Remember when

I was a bit too old for Stingray bikes.
My parents thought they were silly. They would never have bought me one, but in the 70’s I built one for my little sister.

 

If I remember correctly, kid next door had a Schwinn Stingray w/shifter, another had the Huffy Green Gremlin(?) w/o shifter & I had the Raleigh Fireball Chopper and no shifter... All the other kid's bikes didn't have a shifter either. Perhaps optional?

 

Building forts out of big appliance boxes

 

The boxes were all we could afford.

 

Yeah, that and free matches from the cigarette vending macheen.

 

Who knew those early building skills would come to a good use in my next dwelling perhaps.

 

Thats $2500 a month studio apt

 

Hanging in a friend’s garage

 

Those were some scary days .

I decided then at least one diesel vehicle and a few hundred gallons of fuel.

 

I don't remember the diesel crisis but it was way cheaper than gas!

 

Before I was driving but I do remember seeing the cars waiting in line to get gas on the news

 

Remember when the wealthy kids parents had more than one telephone , and color TV.

 

We had one phone in the kitchen with a three thousand ft stretchy cord.

 

Was it yellow or green, we had yellow with a matching refrigerator.

 

Green. It matched...nothing.

 

The yellow also matched the “dishwasher”,the yellow rubber gloves my mom wore when she did the dishes.

 

I remember we thought dad was like the biggest hero because he went out to RadioShack and got the 1000 foot cord for the telephone so you could take it with you anywhere in the house.

You could answer the phone while sitting on the couch watching TV!

The rich family on the street had one of those fancy cordless phones where you had to pull out the antenna yourself.

 

Remember when you didn’t get death threats on your voicemail, ahh the good ol days

 

Yup I remember the gas crunch, and they went by plate number (I think the first digit) to determine what day you could buy. Still remember my mom almost out of fuel in my dad's car with me and my sister

 

Odd and even days here.
(any day if you had buddies working at a gas station)