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If ya lived through breakfast, the rest of the day was downhill.

Kids bringing their squirrel rifles to school on the school bus and going home with their friends after school on another bus to go hunting that evening.

Kids working in the cafeteria at school to pay for their lunches.

Drawing water out of a well with a rope and bucket and then using a dried out gourd to drink the water.

Burning my self by bumping the wood cookstove while my mother was cooking supper.

Washing machine on the front porch with a hand crank wringer.

The Flintstones was the prime time show every Friday evening.

Light dimmers in the floor of vehicles.

Sonic Booms

Does raw mammoth milk separate the cream?

Hard to tell.

It was frozen by the time I made it back to the cave.

Life got a bit easier when Musk Ox came along. They had an attitude,...but compared to them damn Wooly Mammoths they were pussies.

I definitely remember paper straws & glass milk bottles with paper tops.

Yeah, as some of us are older than others. I hope some will learn a few things. Keep their family traditions alive. Bring up their children and hold them and their family circle tight. Protect them from this ever changing and somewhat evil world.
I'll just stop. And, say a prayer for the younger generations.

Take care..

My fondest mammeries are of the " spank pants " gals wore.......... The whole world ( at least mine) was ruint by panty hose.
There was never any thing more exciting than starting at the ankle ...and working your way up ...and getting to that bit of flesh .......

I also remember milk cans hauled to the milk house concrete cooler...we used wagons in summer ...sleds in winter. Sometimes we domicled a few fish in that cool water.

Cleaning the barn when it was 30* below and 3-4' snow...... chains on the old 2 wheel drive tractor....the turd hearse froze up.

Automatic milk wagons where it stopped automatically at every house that was a customer......of course it was horse drawn.( As an aside I went to U of I Champaign in the early '60's, there were still had a couple horse routes).

Then there is flypaper ,.....snowshoes for trapping , old Mall and Homelite chain saws. I remember having to hunt with a Winchester 1890 in .22 WRF. I hated pump guns .. they were so common. Now I can't get enough of 'em.

But most of all I miss "Spank Pants"

Quart cans of motor oil that you had to pierce open with a spout. Damn things always leaked.

The only time I found ankles exciting was when a woman had them behind her ears.

I hear ya,

but you never experienced "Spank Pants" didja?

My '52 Chevy Powerglide Deluxe -
Fender skirts
Sun visor (I've heard them called "ballcaps" the last few years
Ball bearings on the front axle
Solid front axle
Ratcheting jacks
Oil filters inside a housing
Grease guns before cartridges - remember filling them out of a 5 gal bucket with a wide putty knife?

re-tread tires and the subsequent chunks of retread littering the roads.

Sounds more like recaps than retreads.
Recaps - they vulcanized a layer with tread on the outside of a worn tire.
Retreads - they cut new grooves in the existing "carcass" - for want of a better word.

Don't know why - but I always liked the smell of the shop that did recaps for us!

ya you're right. recaps

I remember "breathing" the engine to get the wipers to work when pulling a hill. It supposedly also pulled a little oil past the rings to cool things down, then you had a puff out the exhaust. As far as inner tubes, what are they? Going to the nickel movies Saturday with the gang next door, in a 36 woodie. Points, condenser, and plugs. That choke knob, and the high compression engines 4.5 to 1. Then they came up with the auto choke and really did have high compression 10 or 11 to 1.

That TV didn't come on air until something like 7, and you had to tune the test pattern trying to get the lines straight and the circles round. I think TV was better then, even if we did have only 2 or 3 channels.

Mom used to borrow 5 bucks from me to buy a weeks groceries a few times, always paid it back. Both us here remember the party lines, wringer washers. Actually my wife didn't have an "automatic" until she married me, along with a dryer. In those days she could walk downtown Denver at night safely.

Some things I miss, but I sure wouldn't wish anyone the lack of the medicine treatment we have now. I do miss a "real" doctor, who did everything.

I like to look at the props in movies, seeing how many things I know of and used.

Southwind, gasoline, car heaters.
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They did a good job. A. I. R.

Drinking water was in a white enameled metal bucket with a matching dipper that we all drank from. Hand pumped from the cistern that collected rainwater from the roof gutters.

Hot water came from a tea kettle or we had one of those electric things you plugged in the wall and dropped in a bucket.

Milked cows by hand, ran milk through a separator to get the cream. Take cream and eggs to "trade" at the grocery store on Saturday once weekly trip to town.

Putting on overshoes to go to outhouse when snowy or muddy.

Firewood: Dad never owned a chainsaw, but you could shave with his ax. Buzz saw on an 8N Ford made stove wood in a hurry.

Building a fire from corncobs in an old double boiler, set under the carb on the 8N to get it started at 20 below. Thats after having the battery in the house overnite.

Feeding cows with a team and a sled, Dad making me get off and run alongside to keep warm. Sticking the toes of my overboots in a fresh cowpie to warm them up....

...a gas station with the pump that filled the glass bowl then gravity drained to your tank<

I saw that style pump in use just one time when I was a little kid. At a little country station out in the boondocks.
I thought it was real cool to actually see the gasoline before it flowed down the hose into the car's tank.