Remember when

My very first computer was something very similar to this. Connected to the TV via composite cable. I had none of the accessories to go with it. I guess without any software, it defaults to a BASIC like programmer?

10 PRINT
20 GOTO
30 DO SOMETHING

 

Waterbeds

 

Says anyone who's over 55!

 

Just the normal life of a kid . I will say I hated the cigarette smoke so avoided that as often as possible.

Then some of us that grew up on Farms added some different adventures .

 

I was on tail end of it...im @49

 

Yep, riding bikes unsupervised

 

I think just where you lived influenced things as well!

 

Never give that a thought!

I was thinking of the Jousting with Big Sticks !

Dragging the red wagons around with the horse.

I would vanish for days at a time either on foot with the Dog or on horse back before I could drive.

 

I remember thinking I would ride my bicycle from our trailer just outside Luke AFB, to my school in Litchfield Park, across the desert back roads. The bus took me there for fourth grade, down the highway, but the desert road saved 3 miles each way.

Being lumpy dirt and gravel, it was slower going, but there was no traffic. It seemed like an easy 5 miles.

I started out on several Saturdays, only to get distracted by some kid trap.

New junk to steal, dumped in the desert by the air force, insulation boards and a tortoise I had to take home. I shot a big snake with my pellet gun. I shot a big toad that just wouldn’t die. There was an old abandoned turkey plant, dry culverts, and random things to be dragged home for our tree house by the creek.

Somehow, I never made it all the way, except on a school bus.

 

Remember when: DEI stood for Dale Earhardt Incorporated. I know exactly where I was and I watched it happen.
God Bless!

 

in 67 when I got off active duty with the Navy, I remember flying home on Piedmont Airlines, on a twin engine prop, "tail dragrer"!!

 

I'm not that old yet, but still experienced all of that.

 

My Weekly Reader

 

I remember flying on Piedmont carrying a few squirt guns in my carry on bag. Must have been around 1985-87.

 

Does anyone remember how loud airplanes were?

 

Loud? I remember when when the exhaust plumes made them look like they burned coal.

 

Can still track the Hercs when they fly over. A little smokey

 

I was born on the flightline.

My father was in the Air Force, and we always lived within ear shot of big jets.

Right after I got out of college, I moved away from the flightline. I had a crappy little apartment next to the railroad tracks. Still, I used to sleep like a baby.

Now we live about 4 miles from the National Guard base and Fresno international airport, so I hear the sounds of freedom daily.