Remember the good ol' days...

[Angel]

$400.00 could buy a 1950's car and $600.00 a 1960's car...

That's amazing!

 

[jasoncran]

rat patrol, I remember that. I haven't watch that since the 80's.

 

[handy]

$400.00 could buy a 1950's car and $600.00 a 1960's car...

That's amazing!

I remember my Dad mentioning when he bought a new Ford Explorer (forget the year but it was in the '90's) that the Explorer cost more than the first house he and mom bought. I remember back in the early '70's, taking a trip through Southern California with my grandparents and uncle and for a lark we drove through the "rich" neighborhood...where the millionaires lived in mansions that cost upwards to $250,000 - $500,000 dollars. It was amazing to think of someone living in a house that cost a Quarter of a Million Dollars!!!

Anyone remember going to McDonald's and buying a hamburger, fries and shake? You gave the clerk a dollar and you got your food and a dime in change.

And everyone went outside in the summer evenings, kids to play, grown ups to sit on patios or porches to chat, or do some work on the flower beds or visit with the neighbors... mainly because all three networks showed nothing but re-runs all summer long and who was silly enough to watch a show one had already watched?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

...the good ol' days when 'mature significant other's life experiences' were simply known as 'old wive's tales'?

Cars only lasted 100,000 miles.

When they reached 100,000 miles you could buy them for $100.00 or less for the engine and trans.

When 'Perfect Strangers' on Friday nights was funny (don't waste your money on the DVD's).

Married couples on TV slept in separate beds to satisfy the network censors.

When you were a teen, to see porn you had to know an older person willing to let you look at their porn (uh...so I'm told...).

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Remember the good ol' days of 18% mortgage rates (okay, sorry to rain on our parade, lol).

You had to beg for a loan of any kind.

5% interest bearing savings accounts.

...how 'bout just having a savings account?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I remember my Dad mentioning when he bought a new Ford Explorer...

Remember when it was hip to have a Ford Explorer. When gas was .99 a gallon and nine miles to the gallon didn't matter.

 

[stovebolts]

Remember the good ol' days when Native Americans were called Indians? I didn't even know what was offensive about 'Indians'.

My Step Mom is Indian and so are my step brothers and Sisters and we never knew the word Indian was offensive... ohhh, and I can't tell you how many times we rooted for the Redskins!

You can imagine how confused I was when I moved to Detroit and had to figure out that "Indians" came from India lol!

Ahhh, the good ole days when we used the metal garbage can lids as shields to protect ourselves from the BB gun fights. Yup, those were the days!

 

[WIP]

I remember my Dad mentioning when he bought a new Ford Explorer...

Remember when it was hip to have a Ford Explorer. When gas was .99 a gallon and nine miles to the gallon didn't matter.

Okay, this will age me a little.
I remember...
$.27 per gallon gasoline.
Microwave ovens were not a home appliance.
Wringer washing machines.
Drive-in movies.
$.10 got you admission to the Saturday matinee.
8-track tape player.
$1.62 per hour job
Babysitting for $.25 per hour.
Banana bikes.

My first home in 1982 cost me $36,900.00. Four years later the value dropped to about $18,000.00. I still owed $27,000.00. Eventually sold it for $42,000.00 after it was completely rebuilt due to fire damage.

 

[stovebolts]

Banana bikes.

Yes! I had this one! It was the coolest on the block!

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I remember...
$.27 per gallon gasoline.

.32 a gallon for me.

Microwave ovens were not a home appliance.

My folks had one of the first home microwave ovens. My dad got to bring home the prototype his company was developing. We ended up only using it to thaw loafs of bread my mom stored in the large freezer they bought right around that time too. The big drawback if I remember correctly was a shortage of microwavable dishes in the house, lol.

They finally sold it (for $450.00 I think) to raise money to send me and my brother on a school trip to Washington D.C.

Banana bikes.

Mine was a Huffy.

My first home in 1982 cost me $36,900.00. Four years later the value dropped to about $18,000.00. I still owed $27,000.00.

I guess some things never change.

Just add 25 years, and a zero to these house values to bring this right into recent history.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Ah yes, the good old days when companies hired illustrators to do their advertising.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Remember the good ol' days when Native Americans were called Indians? I didn't even know what was offensive about 'Indians'.

My Step Mom is Indian and so are my step brothers and Sisters and we never knew the word Indian was offensive... ohhh, and I can't tell you how many times we rooted for the Redskins!

You can imagine how confused I was when I moved to Detroit and had to figure out that "Indians" came from India lol!

