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October 11, 2009
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SCORPIO said
ME!Do you remember duck and cover drills in elementary school? And being marched off to the school basement fallout shelter complete with food and water canned in the early 1950s? I do.
I also remember wathcing the Apollo 8 mission and saying to my dad, whats the big deal, on Star Trek they go all over the galaxy. Thats when he told me it was fiction.
I remember all those things and I'm only 50.
Had to change shirt, spewed my coffee reading this one. I knew it was a show. But it broke my heart when I found out the Robot from Lost in Space had a man in it. "You mean its not real? And Mary Ann from Gilligans Island was my 1st love. And is still hot! 
You guys ever attach a playing card to the frame of your bicycles with a clothes pin? So the wheel spokes would flap it making an engine sound?
October 11, 2009
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Truth or Consequences with Bob Barker? Ever notice how The Cartwrights would fall in love with a girl and want to marry her, then she would die. Remember 12 O'clock High? And I don't mean the hippies getting stoned at lunch. Remember draft dodger's? I remember my mom scolding me for wearing the same shirt 3 days in a row and dad cracking up when I replied that Marshall Dillon and the Cartwrights never change clothes. " Thats just T.V. Remem
ber $5 a car load nights at the Drive In?
September 25, 2012
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dantanna58,
Remember your screen name's show Vega$. That show made me want something other than a SAA cowboy pistol. His gun was so cool and I didn't even know what it was.
Kukla Fran & Ollie anyone?
October 11, 2009
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JTecalo said
dantanna58,Remember your screen name's show Vega$. That show made me want something other than a SAA cowboy pistol. His gun was so cool and I didn't even know what it was.
Kukla Fran & Ollie anyone?
The only reason I ever started watching Vega$ was "Dan Tanna" had a Dan Wesson pistol pack. The first I'd ever seen. Now I have the series on DVD. Your only the second person that made my screen name connection. I remember K,F,and O.
How about Captain Kangaroo? And before Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris, their was James West. He could fight 8 men and never get his hair messed up. Remember " The Man from U.N.C. L. E." ?
October 11, 2009
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Steve CT said
You old Geezer, I'm only 61, you're over the hill!
This is for Steve CT, I know you remember guys combing their hair with a "Duck Tail". Dinah Shore singing ' See the USA, in a Chevrolet". And this is my last one. I have a buddy who needs help sighting his rifle in for the upcoming dear season. A little jingle ' You can trust your car, to the man that wears the star. The big bright Texaco Star!
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March 2, 2008
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OK, so remember when you could tune up your own car? Setting the point gap in your distributor? When you switched from low to high beams on your headlights by pushing a switch on the floor of your car? And what that did was turn on a whole extra set of headlights?
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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December 4, 2011
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Dual carbs, and dual point distributors. I had a 67 Mustang and to wash the windshield you pushed on a pedal that actually worked a manual pump to squirt fluid onto the windshield.
I still remember TV shows being advertized as "In Color" to make the black and white set owners feel slighted and want a new color set.
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January 12, 2012
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When you could "cruise" all night long on a dollars worth of gas
October 11, 2009
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cimarron said
When you could "cruise" all night long on a dollars worth of gas
And you actually had a gas station attendant come out and pump your gas and check the oil and the air pressure in your tires. People that drove a new Volkswagon beetle were just "Cheap". And the SUV of the day was a station wagon. Moms with "Bee hive " hair styles. Anything made in Japan was cheap junk. Giant console T.V.s with the T.V. screen in the middle and a phonograph at the other end. T.V. antennas on every roof top. And the one I really miss. Aluminum Christmas tree's. With that flood light with rotating plastic colored wheel that made the tree turn different color's.
January 12, 2012
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And you could mailorder a handgun or rifle from Sears & Roebuck or Monkey Wards and the postman would bring it to the house. And you didn't need "Instructions to mail a firearm". And there was no such thing as an FFL. And a firearm was considered outrageously expensive if it cost more than a hundred dollars.
