Finish this sentence! I remember a time when.............

[WILCO]

It cost a dime to use a pay phone.

[GRUMPA]

gas was .29gal

[blackthorn]

you could get a hamburger and a coffee for 30 cents.

[repawn]

Cigarettes were .69 and good for you.

[462]

a candy bar cost a nickel.

(GRUMPA beat me to my first thought. Five dollars would fill my '56 Plymouth's tank. Would charge my buddies a quarter each, for Friday night cruising.)

[dragon813gt]

When political correctness wasn't running rampant. At 34 the lowest I ever saw gas was $.98

[smoked turkey]

The BIG bottles of coke in a machine cost ten cents. My girlfriend then (wife now) always had a dime and we would share!

[nagantguy]

When I was worried aboit a red invasion instead of having to fight my own government in my back yard.

[hardy]

I could remember anything!!! Mike(I think)....

[novalty]

...when .22 bullets were cheap. Heck ammunition in general.
...when I got change back from a $20 to fill my car with super.

[runfiverun]

you could tell car's apart from one another.

I remember sitting in my front room playing 'what is it 'with a friend of mine. we would guess the engine make [ford, chevy, or dodge] by the sound it made coming down the street.
internationals were too distinctive to be allowed in the game.

[WILCO]

The high beam switch was mounted on the floor and foot operated.

[H.Callahan]

I actually worked as a mechanic at a gas station in the late '60s and early '70s. I can remember gas wars where the price of gas would get down to about 12¢/gal.

I also remember when McDonald's advertised that you could get a burger, fries and a drink and get change back from your dollar.

Movies were about 50¢ and the concession stand sold candy bars for 5¢.

My parent's house (the house that I currently live in BTW) cost $12,000

My very first car (that didn't actually belong to my parents), a 1969 Chevelle with a worked over 350ci engine, cost me $1200.

I bought a Colt Python for $150 and pitched, bitched and moaned over the cost of the damn thing (still have it though)!

Flight lessons at the local airport were $15 hour (first lesson was $5).

[Springfield]

When my sister could take my .303 Enfield to school for her "how to clean a rifle" demonstration speech in 7th grade. Slung it over her shoulder walking to school, left it in her homeroom until needed for the speech, and carried it the same way home. Nobody died, got suspended or upset about the whole thing. This was in 1972.

[bosterr]

...I would see 80 deer the first day of buck season!

[gunoil]

When i had a bunch of girlfriends.

[Chili]

...when kids would ride in the back window of the car and wave at traffic.

[H.Callahan]

When i had a bunch of girlfriends.

Now, there's a problem I never had....

[Honorstick]

when we only had 3 channels on tv and there was something actually worth watching once in awhile.

[WILCO]

A Plymouth Duster had nothing to do with housework.

[WILCO]

Now, there's a problem I never had....

I've had it in the past. Too much trouble.

[AggieEE]

Anybody remember when two gas stations at the same intersection would have a gas war?

[km101]

....gas was .19 cents a gallon. I could fill up my old 56 Chevy for $5.00 or less.

A date with a movie and a pizza afterwards was less than $10.00 (much less!).

It was safe to hitch-hike and pick up hitch-hikers!

Cokes in the machines (6 oz., still the best) went up to .06 cents! We bitched about having to have a penny!

[EMC45]

When penny candy was a penny and in big glass jars behind the counter glass and they would slip a couple in on ya on the house.

[sparky45]

..When the Saturday Matinee would have a bunch of cartoons, serials or 3 stooges and a feature. AND if you had a quarter, you also got popcorn and a soda.

[TheGrimReaper]

When I was worried aboit a red invasion instead of having to fight my own government in my back yard.

Yep, and we played Red Dawn outside.

[HATCH]

When the American President really cared about the American people.

[Blacksmith]

Drive In Movies had dollar a car night. AKA the passion pits.

Milk was delivered in bottles that had a bulge at the top to collect the cream so you could whip it. Before it was all homogenized. And there was a little cardboard disk to seal it.

Mom had a sprinkler top she would stick in an empty pop bottle fshe filled with water to sprinkle on the clothes when ironing.

Every back yard had a clothes line for drying the laundry.

A rifle range in the high school basement.

[Dannmann801]

I remember grandma washing clothes in a washer with a wringer on the top.

