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I remember when,.......
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Almost, also remember when people you met around in the society, seemed happier than today and also said hi more often to people they didn't know...nice !
...smile peps, and the world smiles back
...smile peps, and the world smiles back
The OrigF/clred
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remember when, as a kid in the late 50s, after getting paid for cutting the neighbors yard, we'd go down to the drugstore (that had a soda fountain) to pickup some comic books and a couple feet of this candy - iirc, 5 colored dots across the 2" wide white paper, druggist charged 5 cents per foot and he'd just tear it off the roll.
I don't recall any of the different color dots tasting any different, don't really know why we liked em, but they were easy to peel off the paper and pop.
I don't recall any of the different color dots tasting any different, don't really know why we liked em, but they were easy to peel off the paper and pop.
You're lucky...my old man didn't pay anything & I had to go back and cut the places I missed!
You must have lived in an affluent neighborhood?...Where I lived..
everybody returned every bottle...except the drunks & beer bottles
I remember when the Sears catalog was the closest thing to porn I could get. I also always wanted one of those extra large chemistry sets. The ones with over 100 chemicals and a bunsen burner. Where did all the high dives at the public pools go?
Wait a minute
Wait a minute
You think my old man paid me to cut our grass? Like hell.
Old people would let you and that was all. Kids in our neighborhood competed for grass cutting jobs. If you got 4 or 5 dollars you were doing good. The old man paid pretty good 3 hots and a cot(bunkbed). But I'm not complaining, he said if I could get a better deal move. My old man got to love him? The greatest generation, greatest generation of assholes. Be out hunting on a frosty morning and mention it was cold, "COLD you should have been at Bastigane, now that was cold" or fishing and said it's hot " HOT you should have been at the Kasserine Pass" What the hell I didn't start WWII. Them old men, what are you going to do?
Here's the really sad part, my oldest complained about having to pay $25 a week room and board. The same I paid. So I told him if he could find a better deal we'd all move in with him. Hey you should've picked somebody else for a old man, huh. He got me back tho, I gave him the hard luck story about $1.25 a hour on my first job. Min. wage in the mid '60's, as luck would have it a couple of weeks later the newspaper came out with a story how the min wage should be $9.50 hour to keep up with the '60's wage. This was in the mid '90's. Pizza Hut sucks. Really sad part was my boys had to cut our grass and their grandparents grass, for nothing expect 3 hots and a cot(bunkbeds). What goes around comes around, hey?
I'll say this about my boys, 2-BS's and a MBA with a couple of fine jobs. Better than I ever had. They both got out of college a term early too. Paid most of their own way. Why? Their parents. Here's what I mean. One day my parents sat my wife and me down at the dinner table said they wanted to talk to us about our kids. You know what we were doing wrong? Stress school to much. We wanted them to do better in school than we did and they did. I went off. I said for them to compare any 2 sons in the family with mine. Compare my father and his brother with me and my brother with my brothers 2 sons. To see who did best. Mine won in the game of life hands down. Only college grads in the whole lot. Screw the greatest generation.
Gee do I sound bitter. Hell yes, my men are know smarter than me. Wish I had studied in hi school maybe I would have got more than a AS at a community college on the GD GI frecking Bill.
Wait a minute
You're lucky...my old man didn't pay anything & I had to go back and cut the places I missed!
You must have lived in an affluent neighborhood?...Where I lived..
everybody returned every bottle...except the drunks & beer bottles
You think my old man paid me to cut our grass? Like hell.
Old people would let you and that was all. Kids in our neighborhood competed for grass cutting jobs. If you got 4 or 5 dollars you were doing good. The old man paid pretty good 3 hots and a cot(bunkbed). But I'm not complaining, he said if I could get a better deal move. My old man got to love him? The greatest generation, greatest generation of assholes. Be out hunting on a frosty morning and mention it was cold, "COLD you should have been at Bastigane, now that was cold" or fishing and said it's hot " HOT you should have been at the Kasserine Pass" What the hell I didn't start WWII. Them old men, what are you going to do?
