Posted on 09/12/2020 4:32:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle
I was born in 1950 and still Truckin On.
“never get your hands near the wringer”
That admonition brought back the phrase “getting your tit caught in the wringer”. That sounds excruciatingly painful. I think it has happened a few times to Nancy pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
:)
Big Wheels!
Yes, it was. My parents grew up in Oak Cliff, too, and graduated from Adamson. Every so often our high school football team would play at Cobb Stadium. That was the only stadium in town when my parents were in school (other than the Cotton Bowl). They also used to go dancing at LouAnns. Mr. Claret and I did, too, although we didnt know each other at the time. (He went to Richardson.) My grandmother worked as a telephone operator at the phone company downtown. She met my grandfather, who was a pharmacist at the Medical Arts Building, when she went to lunch there at the pharmacy. Did you go downtown to see the Christmas displays at Titches? We did, every year. So magical! I loved downtown.
Child of the ‘60s and enjoyed all that—and more. I am thinking maybe someone born in 1955 put this together.
That’s one pregnancy over-concern I hadn’t heard of before:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/blue-cheese-pregnancy#risks
Born in 1955, still remember a lot of that. Also remember the milkman came by every week, milk was in glass bottles, including half pint size at school, had a cardboard top you’d pull off. First time I saw a bicycle helmet I didn’t know what it was, found out and thought what the hell???? people actually wear those damn things????
After riding in cars that had no seat belts for years, it took me probably 10 years to get used to the idea and actually remember to put one on. Never bothered much till they made it a law...didn’t want a $125 tiket so I started wearing one. Knew a kid in high school (notice past tense) had a wreck, riding in the back seat, seat belt cut him almost completely in half. No he didn’t live through it. Only a lap belt in those days. guy in front seat wasn’t wearing one, threw him out the window, he was busted up a bit but lived.
Some idiot talked me into jumping off a barn roof with an umbrella...No, it didn’t work like it does in the cartoons...fortunately it didn’t involve a trip to the hospital...
6 oz Coke, nickel. Candy bar, nickel. Gas $0.199 a gallon. Fill the car for $5 and get change. And not these tiny, sheet metal death traps wee have today, they were heavy duty CARS made of steel... usually weighed as much as 2 cars today. No way you could kick the door and leave a dent half the size of Rhode Island...
Plastic sandwich bags originally had foldover flaps, NOT zip lock...before that we used wax paper. Red solo cups...thermos bottles had glass vaccuum bottles inside and a cork stopper. Kept coffee hot maybe 3 hours, but first time it was opened, got cold in a half hour. drop it once, break th little glass nib at bottom, had to replace the glass insert.
Typewriters weere not electric...want it reheated? Fire up the oven, microwave didn’t exist.
My grandparents still had a hand pump water well in 1970. worst thing you could ever do was walk away from that pump and forget to fill the primer bucket with water. My grandfather had to drive about 10 miles to get water to fill it...AFTER he whipped your ass...
Kids today are way too protected. I got cut, scraped, whaever, wiped off the blood and kept playing. Maybe a band aid if it didn’t want to stop bleeding. And right back out there in the dirt with it. OK if my mother didn’t come up with work to do...which is why if I ever managed to get outside, I made sure I stayed there.
They need to get outside, roll around in the dirt, eat some of it. Make mud pies. You get immunity from a lot of stuff that way.
I still refuse to wear a helmet when I ride my bike.
nostalgia...it ain’t what it used to be...
A trip down memory lane....
Get Smart
Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Mayberry RFD
The Rifleman
Wild Wild West
Mission Impossible
The Saint
Peter Gunn
The Lone Ranger
Bat Masterson
Green Acres
Perry Mason
Bonanza
And of course, Johnny Carson...
This post made my day!
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Texan (with Rory Calhoun)
All the girls have dresses or skirts on. Not a pair of pants on any of them in that pic.
I missed the concrete anchor for the slide by about eight inches ...
Ah, the fond memories of the Monkey bars ... with Susie Shelley hanging upside down so that we could all see her panties ...
breathe = breath
While these anecdotal commentaries are cute attention-getters, let’s look at the reality based upon life expectancy at birth:
1930: 59 yo
1940: 62
1950: 67
1960: 70
1970: 70
1980: 73
1990: 75
2000: 76
2010: 78
2020: 79
The statistic’s do not, however, reflect the human side of longevity; meaning that while life expectancy has increased 25% since 1930, the quality of life may not be on the same page.
Like an earlier poster here, I’m a War Baby (’42).
I’ve really enjoyed the memories on this thread.
Anyone else remember the guy that pushed a special cart down the street about once a month that we called the “Sharpener Man”? He had rigged up a seat and pedal that would turn a grindstone. He sharpened knives, scissors and axes.
How about the guy that would walk a Shetland pony through the neighborhood so little kids could get their pictures taken while sitting on the pony?
Horse-drawn watermelon wagons and farm vegetable wagons?
Small dump trucks full of manure? Folks could buy a half load or all, depending on size of yard and Victory Garden.
In the ‘40s, there was Let’s Pretend, Naked City, Your FBI, The Squeaking Door, Superman, Lone Ranger and many more.
I wasn’t alive yet.
South Oak Cliff is distinct from South Dallas. SOC is in SE Oak Cliff.
My dad grew up in South Dallas.
Just after age 1, my parents bought a new house in Oak Cliff, South of West Oak Cliff and La Reunion, and that’s where I grew up.
In the 1840s, Oak Cliff and Dallas were competitors in the campaign to become the new Dallas County Seat?
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