Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes
"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays
they still play dodgeball and football at my son's school.....
blutattoo:
Puff_Dougie:
Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes
Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
my kids have rode in the back of a truck and rode a bike without a helmet..........ok maybe i am just a bad parent. I look at it like my parents lived and i lived if they grab the bike without a helment, oh well. If they are going a mile to a friends house and want to ride in the back of the truck oh well.
and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.
Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays
they still play dodgeball and football at my son's school.....
blutattoo:
Puff_Dougie:
Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes
Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
my kids have rode in the back of a truck and rode a bike without a helmet..........ok maybe i am just a bad parent. I look at it like my parents lived and i lived if they grab the bike without a helment, oh well. If they are going a mile to a friends house and want to ride in the back of the truck oh well.
and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.
Just got me a record player for xmas and my kids love it!
reel to reel audio tape and for that matter, reel to reel video tape
after school fights
duck hunting before school
Dinner at the dinner table
Sunday school
Ruler across the knuckles by the teacher. (and it wasn't abuse, it was discipline)
Having to do actual chores.
Having to turn the wipers on and off, cause there was not intermittent wipers.
Knowing how to check your oil on your car.
Having to actually be home to watch a movie or cartoon, cause there was no recording it.
And if there was something that pre-emted it [president or Dad had some show he wanted to watch], you were screwed.
Having to adjust the color on your TV with a color wheel. (now I'm really dating myself.)
mimeograph paper.
pens that leaked all over.
ashtrays on shopping carts.
Buying cigarettes out of a cigarette machine.
Just a small bit that I can think of off the top of my head.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
does having to go "Pick" your own branch to get whipped with count ? Damn i still have nightmares about poplar trees, oh and and leather straps
And I also grew up with "Radio night" instead of the TV
and Pop used the old Victrola for our "music" time around the house
why yes I did grow up on a ranch
Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.
Smoking in Jr. High with your parents permission slip. Not that I smoked way back then but a lot of my friends did.
Schools with "smoking areas".
Which reminds me. Having to find a dime to call home from the pay phone, only to have no one home to answer the phone.
Which brings up the lack of answering machines.
Or having to leave a message with the phone operator to let your folks know you'll be late getting home or to pick you up.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Wait, you could leave a message with the operator?
yup. And we had 5 digit phone numbers and party lines.
Well, they were regular phone numbers, but you just dialed the last number of the prefix and the number. For that matter, I remember telling the operator west seattle 4 and the number or CH4 and the number.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
An honest to God Service Station Gas at .50/gallon Concert T-Shirts for $5.00 and tickets for $8.00 The Arcade not wearing seatbelts Not knowing the ingredients in food etc
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Dial phones.
Coal shoots.
Walking to school.
Pea shooters.
House calls by doctors.
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes
and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.
after school fights
duck hunting before school
Dinner at the dinner table
Sunday school
Ruler across the knuckles by the teacher. (and it wasn't abuse, it was discipline)
Having to do actual chores.
Having to turn the wipers on and off, cause there was not intermittent wipers.
Knowing how to check your oil on your car.
Having to actually be home to watch a movie or cartoon, cause there was no recording it.
And if there was something that pre-emted it [president or Dad had some show he wanted to watch], you were screwed.
Having to adjust the color on your TV with a color wheel. (now I'm really dating myself.)
mimeograph paper.
pens that leaked all over.
ashtrays on shopping carts.
Buying cigarettes out of a cigarette machine.
Just a small bit that I can think of off the top of my head.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Tiny ashtrays built into the armrests on planes and buses.
And I also grew up with "Radio night" instead of the TV
and Pop used the old Victrola for our "music" time around the house
why yes I did grow up on a ranch
The records remind me of when I was younger and my sisters waiting at the store for a new record to come out. It was a big deal back then. With a note from your parents. LOL!
Funny how their hand writing was so similar to mine.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Smoking in Jr. High with your parents permission slip. Not that I smoked way back then but a lot of my friends did.
Which reminds me. Having to find a dime to call home from the pay phone, only to have no one home to answer the phone.
Which brings up the lack of answering machines.
Or having to leave a message with the phone operator to let your folks know you'll be late getting home or to pick you up.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Well, they were regular phone numbers, but you just dialed the last number of the prefix and the number.
For that matter, I remember telling the operator west seattle 4 and the number or CH4 and the number.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Or calling a number (used to be 555-1212 in our area) and getting, "at the tone, the correct time will be........"
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Gas at .50/gallon
Concert T-Shirts for $5.00 and tickets for $8.00
The Arcade
not wearing seatbelts
Not knowing the ingredients in food etc