How about those outhouses? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] The place where the fourth of July parade ended had a wood double sided outhouse. It had peoples names etched into the boards and had a strange aroma. (not what you'd think but worst) It had little holes where kids tried to peak back and forth.

Thank goodness for portable potties.


These days you just can't go where ever you want. People used to hunt with hounds where ever the coon would lead them. People could float down a creek without each and every landowner screaming: "hey, your on my land!" You used to be able to enjoy a walk in the woods without being worried about someone yelling at you. Sure there was always that place at the end of a lane that you were warned not to go near. We stayed clear of a crazy cat lady.

The problem is the disrespect that people show for a persons land and property. Little by little the whole country will be on lockdown with signs and fences all over the place.

 

1. Chipping ice out of a cistern and cooking it on a stove to take a bath.

2. Praying that the weather would be nice so I could pick up channel 10 out of Knoxville to watch the Dukes of Hazzard.

3. Catchin' crawdads in the creek by my house.

4. Swinging off a rope into the swimming hole.

5. Shooting targets with my Daisy BB gun.

6. Training Beagles with a rabbit hide.

Very good thread!!

 

Changing into your play clothes(Tough skin jeans and payless shoes)

The 40lb BetaMax with manual dials

Dirt clod fights

your first pop top beer

I am with everyone else, I MISS DRIVE IN movies!!

Dad whisltling at you like a dog when its time to come home

The first red light in town

Polyester

Being the remote control for mom and dad

red carpet(****), green fridges, orange couches

EVIL KNIEVAL

candy cigarettes(can you imagine)

Glass pop bottles

Worked all year for a 50 ****** Jeep, then drove it all winter to school(no top in Utah)

Punch boards

KISS


Man I am a gezzer!!! Funny how we had the same childhoods all living in different places!

 

Great post wshrdskin! This just mkes me want to get out and egg a Bus. Oh wait, I can go to prison for that now. LingMAO. Now I got to go riding to get out like the Good old days.
Wallabies and hush puppies Man I too am a geezer.
I still have my old Christian Hasoi Skate and when my youngsters show it off they laugh at how wide and long it is. Traker trucks and blue Dogbones. Man This brings back those days.
Cant do this anymore on the Salt river. I miss those days

 

The pull off tabs on a soda or beer can that you wiggled apart and used the flat sharp part to shoot the ring like a little metal slingshot..............sigh.............

 

Brings back a memory for me!!! Laying on the back dash of my fathers 69ford and got rear ended, got to see it real close!!!!! My dad did not even get in trouble[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

We still have a working drive-in where I live[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Growing up, we used to go to one around Chicago[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] called "Sunset" had a playground right below the screen[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

We use to sit on the engine cover, between the driver and passenger seat, in a early 70's brown, Ford van that my uncle had[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] while going to the lake[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
Try doing that today[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]