saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
40....still a baby
Remember when........? (mainly for us old folk)
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He'll look back at us like we looked back at our parents.
One thing I have noticed about a lot of the old photos the early 20's, everyone was all dressed up and posed for a picture, but they all had a frowns on their face. Life must have been hard.
Alcoholism was pretty big on my dad's side. They partied alright, but died young.
It really took a long time for the airlines to get rid of them ashtrays, years after smoking on the plane was banned.
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
That's 'cause even the most trivial change (sometimes even including changing the paint-job!) on an airplane requires recertification of its flightworthiness. Taking out *ONE* ashtray from a plane could require six months or more of that plane being grounded while the recertification procedures were being done. Imagine what taking them ALL out might require! Cheaper and easier to just leave things as-is, and run 'em 'til they're junk, then order the replacement sans ashtrays - 10, 20, 30, maybe more, years from now.
sounds right.
I use to work in in-flight food service as a summer job while in high school. We would steal all them small cigarette packs and the small whisky bottles.
I loves mares
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
Man lol how can anyone smile when the word fart was uncalled for fowl to use as a word no fun. I tell ya this tho if I could I'd go back to the 20s and 1930s all day long. Pretty good simple living in the Ozark hills.
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
It was considered a serious occasion, because it was expensive. There were a whole group of braces designed to keep heads still for the slow films of the day. But by the time the Brownie came along....say 1910...Snapshots and more candid photos became normal. The dressup pics, if they were from the 20s were probably big occasions....
Farmhand640
Zooville Settler
I remember when the first commercial battery operated transistor radio became available in our area - Circa 1959ish and my grandparents saved to purchase one. Probably a Sony TR-63 and its cost would have been substantial for my grandparents. My first memory specifically is listening to the Indianapolis 500 while working on a spring (well, they were working, I was playing lol).
- From Wikipedia "Sony's TR-63, released in December 1957, cost $39.95 (equivalent to $369 today).[11] Following the success of the TR-63 Sony continued to make their transistor radios smaller. Because of the extremely low labor costs in Japan, Japanese transistor radios began selling for as low as $25.[11] By 1962, the TR-63 cost as low as $15 (equivalent to $128 today),[24] which led to American manufacturers dropping prices of transistor radios down to $15 as well.[11]"
- From Wikipedia "Sony's TR-63, released in December 1957, cost $39.95 (equivalent to $369 today).[11] Following the success of the TR-63 Sony continued to make their transistor radios smaller. Because of the extremely low labor costs in Japan, Japanese transistor radios began selling for as low as $25.[11] By 1962, the TR-63 cost as low as $15 (equivalent to $128 today),[24] which led to American manufacturers dropping prices of transistor radios down to $15 as well.[11]"
In Canada it's still the good ole days.
Yea, the ads back then progressed from selling like 6 transistor riadios, to 9 transistor radios to 12 transistor radios. So the more transistors, the better. Then ICs came along.
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
Yep....by 62, you could price a radio at about a buck per transistor....And the Commodore co. got its start then as an importer of this stuff. The Vic 20, C-64, and Amiga stemmed from that beginning
I remember that.
My first job out of college, our company started to use the TRS-80. Eighty kb of memory. Can you imagine? I rememeber the first hand held calculator I bot during college. It would add, subtract, divide and multiply and cost like $250. The first few years of college we used the slide rule.
More trusting people in your country.
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
I do. And I remember a recipe cut out of a newspaper in mom's collection - On the back of the recipe was an article headlined "Gas War Continues Near Lodge Highway" A station on one corner in Detroit had dropped his price from 11 cents a gallon to 9 cents a gallon in response to his rival who sat kitty-corner from him dropping his price to a dime a gallon from 13 cents. No idea how old that recipe was, but the gas war story always struck me as funny. (The recipe was for scratch-built Chicken Ala' King, in case anybody's curious)
I remember 29 cents to 32 cents, depending on which state. West Virginia I remember 29.
Remember when there were no gray cars except for govt vehicles?
