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I remember $.03 deposits on bottles. We used to ride our bicycles all over collecting. Back then everyone threw everything out of the car windows and bottles were everywhere.
We rode around collecting bottles along roads, creek beds and at construction sites. We were cash starved kids in awe that "rich" construction workers just tossed their empties on the ground after lunch and left them there at the end of the day.
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Hey Jaxon ... don't leave out penny loafers and argyle socks. Anyone who was cool wore 'em.
How did you get my picture from inside my house? Is there no privacy?
We rode around collecting bottles along roads, creek beds and at construction sites. We were cash starved kids in awe that "rich" construction workers just tossed their empties on the ground after lunch and left them there at the end of the day.
How did you get my picture from inside my house? Is there no privacy?
Look really close and you will see a peanut butter... banana sandwich...
In the late '60s I bought my cowhide Tony Lamas and Niconas from a fellow named Joe Combs who sold them out of his garage at West Camp, Texas (near Muleshoe, Texas). I seem to recall they were about $39.00 a pair back then. The last pair of cowhide Niconas I bought about 30 years ago at Lubbock I still have. They were about $180.
Joe Combs later moved to a store at Clovis, New Mexico. I don't know if he is still alive or if his large Clovis store is still in business. Nice fellow he was.
I blame suddenly rising boot prices in the 1980s on John Travolta and the movie Urban Cowboy.
I bought Dan Posts, Tony Llamas and some others. A friend gave me some Nocona's and Justin's. I had ostrich skin, Alligator skin and I forget what all skins. Never paid more than about 40 bucks a pair. We had a local Little's Boot Shop. It was across the street from my dad's shop. It became well known to movie stars and other big shots for hand made boots. Lucchese's Boot factory was here too. Still is far as I know.
No but I had to unlock to front door so he could get in once. Dad had a rule. Curfew. If you weren't in by curfew, he locked the door. I think that was the only time it ever happened.
No but I had to unlock to front door so he could get in once. Dad had a rule. Curfew. If you weren't in by curfew, he locked the door. I think that was the only time it ever happened.
They have leash laws here now.. Maybe he should never have been let out. He he! Seems like when I turned 14 and got a motorcycle the curfew went out the window. Ahh the freedom!
We rode around collecting bottles along roads, creek beds and at construction sites. We were cash starved kids in awe that "rich" construction workers just tossed their empties on the ground after lunch and left them there at the end of the day.
I wish I had a picture of some of those times when our bicycles were so loaded down with toe sacks full of bottles we could hardly ride the bikes. At time we would hide part of our cache then come back later to get them. We would sell them at the local Sinclair station (pic attached) as that was the only place close.
Yes. Back then a dollar bill in your pocket was a lot of money.
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Is there no privacy? 
old enough to know.. but Mom - Dad not up on the lingo.. of the time
