Random Thoughts on Society/Aging

[Mike Javi Cooper]

Paying $500 for a 1957 Chevy Bellaire 2 door HT with factory 4 speed. (1963)

Filling the same car with gas for less than $5

Going to the coast with friends and spending $20 each for the entire trip including gas, food and bait.

Buying my first house for $37.43 a month

$18 electric bills

Water bill $5 a month

Making $1.00 and hour and having money left to party, even after putting $10 in savings.

Whole chickens for $0.25 each

Loaf of bread $0.10 each

Doctors coming to the house to see a sick baby.

Pork & Beans 10 cans for a dollar.

Round steak $0.49 a pound

Lettuce $0.10 a head.

[Dale]

Wolfman Jack's Midnight Special was the wildest thing on TV.

[Mike Javi Cooper]

Wolfman Jack's Midnight Special was the wildest thing on TV.

I listened to him on the radio (XERF-AM) out of Del Rio, back in the 60's late night.

[br549redneck]

Four track tapes, dimmer switch in the floor, an old pu with the starter button in the floor, 3 speed on the column, no a/c, AM radio only, Bill Mack on the radio at night. The list goes on and on.

Bill Mac started his open road show with the orange blossom special every night. Man thats when country music was country music. Not the trash they try to call country today.

[Capfab]

Horny toads and big red ants. All gone in Central Texas.

Someone else mentioned it, but I never see vacant lot/street sports anymore, nothing!

[bwssr]

Wing vents on the front car/truck windows....wish those were still available
$5, fill the motorcycle up, pack of smokes and still got change!
Green stamps

[Bullydog]

Watching Saturday night wresting on TV with my grandpa...

ME Moses and Gibsons department stores.

My dad owned three successfull carpet stores, before the big box stores ran him out of buisness. Back then, you needed carpet you went to a carpet store.

Renting my first Beeper when I was 18...thought it would cool to have a pager.

Working on my own truck...and being able to.

Riding across texas, in the cab over camper bed with no AC and a little vent window letting some hot fresh air in.

Bringing back a turtle from the coast, only to find out it was one of them special turtles.... Remembering my grandpa had to drive it all the way back to the coast after my mom chewed him out. lol

[br549redneck]

Watching Saturday night wresting on TV with my grandpa...

ME Moses and Gibsons department stores.

My dad owned three successfull carpet stores, before the big box stores ran him out of buisness. Back then, you needed carpet you went to a carpet store.

Renting my first Beeper when I was 18...thought it would cool to have a pager.

Working on my own truck...and being able to.

Riding across texas, in the cab over camper bed with no AC and a little vent window letting some hot fresh air in.

Bringing back a turtle from the coast, only to find out it was one of them special turtles.... Remembering my grandpa had to drive it all the way back to the coast after my mom chewed him out. lol

I am still shooting a bow I got at Gibsons brand new. I think I paid $197.00 for it . Still hunting with it today.

[br549redneck]

The kids of today....wouldnt make it back then....no microwave...never heard of a computer or a email. My grandkids tell me there bored sometimes they dont know what bored is lol

[TexasBear]

Getting an older friend to buy us beer when I was a junior in HS and it was $1.75 a six pack!

[grizzman]

Oh Wow. Forgot about the Blue Law.

I liked the Blue Law when I worked in retail management way back when. Sometimes it was the only day I had off.

[Gummi Bear]

I'm 37.

My brother and I would leave home in the summertime just after dawn, and meet up with the rest of the kids from thr neighborhood, and we would ride our bikes for miles, build forts in the woods, dig giant foxholes, and play in the creek; we had to be home before the streetlights came on.

I remember my legs getting burnt on the naugahyde seats in Mom's 70 Nova, chocolate brown inside and out.

We had ashtrays in every room, and a spitoon on the hearth. It was accepted that men do these things.

I had a console stereo in my room. Complete with 8 track and turntable.

I would tie the handle of the lawnmower to the seatpost of my bike, and go door to door, looking for yards to mow so I had spending money for frivolous things like fishing baits, bike parts and candy.

We would go to the Farm for the week between Christmas and New Year, and keep a pot of beans going all week. We would add squirrel, rabbit, quail, or some venison.

I was the remote control for the living room TV. It had rabbit ears.

I would spend the summer with my great grandma, and she would find me work hauling hay at night(too hot during the day).

It was no big deal for someone to send their kid on the bike go to the store to pick up a pack of cigarettes.

[Legdog]

Roll into the gas station and there was a rubber tube that when you drove over it, it made a "ding ding" and a guy actually came out and checked your oil and washed the windshield as he filled the car with "ethyl".

We used to go to the Dairy Queen and put slugs in the cigarette machine. We didn't smoke, we just thought it was fun to buy cigarettes with metal slugs punched out of steel. I can't remember if it was one slug or two ($0.25 vs $0.50) for a pack.

I remember the Conoco station in Dallas over by Whiterock Lake burned. On the back there was a big painted advertisement that said "Conoco. The hottest brand going."

We used to go to Mexico just to buy diesel. It was something like $0.11 a gallon. Most every farmer had trucks with after market tanks to make diesel runs to Mexico.

[aclark0495]

Great thread, I'm only 34 and remember some of these things.

I vaguely remember going to Disney world when I was 4 and either sleeping on the floor board or in the back window.

[Texas Tracker]

Drinking age was 18. Riding my motocross bike all around dallas using the ally ways. 19 cents a gal for gas and my first car cost me 150.00 .