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Re: 50 some years ago [Re: tjm] #6547104
05/31/19 12:37 PM
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Gun racks in the with guns in the back window of pickup trucks. A new pair of high tops. Bellbottom jeans and those amazing miniskirts. Leaving the door unlocked and the window open when you were gone. Drive in theaters and speakers hanging on the car window. Running around barefoot in my grandparents 2 acre garden in the summer.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547148
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one of the required projects in metal shop was a hunting knife


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Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547152
05/31/19 02:11 PM
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i was driving dad gas delivery truck when i was 16,,,but i was big for my age,,maybe cause i was 3 years old when i was born




Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547157
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One of the best reason I can think of growing up in the late 50's and 60's is having parents from the depression era. Looking back I learned so much from my parents because of what they went through in those very tough years of the 20's and 30's. I beleive parents these day teach in many different ways then parents that were born in the 20's.

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Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
Re: 50 some years ago [Re: snowy] #6547159
05/31/19 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by snowy
One of the best reason I can think of growing up in the late 50's and 60's is having parents from the depression era. Looking back I learned so much from my parents because of what they went through in those very tough years of the 20's and 30's. I beleive parents these day teach in many different ways then parents that were born in the 20's.


True that!!!!!!


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Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547246
05/31/19 06:28 PM
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I thank you for the reminisce of the late 50's , 60's! After 1970(married) and working in Lansing, Mich. at Oldsmobile, family raising.

In 1977 moved back to my hometown and drove 150 miles round trip. I loved living back up north.

We(wife) and I raised our kids mostly in the country. Saw lots of game and lived like when I was young.


Vietnam--1967 46th. Const./Combat Engineers

"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."
"After the first shot, all plans go out the window!"
Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547256
05/31/19 07:08 PM
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Here in our county in Wy. we had a bounty on Magpies at 10 cents skunks were a buck, coyotes and bobcats were 5 buck so we had fun hunting to make money. We had lots of prairie dogs to shoot any time when we had money to buy 22 ammo. Also had miles of the Wind river on the place to fish. But of coarse lots of riding horses and working cows up to the mountains and back, great life then.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547281
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Before my time but my father would tell me the stories of hunting pheasants to and from school.

I used to bring my pocket knife to school so I could go ttaught to my grandfather's . Would turn it in in the morning and pick it up after school. No one blimked am eye.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547288
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We would collect empty pop bottles for the 2 cent refund.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547297
05/31/19 09:01 PM
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Gun racks in the with guns in the back window of pickup trucks. A new pair of high tops. Bellbottom jeans and those amazing miniskirts. Leaving the door unlocked and the window open when you were gone. Drive in theaters and speakers hanging on the car window. Running around barefoot in my grandparents 2 acre garden in the summer.



I remember those days!...good times!

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547330
05/31/19 09:57 PM
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I remember walking a mile and a half one way to a one room store with my mom to get a pop or a Popsicle my favorite was banana.. The gentleman who owned the store was about 80 and blind as a bat. No one ever thought of cheating him! We would wade in the Creek behind the house and catch crawdads by the dozen or pinheads (Baby minnows). We picked blackberries with my mom who made all our jams and jellies. We never ate a store bought vegetable or piece of beef. On Sundays we was at grandmas house with all my cousins. At grandmas the men and boys ate at the table and the women and girls would eat in the kitchen. I asked her once and she said she guessed just to get the men back to work?? No one wore a seat belt and traveling 10 miles from home was a huge deal.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547335
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My uncle went to high school in the late 40s in northern Centre County, Pa. His bus driver carried his 30-30 Winchester on the bus in deer season and killed several deer out of the driver’s window of the bus.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547465
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Woodstock or Saigon
today it is millenial or Bagdad

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6547479
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When I was in high school, we all had guns in our trucks in the winter - heck it was hunting season. One day just after Christmas my buddies and I are hanging out in the school parking lot at lunch time. One kid got a new shotgun for Christmas and got it out to show us. That led to everyone else pulling their guns out to show off. Pretty soon the principal comes walking by on his way back from lunch. "Dang it you guys, you know better than that. Put those away" was all he said. That was 1985.

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: Zim] #6553594
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NBC, CBS, and ABC plus 3 fuzzy UHF channels were all there was on TV. If you wanted to know how to butcher something, how to cook something, or how to make something it required a trip to the local library. We went out to McDonald's once or twice a year and it was a BIG deal.

Dad had an old Ford pickup that had a shifter on the column. That broke so Dad installed a shifter on the floor instead. Then that broke so we had a hole in the floor where the shifter used to be. He kept a tire iron on the seat. You would reach down through the hole in the floor with the tire iron and flip the levers on top of the transmission to shift. That's how I learned to drive.


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Re: 50 some years ago [Re: maintenanceguy] #6553611
06/11/19 08:49 PM
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I can relate to some of that. My first vehicle as a 1948 International KB1. Wish I still had it, was a real chick magnet.
Once my cousin Cathy came upon a big guy bullying a smaller boy. She did not say hey, no, yes or maybe, just walked up and gave the
guy a flathander that put him out of business.
I know that feller yet today and he says that girl hit me once so hard, I thought it was two.
LOL Zim

Re: 50 some years ago [Re: J.Morse] #6553619
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59 years ago at age 13 and in 8th grade at our one room country school I could hunt from home 2.2 miles and arrive for class. I would put the rifle back in the case and put in the culvert at the drive way and bring the ammo in and give it to the teacher and she would keep that in her desk until the end of the day. She had allowed that for several years and she knew how to keep the 30-30 ammo from the 30 06 ammo, the 35 remington and the 8 MM as well. Never did shoot at a deer coming and going from school but was neat to be able to. We all had tasks and you better believe our tasks at the end of the day were done in quick time so we had some light while walking home through the woods.

Bryce

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