Remember When

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:35 am

I remember when my parents put in a hand pump next to the kitchen sink to pump water from the hand dug well just outside of the farm house they were renting. The house used to be heated by a Kerosene cook stove. It was a two story house, so in the winter the bedrooms would be moved upstairs where it was a little warmer(at least the floors were)and in the summer, the bedrooms would be moved downstairs, where it was a little cooler. I also remember that when indoor plumbing was put in, a pipe was run out to a BIG section of thorn bushes and the like, where a hole was dug and covered over for a septic system. Try doing THAT today and get away with it!
While I'm remembering, after electricity got put in, my mother was washing dishes in the sink when i noticed that she had her hand on the pullchain switch for the light and she looked like a statue. I said hey dad!!!! Ma's not moving. He quickly got over there and smacked her arm to break the connection. Her other hand was in the dish water. It was kinda funny in a way, because she let out a big OW!! What did you do that for. She didn't even know what had happened.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:18 pm

I remember when TV advertisements were NOT louder than the program they were placed in.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:14 pm

beyond wrote:I remember when TV advertisements were NOT louder than the program they were placed in.

Ah! remember the jingles. Now those ads were fun! A lot more catchy than today's ads.

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Chris Peterson · Post by **Chris Peterson** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:03 pm

beyond wrote:I remember when TV advertisements were NOT louder than the program they were placed in.

I remember before there was Tivo, and I actually had to see or hear those advertisements.

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:05 pm

Oh Orin, that Oscar Mayer wiener song brought back a memory from my first wedding! My new husband and I had decided that if at the reception people wanted us to kiss, dinging glasses would not suffice: an entire table of people (we had a sit-down dinner) would have to stand up and sing a song with the word "love" in it. One of the songs that was sung was the Oscar Mayer wiener song! (Another was the Toyota jingle which goes "I love what you do for me, Toyota!")

emc · Post by **emc** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:47 pm

Speaking of automobiles... I remember when I could see lots of ground from underneath the hood of my '57 Chevy.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:25 am

You got a 57 Chevy? Reminds me of a red&white (I think 57) Chevy station wagon my father had. It was a summer morning and my father had rolled down the windows on the drivers side and had come in for breakfast. After breakfast we went out to the car to go somewhere and found a dead hawk on the floor on the frontseat passengers side. We figured that for some unknown reason the hawk wanted to take a shortcut through the open windows. It should have made a u-turn, because the passenger side windows were closed. It didn't make too much of a mess, mostly a Big smudge on the front passengerside window. I don't think Windex had been invented yet.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:28 am

Speaking of ground....I don't remember seeing very much ground under either of the two 67 Vettes that i had.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:13 am

beyond wrote:You got a 57 Chevy? Reminds me of a red&white (I think 57) Chevy station wagon my father had.

Hey beyond; this is what your Dad had? I bet you wish it was still in the family.

Only this one isn't red&white

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Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:47 pm

OOOH, that must be the Fancy version. I think my father had the plain run of the mill version in red & white and with (4)-doors. Oh, that reminds me. There's a guy a few miles up the road in massachusetts that does restorations. At any give time he has an assortment of different cars for sale that he has restored. The thing that amazes me, however, is that most of the lawn he parks them on is VERY sloped and i don't see any bare spots in the lawn from spining tires trying to back up there where he puts them.
The car that i wish i still had is almost a toss-up between a 49 Dodge with fluid drive and my 67 Corvette with the 327 engine. THAT was a sports car!!!!

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:15 pm

beyond wrote: and my 67 Corvette with the 327 engine. THAT was a sports car!!!!

Here's a memory for you! I found in wikipedia!

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emc · Post by **emc** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:20 pm

I used to dream of owning a ’57 ‘Vette - red and white or a ’69 Camero – blue.

I miss my ’57 Chevy. I couldn’t afford to keep it running at the time. I was 16 working at the Dairy Queen. Those were the days when I wasn’t afraid of causing a nuclear reaction if I tinkered with the engine.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:17 am

orin stepanek wrote:
beyond wrote: and my 67 Corvette with the 327 engine. THAT was a sports car!!!!
Here's a memory for you! I found in wikipedia!

