For the guys over 35, good memories

[greenmtnguy]

Give me a slug- sharing a soda. Night crawlering to raise money. Snow forts and snowball fights. Put a stone in the snowball so the big kids can't swat them down. Climbing Pine trees and smelling the sticky pitch on your hands. Riding bikes with no fenders through puddles and getting a racing stripe up your back. Ball games in the back yard with neighborhood kids. Catching lightning bugs and putting them in a jar.. A praying Mantis was jackpot.Burning things with a magnifying glass. Indian sunburn- twisting your friends skin on his arm in two directions with your hands. It hurts and it does get Red. Ollie, Ollie in free-hide and seek. Trying to take the street light out with snowballs. Getting our butt smacked with the spatula. I still remember that got our attention. Shoveling the driveway before dad got home so he didn't have to do it. Wasn't a choice. Didn't need a referee for ball games. It's the rule. I still smell the Apple tree blossoms in the Spring and the peepers remind me of mom. Do you smell the new mown field? You must have been country too.

 

[railrider1920]

Originally posted by drmcroberts

One thing I didn't read (or perhaps missed) is that I can remember the pre-TV days when all we had was the living room radio that the entire family sat around every night to listen to the news, the Green Hornet, Sky King and many many other great programs that most folks don't even remember any longer.

I actually found a website that has many of these radio shows that can be downloaded. I downloaded enough to fill up 3 or 4 CD's and gave them to my parents. They were surprised. I just wish that I could remember where I found that site. I recently lost all my bookmarks, so I don't have it anymore.

This is an interesting thread. I also remember many of these things that have been mentioned. Leaving the house in the morning on a bike. Riding all over town all day and getting home around dark. No problems. If my kids did that now, I would trust them, but not the many people that they would pass along the way. I hate that I had to say that.

I try to raise my kids the way I was raised. They look at me funny when I tell them "No you can't go do whatever everyone else is doing. Even they shouldn't be doing that"

Just opening the door and walking into your best friends house without knocking and calling their parents mom and dad too.

This is still the way it is at my house.

When my sons best friend is over the house, he knows he will get a slap upside the head if he deserves it. Sam thing with my son when he is over there.

Thanks for the thread

 

[wudnhed]

Originally posted by railrider1920

Originally posted by drmcroberts

One thing I didn't read (or perhaps missed) is that I can remember the pre-TV days when all we had was the living room radio that the entire family sat around every night to listen to the news, the Green Hornet, Sky King and many many other great programs that most folks don't even remember any longer.

I actually found a website that has many of these radio shows that can be downloaded. I downloaded enough to fill up 3 or 4 CD's and gave them to my parents. They were surprised. I just wish that I could remember where I found that site. I recently lost all my bookmarks, so I don't have it anymore.

LOML listens to these shows on Sirius radio, I like them too.

 

[wudnhed]

Originally posted by greenmtnguy

Do you smell the new mown field? You must have been country too.

Ahhhhhhhh ..... the swather is outside right now cutting the alfalfa field next to our house, it smells really good. The white Egrets are so smart, they follow closely so they can grab any crickets, mice or small snakes for a meal. I love living in the country!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tanner]

I went into the music store with one of my daughters this weekend. A clerk came up to use and asked if he could help us find anything. I thought I would have fun, so I asked "Where are the 8 track tapes". You should have seen the bewildered look I got.

 

[rincewind03060]

I remember sitting in front of the radio (a big old piece of furniture the size of a jukebox - do they even have jukeboxes anymore?) and listening to Fibber McGee and Molly (those shows are still funny)- I walked to a neighbor's house once a week to watch "Disneyland" on their TV - "The Wonderful World of Disney" wasn't even thought of yet. We made our own guns out of wood to play cowboys and indians.

But it wasn't all rosy - I also remember polio and duck-and-cover drills.

Every time has its good and its bad.

 

[Ozzy]

Man, those were the days. I'll be 41 on March 11th and I remember all that stuff from my childhood as if it were yesterday. My wife and I are always talking about how bad that it sucks that our kids will never know the world we grew up in ,except from our stories.