I remember collecting pop bottles for the $.02 cent deposit then using the money to buy candy. When it got bumped to $.05 we thought we were really cookin', but then the price of candy went up too.

I remember being a kid and leaving the house in the morning and being gone all day with nobody worrying about where I was and what I was doing or if I was ok.

[twotoescharlie]

22's at $6.00 a brick, Winchester wildcats @ local Richway. I still have some of them.

TTC

[Harter66]

My Dad went off because he had to pay 65 cents for a gallon of white gas inside in a can when just last month it was 35 cents at the pump.

Hughes Air West was ''The only way to fly'' w/ ''3 feet for your 2 legs''.

Writing a check at the gas station 1 town over for $110 for 148 gallons of gas.

Delivering gas money pinion pine firewood rounds 65 bucks a cord. Split,delivered,stacked in season for 90,85 if you took 3+ at 1 time.

[Rex]

I got $40.00 a week for putting up hay. And that wasn't 40 hour weeks.

[starbits]

Steak and eggs for breakfast on a Frontier Airlines flight.

10 cent movies.

Melting lead on the kitchen stove and casting cowboys and indians with my Dad.

The first time $5 didn't fill my gas tank because gas had sky rocketed to $0.35 per gallon.

Starbits

[waksupi]

13.9 cents for gas during the gas wars.

[TenTea]

The air was clean, sex was dirty and a joint was not a good place to be seen in...

[41 mag fan]

People from other countries envied the U.S. and wanted to come here for a better life, now instead they despise the U.S. and want to destroy it.

[montana_charlie]

Doctors made house calls, and we paid him on the spot.
We only went to his office for 'emergencies' like a broken bone, and hospitals were for surgery.

Medical insurance was unknown because medical costs were sane enough that most people could figure out a way to pay their bill ... and were responsible enough to actually do it.

CM

[uscra112]

....at 11 years old I could walk down to the little general store and buy .22 ammo.......IN MASSACHUSETTS.

[DHurtig]

I remember helping my uncle milk the cows and then pour the milk in the separator in the basement. Skim milk went to the hogs. Still can't abide skim milk and the wife yells at me because whole milk is not healthy.

[Harter66]

Well thanks for reminding me my daughters broken leg cost 58k and my appendix was only 22k that a cheap entry level pawnshop rifle is 300 and a beater farm truck is worth more for scrap than parts.

Way to go , I mean is it so hard to keep the negitive PO'd politics in the pit where it belongs,the sun came up and you got a pulse it don't get any better . You could of course fix the politics for 35 cents a head .

If you don't mind can the politcs and let us return to ''I remember when 12oz bottled cokes were a quarter in a machine ''.

[LuvMy1911]

When I first started hunting (in grade school), every single neighbor allowed hunting rabbits & squirrels on their farm lands.

This required a promise that I would only shoot at small game and be absolutely certain there were no farm buildings or livestock beyond the target.

I still remember grand-dad Weinert asking me if I knew it caused BIG trouble to shoot at the insulators on the power lines (they had the big dairy farm).

They would pull over and offer a lift back home if it started raining (even though we had our .22 rifles or shotguns slung over our shoulders). And we would help catch their cows if they slipped out of their fenced-in field.

[badboyparamedic]

When people treated each other with respect and were decent to each other because it was the RIGHT thing to do.

[Pb2au]

When I could change the oil, tune up, and maintain my vehicle with about three wrenches, a screw driver and a set of feeler gauges. And no computer was needed.
When I could buy a box of 22's, a tea and a candy bar for under 3$ and spend a great afternoon under the sun.
When it was a great thing to get a summer job, not a perceived punishment.
When it was a great thing to have an after school job.
When I would get out of detention to go to my after school job.

[1Shirt]

A box of 22 short HP's, were 30 cents! Shot a lot of bushytails with them. I pumped hi test Esso gas at 26 cents a gal, and regular was 24 cents.
1Shirt!

[Janoosh]

When you went to the butcher shop, and the guy behind the counter used a bandsaw to cut what your mom ordered, and he wrapped it in brown paper, and there was sawdust (now flux lol) on the floor, and he didn't use gloves.
You only went to the super market for canned goods because there all those "specialty" stores. (FISH.MEAT.Bread).
The deli man added up your purchase on a paper bag. Faster than ican type this. And your mom checked his math!