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
only the Navy ones...The Army's were green, The Airforce's were blue. Non- military vehicles could be several colors.
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
Remember when Koolaid packets were a nickel?
UR20Z
Dumpster Diver
3 cents on sale or with a coupon.
The reason why my teeth got so many cavities. One quart of water, one packet, and one cup of sugar.
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
That would ha ve had my teeth jumping out of my face ...I usually, even then, cut the sugar back to less than have what the label asked for....
Remember making your own rootbeer?
yea, we did that, and at times with too much yeast, the caps exploded off.
We use to make wine from grape juice too. Terrible stuff
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
My mother used to make her own Sangria....and she liked it...
Yepper...I was gonna say...we made rootbeer once....every single quart bottle blew, and the cleaning up was grim.
Remember Walter Cronkite's Shows on weekend mornings? " You Are There"....or "20th Century"?
Farmhand640
Zooville Settler
LMAO - another reference I don't know anything about. No television till I was just passed 17 and moved to town to start college. And the last thing on my mind was - the news "grins". Drives Mrs. Thunderstorm (wife) crazy when she brings up a 1950's to mid 1970's show and I get a blank look in my eyes. I gotta admit, this television thing is pretty neat 
I remember when fence was stretched with a block and tackle, holes were dug with a shovel and a digging bar, and a concert was the local best guitar player and his friends playing at the Saturday night dance during the local rodeo. Oh, and everyone played at least two sports. One other thing - PE was a mandatory class.
I remember when fence was stretched with a block and tackle, holes were dug with a shovel and a digging bar, and a concert was the local best guitar player and his friends playing at the Saturday night dance during the local rodeo. Oh, and everyone played at least two sports. One other thing - PE was a mandatory class.
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
Yep....And I managed some very creative excuses to get out of PE....but then, when you attend four different highschools in four or five years, you kinda dont wanna shower with the guys....they didnt know me or I them well enough...And that deodorant never did take " the Worry Out Of Being Close..." on the other hand, Co Ed showers.....yum.LMAO - another reference I don't know anything about. No television till I was just passed 17 and moved to town to start college. And the last thing on my mind was - the news "grins". Drives Mrs. Thunderstorm (wife) crazy when she brings up a 1950's to mid 1970's show and I get a blank look in my eyes. I gotta admit, this television thing is pretty neat
I remember when fence was stretched with a block and tackle, holes were dug with a shovel and a digging bar, and a concert was the local best guitar player and his friends playing at the Saturday night dance during the local rodeo. Oh, and everyone played at least two sports. One other thing - PE was a mandatory class.
One of the "You Are There" shows was 'The Trial of Aristotle'....the basic premise of the series was Historic Occurences of the past, as they might have been covered by a news program. Being an AV Club kid, I remember having about 35 of those episodes in our stock....and they were pretty popular among Substitute Teachers....Just about class-length, so it was an easy teach.
Remember when Hugh O'Brien, John Anderson, Ray Boyle, and Douglas Fowley shot up the Clanton boys, Rafe Barnes, Ralph Reed, Gregg Palmer, and George Wallace at the OK Corral?
Farmhand640
Zooville Settler
Prolly wore yur boots an gut hooks during swim class.
saddlebum66
Supreme Citizen of ZV
Was just realizing....that episode of Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp was first broadcast about sixty years ago....and it was shot only seventy years after the Real Thing happened. Time flies
Yea, just think 50 years forward from 1970 puts you in 2020, and 50 years before puts you in 1920
Farmhand640
Zooville Settler
Fun fact, my grandmothers aunt witnessed the gunfight in the lot.
Farmhand640
Zooville Settler
Another fun fact, Sheriff John Slaughter is in my family gene pool. He was ambushed by one of the Clanton's and another gang member on his way home from town with his wife - they missed. He went home, armed himself and rode back to town and let it be known that any gang member seen in his county would be shot on sight. His reputation was such that all of them left the County and this is one of the reasons the Clantons were in Tombstone.