I remember when......

Everything I remember so does everyone else. Not fair!

I was 14 when my truck was built

 

When you could discipline your children without getting arrested for paddling the little brats' behinds.....

When kids RESPECTED their parents

Not all the sex on tv that's warping little minds (just I Love Lucy)

 

oh, i remember when mtv played music.

 

Home delivery of potatoe chips and pretzels.

 

We should scare you....

We're gonna get social securtiy benefits before you do!!

I'll be lucky if there's anything left when I retire.....

Grandma still has all the hookups eh?

 

Amen to that!!

I remember getting the BELT on my bare ass for something that wasn't even my fault!!

Imagine that? I turned out Ok......

 

They are some people that still live like that back where I'm from. A few years ago while I was home for Christmas me, my dad, aunt, and uncle went up to my great uncles old farm house to help him with his chickens. They had gotten out of the coop and had roosted on his front porch.

Chickens and Walnuts Part I

Chickens and Walnuts Part II

BTW, in the second one the music is coming from the radio.

He lived in that old farm house (he died late last year) all by himself since my great grandmother died in 1969. No plumbing. He didn't even have an outhouse until about 10 years ago when one was built for him. Until then you had to go to the creek at the bottom of the hill.

All of the beds were board slates with straw mattresses. If you have never slept on one then you don't know how fun it is to wake up with a bunch of new bug bites.



His front porch



Uncle Reece and my son working on his bee gums



Photo of the farm from the top of the hill

 

I remember when politically correct wasn't invented, and no one cared if you said something was retarded - we called it how it was and no feelings were hurt. Without further ado...

Cakmakli's uncle just needs a retarded kid with a banjo and the sequel is ready to shoot!

Dude have you SEEN what they got away with in the early talkies before everything got regulated? Most films dealt with whores on the run and troubled marriages from adultery. You ain't so innocent - though my favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life

Hey! Welcome to the club! You have just counted your first 'grizzle'.

They still do that. I forget the name of the service.
You guys remember the milkman delivering to your door?

All you need is coax and you're good to go.

I got the belt, a cold shower with my clothes on, and a trip to school in my pajamas (not all in the same day).


I remember spending more time in the day OUTSIDE than INSIDE.

 

$1.25/hour and I got $2.50 for mowing a 2 acre yard with a push mower and watched Mott the Hoople and Supertramp in Downtown Toronto.

 

Well... I'm only 31 and I remember:

When most of my music as a kid was on LP's ( vinyl records)
The phone in the kitchen was a heavy plastic phone with a rotary dial
The "enemy" was basically the Soviet Union

Toyota trucks were actually more like tractors. Very little "luxury". Dad's first Toyota truck had painted metal on the door sills.

All my papers were written on an electric "daisy wheel" typewriter
Starting wage was a whopping $4.25 an hour
$20 would buy you two heaping bags of groceries
Gas was around 89-99 cents a gallon
The scariest news in world events was Oliver North
You could buy a house in East TN for $20,000

 

cakmakli, where's your late great uncles house at? in PA somewhere?

My grandma's got a ~80 acre farm in near Washington PA. It was built in the late 1800's and the people who built it made all the bricks in what is now a hay field. Whenever my grandparents bought the house in the 70's they added running water and bathrooms.

I really like old farm houses...in fact I'd love to get a house out in the country on like 10+ acres instead of living in a city or suburbs.



Oh, and while I switched from vid 1 to 2, another one of your vids came up of your sons birthday...

I gotta say man, your daughter is pretty cute

 

No, its near Sparta, NC and it is for sell if you are interested. 160 acres goes with it.

And I'll pass your complement to my daughter.

 

I remember being in Jr. High school ...finding someone's pak of smokes and hiding in the school yard to smoke them with your buddies. We thought we were cool! I also remember sneaking off before the school dance while someone's big brother gave us a couple beers. Drinking 1 beer and thinking we were drunk.

I remember going out at night and wrapping cars/motorcycles with papertowels & syran wrap. Throwing toilet paper into trees... throwing egss at houses. Oh boy, I was bad! (laugh)

Jesus, now-a-days....kids are having sex & getting pregnant, doing drugs, and carrying guns. What's next?

 

Dammit. Why couldn't this be like...15 years later while I'm not in school and have been working for a good while so i could afford something like that.

 

the phone was rortary dial ( yellow ) and had a 30 ft coil cord badly streched out
I had an atari
refrig green lol
comadore 64 w/ super pitfall
I had to carry the bottles back to the store for cash

and I am in my early 30's

 

I remember gas at 50 cents a gallon and mcd burgers at a quarter each. And payphones were a dime - rotary dials too. lol! TV was black and white, all 2 channels. And Nam was all anyone talked about as many we knew were over there.

 

I remember needing to PAY to use the bathrooms!!
Those little coin operated boxes on every stall door. Good grief!!

When Walkman was big..... and Swatch watches too.

Velcro on sneakers

The 'Pump' sneakers first came out. Hey, you can still buy them!

 

I hated you all. I didn't even get a pair of LA Gear until the fad was over. I had these ones, but in yellow/black (wtf google can't find me a picture??)