Remembering The Past

[AzScorpion]

I always liked Paul Lynde.

He was really funny in Hollywood Squares. ?

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[P. A. Schilke]

 

[Fordup]

My mom got a set of them with a holster belt for me with her plaid stamps. I'd wear them watching the lone ranger. I made the house smell like Sulphur shooting the bad guys.

 

[dtech]

Our dentist did not use novacane or pain killers. We would be screaming. Made me scared of dentists.

Same here, getting a cavity filled was sheer torture, however in my case it was a cost issue, back then employer dental ins wasn't as common as today. Grew up in a 7 kid family, with grandma included 10 people and we shared 1 bathroom, learned bowel control. Eventually family move to 2 bathroom house, a luxury. Wife and I had 2 kids and house had 3.5 bathrooms and 2 kids would fight over using the upstairs bathroom.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

Would you believe...I was friends with Roy Rogers....later in life when I was 19 years old... Doddy (sp) Rogers was in my Senior High School classes...

 

[Synfulz]

So back in the day parents could do things and get away with it. I was about 5 and I took some change out of my dad's drawer. We lived right up the street from the jail. He dragged me down there and him and the officer threw me in a cell. Left me there for like a hour. Guess how much I've stole since then? Does not include my government wages. ??

 

[gfitzge2]

Ate lots of fried foods cooked in...OMG...lard !!!
Built model kits using real glue !!!
Played with BB Guns..."Watch out, you'll put your eye out" !!!
Played with sling shots..."Watch out, you'll put your eye out"
Played real games, outside...football and baseball...."What was a video game???"
Played outside and never worried about being abducted or "drive by shootings".
Had one family car and...OMG...only one black and white tv that picked up 3 channels.
If lucky, had a little transistor radio.
Had a 50 cent a week allowance that I had to do chores to earn.
"Toys" were my Lincoln Log Set and an Erector Set.

About the same for me. I was following right along with you.
There were 6 of us so the erector set was not in the family budget.

At the Convenient store (actual name) we could buy a small plastic air plane, about 3 inches wing span. It came with a stick with a rubber band. If you added a few extra rubber bands, you could launch that sucker nearly out of sight. Talk about "you could put your eye out". WHAT were they thinking. But yet we survived.

There was no actual allowance, but I could buy an airplane and a Milky Way with the change from when Mom sent me to the store for ------ cigarettes . Yes an 8 or 10 year old could buy cigarettes when they were for Mom. And you could walk the 1 mile to the store and not be in danger.

 

[OFC Ranger]

haha I had one of those and I was only a kid of 80's

 

[OFC Ranger]

Countless hours for that 1 second window of seeing boobie as a kid. I think it was channel 99 if I recall.

 

[AzScorpion]

About the same for me. I was following right along with you.
There were 6 of us so the erector set was not in the family budget.

At the Convenient store (actual name) we could buy a small plastic air plane, about 3 inches wing span. It came with a stick with a rubber band. If you added a few extra rubber bands, you could launch that sucker nearly out of sight. Talk about "you could put your eye out". WHAT were they thinking. But yet we survived.

There was no actual allowance, but I could buy an airplane and a Milky Way with the change from when Mom sent me to the store for ------ cigarettes . Yes an 8 or 10 year old could buy cigarettes when they were for Mom. And you could walk the 1 mile to the store and not be in danger.

Greg, I remember those airplanes and we use to have wars with them. We'd build a fort with sticks on the ground and pretend we were bombing each other and throw hand grenades (dirt balls) at each other. lol

Then they had these from airplanes you could get a 711. They weren't as fun as the ones with the rubber band but we could keep ourselves busy for hours with just about anything back then.

 

[GTGallop]

Teachers could administer corporal punishment.

 

[AzScorpion]

Teachers could administer corporal punishment.

My dad told us how the nuns would come by and wack your hand with a wooden ruler. Imagine trying to do that now?

 

[GTGallop]

We used toxic metals to treat skin infections.

 

[GTGallop]

My dad told us how the nuns would come by and wack your hand with a wooden ruler. Imagine trying to do that now?

Ruler? I wish!

I met with the "Board of Education" on more than one occasion. And when the skinny old frail school teachers realized that all 4'10" 85lbs of them wasn't a threat to 6'1" 185lb me, I started getting paddled by one of the coaches. They did it in front of the class too. If you cried you got a bonus lick. Straightened my @$$ out pretty quick. I wasn't going back to that well again.

 

[Chris M]

We used toxic metals to treat skin infections.

Yeah we did.
And that stuff worked , too.
No germ could survive that treatment!

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