Old Timers Unite---Give it Your Best Shot

[BO DUTCH]

Man......

This thread brings back things long ago forgotten !!

Dano,

What was the name of those little black pills that tasted like real strong licorice, used for sore throats ? Boy, I'ed die before taking those things !!

Yea, the ol desert bags hanging on the front bumper and a 25 pound block of Union Ice on the floorboard !! Nevada Desert air conditioning !!

My younger brother would swipe ice chips from the Ice man's delivery truck when he delivered Ice to our Ice Box !!

Bed sheets and clothes that were dried outside on the clothes line Smeled SOOOO Good !!

White Bucks, Black & White Saddle shoes, Black Converse tennies,
Dixie Peach and Palamade (more wax than grease)
Red Rider BB guns, Bobby Blake was a good guy then !!

S&H green stamps, Blue Chip stamps (stamp wars, 10 X the stamps)

My grand dad took me trout fishing one fall in the Monterey mountains, (Calif.) caught lots of fish for 3 days. On the way home we were going down this long steep grade all dirt roads.
The old fords breaks faded and we were going faster and faster.
Grampa said to hang on, and steered the ford real close to the bank, closer yet untill the running board started to drag against the bank, and after a hundred yards or so we slowed down nicely.
Controled Friction played hell on the running board tho !!
Well, we also got 2 flat tires with only 1 spare, no problem, we changed the one and gramps said to stay with the car that he would be back in a little while, off he went with 1 flat tire !
Seemed like hours when he came huffing up the hill, put the temperary fixed tire on and slowly were on our way. About 5 miles down the road we came to a field, gramps pulled over, got out and removed the temp. repaired wheel, took it out in the field and started stuffing more straw and grass into tire till it was rock hard.
Well, that straw tire made it all the way to Salinas, about 30 miles. It was 3/4 flat by the time we got to a service station, but just enough not to cut the tire or ruin the rim.
But, he caught Hell when Grandma saw the trashed running board !


Putting bacon in a Bull Durham bag and tieing it on the end of a fishin pole then we would catch crawdads by the bunches !!

Enough for now, this has been fun !!