Click to view full size image

Hey Orin, Well, It's red like one i had, and i see It's a 427 like the one i had sitting on the front lawn 3 days after i got home from being discharged from the army.(It was second hand) But the wheels are different and i didn't have the side exhaust. The tires, however, may be Prowlers, like i put on. They are (were) a softer composition rubber for grabbing the road better. They are the only tire i know of with the red circle on the sidewall.
I also had a Hurst shifter put in. What a difference in shifter speed!

Before i went into the Army, i had a blue one with the 327. With that size engine, the car was better balanced and BOY, was it fun to drive on back roads! Definitely a TRUE American sportscar. Peppy and good handling. Unfortunately my father sold it after i went into the army.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:49 pm

For emc! found this on wikipedia

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My first car was a '52 Chevy fastback. The rods started hammering on the way home from work one day so I traded it on a '54 Ford. They don't make them like they used to: I'm happy to say.

I think Chevy came out with a V8 in '55. That made all the difference in the world. The babbitt bearings in the older cars were pretty delicate.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:37 pm

You know; I can actually remember winters when we only got one or two snowfall all winter and only an inch of the white stuff each time. Ahh; those were the days; no slipping; no sliding; no shoveling;--just coming and going whenever you pleased.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:00 pm

Remember when going into Space was just science fiction!

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Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:58 pm

WOW!! A one point landing! You don't hardly see those anymore.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:50 pm

My Brother and Sister-in-law emailed a list of music titles where you can click on the title and the song would play. These were all tunes a from my teen years so naturaly they brought back great memories.

A couple of favorites!
http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/50s ... dance.html
http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/50s ... smade.html

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:34 pm

For the Oldies but Goodies and the youngies too, here's a link to a video someone made of the sounds and sights of the 50's. There's at least one other link that takes you to the website of the person that made it, for more good stuff. Everything is copywrited, but you may link and use for your yourself. You may NOT post anything at another website. ENJOY!! http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:17 am

I remember most of the things he remembers, but I also remember some other things from that era: Polio and many other childhood diseases, racism, repressive conservatism, sexism (has that gone away yet?)

Nostalgia is best taken with a chaser of beer -- lots of it.

Rob

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:56 am

rstevenson wrote:I remember most of the things he remembers, but I also remember some other things from that era: Polio and many other childhood diseases, racism, repressive conservatism, sexism (has that gone away yet?)

Nostalgia is best taken with a chaser of beer -- lots of it.

Rob

I remember my wife and I going for our Salk Vaccine at the high school when it was available. I don't remember my smallpox shot; but I have the scar on my arm from it. I think bully-ism is one of the problems in today's society!

Beyond wrote:For the Oldies but Goodies and the youngies too, here's a link to a video someone made of the sounds and sights of the 50's. There's at least one other link that takes you to the website of the person that made it, for more good stuff. Everything is copywrited, but you may link and use for your yourself. You may NOT post anything at another website. ENJOY!! http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

(Rock Around The Clock Tonight;) is the first rock song that I can remember.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:57 pm

AND, thanks to "Happy Days", it sometimes gets stuck in your brain and takes a while to go away.

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:06 pm

And more... available at oldtimecandy.com

(I remember candy/bubblegum cigarettes from my childhood; I'm thrilled that my son doesn't remember them from his. Ditto measles, mumps, and chickenpox, and a host of attitudes and laws from the 50s.)

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:03 am

Check out the cars.

I think one of these must have been my grandparents' car, and another perhaps a neighbor's. I'm sure we had only one car back then.

We used to climb up on the backs of the cars and slide down them. Great fun! Not possible with today's cars.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:41 pm

owlice wrote:

We used to climb up on the backs of the cars and slide down them. Great fun! Not possible with today's cars.

My brother had a '47 Buick like the center one in your picture. I think it was a fastback though. Sliding down the back may be hard on the bottom when you landed on the bumper though.

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