I'm thinking some rebel without a cause (probably a WASP, lol) decided to defend an imagined cause and came to the aid of the mislabeled North American 'Indians'.

My son's girlfriend's mom is Indian and I'm pretty sure that's what his girlfriend says she is--part 'Indian'. And says her mom is Indian. So much for PC.

Ahhh, the good ole days when we used the metal garbage can lids as shields to protect ourselves from the BB gun fights. Yup, those were the days!

Used 'em in the crab apple fights we used to have with the kids that we didn't hang out with in the neighborhood. We used to whip them at them by sticking them on the ends of long branches and whipping them in the air over to them. I was a hero the day I used a metal garbage can to deflect incoming apples. I'm thinking my older brother accidentally bonged my sister in the head with one and that kind of put an end to that. Either that or she got mad that we stole the lid off of the metal garbage can she kept her horse feed in.

 

[Guest]

Me and my friend used to go to the baseball fields and pitch to each other, and play homerun derby. The feeling of hitting it over the fence is priceless. I was probly 14-15 years old.

 

[handy]

 

[BadOlPuttyTat]

Well I myself still eat semi raw meat on occasion.

Id o not understand your objections to scientific research and common sense. They are very vital in constructing a society to evolve pasts its previous primitive nature. All actions one does not are already outdated simply do to the fact that continuous research progresses and pulls down the future events of centuries to decades, years, months then weeks away from us.

I do understand your aversion to political correctness though. It is truly a horrific concept.

Shalom, BOPT.

Common sense IMHO is not always sakal, and human sciences are often one step forward two steps back...

B'H

as-Salaam alaikum!
I am not sure on the definition of sakal . But if it means abundant then I agree.

Scientific progress is very tedious and often backfires and results ins tarting from scratch. It is the nature of the business.

 

[reba]

we bought a 1957 Vette for 600 in 1966 Sold it just before they went ballistic.... for about 3000

1959 pile into a car.... pitch in 25 cents and cruse all night

 

[AirDancer]

First car: used 1964 Ford Mustang, maroon/dark red with black interior, low mileage, easy on the 1971's 25-cent/gallon gas ... bought it for $450, sold it in 1972 for $1800 to my new brother-in-law (who lasted all 12 years in the family).

The Kickapoo Rock Festival in 1970, held on the outskirts of a little eyeblink town of Heyworth, IL. Creedence Clearwater Revival was one of many who performed. CCR later immortalized Kickapoo in their song "Lookin' Out My Back Door" ("Just got back from Illinois....")

Sky King and his daughter Penny were a weekly program ... it influenced my love of airplanes

Bell bottom slacks that completely covered the feet - hid the feet so well, one didn't need to wear shoes in hot weather

Age 5, met real-life Beatniks, who were really nice ... treated me to some Fannie Mae candies & some unusual poetry.

Political fund raisers, meeting LBJ (who had no time for little people) & his wife Lady Bird (who DID have time for little people), and announcing (as a 6 year old) to a group of adults that their candidate for governor was going to wind up in prison (a few years later, he did).

Hop-Along Cassidy.... Andy Devine ... "Maverick" ... "Gallant Men" (with Eddie Fontaine as D'Angelo) ... "Perry Mason" (as first runs) ... and Coke bottles dispensed from either a machine or a chest-style cooler for 10-cents

Clothes detergents came with bath towels, hand towels or wash clothes inside the box. (My family didn't use those brands, but I had friends whose moms bought the detergents for the towels.)

 

[handy]

Clothes detergents came with bath towels, hand towels or wash clothes inside the box.

I remember those. I also remember my mom using the suggestions that were on the box and making some bathroom curtains out of the towels with roses printed on them... they made really cute curtains.

 

[God's_child]

I remember actually playing outside, using my imagination. We didn't have computers or video games...until Atari came out in my teens. I would go in the woods and hike around for hours or go fishing at the lake...all day sometimes. As long as my parents knew where I was going and I was home before dark, all was good. Being a kid was fun.

 

[AirDancer]

I remember those. I also remember my mom using the suggestions that were on the box and making some bathroom curtains out of the towels with roses printed on them... they made really cute curtains.

I think it was Dreft detergent that had drinking glasses in their boxes ... one could collect an entire set of 8-oz glasses, then the following year or so they offered juice glasses ... and so on, until a family could have all matching glasses of the various sizes needed.

Or, if one was in a hurry, one used Green Stamps to select a variety of kitchen and household items.

Things have sure changed over the years!