Remember when………

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I remember when parents made you wear a belt to keep your pants above your a&&.

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AND that’s what was being referred to when your parents busted you for having a “crack problem”

Gimme a break, Chappy. I was 50+ at that time. Home runs were 25 years and 50 lbs before that. I’m so old that the first home run was with a wooden bottle bat.

Polish Cannons ! I remember about taking my thumb off with one I made when I used gasoline instead of lighter fluid. I could’nt feel my thumb for about 3 days.

Anyone remember Stingray bikes with bannana seats. I had a 5 speed and was the envy of the neighborhood.
I remember kids being held back ( flunking )in school if your grades were’nt good enough.
I remember rarely asking for permission to hunt or fish on sombodies property. All we had to do was make sure the gate was closed so the cows did’nt get out or just let the farmer/land owner know we were there. No leased land or trespass signs back then.
The only time we locked the house was when we went on vacation. Otherwise the door was unlocked 24/7.
I remember our Dr. making house calls.
I remember the milk box on the porch and once a week the milkman would deliver any dairy product you wanted. On your birthday you got a carton of chocolate milk – free.
We too had a party line that we shared with 4 neighbors.
I also remember following the mosquito fogging truck on our bikes thinking it was way cool riding through the fog – DDT.
That probably explains a lot about why I am the way I am.

the “five dollar hoes” would show up every spring in front of the general store

. . . then . . .

they’d spend all summer chopping weeds out of the garden

I remember when this website was called FTR.

I remember also when FTR was a yellow background with one really, really long thread covering all topics of interest.

I remember when Rivereyes used to post about fishing (and invented “Vex on a stick” and the “Hand controlled foot pedal” for his trolling motor)!

I remember the first summer GTG that I went to, okay, at least the first hour or so.

the president lied to us on TV about whether he had fooled around in the Oval Office
. . .with . . .
eighteen and half minutes of audio tape

I remember getting home at 3 in the morning 3 sheets to the wind, and dad banging on my bedroom door at 6 asking me if I was going to sleep all day. Then having to get up and crawl into the grain bin to shovel oat for the next 10 hours. Ahhhhhh the good old days.

I remember catching 150 bullheads on one piece of beef.

I remember dad coming home after hearing my say wait till you dad get home.

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I remember the first summer GTG that I went to, okay, at least the first hour or so.

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I remember what you did, and I’m gonna tell unless you come up with some cash pretty quick!

Tim McGraw remembers when . . .

a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack’s what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said “I’m down with that”,
It meant you had the flu

I knew someone was going to break out into that song?

I remember:

SSP and TTP cars.
When Hot Wheels were the hot new rage
Tonka trucks made of metal and would actually move dirt!
Z-rims
Moon hubcaps
8 track tapes
Console TV/Stereo/Record Players
LP’s
Dial phones
When all Japanese cars were “cheap junk”
A depth finder was a dropper weight
Kids played backyard games like “Statue Maker” even after it got dark outside.
Space: 1999
Little Green Army Men
Freakies
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch

this could go on forever………..

I remember when scary movies were really scary.
I remember when you learned your ABC’s and 123’s in Kindergarten (now my 4 year olds in my class are doing addition).
I remember when I had to wear a snowsuit over my Halloween costume.
I remember when roller skates needed a key.
I remember when you could leave the house unlocked at night.
I remember Now and Laters (I hated the choc. ones – I use to say I thought they tasted like dead bugs – and no I don’t know what dead bugs taste like).
I remember when comedy didn’t need foul language to be funny.
I remember listening to Bill Cosby records (now that was comedy).
I remember when you could buy Records for .97 cents at Sears

Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh so mellow
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow
Try to remember and if you remember
Then follow
Follow follow follow…

Oh, wait thats a Broadway musical! Guess I cant remember!

when Coke was still cola
and a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
when A buck was still silver, A man who wanted work still could
Are we rollin’ downhill like a snowball headed for hell?
with no kind of chance for the flag or the liberty bell?
is the best of the free life behind us now?
and Are The Good Times Really Over For Good ?

When A Ford and a Chevy’d still last ten years like they should
Before microwave ovens when a girl could still cook and still would

Still the best of the free life is yet to come
No, The good times ain’t over for good

How bout Pepsi clear
Original Coca Cola
When 7up was just 7up and not 7up yours
Budweiser millenium cans
Huffys were still cool and if you had a yellow bike from coast to coast, you were really on top of it
cabbage patch kids
garbage pail kids
Mr Ed was the only animal that talked
Flipper
GIDGET!!!!!!!!!

