I'm so old.....

[SeaBreazer]

I remember on Friday nights going to A&w Root beer for hotdogs and rootbeer. You would pull in and turn your headlights on for the carhops to come and take your order. Then afterwords go to the drive-in theater for the movies

[NITEHAWK]

Seabreazer, I might have been your carhop!
The owner of our A&W would only hire boys for carhops as they could carry the trays full of 20 cent root beers, and they wouldn't stay and flirt with the customers.
I guess another reason he didn't hire nice looking girls was that his two daughters had gotten hit with an ugly stick way too many times and he didn't want any competition for them.

[BSHGTO]

Originally Posted by NITEHAWK

I sure miss those "BIG" dinosaur steaks and drumsticks.

I miss people with a work ethic, self respect, character, not all about me, people that wouldn`t take a hand out but would take a hand up, and the big one.... Ask not what your country can do for you ,ask what you can do for your country.
That`s how old I am.

[ga traveler]

Originally Posted by wildcatter

Heck, I am only 54 and 10 months old and I have done all those things, I even remember listening to music on a real-to-reel. I even remember the first remote control TV (with rabbit ears), not really that remote as you had to drag the cable across the floor, so that really isn't that old :-). Now if you say your first car was a brand new tucker 48 than I would say you are really old.

No it was not a 48 it was a 5 year old 1951 Plymouth cranberry 4 door. I was 16 years old and it was an old mans car, but I loved my first car.

[ralph0808]

Well I am so old that I picked cotton for a penny a pound to buy my school clothes with! Do you know how those cotton bolls hold that cotton and cut your fingers it takes a lot of cotton to make a pound!

[Electra 225]

You have my respect sir. Picking cotton by hand and being a coal miner are two jobs I would never want to experience. I'm not afraid of hard work, but those jobs are rough as hell.

[akeagle]

Originally Posted by Bud E

...sitting in my '50 Olds, at home in Tucson, listening to WLS Chicago because they played the latest Rock n Roll. My car radio was the only one I had that would pick it up.

Now you can't drive to the next town without changing stations.

I grew up in northern Indiana and WLS came in loud and clear. Remember the DJ Larry Lujack?

A more local 50k watt AM station was WOWO from Fort Wayne. In the evening their format was rock and roll music, but during the day it was nearly all news and farming prices and data. I tuned out the latter. Oh, and they always broadcast the Ft Wayne Komets hockey games.

[FL420]

Rear wheel fender skirts
External metal sun visors over the windshield
Suction cup mounted traffic light viewers to see the lone traffic light hanging from cables in the center of the intersection in a small town
Burlap water bags hanging on the front bumper of cars in the hot dry southwest
Swamp coolers mounted on the passenger side car window

[BoJango]

Did I miss something? I haven't seen anything about plowing with a mule. I did. I picked cotton too, and tomatoes and pole beans.

We got our party line rotary telephone in 1952. Pa bought a brand new 1952 green Studebaker pick up the same year.

[JayLynn]

When I was a boy in northern Minnesota my family own an ice house where all summer we stored blocks of ice covered in sawdust. I remember climbing on the sawdust in a building as big as a barn.

[clifford j]

Who remembers when you put powder on a tooth brush to brush your teeth.

CLIFFORD

[Pelledan]

If memory serves, that powder was Baking Soda.

Dan

[NITEHAWK]

How about "ducktails, flattops, and "Greasy Skid Stuff" hair creme.

[dustyone]

Originally Posted by Pelledan

If memory serves, that powder was Baking Soda.

Dan

I still do this.