Way back WHEN - do you remember

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My Uncle Al was self employed.  Did yard work for folks during the summer and shoveled snow and trapped  furs in the winter. Raised 4 of my cousins doing little else to make money.  Anyone ever heard of rolling newspaper?

I rode 130 miles on that shelf.  I remember the Watkins man,  we always had a bottle of what we called "Watkins horse liniment."  I have a bottle and it says temporary relief of backache, arthritis, muscle strains, sprains.   I never think too try it.

ford8nwd wrote: Lou, I also had a '51 Chevy fastback, a nice car, I bought in '54 after getting out of the army. My father in law loaned us $500 to buy it, total price. Imagine being able to buy a 3 year old car today for that. How times change. When I was sent to the store back in the thirties I was lucky if I could have a penny for candy, times were tough. We lived in one room at my grandmothers til dad found a job, about 1940. Ah, the good old days!

Ford, you are a bit older than me then.....I didn't tell the whole story. The car was owned by the neighbor, he bought it new. He was the closest that I had to a grandfather. I was about 18 months old at the time. he had left me in the car for a couple of min's and I managed to pull it out of gear, probably trying to pull myself up to see out the windows, column shift, and it coasted down a very slight grade and put a football size and shape dent in the rear fender. Of course, I don't remember any of it. I wasn't hurt. that dent was still in it when he passed 1965 and the family sold the car

"Fuller Brush Company" is one guy I can remember stopping by.

One thing I remember that hasn`t been mentioned yet are hand chokes and especially  hand throttles.  Don`t remember cars having them,  but I remember a couple of late model 40s Chevy trucks having hand throttles.  Ma traded the 46 that didn`t run off for a cow and when dad asked her why would she traded a truck for a cow her answer was very simple "because the truck didn`t give milk".

Lou, I also had a '51 Chevy fastback, a nice car, I bought in '54 after getting out of the army. My father in law loaned us $500 to buy it, total price. Imagine being able to buy a 3 year old car today for that. How times change. When I was sent to the store back in the thirties I was lucky if I could have a penny for candy, times were tough. We lived in one room at my grandmothers til dad found a job, about 1940. Ah, the good old days!

Yep older than dirt. 

I remember riding with my Grandfather in a old Plymouth/Dodge, with the center armrest thing folded down, that was my car-seat!  And yes I rode with him up the road to get another case of  Black Label.   Riding in the old station wagon rear facing seat in the back with the window down inhaling all the fumes!! LOL  So that is the reason I am the way I am??

I remember cars with the ignition on the dash and floor dimmer, my 68 Torino is that way. Dad had a heater mounted on the floor of his truck with the ignition switch on the left side of the dash and manual choke from the factory. I had an aunt and uncle who still had a party line into the middle 80's.  The wax coke bottles, think they were called Nik L Nip? We used to walk up to the gas station for a 16oz glass bottle of pop, by then the 10oz bottles were getting scarce. There was a dime deposit on all glass bottles. Cans didn't have a nickel yet, but if you collected aluminum cans, the beverage distributors would pay by the pound for them to recycle. I got candy cigarettes at the neighborhood grocery store. By then home delivered milk was pretty much non existent. The milk boxes on the door step were still common and were used for news papers. We had the 3 major networks with one public TV channel. We had an antenna rotator box on the TV to move the antenna on the chimney. That and there was a fine tuning knob around the knob you turned to change channels that Dad was always fooling with. We used S&H Green stamps and also Regal stamps that came from the grocery store. You could still get 45 rpm records, but the 8 Track was well established and the cassette tape was becoming popular. I had a friend that had a Beta VCR. We still have a VHS VCR under the TV. I had friends with cable TV but Mom and Dad didn't get it until after I left home. MTV was music TV back then. We got purple mimeograph worksheets in school, we used hollowed out ball point pens to shoot spit balls, and I had a set of skates that used the key to clamp them on your shoes. Mom had a camera that used the big blue flash bulbs that had an 1156 bulb style base on them. Later on she got one that had the 4 sided cubes that rotated with each picture. Don't forget the 8mm and Super 8mm home movie cameras. We had 16mm films in school. I remember Grandma washing clothes with a wringer washer, we had cork pop guns, and went to the drive in. In my junior year in high school we lived across the street from the Star-Lite drive in. When they went to stereo sound you could receive the sound on a portable radio so I'd sit in the ft yard on a lawn chair sometimes and watch the movies.

Edited by Brian Jasper co. Ia - 08 Apr 2018 at 2:58pm

When I was pretty small Western Auto stores had a super duper contest with bicycles and all kinds of goodies in the add for collecting pop bottle caps so for a whole summer I walked to town and went to every place I had permission to have their caps from mostly Coke chest type coolers which was probably all of them so they wouldn't have to empty them. Well anyways after carting them all home and persuading Pappy to take me 20 miles I got to a Western Auto with a trunk full of bottle caps. Wound up with a yoyo probably retail value of about 49 cents. I learned a lesson from that about gullibility but do still have the yoyo around here some place as a keepsake.

5. Coffee shops or diners with table side jukeboxes
 The only thing I don't remember, cause we never went to any restaurants and no local ones had em anyway.
 Our phone was an oak wall phone, wired across the pasture to Grandmas bedroom and she had one in the kitchen that went to the outside world. I was only allowed to use it a couple times to call my friend down the road, on our party line.
 TV came to our house when I was about 11 and the Preacher donated his old RCA black and white when he got a new TV.
 running water didn't come till we moved across the road and lived there a couple years. I think I was prolly 14 when we didn't have to bucket water to the house anymore.

older than dirt here, Remember when the only seat belts were in the stock cars at the local dirt track. When I started as a volunteer fireman had a  fire phone that rang steady until answered then everyone on the party line would listen to hear where the fire was.

Other than cheap prices the thing I miss most is crank out vent windows in cars. I suppose I should mention also how big the world seemed when you are small and know absolutely nothing.

Edited by Walker - 07 Apr 2018 at 6:05pm

yeah I got them all..
I remember  the milk truck being ELECTRIC ( early 60s) and a guy clanging his bell wanting to sharpen knives and scissors. Also a huge wooded area( 2 acres or more) that was carpetted with White Trilliums(Ontario's flower), they all got bulldozed over to make a parking lot for the new sports park. And... was on the LAST steam engine train from Hamilton to Toronto.
great now I'm really feeling old....
Jay