I grew up hearing LSMFT and still smile when hearing it.

As for the "C-rations" I had some of them as late as the 1980s but by this time the canned stuff was getting old and the desserts hard and stale. Still have some of the "p-38's" can openers around that never seem to die!

Miss the C-rats, they just are not anything like the MRE's.

Joe A

You're old. *You are* old.

You're/your/you're/your/you're/you're/you're.



There, I feel better now.

When your favorite shows were, Bonanza, Wild Wild West, Sing along with Mitch and Lawrence Welk.:rolleyes:

When you were pumping gas @ $.199/gal and washing windshields for nothing but a thank you and $.95/hour at the local MOBIL station.

Yer repeating yerself.

It makes me feel young that i never experienced most of the stuff you guys are talking about. I've heard about some of it though.


<-------- Turns 30 next week.




:)

When you remember when you watched the Radio.

You knew where the term. "It's a Dusie" came from.

You knew which automobile company used the advertising slogan.."Ask a man who owns one."

You remember Pork Chops costing 3 cents a pound.

You remember Party Lines and when telephone numbers used 2 letters as prefixes..

You knew what 78's are...

You know where the first freeway in America was built..

You remember when all the Bobby Soxers were crazy over Frankie...

You know what Swing is

You know what the Mercury Theater was...

When you were wondering when Joltin Joes streak would end..

When you know who the Bronx Bombers were...

When you knew that Amos and Andy were two white men.

When you know who Gracie and Allen are

You remember Edward R Murrow reportig from London

You remember the newspapers reporting that Dewey won the election.

You know who Charlie McCarty was

You knew where the term "In like Flynn"came from and what it meant.

You know who said, "You know your old when the candles cost more than the cake."

I was a lot younger before I read this thread.

When the telephone rang in a series of long and short rings. Party lines.

When you got a kick out of the fact they finally got on the cover of the "Rolling Stone"

Emergency drills at school when you hid under your desk.

6 teams in the NHL.

and of course, my signature.
Les

"Esso" gasoline.

Surfing porn meant going through dads hidden shoebox of 8mm dirty movies, and holding the film up to a light so you can see it.:D

How about Gulf gas stations or Free Shell Steak knives, btw I still have 3 of them!:rolleyes:

fill 'er up with Sunoco 260 and check the oil, please.

I do remember stopping at the local gas station in my first car, a 1960 VW bug. The gas station owner was almost always there. Someone would come out, pump the gas, wash the windshield, and check the oil and the tire pressure. And I remember the outrage I felt the first time that cost me more than three dollars! I bought a set of four recap tires, mounted and balanced for 30 bucks. On a car that would only do 70 with a tail wind recaps were just fine.

I have only bought one pack of cigarettes in my life. They cost me 25 cents at the vending machine. I smoked two of them and said “this is stupid” and I threw the rest away. My opinion of cigarettes has not changed.

you know what a TI 30 is and still have one that works and it sits beside your atari..

Just found one of my first calculator on Ebay. Its a like new TI SR-10 that really brings back memories. Paid about $110 for the first one, and less than $10 for this one, and its still in the original box and works like new.

GHB,

Share your feeling about fags, and still feel the same...

I had to think about that for a second. I did not think we were discussing homosexuals. (not there is anything wrong with that) but you meant fag as in cigarette. OK. I get it.

Yep, in the old days fags were cigarettes. Still are for a lot of us.

Yep Joe, got the fags remark. And no one thought anything about throwing a ****** on the fire either.


OK, I'm feeling better! Thanks guys! Hanging out with an old high school buddy this weekend. Probably do what we did in college/military, play D&D.

Soooo right!!!

You remember A, B, & C gas rationing stickers on your vehicles.
....WWII ration stamps,
....Turning in used fat to the butcher.
.... Decoration Day with red, white, and blue crepe paper streamers woven into your bicycle wheels
.....Most cars had fabric roof panels
.....Model A's could be found on most car lots and parking lots

And what thread could be complete without a picture of Byron by Byron?

Best,
Tom

S&W Green stamps

S&H ? or both?

Youre right, S&H.

See, Im so old I forgot the right letters! :D

Or you were thinking of Smith & Wesson stamps!

HER name was Gracie Allen, with George Burns. "Burns and Allen".

... and McCarthy with an 'H'.

Remember them, on TV. I know they were on radio long before, though.

Good memories...

Tabs must not be that old..:D

How about this?

You know where and remember the opening of the first indoor "Shopping Mall" in America was.

My guess and it is only a GUESS..Detroit...Northland..???????

when even your corrections have typos;)

Yep, an ARC 12v 45 RPM record player with a Vibrasonic unit for the rear speaker.

http://www.classicdreamcars.com/recordplayer1-a.JPG

You're old when you listened to the Indy 500 on the radio and AJ, Roger Ward or Jim Rathman won in a front engined roadster powered by an Offenhauser.

And you were out driving around with your AM only radio.

It was a big day when we got an FM radio in the old Dodge station wagon!!! I remember it better than our first colour TV set! (Mainly because I could not understand needing FM radio but I could easily understand why colour was sooo much better! Audra Barkley was nicer in colour as were the girls parading on Bonanza. Oh, and Genie and Mary Ann/Ginger! )

You are definitely getting old when you remember watching "I Love Lucy" when it was first run! I remember the whole family getting together having dinner and hurrying to be through in time to watch Lucy. circa 1954, 1955.

Naw. Northgate Mall, Seattle. Opened in about 1950, it was the first "Shopping Mall"

If you remember when concert tickets for Creedence, Steppenwolf, Chicago, Guess Who, Mountain, Allman Brothers, B.B. King, Yes, Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Winter, etc. were less than $10.

Much less.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1277534026.jpg

.You really are old when (apologies if a repost) the phrases:
..."use the force, Luke'
..."you feeling lucky, punk?'
..."sorry about that, Chief"
dropped into conversations at work are met with blank looks.



For the docs on board, how about explaining to the new kids about:
-ice baths for Swans,
-blind CVL placement,
-CAGS for single LAD lesions,
-partial gastrectomy / highly selective vagotomies for peptic ulcer disease,
-barium enemas
and, my personal favourite, no beta-blockes in CCF.

You are old if...

You remember when only sailors, bikers, and convicts had tattoos...

I remember when the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in 1967. I was 7.

Going out side at night with your parents and looking up in the sky for Sputnik and Telstar.

You know you're old if you can remember having a Howdy Doody tool box.