You are an old fart.

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Watched my Father install turn signals on a '54 Chevy as they weren't standard equipment

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, Shouting "...holy shit...what a ride!"

[shropshire 0]

Dads VW Beetle used the air in the spare tyre to was the 'pump' for the windscreen washer water!

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[BillyVance 34]

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How about the high beam switch on the floor?

Yeah, my first car had that - 1964 Buick Special.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[BillyVance 34]

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Drive up bank transactions that involved sending stuff through the a pneumatic tube

Banks around here still have those.

And some pharmacy drive throughs too

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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How about the high beam switch on the floor?

Yeah, my first car had that - 1964 Buick Special.

Kewl! My first was a 66 Buick Special. 2-door, Blue with white top.

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Slide rule classes. Climbing down the stairs from a jet. Watching a flight leave from the rooftop of the airport (it's really loud). Sharpening my pencils with a knife.

Aw, hell. You can do that today. In Hawaii.

And Burbank. I fly there all the time. It was a big deal last year when one of the gates got a ramp.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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Marbles... Remember Steelies? They were the hot stuff.

... and 'purees' and 'cats eyes'? Earning .50 cents an hour working at the grocery store?


Chuck

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My sister had a 63 Buick think it was a Skylark convertible, great car, v6 4 barrel carb. Fun, too bad my brother wrecked it in 74 just before I got my license.

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I remember being very disappointed that all TV shows, only three channels back then, were preempted by JFKs funeral procession.

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How about the high beam switch on the floor?

Yeah, my first car had that - 1964 Buick Special.

Kewl! My first was a 66 Buick Special. 2-door, Blue with white top.

Mine was a 4 door, light green with white top. Monster steering wheel and bench seats. Even the front seat was one piece from door to door.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[grimmie 186]

Writing a check to pay for things at the cash register that looked like an old typewriter.

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... when you write to a thread saying that you're an old fart

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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I remember being very disappointed that all TV shows, only three channels back then, were preempted by JFKs funeral procession

Yep, during the Saturday morning cartoons, the REAL prime time viewing for any little kid back then.

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Writing a check to pay for things at the cash register that looked like an old typewriter.

Im in Oklahoma... we still do that.
Can still have an account at the CO-OP.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

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Do you know why, there was a 16 RPM setting on record players?


Chuck

Spoken word?

If you remember 2 (or more) 'sides' on a single records (parallel groves)
(I can think of 2 examples , 1st Monty Pythion and 2nd was a Horse race game with different outcomes on each track .... ***K I feel old)

Originlly, the 16-RPM was to be played in Chrysler automobiles. Later, they were used for special recordings for the blind.

I had a 45-rpm with 2 recordings per side. It was Gospel songs sung by Elvis Presley.


Chuck

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You're right!


We are 'old farts'!


Chuck

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If:
- milk was delivered to your door
- your first and only phone was a party line
- girls that wore stockings used garter belts
- the sexiest pictures around were in the Sears catalog

Those were the days!

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

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Writing a check to pay for things at the cash register that looked like an old typewriter.

That is where the terms,
"Ring me up" and
"Cha-ching" (spelling)
came from, i think. The old registers had a bell that rang when you opened the cash drawer. There better not be a "cha-ching" if no customer was being rang up.

Instructor quote, “What's weird is that you're older than my dad!”

[shropshire 0]

If you right the same thing to the same thread more than once.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[shropshire 0]

and if you right the same thing to the same thread more than once.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Abedy 0]

I got a funny e-mail some years ago. It was with illustrating pictures, so I suspect some folks will have to look up a few of the wurdz ;-)
I'll attach some of the car-related ones.

Here we go:

This was sent to me by the wife of our Willapa Valley “Class of ’45” class president so I can’t even expect my own children to understand all of them.

'FENDER SKIRTS.'
A term I haven't heard in a long time, and thinking about 'fender skirts' started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like 'curb feelers.' And 'steering knobs.' (AKA) 'suicide knob,' 'neckers knobs.'
Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.
Any kids will probably have to find some older person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you.
Remember 'Continental kits?' They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental.
When did we quit calling them 'emergency brakes?' At some point 'parking brake' became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with 'emergency brake.'
I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the 'foot feed.' Many today do not even know what a clutch is or that the dimmer switch used to be on the floor.
Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the 'running board' up to the house?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore -'store-bought.' Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.

'Coast to coast' is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term 'world wide' for granted. This floors me.

On a smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure

When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase 'in a family way?' It's hard to imagine that the word 'pregnant' was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company, so we had all that talk about stork visits and 'being in a family way' or simply 'expecting.'

Apparently 'brassiere' is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just 'bra' now. 'Unmentionables' probably wouldn't be understood at all.

I always loved going to the 'picture show,' but I considered 'movie' an affectation.

Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure '60s word I came across the other day 'rat fink.' Ooh, what a nasty put-down!

Here's a word I miss - 'percolator.' That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with 'Coffee maker.' How dull... Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.

I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like 'DynaFlow' and 'Electrolux.' Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with 'SpectraVision!'

Food for thought. Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.

Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most is 'supper.' Now everybody says 'dinner.' Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.

Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a 'certain age' would remember most of these.

Just for fun, pass it along to others of 'a certain age.'

IF YOU AREN'T OF A CERTAIN AGE, YOU MUST KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS.

The sky is not the limit. The ground is.

The Society of Skydiving Ducks

[JerryBaumchen 1,362]

Hi Abedy,

That continental kit is on a 1954 Ford; can tell by the taillights.

That running board is on a 1935 Ford.



JerryBaumchen

PS) And I not only remember all of your 'terms' but I knew/had cars with them.

PPPS) Anyone remember when used auto want-ads sometimes included 'H&R' in them? Years ago I was telling my kids about this and they could not conceive of a car without a heater & radio; they were options back in those days gone by.

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and if you right the same thing to the same thread more than once.

If you're old enough to know the difference between "right" and "write".

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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You are an old fart......

... when you say Groovy, or Fab or Far out

How about Boss or Dig it

Damn my brain is starting to hurt.

Time to take my nap. Nurse!

One Jump Wonder

[kallend 2,026]

If you had Beatles records before they played on the Ed Sullivan show.

If you remember Feb 3, 1959.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.