Do you remember when?

I remember buying my first car...Olds Starfire with a 350....
....never bothered to find out what kind of gas mileage I was getting.
 
I remember buying my first car...Olds Starfire with a 350....
....never bothered to find out what kind of gas mileage I was getting.

My first ( 1973 ) was an 1966 Olds Delmont 88, cream body, burgundy interior. Floated right on down the highway...
 
I recall playing 8 Ball at the Boys Club of America in Miami, Florida in 1955. This was not the PC Boz N Gwirls Club circa 2018.. It was Boys only!

Think we had two or three Pool tables table that were like 3.5 X 7 with wobbly legs, if you leaned on the table it move an inch or two, when you made a ball it sound so loud it was like it fell on the tile floor.

Boys sat to waiting their turn to play the winner of the last game. If you won you kept playing, if you lost you sat and waited to play again.
 
$.05 pinball and juke box. 6 for $.25.
$.01 pretzel stick.
45rpm records ruled.
Mono to hi-fi to stereo
Black and white tv to color
Window fans
AM -FM radio.
And Joe Niagra on WIBG in Phila.
The local playgrounds were safe havens.
Bottle tops
Fungo
Handball
Stickball
Wireball
Stepball
Baby in the air
Buck buck

I’m so fkn old:killingme::killingme::killingme:
 
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$.05 pinball and juke box. 6 for $.25.
$.01 pretzel stick.
45rpm records ruled.
Mono to hi-fi to stereo
Black and white tv to color
Window fans
AM -FM radio.
And Joe Niagra on WIBG in Phila.
The local playgrounds were safe havens.
Bottle tops
Fungo
Handball
Stickball
Wireball
Stepball
Baby in the air
Buck buck

I’m so fkn old:killingme::killingme::killingme:

Games:

Red rover come over
Slaughterball
Kickball
Tetherball

Halloween:

Haunted Houses
Egging mean people's windows
Wishing for a full moon
Filling your bag, going home, new bag, back out again ( "Sayyyyyyyy... weren't you just here a little while ago, kid?": "Nope" )

High School:

Smoking in A-Mall bathroom
Smoking pot across the street in the morning in the woods, waiting 'til the home-room bell rang, then going in.
Skipping classes
Skipping entire days
Getting to know the Dean of Boys ( well )
Singing "Whole Lotta Love" in Math class
Sleeping in Biology class
 
Turning down a Buska for $150......wasn’t dead straight
Turning down a Buska 10 years later for $125....again not straight....in the butt.
 
Turning down a Buska for $150......wasn’t dead straight
Turning down a Buska 10 years later for $125....again not straight....in the butt.

275.00 for 2 Bushkas that were not straight as an arrow? I think I'da bought 'em, then went looking for drunk pool players to sell 'em to! :grin: :yeah:
 
Giving chicks a Robin Hood and not getting arrested.
Cheap wine on Fri night...go to the dance..getting kicked out before we got in.
Driving parents cars.... leaving a little rubber.... ruining the car...and the next one.
Local Drive In restaurant/hangout...car only made right turns driving through all night.
Getting your hubcaps stolen...MF'rs....I'm still pissed.
Getting 8 track stolen..I'm still pissed.
Getting car stolen...I'm still pissed.
Baseball Glove stolen...still pissed
Baseball cards stolen.... extremely pissed
 
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Hey, don't get me wrong the past was fun but its the PAST. I do not dwell on anything from back-in-the-day. I thing it was Zig Ziegler that said there's a reason that a car's windshield is so big and the rear-view mirror so small.
 
I ran across an old police cruiser.

Trunk was so big, I coulda fit 7-10 of you damn hippies in it.
 

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Thats awful long hair you got there

You sure which end of the car this is, boy? I am not, until I see the steerin' wheel.
 

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Hey, don't get me wrong the past was fun but its the PAST. I do not dwell on anything from back-in-the-day. I thing it was Zig Ziegler that said there's a reason that a car's windshield is so big and the rear-view mirror so small.

I like that but didn't Zig-Zag man (unrelated to Zig Ziegler) once say "we can turn it all around every now and again". :smile:
 

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