You know you're getting old when

[DLCTEX]

You go to Cracker Barrel and look over the display of antique tools and implements and not only know them, but have used them!:(

[canyon-ghost]

Nobody says you have to tell off on yourself. The younger generation holds up a tool and says, "what's this?" just like we did. [smilie=s:

[Harter66]

Its ok to know what a hog oiler , ice tongs and an apple peeler look like.

Now knowing how to rig and hitch a double draft on a walking triple plow because you ran one every spring and fall till you were 30 might make you look a little tired.

[Dale in Louisiana]

You go to Cracker Barrel and look over the display of antique tools and implements and not only know them, but have used them!:(

I resemble that remark!

dale in Louisiana
(Not older than dirt, but when I got here it was still on the pallet in shrinkwrap)

[DIRT Farmer]

Working in the medical field and knowing doctors who began treating patients before they ordered labs.

[Frank46]

When you pull up to the local CVS drugstore drive through and the lady calls you by your first name. Frank

[starbits]

Just back from a 3 week trip. Locked the safe and gun room and hid the keys in a safe place before I left. Told the wife where the keys were and now neither one of us can remember. It appears we are both suffering from a bad case of CRS (Can't Remember ****). It sucks getting old sometimes, but at least the keys are safely hidden from any intruders. [smilie=1:

Starbits

[VintageRifle]

Now what was it I was going to say?

[btroj]

I don't know how to tell when you are getting old. Let me get there and I will let you know.....

[Hardcast416taylor]

Just back from a 3 week trip. Locked the safe and gun room and hid the keys in a safe place before I left. Told the wife where the keys were and now neither one of us can remember. It appears we are both suffering from a bad case of CRS (Can't Remember ****). It sucks getting old sometimes, but at least the keys are safely hidden from any intruders. [smilie=1:

Starbits

An old neighbor that lived down the road from our farm told my Dad that he would put his extra gas barrel keys in the can of coffee grounds. This way when he made coffee he`d see the keys.Robert

[Bzcraig]

Just back from a 3 week trip. Locked the safe and gun room and hid the keys in a safe place before I left. Told the wife where the keys were and now neither one of us can remember. It appears we are both suffering from a bad case of CRS (Can't Remember ****). It sucks getting old sometimes, but at least the keys are safely hidden from any intruders. [smilie=1:

Starbits

I have skills that will allow me to give you entry to your room full of precious treasures. I take payment in items beginning with .30 ????????

[phonejack]

Worse yet, you not only have and use the old tool, yours is in better shape.

[gbrown]

Life is good. Walk into the bedroom, dining room, kitchen, garage---why did I come out here? Keys, glasses, etc. Where are they? Me and CRS are old friends. As Daddy said--there is an alternative to getting old! I'll take getting old. Make lists, forget where they are. Go to store, forget list. DANG! It's all good. Just adds humor to life. Have a place for everything, that's what I was taught. Where is that place? LOL

[Hickory]

Or like a friend of mine once said, “You know how you can tell when you're getting old, when taking a leak feels almost as good as sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Almost!"

[dale2242]

..when your wife says " your hair is sure getting white"

[phonejack]

When it takes all night to do the things you used to do all night

[Bzcraig]

..when your wife says " your hair is sure getting white"

Little kids in all sincerity ask, "what happened to your hair?"

[WILCO]

Or like a friend of mine once said, “You know how you can tell when you're getting old, when taking a leak feels almost as good as sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Almost!"

I actually know what you mean.

[popper]

When all you can see is the lid.

[quilbilly]

When you go into McDonalds and for the first time, the kids offer you the senior discount on a cup of coffee without asking.

[novalty]

Well you know what they say is the first thing you loose when you get older?

I can't remember...but the second is your eyesight.

[gandydancer]

at my age I don't buy green banana's. But remember. I am to old to run & to old to fight. so I may have to kill you. :twisted:

In boot camp all you ammo was filled with BLACK POWDER. And you carried a 12"square piece of Burlap to wipe your horse's Butt.

[Sensai]

When the "something that wakes you" in the night has nothing to do with noise. When your grandchild tells you that you sure make a lot of noise getting up out of your chair. When you get your meds laid out, and you need a bigger pill box. When you used to have to decide whether the front or rear sight is in focus, now you can't get either in focus. Pardon me, I'm getting depressed!!

[gwpercle]

You go to Cracker Barrel and look over the display of antique tools and implements and not only know them, but have used them!:(
What's sad is I'm still using a lot of them tools

[KCSO]

When you answer a post like this? I still use a post drill and a pot forge.

[starbits]

An old neighbor that lived down the road from our farm told my Dad that he would put his extra gas barrel keys in the can of coffee grounds. This way when he made coffee he`d see the keys.Robert

Then they would never get found. Neither the wife or I drink coffee. I've been able to get to my goodies, but still haven't found the keys.


