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I’m not all that old. But I remember when I was a kid, my friends grandpa was a feverish trap shooter. I remember going in their basement one time and seeing kegs upon kegs of red and green dot powder, tens of thousands of 209
primers, and probably 30K wads.

Bought a nib 700 ADL for $139.99 at Kmart.

A 30-30 Marlin with cartridge belt, leather sling , and cleaning kit was $79.95 and a model 60 with the same accessories was $39.95 at the H. Brown furniture company in Nashville when I was a teenager. They were a Marlin dealer in those days, you won't see a furniture store in Nashville stocking guns now days but there is a drug store in Pulaski Tennessee that has guns and ammo both. It is Suttons Drugs.

I am so old that I remember going on a picnic with my dad and went swimming along time coming home with mom. How much older can you remember than that? ..mb

Manglum Bob: You are a sick puppy!
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Was in service in 1968-69 in Germany and bought a VW Beetle for $100 and pulled a motor out of a junk yard and replaced it to mine….wife and I and a couple from Missouri drove it over the Alps to Italy and Austria on a 2 week leave…never opened the quart of oil I put under the front seat for a spare …sold the VW for $200 when I got out. Soon as I got home bought a new Bug for $1000…drove it till 1978. Bought a new GTO in 1966 for $3300…saw one this week on the auto auction site sell for over $60,000. Sold mine for $800 in 1980 with 130 thousand miles on it. If I had kept that car and restored it at todays prices could have made…. a killing.

I can remember dad complaining to a cousin from Oklahoma that a recent gas delivery to the farm was 8 cents a gallon! Cousin said they were in the process of switching to propane tractors cause they got it for 3 cents.

I remember watching Annette Funicello and the other Mickey Mouse Club members on a black and white TV wishing that I was a big kid too.

Primers on the shelves

Bought a Remington 1100 12 gauge from Kmart for 120 bucks with grass cutting money. Model 60 Glenfields were 29 bucks with 4x scopes at Western Auto. Gas wars in 1970 with regular at 19.9 a gallon.

I remember selling my 1971 Chevy in 1978 because it would not run on anything but High test and it went to $.78 a gallon! I could not afford to drive it anymore.... That and the fact that high test was going away and every station was switching over to unleaded.

I also remember the cent key (as in $ and cents) instead of having to type $.78!

Cent key? Still around but one has to do a little extra typing. Hold down the alt key and enter 0162 with the number pad keys. Does not work with the number keys above the letters.

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Go here if one wants to fully exploit his keyboards potential

Alt Keycodes

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Son of a gun, thanks

Crown filling stations. Their three gas grades were Gold, Silver and Bronze.