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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Clean sweep. Remember them all. How many here remember CARToons? How about Wolfman Jack's Midnight Special?
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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100% and then some. My mom dusting for bugs in the kitchen with DDT. We lived through it though.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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07/13/20 01:38 AM
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13 for 13 on the OP's list. I remember our first TV was black & white, it was years till we got a colored one. The colored one was a console with better wood than most gunstocks now days. It also had an outside antenna with a flat double lead wire that came in under the bottom of the window. Later on we got uptown and had a rotating element that turned the antenna. Also home delivered milk with a paper stopper for a lid.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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You watched live TV. You saw Elvis and the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show I remember my brother and I were watching Lee Harvey Oswald's transfer live. Both of us saw Jack Ruby appear from nowhere and shoot him. That was a weird feeling. Both of us looked at each other and said holy chit did you see that?
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Surprised that jacks in the driveway haven't shown up yet, or playing cards in bicycle tires. I loved bbq days -- my dad would let me have the first sip of every budweiser he opened and then tell my mom she could have the first sip
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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07/13/20 02:39 AM
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You drove a car that vapor locked You used a rotary phone You picked up bottles and returned them for cash You were the TV remote Your TV had rabbit ears Your remember when TV stations would sign off You know what Blue Law means Your car had an 8 track player You repaired your bike’s inner tube with a Camel patch kit Your mom and grandmother thought Monkey’s Blood was a cure all You have a vaccination scar on your left arm You changed a tire using a bumper jack You’ve replaced the Points on your car
As a child of the 60s and 70s, these are signs I’m getting old. What do you got?
All of the above plus; Grandma saying "hold your water or you'll get it again!" (never ever tell grandma you have a stomach ache.......yes, she was twisted) Fishing for crawdads with bacon on a string. Having bottle rocket battles and indulging our pyrotechnic fantasies without a care in the world. Or cops showing up. Watching TV until late night in the summers and seeing the jets flying to the sound of the Star Spangled Banner......followed by "This is the end of todays broadcast", then that tone would play and the psssssssst static would start forcing me to go to bed against my will. Hanging out all summer long with two gorgeous, fit, big haired older girls bronzed from being in the sun wearing tied dyed t-shirts with no bra, worn out cutoff blue jean shorts so short the bottom edge of their cute butts were peeking out, and listening to the Beatles, Carpenters and KC and the Sunshine Band Baby sitting the afore mentioned girls when they were tripping on acid. And discovering that it was called the love drug for a reason. Riding my brothers chopper and wondering how the heck he could steer the damn thing.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Outdoor toilet Hand water pump Kerosine/fueloil lamps Hot stones wrapped in a towel to keep warm in bed Fresh milk scrapping the cream off the top Churning butter Horse drawn farm equipment Milking cows by hand
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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You drove a car that vapor locked--yep You used a rotary phone--yep You picked up bottles and returned them for cash--yep at the local Piggly Wiggly You were the TV remote--sometimes. We only had 3 stations. Your TV had rabbit ears-- outdoor antenna but I know what your talking about Your remember when TV stations would sign off--vaguely You know what Blue Law means--yep Your car had an 8 track player-- nope, cassette. But both older brothers had 8track players. You repaired your bike’s inner tube with a Camel patch kit--don't remember the name of the patch kit. Your mom and grandmother thought Monkey’s Blood was a cure all--Oma did, mom not so much. You have a vaccination scar on your left arm--yep You changed a tire using a bumper jack--oh yea You’ve replaced the Points on your car--couple of times.
As a child of the 60s and 70s, these are signs I’m getting old. What do you got?
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Got my first chainsaw from them. Some had one double stamp day each week. I remember going to the place where you could redeem the stamps.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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That stuff burned like fire!
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Listened to KOMA out of OKC Throughout the 60’s and 70’s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. With the big 50,000-watt signal and the relatively few rock-n-roll radio stations across the plains, KOMA was the main station for the hits. KOMA (along with handful of other legendary stations including 890 WLS, Chicago; 1090 KAAY, Little Rock; 1060 WNOE, New Orleans; 770 WABC, New York; 800 CKLW, Windsor/Detroit; and 1100 WKYC, Cleveland) could be heard on car radios, in homes, and everywhere a kid could tune in. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. They would sit in their cars on hilltops, turn it up at parties, or fall asleep with the radio next to their beds as they listened to Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Beatles. Soldiers in Viet Nam even reported tuning in KOMA to give them a little feeling of being back home.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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That stuff burned like fire! I don’t remember it burning. We called it Monkey Blood.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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I still don’t understand why they took brights off the floor board Same here. That was perfect. I heard that many of the car manufacturers had to briefly go back to the floor-mounted dimmer switch for vehicles sold in College Station. Aggies kept getting their foot stuck in the steering wheel.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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I still don’t understand why they took brights off the floor board Same here. That was perfect. I heard that many of the car manufacturers had to briefly go back to the floor-mounted dimmer switch for vehicles sold in College Station. Aggies kept getting their foot stuck in the steering wheel. I have driven, and I'm sure there's a couple that remember them new, vehicles with the starter on the floorboard.
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Outdoor toilet Hand water pump Kerosine/fueloil lamps Hot stones wrapped in a towel to keep warm in bed Fresh milk scrapping the cream off the top Churning butter Horse drawn farm equipment Milking cows by hand All the above/
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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Re: Signs that you’re getting old
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I still don’t understand why they took brights off the floor board Same here. That was perfect. I heard that many of the car manufacturers had to briefly go back to the floor-mounted dimmer switch for vehicles sold in College Station. Aggies kept getting their foot stuck in the steering wheel. I have driven, and I'm sure there's a couple that remember them new, vehicles with the starter on the floorboard. And setting the timing on the steering column. There’s a lot going on on a cold start up there.
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