I have skills that will allow me to give you entry to your room full of precious treasures. I take payment in items beginning with .30 ????????

Only thing with a 30 in it I'd be happy to give you is my daughter's 30 year old boyfriend. :mrgreen:

Starbits

[TXGunNut]

I'm starting to re-think this full beard when young-uns start calling me Santa Claus. Getting a bunch whiter every year. :-(

[shredder]

Now what was it I was going to say?

I laughed out loud at that!!

[km101]

When you have to get up more than twice a night to pee!

[blackthorn]

When your oldest kid turns 50!

[felix]

The apex of life is When you first dropped something you had picked up because you forgot you had picked it up. I.e., toothbrush, comb, pencil, etc. Happens between 35 and 45 where 38 is the usual norm. Also, at that point in time, the idea of using scopes over the naked eye for shooting becomes most interesting. ... felix

[DLCTEX]

When you have 2 great grand children starting school.

[Bad Water Bill]

:When you can remember that DRs actually made house calls and had all the remedies in that large black leather bag.:bigsmyl2

[1Shirt]

:When you can remember buying 4831 in a paper bag for $.50 a pound at Hogdens in Shawnee Mission, Ka!
1Shirt!

[Bad Water Bill]

Or buying 100# delivered in 2 round cardboard drums to your home for $65.00

[Hickory]

My grand daughters second child is do next month.
I'm a great grand father, and do to be again.

I'm not that old.

[Bad Water Bill]

A lady I worked with was a grandmother at 35 and a great grandmother at 53. Lost track of her about 45 years ago.

Come to Chit Kaga. They are popping them out at 14. Need the money don't cha know.

Isn't welfare in Chit Kaga great.

[otter5555]

you know your gettin' old when Van Halen is considered "classic rock" :)

[felix]

Van Halen? Who's that? Give me Rossini's Overture to William Tell as the best Rock and Roll sound of all times. Still gives me chills every time I hear it. Secondly, Lil' Richard's LongTallSally was brought to prominence for the younger folks during the Predator soundtrack for the 'copter scene. ... felix

[Bad Water Bill]

Felix

Have you settled in a comfy chair and listened to Andre Rieu? The Strauss waltz master who also plays many other opera pieces with fantastic international voices.

[alamogunr]

The "Oldies" radio station< I used to listen to, is playing stuff I never heard of from the "70's, 80's and 90's.

I'll be 71 one week from today. I have many of the maladies mentioned in this thread but I still don't feel that old. Just lucky, I guess.

[Bad Water Bill]

How about "THE NATIONAL BARN DANCE" from the 8th street theater in Chicago every Saturday night?

Used to listen to it before we took our WEEKLY bath.

[dagger dog]

WSM Radio Nashville, The Grand Ole Opry, brought to you by Clabber Girl baking powder.
With String Bean, Grandpa Jones, Little Jimmy Dickens and can't forget Minnie Pearl.

The Andrews sisters belting out Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B, during the Jack Benny Radio show.

[mcswack]

You know your really old when the Mothers start looking better than the daughters!

[Bad Water Bill]

You know your really old when the Mothers start looking better than the daughters!

Not just the mothers(they have been looking great for the last 50 years) but even the GREAT grandmothers.

[felix]

BWB, I will pay attention to what you advised. No, I have not paid much attention to the waltzes as of late, but I have gained some affinity for Bro Richard's stuff over the last several years. That Strauss family knew how to make melody, allright! ... felix

[double8]

NOW I know what it's like to have sex with a 70 year old woman...........wonderful!

[double8]

When you have to get up more than twice a night to pee!

You get up ?? Oh.

[double8]

you know your gettin' old when Van Halen is considered "classic rock" :)

Who ???

[double8]

You know you are getting old when you sit and answer these posts. :mrgreen:

[WRideout]

When cutting the grass has become a consuming passion.

Wayne

[Bad Water Bill]

NO

My neighbor cuts his grass at least3 times a week and has been doing that for over 20 years.

He turned 50 last week.

[WRideout]

NO

My neighbor cuts his grass at least3 times a week and has been doing that for over 20 years.

He turned 50 last week.
He gets five bonus geezer points.
Wayne

[Gliden07]

When gas was under a dollar a gallon, when songs on the radio station you're listening to were new and the station you're listening to is considered a classic rock station!!

[crossbow2]

Reminds me of a dear late friend...retired Army ( armor). He used to lament that all the tanks he served on were in museums . He retired in '91.

[country gent]

I can remeber when the dimmer switch was on the floor wipers were on the dash and the ignition was in the dash. Oh and the keys were usually hanging in it so you knew right where they were. You could see the engine knew what was what and a tune up could be done in an hour or so. You could fit 3 or 4 friends in the trunk going to the drive in too.

