[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

I'm so old that I remember whittling buttons out of bone.

 

Whole Earth is the net now...

 

i'm actually on the mailing list for the bucky fuller website. but yah, i remember his dimaxion world.
and dome book one
and visiting the physical site of cathedralite domes.
and ananda when it was furst built.
and the guru who was also a composer who started it. well he had a different name for his medition work then his music work, and right now i can't seem to remember either of them,
i know ananda meditation retreat still has a web site, or did last time i checked.
i remember going out there and visiting for the day, back when they had free open days, and before the farm was seperated from the retreat,
and when they were building the domes and the experiment with spray foam that turned out to be a mistake
and the rainbow mountain inn and good morning grocery in nevada city. that was in the 70s before the internet or even personal computers.
oh and carob brownies you could get at the good morning grocery.

 

Carob ice cream is my favorite --can't find it. ----------------. A GOOD redo of the WEC would benefit from some rich person doing it that didn't need advertising that would clutter it up. But remember --those were the days when many were breaking free from the stultifying past of the Leave it to Beaver world, don't screw, don't cuss, get a job on the zombie treadmill and be like all those that came before. Gaining freedom and breaking loose in those days was a heady proposition. Changing consciousness, back to the land, fuck the man---the WEC and Mother Earth News were very natural adjuncts to the times. And they were a'changin.

 

places you used to need a four wheel drive to get to, or a horse or several days hike, that now have traffic lights and shopping malls. human population growth is NOT a good thing. even for humans.
(not that i would bitch if they little trains you could get there on instead)

 

The Grapevine was 2 lanes
Before highway 5, the 99 was the way north and went through all the little towns.
When the farmers west of Lemoore, my home town--held cotton picking contests. All the pickers were black and used those long sacks-the 40s.
No TV, no go-carts.
The fog in the San Joaquin valley that literally restricted ones view to less than 10 feet. (if we got out in it in a car, we'd have to drive with the doors open and look down to see when we hit the grass on either side of the road to then swerve back to then hit the grass on the other side.--at 5 miles an hour.)
Girls NEVER were allowed to wear pants to school.
National news was 15 minutes in the evening on 3 channels only.
Africa was still 'the dark continent.'
Super Duck, Captain Marvel, The Heap, Little Lulu, Mutt & Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Joe Palooka-(with Humphrey and his outhouse bicycycle, are a fiew of the comics of that bygone era.
The noise a 'bullroarer' made in Trader Horn,the movie with Harry Cary shot on the 'dark continent. It spooked me out, but I made one myself.

s'nuff for now.

 

I remember when you actually HELD the person you were dancing with ...

 

Now listen very carefully, for I shall say this only once ...


Pugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb



(and our American friends are now all going "WTF??????" )

 

when people drove to the station to catch the train, because you couldn't get to the big city any faster or cheaper driving.
when the station in the city was served by two or more railroads and most of the trolleys and buses stopped out front.
when movable bridges were operated by someone in a little tower on or next to them.
and were frequently raised to let boats pass and lowered to let trains and cars cross.
(when i was in second grade my dad worked the i-street bridge in sacramento)
when every railroad made major modifications to their motive power to suit the needs of local conditions
when freight trains always had cabooses instead of blinking red lights.
and every locomotive had at least two people in the cab, sometimes three, an engineer, fireman(engineer trainee), and head end breakman,
and every caboose had a conductor and rear end brakeman.
when every town had a bus station as well as a train station and the bus station always had some kind of resteraunt or cafe.
when there were as many pickups and panel trucks on the road as there were cars, and nearly everyone who had one of either at all, had only one.

 

I recall sitting on the dock of the bay [uh-huh] and asking a chap named Columbus "What's the special rush to get to this 'New World',Chris?"
His reply was "Well that themnax fella lives on a small green planet in a distant galaxy-so if the wind's in our favour,we should beat him there!"
[We conversed in his native Italian,as he didn't want the nosy Spaniards to understand him]

 

I'm so old I remember when my arms were just flippers

 

I remember making $1.20 an hour for work in 1968.......

 

When I learned to drive gas cost 26 cents a gallon

 

i'm so old i remember when politeness was normal. and it wasn't because people had guns either. nobody walked around with one if they did.
more people worked in infrastructure then in resteraunts. more people had union jobs then worked in retail.
even people who had cars walked or rode public transit about twice is much as they do today.

 

Yes politeness was much more prevalent back in the olden times!

My god-daughter said to me many years ago "The Beatles, they that band from the olden times."

That's when I realized time was passing on much more rapidly than I liked!

 

Olden times? Oh Gawd......... People actually played instruments and sang the songs that THEY wrote!
I remember seeing Led Zeppelin in 1970......

 

I was there!!! (at the Led Zeppelin concert)