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Seed corn in a bag?

Shirts made from cow feed sacks. 50 lb bag was material and could be made into shirts, dresses, etc.....

life before the internet, color tv, mandatory seat belts, and unregulated big tobacco.

Cars and trucks made before the dreaded check engine light. I never will for get my Father opening up the hood on his Cadillac and asking me what he was checking for, the engine is there and looks fine.

"Swats" in grade school

I remember swats cause I got a bunch, feed sacks made into shirts too.

Sheets and pillow cases from flour sacks! memtb

Walking to the store alone as an 8 year old and buying your dad a pack of Winstons.

We lived about 2 blocks from the corner store, I remember pushing the push lawnmower to the store to fill up with gas and pick up a pack of Lucky Strikes for dad.... I think he gave me two quarters for both....
I drove a truck to school that had floor board starter button.....

I remember my brother and I found an old wooden barrel, took it apart, picked two nice staves, drove a nail in each(so your shoe would stick) threw one end of a rope over the horses neck, tied a stick to the other to make a T-handle..... we each took turns 'driving' and 'skiing' behind a horse across a Florida pasture... surprisingly no arms or legs were broken.........

Our gardens were organic because we couldn't afford fertilizer or DDT. We used chicken manure, and picked the bugs off by hand. Kept us kids busy. All our eggs were free-range, our beef was grass-fed, our pigs ran the river swamp and were rounded up once a year to notch the new ones' ears. Chickens tasted like chicken. We grew and canned most of our fruit and vegetables. You could hunt anywhere in the woods and swamps without asking permission. We were expected to be respectful of all adults, and heaven help you if you got in trouble at school and they found out about it. The teacher or principal gave you licks for whatever sin you committed, and the parents gave you more for being an embarrassment to the family.

Taking your new shotgun to school in your car to show your buddies..

Teachers in grade school asking to borrow your knife for a minute.

mercury maze toy

Penny candy - and the drug store clerk fuming while you made up your mind over a nickel's worth.

Had a real soda fountain too with Green River.

(Getting old but not THAT old. Like 1st grade in a small rural town where things like that die slowly.)

Also picking up things for Gramma at the local grocer and having it put on a tab for Grampa to settle when the paycheck came in.

I was about that age, when I walked into a Beer Joint and got my Dad.

Waiting in line for polio and small pox vaccinations at school. OUCH !

Extra milk was .01¢ in the school lunch line.

Camel brand tube patch kit's for bicycles.

I put bagged seed corn in today. Paper bags, not cloth, those were before my time. Feed, and flour in cloth bags yes.

Saturdays morning Radio shows.

Gunny sack for a fish stringer.

Mercury in thermometers, you could break then and play with the shinny liquid, coat dimes etc.
How come we didn't all die?

Sodas/pop in glass bottles....and not that Mexican [bleep].

I'd get a Bubble Up on Saturday or Sunday when Dad took me to the farm.