Ha ! Weren't no tv back in the good old days, we changed the radio station to Amos & Andy, or Dragnet, or The Lone Ranger, or maybe Abbot & Costello.

Not when you live in a state that has banned trapping.

Move to the land of milk and honey.

Israel got good trappin?

I wouldn't call that little bombed out desert sandbox the land of milk and honey.

When I was young there was no AC in the house but we could handle the heat. A lot of folks were still plowing with mules, a few small tractors. Lots of cotton still being picked by hand. Kept the cottonmouths killed back cause that creek where we went swimming. Stealing watermelons was the big crime around here. Even with the Klan around most blacks and whites got along a lot better then the liberals will tell you today. The Klan would come down on anybody they saw doing wrong in their eyes back then, black or white. Didn't matter to them. Very few deer, who had em mostly hunted them with dogs. I remember seeing my first deer track. Played baseball on a country store gravel parking lot called the Rebel. And remember well how grown ups loved George Wallace. Fished and hunted about anywhere you wanted to. Gates kept cattle in and can't recall ever seeing a posted sign. You went to the hay fields as soon as you got big enough to drag a bail over to the truck. Picked up coke bottles to trade in for a Coke at the store. Loading sugar cane or dry corn into a wagon or old pick-ups. Killing mice in my paw paws corn crib. And picking and picking and picking butterbeans, still won't eat em today. Lots of work and had some great times to. Seem like days were 20 hours long and nights even longer back then.

Around 60 different studies show that women are much, much less happy now, than they were in the past. I have not read a single study, that found women are happier now. People are not living the way they evolved to.

Keith

Yep … the good ole days … remember them with fondness … next month I will be attending my 60th anniversary class reunion and it seems like it was only 60 years ago.

Sharon … Way back … we called it "Tin Foil". Not sure now what it was made of, but this was after the WW II. I was about 4 or 5. I remember it was a big deal when someone brought some of it to the house.


Garry-

For myself I remember the good old days as a young man with good health to do whatever I wanted and lots of my old family members who have passed on whom I admired so much. What I wouldn't give if I could spend just one afternoon with my grandparents. They were so poor by monetary standards but wealthy in knowledge, compassion and love for all us grand kids.
I remember those times fondly but don't dwell on the past. I draw upon those memories and experiences to try and make myself a better person and grandpa to create those fond memories for my sons and grandchildren to recall someday when I am gone.
Am starting my 4th year of this cancer adventure and it helps me to recall the good old days which gives me strength to continue and make memories for the grandchildren.
One of my greatest hopes is someday the grand kids will get together and riminess and tell stories about their "crazy old grandpa".

The 70s music was so much better. Vehicles had real metal, and no computer parts. Life was simple compared to now. It's natural to forget the negatives, but I can't think of many. But I was just a kid, then. Less to worry over.

Yep the good old days. My first car was a 69 el Camino ss.396. $500 and I thought that was a lot of money. Broke an old squirrel Hunter stock and the shop teacher told me, go get it out of the car and we'll fix it. First day of rabbit season no one was expected to show up. Watching gunsmoke with my grandma eating homemade ice cream. Man, what happened???

X2

Creature comforts and electronic gadgetry of today have made wussies and homos out of many men

The Ford Crown Vic was the last real full size car. Big, full size, body on frame, V8, rear wheel drive, true dual exhaust, solid rear axle, just like the good ol days. Ford stopped making them in 2011. It was the only one of its kind for a long time, the chevy Caprice was similar. Dodge hasn't made one in a long time.

The crown Vic had an aluminum subframe, coilovers in the front, and a parallel four link with watts linkage in the rear, that's the stuff of race cars. They really were cool cars.

Garry, you are right ! I remember that now- all the deep south folks called it tin foil !

Beav, you're right on dentists...though what I was referring to is how advanced modern dental care has progressed in just the past 20 years. The old days of metal fillings , big cumbersome radiographs and bitewings, and old technology unrefined has advanced very much today, and still is.

Add to that lasik ....which changed my world as a miracle and is still holding fine , the plethora of good info on the net at one's fingertips , enabling work from anywhere you live , the good, valuable info, to meeting most wonderful individual/s ever to exist ...the tragedy of a lifetime if that was missed .

Even firearms have come a long way since the beginning. Though the 1911 is in a league of its own - timeless .

One thing Danny C and loosegoose touched on...the cars of the 40's,50's, 60's and some 70's just cant be beat

That cracked me up, Beav.

Me too,lol.

Lots of jokes about old Ed. None can be posted. Lol

The only good' ol days most 'remember are when they had no responsibilities, now those were the days!