Remember when..............

[smle-man]

How about when there was no internet! Had to go to the library to look stuff up. Rotary dial phones? Pay phones that took a dime (or pay phones period)? Rabbit ear antennas (making a comeback now)? Lap seat belts?

When I was a tiny tyke we had a party line and a wringer washing machine. I was afraid my mom would get pulled through the wringer as she fed wet clothes into it and emerge paper thin like in the cartoons. We went next door to watch TV on our neighbor's 13" screen B&W TV that sat in a wood cabinet about as big as a Smart Car. We shot our BB guns in the neighborhood and the guy down the street hung the buck he got each November from the apple tree in his front yard to let it cool before butchering it.

Kids rode standing up on the back seat of the car so they could see out the windows better. When we passed semis on the road in my Dad's Plymouth sedan that looked like Christine we'd make a 'honk your horn' gesture to the driver who would oblige with a toot on his air horn.

Cops in the city rode Harley M/C with stick shifts and carried .38 revolvers on their Sam Browne belts. The beat cops called into the station from a box mounted on a light pole every so often.

This was in the 50s and early 60s in the suburbs, not the sticks. A different country and a different time. It might as well be a different planet now.

[DevilDawgJJ]

Remember when pimps worked on a understanding of respect for "The Game." Nobody tried to peel each others Freaks and the track was loaded with flyskimmers eager to ply their trade, Ahhhhhhhh yeah!!!

You sir are freaking hilarious!

I remember when my my bottom ***** was on the right trian, but on the wrong track!

[UberPatriot]

My high school had a target shooting P.E. Class.

[golfish]

I remember

[Bakerloo]

I remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag every morning in school. Gone thanks to libs.
Doug

Not at my school. 515 kids in the quad at 7:40 saying it.

[XDman01]

I'm a young guy and I remember 10 years ago riding my bike across town with a BB pistol in a holster on my belt and a couple BB rifles across my handle bars to go plinking at my friends and no one bat a eye at that. 5 years later I got pulled over them got harassed for having a .22 in my truck because the cop thought I was under 18 and nearly got arrested and he never even checked my license. The world has changed a lot in a few short years.


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[Wicked Pete]

You could trade and barter without an FFL.

I had a nice double barrel coach gun, traded for a snub nose .38, in the box never fired. later I traded that...all chrome .45 stamped with; Government Property. Huh?

[ireload]

I remember ..... .75 cent gallon of gas. Dept stores selling guns. More open shooting areas. Driving my mom's 78' Mustang II while under age without her knowledge. Video arcade abound. 50 round box of .22s for .50 cents. Never thinking about CA future turning into a ****hole.

[Dano3467]

Aww you guy's bring a tear to my eye's, the good old day's of freedom when you need not fight every day for it, it came free with your birth.

[alpha_romeo_XV]

Moms stayed home, made dads and kids a hot breakfast, packed us a lunch for work/school, made a nice dinner with home made cake or pie for dessert. That was still "normal" in the '60's.

[NotPukeGreen]

I remember the gas war's, watching the first moon landing, the helmsman bakery truck bring fresh baked donuts and bread to your house and bottled milk on your porch in the morning, Skateboards had steel wheels........
I miss those day's.

[jstert]

Remember when..............

i grew up in the east coast version of prk: mass. we would go into the woods behind my buddy's house with his older brother's ruger mk1 and kill pine cones. i brought my dad's ww2 bringback browning hipower to 6th grade show and tell. we were members of an nra rifle club at the univ where he taught. and we were all safe. it all seems like an alternate universe now.


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[r8dr rider]

Remember when we called them trannys

[Eat Dirt]

Remember when we called them trannys

When a Manuel Tranny wasn't something you found at the Club

Just standard Equipment

[MJB]

I remember when you could go into a hardware store, buy a gun and some ammo, and be plinking 15 minutes later within the city limits!

I remember virtually every truck having a gun rack with a rifle and shotgun in the rear window - and NEVER having to lock the truck!

I remember every house having a gun cabinet prominently displayed in the living areas. The gun cabinet had no lock and the front door was NEVER locked - even if you were on vacation for a month!

I remember playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians in the neighborhood or parks, brandishing our cap guns without a second look from anyone including the cops!

I remember riding our bikes with our .22's across the handlebars through the neighborhoods to get to shooting spots!

Old people always complain that things are getting worse - because they are!!!

Yep!

And I also like the song!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTA2buWlNyM