Times change

[SOLANCO]

Only reason we have a land line is it comes with the internet/cable package. Takes a second to figure out what the noise is when it rings.

 

[Rudyard]

I can play this game, motor cars where rare horsed drawn Milk & Coal Men, Steam engines no diesels till the early 60s my first wage under 3 pounds a 42 hour week .Most of down town Sheffield flattened by German Bombs ,ration books, orange juice & malt to fatten up the war time dieting. We kids searched for shrapnel & '''Airoplane glass', & we played in the old search light or gun pits on' Roman Ridge '
licorish' root &'.locust'. beans & lingo fizz from the corner shop ,Granny used to say" Stop running about like little Mad Eyes "or so it sounded .I think she meant the Mhadi the' Mad Mullah 'rebel chief at Omdurman & Khartoum' ' , . Relief of Gordon & all that fuzzy wuzzy stuff . I could go all' Monty Python' but l.le decline & stay with the truth.
Amused Rudyard

 

[rickpa]

My wife's grandmother was born in 1891 on the family farm in Fayette Co Pennsylvania. Her family were Fazenbakers whose farm later became Fort Necessity National Battlefield. Grandma Annie Belle used to tell us of driving in a horse and buggy with her mother down off the Chestnut Ridge to Uniontown to buy supplies. One day they heard a strange noise coming up the road. Her mother pulled the horse and buggy off the road until the first car they had ever seen passed. After that her father complained her mother ruined the horse because everytime it saw a car it would pull off the road into the field. Annie Belle died in 1989, aged 98. Can you imagine going from a horse and buggy to landing men on the Moon?

 

[2001guns]

Used to see 8 tracks laying on the shoulder of the highway with miles of tape all knotted and pulled out.

Some of those were mine!

 

[Rebel bull]

I used to spend A LOT of my allowance on those balsa wood airplanes. .15 cents. That same plane is still sold today, Hobby Lobby, for $4.99! (not the rubber band kind either). Hershy bar was a dime. Movies? When it went to .50 from a quarter we were forced to boycott (by the folks). Oh, and the box of popcorn was .25. I first heard Grand Funk on an eight track! Those were the days!!!

cigs were a dime a pack when i was in the navy I still have 2 working 8 tracks and a ton of the tapes

 

[sethwyo]

At 32 I don’t feel quite so old now!

I don't feel old or young but I feel like I have been cheated by the people who are denyin our freedoms and really messed up the world that we're living in.

 

[Rebel bull]

The high school had in indoor shooting range in the basement. Kids were allowed to bring rifles on the school bus.

I walked to school with mine and left it in my locker all day no lock as I shared it with 3 others and this was in down town minneapolis

 

[Wncman]

Enjoy your youth while it lasts!

Amen !

 

[Billy Boy]

In the 90s I worked in a nursing home. There was a resident that was near a century old. She was widowed with a seven year old boy and lived on a small farm in Calico Rock Arkansas.
She remembered the very first time she rode in a car, and saw her first plane at a county fair. She was seventy before she got electric, and until she came to a nursing home she never had indoor plumbing

Both sets of my grandparents didn’t have indoor plumbing until the late 60s. If someone from the government had come along and told us we were poor we would have tied it to the rails…

 

[Marshhawk]

Damn, even in the late '70's our Leadership Development in the Shooting Sports class at Indiana University would walk to the campus tennis courts with our school-supplied firearms and lower the nets to practice crossing fences safely. We barely got a second look back then.

 

[B P Arn]

Sour old fart says, "Demsh wush de daysh, tale yoo whut..."

 

[yellowhammer]

My grandad was born in 1895, my grandmother in 1900. Wow, can you imagine being a teen in "The Brass Era"? Cool cars. He and his brother, my great uncle, fought in France with Blackjack Pershing and both returned unscathed.

 

[Two Elks]

What is that? A 50's Era fighter jet?

So, if that guy was a 10yr old drummer boy in 1865, he'd be 105ish in that picture?

That's a F-100 and was also used in Viet Nam. It was the first fighter to reach super sonic speed in level flight.

 

[bpd303]

fought in France with Blackjack Pershing

My grandfather served with Gen Pershing in the Mexican campaign chasing Poncho Villa all over the SW. He was a blacksmith then and when the Army started transitioning to motorized vehicles instead of mule/horse drawn wagons, they made him a mechanic. He never talked about if he went with Gen. Pershing to Europe WWI but probably did.
When he got out of the Army he went to work in Cleveland at Franklin and Pierce Arrow dealerships. He was a darned good mechanic and taught me a lot, along with muzzle loading flintlocks.

 

[bpd303]

When my wife got a cel phone her Amish kid garden helper had to show her how to use it.

My first portable phone was one of those big old bulky bag phones that required a magnetic stick on antenna on top of the car.

 

[bpd303]

My maternal grandfather drove a horse drawn beer wagon in Cleveland. I didn't know he existed until I turned 18 when he got out of prison. However that's another story.

 

[SOLANCO]

Sour old fart says, "Demsh wush de daysh, tale yoo whut..."

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He can be sour without being in error.

 

[Terrier]

Some of those were mine!

Litterbug!

 

[Terrier]

cigs were a dime a pack when i was in the navy I still have 2 working 8 tracks and a ton of the tapes

14 cents for Marlboro reds when I was at Ramstein, Germany for my first USAF assignment.

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

What is that? A 50's Era fighter jet?

So, if that guy was a 10yr old drummer boy in 1865, he'd be 105ish in that picture?

F100 Super Sabre. Entered service '54, phased '72, retired '79.

Picture was taken in '55.

Bill Lundy, the last surviving confederate vet. Picture was taken on his 107th birthday. That would put him being born in 1848.