You know you are getting older when..............
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pirate ammo
Guaranteed to take the wind out of their sails
Check this out, you can still find them, red tip and all. We're not old.
hogpatrol
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A&W, that's it!
jds holler
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There was ONE hour of TV news on at 6PM. A half hour was local stuff, and a half hour was national/world stuff. They pretty much reported what had happened and what was happening, without personal/political/ moral opinion. jd
rjtfroggy
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Most of the old candy can be found here
https://yummies.com/
Red hot dollars , dots, Turkish taffey candy cigs. black jack gum you name they probably have it.
https://yummies.com/
Red hot dollars , dots, Turkish taffey candy cigs. black jack gum you name they probably have it.
FYI... There is still an A&W drive-up stand in Middlebury Vermont... Maybe the last one in the US!!
You go back a few years when you pull in there...
PS: The prices are not the same as the 60's.
Steve Nicholas
We have 1 in Coquille Oregon
If it wasn’t a bad swatting, you didn’t dare say it didn’t hurt to bad either!
You also never told your parents you were bored either.
KMart
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Damn. You guys are not getting old, you ARE old!
I'll chunk this one in. How long has it been since any of you dared to stop and pick up a hitch hiker? There was a time they were just some poor soul down on their luck. Now they might well be a serial killer looking for their next victim.
I'll chunk this one in. How long has it been since any of you dared to stop and pick up a hitch hiker? There was a time they were just some poor soul down on their luck. Now they might well be a serial killer looking for their next victim.
rjtfroggy
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Along with Ben&Jerry's ice cream and there was an all girls college in the area, also a guy who sold pipes and tabacco.
Don't know about Ballantine but FROSTIE and A&W Root Beer. A&W used to give little minature mugs for kids, my 54 year old daughter still has hers.
Gen. Norman Schwartzkof's father was the narrator of Gang Busters.
Sat. double features, with 2 cartooms and 2 serials; Tarzan, Ace Drummand, Flash Gordon or Hopalong Cassidy. Remember one time the bad guys ran him into a box canyon....."What will Hoppy do? Be sure to come back for the next adventure of Hopalong Cassidy..." waited all week til Sat to find out. Then the screen shoeed Hoppy riding away, and the announcer says, "After Hoppy got away......" Never did find out how he got out of the box canyon.
pirate ammo
Guaranteed to take the wind out of their sails
I know I'm old when I tell my kids how I used to like listening to the Lone Ranger and Jack Benny programs on radio broadcasts. Then there's the 6 shooter cap guns and the little kid pictures of me in a cowboy outfit on a pony with 6 shooters. And there were the original Walt Disney Films like Bambi, Dumbo and Fantasia along with some great Sci Fi movies at the theater I watched, like War of the Worlds, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still (not much raw violence being promoted, like today).
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I love this thread...remembering things that I haven't in years. Fender skirts on cars and runing boards. Used to meet folks at end of the driveway and jump on running board for ride to the house. They're making a come back on big trucks.
My wife has a little step stool on a heavy cord she uses to get in daughter'z big Ram truck, then pulls it in behind her.
My wife has a little step stool on a heavy cord she uses to get in daughter'z big Ram truck, then pulls it in behind her.
MikeT49
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Our weapon of choice for simulated combat games was the rubber gun. They were rubber band guns on steroids. The bands were cut from scrap car and truck tire inner tubes. About 1/2" wide, tie a overhand knot in the middle. The red non-synthetic tubes were the best. The gun was made with scrap 1" x 1". About a 20" piece for the barrel and shorter vertical pieces for the butt and hand grip. Firing mechanism utilized a clothespin taped to the butt, with a piece of inner tube providing tension on the clothespin to hold the band when you stretched it out to the "muzzle" end to load it. Most of the boys had two shooters, some had four shooters. Accurate to 30 yards or so. There was no more of the "missed me" BS.
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