Jamesbo

Boy,

I thought you'd remember the fold down seats ..........Ramblers only asset.

citcapp

Feeble minded, what can I say, My folks had a Plymouth wagon worked just as good

Rdrokit

I remember the back seat of my 56 Vicky being larger. Guess I was just more nimble in those days.

squirtacious

The last time I went to the drive in movies. I got laid in the front seat of my '65 Buick sport wagon. My gal said "I can't believe were doing this". Then we looked at the cars on both sides of us. They couldn't see anything cuz there windows were fogged up too. The only thing sixties about this post is the car(it was 1989)

kcars

One of the best unknown movies showing Blooklyn and Queens N.Y life in the 60's is Sylvester Stallone in "The Lords Of Flatbush.". There is a shot of the Sunrise drive in theatre in Valley Stream L.I. (on the Queens border). What a time we had there on many weekends with our dates. From the '50 Olds coupe to our 63 and 64 Chevy Super Sports. Sometimes in a 3-4 car caravans to the back row to get it on- No viagra needed !- LOL. Seriously- If you havn't seen Lords Of Flatbush Get a copy- It's a "B" class movie and very seldom on t.v.

Rdrokit

Do you remember Gas Wars where one station would lower their price the the guy across the street would go a penny lower and this went back and forth. I remember paying 25 cents a gallon at a Shamrock (I think it was Shamrock) in Texas in 1970 when I was in the service.

citcapp

The gas wars, In our small town we had a cross streets with stations on all four corners. Best price 13 cents a gallon, all windows washed, all fluids checked, plus a piece of dinnerware. circa 1962. two bucks bought you gas all week. Them were the days

redoldsman

Citcapp some of us on here really are Olds Pharts and we continue to prove it. I remember gas wars well but I don't think I remember 13 cents and I think we are the same age. My first job was in high school between my junior and senior year working at a Phillips 66 station. I worked 6 days a week and made 35 bucks. I was working to get my 40 Ford 2-door sedan with a 56 Chevy 265 together. Got it running on Labor Day before school started the next day. Drove it to school the next day with the hood off. I was Joe Cool when my buddies gathered to take a look. Boy I wish I had a picture of that.

I am not sure but this may be the longest thread on this site. If it is not, it probably will be when we are done telling all our old stories.

Rdrokit

Oh yea working. Between junior and senior year I use to stock shelves in the local drug store (think free rubbers) there was a soda fountain in the store and I made $1.15hr which was the minimum wage in 64.

Jamesbo

Another member and I have been talking about why Coke doesn’t taste like the nickel bottles and it brought up some old memories.

Oh yes, we had our burger joints but another good place to eat was [sit down youngsters this is gonna surprise you] the drug store. Most every neighborhood had a small locally owned [usually by the Pharmacist] drug store that often had a soda fountain. Along with ice cream, sundaes and shakes there was an amazing assortment of really good counter food. Home made chili, fresh chicken salad, tuna salad, pimento cheese, BLT’s, PB&J’s and of course burgers and hot dogs. Usually one person prepared and served it all.

Was it as fast as today’s dive in or drive thru’? No but it sure was better. You could sit on a stool or in a booth with your sweetie and just talk.

We could place our order and wait while sipping on a cherry or lime Coke [with fresh squeezed limes] or enjoying a home made lemon or limeade.

For desert there was always a nice selection of pies and fresh cake slices.

I think I’ll make a BLT fer lunch and enjoy a limeade. I believe I’ll pass on the hot fudge sundae I need to save my 26 cents today.

Oldsmobomb

In 1971-72 when I had my 1964 Olds 88, the 394 wanted premium fuel which cost 32 cents a gallon. Regular was about 26 cents. Back then, you would jump thru all sorts of hoops to save a penny per gallon. Nowadays, a penny is pffftttt. Putting $5.00 in the tank was 'almost' a complete fill-up, the tank would only take around $6 if it was nearly dry. There wasn't much, if any, concern about city/highway mileage when gas was that cheap.

citcapp

In our town is was the Rexall drug store, hand made shakes with the glass full and the metal container on the side, can you say brain freeze. Cherry cokes and many other treats, food was simple but great like you said Jamsbo.

The guy at the Flying A station would let us kids use the lift to work on our cars if it wasn't busy, had to bring your own tools, great guy.

Jamesbo

"Skull's" [a nice bald fella] Pure Oil Station was on a corner next to Mike's beer joint [which was next to the neighborhood drug store]. Friday nite we would drive into one of Skull's service bays and close the overhead door. Then go to the corner where people were waiting for the bus to ride home and pay a guy we called "Blabber" to go into Mike's buy us a case of Blue Ribbon and put it into the trunk of the car hidden behide one of Skull's service station bay doors.

Mission accomplished. Where are all the hard bodies at? I need to fill one up with "Dud Suds" and hope for the best. Actually, more like pray for the best.

Citcapp,

I've heard that term "balanced and blue printed" all my life too. But I chose to stay out of that thread. Don't you wish you had too?

citcapp

Thats a big 10-4, when a rant starts time to run for cover

Jamesbo

Ok gang, It's Monday morning 60's quiz time again.

Who knows what this is?

Oldsguy

It's a skate key, the jpg says so.....

Rdrokit

Remember "B" movies? Here is a poster from a 1957 B movie.

