You know you are getting older when..............

[hogpatrol]

S&H Green stamps and I faintly recall some sort of gold stamps. Also, free drinking glasses with each fill up at the local gas station. Also, when they lowered prices in what was known as "gas wars".

 

[Walt Krafft]

Went to nyc to visit the World Fair. Went to the opening of "The Pink Panther" after my parents went to a green stamp d&p show. Good times.

 

[antelopedundee]

S&H Green stamps and I faintly recall some sort of gold stamps. Also, free drinking glasses with each fill up at the local gas station. Also, when they lowered prices in what was known as "gas wars".

Gold Bond stamps IIRC

 

[antelopedundee]

I have not read them all. How bought the Herter's catalog? I spent hours with it. The same as the World Wide Want today.

Warn't anything in it that wasn't model perfect.

 

[D Coots]

You're old if you remember when the vinyl records were only 78 rpm.

How about the thick 78's?

 

[jr600yd]

Any of you boys remember the “Hardy Boys Mysteries” or you ladies “Nancy Drew”?

 

[ShootDots]

Any of you boys remember the “Hardy Boys Mysteries” or you ladies “Nancy Drew”?

I remember them quite well! I also remember that they were not particularly interesting to me at least. Back then I was more interested in Westerns than anything. You know, come to think about it, I still am!! LOL!!!

 

[antelopedundee]

Any of you boys remember the “Hardy Boys Mysteries” or you ladies “Nancy Drew”?

Yep. Read ever one of em. Not so much Nancy Drew tho.

 

[Pwc]

How about the thick 78's?

Yes, I have several. Before I left home in 1963, I had original Tom Swift books; onewas his electric car (Toyota just thinks they were first) and his airplane. Wish I had them now.

I remember the little portable reel to reel recorders I took to class to record lectures. I still have two 7 1/2" reel to reel recorders.

Instamatic camera that used 126 film cassettes; wind up film advance
... click, click, click.

8mm home movies: use one side then turn it over and take the other side. Wind up the camera. I've got de eral thousand feet of 8mm I'd like to digitize but it costs so much to send out.

 

[mike a]

My sister drove me crazy with her Elvis 78s. When I here an Elvis song now I have flashbacks of the day my mom stopped me from strangling her. Mike

 

[jds holler]

You're gettin old if you remember when you knew bunches of family, friends, neighbors, bosses, etc, who had served in World War II.

You ARE old, if you are one of those vets. And God bless you. jd

 

[KMart]

Feed sacks that came in patterns that could be saved so your mom could make clothes.
Towels that came in washing powder.
My grandmother had a glass rolling pin that originally sold containing vinegar.
Selling the hide at the hardware store after butchering a calf.
Storing meat in a locker plant in the days before home freezers.

 

[butchlambert]

Feed sacks that came in patterns that could be saved so your mom could make clothes.
Towels that came in washing powder.
My grandmother had a glass rolling pin that originally sold containing vinegar.
Selling the hide at the hardware store after butchering a calf.
Storing meat in a locker plant in the days before home freezers.

You beat me to it on my feed sack shirts. I remember the iceman delivering ice for our icebox.

 

[D Coots]

Uphill both ways to school. I was in a big class....9. About 6-7 grade we got hot lunch twice a week. We had a crank record player until I was in 8th grade.
In 7th grade I stayed after school to sweep floors and clean chalkboards. I was paid $1.00 per week. The next year I asked for a quarter a week raise. They hired someone else. I should have been union.

Got caught smoking on the tackle tag field in the 8th grade. Don't know how I got by with it, but my parents never saw the report card that said "David has been smoking in school, this is not allowed." Some things you just don't forget.

 

[butchlambert]

Uphill both ways to school. I was in a big class....9. About 6-7 grade we got hot lunch twice a week. We had a crank record player until I was in 8th grade.
In 7th grade I stayed after school to sweep floors and clean chalkboards. I was paid $1.00 per week. The next year I asked for a quarter a week raise. They hired someone else. I should have been union.

Got caught smoking on the tackle tag field in the 8th grade. Don't know how I got by with it, but my parents never saw the report card with "David has been smoking in school, this is not allowed." Some things you just don't forget.

Dave, I may have mentioned before that I went one year to a school in Francis, Oklahoma that had 4 grades in one class. The local ladies cooked our lunches and WOW they were great. It would probably be not allowed today as it may be unhealthy. We didn't get obese because of it as we were never in the house and were very active.

 

[D Coots]

Hey Butch, we only had 3 grades in one room. Seems long ago, and then on the other hand, it doesn't. Things were simple then. I'd hate to be raising kids today.......

 

[Pwc]

My wife had 3 grades in one room, O think thats why kids seemed smarter because they were exposed to more onformation, definately not ondoctrinated like today.

I had feed sack shirts in grade school, small enough for 1 sack = 1 shirt.

We lived in OK City and on a weekend drive out to grand parents in Yukon and visit our locker for meat. Locker was owned by Ed Workenten. Route 66 was (still is) the mainstreet, now I 40 bypasses to the south.

I have a dish from my grand mother's wedding gift (1906) that I believe came from the flour sacks.

Quilting frames set up on chair backs in my grandmother's living room on the farm, where all the women would come together to gossip and make thieir quilts. My daughter still has the one made for me.

 

[JFrank]

My setup along with a 12v fan and barrel cooler. My range is 300 yards from the house.
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When yer done shootin you can mow the lawn.
I just noticed those sweet wheels on that mower!!!

 

[okie]

Im not that old, but remember party lines, drawing water from the well, outhouses, butchering hogs when it got cold, open range cattle, seeing hogs and dogs through cracks in the floor of an old sawmill house, corn cribs, taters in the cellar, granny canning everything imaginable, whiskey stills, working ground and skidding logs with mules and horses because you could, carbide lights for coon hunting, filing the tips off of GI 06 ammo so it wouldnt pencil through a deer, making sure the "signs are right" when cutting a hog or calf, great grandpa milking his jersey and great grandma churning for butter, knowing which neighbors wouldnt make it to church when the river got up, drinking out of snuff jars, gigging with a lantern tied on the front of a cypress flatbottom, not going anywhere after it rained because the roads fell apart, feeding my pony extra when i really worked him hard, patches on clothes, hauling livestock in the back of trucks, working in the garden, seeing the first round baler in the county, pet coons and deer, getting lost night hunting and letting the reins down to get home, weevils getting in the flour, blackstrap in metal paint cans, barefoot almost always...the good old days.

 

[olddav]

When all the cute college girls respond, "Yes Sir".
Sad, sad day!