live in 3rd world conditions. (No running water/indoor plumbing, no access to jobs or public transportation,etc.) We need to fix things at home before we try to fix the world.

I am with you on this subject 100%. Ken Sweet

 

[gauthier]

Actually I'm 54,but the rest was true

I could show you some areas of w.v. that arn't much different now though,,except you[probably won't be smoking with the principle]..

 

[clemsonfor]

Yep if anybody dont beleive us southerners go to Appalacia/coal country. Mainly WV, Kentucky and maybe some of pensylvania, and actually there is some really poor areas in western NC as well.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I don't miss buying new tires every 12,000 miles.

mark

Or doing a valve job every 30,000 miles. I just did the first valve job on my Jeep at 245,000 miles, and there wasn't even a ridge in the cylinder.

I moved to where I live in Southern Oregon because it's a good 20 years behind the rest of the country. When I turn out the lights, it gets dark. Comets stretch a veil across a third of the sky. I own both sides of the country road for about 1/3 of a mile, so nobody is going to be crowding me.

There wouldn't be any TV at my place at all without the satellite dish. I have a computer on my desk that is faster than the worlds best supercomputer 25 years ago, and a reasonable internet connection through my phone company that, on a good day, will beat 1 mbps. I have an eBook reader and access to over 650,000 free books online through the Gutenberg Project. I have a car with air conditioning, a house with central air conditioning, and I only have to split firewood when I'm feeling good. Telephone calls anywhere in the USA come with the phone service. No long distance charges.

For me, the worst thing about rural living in the 1950s was the isolation. I was miles from the nearest other kid my age, miles from any town, and miles from the nearest library. I remember years of loneliness and boredom.

My parents were fine people, but if either one of them ever had an original thought, they would change the subject. That pretty much went double for my teachers. They didn't want anybody "gettin' above themselves", and refused to give the kids any career guidance or counseling. I knew how anti-intellectual and oppressive the environment was, but there was nothing I could do about it. I stuck around to get my high school diploma, and was out of there. I went back to one high school reunion in about 1980, which just reminded me why I didn't like most of my classmates. Most of them hadn't changed much.

As far as I am concerned, the last 50 years have been a great improvement. What did somebody say, "You don't get nosalgic until you start forgetting what it was like?"

 

[MrBobcat230]

I remember my grandma making her own peanut butter and fresh baked bread,I loved the smell. I remember getting our first color TV and seeing Star Trek in color during the sixties. Bonanza, The Dean Martin show and many others. Going fishing with my Dad Saturday mornings. Building go carts with a old lawnmower engines. My Dads 1966 Buick special ( His first brand new car). Mom cooking Sunday dinner after church. So many things I really miss now.

 

[tallyho8]

I miss this..the most...
Family & Friends

When I was in my 20s and had a party the house could not hold them all and half the party was in the yard.

When I was in my 30s there weren't quite as many, we could just pack the house. I had lost some to 'nam, some to drugs and some to auto accidents.

When I was in my 40s the numbers lessened again as we disagreed on political views, jealousies, and varied interests.

When I was in my 50s cancer claimed many of the best ones.

When I hit 60 Katrina spread most of the remaining ones clear across the country.

Not that I'm 65 what do I miss most?




My 20s.

 

[SPIKER]

I miss this..the most...
Family & Friends

When I was in my 20s and had a party the house could not hold them all and half the party was in the yard.

When I was in my 30s there weren't quite as many, we could just pack the house. I had lost some to 'nam, some to drugs and some to auto accidents.

When I was in my 40s the numbers lessened again as we disagreed on political views, jealousies, and varied interests.

When I was in my 50s cancer claimed many of the best ones.

When I hit 60 Katrina spread most of the remaining ones clear across the country.

Not that I'm 65 what do I miss most?




My 20s.

That seems about right and the most honest one in here so far...

Tat seems near same with me...
Mark

 

[gauthier]

I don't think I would be lucky enough to survive my 20's or 30's again,,just glad to be alive and pretty healthy at 54.

