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And give you free road maps.

“Bold Journey” with Jack Douglas, a show featuring films taken by travelers and adventurers.

Didn't read them all but -

I shave with a 2x safety razor and badger brush.

Brandy old fashioneds at the supper club next to the feed mill.... (I was the youngest person there last night, not serving food)

If daisies are
Your favorite flower
Keep pushing up
Those miles per hour

Burma Shave

Don't try passing
On a slope
Unless you have
A periscope

Burma Shave

Steel Scops.

I remember,, Manners,respect, drinking ice tea out of 1# folgers coffee cans, quart jars for adults pint jars for kids, sitting in the yard with papaw after we mowed, sitting around the picnic table after granny fixed lunch for the hay crew, straw under the fingernails while handling sqaure bales, the tv getting turned off at dinner time, going outside so granmaw could have her half hour of prayer after lunch, I remember the 1st in house air conditiioner i ever seen, the 1st black person i ever seen, i was 16 an we followed him around walmart like hounds,,, carrying guns on the school bus, keeping them in our locker(till senior yr when we had to leave em in our truck or principles office, lots of things,,

Fender skirts

bumper jacks

Curb feelers.

Enjoying the walk down memory lane!

Heath Kit radios and TVs.

Mail correspondence courses.

DeSoto cars

the milk man came to pick up the milk in those big 5 gallon milk cans.
\we had a cream separator and mom saved the cream and sold it every week at creamery.

i got to pull teats but by the time i had a half bucket dad would take over because i was taking too long.

pencil boxes and slide rules

Dimmer switch on the floor.

Turn signals were your left arm.

Cigarette pack in a rolled up tee shirt sleeve.

Penny box of matches (Ohio Blue Tip?)

Grandma stepping out the back door to spit a stream of Levi Garrett.

People who "saucer and blow" their coffee.
A coffee cup with a saucer under it! LOL!

Pocket watches on a gold chain.
Caterpillar watch "fobs".

Yes... The 3-centers above were for actual mail using envelops...

use to smoke Durham for a number of years when I was young. Finally kicked the habit years ago.

The smell of a freshly shot paper shotgun shell.

Freshly shot was best, but even months later, you could still smell one and remember the pheasant that you shot with it.

I remember those days.