Old Enough To Remember?

[motornut]

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I was going to say that looks like dog doo-doo.

now days it is stored in bags that are conveniently thrown to the side of the trail, my assumption is that you bag it when some ones watching and drop it when no ones around

 

[bdalameda]

I still have my Thimble Drome Prop Rod from mid 60’s. My Dad tethered it to a hunk of iron in the middle of the garage, would run in circles until it ran out of fuel. Kids these days don’t know what they’re missing.

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I had one just like it. Used to take it to the school yard(when you could still play in a school yard after school hours) and hooked it to the tether ball pole. I left a lot of stains on the blacktop from fueling it up and priming the engine. I also remember using a "chicken stick" to hand prop start the engines. Mine had a plastic driver in it that quickly got ejected after crashes, he had no legs!!
Nothing like giving your kid a bottle of flammable nitro-methane fuel to play with!! I used a lot of the fuel for other things-like burning up plastic army men and equipment during play battles!!!

 

[rtbmrgl]

I had one just like it. Used to take it to the school yard(when you could still play in a school yard after school hours) and hooked it to the tether ball pole. I left a lot of stains on the blacktop from fueling it up and priming the engine. I also remember using a "chicken stick" to hand prop start the engines. Mine had a plastic driver in it that quickly got ejected after crashes, he had no legs!!
Nothing like giving your kid a bottle of flammable nitro-methane fuel to play with!! I used a lot of the fuel for other things-like burning up plastic army men and equipment during play battles!!!

I still have a scar from the prop. lol

 

[rtbmrgl]

The Percolator looks like it came from my camping cook set in the early 70’s. CLASSIC!

 

[RaYzerman]

I just bought a new stainless steel perc about 3 weeks ago..... still haven't found the magic coffee I want...... this one is electric, just push the button and a few minutes later it's ready.....

 

[rtbmrgl]

I just bought a new stainless steel perc about 3 weeks ago..... still haven't found the magic coffee I want...... this one is electric, just push the button and a few minutes later it's ready.....

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Growing up my parents used the same percolator for as long as i remember. Nothing but Folger's, black. Presto, they would take it with then when visiting my cousins.

 

[Jethro]

We have the identacle Presto perc,Grind our beans.THE BEST

 

[motornut]

Anybody remember Kent cigarettes with asbestos filters

 

[Fawlty]

Anybody remember Kent cigarettes with asbestos filters

 

[Larry Fine]

Anybody remember Kent cigarettes with asbestos filters

My dad used to sell them in his grocery store, asbestos I can remember.

 

[Larry Fine]

It's supposed to be a pun; "as best as."

 

[Hondafarian]

Anybody remember Kent cigarettes with asbestos filters

Jeez, I thought this was a joke until I looked it up. My father smoked Kent cigarettes all through my childhood in the 60s and 70s. The asbestos filters were used 1952-57 so at least my siblings and I weren't breathing that component as 2nd hand smoke. But his 2-3 pack-a-day habit used to have him coughing until he nearly blacked-out and fell over. According to him, quitting cold turkey was the hardest thing he did in his life and he was a marine in the Pacific during WWII. It was a medical miracle he lived to the ripe old age of 85.

 

[ST Steven]

Kids these days don’t know what they’re missing.

Yeah, like fingers?

 

[scootac]

I still shake the milk jug before I pour a glass.

 

[JackinFL]

I still shake the milk jug before I pour a glass.

Same here.
I grew up in farm country in Michigan and we used to get our milk straight from the dairy farms.

 

[Bikeric]

When I was a kid we lived in a shoe box in middle of road. Me dad wernt in union and worked 27 hours a day down pit

A shoe box, you were lucky to 'ave shoe box, we lived at t' bottom of septic tank......

 

[Obo]

 

[scootac]

Here I sit
All broken hearted.......

 

[motornut]

Was it uphill both ways in the snow? It was for me.

We used to get our milk from the Milk Barn in glass bottles and you had to get there early. We fought over the cream at the top for our corn flakes.

We used to go out and pick raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries. Take them home and mash them, mix in a little sugar, pour it in a glass with a spoon standing up to make our own popsicles. I remember them as being pretty tasty

 

[Slammer]

Luxury

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.