I miss walking straight across the tarmac from the gate without having to go through metal detectors and being searched.
Thanks Islam, for those contributions to “culture”
Reminded me of growing up...
Also miss cigarette machines.
Now that TV's are computers, it takes them almost that long to boot up.
I remember when Memphis was the nation’s cleanest city, it’s quietest city, and it’s safest city, for its size(in the 50’s).
That tractor looks like an F12 Farmall. We had one. Hand crank to start it (on the rare occasion when it actually did start).
Living in western Michigan in the 80s, 99.99% of that list were still normal parts of life since we were one of the last places new trends made it to. I really do miss the pop machines with glass bottles. The sound of them falling and clink-clanking was part of the sound of summer.
We still have a small town near me where they don’t lock their doors and still leave their keys in their cars. Amazing......
No way I’d leave the house without locking the door. I’d come home to an empty house.
I’m about ten years older than the author of the PDF, I think, so I remember all that and more -—
When war wasn’t just a card game; Hitler was another name for the devil.
The TV was a huge console with a tiny screen, if you were lucky enough to live in a town that had TV and you owned a set.
Saturday afternoon at the movies was for kids. It cost nine cents, there was a serial, and your feet stuck to the floor from all the sugary drinks spilled there and never cleaned up.
Saturdays also were not for cartoons, but for cathedral radios tuned to Big John and Sparky, Space Patrol, and the Buster Brown show.
You didn’t leave the keys in your car because you didn’t have to. You could take the keys out of the ignition without it locking. Anyone could start the engine without the key.
We never went out to fancy restaurants, period. Luckily, my favorite supper was beans and cornbread. We had that a lot!
I remember when this saying actually had meaning:
“Don’t make a federal case out of it.”
(I only stepped on your toe . . . )
I was at the tail end of that....
I remember race riots, vietnam protests, and the end of the steel mills.
The gold coast of Buffalo was a sight to behold in it’s day. Five steel mills ( Bethlehem, Hanna, Republic, and two smaller specialty mills), two coke producers, chemical plants, Ford stamping, GM’s Tonawanda Motors, ARCO’s refinery, Mobil Refinery, Trico, Ralston Purina Mills, Pillsbury Mills, General Foods Mills, Cargil Concrete, Continental Can, Westinghouse, American Standard....
Then came the democRATS and they have turned Buffalo into a smaller version of Detroit.
Western NY was once a great place to live. There were thousands of small towns that had their own industries from logging, cutlery, paper, to furniture. Now the cities and small towns are empty, or full of fat white women and their nappy headed offspring. It’s repulsive.
I remember the lunchtime snack of an RC Cola and a moonpie..them was the days.
a time when all our dads served in the war and were “men” in our eyes.
sitting on your dad’s lap and “driving” the car into the garage was normal, not child endangerment nor peodifiliac.
Not sure which is worse{ party lines of the 1950’s or voicemail of today.
A kinder, gentler era.
Another 1950’s institution was bakery trucks. Panel trucks from the Helms and Golden Crust bakery would cruise residential neighborhoods during weekday mornings. We were Helms customers, so the truck would stop in front of our house and toot its whistle. Then the driver would open the tailgate and we would purchase bread or other fresh baked goods. Even after six decades, I still remember how much I liked Dutch Crunch, a variety of white bread.
The Helms bakery’s huge facility in Culver City, Calif. closed in 1969.
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