Are you old enough to remember.....

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Something I remember from the 1960's was driving in the States and I believe it was in Michigan. I was driving my 58 Beetle in winter and felt every expansion joint on the main highways there. About thirty yards. I would think blacktop paving would have solved that.....

The roads are much better now, but it's still a constant battle against the freezing water and salt in the winter.
They don't salt just the intersections and curves....they salt all of the roads.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by stevej37

......in the 50's and 60's having the 65 mph speed limit signs that turned to 55 mph at dark/night.
They used reflective tape and were on two lane highways. I think they quit using them in the early 70's and went to 55 mph limit day and night.

How about the stacks of rolled-up wood snow fences that were posted up on the west side of north/south roads. (snow-belt only)
The County Workers would unroll them and post them up each fall and do the opposite in the spring.
Don't see this done anymore....at least not around here.

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They still use snowfence fields in NJ, and there are some of those speed limit signs along US1 on the way to key west that reflect different numbers day & Night

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I was boarding the school bus to return home when I first heard of Kennedy getting shot.

Just a few miles away in Toledo doing the same thing hearing the same thing. I was in second and you were probably in fourth.

Things are a little fuzzy about The Bomb.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my earliest memories was when the everyone was celebrating becoming a state.

No not, Oklahoma! We moved to the territory of Hawaii when I was a kid. Lots of fireworks went off.

[stevej37]

^^^ Bob
That sounds about right.
I remember being in line for the bus and the mother of another classmate came wheeling up in her station wagon with arm hanging out the window. She shouted out "Kennedy's been shot!"

Didn't find out until later that day that he died.

[GH85Carrera]

[oldE]

Anyone else remember crouching under their desk for an air raid drill?
The Cuban missile crisis was far away and close by at the same time. Halifax is the east coast base for the Canadian navy. Two hours away by road these days, but close enough that my mother heard the explosion there in 1917. I suspect a nuclear explosion there would have affected us. I had 5 older brothers and a brother in law in the air force at the time.
Not good memories.

Best
Les

[Evans, Marv]

I remember when the speed limit was 55 before it was 65. I remember all of us at work standing around a radio listening to Kennedy make his announcement about the Cuban missle situation. I remember the hair standing up on the back of my neck when the supervisor (Watt Horton) of the construction company I was working for in Westchester County came and told me Kennedy had been assassinated. I asked him if it was a joke of some kind.

[stevej37]

We never had air raid drills....they figured the bombs would run out before they got to Michigan.

We did have tornado drills in the late 50's and 60's....everyone in the basement within one minute.
It helped that there were only 35 students covering 6 grades!

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by oldE

Anyone else remember crouching under their desk for an air raid drill?
The Cuban missile crisis was far away and close by at the same time. Halifax is the east coast base for the Canadian navy. Two hours away by road these days, but close enough that my mother heard the explosion there in 1917. I suspect a nuclear explosion there would have affected us. I had 5 older brothers and a brother in law in the air force at the time.
Not good memories.

Best
Les

I read the book 'Curse of the Narrows'......what a tragedy.
Hard to fathom the damage.
The book has many pictures of the damage.



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[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by stevej37

We never had air raid drills....they figured the bombs would run out before they got to Michigan.

We did have tornado drills in the late 50's and 60's....everyone in the basement within one minute.
It helped that there were only 35 students covering 6 grades!

Our school desks were dual purpose, atomic bomb shelters and tornado shelters! All the boys knew it was utter BS, but we did the stupid drills or be sent too the principals office.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by oldE

Anyone else remember crouching under their desk for an air raid drill?
The Cuban missile crisis was far away and close by at the same time. Halifax is the east coast base for the Canadian navy. Two hours away by road these days, but close enough that my mother heard the explosion there in 1917. I suspect a nuclear explosion there would have affected us. I had 5 older brothers and a brother in law in the air force at the time.
Not good memories.

Best
Les

They had us line up against a block wall, girls against the walls, and the guys formed a wall behind them to protect the girls. My father (a 3rd generation mason) built our house (in the late 50's) with a shelter in the basement.

[oldE]

Yeah, I was only 8, but I remember thinking that there was a lot of glass in the east wall of out classroom. Not a good time.

Best
Les

[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by stevej37

We never had air raid drills....they figured the bombs would run out before they got to Michigan.

We did have tornado drills in the late 50's and 60's....everyone in the basement within one minute.
It helped that there were only 35 students covering 6 grades!

We had the air raid drills in Chicago. And fire drills. Got to go outside for the fire drills.

[gsxrken]

Don’t remember that stuff but do recall having to bring my .22 rifle to school on Wednesdays for rifle team in the high school basement. We didn’t have storage lockers for them at the school. Try that today.

[stevej37]

^^^ We had a farm boy in 9th grade bring a stick of dynamite to school....with no cap/igniter.
He put it into another guys locker as a joke. When found, they emptied the school and called the bomb squad. His joke turned into gettting expelled from school.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

I don't remember anything from the 50s as I was born in 1965!!!

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Me too! I do remember having a big tv to watch...in color!

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by JackDidley

We had the air raid drills in Chicago. And fire drills. Got to go outside for the fire drills.

I remember the air raid siren tests in the 60s ... and fire drills were FUN .... all thru school!

Even better at my last corp gig in a 17 story bldg ... I walked up & down the stairway towers twice a day ... 2 laps... I was in great fire drill shape... many weren't...

A fire drill was welcome then too.... hoot

[Rtrorkt]

Telephone party lines, my grandparents ring was 3 long and 1 short, then they knew it was for them
Rotary dial phone with 5 digit phone numbers
Phone numbers that stared with a name (Pennsylvania 6-5000)
Black and White TV with “rabbit ears” antenna
TV without a remote
Saturday morning Looney Tunes
45 rpm singles, stacked on the changer
Bikes with banana seats and “ape hanger” handle bars
Cars with metal dashboards
Push button shift transmissions
Being first down the external tube fire escape during a drill and having to kick the closure panel off
Sock hops
Cruising from the Dairy Queen to the Dog and Suds
Cuban heels
Cleaning the wide white walls with Comet cleanser
Chocolate cokes

The list is endless

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by gsxrken

Don’t remember that stuff but do recall having to bring my .22 rifle to school on Wednesdays for rifle team in the high school basement. We didn’t have storage lockers for them at the school. Try that today.

When I was in high school, I had a buch of Hasselblad and 35mm SLR gear with me. No way it would fit in the locker, so the principal let me keep it in his office, which was locked if he was not in it. During the first week of deer hunting lots of boys got up at 4:00 am to go deer hunting. If they did not get one, they just came to school with their deer rifles and a box of ammo in hand. It was totally normal to see several different boys walking down the hall with a rifle over their shoulder and a box of ammo in hand.

They would just line them up in the principals office. I am just sorry I never shot a photo of that, but it was so ordinary I never thought it was worth using a piece of film to document.