SECede2011! said:

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Lots of memories here. Add drinking from the water hose, bottle rockets from a coke bottle, Daisy BB guns, water balloon fights and losing teeth with a string and a doorknob. Classic Americana.

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My grandfather gave my brother and I a hunting knife with an 8" blade when we were 10 & 12 yo. I was in the ER getting stitches within 6 months time and nobody even discussed taking them away from us.

Lesson learned!

Some great memories there! Thanks Rocky and Ms. Hawg.
Also remember combing vacant fields and drainage ditches for cash.

Best work ever!!. Almost p..d in my pants, "red rover red rover"

TexasOil54
In reply to rocky the dog 1:08p


Best work ever!!. Almost p..d in my pants, "red rover red rover"
Texasoil54

I totally agree with TexasOil54!! Thanks so much Rocky!!!!

Yes, yes, and yes! Love it - and remember every scenario except "certain death hopscotch." Thanks!

Thanks Rocky, this brought back many memories.

outstanding

And it was much more environmentally friendly than today's soda bottles.

Thank you, Rocky!

Great collection, Rocky! (Tell me I'm not the only one that chased the mosquito fog truck on my bicycle....)

edit to add: OR..... shined up silver coins with the mercury from a broken thermometer. Silly putty on the comics, anyone?

schwack schwack said:

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Great collection, Rocky! (Tell me I'm not the only one that chased the mosquito fog truck on my bicycle....)

edit to add: OR..... shined up silver coins with the mercury from a broken thermometer. Silly putty on the comics, anyone?

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Here, here and here.

We lived too far out of town to get a mosquito fogger, but we used to ride our bikes over to the cotton field to watch the crop dusters spraying whatever chemicals. Typically upwind of us. Sometimes close enough to get us coughing. Those guys were crazy with their flying.

ETA - that cotton field is now the South Plains Mall in Lubbock, if anyone is familiar with the area

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Kansas Kid said:

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Thanks a ton Rocky. This made me feel old but I laughed a lot while I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. There will be a record number of stolen memes sent to my kids, nieces and nephews.

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Yep.

Possibly...not as a knock on previous episodes....but possibly the best Sunday posting by Rocky ever.



My dad had that very ashtray!!!! :-)

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I was going to say 'I think that kid is me'
Except my grandparents always had the bean bag ashtray so you could take it from the house into the car and set it in the dashboard without it sliding off.
So I guess that kid was a doppleganger

EllisCoAg said:

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My Mom worked at TG&Y, so it was perfect from the start.

Related to all these

Great job

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Replace TG&Y with Gibsons and that was my 70s

Great job Rocky...you never disappoint!

EllisCoAg said:

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My Mom worked at TG&Y, so it was perfect from the start.

Related to all these

Great job

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They had three grades of merchandise - terrific, good, and yucky.

Excellent Rocky!

rocky the dog said:

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Every car I've driven with a foot-operated parking brake was an automatic, and every car I've driven with a manual transmission had a hand-operated parking brake in the center console. Never more than three pedals.

Shared these with my two brothers. Brought back a lot of great memories. Thanks Rocky!

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Every car I've driven with a foot-operated parking brake was an automatic, and every car I've driven with a manual transmission had a hand-operated parking brake in the center console. Never more than three pedals.

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Bench seats meant foot brake. Common in trucks and vans with three on the tree manual transmissions.

Excellent post today.

I was in the gym waiting for the school bus as older kids were climbing the rope. One kid fell from the top and ended up with a compound fracture of an arm.
Once the boy was moved and cleaned the blood the others started climbing again.

These are the best ever. Lots of great memories packed in those! Thanks for the work.

Dang. She reminds me my neighbor, Mrs. Jacobson.

I wanna go back!

annieag91 said:

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I wanna go back!

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People need to have more children for that to happen.

When I was a Catholic kid in the 60s, our parish had a directory of members with family pictures. Really had to get dressed up and go to a photographer for that photo.

My family had three kids. But many had five to seven kids, even more. Of course back then the only Catholic Church approved method of birth control was Rhythm Method. Refrain from sex when the wife was ovulating if wanted to avoid pregnancy. Spectacular failure rate for a lot of reasons.

I don't believe this story. No way they waited for the blood to be cleaned up before resuming.

Kansas Kid said:

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I don't believe this story. No way they waited for the blood to be cleaned up before resuming.

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We had better janitors back then.

Rocky - best ever; I think I'm about to die as I just saw my life flash in front of me.

Thanks Rocky for the great laughs.

Silly putty on comics yes I remember that.

These are so great Rock! Really brought a smile to my face and some good laughs with my fellow 70s/80s cohorts

It's so funny as yesterday we were with some friend about 18 years younger than me and someone brought up hot slides. We were chuckling about it and talking about how you would lean back with your legs up so your legs didn't touch the slide.We all remembered that and the merry go round thing ( or whatever it's called) we would spin around and to those pushing, we'd say faster, faster even though we could hardly hold on sometimes. I caught lightning bugs for a scientific lab and every night it was a family affair. I got a penny a bug. We put them in Baggies and froze them. I used to walk several blocks to school. There were no seat belts on busses and many people didn't have seat belts or didn't wear them. We used to go to the local store for "penny candy". Please don't squeeze the Charmin! I also remember watching Saturday morning cartoons on the 3 networks we had (plus local station) as there was no cable. Wizard or OZ and Cinderella were on once a year.
Skipping down memory lane, thanks Rocky!