Do You Remember?

Lots of good posts here!!

I remember most of it, though not all.

Hot Wheels, Tric Trac, Pixie Sticks, large bulb colored Christmas lights for outside, smaller bulbs for the tree(all incandescent, of course)...

A&P, Piggly Wiggly, B&W TV, Rabbit Ears and Dad's "experiment" - two coat hangers bent in a circle to imitate a fancy antenna he saw in a store but didn't want to pay for...

Walking to school and, later, walking to a totally unsupervised bus stop and all the fights & shenanigans that unsupervised 6 - 12 year olds can get into...

"You're not made of sugar! You won't melt!" and being sent to play outside in the rain...

Sleeping in an aluminum-frame, nylon webbed lawn / chaise lounge thing in the back of the 67 Charger on the way to Granma's overnight...

 
Riding in the bed of dad's Studebaker pickup going to G-dad's house 10 miles away.
Dad made a wood platform for me to sleep in the back floor of a 53 Chevy when we would go on vacation, my sister slept on the backseat.
 
My dad bought a brand new '57 Chevy Bel-Air, 4 door, yellow with a black top. As was the thing back then, dad had a set of the clear vinyl seat covers made for it. The week of July 4, 1957, we were going to Newport News, VA to visit family for a few days. Traveling down Highway 58, somewhere between Danville and South Boston, with the temperature near 100 degrees, dad stopped at a roadside picnic table, took out his pocket knife, and left those seat covers in the trash can. We were all sitting in puddles of sweat and our clothes were soaked. Dad was complaining the whole time he was cutting the covers off about how much money he had just paid for them.
 
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Where's the Indian??
 
Pack72 said:
I remember all of those.

On the other hand, I never heard the term "nabs" until I was in college.
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I had to go to Pennsylvania back in the 70's and they didn't know what nabs were, either. Called em cheese crackers. How do people live live like that?
 
I remember walking downtown with my grandmother, and climbing on all the train cars parked outside the grain businesses. Climbed all over those cars, even got up on top of a couple of them. Nowadays, me and my grandmother would be prosecuted for trespassing and charged with domestic terrorism.

Also, when my wife and I were still dating, I told her stories about all the adventures I had as a kid at my babysitter's house (a little old lady related to us by marriage), and how big her yard and vegetable garden were. I mean that place was huge to me as a 4-5 year old! Anyway, as we were pulling down the road to show her the house, you can imagine my jaw hitting the floor when I saw just how small that house and lot were! Couldn't have been 1/8 of an acre! And the house looked to be less than 500 sq ft! I could not believe how small everything looked to me as an adult, when my memories of that part of my early childhood were so grand.
 
BB Bats heated up with matches or a lighter to make the hard taffy chewy.

Chic-O-Sticks at the city park pool during the hourly breaks.

And does anybody remember the Sambo's restaurant chain? We had one back home. That name would never fly in today's PC world.
 
Railsplitter said:
I remember the Sky City department store we had, and remember thinking it was the biggest place I'd ever seen.
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I totally remember going to Sky City. And King's. Not to mention back then, Roses was a legit department store! :D
 
I remember when we got a phone, party line, when my Father retired after 33 years in the Navy in 1967, and we got a color TV soon after.
 
Sandman_NC said:
Anyone ever got hit in the head or hit somebody in the head with spit balls in school? lol
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two77 said:
Spitballs were for pussies. We used straightened out paper clips launched via rubber bands.
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Ahhhh..............take a back seat with @Sandman_NC as I'll one up you on those paper clips. Eight of us were expelled because of me taking a huge sack full of these along with some huge red rubber bands to school:


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This expulsion occurred after every single light around the football field, all of the night lights, and quite a few third floor windows were shot out by my renegade friends. I did confess to shooting some of the sign boards and other fixtures but to this day I refuse to be blamed for all of those lights. There were some pretty hard feelings during those weeks as I remember.

So yes...........I "DO REMEMBER".
 
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Gun Lover said:
BB Bats heated up with matches or a lighter to make the hard taffy chewy.

Chic-O-Sticks at the city park pool during the hourly breaks.

And does anybody remember the Sambo's restaurant chain? We had one back home. That name would never fly in today's PC world.
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Heh I remember Sambo's. The name didn't fly with the pc crowd back then, either. They had to change it to Sam's.
 
Geezer said:
My dad bought a brand new '57 Chevy Bel-Air, 4 door, yellow with a black top. As was the thing back then, dad had a set of the clear vinyl seat covers made for it. The week of July 4, 1957, we were going to Newport News, VA to visit family for a few days. Traveling down Highway 58, somewhere between Danville and South Boston, with the temperature near 100 degrees, dad stopped at a roadside picnic table, took out his pocket knife, and left those seat covers in the trash can. We were all sitting in puddles of sweat and our clothes were soaked. Dad was complaining the whole time he was cutting the covers off about how much money he had just paid for them.
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I remember my Grandparent's '56 BelAir - they bought it brand new and put those damn plastic seatcovers on it the day it rolled off the lot. Spent it's whole life in their garage -never a night outdoors. In 72' I went to college. In 76' my Grandmother could not drive so my parents sold it for $1500 -56,000 actual miles - without telling me. My head about exploded when I found out! I'll bet whoever bought it still has a grin on his face from that deal!
 
I still have one of these left from over the years. We used to grow them and hang them up when they formed on the vines so the necks would "stretch" to make good dipper gourds.

 
Brangus said:
Ahhhh..............take a back seat with @Sandman_NC as I'll one up you on those paper clips. Eight of us were expelled because of me taking a huge sack full of these along with some huge red rubber bands to school:


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This expulsion occurred after every single light around the football field, all of the night lights, and quite a few third floor windows were shot out by my renegade friends. I did confess to shooting some of the sign boards and other fixtures but to this day I refuse to be blamed for all of those lights. There were some pretty hard feelings during those weeks as I remember.

So yes...........I "DO REMEMBER".
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S4f said:
Cheap gas, I can remember my dad going crazy when it went to a dollar a gallon, screaming how's a working man gonna make it.
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I remember my dad sending me to get a gallon can of gas when it was .55 a gallon. He would give me a dollar and I could keep the change. I would go into the 7-11 and buy a whole bunch of "Penny Candy". Ask a kid what "Penny Candy" is today. We used to pick up bottles for the .5 return refunds for that candy. Pinball machines were our video games and we had to meet at the arcades to play them.
 
You couldn't pick these up off the shelf in the old country stores..........you had to ask for them as they were kept below the counters for obvious reasons.

 
Inglis said:
Coin condoms, I remember them well.
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And they "printed" in your pants pockets.............you couldn't hide the fact that you were "carrying"...............hahahaha
 
Dirty magazines were kept on the top shelves of the racks that held all the other magazines in the convenience stores (AND certain grocery stores, too!).
 
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