I REMEMBER WHEN

[AccelR8]

I remember being a young boy on the farm in the early and mid 50's when our telephone was one of the large wooden boxes on the wall with a height adjustable microphone on the front of the box and a hand held ear piece. We had about a dozen farms on our line and when the phone rang in one house it rang it all of them. You had to know your own personnel ring which was a combination of several long and short rings to know if the incoming call was yours. Everyone knew each others rings and who had the incoming call and some just had to listen in. If too many people listened in the signal would get so weak you would have to ask, "Could a few of you please quit listening and hang up as I can hardly hear my caller anymore". All of a sudden the call would get loud and clear.

Still, to this day, I'm in the habit of before I make a call I pick up and listen for a dial tone before I "dial."

 

[gravelyctry]

Still, to this day, I'm in the habit of before I make a call I pick up and listen for a dial tone before I "dial."

Holy cow! I didn’t realize it until I read your post, but I do that too!

 

[Fast14riot]

January 17, 1989. I was less than a month from turning 6. I got my first real world lesson on respect for guns and gun safety. Cleveland Elementary School, just a few miles away from my school was shot up by Patrick Purdy, killing 6, wounding 32 more.

By this age I was well aware of the guns in the house and had started shooting a BB gun with my dad at times. I distinctly remember the lock down at my school. I never took gun safety for granted from that day forward. Those who know me personally, know I am a stickler for the 4 rules of gun safety, at all times.

Probably my earliest gun related memory. A sad one, unfortunately.

 

[hogpatrol]

I remember when kids had a childhood.

 

[JackT]

I remember living 11 miles from town and being allowed to ride down 10 miles of country road on my bike (at the age of 11 or 12) and nobody, absolutely nobody, worried about the low life that's out there today. Finally when I was 13, I was allowed to drive the car into town.

 

[mensajd]

January 17, 1989. I was less than a month from turning 6. I got my first real world lesson on respect for guns and gun safety. Cleveland Elementary School, just a few miles away from my school was shot up by Patrick Purdy, killing 6, wounding 32 more. [stuff deleted]

You grew up in Stockton, CA? If so, you have my sincere condolences. The mass shooting you cited was the catalyst for the passage in CA of the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 which, as amended, is still in effect. CA gun control laws/regs are substantially worse than most of you outside of CA can possibly imagine. Plus ammo purchases and hunting bullet composition are now subject to stupid restrictions. The CA legislative/regulatory/tax environment is so oppressive that it is no wonder that Oracle, Tesla, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, etc., are moving their respective headquarters outside of CA.

 

[Fast14riot]

You grew up in Stockton, CA? If so, you have my sincere condolences. The mass shooting you cited was the catalyst for the passage in CA of the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 which, as amended, is still in effect. CA gun control laws/regs are substantially worse than most of you outside of CA can possibly imagine. Plus ammo purchases and hunting bullet composition are now subject to stupid restrictions. The CA legislative/regulatory/tax environment is so oppressive that it is no wonder that Oracle, Tesla, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, etc., are moving their respective headquarters outside of CA.

I still live here, so don't mess with me

Roberti-roos is crap, and yes it was because of that shooting. For those wondering, the Roberti-roos AWCA is what listed by make and model over 50 specific guns that cannot be sold in CA. Originally drafted as AR/AK "series" rifles, but was determined to be too loosely worded and had to specifically call out model numbers. It also covers the 10rd mag ban, "features" illegal to have like a pistol grip/thumb hole stock, telescoping stock, vertical fore grip, detachable box mags, flash suppressor, and grenade launcher. Yes, grenade launcher.

 

[akajiggs]

I remember when you could remember when.....

I am like you,I can remember when I could remember. Or at least, I think I can.Don't really know.

 

[EOD Rob]

I remember many a thing, that was just as good or better than now days. But then again I am a old/young 82yr old with often, a slow memory.

Bill, as I am only 43, never in my life have I had someone say a fast memory got them anywhere. All the people I looked up to and listened to growing up were the old timers. That's because the had been there and done that long before I ever came along. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast!
At the end of the day, all those memories that we remember are all that is important. Not the money. the guns, the game, but the memories!
Congrats, you made it to the old timers!

 

[358WCF]

I remember when this was a new song...

 

[Cecil S.]

I remember when this was a new song...

WOW..........Outstanding!!!

 

[joshb]

I remember using the outhouse!
...and when my Grandparents finally got “indoor plumbing”!
Motown was coming in but Franky Valli was still on the top of the jukebox at the local Pizza joint.
Oh yeah......and sitting in front of the old black and white TV when Ed Sullivan introduced “The Beatles”!!
Anybody watch The Bowery Boys? Spanky and the Gang? Felix the Cat?

 

[CaptainMal]

After hitchhiking 60 miles to return home from college ,I remember watching news of the President Kennedy assassination on a "color tv" in the window of a TV store where I was dropped off early to walk the rest of the way.

Ten years before that I walked a couple miles to and back from school each day ... rain, sleet, snow or whatever. Carried lunch in a paper bag or a small metal Howdy lunch box. Bought milk for a nickel.

 

[LHSmith]

"Remember When" is my favorite Alan Jackson song.
I'd attach a link, but I am boycotting Youtube .....they're ratfink chi-coms.

 

[Cecil S.]

I remember using the outhouse!
...and when my Grandparents finally got “indoor plumbing”!
Motown was coming in but Franky Valli was still on the top of the jukebox at the local Pizza joint.
Oh yeah......and sitting in front of the old black and white TV when Ed Sullivan introduced “The Beatles”!!
Anybody watch The Bowery Boys? Spanky and the Gang? Felix the Cat?

I remember the Beatles on Ed Sullivan (black and white) and I did watch The Bowery Boys and Spanky and our gang. If you had a two seater you were rich. How times have changed. I was in 1st. grade the day Kennedy was shot it is still clear in my mind.

 

[tsyarnall]

I remember when you could openly confess to being proud to be an American. Seems like the whole world is on this “touchy-feely” kick and every company wants to “monitor and regulate” our words. I don’t want to offend people, but when saying something like “I’m a proud American and I love my Country” offends people, so be it

 

[joshb]

“the day Kennedy was shot”
Yup. They closed our school for the funeral, I think.

 

[MikeT49]

......if you get a cut or scrape at a friend's house that required antiseptic and a bandage (most didn't), you hoped your bud's Mom had MercuroChrome and not that goldarn Iodine or Merthiolate.

 

[Cecil S.]

......if you cut a cut or scrape at a friend's house that required antiseptic and a bandage (most didn't), you hoped your bud's Mom had MercuroChrome and not that goldarn Iodine or Merthiolate.

I can still hear the glass application rod in the Mercuro Chrome bottle it prepared you for the pain to come...Lol

 

[nilebartram]

I lived in a country called Formosa, now called Taiwan. Nilebartram