And.....THERE WAS NO GCA68!!! 
October 11, 2009
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You could ride your bicycle to school. And before the class started we would all stand and face the flag with our hands over our hearts and say the "Pledge of Allegiance".
Then have a silent moment of prayer. Your folks could go to the grocery store and not lock the doors. In the warmer month's the only security system you had was that latch that kept the screen door closed. Your dog was just a mutt and not some high dollar "Pure Breed" that had to go to the vet every other month. You could ride around "Up Town" on a Saturday night in a convertible with the top down. Walk with your girl hand in hand window shopping. And not be armed with a CCW. And when her father said have her home by 11 p.m. You had her standing on the front porch at 10:55. And getting lucky on a date meant you mite get a good night kiss.
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And in High School you could bring your shotgun or 22 along and leave it in the gun rack of the pickup in the parking lot all day so you could go small game hunting on the way home from school. Nobody was worried, nobody got hurt, the cops wern't called and the news media didn't show up to cover the 'event'.
In my senrior year a guy did his demonstration speech for speech class on cleaning his Smith and Wesson model 29 44mag. He brought it in to the office in the AM, got it for class, demonstrated cleaning it for the class and returned it to the office. And he got an A for the speech. OH and none of us were worried or required counseling due to the trauma of seeing a gun. In fact most of the guys were envious as anything and just wanted to see it and handle it. Come to think of it, we were only 18 in HS and the kid still had his own 44 mag 8". Try that today, err better not.
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October 11, 2009
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And if you were a bad kid the teacher would smack the palm of your hand with a ruler.
And the Principal kept a paddle in his office and if he used it on you God help you if Dad found out about it.
Cleaning blackboards or banging erasers after school. Writing 100 times on the Black board. I will never " whatever it was you did". Cop's carried old S&W slim barreled
4 inch model 10's .38 specials with 158 grain round nose lead bullets in the gun and 6 spare rounds in a shell holder on his belt. And he was "Packing". If you wanted to ask a girl out you shyly walked up and asked her out. No "Facebook" or "E harmony" or whatever they advertise on T.V. Remember fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror? Fender skirts? Muscle car's with air shocks and shackles that jacked the rear end up so high that you had to open the door and look behind just to back up cause the rear window was so high? And cops with tape measures would measure how much clearance there was
between the back tire and fender? Re-capped tires? $10 bucks a piece.
September 25, 2012
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SCORPIO said
And in High School you could bring your shotgun or 22 along and leave it in the gun rack of the pickup in the parking lot all day so you could go small game hunting on the way home from school. Nobody was worried, nobody got hurt, the cops wern't called and the news media didn't show up to cover the 'event'.In my senrior year a guy did his demonstration speech for speech class on cleaning his Smith and Wesson model 29 44mag. He brought it in to the office in the AM, got it for class, demonstrated cleaning it for the class and returned it to the office. And he got an A for the speech. OH and none of us were worried or required counseling due to the trauma of seeing a gun. In fact most of the guys were envious as anything and just wanted to see it and handle it. Come to think of it, we were only 18 in HS and the kid still had his own 44 mag 8". Try that today, err better not.
funny thing along those lines. In 1964 I made a rifle in machine shop class (.257 roberts). We ordered a surplus 98 mauser and 257 rifled barrel blank and went to work. Turned & chambered the barrel, cut and re-welded the bolt handle. Drilled for a Weaver scope and bubba'd the stock with recoil pad.
Then I hot blued and polished the metal and the teacher took it to test fire behind the machine shop classroom.
He gave it to me (got an A) and 5 bullets and said put it in your locker. I marched clear across campus with the rifle slung over my shoulder, bullets in my pocket and never got a sideways look. After school I got the gun from my locker boarded the school bus and took it home, again only comments were "did you make that in class..neato"
This was 1 year after JFK was shot and nobody freaked. A different world then.
In grade school I took my Dad's 1881 Whitney-Kennedy 44-40 to class for show and tell. again no SWAT team was called
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