How old are you?

[Bradley Walker]

6.

Jarts with steel tips?

[Steve Scott]

I barely remember Sputnik but do remember Khruschev.

I remember boarding a piston-engined airliner (a DC-6) and the newspaper headlines that Marilyn Monroe was found dead the previous day.

I remember being shepherded into a school auditorium to watch Alan Shepard's historic 15 minute spaceflight.

I remember the VW microbus was really the first minivan.

I remember the Cuban Missile crisis, JFK being shot, the civil rights unrest and "The Eagle has landed" transmitted from 240,000 miles away.

I'm more concerned about retirement age than drinking age.

Yes, it's great to be a BOOMER!!!!

[Scott Hartford]

I barely remember Sputnik but do remember Khruschev.

I remember boarding a piston-engined airliner (a DC-6) and the newspaper headlines that Marilyn Monroe was found dead the previous day.

I remember being shepherded into a school auditorium to watch Alan Shepard's historic 15 minute spaceflight.

I remember the VW microbus was really the first minivan.

I remember the Cuban Missile crisis, JFK being shot, the civil rights unrest and "The Eagle has landed" transmitted from 240,000 miles away.

I'm more concerned about retirement age than drinking age.

Yes, it's great to be a BOOMER!!!!

I was born an hour after Kennedy was shot, so I only remember a few of these.

[Bill Adair]

My family used WWII Ration stamps to buy food, and I was old enough to tear the correct stamps out of the books!

I collected savings stamps in school, to buy war bonds.

Remember sitting in the dark during blackouts in St. Louis MO, while listening to some of the old radio programs mentioned above.

I remember smoking Lucky Strikes out of a green pack, but they came out of a surplus C-ration pack in my early AF days. Also smoked Luckys from the new pack, Marvels, Wings, and Spuds, or what ever was cheapest at the time. Smoked OPB's, when I couldn't afford my own cigarettes.

Rolled my own with Prince Albert, Bugle Boy, and Velvet tobaccos (flat cans) stocked up by my grandfather before WWII tobacco rationing began.

Tried Golden Grain tobacco after the war, because all the local farmers smoked it! Golden Grain was an awful tasting tiny flake tobacco that came in cloth bags, and was impossible to keep on the paper in a wind (or off your tongue) when rolling your own cigarettes. Took a wad of spit to keep it all together.

Still remember watching in awe, as an older neighbor farmer rolling a Golden Grain cigarette with one hand, while walking behind his mule team plowing!

Chewed Days Work, and Bee's Wax chewing tobaccos, but thankfully never took a liking to snuff.

In my late teens, and early twenties I also smoked pipes, and cigars, but gave up all tobacco products before our first baby was old enough to notice what I was doing to my health.  Thankfully, only one of our four children ever smoked, but quit years ago.

My first car was a 1929 Model A Ford, but I've driven a Henry J, a LaSalle, a De Soto, and a Hudson, among others!

I'm almost as old as Methuselah, but still younger than my stunt hero Leo Mehl, and evidently Leo is younger than Bigiron!

My hats off to all the senior members of our forum! 

Bill

[Jim Thomerson]

Does anyone remember Delaware Punch? It was a non-carbonated soda pop, red, and with a sweet grape-like taste.  I found some in cans in a little grocery store in Texas maybe 10-12 years ago. 

[ken Kubushefski]

25 out of 25. does anyone remember Flagg Bros shoes. Flagg Flyers no laces but not loafers $ 9.99 all leather made in the USA
Also Hardy's shoes $ 7.77 a pair also all leather made in USA.

[walter weatherford]

Remember going to the shoe store and putting my feet in this Xray machine contraption to see how my feet fit inside the new shoes. (Fluroscope?), Buster Brown and his dog Tide!!  My uncle collecting drip gas and running it in his Model A.  Thing would get so hot it wouldn't turn off.  Model airplane fuel that smelled like shoe polish. Dentist chairs with pullies and cords that went to a slow drill.  Red Ryder BB guns, and small packs of BB's for a penny, ten cent movies, nickle cokes, Grapette soda, Cherry Phosphate drinks at the drug store soda fountain.
Reel type push mowers, steel fishing rods, walking to school in Argentine Kansas, with a 16ga pump shotgun to give a speech in speech class on how to strip it down and clean it and nobody thinking a thing about it.  Swapping pocket knives in school. Ringmasters for $2.98.

[Andrew Borgogna]

I remember two movies and ten cartoons and it cost a quarter to get in.  Abba Zabba and Big Hunk thoughs were the days.

