Old Enough To Remember?

Wow! Reading this thread really does make me (and I’m sure everyone here) feel rather old…I recall:
-old GM’s with bench seats and those VERY hot seatbelt buckles which were hard to handle when the car was parked in the sun
-as a kid wanting to sit in the middle of the front bench seat (which was the most dangerous seat in the car since you just had a lap belt on), while hating the middle of the rear bench (likely the safest seat in the car) due to the huge hump of the floor and having your sibling harass you because you had to put your legs on one side or the other of the hump being in between 2 siblings
-$2 in quarters would actually get you a respectable amount of gas, at least enough for a day or 2 of driving not too far from home
-playing outside all day and making sure you‘re home for dinner by nightfall (no pagers or cells, so honor system to be home for dinner on time)
-when we did have video games, they were rather rudimentary (I had a Fairchild branded system which was actually pretty cool, but the games selection was limited)-speaking of video games, video game arcades and taking lots of quarters with me.
-My mom telling my grandmother (we lived ~ 25 miles apart in the city, GM in the suburbs): ‘I’ll give you 3 rings when I get home’ so as not to have to pay a long distance charge for actually completing the call.
-I recall charge cards of the day, the vendor using the slider over the card face to get the name and card number via the carbon on their copy and yours.

EDIT: I keep thinking of new ones, like Superballs (I think that’s what they were called) Hard rubber balls when bounced would travel quite a distance- kept us outside for sure.

So many others, including a lot of the ones here…to me, simpler times and actually better times.
 
Uncle Phil said:
IIRC, they were supposed be designed so that an airplane could land on them if need be.
He was impressed by the roads he saw in Germany and thought it was a good idea.
In some places you can still see the "Eisenhower Highway System" signs -

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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating The Interstate System | FHWA (dot.gov)
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There are still some Autobahnen designated as emergency runways, and on the A8 going to Günzburg the ME262 was flown out of the forest manufacturing plant Kuno1 on the Autobahn. The allies never knew where the jets were coming from and it was only by chance that they found them by the grass burnt from the engines.
www.spiegel.de

Hitlers geheime Flugzeugfabriken

Zum Schutz vor alliiertem Bombenhagel verlegte Hitlers Luftwaffe ihre Flugzeugproduktion in versteckte Waldlager. Auch der modernste Düsenjäger der Welt - die Me 262 - wurde im Gehölz montiert. Kurz vor Kriegsende hoben US-Soldaten die Geheimfabriken aus - und machten faszinierende Bilder...
www.spiegel.de www.spiegel.de
 
FYI: Regarding the US capabilities of using our Interstate system as runways. Here's a follow up note from a retired fighter pilot extraordinaire I know:

"That was in the original plan but never come to fruition. Several other countries do it, Norway, Sweden and Israel come to mind. I know the Michigan (I think) ANG did an exercise off a Highway with some A-10s and some SOF aircraft this spring."

Shuey
 
Shuey said:
FYI: Regarding the US capabilities of using our Interstate system as runways. Here's a follow up note from a retired fighter pilot extraordinaire I know:

"That was in the original plan but never come to fruition. Several other countries do it, Norway, Sweden and Israel come to mind. I know the Michigan (I think) ANG did an exercise off a Highway with some A-10s and some SOF aircraft this spring."

Shuey
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From the US Federal Highway Administration;
One in five miles of the Interstate System is straight so airplanes can land in emergencies.

This myth is widespread on the Internet and in reference sources, but has no basis in law, regulation, design manual—or fact. Airplanes occasionally land on Interstates when no alternative is available in an emergency, not because the Interstates are designed for that purpose.
 
With Joe's permission...

These great questions and answers are from the days when 'Hollywood
Squares' game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they
are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..

Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.

Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A. Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say 'I Love You'?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.

Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.

Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.
 
:rofl1:
I regularly watched the show back then and I can remember seeing most of those quotes . . . live! The shows popularity was that it was the king of double entendre!

Shuey
 
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