I'm so old I remember... (California, Dallas, house, buy)

[oldcodgette58]

I remember Pinkie Lee, Captain Kangaroo(one hour), Milton Berle, polio vaccine, home delivered Pine State milk, 6 cent popcicles, the junk/umbrella man with horse drawn wagon, going to local store Weinstein's for 25 cents worth of sliced balogna, the Weekly Reader, 49 cent gal/gas, the original Honeymooners tv show, paperdolls from Woolworth's, the 5 & 10 cent store was really the 5 and 10 cent store, Christmas parades at night, feeding the pigeons at Capitol Square, the Porter Wagonner show, the Homer Brierhopper show, Flatts and Scruggs show on Saturday local TV(way before HEE-HAW), the country boy from Broadslab, Jim Thornton; looking for 4-leaf clovers, bringing your own brown paper bag for picking plums, wild blackberries, and wild apples; bringing home a large brown bag of Halloween candy after trick or treating in the neighborhood; the Hobby Shop in Cameron Village with running toys train sets in the display window; going to roller skate and biking in groups of 10 or more ON THE STREET;(Sunday the best day because all the stores were closed and the parking lots were empty) annual cleaning of the community cemetary and being afraid of 'sumpholes'; on Christmas morning everyone with new bikes, and skates congregated outside, and don't forget the ROY ROGER/DALE EVANS pistols with the caps!

[motormaker]

Oh boy, cap guns, used to use up a lot of cap plus smacking a whole role with a hammer to get a big bang. And Daisy Red Ryder BB guns.

[quiet walker]

Originally Posted by motormaker

Oh boy, cap guns, used to use up a lot of cap plus smacking a whole role with a hammer to get a big bang...

And then your ears would ring! Oh man!

[AksarbeN]

I love going to CrackerBarrel to eat,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I remember all those things on the walls in the dining rooms.

[LaceyEx]

AksarbeN-love Cracker Barrel and all the nostalgia on the walls. Also when going thru antique stores the memories flood back.

[RDSLOTS]

I'm so old now, that when I go into an antiques shop, I am no longer exclaiming, "Oh! My Grandmother had one of those!," but find myself saying instead, "When did THAT become an 'antique'?"

I asked the fellow in one of those 'questionable' antique/flea market places if he had cleaned-out Dad's garage for him -- golden wheat dishes and glasses from the old A&P stores, mod 60s cube-style odds-'n-ends furniture pieces (my daughter would kill for ), trolls, posters. . . you get the picture.

Who'd have thunk it?

[ptsum]

I can remember the old Amos and Andy shows on the radio and on TV I remember Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Pick Temple show, Ranger Hal, Pinky Lee, Arthur Godfrey, Our Hit Parade, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger. I remembered the Ben Franklin five and dime stores when everything really was five and $.10, Esso gas stations, gas was $.25 a gallon, IGA food stores, drug stores with soda fountains, could get a Cherry Coke for a nickel, I remember 1953 when Mickey Mantle hit a home run out of Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC, I was at that game and I remember the smells of Wonder Bread Bakery across the street from Griffin Stadium.

[johnrex62]

Originally Posted by LaceyEx

Northwoods remember all those. But last year visiting my daughter and family, our youngest and I were on the couch w/her parents and she said "Grandma were you alive when apples were invented?"

Sure I said-think bananas were around too.

Thought OMG the kid thinks I'm really older than dirt.

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

Well, aren't we?

NWV, now I know how you came by all those rep points. One for each decade you have been alive!


Let's keep 'em coming, eh?

[hjennings]

Originally Posted by EmoSarah

hah.

the farthest back i can remember is beginning of full house, and watching fresh prince of bel air....

i'm young =)

hey Emo... I can remember in the 8o's when we thought we were cool, cause we moped around, wore all black and longed for the end of the world to come. Funny how everything cycles back around.

[hjennings]

Originally Posted by Rcm58

I'm so old I remember when Rick Allen "Def Leppard" had two arms.

Ha, ha . Love it!