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Post by dgriffin on Oct 3, 2008 9:06:36 GMT -5
Stoney, I USED to be in my 20's! But I haven't been there in a long time. My Medicare card just arrived in the mail a few weeks ago. I like being a ward of the state. Others began suggesting it for me years ago. I think when he said, "Lots more in BeBop A Lula : Utica Bands 50s 60s," Jon referred to the thread in this group and also the thread on Joe Mezz's CNYForum, where some of us post and where the After BeBopalula thread began. Come on over and join us. This should get you there ... I don't think you have to be a member to read: tinyurl.com/48yh4n |
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Post by stoney on Oct 3, 2008 9:29:02 GMT -5
Thanks!
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Post by Clipper on Oct 3, 2008 10:36:29 GMT -5
Good answer Dave. I used to be in my twenties too, and moby dick used to be a minnow, and dinosaurs used to wander the earth, and the adirondacks were gentle knolls once upon a time. LOL
Shall we tell her about when we used to buy gas for 19 cents a gallon, and walked to school 5 miles each way, in 3 foot snow drifts? hehehe.
Actually, the drifts in the West Canada Valley were about 6 foot, and I rode to school in a 57 ford.
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 3, 2008 11:01:40 GMT -5
Shall we tell her about when we used to buy gas for 19 cents a gallon, and walked to school 5 miles each way, in 3 foot snow drifts? hehehe. The "walk to school" was after we milked the cows and slopped the chickens. I know, I know, but our chickens on Cornhill finished out at 200 pounds. This past summer I tried to put only a dollar of gas in my tank. I was feeling nostalgic and remembering when I'd borrow my Dad's car to go pick up my girlfriend and take her for a ride. I wondered what it would feel like to add only a dollar's worth of gas again, after 50 years. I couldn't squeeze and let go of the handle fast enough to get less than 2 dollars. |
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Post by stoney on Oct 3, 2008 11:37:19 GMT -5
Hey, I'm not that far behind you guys. I remember buying cigarettes for 50 cents per pack when I was a teenager (yeah, they weren't so strict then). Iremember gas at thirty-some cents per gallon when I was in high school, so my boyfriend would get a couple dollars worth at a time.
And dag-nab it~~I really DID walk 2 miles one way to school (from Grant St. to U.C.) for 4 years! Sometimes twice a day, too. Damn, my legs were in great shape back then. And I had M.S., too, so there!! Ppbbblllttt!!!
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 3, 2008 11:46:39 GMT -5
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Post by stoney on Oct 3, 2008 11:49:47 GMT -5
Remember all those air raid drills we'd have when we had to duck & cover under our desks or by the wall?
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 3, 2008 20:44:19 GMT -5
Sure do. We were sent to the school's basement, where we sat on the floor, backs up against the bearing walls along the hallways. However, if the Russkies had dropped a big one on Rome AFB, we would have been just as safe standing outside picking our noses. In a few minutes we would have had a lethal dose of radiation from the fall out. Unless you could get immediately to a fallout shelter.  |
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 4, 2008 0:06:59 GMT -5
Hey, I'm not that far behind you guys. I remember buying cigarettes for 50 cents per pack when I was a teenager  |
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 4, 2008 10:35:42 GMT -5
Was this when good wages were $45 per week?
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 4, 2008 12:05:09 GMT -5
The prices were from 1942. Not the depression.
Before you and I were born.
I remember in the 50s the cigarette salesmen handing out sample packs of 4 cigarettes to us kids when we begged him. They were about 25 cents for a full pack back then.
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 4, 2008 12:06:58 GMT -5
 Favorite place for Breakfast after the jobs. |
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 4, 2008 12:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 4, 2008 12:50:48 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 4, 2008 12:53:05 GMT -5
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