I REMEMBER WHEN

[Mills]

I remember three on the tree.

 

[Bc'z]

I remember when if I dropped something I just bent over and picked it up. Now if I drop something I look at it and think, do I really need that?

Once I'm down, I look around and make absolute certain there's nothing else I need to do while I'm down there.

 

[hogpatrol]

I remember three on the tree.

With a suicide knob! My ride to high school was a '49 Chevy with both of them. When I was a freshman. Sat in the back seat with a couple seniors. They always had the latest Playboy magazine.

 

[rjtfroggy]

I remember three on the tree.

My first car and then my first two pick ups had it.
As for the suicide knob I still have it in the cabinet in the garage.

 

[Thud]

I remember when the Post office delivered the mail on time.

 

[akajiggs]

Carbide cannons. Powder came in tubes and mixed with the water in the cannon would create flammable gas. Wait a few seconds and push the striker, KABOOM! More stuff to fritter away a kid's meager income.

I remember when all we had to coon hunt with was carbide head lights. Could not see a dang thing but the eyes,but that was good enough.
Remember my job as growing up was getting my butt whipped by my Mom every day.Think that must have been her exercise program. She would make me go cut my own switch. I better bring back a good one or she would go get one.You didn't want that.
I love reading all this stuff.I now remember some stuff that I had forgotten.
Life is great. Looking back to what you used to have makes you appreciate what you have now.

 

[Kermit in Va.]

Yep...cutting your own switch...oh yeah...
I still hate the candlestick, beautiful ohio, or whatever you want
to call it. We had 3 right next to the carport. Kelp'em trimmed pretty good...lol


Kermit

 

[msinc]

I remember when...

...if you had $5 for gas you were going somewhere!!!

...we stood in line at the "governmental center" to get a doe permit so we could tear it up...now you can kill 36 deer a year here!!

...you were T. H. E. Man if you had a rifle with a Douglas "air gauged" barrel. Nobody even knew what the hell an air gauge was...most people don't now!!!!

....to hunt turkeys we had to drive 4 hours. Now I got them roosting in my sawmill!!!

...holding hands with a girl was the greatest thrill in life. Now I gotta have two Mexican hookers hang me up by the feet and beat my ass with ping pong paddles!!!

 

[Coonman300]

I remember when a smoothie had nothing to do with a fruit drink and a selfie had nothing to do with a cell phone.

 

[Osiek]

Cattle gaps across the roads

 

[rjtfroggy]

My earliest memories are watching the " Flood of 55" roaring down through the Naugatuck valley and the taking a brand new galvanized garbage Pail in the trunk of the car up to the park to get water for flushing and washing. I was 3 and those are all I remember about it.
Riding home made (crude) buggies down the hill in the middle of the street, or the home made skate boards.
Learned an entire new English language hanging out at the fire house across the street. Then hated every minute that I was assigned there 30 years later.
Walking to school and home again, never saw a school bus until I went to high school.
I remember my first time being on cloud 9 and with whom I made the journey.
I'll stop before I get into trouble.

 

[Monte F]

Cattle gaps across the roads

We still have those in Nevada and open range. Ninja (black angus) cows at night to run into at high speed on your motorcycle.

 

[timeout]

We still have those in Nevada and open range. Ninja (black angus) cows at night to run into at high speed on your motorcycle.

Yes, they are many places yet.

 

[johara1]

remember when right was right? Now right is wrong....... jim

 

[timeout]

remember when right was right? Now right is wrong....... jim

And wrong is right. You are correct, our once great Country has been turned upside down.

 

[Juppe12]

I remember when boys were boys and girls were girls. I remember when patriotic men were respected.

 

[SPQR70AD]

I remember when you'd put bread bags over your socks to
try and keep your feet dry. And it never got to cold to stay out all day.

you had feet?

 

[Winchester 71]

I can remember 4831 was 25 cents a pound in a paper bag,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I can remember taking my daughter to school and seeing at least 30 rifles in the gun racks in the high school parking lot

I can remember America before the 1968 gun control act !!!!!!!

I can remember America before the Socialists invaded Washington D.C.

 

[Kermit in Va.]

you had feet?

Yep...they was in better shape back then too...lol

 

[hoz53]

I remember when back in the day if you could hit a beer can at 100 yds you were good to go.
You didn't shoot reloads as they were unreliable,so we thought.
You didn't shoot bolt actions because they didn't shoot fast enough.
You didn't go to the deer woods unless you had a pocket full of shells and you could barely keep your pants up from all the weight.
You didn't shoot anything less than a 270 because those big deer were hard to take down with anything less.Bigger was better.
You didn't talk to your buddies about missing a deer because you didn't get enough beer can practice.
You did ,however, talk if you got lucky and killed a deer with that beer can killer. Tack driver.

Fast forward 60 years

Now if you don't have a gun that shoots .25" at 100 yds ,you can't hit a deer or to some it seems.
Now we don't even bother with 100 yds and go to at least 300 yds.
Now we all shoot or own hand made custom reloads that we don't have primers and powder for.
Now all I shoot are bolt actions with the majority of others.
Now I shoot 6mm's for deer hunting and not fire breathers that belch out flames 2 ft.
Don't care who you are,sometimes you just miss. Lots of scopes and guns take the blame for that. You still don't tell your buddies.

Things have changed for sure in the last 60+ years.
Some things that have not changed. Still like to shoot beer cans,empty not full anymore,still like to deer hunt but it is getting less.
Paper shooting is getting more popular with me these days.Now if all the targets shot are not in the 0's or 1's,something is wrong with scope or gun. This don't happen with me too much, the 0's and 1's.

Things do change.Seems like the more they change the more they stay the same.

I remember when about everybody at college had a rifle- most high powered - and we all kept them in the closet in our dorm rooms.