[Bad Water Bill]

Do not forget that a case of quarts would fit between the grill and the radiator on a lot of those Chebbys.:drinks:

[Bzcraig]

Not just the mothers(they have been looking great for the last 50 years) but even the GREAT grandmothers.

Ok Bill, Great Grandmothers, really? just how old are you? You been spending too much time near the casting pot, thinking it might be lead poisoning. :mrgreen:

[Bad Water Bill]

Well I was there when the mountains rose in Minnesota. And on another trip when they had been worn down leaving only a desert landscape behind. Go look it up and guess my age.

OLDER THAN DIRT by quite a bit. :bigsmyl2:

[double8]

Do not forget that a case of quarts would fit between the grill and the radiator on a lot of those Chebbys.:drinks:

And the generators, voltage regulators, vacuum windshield wipers and the humongous 216 straight six with three on the tree...

75524

[Lance Boyle]

When the "something that wakes you" in the night has nothing to do with noise. When your grandchild tells you that you sure make a lot of noise getting up out of your chair. When you get your meds laid out, and you need a bigger pill box. When you used to have to decide whether the front or rear sight is in focus, now you can't get either in focus. Pard
on me, I'm getting depressed!!

I'm only getting there, I have some grey hair and now have a small ear hair collection, anyways we had this discussion on the old m14 forum and I came up with the idea of putting up a spice rack in the bathroom for all the pill bottles. One of the gents went actually made one and did it.

[Bad Water Bill]

You know you are getting old when you put the crank in the snout but forget to keep the thumb clear.:evil:

[reloaderman1]

and the generators, voltage regulators, vacuum windshield wipers and the humongous 216 straight six with three on the tree...

75524

yeah!!

[reloaderman1]

Three things happen when you get to a certain age:

1-- you start to forget things













2--

3--

I don't remember what the others were !!!

[gandydancer]

Van Halen? Who's that? Give me Rossini's Overture to William Tell as the best Rock and Roll sound of all times. Still gives me chills every time I hear it. Secondly, Lil' Richard's LongTallSally was brought to prominence for the younger folks during the Predator soundtrack for the 'copter scene. ... felix

YES! BUT. Can you listen to it with out thinking of the "LONE RANGER" danged if I can. :bigsmyl2:

[Bad Water Bill]

Speaking of THE LONE RANGER who here is old enough to remember when Silvercup bread came with a pamphlet telling of an adventure about THAT MASKED MAN

"HI HO SILVER AWAAAAY".

[facetious]

when the old lady you have to help across the street is your wife.

[Jim]

.....when you don't care if your socks don't match!

[Hawkeye45]

BWB..are you old enough to know what happened to Dick Biondi (sp) of WLS Chicago?

Mr. Ed

[Bad Water Bill]

Dick is alive and well. He is a guest on the ROE KAHN (1400-1800 mon-fri) from time to time.

Jim Johnson the W L S announcer for over 35 years retired this month.

Yes I am that old and more.

[km101]

When you spend more at the pharmacy each month, than you do at the grocery store!

[starnbar]

We used to take a 12 volt battery put a nail in it to use in a 6 volt system.

[mroliver77]

When you know how to file a set of points. You know what "Three on the tree" means. You still want to pump the throttle on cold mornings.

[labdwakin]

when you're okay with people seeing a picture of you in a yellow hawaiian tourist shirt and pajama pants that look like you made them out of the Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland ;-)

[40-82]

I'm still pretty young. I don't take it as a sign of age that the reason I started casting bullets was because I thought mail ordering round noised 38's at 500 for $5 was just too much to pay.

[SteveK]

... when you pull a box of 1000 CCI small pistol primers from the back of the top shelf and the price sticker says "$12.98."

[Bad Water Bill]

How about a box of CCI LR primers (GREEN PRINTING ON THE BOX) marked $3.99 and I still remember where I bought them and the name of the man that sold them to me.:bigsmyl2:

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

you go out to supper at 4:30pm...to beat the rush.

earlybird special anyone ?

[double8]

The WallyWorld greeter asks if he can help you to your car with your purchase.

[Randy in Arizona]

The FIRST sign of getting old:

When you lean back on the stinking hot upholstery
in your car on a summer's day,
and it feels GOOOOOD!


66

[GaryN]

When you have more hair in your ears than on your head.

[TXGunNut]

When you're using a corkscrew to pull cotton out of pillbottles.

[mroliver77]

Waking up in stages in the morning. Not being sure what month or year it is. 30 year old cars seem modern to you. .44 Magnum is a very powerful handgun!

[Smitty's Retired]

You remember when people jacked up the front end of their Hot Rods, then a few years later were jacking up the rear ends of their hot rods, but now see them slamed to the ground or with 12 inch lift kits.

