Do You Remember?

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Gee whiz, this thread is killing me.
 
It was this before we really advanced in technology and moved up to 8 track cassette players mounted under the dash of the muscle cars. This guy helped me more than anyone else back in the day to get my point across:




 
Anyone in the region remember this brand ? It was Luters lard at our home. In 25 lb stands unless we were lucky enough to have some home style lard saved up from the hog killing back in the winter.


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Miss Lily said:
Oh swell, now the world knows how old I truly am!

Thanks a boat load, @Brangus!
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Aw shucks..........that was the very reason this thread was created by @Geezer ..............to draw out all of the other geezers out in the open. :D
 
When I was maybe 10 years old a buddy of mine learned how to dial your own number and make the phone ring so you could answer and talk to each other on the phone in your own house with two different phones. Well, he did it a couple of times and it was awesome. The phone would ring, I’d answer in another room and we’d talk on the phone from different rooms. This was around 1982 or so. On maybe the third attempt, I answered the other phone and we could hear a woman placing an order for two carry out steak dinners and when the guy asked her how she wanted hers prepared, my buddy yelled into the phone: “with a booger on it”. We bout died.
 
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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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Ever make a "Farter"? Two rubber bands, a steel washer and a coat hanger, cut and bent into a "U" ? You could put it on top of your math book and slide it under your thigh. Wound tight, you raise your thigh a bit and....heh heh heh :)
 
Thanks Geezer. Yep, I remember all of it. When I got my drivers license I would leave school at lunch, in my old rebuilt 1948 Willis jeep, pick up my setter, shot gun and go back until final bell and hunt till dark. The girls loved to take "ole Ben" out and feed and pet him.
 
three more things:
1. "smokers pews" in the back of the church.
2. "church guns", too. derringer in a vest pocket.
3. Junior High, not Middle School.
 
Geezer said:
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?
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They still don't know what sweet tea is.;)

Gun Lover said:
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.
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Everything was bigger back then. :D

Brangus said:
@Miss Lily
100 bonus points for the "Gee whiz". Now if you had only said the thread was "swell". lol
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I thought it was Gee Wilikers. :D


And table top football. Of course, we still do that.
 
Does anyone remember "hog killin' " time ?






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Hanging up in the smokehouse.........waiting on a Brangus-style breakfast.
 
My family did that when I was a kid, I remember G-maw cutting the heads off the chickens and tossing them in the yard to run around.
I got to collect them and take they to the BIG cast iron pot to be "cooked" so the feathers could be removed.
We slaughtered cows, pigs and chickens all on the same weekend.
Big block and tackle to hang the cows and pigs to bleed out.
Fun times for a 5 year old.
 
I remember a couple of those things. I'm a kid of the 80's, but the town I grew up in was behind the times. I remember my grandmother having a tab at the local store. Pigs feet and pickled eggs on every counter, and candy cigarettes.

TV's were bulky and heavy, and a 19" one was "big". My grandmothers was a huge, wooden monster that you had to open a drawer to adjust the settings. The picture was always slightly green tinted, no matter what. I remember floor mounted dimmer switches. I thought they were a pretty neat idea.

The local store sold soda in both glass and plastic bottles. Plastic in a stand-up cooler in the back of the store, and glass in a chest cooler near the front. Plastic bottles had those bright colored plastic bottoms on them.

I remember Roses well. Then Kmart. Walmart was new in the area, and made a big deal about selling American made goods (oh how that changed!)
 
ronn47 said:
I remember G-maw cutting the heads off the chickens and tossing them in the yard to run around.
I got to collect them and take they to the BIG cast iron pot to be "cooked" so the feathers could be removed.
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I remember that, too, and my grandpa chopping up cabbage and making sauerkraut in an old stoneware crock. He had a flat rock that he would wash and wrap in cabbage leaves, then put on top to keep the cabbage submerged in the brine. I also remember my one attempt at making kraut, when I was in high school. I didn't know the crock had a crack. All the liquid leaked out... rotten cabbage is somewhere between skunk and Limburger cheese on the odor scale.
 
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This was the standard accessory to require the local Chevy dealer to install prior to leaving the lot after any SS purchase.


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Miss Lily said:
I kept mine for years. I'm not sure but, believe it was mixed up in the property settlement/distribution. I'm sure the ex disposed ot it.
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We still have an old Polaroid camera somewhere in the storage room. We also have (was my Mom's) an old 8mm movie camera and projector too. :)
 
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