[6.5 mike]

Price war gas =.17 per gallon, put a two bit piece in a smoke machine = smokes, book of matches & 4 cents change. 22 lr hp's .55 cents a box, bounty on crows = .50 ea. And yes, it was a much better time.

[Janoosh]

I grew up inthe Bronx, NY. It origionally cost 15c to ride the bus. It took two bus' one way to get to Orchard Beach and two bus' return trip. We used tne change for a malt at the beach. Then the price was raised to 25c, so we gave up the malt. We were all of 13 years old.

[Janoosh]

First " Real" job i ever had was behind a Soda Fountain..........

[perotter]

The softball bats became "machine guns" and the softballs became grenades at recess. Then spent 30 minutes killing commies. And the teachers thought it was a good thing.

[OnceFired]

When teachers just made you think, instead of making you think like they do.

OnceFired

[Ithaca Gunner]

"Follow The Bouncing Ball..."

[Trey45]

When gasoline had lead in it.

[perotter]

Getting and learning to use a slide-rule greatly cut down the amount of scratch paper needed.

[10-x]

When a man was a man ,and a woman was a woman.

[starmac]

When a man was a man ,and a woman was a woman.

This has like a lot of things has proven to have been very important part of days gone by.

[Ithaca Gunner]

When gasoline had lead in it.

Paint too!

[Freightman]

When we were FREE!

[RayinNH]

..when a box of peas and a plastic "peashooter" would entertain you for hours.
...when you could buy B-B's at any age.
...when a movie cost more than the popcorn.
...when you could buy smokes for your father if you were tall enough to toss the money on the counter.
...when you got together with your friends to swap comic books.
...when comic books were a dime, five cents if it had no cover.
...people didn't look like slobs out in public.
...when people didn't get all "het up" if you uttered the word God.
...when men married women.

I could go on but don't know if I should get mad or cry.

[jcwit]

When 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 year old kids could roam all over our small town and play baseball on a vacant lot in complete safety, and not having to worry about any harm coming to them!

We have lost a lot in our Nation!

[WILCO]

Lots and lots of great responses! Thank you my friends! I've enjoyed reading them all.

[Huskerguy]

When I thought I was cool.

Gas was .19 - result of a gas war in Hays, Kansas - Gulf station - none of the aforementioned still exist

A new Dodge Challenger the year of my HS graduation was $3,000 - 1972

They actually taught something in school

All of us boys played baseball from sunup to sundown - there were NO video games

Girls loved my long, dark, thick hair. - It is still mostly dark and really thick, just not long

We would collect pop bottles and could eat a hamburger and fries for lunch and have a candy bar for desert

Everything on earth didn't kill you

[BruceB]

....pumping gas in Yellowknife, NWT, using a big MANUAL lever to fill a big sight glass on the pump. When the desired number of gallons were hand-pumped up into the glass, they were gravity-fed into the vehicle.

What really makes one feel old....

That same, identical pump is now in the MUSEUM in that town.

Where did the time go?

[perotter]

Being 10-11 years old and at a horse pull, tractor pull or motorcycle race on Sunday afternoon with Pa and younger brothers. About 3:00 Pa pulling a couple bucks out and sending me to the beer stand to buy 3 beers and a orange soda. The soda baby brother, a beer for Pa, a beer for younger brother and a beer for me.

[montana_charlie]

Well thanks for reminding me ...
Well, you are quite welcome for my part, and I am certain the others will agree.
Reminiscing over how things were, how they have changed, and why they changed, is fun for all of us ... and informative for the younger set.

[waksupi]

..when a box of peas and a plastic "peashooter" would entertain you for hours.
I could go on but don't know if I should get mad or cry.

Ah, pea shooters! The family would go to town on Saturday night, and during soy bean harvest, there were bushels of spilled beans in the street from the farmers hauling to the grain elevator. We thought nothing of scooping up a handful, and going full auto with the pea shooters!

[Junior1942]

When beautiful girls chased me.

[chsparkman]

I could walk down the street, carrying my .22 rifle and a pocketful of ammo, across the golf course and out to the desert to hunt jackrabbits. This was 1974, and in California!

[Gliden07]

It wasn't a crime to like the shooting sports!!