Beer and pop cans had pull tabs to open them
Bottles needed openers
The TV show ZOOM
Happy Days
School house rock ..conjunction junction…Im just a bill
When you disagreed with someone in school you met them “after” school and settled it with fists, not guns.
After the fight, you usually became freinds
Nike Cortez’s were the coolest ‘sneakers’ since Chuck Taylors.
A person could eat the fish from any body of water..there were no murcury/pcb warnings.

Uh oh Little B, cash is tight right now, how’s about a fishing trip?

What are you up to Monday?

Good one Merle!

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Good one Merle!

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Glad to see someone recognize it !!

Carpking looks a little Haggard in his pic.

When:
Plueger came out with free spool reels which made casting 20 lb black braided line easier and with less backlashes.
Fishing with an old steel rod or a new fiberglass upgrade.
Gas wars and gas went from 22.9 to 19.9.
Watching Bonanza, The Lone Ranger and Zorrow on black and white TV.
When the TV was silent and with a message on the screen, “experiencing techinical difficulties”.
Picking up the phone and hearing 2 other neighbors already talking on the party line.
Opening the hood on the car and seeing nothing but a solid block of snow after a blizzard in western MN.
Air raid drills in school.
When everybody went to town on Saturday night – Dad to play cards in the pool hall, Mom to shop for groceries and the kids to hang out with town friends or go to 10 cent movies like North to Alaska with John Wayne.
Going to the neighbors on Sunday afternoon to play softball
or race their go-carts.
Neighborhood card parties.

Anyone remember needing a can opener to open a can of beer or soda?

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Anyone remember needing a can opener to open a can of beer or soda?

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uuuummmm, I’m afraid Putz might be the only one around here who’s THAT old.

I barley remember this but how about motoroil cans you had to use with a can opener or one of those shove in spouts???

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Anyone remember needing a can opener to open a can of beer or soda?

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uuuummmm, I’m afraid Putz might be the only one around here who’s THAT old.

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Remember them? Heck, I invented them.

I remember when we were kids going to the creek and skinny dipping and nobody thought about what the opposite sex looked like or wanting sex
when movies were a nickle
mom making ice cream in a syrup pail and we had to take turns twisting the pail back and forth
mom frying fish and they left the tails and fins on, me taking the fish and just eating the crispy tails and fins and puting the rest back on the platter
my first cake from scratch thought the T stood for table spoon instead of teaspoon
when I use to sit after school and listen to certain kids programs on the radio
when my kids had chores to do to learn responsibility
when you put food on their plates they ate it like it or not
when we only had cane poles to fish with
boats that we had to row no motors
when a 5 hp johnson motor was a big deal for commercial fishing
when we had big wooden boats called a launch with an inboard motor taken from a car for commercial fishing
when we had an ice man come around delivering ice for our ice boxes
when we walked a mile to school in snow up to our

I remember when I was young my dad giving me a quarter each morning before he left for work. I’d ride my bike up to the little store down the street and load up with all the penney candy I could eat in a day, and still have a nickle left for 2 chocolate chip cookies.

I remember helping my dad sink our wooden fishing boat each spring so that the wood would swell up. That way it wouldn’t leak when we were fishing in it.

I also remember the day he went out and bought a fancy boat made out of some metal called aluminum. It was 12 feet long, fit in the back of his truck, and had a 7hp outboard we would clamp on when we went fishing. That was the fanciest boat in town for awhile.

I also remember where I was when I heard Kennedy had been shot.

I also remember seeing the Beatles in concert in Bloomington at the Met Stadium!!

Ahhh, Fishing Machine, you are taking me further back yet.
No electricity or running water from ages 1-3 and 8-10.
A cold 2 holer on a winter morning.
Heating water on the cook stove for Sat nite baths.
Going to school in a 1 room country school grades 1-6. 2 holer there also.
Going to grade school smelling like cow manure but it was ok because everyone else did also.
I won’t go into details of butchering steers and hogs but nothing was wasted.
My Dad dropping a goose out of a flock that flew over our yard only to have it hit the ground and bounce up into my Mom’s clean sheets that were hanging on the line.
The guys at the New Year’s Eve party tossing up my brand new 5 buckle overshoes and blasting them with 12 gauges at midnight

I better quit again.

Thanks FM

Push button light switches…or as houses were converted to electricity…strings hanging from the lights in the middle of the room.

Orange Crush in the milk cooler in the barn..(too young for the beer next to it)

Standing under the new yard light chasing yellow spotted salomanders.

Listening to the hundreds of frogs hitting the car as they jumped up off the road at night. (haven’t seen that in decades)

I remember when lutefisk was used to keep maggots out of the trash! Now people eat it!