[Phil Spillman]

I rmember all of them! I am 70.5! I also remember blackout curtins, gasoline, food,tire, clothing, butter, and meat Rationing!  the Original D Day, VJ and VE Day as well! But I can't really accept that I am as old as I am and therrefore I choose not to act that old any more! Phil Spillman

[Dennis Moritz]

Most of the things mentioned feel like they're part of my daily life. Hi Fi. I play my Hi FI all the time, also my record player, which does have a 45 speed. Vinyl sounds better (smoother) but wears out unless you clean them all the time, and the big discs, even the 45s are clunky. Also, can't play them in your car. A Studi Lark is a nice size for getting around town.  Would like one today. With a supercharger. But the Studi V8s were boat anchors. In many ways my 1980 Malibu station is the same idea as a Lark. Until the recent gas gouge, wasn't much point in swapping my old car rides. For one thing. They were fixable. Chunkys, when did they stop selling Chunkys? PF Flyiers were junk anyway, Keds, much better. For a time, five or six years ago (10? who's counting), PFs were a punk rock fashion statement in NYC. In my NY apartment there's a Fridge (Frigidaire) from the 50s that works. Unlike my 8 year old Maytag (in Philly) that's on its way out. In the 50s stuff was built to stick around as tho we had a future. Despite the atom bomb and the cold war. 'ow 'bout that.

Forgot, HI FI meant monaural. I play stereo. Also, I forgot, a record player is a turntable, if you pay enough for it.

Besides, what is our Hobby, if not a strictly fifties activity. Still works pretty good. Imagine, most of us still hand build what we fly. Now and then looking at model airplane mags from the fifties (even the thirties), what we do today resembles how models were made back then. Bawsa anyone. We may be on the downward side of our biological clock, but it seems to me much of what we did then we do now. Lucky, I guess. Many of my friends are like this, anyway. Working on cars, building models, reading and writing, hanging out, talking bull.

As far as I'm concerned I could manage a couple a' hundred more years of living. Doubt I would run out of ideas, appetites and dumb things to do.

[Bob Hills]

           Anybody remember the Air Raid drills. We had a neighbor who was the Air Raid Warden for the neighborhood. When the siren sounded we had to shut off all the lights. If you did not he would let you know about it. 
            Look up dirt in the dictionary and you will  see my picture.

          Bob Hills in CT.

[don Burke]

Been around since 1940 and remember all that stuff.

I also remember the black plastic solid models that were available for the Ground Observers Corp so they could recognize airplanes!

[Just One-eye]

Been around since 1940 and remember all that stuff.

I also remember the black plastic solid models that were available for the Ground Observers Corp so they could recognize airplanes!

I had a couple of those, a couple of years after WW2, but far more numerous, and more readily available, were black cardboard "silhouette" recognition models that were in three pieces, with slots for the wing and empennage to slide into.  I had 10 or 12 of those on threads dangling from my bedroom ceiling when I was about 5 or so.  (And I'd forgotten all about that, until reminded.)

[Bill Mohrbacher]

I remember them all; I'm 65.  I remember building my first .049, an OK Cub in a power kit.  I remember using all of a 4 oz lighter fluid sized can of Testor's 39 fuel for the first flight of my Fox 35 Ringmaster; after silk and doping that HUGE plane I couldn't afford a pint of fuel.

I remember really good high school assemblies like when the "Shooting Gauchos" did trick shooting with .22s in our auditorium.  The best was put on by General Motors.  Their guy drove a nail with a banana hardened in dry ice.  He also pulled out a table with a Dyna-Jet mounted on it.  A couple of my friends and I were the only ones who knew what it was; we never dreamed he would fire it up indoors, but he did!  I remember the tailpipe glowing red and kids and teachers screaming from the noise.  While it was running, he put a can with a turbine wheel and axle in the exhaust to demo how a turbine could power a car (like the first Firebird).  How did we ever grow up being exposed to such danger??

[Charlie Pate]

I am 73, so I don't remember a lot of that stuff.

During WWII, there were no Hershy bars.  After the war, there was one place in town which had Hershy bars.  We talked our school bus driver into going by and stopping.  We would all go in to buy a Hershy bar.

I remember the old Lucky Strike cigarette package.
It was green ,with a red bulls eye.
After wwII started ,the package was changed to white with a red bulls eye ,to eliminate the green dye
for military use .
They" sloganized "by saying " Lucky strike has gone to war ".
I also remember when the 45 RPM record was introduced.
   Lastly----- Old man sitting on the curb crying. Guy comes up to him and asks " whats wrong partner?"
Old man answers:
" I am worth 36 billion dollars. I have a 15 room house; A 27 year old wife that is insanely in love with me;
 6 cars; A plane built and signed by Terry Fancher."
Then why are you crying ? asked the Guy.
The old man replied " I can,t remember where I live!"

