Quick Sherman - Into the Way-Back Machine

Ok Old hippies - Back to your roots - What do you remember from your childhood that is no more???
Remember the milkman puting the milk on your doorstep at 5:00 AM?
Remember going to the movie for a dime?
How about a .10 coke and a .12 Crystal burger?

My mind is fading - Come on guys - Help me remember.

 

How about this -
No TV and
No AC

Ahh yes - I remember it well. And when we did get tv it was black and white until the late 60's with 3 channels to choose from. But they were good times just the same.

 

ya..the milkman was cool but we also had a baker that would swing by...the baker would always come to the side door for some reason...with a huge basket of different baked goods..

they still had milk delivery in vancouver in 1986


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WOW - 1986 - that's while - I think we lost ours in the early 60's.
I lived in Jackson, Ms and in High School we would go by and put .25 in my friends fiat to cruise for the night - Of course this was 1964 and gas was .299 per gal.

 

...i remember going to the store to buy smokes for my mom and dad....fifty cents and they would say keep the change..which I would spend on penny candy...old fashioned stuff.

 

1962- a 12 yr old kid in the Bronx ,NY
---------give or take a yr or so------------
No supermarkets- there was a butcher shop,a milkman, fruits/veggies came off the push carts and small mom&pop stores- No HomeDepot- there were hardware shops- - No fancy Nikes- We wore Keds and PF Fyers- and if our shoes got worn out- -they went to the local "shoemaker" for repair

We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids

No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you

While playing we got cuts and bruises and the tears in our"dungarees"but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to a hospital was necessary
Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. Played baseball until dark- took the train home with no fears( not many of us had bikes in the Bronx)

If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a smacked for breaking the law If we fucked up in school, the teacher was always right- and we probably got smacked again
If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.

But most of all we were allowed to be kids

To dream, to invent and to play.

memories from the wayback machine
jack

 

Can you tell me whose pet Sherman was?
Who was Mr. Ed?
Remember standing in line at school to get shots? Yuck
JJ is right - no cell phone. You came home on time to keep from getting swatted. No calculators - pencil and paper

 

Peabody was Sherman's dog(I think). I think the cartoon was narrated from peabody's eyes- - ?
Mr.ED was Wilbur,s talking horse- -
From that black and white TV set that Ddoright mentioned (with no clicker- we had to get up to change the channel to 1 of the other 12 ) we watched the lone ranger,the adventures of superman -loved that show- - great Caesar's ghost!- -Bonanza, The honeymooners, My favorite Martian, and of course Dragnet.
There was an episode where Sgt.Friday told the parents of a hippie type girl, that thier daughter was using LSD- -the father replied " "Well at least she isnt at one of those pot parties smokin marijuana"- - LSD was legal when that show started> and was legal until 1966.

I cant remember to many others- I remember some of the commercials> from Burma shave, and the beer commercials "Hey Mabel ,Black Label" to cigarettes, they,re were sooo many different brands all coming with thier own jingle or saying, For me at that time "Id rather fight than switch"- Tareyton - who knows what happened to all these different killers?

Wow-trying to remember all these things from childhood is something I rarely do- - kinda cool-

jack

 

As of today, June Cleaver.

 

I dont know how far you went back but in the 1800's Faraday assisted in creating the AC>... and commercial AC units were available in the early 1900's..
Ill shut up.. I just like Reffer Gas..

 

Yeah - it was Mr. Peabody (the dog) narrating. I really thing that Sherman was Mr. Peabody's boy and not the other way around.

How abut candy cigarettes - ummmm.
My grandma only had fireplaces - At night we'd crawl up in feather beds (you were lucky to see over the top) and about 6 blankets - like back in the womb - ummmmm. You didn't want to be the 1st one up in the morning - them floors was coooolld - and no one had poked up the fire yet.

 

i always enjoyed watching these guys

 

I remember not having a/c, and black n white tv also.

Drinking hot water from the hose in the backyard. And making roads for my Hot Wheels with my fingers in the dirt.

I got a Tonka dump truck for my birthday and ran around the yard pushing it with my hands (making engine noises) when I was like 6 or 7, lol.

I remember it like it was yesterday!

 

Cool - Heckle & Jeckle - man I haven' thought of them in years.
OH CISCO - OH PANCHO - remember them?

 

I remember when Freedom was something that almost everyone wanted.
Today it is only the small groups of "marginaux" in the world that still speak the word.

http://les-revolutionnaires.org

 

I recently downloaded a bunch of these. My ten year old daughter loves 'em.
Do any of you guys remember the TV remotes that were sound activated? I remember my friend had one and you could rattle the chain of their swag lamp and change channels

My Dad also a had a remote control for the TV, my brother and I.

Remember when the knob eventually broke off and then there was always a pair of pliers on top of the set for channel changing.
Yup, a pair of pliers and I comprised the epitome of modern convenience for my Dad.

 

No smart-assed comments but I remember the milkman making his deliveries with a horse and cart.

 

damn pb..how old are you..its like we grew up in the same house...our dog would walk by the tv and his chain would change the channel...happened at my friends house all the time too..haha

and the tv remote...fuck i just laid down in front of the tv a foot away..you could reach up and change the channel..that spot on the floor directly in front of our half ton RCA was a much fought over piece of real estate ..and god help you if you got up to get a cookie and forgot to say ''save my spot'' because if you didnt it would be gone when you returned

...and i have had plyers for my tv as recently as 1998 or 99 haha

i remember seeing horse and carts in toronto in the early 60s too...my mom is at a mass at the vatican today but i am gonna ask her when she gets back

 

:smilielol5:

My brother and I would get into "elbow battles" over that prime piece of real estate as we would both try to inch our way to the center in front of the screen. One saturday morning my Dad got pissed and put a line of tape on the floor and we each had to stay on our respective sides or else!

 

i had a ball of Silly Putty...remember sticking it to comics in the paper and the image would be on the putty?..anyway i had some in the palm of my hand watching tv...and i had my hand propping up my head to watch cartoons..the silly putty warmed up and intertwined into my hair...my mom had to cut out a huge chunk of my hair on one side,,,,i clearly remember the embarrassment and how stupid i felt...haha