Are you an old antique (Page 3): Ah so, inflation, the bane of our existence.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

slatten49 wrote:

Come on, OldGringo, you know I yield a few years to you. That's how you gained the edge in being so debonaire! Besides, inflation had started to set in.

Ah so, inflation, the bane of our existence.

usmc4

slatten49 wrote:

My immediate guesses would be Howdy Doody, Mickey Mouse, and Mr. Rogers.

I hesitated because, What time is it, it's Howdy Doody Time, not it is Howdy Doody Time.

Who's the leader of the band, that's made for you and me, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse. Band, not gang.

I just had to assume Mr. Rogers, but somehow uneasy.

Kate Smith, Hop-along (Hoppy) Cassidy, Uncle Milty, Queen for a day--- Which today has a different meaning.--- Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry and champion, George and Grace Allen, Jack Benny. And lest we forget on radio The Lone Ranger and Silver --High Ho Silver -- Ho also has a different meaning today. Man I didn't think I was this old, because I sure don't feel like it. --- Thanks for the memories.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

usmc4 wrote:

Kate Smith, Hop-along (Hoppy) Cassidy, Uncle Milty, Queen for a day--- Which today has a different meaning.--- Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry and champion, George and Grace Allen, Jack Benny. And lest we forget on radio The Lone Ranger and Silver --High Ho Silver -- Ho also has a different meaning today. Man I didn't think I was this old, because I sure don't feel like it. --- Thanks for the memories.

How about Jackie Gleason, I Love Lucy, D**gnet, Rawhide and Gunsmoke. They were all '50's programs.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Old_Gringo wrote:

You must have been a gentleman, in addition to being a lover. All I had to do was button up. This was before zippers replaced buttons.) :lol:

Sorry about that. I didn't intend to embarrass the fairer sex.

It is not an embarrassment. You know one of the new popular blue jeans are "button up".

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

usmc4 wrote:

Kate Smith, Hop-along (Hoppy) Cassidy, Uncle Milty, Queen for a day--- Which today has a different meaning.--- Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry and champion, George and Grace Allen, Jack Benny. And lest we forget on radio The Lone Ranger and Silver --High Ho Silver -- Ho also has a different meaning today. Man I didn't think I was this old, because I sure don't feel like it. --- Thanks for the memories.

Go to YouTube, enter Kate Smith. You can see and hear the first time God Bless America was performed. :D

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Old_Gringo wrote:

How about Jackie Gleason, I Love Lucy, D**gnet, Rawhide and Gunsmoke. They were all '50's programs.

Actually, all the programs you listed continued into the sixties and had many reruns further on.

TheCracker

usmc4 wrote:

...... Man I didn't think I was this old, because I sure don't feel like it. --- Thanks for the memories.

This is a good thread. Good for a number of reasons. It can be shown to grand children and will most assuredly confuse the heck out of them. It also primes the memory well, for all us, old duffers.

I am enjoying this. I hope you are also.

Now to spill out a few more goodies which have bubbled up while reading others memories.

How about:

Sticking your foot in that (what we now know was dangerous) shoe fitting, and "irradiating" x-ray machine in the shoe store?

Watching a steam locomotive pull a string of RR cars across the country and listening to the steam whistle wail it's mournful tune late at night. Maybe the spinning of drive wheels on the locomotives as they tried to get the train moving from the yard? All those really neat moving parts which (unlike today's diesel electrics) could actually be seen (if not really understood) and a thrill for little boys to watch... Like laying a penny on the track then finding it squashed after the train passed over it.

The slow ride in a farm wagon pulled by a team of horses, and how the brakes worked?

78 rpm records on a wind up Victrola.

Standing behind my dads back while he was sitting in "his chair" and listening to Amos and Andy on the Phillips radio. (No TV back then)

The first "house - wall air conditioner" which only cooled the air around the chair next to it.

This one I especially remember from a visit to a relatives house was. (a hand water pump extending from the kitchen counter - next to the kitchen sink) - and knowing what the little jar of water sitting beside it was for, and why it had to be refilled before you quit pumping.

