Boys at Texas returned fire with deer rifles from their pickups during the tower incident. If they hadn't, there would have been more dead. So much for Katie Kurich and her BS "Good guys with guns argument is a myth".

me too. and rabbit ear adjuster. "ok. . .move it up. .ok! ! right there! ! "

i can remember my grandpa sending me in the store
in quitman to buy 5 shotgun shells and into the
grocery store to buy a pack of smokes

My greatest childhood memories were being hand a WHOLE BOX of .22lr and a sandwich on Saturday morning and being told to be "back by dark".

Good Times....Yes Sir...

I can remember having my old willy's jeep in the school parking lot "loaded"...ready to head straight to the nearest hunting ground right after school.

Born in 1942 and remember all of those things. Dad went to WW2 before I was born and didn't come back until I was 18 months old. I still have the VMails that he sent back.

Yeah, it was a simpler time but I also remember the polio epidemics when some of my friends died or were crippled for life. I also prefer indoor plumbing to out houses. The only Doctor, Doc Dabbs, was in Clovis New Mexico. It was a 30 mile drive from the farm/ranch and we generally toughed out most issues. Dentists were scarce and an awful lot of people had dentures in their 40's and 50's. Played HS football but not all kids could afford cleats. No big deal. All boys played football.

A man who was caught lying was shunned. An insult was cause for a fist fight.

Ammo was 22 shorts and hunting was rabbits. There were no deer on the plains but we did see antelope.

We sat around at night and listened to the radio while shelling peas. There wasn't a lot of sitting around during the day.

Grandma had a garden and an orchard. We canned everything for winter and put them in the cellar. We killed 2 beeves and some hogs every year. I believe that I ate my first vegetables that weren't home grown when I joined the military. That's also where I met my first Yankee and Jew. They talked faster than I could listen. We got along OK.

I was pretty well raised bilingual, Spanish and English, by vaqueros and Mexican farm hands.

Our address was Rt 2 Muleshoe Texas and the mailbox was at an intersection a couple of miles away. No name because the postman knew who had each of the boxes. Sometimes the neighbors got ours out and delivered it.

There's a lot more and when I tell my Grandkids about it, they just can't understand. I miss some of it but couldn't do that stuff now. Without indoor plumbing and AC I couldn't cut it.

Dave, you are right. Its easy to remember the good stuff but a little tougher to remember the bad. I knew 3 kids in my school with polio. There was a girl with spinal menengitis. I grew up in a town of 1100 so that's a pretty big percentage. There were others but man, thats been a long time. TB is one I remember someone having, seems like. I too, like indoor plumbing. And AC.

who can remember filling up at the old time gas pumps with the glass tops?

to great memories

PMK, yes it went off around sun-up and near sundown. I don't recall how long it would run each time Eventually got the idea to put the timer on a 55 gallon barrel. That was really big time.

Yes sir I remember, I think parents would tell the guy at the station to put in so many gallons rather than an amount in dollars.

Yep, I filled up my car once from a glass top pumper. It is a memory that will stick with me. I remember 35 cent ciggy machines. I pumped 19 cent gas. I watched them build the first Whataburger in Marshall. I repaired five tube AM radios for a living. First car was a 55 Chevy.

Where I lived until I was 16 and shot my first buck in San Antonio is now a subdivision. IH 35 cut through my parents property when I was about 10 years old. That was about 1956. Went back to where I lived at IH 35 and Weidner Rd. Looks a little different.

I'm staying out of this conversation.......

I love progress as much as the next guy. But I have a hard time with what much of hunting has become these days. But, hey, I guess folks still hunting is better than folks not hunting. So I'm trying to keep that in mind as I keep on doing it the way I grew up doing it for the most part.

Who of us remember when there were no Interstate highways?

Was that during the Obama administration "Shovel ready jobs program"

Cast, I remember as a kid, prowling around Cisco area while 20 was being built. I really don't remember traveling interstates. I'm not sure when they started going in. Google time.

Looks like mid 60's in Texas.

Me, me, me - I do!

I worked on I-20 at Baird,Texas in 1964. Talk about the cost of hunting in 1957. Dad and I hunted on T.C. Frambos ranch south of Strawn,Texas and he charged us $5.00 a day and if we killed a bobcat or red fox we got a free days hunt.( he raised goats ) Dad leased it for the season for 6 hunters for 250 dollars total. I think he went about 4 years later to $ 50.00 per person so that tells you how long in the tooth I'am.

I remember the construction of IH35 between Austin and Georgetown, that's how they found Inner Space Cavern. I also remember going with my dad to Kerrville when IH10 was being put in out there, dad was trying to get the fuel/oil contract with the construction company with all the heavy equipment, likely mid to late 60s.

IH20 came through Marshall's good hunting land when I was about 15. And yeah, Ike was right, going any distance without a IH really sux. It took us a REAL LONG time to get to gramma's house.

Amazed to hear TC Fambros name.My dad and rriends hunted his place in the late 60s.Part of our lease cost was lowered if we helped him gather his goats in the spring for shearing

Hunted around Valentine in 1967 for $5 a day, it was free if you killed an eagle or mountain lion.Saw my first eagle there, and no I didn't shoot it, I was in total awe of it.