I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I had steelies. Lots of them. My dad got them free when a bearing would go bad out where he worked. Made good slingshot ammo too.

 

[Evadig]

Now I have to see if I can figure out how to start an old car with a screwdriver

I’m thinking I did that once. I was practicing organ at church one day and when I finally decided to quit I found the car keys had died or something. I don’t exactly remember; I just know I had to fish around in the sacristy for a screwdriver and was able to start the car with that.

 

[ChicksnMore]

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My DH once won a Halloween costume contest with a paper bag over his head. He said he was an Arizona football fan...man were they having a bad year

 

[pertnear09]

Remember when windshield wipers and turn indicators were not standard equipment when you bought a vehicle? They were add ons that you had to pay extra for, (once someone came up with the idea and then invented it).

And the windshield wipers were vacuum operated. Fine on level ground or going down hill but start up an incline you start relying on the vacuum canister. Most were useless.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Made good slingshot ammo too.

I remember getting one of the new fangled "wrist rocket" slingshots. They were deadly when using with one of those. Ok I can't guarantee they would of been deadly but idk how they wouldn't of been considering....
True story....
Once around the 4th of July my brother and I was shooting smoke bombs up into the air with one. I loaded one up and pulled it back as far as I could and aimed it straight up. My brother lite the fuse. I was watching to make sure it was lite good and then let it rip.
It launched skyward and then collided with a bird that happened to fly into its path. Dang thing went into the bird and then started smoking. Dang bird then fell towards the ground barrel rolling and smoking like a mig jet being shot down.
We then had to run over and stomp the dead still smoking bird cause we thought it might flame up. Whole thing was almost traumatizing.

 

[ForFlocksSake]

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[Nomadicus]

One more thing I remember from being a kid in the 50's was going into the hardware store and getting a fishhook for a penny. Then I walked a few doors down to the grocery store's meat counter and bought a nickel piece of beef stew for bait.

 

[pertnear09]

I can remember when kids learned to gamble in the first grade on the playground in the dirt.

I usually played marbles. Maybe sometimes toss pennies.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Quick before it runs off again. I don't think this has been discussed or cussed but back in my day at lunch time we were fed what the government hat to much of on hand. Peanut butter and American cheese most often. I think there were others and must have been understanding the system now a little better. First it was just peanut butter that was kind of square and 4-5" long like a soft candy bar. I got a lot of those cause some kids just didn't know what they were and if they didn't know they wouldn't take a chance on it. Then the American cheese was served the same way. In a same sized stick. There must have been a lot of surplus canned spinach too. Even Popeye couldn't get kids to eat what we had but I cleaned up on it. Didn't even have to trade anything on my plate for it. We actually got some really good fish sticks back then too. Nothing like the crap sold as fish now. I can still see the bartering and horse trading we did to get more and better on our plates. I'd trade a carton of milk for a meat and a vegetable or even more when I could. Image businessmen by the first grade.

We used to joke (semi-seriously) that the cafeteria always served cooked greens for lunch the day after the custodian mowed the school lawns... Loved the fish sticks on Fridays, though! And the little paper ice cream cups with a pull tab and a flat little wood spoon. Most days Mom sent us with brown bag lunches but we'd ask for a quarter for lunch money on fish stick days.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Anyone remember those amazing green shag carpets from the 70s? How the heck did we ever vacuum that anyways?!


And the velvet patterned wallpaper

Also the very popular burnt-orange shags! The shag fibers did get sucked up/wound around the vacuum brushes as I recall...

I actually had green fern velvet patterned wallpaper on a shiny gold background in my early-70s bedroom, facing a wall I'd decorated with alternating columns of stick-on cork squares and marbled mirror tiles. I loved it! (My parents removed the cork & mirrors after I moved out but kept the flocked fern wallpaper...it was still there, in fine shape, after Dad passed in 2020. Surprised me since my folks loved everything beige - carpet, drapes, furniture....)