Remember when

Pops had the long handle version that i used. No bending required.

 

Never saw one with a handle before.
Now days if you made your kids trimm grass by hand it would be called child abuse.

 

They wouldn't know which end faces down.
The one my father had was able to swivel 90 deg.

 

I remember seeing one.

 

You all remember this from NBC?

 

Also

 

Windshield wipers. Used to only have to remember one number for Both sides.

 

You had colors!

 

And only one speed. However, my first ones worked by a vacuum motor, let off the gas and they would fly.

 

My f150 still does

 

It was the Only thing that worked on the Valiant after it quit.

 

And when you needed them the most, like when passing someone, and you stepped on the gas - they would stop! Grrrrr
That was the worst irritation with them, but better than the older, non-vacuum ones that you had to flip back & forth by hand.

(There wasn't any motor. They worked off of engine intake vacuum. That's why accel-decel would affect them.)

 

I remember watching the wonderful world of color in black and white.

I trimmed grass with those little clippers when I was six years old and then we moved to the desert where there was no grass.

I didn’t have to deal with it again until I was about 12, and we moved to Minnesota where there was lots of grass.

 

The thing is... it truly is marked backwards. It shows East as 270 degrees and West as 90 degrees. A whole 180 deg off!
The person in charge of that instrument was smoking some good shit.

(at least they had North & South proper)

 

I have a ‘47 Plymouth with vacuum wipers, But she’s in pieces right now.

I also had a ‘59 Edsel that had the extra vacuum pump on top of the fuel pump, so they didn’t stop when you stepped on the gas.

I still have a International Scout with vacuum wipers and I will likely try to put it back on the road by next Christmas.

 

There was so much grass in MN that I had to shovel snow off of it just so I could mow it!

 

Yeah, the grass wasn’t the worst part of living in Minnesota.

 

Naw, the friction' COLD and the MOSQUITOS were the worst part of living in MN! Couldn't get away from there fast enough!
(after 24 years).

 

Falling asleep in front of the TV; getting woken up by the Star Spangled Banner meaning the station was going off the air for the night, and then seeing the test pattern and a loud steady "beep."