[colt 357]

I am a huge Joan Jett fan and I was setting in the living room watching tv a few years back when my daughter came running in the house all excited telling her mom about this cool new Britney Spears song call I love rock and roll. My wife said go tell your dad that. Joan turns 55 next month she still hot.
Shortly after that one my daughter came out to tell us about a cool new show called the Brady Bunch.
can remember regular gas, gas at .75 a gallon
cigarettes at .50 a pack.
bottle of pop .25
draw of beer .25
candy bar .25 and there were twice as big
when you see a sign that says you must be born before this date in 1987 to buy beer. I graduated that year.
remember a full service gas station
my first car cost me 300.00 sold one for scrap this spring for 350.00

[hiwall]

when you under this joke.
report in a "home"
Sir do you talk to yourself. Senior replies " Yes "
have you ever had an argument with yourself. Senior replies " Yes "
did you loose the argument? Senior replies " Yes "
did you forget who you argued with Senior replies " Yes "

[double8]

I am a huge Joan Jett fan and I was setting in the living room watching tv a few years back when my daughter came running in the house all excited telling her mom about this cool new Britney Spears song call I love rock and roll. My wife said go tell your dad that. Joan turns 55 next month she still hot.
Shortly after that one my daughter came out to tell us about a cool new show called the Brady Bunch.
can remember regular gas, gas at .75 a gallon
cigarettes at .50 a pack.
bottle of pop .25
draw of beer .25
candy bar .25 and there were twice as big
when you see a sign that says you must be born before this date in 1987 to buy beer. I graduated that year.
remember a full service gas station
my first car cost me 300.00 sold one for scrap this spring for 350.00

Gotcha by at least 30 years, youngster......
Gas 19 cents a gallon. I pumped it, I know!
cigs 22 cents/pack with 3 pennies in the pack from a 25 cent/pack machine. Didn't smoke then. Dad gave me the pennies for spending money.
pop 5 cents, 2 cents back on the bottle. We scrounged the weeds for bottles.
candy 5 cents.... yep they were twice as big.
my 48 chebby cost me a whopping $125 in '56
setting pins for 10 cents a game.

[shredder]

You go to a concert with your son and while standing in the crowd, you get elbowed out of the way by some punk who says to you " Out of the way Grandpa!"

[Bad Water Bill]

You young kids. I pumped gas at Va Beach for .13 a gal. Bought cigs on the U S S Randolph for a buck a carton. Bought TWO Model A Fords for a total of $20.00 and drove them both home.

[double8]

Yep,...a buck a carton on USS Bennington

[Blacksmith]

Bad Water Bill is older than me, I wasn't born until the year they invented rope. I remember when a double paper bag FULL of groceries averaged $5. Brand new anvils, forged not cast, cost $0.50 a pound. I think it was this thread someone mentioned a pot forge, CRS, I demo on a double bellows forge. Ice cube trays, carbon tetrachloride fire extinguishers, street hawkers with horse drawn produce wagons, refrigerators with a coil on top, the families first television, Grandparents home with push button switches and still some post and tube wiring in the basement. Enough for now I'll remember the rest after my nap.

[double8]

Nap!......good idea Blacksmith.

[DLCTEX]

I remember my mother coming home from the grocery store shocked that $10 only bought three bags of groceries. I'm pretty sure those brown bags were bigger then, too.

[sparkz]

Hey,, I still Use those tools and our Horse still does plow.. we just built a new single tree for him too.. haha maybe i am getting old but I can still make what i need and get most jobs done
haha

Patrick

[starmac]

I know I'm getting old, when I get a call at 3:30 pm asking if I will go to work at 6 and pull a solid 16 hour shift, and not only do I hesitate, but also grumble about it some. lol

[samwithacolt]

I'm only 40, but I have a 23 yr old working for me at the minute. I keep wondering if he's really immature, if I was just as bad, or if I'm getting crankier. Bragging to me about smoking pot and getting arrested for stuff does'nt impress me any more.

[Artful]

The FIRST sign of getting old:

When you lean back on the stinking hot upholstery
in your car on a summer's day,
and it feels GOOOOOD!


66

I must not be there yet then - or your in Northern AZ

[Junior1942]

You ask the sexy little barmaid down at the local honkytonk to please stop calling you "sir" and she says, "Yes sir."

[Dale in Louisiana]

You ask the sexy little barmaid down at the local honkytonk to please stop calling you "sir" and she says, "Yes sir."


You strike up a conversation with the 'sexy little barmaid' and find out she's got pictures of HER grandkids to show you.

dale in Louisiana

[shredder]

I'm only 40, but I have a 23 yr old working for me at the minute. I keep wondering if he's really immature, if I was just as bad, or if I'm getting crankier. Bragging to me about smoking pot and getting arrested for stuff does'nt impress me any more.

