Share something that you remember.

[ClydeK]

Buster Brown and his dog Tag

[ClydeK]

I remember paying the kid on the farm next door $20 for a 7mm Mauser and when dad saw it he made me take it back and trade it for a 36 cal cap and ball Navy Arms that I carried from the age of 13 or 14 (dad thought black powder wasn't a real gun). It was around the year 1970 and you could buy old Mauser rifles for $20 all day long. We'd bake the creosote out of the stocks, hammer out the bolts into spoon handles, replace the safety with a sport safety, polish and jewel the bolts, sometimes it even worked out so you had a nice shooting rifle cheap for deer hunting. We'd go down to the river with a fist full of sharpened dowels and shoot them at carp with our black powder rifles. Bear and Hill were my heroes and no one ever heard of a compound bow.

[WILCO]

[Harter66]

I remember when the Copper girl and her puppy wasn't vulgar.

I remember when gasoline was an aromatic fuel,and Eythal was the same as 100-130 octane avgas.

I remember the 1st gallon of unleaded gas I pumped ,a 1977 Mercury Bobcat 3 door wagon and the last gallon of leaded gas I pumped, a 1969 Chrysler Newport coup .

[PULSARNC]

I remember the cold wetness of the first round of barning tobacco when it had rained the night before.Hand cranking a super A farmall tractor when the crappy 6 volt battery was half dead .,and paying 27 centa a gallon for gas for my first car .

[Echo]

I remember pumping gas, and I MEAN PUMPING gas, up into a large glass container on top of the pump. Pump up 5 gallons, as indicated by the indicator, then stick the hose widget into the filler, pull the trigger, and the gas flowed down by gravity. A dollar's worth...

[smokeywolf]

Throughout the mid to late '50s, about once a year, Dad would go up into the mountains North of the Sun Valley area of San Fernando Valley or into the Santa Monica Mountains and poach a doe (I think he did it in or close to season, but didn't pay much attention to other regulations). He'd do a quickie field dress and bring home the carcass while it was still pretty early in the morning. I think he favored Sundays for this. He'd hang the carcass in the car port and do most of the rest of the dressing and butchering.

We had a cat that would march around the tarp that had been stretched out on the concrete under the hanging carcass. The cat's tail would be stiff as all get-out and held straight up in the air. I swear you could have picked that cat up by it's tail and the cat's body would have remained at a right angle to her tail. She would also let out one long meow during the entire trip around the tarp. Every couple of minutes Dad would throw her a piece of scrap trimmings and she'd pounce on it and growl the whole time that she chewed it.

[waynem34]

Their was this first time. Someone gave me a big balloon.I was so happy., I killed every balloon after.

[JonnyReb]

I remember Dad waking me up way before first light and carrying me to the car..i was 3 maybe. He'd drive us down into PA and take a gravel road to a point on the susquehanna river. The fog would be so thick you couldn't see the water, you could just hear it. He'd build a fire on the rocks and smoke his pipe..i can almost smell the 2 kinds of smoke mixing in the air still. He'd bait my hook up with live worms and i'd struggle to hold the zebco 404 and fiberglass rod up..i'd catch sunnies and rock bass while he'd cast those old rubber worms with the orange beads and metal spinner for pike and pickeral. I never remember him catching a single one but when i talked to him recently about those trips in the early seventies thats what he said he was after. Those are my first fishing trips i remember.

[waynem34]

Thats great times.

[Harter66]

I remember the shear terror of learning that my 1st child was on the way . The sleepless nights of all infants. Holding them the 1st time . Freaking out at 530 practically running to the crib because they didn't wake me up at 315 for a change of britches and food.
My oldest son freaking out if we left town with less than a half tank of gas "Dad it's 75 miles to the gas station" , " Gene there 125 miles in the tank .." ,"Shurz is halfway. ......." .
Trying to figure out why the youngest daughter had a problem with the harvest but not the autopsy. ...... to this day ...... she's 27....

[Harter66]

My youngest son joining up and oldest daughter joining the Army and Navy . The relief when their 5 yr hitches were up . The 29 months 13 days 16 hours spent dreading every unexpected door nock ,every unfamiliar car and every uniform in town while my son was in Iraqastan. The relief when every call from them started with "hi dad I just called to call" and whatever it's called when they call to say "I'm Rucked up and boarding in an hour for hell again" or "Dad I'm spending 6 months on the Reagan ".
I remember my 1st wife fixing her schedule so I missed the last mulie hunt my Dad was able to make the walks and the last season I would be able to stand where I stood to kill my 1st deer with my Dad . How she conveniently wrecked her shoulder and the last Duck Camp with my Dad got canceled and the kids didn't get to have the campfire ducks ,taters and brandy . I spent weeks getting gear in order ,tieing up tumble weeds setting blinds up to stay warm .....poof gone, not just put off, gone .
The Friday morning after Thanksgiving when Purdy didn't come to meet me in the kitchen and I spent the morning to bury her instead of hunting with the kids.
Of course the same morning 13 years before she picked up 31 ducks , 4 cotton tail and ate my Hershey bar off the dash. Dang dogs really get under skin don't they?

[Harter66]

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I remember the 1st time my Dad bought this . 55 cents ,he was the definition of livid , " last weekend it was 35 cents in the pump !"

[MT Gianni]

I remember when Iran was known for being the largest exporter of Pistachio nuts. California had to dye theirs red to show they were not the originals we grew up on.

[woodbutcher]

And NOW,Iran is just plain nuts.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[WILCO]

Their was this first time. Someone gave me a big balloon.I was so happy., I killed every balloon after.

[Windwalker 45acp]

Having 4 channels on TV, B/W and they all signed off the national anthem every night.


Reading all these posts just makes me sad.... my how far we as a nation have fallen.

[Artful]

Anybody else remember the vending machines full of stuff that's now all bad for you.

Machine would give you Cigarettes for $0.25 a pack, 22LR on a card for $0.25,
All the $0.25 candy bars and the Penny candy machine

- I have to look hard now for things like Necco Wafers to use as targets.

[Hick]

I remember my first marksmanship contest at 16 ( a loooong time ago). Took second place with my grandfather's 1907 Remington rolling block with a lyman tang sight (still have both). Got beat by a well-off young man using a great big heavy match rifle in 22LR.

[Area Man]

I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved.

They must have reworded it at some point. For me it was "To take charge of this post and all government property in view" and there was another one, #6 maybe? that dealt with passing standing orders on to the sentry that relieves me. #6 was the longest one and the one they had us try to recite in the tear gas chamber (which I will never forget).

Growing up a few blocks from the city swimming pool and ending the summer with bragging rights that I went every day the pool was open.

I remember "I'm going out to play" didn't entail parents knowing exactly where you were every second of the day. We'd just leave the house, go goof off for 12 hours or so in 15 different locations then just come home.

I remember M-80s and cherry bombs.

I remember bullets on the railroad tracks.