[RayinNH]

...drive-ins were commonplace.
...when the guy at the gas station would come out with a rag in his back pocket, pump your gas, wash your windshield, check your oil and fluff your tires for the cost of gas alone.
...when kids wore pants above their butt crack.
... if you wore a ball cap the visor was pointing forward unless you happen to be the catcher on a ball team. (this one may ruffle a feather or two).
...when you stuck a baseball card in your spokes.
...when there were at least five westerns on in a given TV week.

[starmac]

Make a guy realize just what progress, we as a country have made, doesn't it? lol

[JeffinNZ]

I remember when 'gay' meant happy. :twisted:

[William Yanda]

an IBM Selectric-the one with a ball-was the cat's meow for writing a letter.

[starnbar]

Watching EJ Potter make a run on his 327 bike back when I worked for Chrysler at the old dodge main plant

[country gent]

Riding to the football game and back home Holding hands when my wife and I started dating. All the good times we had. All the talks and everything. Shes been gone now for 13 years. I can also remember the beauty and fear with the birth of each of my 3 children. And The birth of my 1 grandson. Im soon to be 51. My kids are out on thier own now and Im on disability so I have lots of time for memories.

[DLCTEX]

Rolling hoops from old wagon hubs for miles with a forked stick. Buying gas in Witchita Falls for .099 gal. during a gas war. Quitting smoking when the price rose from .35 pk. to .50. Buying Beechnut or Red Man tobacco for .25. Learning to ride a bike on the rims because the Goat Head stickers were every where and ruined the tubes. Only uncouth persons used profanity in public. Mom making me return a 1 cent toy I shop lifted from the variety store and apologize to the manager.(hard for a six year old) TV came on at 5:00 PM and went off at midnight or 10:30 week nights. Only one channel. Hearing the song Ida Red, the Lone Ranger, Lum and Abner, and the Shadow on the radio.

[montana_charlie]

Only uncouth persons used profanity in public.
I hear that ...

[legend]

15 cent movies, 27 cent gas was standard.

when air was clean and sex was dirty......

[canyon-ghost]

When the Firebird got 14 miles per gallon, had a high performance 350 and Goodyear polyglas tires, and I bought the second tank of gas before going home for the weekend. I could cruise all night and afford to fill it up again!

It had a Quadraphonic stereo, Stewart-Warner direct guages, and I could get a girl to drive for me just by holding up the keys.

Yeah, wow.

[Trey45]

Remember when Don Garlits broke 250mph in the quartermile in '75. 10 years before he was the first to break 200mph in the quarter mile. Took till '92 before anyone touched 300mph.

[TXGunNut]

Had to get a credit card because it cost more to fill up my truck than I liked to carry around.
22's were 50 cents a box with a few cents off for a brick.
Mail order purchases actually involved stamps and an order form, not keystrokes.

[725]

I managed a Hess station Syracuse, NY. Regular was $.21 and Premium was $.24. Drove to Camden NJ and paid $.19 a gallon. At 13 yrs, I collected bottles off the road at $.02 apiece, and walked to the hardware store every Saturday to buy a box of .22's. -- .... and so much more.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

...my Dad would take me to the lodge on tuesdays (for lunch).
the special was:
"Beef on a bun with Beer for a Buck"
of course my beer was the "root" variety.

[pipehand]

...the NSA didn't know where I was because I didn't have a cell phone.

[Blacksmith]

Nash Rambler and Metropolitan.
Three on the tree.
Cars with 6 volt electrical systems.
Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Howdy Doody and Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring (sigh).
Test patterns.
The One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater.

Any of you young whipper snappers don't understand the references Google is your friend.

[GL49]

...... you could leave home in the morning with your fishing pole, and your parents knew nobody would bother you at the park or the lake.

...... everybody could leave home for the day and nobody had to lock their doors.

...... you could spend the day riding the local roads on your bike picking up soda and beer bottles, and nobody worried about helmets or getting run over.

...... it was OK to smile and say hello to people you passed on the sidewalk.

...... your dad could take you, your brother, and your .22 rifles out into the woods, and you could say "pick us up right here in four days"

[Bloodman14]

Ah, the memories. Brings a tear to my eye. . .of sadness, for the current generation; they have missed so much, and don't know it.

[Bzcraig]

When American cars weren't built by foreigners and foreign cars weren't built by Americans and everything was Made in America and the rest of the world wanted Made in America.