RetroDragstripGirl1957.jpg

Jamesbo

Huh? Mine doesn't

Ok we'll have to be a little more difficult next time

Jamesbo

Anyone remember these things?

Jamesbo

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your
hands while talking?

A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and
I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.

citcapp

Fire escape. When I was a kid we used to sneak a slide on it if you got caught it was off to the office and the wood paddle. Does anyone remember the wood paddle with holes drilled in it, about the same size as a pizza paddle

Jamesbo

Once again citcapp proves his age [living with corporal punishment in schools]

Lady72nRob71

The square schoolhouses or the chutes?

Heck, over here the new schools look more like friggin sprawling castles. (And the district STILL complains they need more money...)

walkthwalk92

I followed the thread about the 60's that you guys had a few weeks ago, sure brought back memories for me.
thanks for them.
8 tracks in 74, I listened to Olivia Newton John over and over .95 cents and hour in 1968 selling 15 Cent hamburgers while in high school. Gas in Okla. was only .29 a gal and price wars sent it to .19 cents quite often. 5 dollar fillups. Mash at the drive in ( some parents said it was too.....
Cars with Am radios only, Hurst shifters ( I put one in once.) the list was great.
thanks again.
walk

wolfman98

Frig I still do that

wolfman98

Hear ya there , my dad never made threats just promises.

citcapp

My dad, to son mow the lawn, son I will do it later, dad now, son later. dad 2" leather belt, lawn mowed right now. Great respect for dad. To this day I use the same rules. Grown sons use same rules, trouble with kids, very little. Lesson learned. Respect your elders.

Jamesbo

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Rdrokit

Remember this sign? When McDonald's burgers were 15 cents.

15centburgers.jpg

wolfman98

I remember when I could buy a bag of chips a chocolate bar and a pop for a quarter. It's close to $4 now

citcapp

this thread brings out the age in just about everyone. Arctic Circle drive in 6-taco's for a buck. Dick's drive-in 19 cent burgers homemade shakes and fries yum yum

Bluevista

200 million? they sell that many a day now.

I remember that sign well along with the open air fronts with the order windows and the bug sucker machines with the yellow light and vacuum bag above them.
Wasn't the "All-American" 50 cents? burger, fries and a shake.
The local kids show host had a model of McDonalds when it first opened around here. It was to explain to the kids (and parents) how the restaraunt worked, it was a whole new concept at the time. The dime store lunch counter was going out for dinner to us guys.The model had little moveable figures and cool car models parked out front.
I wanted that thing so bad, almost as much as the Allied Van lines three foot pressed steel semi truck in the window of the van lines office I walked by every day on the way to school.

Jamesbo

Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1.Candy cigarettes
2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5.Newsreels before the movie
6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt!

citcapp

I don't have to tell you where I fit. gawd I hated cleaning the Milk seperator. I was almost an adult before I knew The lone ranger theme music on the radio was the william tell overture. The Green Hornet and Mystery Theatre were the radio programs I liked best

Jamesbo

Is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and NOT think of the Lone Ranger.

[I do not fall into that catagory]

"Return with us now to those thrill days of yester-year...........the mask rider of the plains and his faithful Indian companion Tonto."

http://www.sermons4kids.com/lone_ranger_theme.htm

citcapp

The Lone Ranger to Tonto "Tonto we're surrounded by indians and there's no way to excape, looks like we are gonners". Tonto to the Lone Ranger
" what do you mean we white man" Lone Ranger Aw sh#t

Jamesbo

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'



'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

bulldog

I've been following this post and had to ring in here.Guess I'm older than dirt. Tonto now that brings back some childhood memories.Thats the nickname my Grandfather gave me when I was a young tike.Pretty embarrassing as a teenager thou because he Called me that until his passing in 1967.

citcapp

Are you sure we didn't grow up in the same house Jamesbo? All of what you just stated happened in my house except for the milk (we had a cow).

Dinner was at six sharp every day except Sunday. On Sundays we eat a large lunch and not formal dinner.

At the dinner table is was "please pass the roast" and "thank you" when you received the dish. This is when we talked about school, homework, chores, town and local news, etc. When you were finished you said "may I be excused (then you did the dishes). This was a great training ground to learn respect. This is also something my wife and I did raising our three boys and a few foster kids. To this day when each or all are over for dinner the same respect is shown. They are all successful in their work and personal lives and I believe this kind of upbringing helped in that regard. Sure didn't hurt me

jimjr

I hate to admit this, but I drove a 62 Plymouth Valiant as my first car. The only really cool option on these cars were the small doors below the dash that you opened up for fresh air. The doors opened up to small compartments where we stashed a few warm beers, closed the doors and drove around for an hour or so in the cold weather, after which time the beers would be pretty cold and ready to guzzle! ' Course, the only beer we could get our hands on would be Schlitz or Falstaff. We'd kill for a St. Louie Bud!!! I remember mounting an Automatic Radio 8 Track under the dash on a two section mounting plate so you could remove the beast (probably weighed in at 10 pounds!) and take it inside for the night. Listened to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Black Sabbath, The Stones. Lucky to still have my hearing! Got rid of the Valiant and bought a nice 67 Olds Cutlass two-door for $650 and ran that with the same 8 Track, same tapes. This is a great thread. Sounds like some of us would have had a blast together if we had hooked up in the old days. Well, thanks for all the memories and HAPPY MOTORING!!!