Favorite Thing About The Past

[GURPS]

..... I wouldn't lose the dial up connection

Raging at family members for picking up the phone and ruining a 650 mb download that was @ 98%

 

[GURPS]

Drive-in movie theaters

Oh Hell Yeah .... GF Drove a 1952 Ford Panel Truck and sneaking friends in the Drive in

we had 4 in this area in 1980

Ft Washington: Super Chief, ABC
Clinton: Ranch Drive in
Waldorf: 301 drive in

 

[GURPS]

I remember my mother, grandmother and aunt would collect yellow stamps or green stamps ...

S&H Green Stamps

 

[PsyOps]

Flashlight tag.

 

[Misfit]

My banana seat bike with ape hangers and tassels.

 

[PrchJrkr]

My banana seat bike with ape hangers and tassels.

Spyder bike!

 

[NextJen]

My banana seat bike with ape hangers and tassels.

Did you cut straws and put them on the spokes to make noise?

 

[vraiblonde]

Indeed, had he spent less time at the Tropiciana Club and throwing them back at Archie’s place he’d had been better off.

Or at least had Hop Sing making more nutritious meals.

 

[PsyOps]

My banana seat bike with ape hangers and tassels.

Don't forget the deck of cards flapping on the spokes.

 

[Misfit]

Country music playing on the country station.

 

[Concern4Calvert]

Piling into the family station wagon to go visit my Grandmother who lived in Crozet, Va. Back before anyone really wore seat belts, we would bring our pillows with us and sit on the floor of the car with the pillow on the seat and sleep most of the way there.
I also remember riding in the back of pick up trucks when we were little.

please tell me it had wood panels!? im a fan either way

 

[Concern4Calvert]

I remember my mother, grandmother and aunt would collect yellow stamps or green stamps, them redeem them for some glassware or other houseware stuff. I think they got them when they went grocery shopping, may be wrong though. I just remember her sticking those damn stamps in a book and being so happy when she got a page filled.

this is a really unique one. i wouldn't know about the stamp thing since its slightly before my time. thanks for sharing!

 

[Misfit]

Or at least had Hop Sing making more nutritious meals.

I loved Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

Did you cut straws and put them on the spokes to make noise?

Don't forget the deck of cards flapping on the spokes.

Hell yeah, and a mounted tube to launch bottle rockets from the handle bars.

 

[Larry Gude]

Everything closed on Sundays.

Being able to take off running at a full sprint any time.

The very real differences place to place within a state, distinct state to state differences.

Lifting the hood and being able to pretty much fix anything. With basic tools.

Believing in the ideas of America

 

[NextJen]

please tell me it had wood panels!? im a fan either way

No wood panels on ours. We had a Ford LTD wagon, maroon, the top over the back part bumped up a little bit....I always thought it looked a little like a hearse. It had those fold down seats in the very back that faced each other.
Our neighbors had the station wagon with the wood panels. For some reason the name 'Country Squire' comes to mind. I'll have to Google it now!

 

[Concern4Calvert]

anyone else remember the first car phones?

you know... the big ass box that sat in between the seats with the giant antenna glued to the top of your roof? And lets not forget about the cord earpiece LOL FML

 

[Misfit]

Lifting the hood and being able to pretty much fix anything. With basic tools.

Carbureted straight six.

 

[Concern4Calvert]

No wood panels on ours. We had a Ford LTD wagon, maroon, the top over the back part bumped up a little bit....I always thought it looked a little like a hearse. It had those fold down seats in the very back that faced each other.
Our neighbors had the station wagon with the wood panels. For some reason the name 'Country Squire' comes to mind. I'll have to Google it now!

without googling, I believe country squire is correct. ours was a gray mercury of some type. my parents drove it until one day it wouldn't go in reverse at church and the girlscouts and myself had to push it out of the parking space so we could get it home. it was traded for an all white grand caravan RIP

 

[Concern4Calvert]

Carbureted straight six.

i've heard people say a VW was literally just a few bolts to turn and a new engine was in/out

 

[Misfit]

I remember when they’d teach us fire safety in school by showing us burned skinless people on a reel to reel projector.