Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Things us old guys remember.

National Anthem and American flag on TV at the end of the days' transmission. I believe it was midnight.

Shoveling coal into the coal bin
Before that,digging coal in the family mine and carrying it out in gunny s

Using a coal shovel to slide in the snow.

Using corn cobs to start a fire in the coal furnace.

Kick starting the gas engine on the washing machine.

Putting new soles and heels on shoes with a shoe lathe. I still have one with three different sizes

Victrola record playing machines,and plastic coated paper records. Still got them.

Black Lung, Polio, Iron Lungs.

Cap Guns

Using Punkin balls in shotguns for deer in single shot shotguns.

Sitting around the radio on Saturday night before owning a B&W TV
Plastic sheet you put on the T V to make it colored. Blue on top,brown in the middle,green on the bottom.Worked great on westerns

Small metal cars and trucks that you got in and pedaled.

Every flat surface in the kitchen covered with home made bread waiting to rise once a week.

Boys had to do dishes as punishment for a week

Making ham salad out of bologna,pickles and mayonnaise using a hand cranked grinder. That and the home made bread was our school lunches for the week.

Five buckle arctics over shoes boots.