Sounds like it is him. That kind of bragging only goes on until you tell him to stop.

[pipehand]

" Grandparents home with push button switches and still some post and tube wiring in the basement." I remember that. Grandparents home was in Queens, NYC, and dated from the time of Edison's DC power. Those were DC switches. White button on top made the lights come on, and black button on the bottom turned 'em off. We did have a vegetable vendor into the 1970's that traveled the neighborhood with a horse drawn cart.

[facetious]

You have to start trimming your eye brows to keep the hair out of your eyes.

[torker]

When people start holding the door open for you, When girls are not afraid of you...

[Bad Water Bill]

When you start BRAIDING the hair on your ears.

[LynC2]

Wow, some of you make me feel like a youngin! :smile:

I remember being able to order an excellent condition M1917 Winchester rifle from "Ye old Hunter" for under $30.00 and having the mailman deliver it to the house. Not to mention what the K-98's and Springfields were going for.

You know that you are getting old when you look at the young pretty girls, but can't remember why! Thank God I'm not there yet. :bigsmyl2:

[alamogunr]

" Grandparents home with push button switches and still some post and tube wiring in the basement." I remember that. Grandparents home was in Queens, NYC, and dated from the time of Edison's DC power. Those were DC switches. White button on top made the lights come on, and black button on the bottom turned 'em off.

My grandparents home still used kerosene lanterns and had a coal stove in the kitchen. Got electricity by the time I was in Jr. High.

The house I grew up in had one of those push button switches. Apparently, it had been converted(?) to AC by the time I came along. There was still some post and tube wiring in the attic.

Almost all of the things mentioned apply to me but I still don't think I'm old. I just hurt in places that I didn't have places a few years ago.

[Blacksmith]

Hey,, I still Use those tools and our Horse still does plow.. we just built a new single tree for him too.. haha maybe i am getting old but I can still make what i need and get most jobs done
Patrick

Us oldsters know the difference between a single tree, double tree, and evener. If TEOTWAWKI happens a whole lot of people are going to have to reinvent a whole lot of things they never knew existed.

[codgerville@zianet.com]

Yep, you are correct, blacksmith. Hame straps, collar pads, repairing harness, double-bit axes, crosscut saws, axle grease, butter churns, wash boards. How many here have plowed with mules and a breaking plow? There are some, if not all, of the deadbeats out there who will starve because they don't know how to do anything except receive.

[1Shirt]

Lots of memories brought back by this thread!
1Shirt!

[gkainz]

- 2 out of 3 aircraft carriers I was on are retired - Connie and Ranger. Nimitz steams on.
- Most of the aircraft in that airwing are retired ... F-14, F-4, S-3, RF-8, A-4, A-6, ???
- Toolbox still has a timing light, dwell meter, feeler gauges for points ....

[Dale in Louisiana]

" Grandparents home with push button switches and still some post and tube wiring in the basement." I remember that. Grandparents home was in Queens, NYC, and dated from the time of Edison's DC power. Those were DC switches. White button on top made the lights come on, and black button on the bottom turned 'em off. We did have a vegetable vendor into the 1970's that traveled the neighborhood with a horse drawn cart.
Great-grandma's house was TWO circuits of 120 volt AC with screw-in fuses. There were no light switches on the walls. The light was a pendant hanging from the ceiling with a key-style switch on the fixture.

When I was little, that great-grandma still had a kerosene stove. My other paternal great-grandma still had a wood stove. the difference is that the first one lived out on the Louisiana coastal prairies where wood was scarce, and the second lived nearer to town where would was easily bought and delivered.

dale in Louisiana

[LynC2]

- 2 out of 3 aircraft carriers I was on are retired - Connie and Ranger. Nimitz steams on.
- Most of the aircraft in that airwing are retired ... F-14, F-4, S-3, RF-8, A-4, A-6, ???
- Toolbox still has a timing light, dwell meter, feeler gauges for points ....

I know what you mean, I wasn't on a "bird farm", but the aircraft I wrenched on are long gone including those and UH-34's, C118's, C47's, HU16's and P2V's.

[Bad Water Bill]

- 2 out of 3 aircraft carriers I was on are retired

feeler gauges for points ....

Both the Randolph and the Independence are long gone BUT I still have 2 of the Welcome aboard papers that were wrapped under the cellophane wrapper on each Lucky Strike pack from the Independence.

And I still have 3 point files to remove pits on the points.

[dagger dog]

Chasing the ice mans truck on a hot summer day and getting him to chip off a chunk so you could suck on it, he'd throw back the tarp, put the folded burlap bag over his head like a hood, an grab a 25 lb chunk with the tongs, throw it up on his shoulder and hoof it up the stairs to put in the ice box.

