OT: Since we've got all day to kill maybe you old farts will enjoy these....

Brings back a lot of good memories,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW-ttLa7cfY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Nr_n_55yQ

 

I am going to my Son's in an hour or two to stream these, on Broad-Band, that is..!

 

IMO It was a time that we'll never see again. No one today comes close to those guys.

 

...not to hijack the thread, but I was thinking of things and sayings from the "old days" that we don't see or hear anymore.


..."keep on truckin;"

..."groovy"

..."yer yeller".

..."you got any papers?"

...neighborhood sand lot baseball games

...SERVICE stations

...drive-in theaters

...45 & 33 rpm records

...cap guns

...cars before emission controls

..."I double/triple dog dare you..."

...Phys-Ed class.

...those yeast rolls soaked in butter for lunch at school.

...the weird kid who'd trade his cinnamon roll for your beets at lunch.

...bicycles with high handle bars and banana seats.








...ahhh, good times.

 

And lets not forget..................

Double features

Stick ball

Shoe lace candy

Wood built go carts

Beatle boots

Shoe taps

"Your mother"

Hoola hoops

Discos

Variety shows

Westerns

Standard double headers

Bell bottoms

 

...nice additions, rick.


...yeah, we used to make our own shoe taps.
...still laughing at "bell bottoms"...and to go with them, I had a pair of 2" stacked sole "disco shoes". (blue and orange)...I shit you not.




...and hey, how about paisley shirts, and Nehru shirts, and madras shirts that "bled" and were a different color every time you washed them?

 

And lets not forget that people actually had to GET UP to change the TV channel or even turn it off. I stubbed my toe more times heading back to bed in the dark after turning the set off.

Yeah, it was a whole different time. And a great time to grow up in.

 

1-Flat Tops and Butch Wax

2-Transistor Radios-used to listen to games beyond 8-9 o'clock bed-times.

3- KC Athletics and Houston Colt 45s

4- 5 cent Coca Cola Machines

5- no Pop Top Soda Cans, no screw off bottles. Sodas had to be opened with a can opener, and bottles with bottle openers

6- 30-50 Cent Gas per Gallon

7- 2 Stroke Motorcycles

8- Fish on Fridays, women with Veils on in Church

9- Bologna sliced from a roll. No such thing as sliced and packaged sandwich meats.

10-Rubber Band Wind up Balsa Wood Airplanes, (toys).
(no such thing as radio or remote cars or planes, not even battery powered vehicles).

11- Jax, Hop Scotch, HORSE, Over The Line in Wheat Fields. Conasta Tournys.

12- Six foot long Sissy Bars or Wheelie Bars, to go with those 'Banana seats' and 'Ape Hanger' handle bars.

13- Tie Die Shirts

 

Coupes and Rumble Seats

Soda Fountains

Sock Hops

Homeade Ice Cream, pity the kid who has to turn the handle

Milk Delivered Fresh to the Door, or bought from a real Dairy

Hand Crank Cars (a bit before my time)

Steve Allen Late Night show

Beat Writers, not beat-niks

Merchant Marines a good way to cross the Ocean

Surfing being pulled by a PT Boat, really WAS done in Nam's Harbors

Prop planes and the advent of Jet Engines. No, I'm not talking of WWI bi-wing planes.

Let's see, black powder guns. Ha ha, long before my time...

 

Bobert check your PMs.

 

Cap guns

Ice deliveries

Stoop ball

Kick ball

Dodge ball

Hickey's

Dickies

Filling a sock with baby powder on holloween

Apple Jelly

Good humor ice cream

Pez candy

Lincoln Logs

Jack in the box

 

......

 

I was a wiz with that.

 

...

 

...you men bolo bats?...I was pathetic...never could get past 2-3 bounces...Mom was amazing with those things...of course, once the rubber band broke she used the paddle to whip my ass with.

...that also just reminded me of these;

 

Horn & Hardarts

Nedicks

Bon Bons

The crapy gum inside every pack of baseball cards.

The little tin 12 pack of Anicin. (forgive the spelling)

 

Hickey's like in your first romance, wearing Dickey's Turtle Necks to hide that big hicky on the neck?

The best Apple Butter I ever had, was given to me as a Gift, Homeade in Perry GA. no doubt best I ever had.

 

Apple butter, that's what I was thinking of. Hell I don't even know if you can still get it. And Hickey's I once gave a chick over 20 of them all over her neck, chest & stomach. Don't ask, to much mad dog 20-20. All I know if that I practically suffered from lock jaw for the next two days. That's when some girls were just tramps. AH! the good old days.

 

OH WOW... I forgot about those Paddle Balls on the rubber bands. Yeeha...
I also forgot about those Yo-Yo's great stuff Ron...Rick too...

Say Ricky, you were a Pro with those Paddle Balls...Me, they only hit me in the eyes...! Same with Yo-Yo's, tho' I loved both, they got the better of me...

Walk the Dog, (wasn't it)?? ... I've forgotten alot of those Yo-Yo moves, can anyone help me out with those names, of Yo-Yo moves, rather performances.

Thanks for the Nostalgic Thrills, both of you...

Speaking of being punched in the eyes, do you guys recall 'Gorgeous George' the Wrestler, who was also (40 years or more later) in the Movie Snatch, as a Big Burly Bare Knuckle Fighter...?

 

Walk the dog, Rock the craddle, around the world were some of the Yo-yo moves.