Older than Dirt?

Auld Phart

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How many do YOU remember?

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I remember all but 1
 
i remember candy cigarettes. There is a drive in still open about an hour or so away from here.
I have seen metal lunch boxes at antique shops.
 
Call me dirt, I guess. Remember driving into a ‘fillin station’ and a guy coming to your window, “filler up and check under the hood”.
 
How many do YOU remember?

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I remember all but 1

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^^^^ As I am a decadent European I have never heard of 98% of the above, BUT I love records and have at least 18,000 records in my record collection and I do buy vinyl, yesterday I bought 8 LPS and 11 7" and 6 10".

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^^^^ What is Howdy Doody? :confused-84:
 
I'm happy to say I only remember 5. If you remember 6-15 you're getting there. If you remember 16-20 you're a burden on society, and should drive your Hoveround into the ocean.
 
How many do YOU remember?

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


I remember all but 1

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


^^^^ As I am a decadent European I have never heard of 98% of the above, BUT I love records and have at least 18,000 records in my record collection and I do buy vinyl, yesterday I bought 8 LPS and 11 7" and 6 10".

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^^^^ What is Howdy Doody? :confused-84:


Childrens tv show in the 50s




Too scary :eek-52: American children subjected to something like this? WTF?!



^^^^ Go to one minute and ten seconds and then you see all the clips. WTF totally fucked up on all levels, including a VERY scary clown and also there is a REAL chimpanzee involved :eek-52:
 
How many do YOU remember?

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


I remember all but 1

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


^^^^ As I am a decadent European I have never heard of 98% of the above, BUT I love records and have at least 18,000 records in my record collection and I do buy vinyl, yesterday I bought 8 LPS and 11 7" and 6 10".

View attachment 173034

^^^^ What is Howdy Doody? :confused-84:


Childrens tv show in the 50s




Too scary :eek-52: American children subjected to something like this? WTF?!



^^^^ Go to one minute and ten seconds and then you see all the clips. WTF totally fucked up on all levels, including a VERY scary clown and also there is a REAL chimpanzee involved :eek-52:


Be hard to find a child of that era that didn't watch, and enjoy, the show.

The first 'clown' later became Captain Kangaroo.
 
Too scary :eek-52: American children subjected to something like this? WTF?!



^^^^ Go to one minute and ten seconds and then you see all the clips. WTF totally fucked up on all levels, including a VERY scary clown and also there is a REAL chimpanzee involved :eek-52:


MEIN GOTT! The boys are all up front, the girls in the back! How sexist!

"Doodyville" has a different connotation these days. Think San Francisco.
 
How many do YOU remember?

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I remember all but 1
I used to sit in the back of my parents car eating home made popped popcorn and drinking RC cola out of the bottle.. Went to Sears Roebuck and looked at the matchbox cars that sold for 19 cents. Walk or ride a bike, without parents escorts, miles away to the 5 and dime store where not only the candy cigarettes but bubble gum cigars were sold. Go out into the blackberry(not electronic) patch, pick some blackberries, eat a few, get home for some homemade blackberry pie. Watch 3 channels of black and white TV, with Red Skelton and his humor that today, not too many liberals would understand. Yep, I am older than dirt.
 
How many do YOU remember?

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


I remember all but 1
I used to sit in the back of my parents car eating home made popped popcorn and drinking RC cola out of the bottle.. Went to Sears Roebuck and looked at the matchbox cars that sold for 19 cents. Walk or ride a bike, without parents escorts, miles away to the 5 and dime store where not only the candy cigarettes but bubble gum cigars were sold. Go out into the blackberry(not electronic) patch, pick some blackberries, eat a few, get home for some homemade blackberry pie. Watch 3 channels of black and white TV, with Red Skelton and his humor that today, not too many liberals would understand. Yep, I am older than dirt.

I still enjoy Red.

Got a mess of his shows on DVD
 
How many do YOU remember?

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


I remember all but 1
I used to sit in the back of my parents car eating home made popped popcorn and drinking RC cola out of the bottle.. Went to Sears Roebuck and looked at the matchbox cars that sold for 19 cents. Walk or ride a bike, without parents escorts, miles away to the 5 and dime store where not only the candy cigarettes but bubble gum cigars were sold. Go out into the blackberry(not electronic) patch, pick some blackberries, eat a few, get home for some homemade blackberry pie. Watch 3 channels of black and white TV, with Red Skelton and his humor that today, not too many liberals would understand. Yep, I am older than dirt.

I still enjoy Red.

Got a mess of his shows on DVD
Not once did Red Skelton use profane language and he got great reviews. Today, without the F bomb(because kids are being taught to be stupid and vulgar) many are clueless about true humor.
 
How many do YOU remember?

26991841_1891990107526779_2477630376530086599_n.jpg


I remember all but 1
I used to sit in the back of my parents car eating home made popped popcorn and drinking RC cola out of the bottle.. Went to Sears Roebuck and looked at the matchbox cars that sold for 19 cents. Walk or ride a bike, without parents escorts, miles away to the 5 and dime store where not only the candy cigarettes but bubble gum cigars were sold. Go out into the blackberry(not electronic) patch, pick some blackberries, eat a few, get home for some homemade blackberry pie. Watch 3 channels of black and white TV, with Red Skelton and his humor that today, not too many liberals would understand. Yep, I am older than dirt.

I still enjoy Red.

Got a mess of his shows on DVD
Not once did Red Skelton use profane language and he got great reviews. Today, without the F bomb(because kids are being taught to be stupid and vulgar) many are clueless about true humor.


Joe E Brown was the same way, never used a vulgar word.


(Did you know Red invented the laugh track, but supposedly never used it?_)
 
All but the PF Flyers and had to look them up.

There is still one or two active drive-ins around here, but 'back in the day' is where we spent most of our Friday/Saturday nights. The best place to go only charged by the carload instead of per person and we'd cram as many as possible in one car :thup:

There is also a home-delivery dairy in the area, but I don't know if it's still in glass bottles or not and they do leave it in the metal cooler box on the porch.

I never seen or watched Howdy Doody, but heard plenty about it.

I don't really remember the news reels, but I do remember the cartoons during intermission &/or between double features.




So I guess that makes me old enough to qualify as compost :p
 

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