Way back WHEN - do you remember

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

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.

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?

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