How 'bout the tamale vendor peddling his 3 wheel trike chanting ;

HOT TAMALES !
Get 'em while they're hot !
Pickle in the middle and mustard on top !
Make your tongue go flippty flop !
HOT TAMALES !

[steg]

When going into a room and forgetting what you were looking for, it's called the Hereafters. As in what am I hereafter?

[km101]

Chasing the ice mans truck on a hot summer day and getting him to chip off a chunk so you could suck on it, he'd throw back the tarp, put the folded burlap bag over his head like a hood, an grab a 25 lb chunk with the tongs, throw it up on his shoulder and hoof it up the stairs to put in the ice box.

How 'bout the tamale vendor peddling his 3 wheel trike chanting ;

HOT TAMALES !
Get 'em while they're hot !
Pickle in the middle and mustard on top !
Make your tongue go flippty flop !
HOT TAMALES !

The tamale vendors where I grew up (E. Texas) did not speak English, so no chant like that. But you could flag him down and get a HOT tamale for a nickel, or a dozen for $.50. Some of the best tamales I ever ate!

[archmaker]

BWB - How about Western Primers in a cardboard, with wood dividers between the rows of primers. ( I may still have some around here somewhere, just can't remember where they are . . . found them, and the are marked 90cents, still have 92 primers in there)

[Dale in Louisiana]

The tamale vendors where I grew up (E. Texas) did not speak English, so no chant like that. But you could flag him down and get a HOT tamale for a nickel, or a dozen for $.50. Some of the best tamales I ever ate!

And you couldn't find a stray cat for miles...

dale in Louisiana
(who appreciates street tamales, cat and all)

[Bad Water Bill]

:oops:

Man you and Dannel Boon must have started about the same time.

I am still holding on to my 2 bricks of CCI L R primers marked $2.99 a BRICK.

[archmaker]

Well after reading this and BWB remark about $2.99 a brick, I am starting to feel young!! :-D

[km101]

:oops:

Man you and Dannel Boon must have started about the same time.

I am still holding on to my 2 bricks of CCI L R primers marked $2.99 a BRICK.


Dang Bill, I thought I was doing good with a brick of LP that are marked $3.95! These are positively NEW compared to yours and Archmaker's!

[km101]

And you couldn't find a stray cat for miles...

dale in Louisiana
(who appreciates street tamales, cat and all)


Yep, no stray anything, cats, dogs, squirrels, rabbits, but we didn't know any better back then! But like you, I appreciate street tamales. I just try not to dwell on how they are made!

[jcwit]

You know you're getting old when you can remember Cousin Brucie on WABC New York. and
Wolfman Jack broadcast across America on a Pirate Station from Mexico.

BTW I beliefe the Cousin is still live on Sirius on Saturday nite.

[Blacksmith]

At least one plane I worked on is still flying, B-52. But there were some in the Air Force at the time that still had doped fabric covering on some control surfaces.

Somewhere around here I have a dropping resistor for installing a 6 volt radio in a 12 volt car. Cars radio and heater were options. Had a Plymouth station wagon with the dealer installed aftermarket air conditioner. Did you know that there are some people who can't drive a stick shift and others who have never driven a shift without syncromesh. Don't even know what double clutch means.

Carrying well water to the house, wood for the cooking stove was cut to a different length than the fireplace or drum stove. Cut many a cord with the PTO powered unguarded circular saw blade, OSHA would have a stroke just looking at one. Clean the globes and trim the wicks on the kerosene lamps, still have some that I use when the power is out, the Aladdin with the mantle is nice and brite.

[fixit]

..when your wife says " your hair is sure getting white"

what hair!!!

[dagger dog]

How about the warm up time, glowing tubes, test patterns, horizontal and vertical controls, on the round CRT TV's ?

My '56 Chevy 210 2dr. 235 CI 3 speed on the tree only had syncro on 2nd and 3rd ! Had to replace the vibrator (voltage regulator) for the 6V tube AM radio, turn it on and took 2-3 minutes for it to warm up.

I always liked the way the fuel fill caps were "hidden" some of the GM models during the '50's, and every one watched the Dinah Shore Show for the new model year Chevrolet, they even used to truck them covered to the dealers.

I lived near a truck stop that a buddy's parents owned, and we would go out to the parking lot where the semi haulers were and lift the covers on the new models and be the first to tell our friends what they looked like.

[colt 357]

don't forget when phone were attached to the wall and you put your finger in a hole in the dail and turn it to the numbers you wanted . back then I knew people numbers now you scroll down to there names. cans with pull tabs. records when i meantion arecord the other day a young kid looked at me and said whats a record.
remember when a car seat belt was your mothers arm getting throwed infront of you.
power tools had cords and weighed 50 pounds

[dagger dog]

When youcan remember the little CONELRAD station emblems on your AM car radio.