Ah, heck. Here I go giving away my age again.

So.... How about you - did I spring a few memories worth repeating with this little missive?

Share friends, keep the well primed, and we all might be surprised with the amount of memories which flow from it!

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

AuntiE wrote:

Actually, all the programs you listed continued into the sixties and had many reruns further on.

I know but I was referencing them in the 50's. I didn't see a TV until '51. Living in 'the sticks' in Central West Florida we didn't have TV. It was only after being shanghaied to damnyankeeland that I saw my first TV program.

TheCracker

Old_Gringo wrote:

I know but I was referencing them in the 50's. I didn't see a TV until '51. Living in 'the sticks' in Central West Florida we didn't have TV. It was only after being shanghaied to damnyankeeland that I saw my first TV program.

Oh, you poor thing. Y'all doin better now - can you get back home for a visit?

Citrus will be picked soon, and you could obviously use some of that liquid sunshine..(not from concentrate)

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I'm loving this thread more with each post. Memories are welling up in my heart, and through my eyes.

Thanks to all who have contributed so far, and to those who have yet to contribute.

I am just going to sit back, enjoy, and only pitch in when I feel something is being left out.

Remember going to get polio shots?

TheCracker

slatten49 wrote:

I'm loving this thread more with each post. Memories are welling up in my heart, and through my eyes.

Thanks to all who have contributed so far, and to those who have yet to contribute.

I am just going to sit back, enjoy, and only pitch in when I feel something is being left out.

Remember going to get polio shots?

Your last statement about polio shots caused me to reminisce then realize those funny smallpox ? scars on our shoulders have disappeared?

Where did they go. With the wind? Sigh!

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

TheC*****r wrote:

Oh, you poor thing. Y'all doin better now - can you get back home for a visit?

Citrus will be picked soon, and you could obviously use some of that liquid sunshine..(not from concentrate)

I have returned, twice, but never again. The damnyankees have moved in and completely taken over. It began at the end of the war. Most of the soldiers and airmen stationed in Sarasota, Venice and environs were from the godforsaken land of the yankee. They loved our land and returned with their families, neighbors and other assorted riff raff. Our home was taken over and ruined forever by these scullions. I became a displaced person in my own home town. Oh woe was me. A pox on them all. :lol:

usmc4

TheC*****r wrote:

This is a good thread. Good for a number of reaso... (show quote)

You mentioned 78's --- My grandson asked me "what are records". You gotta love 'em.

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

AuntiE wrote:

One of my favorite "antique"s. :-)

As a personal note, I was abysmal at maintaining my course with the spray. The headaches remerged. Two doses, two days in a row helped tremendously.

Also, did you tell me an individual can obtain sassafras tea at a health food store?

not exactly I said that would be a good place to look, only two?

TheCracker

Old_Gringo wrote:

I have returned, twice, but never again. The damnyankees have moved in and completely taken over. It began at the end of the war. Most of the soldiers and airmen stationed in Sarasota, Venice and environs were from the godforsaken land of the yankee. They loved our land and returned with their families, neighbors and other assorted riff raff. Our home was taken over and ruined forever by these scullions. I became a displaced person in my own home town. Oh woe was me. A pox on them all. :lol:

Don't give up Gringo. If you follow 75 just a little south you will hit Lee county and my homeland.

On the West side of 75 out to the gulf is a wasteland full of Yankees, sirens, highrises, gunshots and all the sodomites you could ever rile against

However. Turn East and within ten minutes you are in God's country, Just cattle, mangrove, swamp and citrus galore. Population density drops way down and you can step out in your front yard and fire off your 30-30 anytime day or night.

Only problem is: We ain't selling this swamp land to the Yankees. At least I hope the young folks don't.

Same thing up here in the Smokey mountains where we keep a summer home. Just like Sarasota back in the fifties.

Have hope.

Movin cattle out of the swamp onto high ground.

Cracker in his black hat.
Cracker in his black hat....