 

[forgeblast]

I think i miss the sounds most of all.
At 8pm every night the air raid horn would go off, you knew when you heard that you better be heading home, everyone would just take off.
We also played outside so much that you always heard kids laughing and enjoying the outside. No one had ac so everyone sat on their porches, we were all watched and watched well.
we also had an abandoned field where people had dumped some old stoves. we beat on them for a couple of days, then realized what great baseball plates they would make, so we raked up our mess and made an awesome baseball park...running across home plate you would jump and hear a metal sound it was wonderful.
we also had a field filled with blackberrys, and another with blueberrys, picked all day long most days.
Also going mushroom picking with my gram...really miss that.
We had a couple of horse chestnut trees and every year we would have a huge battle, black eye more then once but it was a blast.
Making forts was our profession along with riding our bikes. First bike was freedom, there was nothing like it.
I enjoyed being outside and playing, building, and biking.
Also the local grocery store, that had real 1cent candy, and soda in returnable bottles.

 

[QueBota]

I hear you, knowing what I know now, if I could pick an age I would like to be 35 again, young enough to be young but old enough not to be so dumb. If I would have listened to half the things my father tried to teach me before he passed on I would be much better off now. Now my son is paying me back, he might even be more hard headed than I was as a young man.

Dave

I miss this..the most...
Family & Friends

When I was in my 20s and had a party the house could not hold them all and half the party was in the yard.

When I was in my 30s there weren't quite as many, we could just pack the house. I had lost some to 'nam, some to drugs and some to auto accidents.

When I was in my 40s the numbers lessened again as we disagreed on political views, jealousies, and varied interests.

When I was in my 50s cancer claimed many of the best ones.

When I hit 60 Katrina spread most of the remaining ones clear across the country.

Not that I'm 65 what do I miss most?




My 20s.

 

[LBrown59]

You know it's pretty amazing to look back in time and see the huge differences in society and Americana in general. Seems like alot of people from my generation(I'm 42) have pretty much forgotten just how much has changed in the past 40 years, much less 70...

I was born in 1940 you missed the first 30 years.

The seeds you sow decide the crop you reap, you will enjoy the harvest. Keep up the good work.

YEP ya got that rite.

I'll relate a little episode I witnessed in a Wal-mart just a couple of weeks ago...
A woman was in the checkout line when her young boy (I'm guessin' he was around 5 or 6) started pestering her for a candy bar...
The young mother said no several times until finally the child began to literally SCREAM at her at the top of his lungs(!) Then the little bugger started trying to hit her(!) The poor woman tried to calm him down by trying to hold his arms to no avail at which point the boy began to SPIT at her!!! The young woman finally gave in to the "fit" and bought the boy the candy bar at which point he abruptly ended his tantrum.:confused2:

Now I don't know 'bout any of you guys, but when I was a kid if I tried to pull a stunt like that, my mom would have made sure it was the last time.
People can say what they want about "Time-outs" and "negotiating" w/kids to get the behavior you want from them, but just a look from my parents was usually enough to curb any "rebellious" attitude in a public place.
*** And I'd bet my bottom dollar that the only lesson that little boy learned that day was: "If I scream and hit and spit enough, I'll get what I want!"

I couldn't have said it
better.

77,
Some other things from the past:
1*Building non-motorized push carts out of anything you could find.
2*Drive in movies - managed to go to the last of them in my late teens.
Keep them coming...

1*
My cousin and I did this but our prized one was the motorized go cart we built.
We were the only kids in town to have such a thing .
This was years and years before motorized go carts ever appeared at places likie Kmart Wal Mart or TSC.
We were ahead of our time as go carts with motors haden't been invented yet.
2*We still have the last one of the original 5 drive ins open today .
But i haven't been to one since the mid 60s.