[elkhuntfever]

Watching EJ Potter make a run on his 327 bike back when I worked for Chrysler at the old dodge main plant

EJ Potter lived about 4 miles south of the town of Ithaca Michigan where I grew up. My brother used to travel the country with EJ and in fact had his picture in Hot Rod magazine with EJ and his bike.

[elkhuntfever]

Mom would send me to the corner Mom and Pop store to charge 2 slices of lunch meat for Dad's lunch.

[jeepyj]

When we used to manufacture in this country
Every boy carried a buck knife on his belt to school
Folks in the convenience stores spoke English

[missionary5155]

Good morning
" the time" when the house was never locked. My bike was safe out front. I could walk about with a caliber .22 Remington 514 and no one thought anything about it. Children played harmless (sort of) games outside till dark. Walked the mile to school eating whatever was growing on the fruit trees in the fall.
In school the Bible was read, we said the pledge of allegiance daily at 8 am, and the furnace room had a special spot where offenders met the board of education.
Mike in Peru

[elkhuntfever]

Once we finally GOT a telephone, we had to listen to the receiver first to make sure the neighbor wasn't using it (party line) before we could make a call. We then would give the name or number to the operator to complete the call.

[cbrick]

Got my first rifle at 9 years old (still have it, a Remington rolling block 22 single shot), walked across the street to hunt rabbits. Felt rich when I could afford a whole 50 round box of 22's at the hardware store.

I also remember when the Constitution actually had meaning.

Rick

[Lloyd Smale]

when i wasnt in pain all the time.

[Curlymaple42]

When we payed under a dollar for gas.

[Sensai]

I remember a time when ........ people actually knew their neighbors. Not just their names, but who they were, what they liked or needed and whether you could count on them or not.
......... neighbors didn't ask if you needed help, they just helped.
......... people talked to each other rather than texting, IMing or e-mailing.
......... women and kids were special and men took care to protect them.
......... cursing was a sign of weakness in both morality and mentality.
......... right was right and wrong was wrong, and most people wanted to do the what was right.
......... most laws were to protect the public rather than to control the public. If you broke the law you were punished, not rehabilitated.
......... having to receive unearned money from the government was a shame rather than a way of life, and there was a big distinction between earned and unearned money. Working for a living and providing for your family was a point of pride.

[imashooter2]

...a 10 year old boy could ride through town with a rifle over the handlebars of his bike and no one noticed except to wave hello.

[PbHurler]

Schoolwork was handed in, hand written on ruled paper with a no. 2 pencil.

There were no personal computers

There were no "smart phones"

There were no "Pads or Tablets" etc.

"Blue Teeth" were the result of chewing that little tablet your dentist gave to you to see how well you brushed

There were no "Ap's" (we actually got by with cognitive reasoning and forethought)

[BruceB]

when i wasn't in pain all the time.

Amen to that, Lloyd; AMEN. At least, it's some sort of comfort to know we aren't alone. Hang in there, amigo, and I'll try to do the same.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

...the NSA didn't know where I was because I didn't have a cell phone.

HECK, that's Today in my life !

of course I'm sure they're watching this thread :(

[462]

Cars with 6 volt electrical systems.

And, a positive ground.

[Epd230]

I too remember the party line telephones.

and when all four of the tv stations would play the National Anthem, show pictures of the Statue of Liberty and Old Glory, then sign off for the night.

I remember when you left the keys in the ignition of your car in case someone needed to move it.

I remember gun racks in the back windows of pick up trucks with gun in them. And knowing that the door was unlocked and the keys were inside either in the ignition, visor, or ash tray. An no one touched the truck or guns.

I remember many of the above described trucks in the parking lot of the high school, and no one shot up anything or anyone in the school.

[Trey45]

I remember when they removed prayer and God from public schools, and evil moved in.

[bikerbeans]

I remember when using a paper match book to set the point gap on a 62 vw bug would get it to start and run ok.

I remember when kids could trick or treat, by themselves, after dark and come home and eat the candy without it being run through a metal detector.

I remember when my remember worked a lot better than it does now days.


BB

[km101]

.. most of the pickups and cars in the parking lot of our country high school had a shotgun or rifle in them. When we all went dove hunting after school in the fall.
When you were considered odd if you DIDN'T have a gunrack with a gun in your truck.
The local dry goods stores would sell .22 ammo by the brick, by the box, or individually if that's all you could afford.