Here's the really sad part, my oldest complained about having to pay $25 a week room and board. The same I paid. So I told him if he could find a better deal we'd all move in with him. Hey you should've picked somebody else for a old man, huh. He got me back tho, I gave him the hard luck story about $1.25 a hour on my first job. Min. wage in the mid '60's, as luck would have it a couple of weeks later the newspaper came out with a story how the min wage should be $9.50 hour to keep up with the '60's wage. This was in the mid '90's. Pizza Hut sucks. Really sad part was my boys had to cut our grass and their grandparents grass, for nothing expect 3 hots and a cot(bunkbeds). What goes around comes around, hey?
I'll say this about my boys, 2-BS's and a MBA with a couple of fine jobs. Better than I ever had. They both got out of college a term early too. Paid most of their own way. Why? Their parents. Here's what I mean. One day my parents sat my wife and me down at the dinner table said they wanted to talk to us about our kids. You know what we were doing wrong? Stress school to much. We wanted them to do better in school than we did and they did. I went off. I said for them to compare any 2 sons in the family with mine. Compare my father and his brother with me and my brother with my brothers 2 sons. To see who did best. Mine won in the game of life hands down. Only college grads in the whole lot. Screw the greatest generation.
Gee do I sound bitter. Hell yes, my men are know smarter than me. Wish I had studied in hi school maybe I would have got more than a AS at a community college on the GD GI frecking Bill.
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Mel Frank
Member
We lived on a Navy Base and dumpster dived and went to the base dump and any construction areas to get bottles, otherwise like you said everyone turned them in when they bought more cokes.You're lucky...my old man didn't pay anything & I had to go back and cut the places I missed!
You must have lived in an affluent neighborhood?...Where I lived..
everybody returned every bottle...except the drunks & beer bottles
late 70's
late 70's
late 70's
yes you can thank the U S government for flying into Mexico and spraying the marijuana fields in the late 70's , Mexican pot was the most prevalent at the time was always in the back of my mind when smoking
nukklehead
Active member
Love this page.. I follow...
cosey.. yes people were much more friendly back in the day..
The orig F---Are you sure they werent microdots... lol.. yeah I remember those too..
Just tear off a sheet and heres your sugar rush... lol
Hank.. sorry for you.. your dad was mean.. I had quite a few yards myself but didnt have
to pay for gasoline.. guess I should be thankfull..
Mel.. that was a treat to take bottles back and get candy... in the mischievous years
I could have been accused of walking down alleys... (what are they) and snagging a few
8 packs or so of bottles to supplement my candy habit...lol
skinny leaf---cant say that I didnt stick a few pages of a catalog together in my day..
enuff said... lol
Hank... good job on your kids... you did the right thing... enjoy the rest of your life with
the reward that your kids are doing better then you.. something to be said for that nowadays....
Pinball wizard.. btw .. love your name.. I was a late comer to the geniuses of townsend
and daltrey.. in my later years with research have become one of the biggest fanatics/
fans of "that generation"
thanks for taking me back folks.. it was fun...!!!
cosey.. yes people were much more friendly back in the day..
The orig F---Are you sure they werent microdots... lol.. yeah I remember those too..
Just tear off a sheet and heres your sugar rush... lol
Hank.. sorry for you.. your dad was mean.. I had quite a few yards myself but didnt have
to pay for gasoline.. guess I should be thankfull..
Mel.. that was a treat to take bottles back and get candy... in the mischievous years
I could have been accused of walking down alleys... (what are they) and snagging a few
8 packs or so of bottles to supplement my candy habit...lol
skinny leaf---cant say that I didnt stick a few pages of a catalog together in my day..
enuff said... lol
Hank... good job on your kids... you did the right thing... enjoy the rest of your life with
the reward that your kids are doing better then you.. something to be said for that nowadays....
Pinball wizard.. btw .. love your name.. I was a late comer to the geniuses of townsend
and daltrey.. in my later years with research have become one of the biggest fanatics/
fans of "that generation"
thanks for taking me back folks.. it was fun...!!!
we always go to where there were houses being built in the neighborhood as soon as the carpenters left we'd move in and pick up the pop bottles.
and then there was always dumpster diving for playboy mags
Mel Frank
Member
Good for you Hank.
