Old folks

All that and more.
.21 for gas... It was $2.13 this morning, and going up...
I could walk down the steet, at age 12, with a shotgun, walk into the hardware store with it, and buy ammo.
The only question was "what are going to go hunt?"
Neighbors would come to your house while you were out and leave a pie or cake in your kitchen.
Everyone I knew owned a knife, most of them carried one to school, and no one ever got stabbed. Well, one person I know got stabbed, but it was me, and it was with a pencil on accident by a friend of mine. Still a friend some 45 years later.
The family - all the aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, some 40+ of us, got together once a month. Lots of food.
Sad to think it's almost all gone these days.
 
Ah, you guys are all whippersnappers.

Cracking mastodon bones next to the fire...

Chipping a nice new spearhead...

The feel of a well-tanned bearhide next to your skin...

Now THOSE were the days!
 
mwerner said:
Ah, you guys are all whippersnappers.

Cracking mastodon bones next to the fire...

Chipping a nice new spearhead...

The feel of a well-tanned bearhide next to your skin...

Now THOSE were the days!
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Heh. :D

Let me see if I can remember a bit of the downside:
1)Duck and cover exercises
2)Walking over to the crypts uner the Washington National Cathederal for air raid drills. We figured that if the Russkies really did hit DC, we would at least have an expensive tombstone.
3)Girls and, I suppose, women had their breasts so bound up that I thought for years that their breasts were quite solid. Really.
4)Jim Crow, but at least it was beginning to die.
5)Sen. Joe McCarthy and the "Red Scare"
6)Elvis (This is a very subjective judgement.)
7)Little to no air conditioning in Washington, DC, in the summer.
8)For most guys, the draft.
9)Everyone smoking everywhere
10)Payola and the quiz show scandals

A few more good memories:
1)Going to Glen Echo Amusement Park for an afternoon and not being beaten to death in waiting lines and paying half a week's wages.
2)Going out the backdoor of my parents' house in McLean, Virginia, and shooting at a backstop without some idiot calling the police.
3)Sock Hops
4)Buddy Holly & the Crickets
6)Bill Haley and the Comets
7)James Dean and Kim Novak as movie stars
8)Switchblades were generally legal for most of the 1950s
9)An automobile did not cost as much as a house
10)And there was nowhere near the traffic congestion
 
We still have our milk delivered in glass bottles.

And we have a nit comb for the kids. Just in case.

Andrew.
 
God, A.W.U.K., the worst nightmare for the parents of a grade school child is getting a call from the kid's school that he/she has lice. It is absolute Hell, especially now that bad allergic reactions have occurred as a result of the primary ingredient in the lice shampoos. The damned lice are acquiring immunity to the weaker crap and the effective shampoos are all but off of the market here in ther States. Thank you, personal injury lawyers.
 
The feel of a well-tanned bearhide next to your skin...

I'm probably one of the older on this board, but personally, I still prefer a bare well tanned hide next to my skin.
 
sky said:
The feel of a well-tanned bearhide next to your skin...

I'm probably one of the older on this board, but personally, I still prefer a bare well tanned hide next to my skin.
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This young likes em tanned too ;) . I'm only 25 and I remember when gas was 89 cents a gallon, in Harford County MD. Now I spend 100 bucks a week just to go to work :grumpy: .
 
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