[bhn22]

All rise for the anthem....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F9vRVyV914

[Bad Water Bill]

don't forget when phone were attached to the wall and you put your finger in a hole in the dail and turn it to the numbers you wanted .

IIRC you put your index finger in the hole above the letter or # and then rotated the ring around to the stop.

My finger is permanently shaped to fit in that hole even after all of these years.:-x

[1Shirt]

When your handle starting with 1 was on the first page of this forums members, and is now halfway down on page 10.
1Shirt!

[alamogunr]

[QUOTE=colt 357;2461553]don't forget when phone were attached to the wall and you put your finger in a hole in the dail and turn it to the numbers you wanted . back then I knew people numbers now you scroll down to there names. /QUOTE]

I remember when our phone had a separate ear piece and you spoke into a horn shaped mouthpiece. There was no dial. In our small town, all phone numbers were 3 digits and a letter. You told the operator the number you wanted to call. Sometimes you had to wait until someone else on the party line finished. It was bad manners to listen in. Although some did.

[blackthorn]

Quote "I remember when our phone had a separate ear piece and you spoke into a horn shaped mouthpiece. There was no dial. In our small town, all phone numbers were 3 digits and a letter. You told the operator the number you wanted to call. Sometimes you had to wait until someone else on the party line finished. It was bad manners to listen in. Although some did."

Our phone had a crank handle on the side, which was turned to call the other people on the party line (13). Identifiers were the number of rings i.e ours was one long ring followed by four short rings. Of course the phones on the party line rang in every house whenever someone called and the phone company gave the most anoying number to the guy with 10 kids who phoned home at all hours of the day or night, (six long rings). In the case of an emergency i.e. the day we had a wild fire close to our hay storage area and outbuildings, you got on that crank and just kept one long continuous ring going and everyone who was at home would pick up, find out what was wrong, and then rush to help!

[MrWolf]

You know you're getting old when you can remember Cousin Brucie on WABC New York. and
Wolfman Jack broadcast across America on a Pirate Station from Mexico.

BTW I beliefe the Cousin is still live on Sirius on Saturday nite.

Didn't WABC have the yellow note as their symbol?

[blackthorn]

When you read (in another post on here) a member refer to "Fiber Magee's closet"---and you know to whom he refers!

[Blacksmith]

When you read (in another post on here) a member refer to "Fiber Magee's closet"---and you know to whom he refers!


And Molly!

Don't forget The Great Gildersleeve, Amos and Andy, "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!", and many more.

[CastingFool]

Just back from a 3 week trip. Locked the safe and gun room and hid the keys in a safe place before I left. Told the wife where the keys were and now neither one of us can remember. It appears we are both suffering from a bad case of CRS (Can't Remember ****). It sucks getting old sometimes, but at least the keys are safely hidden from any intruders. [smilie=1:

Starbits

Boy, can I relate to that. It's happened to me more than once. My SIL once asked me about one of my guns. I went looking for it and took me two days to find it. I attribute that to having too many things in our mind.

[Smoke4320]

read all this then forgot what I was going to post :)

[427smith]

you know your getting old when your morning check list includes teeth and glasses.

[gkainz]

you know your getting old when your morning check list includes teeth and glasses.
other way around ... need the glasses to find the teeth! :) (just kidding, as I still have my own teeth still attached) but need the glasses to find the toothbrush.

[Bad Water Bill]

For ALL of us old enough to remember when profanity was not needed to entertain us you can go to

Bruce DuMont, CEO of the "Museum of Broadcast Communications" and they have many THOUSANDS of hours of those old time shows for sale.

If you ever get to downtown Chiraq check out the museum.

Everything from the original closet,old time radios and T V sets etc. If you get REALLY lucky you can sit in and watch them do a live broadcast.

I do not think my son will ever forget the museum visits and shaking hands with REAL old time radio announcers let alone taking home hours and hours of old time shows.

[mold maker]

[/QUOTE=archmaker;2452768]BWB - How about Western Primers in a cardboard, with wood dividers between the rows of primers. ( I may still have some around here somewhere, just can't remember where they are . . . found them, and the are marked 90cents, still have 92 primers in there)[/QUOTE]

Hey, when I moved I found 8 boxes of those. There was a broken box that had loose primer so I shot them up. Every one went bang just like the new stuff.

[reloaderman1]

You're not 'old' until you have to sit down to put on your underwear!

[drinks]

The vibrator was not a regulator, it changed low voltage dc to interrupted dc that the high voltage transformer changed into high voltage ac, which was then rectified and became high voltage dc to supply the plate voltage for the radio.
Hey, it was the way it had to be done then.
After 12v cars became common, the so-called hybrid tubes were developed which used the 12v dc directly for the plate voltage.
Anyone get to enjoy? the flavor of cooking on a wick fed kerosene range?
GM's range and refrigerator were both kerosene powered.