*****Did you guys ever slip anyone into the drive in by putting them in the trunk? ****

*****Did you ever get caught -I did.?
I had a 1950 chevy at the time and let my buddy out of it out side the fence and drove on in .
He waited untill it was getting dark and we were setting there in the car and an usher walks up and shines his flash light in on us asking to see our tickets .
I had my ticket but of course my buddy didn't so the usher threw him out. This happened 2 or 3 times my buddy sneaking back in after getting thrown out.
Tha last time was the last straw for the usher and he told to me to get myself my car and my buddy out of ther right now or he was calling the state police and he never wanted to see that car in there again ever.
That was fine with me as I later snuck 2 or 3 guys into the drive in hidden in the trunk of my 1955 chevy .
This car was perfect for smuggling people into the drive in .
There was no back seat in it both the seat and back rest were removed so you could crawl between the trunk and the back seat area .
W'ed hang a tarp on the back window shelf and let it hang down to the floor.
This eliminated the risk of getting caught climbing out of the trunk and trying to get in the doors.
That Theator is still in operation and is the last one of the 5 we had around here back then .1957 - 1964.
It's also the reason I out ran a WV City Cop and had to take a different route home from the drive in through Ohio cause I knew that cop was looking for my car.
To top it off i was running on empty as usual and didn't have enough gas to make it home taking the longer route.
I hocked my spare tire and wheel at a gas station to get a dollars worth of gas and went back the next day to pick up my spare.
Yeah them were the good old days.

Yeah,42 ain't old enough really to be missing the good old days,,
~~think you got to wait till your about 60 to do that??:laughing:

~~
I'm almost 70 so I think I'm almost over qualified :laughing:

``i remember paying $0.80-$0.85 a gallon for it when i first started driving actually into the first part of the 2000s you could get gas for around $.88/gallon around h

When I got my first car a 1950 Chevy back in 1958 gas was 25 cents a gallon .
``Every once in a while they would have a gass war and you could get it some where around 15 or 20 cents per gallon .

When I was a kid, I made a lot of 50 cent purchases at the gas station. That got me 2 gallons. I ran out 1 night and coasted into a local gas station in town and when I checked, I did not have a penny in my pocket. So The owner let me have 25 cents worth on credit. Ken Sweet

The lowest amount I ever bough was a dimes worth back when it was 25 cents a gallon.

 

[gauthier]

You are not over qualified,you just want to much money

 

[Stimw]

Craig Morgan said it best in the song Almost Home-
Song: Almost Home
Album: I Love It

(Craig Morgan/Kerry Curt Phillips)

He had plastic bags wrapped 'round his shoes
He was covered with the evening news
Had a pair of old wool socks on his hands

The bank sign was flashing "5 below
It was freezing rain an' spittin' snow
He was curled up behind some garbage cans

I was afraid that he was dead
I gave him a gentle shake
When he opened up his eyes
I said,"Old man are you ok?"

He said,"I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runnin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
'Cause I was almost home..."

Then he said,"I was just comin' round the barn"
'Bout the time you grabbed my arm
When I heard Momma holler son hurry up
I was close enough for my old nose
To smell fresh cobbler on the stove
And I saw daddy loadin' up the truck
Cane poles on the tailgate
Bobbers blowin' in the wind
Since July of '55
That's as close as I've been

"Yeah, I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
I was almost home"

I said,"old man you're gonna freeze to death"
Let me drive you to the mission
He said,"Boy if you'd left me alone
Right now I'd be fishin'"

"I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runnin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
'Cause I was almost home"

"Man I wish you'd just left me alone
I was almost home..."

If that don't give you a tear you weren't there!

 

[RadarTech]

Craig Morgan said it best in the song Almost Home-
Song: Almost Home
Album: I Love It

(Craig Morgan/Kerry Curt Phillips)

He had plastic bags wrapped 'round his shoes
He was covered with the evening news
Had a pair of old wool socks on his hands

The bank sign was flashing "5 below
It was freezing rain an' spittin' snow
He was curled up behind some garbage cans

I was afraid that he was dead
I gave him a gentle shake
When he opened up his eyes
I said,"Old man are you ok?"

He said,"I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runnin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
'Cause I was almost home..."

Then he said,"I was just comin' round the barn"
'Bout the time you grabbed my arm
When I heard Momma holler son hurry up
I was close enough for my old nose
To smell fresh cobbler on the stove
And I saw daddy loadin' up the truck
Cane poles on the tailgate
Bobbers blowin' in the wind
Since July of '55
That's as close as I've been

"Yeah, I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
I was almost home"

I said,"old man you're gonna freeze to death"
Let me drive you to the mission
He said,"Boy if you'd left me alone
Right now I'd be fishin'"

"I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runnin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze
After jumpin' into Calico creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
'Cause I was almost home"

"Man I wish you'd just left me alone
I was almost home..."

If that don't give you a tear you weren't there!

Great song...:thumbsup:
just be glad Polo aint around to butcher err I mean sing it....

:laughing:
J