[Janoosh]

+1 biker beans.....oh man.... i forgot about using the matchbook cover to set points.... and you had togo to the "Foreign Auto " parts store!

[frkelly74]

When things used to be the way they should have stayed!!

[searcher4851]

.......when I swore that if cigarettes ever got up to $10.00 a carton, I was quitting smoking.

........waiting for the milkman to arrive to make his deliveries in the summer, and him chipping off a piece of ice for us kids, from the blocks he used to keep the milk cool . (before refrigerated trucks)

[scottiemom]

...Big Chief writing paper
...playing red rover
...walking the mile to and from school (and home for lunch)
...when the TV remote control was me
...when life wasn't so hard and I didn't worry so much

[cephas53]

Motorcycles were dangerous and sex was safe.

[jcwit]

Remember when the popcorn plant here in town had loads of popped popcorn. This was done to test what percentage of kernels popped, & they gave it away to the kids in town. Never thought about it till I got older, but it was handed out in popcorn boxes and was salted and buttered.

Did salting and buttering help the % of kernels popped?

[Gibbs44]

when we used to sell raffle tickets for rifles and shotguns to raise money for my old school.

[swheeler]

Ethyl was .28 a gallon, beer was under 4.00 a case and a roll of chew was 2.25

[Ed Barrett]

When credit cards didn't have magnetic strips, and the raised numbers were there so it would make an impression on the paper in the machine every gas station and "big" store had. I remember in 1964 in St. Paul in the winter a gas station attendant put mine in the machine and it broke into many pieces ( it was 24 degrees below zero).

[Thin Man]

Going to the indoor movies to see the next episode of a "serial", and find out if anyone saved "Sweet Sue".
My first regular part-time job in a grocery store, making $1.25 per hour. Two days work filled the gas tank, still had lunch and entertainment money for the week.
My first car, with a key switch and a separate starter button both on the dash (1949 Ford flathead V-8).

[Lloyd Smale]

ya bruce after 6 years of it I dont even get much sympathy from the wife. Probably my own fault though as i never was a complainer. I just buck up and grit my teeth and git er done! I wonder what it would feel like to jump back 20 years and live without pain and even be able to read a magazine without looking for a pair of glasses! sure food, gas and about everything was cheaper but we also made less money. I can still aford to put gas in my tank but the pains there forever.
Amen to that, Lloyd; AMEN. At least, it's some sort of comfort to know we aren't alone. Hang in there, amigo, and I'll try to do the same.

[opos]

Marlin Brando in the Wild One inspired all of us teen hoods to dress like him...think I like the look better than "hoodies" and pants around the knees...Living in snow country we rubbed water proofing into the engineer boots that had "bear grease" in it and when you took off the boots your socks were sort of a brownish black and stunk to high heaven...This was way before Fonzie...think this was late 1953 as I recall...here's a cut and paste of a clip from the movie...when Brando walks into the cafe check the boots, the jean cuffs and the hat..then look at the picture linked below...talk about "up on the times"
http://youtu.be/yCENBce_dls

[altheating]

you could carry a jack knife in high school without being suspended and one night a week Mcdonalds hamburgers were 29 cents and cheese burgers were 39 cents.

[WILCO]

..then look at the picture linked below...talk about "up on the times"


What's the story on the motorcycle?

[Newtire]

gas was .29gal

.17.9cents at the Deep Rock Station.

[Newtire]

.22 shorts were cheaper than longs and longs were cheaper than Long Rifles. .55 , .65 and .75 per 50 round box in that order.

[lylejb]

going to the S&H green stamps store was a treat.

[km101]

going to the S&H green stamps store was a treat.


Or when there WAS an S&H green stamp store!

[RayinNH]

going to the S&H green stamps store was a treat.

My first fishing reel, a Berkely push button came from there. Cost, one book. I still have it fifty three years later but no longer use it...Ray

[RayinNH]

Jeeze Loiuse, double post.

[WILCO]

Jeeze Loiuse, double post.

Still counts!

[WILCO]

Everybody had a C.B. radio and foul language was discouraged.

[dagger dog]

Top Value trading stamps from the local Kroger store.

25 cent haircuts, Vitalas hair lotion and combing your hair into a DA.

Sock hops during lunch hour and Friday in the local school gym, doing the Stroll.

