Saturday, January 11, 2025

REMINISCING

 





 

SEEMS I REMEMBER THE PAST BETTER THAN YESTERDAY

 

I remember


Winding my wristwatch in the morning and winding my alarm clock at night.

 




Telephones with an operator and pay phones.




 

Muscle cars, but they were hard to start on cold mornings.



1964 Pontiac 409
409 cubic inch engine
And then there was the Oldsmobile 442
and that is cubic inches

 


Black and white movies: a dime to get in, a dime for popcorn, and a nickel coke.





The birth of Rock and Roll music.





 

Radios with vacuum tubes.




 

Household fans.





 

Water-coolers for cars before air conditioning.





 


Bopping at the high school hop





 

Ice boxes and ice delivery – a penny a pound, and ice picks to chip the ice





 

Nickle soft drinks in cold water boxes





 

Black and white TV with rabbit ears






The Steve Allen Show and The Killer






Changing tires: a necessary skill


Flat tires were a normal occurance.

 

10c comic books.

 




Soda fountains.







Writing in cursive

 



Straight Arrow, was my favorite radio show.





And the list could easily go on…

 

KANEEWAH FURY

the Ol’Buzzard




3 comments:

  1. Yes, it does... and for the most part, all good memories. My cousins had stacks of comic books - and they would hide them under the bed when I came over... cause I wanted to read and not play.

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  2. Seems like a whole other world then, because it was!

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  3. Sure brings back memories, even for a Canadian kid born in the late 40s

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