[blackthorn]

You know you are old when you can remember driving a car with no signal lights at all or at least not as a factory appliance!

[Bad Water Bill]

Several of my cars came with a crank and you learned very shortly where your thumb belonged.[smilie=b:

No they did not have the new fangled "SEALED BEAMS" either.

[sleeper1428]

Lots of memories brought back by this thread!
1Shirt!

Agree completely!! Wall telephone in my grandmother's home complete with a hand crank that connected you to the party line, automatic transmissions virtually unheard of, stick shifts and hand signals - all great memories .... But what really let me know I was 'older than dirt' was when, as a retired anesthesiologist, I realized that essentially ALL of the volatile (inhalation) anesthetics that I had been taught to use as a resident are now referred to in text books as 'of historical significance only' and therefore are no longer in use. This included anesthetics such as diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethyl chloride, trichloroethylene, fluroxene, methoxyflurane, ethylene, cyclopropane and yes, even chloroform. Anesthesia is far safer nowadays due to much better formulated and less toxic anesthetics as well as far more sophisticated anesthetic machines and monitoring equipment used to keep track of the patient's physiologic responses to anesthesia and surgery. But IMHO, what has been lost to one extent or another is the Art of Anesthesiology, the Art having been exchanged for the pure Science of Anesthesiology, leading to generations of anesthesiologists who, if forced into a situation in which they no longer had access to their state-of-the-art anesthesia machines, monitoring equipment and anesthetic drugs, would be hard pressed to administer an anesthetic such as open drop ether. Of course the same holds true for surgeons who would find it difficult to operate without access to electrocautery machines used to seal small blood vessels, the use of ether (a highly flammable anesthetic) making such use impossible and requiring that each bleeding vessel be sealed by an individual hand or instrument tied suture. So let's hope that we never have to suffer the effects of a huge EMP attack since such an attack would essentially disable the vast majority of anesthetic machines in current use and thus return the administration of anesthesia to the era of the late 1940's to mid-1960's. Yep, I really am 'older than dirt', that's for sure!!

sleeper1428

[missionary5155]

Good morning
When the kick starter on the 250 Kaw is starting to look like work.
Mike in Peru

[Dale in Louisiana]

When visiting an antique store reminds you of the house you grew up in...

dale in Louisiana

[Bad Water Bill]

DALE

Quit telling folks what my place looks like.:kidding:

[DLCTEX]

We used to take a 12 volt battery put a nail in it to use in a 6 volt system.

I once bought two six volts because no one had a 12 volt available.

[bandit7.5]

You're not 'old' until you have to sit down to put on your underwear!

Now I'm depressed.:)

[10x]

You know your really old when the Mothers start looking better than the daughters!

Or more frightening is checking out a pretty girl and wondering what her grandmother looks like.....
Or seeing a familiar looking pretty girl at the check out and discovering you used to date her grandmother....

[10x]

When visiting an antique store reminds you of the house you grew up in...

dale in Louisiana

Visited Upper Canada village (1870s era museum) in Cornwall Ontario and it was very good representation of the community I grew up in.
Visited the Green Gables house in Prince Edward Island and saw a wooden threshing machine - just like the one my neighbors used to use in the 1950s.

[Blacksmith]

You know your old when your body starts acting like a barometer and you can tell the weather will change. Today I can tell there is a big change coming to the east coast. Not enough experience yet to foretell what the change will be.

[pdawg_shooter]

don't forget when phone were attached to the wall and you put your finger in a hole in the dail and turn it to the numbers you wanted . back then I knew people numbers now you scroll down to there names. cans with pull tabs. records when i meantion arecord the other day a young kid looked at me and said whats a record.
remember when a car seat belt was your mothers arm getting throwed infront of you.
power tools had cords and weighed 50 pounds

First phone I remember didnt have button, or a dial. You picked up the handset and a nice lady said, "number please". But then we lived out in the boonies and there were 6 homes on our party line.

[Bad Water Bill]

My cousin was that lady for over 45 years.

Yes I pulled out the cords and plugged them in for a few calls.

Even the fire tower lady that worked the "TIMMS HILL" one. (The highest point in Wi.)

Never forget that climb with ALL of the autumn colors on display for over 100 miles.

Sad to say all of those folks are long gone and their replacements are right out of the movie DELIVERANCE according to the STATE POLICE.

[bandit7.5]

- 2 out of 3 aircraft carriers I was on are retired - Connie and Ranger. Nimitz steams on.
- Most of the aircraft in that airwing are retired ... F-14, F-4, S-3, RF-8, A-4, A-6, ???
- Toolbox still has a timing light, dwell meter, feeler gauges for points ....

i asked about a timing light for my 65 chevy im still driving and the parts boy just looked at me and his eyes glazed over. No one in the whole store knew what points were.