Keeping a dime in your penny loafers in case you need to use a phone booth to call home.

Calling "shotgun" to ride copilot if you weren't driving.

Pitching in two bits with 3 other guys to get enough gas to cruise the strip.

Being able to tell the difference between '49'50'51 Fords and their flat head engines.

Ordering a vanilla phosphate at the local drug store soda fountain.

This thread is darn near enough to bring a fella to tears !

[10-x]

Going on a date , holding hands and NOT expecting to get anything but a kiss goodnight!!!!

[WILCO]

Every vehicle had a cigarette lighter and a honest to God full sized spare tire.

[snuffy]

When my buck fifty allowance would buy enough bubble gum for a week,(14 pcs. for a 2-a-day chew), A pack of BB's, a bag of pees for the pea shooter, and a bottle of Coke!

Other needs were met by mowing the neighbors lawn for another 2 bucks. A quarter of which got a highly illegal pack of cigarettes to be taken in the deepest woods to be smoked. I just paid 25 bucks for a kid to mow my lawn that's ¼ of what I used to mow.

Major money was made by helping the local farmer bale hay. 6 hours of sweating in that metal roofed haymow was torture, but that 15 bucks sure went a long way.

Middle of June meant strawberry picking time. Some sunburn, but every quart was worth 20 cents.

Fair time in the fall meant if you were lucky working for the carnies during the fair.

Dadgummit, there I go rambling again, file it in the for-what-it's-worth-department!:popcorn:

[RayinNH]

When the TV guy would show up at your house with a black case full of tubes, and it would usually cost less than five bucks to get you back in service.

[TXGunNut]

When the TV guy would show up at your house with a black case full of tubes, and it would usually cost less than five bucks to get you back in service.

One of my first jobs was at a grocery store. Hardware department had a rack full of tubes, you could bring in your old one(s) and match it up with a new one.

[slim1836]

My Colt 1911 (made in 1917) was bought from a washtub full at the hardware store for $29.95, gas was .17/gal, cigs were .19/pack, and condoms were a quarter each.

[Frank46]

My brand new dodge dart with stock 318 engine which I drove for 15 years.1970
When penny candy actually cost a penny
When milk shakes cost a quarter
When gas was 25 cents a gallon
When I used to get paid in cash
Frank

[WILCO]

A new Matchbox car would keep a boy busy for hours.

[357maximum]

Watching EJ Potter make a run on his 327 bike back when I worked for Chrysler at the old dodge main plant

I was raised 1 mile from EJ's house/workshop, hunted his lands and killed coon/rabbits in his yard. You should have seen the things he never took public. :mrgreen:

[dpunch]

We took shotguns into the school for trap shooting unit in gym class.

[smkummer]

In the late 70's, it was suggested as a topic for high school rifle class, that I bring my USGI 1911A1 to school and show the class how to take it apart and clean it. The instructor was my (dad's) FFL and he ordered it for us for I believe $150. He was also my wrestling coach. This was Minot, ND. I was the one that didn't think it was a good idea.

[1Shirt]

So many good ones here. But I also remember when Castboolits was new. And my handle 1Shirt was on the first page of #. Now it is on page 9. And now that seems like a long time ago.
1Shirt!

[DCM]

The DCM sold 174g FMJBT heads for under a nickle a piece and they came in a really good ammo can.

[starnbar]

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.22 shorts were cheaper than longs and longs were cheaper than Long Rifles. .55 , .65 and .75 per 50 round box in that order. ound box in that order.

Man you paid .55 for us it was like .25 .35 .50 the only long rifles our hardware stocked were Winchester and they cost more than the remingtons.

[jblee10]

my car had a lever on the steering column that operated a three speed manual transmission, instead of a stick on the floor to operate a four (or more) speed.

[dantoweed64]

When it cost a dollar for a date! 69 cents for a six pack and 27 cents for a gallon of gas!!!

[jblee10]

my car had a lever on the steering column that operated a three speed manual transmission, instead of a stick on the floor to operate a four speed (or more) automatic.

[WILCO]

Back to the top and maybe on to being a "Sticky" for young whipper snappers to read?

[starmac]

I could ride my dirtbike through the school hallway waving a sawed off shotgun and yelling while my buddy lit a pack of firecrackers, and NOBODY called the law.