[john e. holliday]

You guys have brought so many memories back to me that it may take the whole forum to remember all of them.  Of course my memory is getting as bad as some others parts of this old body.  DOC Holliday

[Mike Keville]

Yep, knew 'em all --- even the Burma Shave signs.  (Some of us suspect that in a previous life Howard Rush wrote those.)

[Mike Patterson]

LEFT OUT OLD TIME BLACK LICORICE AND THE HUDSON HORNET

[Leo Mehl]

Lucky strike went to WW2 Green and came back red ,why? The war effort needed green prigment for paint. Don't beleive it? Ask a WW2 vet.

My Grandfather smoked Wings ciggaretts. This was in Minnesota and if I recall they used to put a picture of an airplane in the pack. But that was a long time ago before the goverment starting taxing cigs.

[Scott B. Riese]

I'm 12 going on 53.........

OH I remembered ahhhhhhhhhh??

What was the question?? 
Scott (used to and could of ) Riese

[RC Storick]

For those local to Los Angeles I remember the Herald Express, Examiner and the Mirror new papers. Oh ya and the everything in the list.  Dirt, man I am dirt......
Andy

I grew up in West Covina,CA. and remember the Herald Examiner but thats for the younger guys right up there with "Duck and Cover". Like that would have done any good..  It just gave the general public a feeling of assuredness along with the personal bomb shelter.

[Bill Morell]

24 out of 25 and I'll be 55 next month. What I remember the most was when a hobby shop was the real deal. We only have one left out here. Covina Hobby and is still run by Ed. I'll bet Sparky knows it!

[bob yocum]

All 25 and more .Did anyone mention the ice box?Good Humor ice cream,window blackouts[Los Angeles],10 cents for movie tickets,cash registers---------

[Clancy Arnold]

I am 73 and remember them all. 

The first ambulance I ever drove was a Packard. 
How many of you remember that you could order a "Henry-J" at Sears and Roebuck!!!
The first year Corvette's were offered they had 6 cylinder in-line engines with 3 carbs.
How about "Marvel" cigarettes.  They cost about half as much as Luckys or Camels and were reputed to be made from floor sweepings.

Clancy

[Leo Mehl]

I remember seing my first silent movie in my hometown and they even had a orchestra sitting in the pit. Movie cost a dollar then. Matinees every Sat. Hopilong cassidy and his sidekick Leon Errol. White Eagle serials. Boy I couln't wait till nex Saturday. It cost % cents for a ice cream cone then. I used to buy [paper at the Prinshop and I made 2 cents for everyone I sold. I could spend hours in the local 10Cent store and dream of all the things I could have when I was old enough to make money. My grandmother churned and made butter and saved eggs to help pay for the grocieries. I remember when the first honoginized milk came out. I was really mad because you couldn't tast the cream that used to be in the neck of a bottle of milk.Now I hve to drink 2% milk so I dont clog things up. How about the Sears catolog in all the outhouses. Boy I got mad when the toy pages were torn out and a Herb Shrinner said he was glad his Harmonica was at the back of the book so It didn't get torn out right away. Hay rides were the real thing and a good way to meet girls. I could go on and on but I am tired now Tell Lew I don't know how he does it!

[walter weatherford]

Forgot, I remember ice boxes, and the ice wagon hauled by a couple of horses, a tarp thrown over the ice to slow down the melting, and the driver giving us a small splinter of ice in the summer,  in McAlister Oklahoma,
about 1951.  THe duck and cover drills in grade school,where you would have to get under your desk as best you could.  Sticking the girls pigtails that sat in front of you in the inkwell.  Getting your rear blistered for same!! Ah; the good old days. Going hunting with BB guns and no one thinking a thing about it.

Hothandle

[Bill Little]

It's funny, but *I* remember all of those, and there are a few here that are a bit older than me. (maybe because my Mother's people lived in the Mountains of NC and didn't even have power or plumbing.....)

You chewed the wax *Coke* bottles after you tasted the drop of syrup in them.  Our school lunch milk bottles had the paper stoppers, and I have a few of the bottles and stoppers.

The very first car I ever drove was a Studebaker Land Cruiser!  I do remember sitting in my Grandfather's lap and driving it up the dirt road to where we lived.......  of course, we did run over Charlie Pate with our mule wagon.

Old enough to know how and still young enough to be mostly able to do it!

Mongo

[Herb Calvin]

I remember the Iceman bring ice for our ice box. My '35 Chevy, cranking our wall phone an giving th operator my freiends 3 didget. I remember remembering how to spell.     Herb