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Happily I am glad to report that I was born past 1945! :lol: The good Old days......................... I'm glad that they are gone! :happyface :wave:

I'm glad that they are gone! :happyface :wave:
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:lol: Really! My husband grew up in the 40's(born 1943) and that was my dad's favorite saying! My dad remembers having to go out to the hand pump in freezing weather to get water. Hell, we had an outdoor toilet until I was 5 years old! My dad built a bathroom onto our house when their 4th child was born! :lol:
I still remember the outhouse (but I never used it) My siblings and I used potty chairs until the bathroom was added on. My dad decided to install a bathroom when one day he found a snake in the outhouse! :eek: That did it! :lol:

My husband is so old that he even remembers watching the telegrapher at the train depot in town. That was before my time but I do remember the old steam locomotives passing through the woods behind our rural house in the 50's. :lol:
Ah.... that lonely mournful sound ..................... :) I will never forget it! My mom still lives there but it is not so rural anymore! Practically house to house now! :(

:lol: Really! My husband grew up in the 40's(born 1943) and that was my dad's favorite saying! My dad remembers having to go out to the hand pump in freezing weather to get water. Hell, we had an outdoor toilet until I was 5 years old! My dad built a bathroom onto our house when their 4th child was born! :lol:
I still remember the outhouse (but I never used it) My siblings and I used potty chairs until the bathroom was added on. My dad decided to install a bathroom when one day he found a snake in the outhouse! :eek: That did it! :lol:

My husband is so old that he even remembers watching the telegrapher at the train depot in town. That was before my time but I do remember the old steam locomotives passing through the woods behind our rural house in the 50's. :lol:
Ah.... that lonely mournful sound ..................... :) I will never forget it! My mom still lives there but it is not so rural anymore! Practically house to house now! :( I see I thought you meant like The good ole days of THE BEATLES :lol:

I see I thought you meant like The good ole days of THE BEATLES :lol:


Never! That's when civilized life began! ;) :wave:

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Never! That's when civilized life began! ;) :wave:

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Yup :rock:

Yup :rock:

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The good Old days......................... I'm glad that they are gone! :happyface :wave:
Please bring them back! (Well, the '50s, not necessarily the '40s.)
Modern "cars" and "music" are beginning to drive me crazy!

LoL, I was born in the 80s :P

I remember a time when you played recorded music on vinyl discs, Ayds was a diet supressant candy, the Web was soemthing spiders wove, movies were aimed at thinking adults, Dasher was a car, and you had to plug in your telephone and your telephone reciever to make it work! You heard music on the radio - FM and AM - not on television. There were three TV networks, three local stations, and one public television station, and if you had cable, the text-based channels with Muzak in the background outnumbered the orignal programming and movie cable channels. Computers were something banks used; you typed letters with typewriters. You made copies with carbon paper. You had an 8-track stereo in your AMC. You had AMC's. All telephone area codes had a "0" or "1" as a second digit. Elton John was shocking and Mary Tyler Moore was a big TV star. Yes, I remember. . . .

the 70's!

Have a nice day! :)

:lol: Really! My husband grew up in the 40's(born 1943) and that was my dad's favorite saying! My dad remembers having to go out to the hand pump in freezing weather to get water. Hell, we had an outdoor toilet until I was 5 years old! My dad built a bathroom onto our house when their 4th child was born! :lol:
I still remember the outhouse (but I never used it) My siblings and I used potty chairs until the bathroom was added on. My dad decided to install a bathroom when one day he found a snake in the outhouse! :eek: That did it! :lol:

My husband is so old that he even remembers watching the telegrapher at the train depot in town. That was before my time but I do remember the old steam locomotives passing through the woods behind our rural house in the 50's. :lol:
Ah.... that lonely mournful sound ..................... :) I will never forget it! My mom still lives there but it is not so rural anymore! Practically house to house now! :(

Yup! And my mother would get up at 4 a.m. every morning to go down and stoak the furnace with coal so the house would be warm enough when the family got up in the morning.
As a child, they'd wait for the iceman to come and while he was delivering the huge block of ice, would "steal" ice chips off the back of the truck as a big treat.
"Kick The Can" was a big game that was played with all the kids in the neighbourhood. Aluminum cans had recently come out so they loved the sound as it got booted around the road.
And you could REALLY hear a locomotive on a cloudy, humid night - the thick air seemed to amplify the sound.
When my mother first returned to Canada (she was born in Canada, but they lived in London, England until she was 5), they took the train to Edmonton. She watched out the train and saw the outhouses behind the farmhouses and declared, "I'm going to love living in Canada Daddy - all the little girls have wonderful dollhouses!"
And milk was home delivered in glass bottles with those paper stoppers that usually ended up getting pushed inside the bottle before it was finished. ;)

I remember Getting MIO pop delivered to the house, it wasnt very good, but it was cheap...the milkman( also a relic of the past ) drove a horse cart...id go to the store with a dime and get a bag of candy ( especially MOJOs<mmmmmmm ) that lasted an hour...Mountain Dew had a hillbilly on the bottle and didnt taste like 7up at the time...a 25 cent bag of sunflower seeds lasted a week...And the VW Beetle had the engine in the back...Ahhhh, the good old days :)

ohh and another weird thing, when i was a kid in the 60s, the Coca-Cola trucks had a little coin box ( with a slot on top ) and you could buy p0p right off the truck!!! :eek:

And the VW Beetle had the engine in the back...Ahhhh, the good old days :)
And an agonizingly slooooow top speed of 60-80 mph (depending on the year and model).

And an agonizingly slooooow top speed of 60-80 mph (depending on the year and model).
Hey, that was the best part, every Sunday drive was a nice adventure :) ...the BAD part was the heater ( that didnt heat ) < Dad had a '60 when i was a kid

Hey, that was the best part, every Sunday drive was a nice adventure :) ...the BAD part was the heater ( that didnt heat ) < Dad had a '60 when i was a kid
I know, they could hardly be called a heater.

And, it's not a nice Sunday drive when I'm stuck behind one of those slugs. I have to pass them with my powerful Cadillacs (which can do about 90 mph in second gear).
Then again, I am a '60s/early '70s muscle car fan, and we guys didn't even look at any car that had less than about 300 horsepower and couldn't get rubber in second gear. ;)

Here's my idea of a nice Sunday adventure... one thing for sure; it wouldn't put you to sleep! :D

Please bring them back! (Well, the '50s, not necessarily the '40s.)
Modern "cars" and "music" are beginning to drive me crazy!

Fleet. When my husband and I were going together He had a cool 1967 Chevrolet Super Sport convertible. It was a dark green with tan interior. It was SO cool;! He traded it in after we were married for a 1969 Buick GranSport. I liked the Chevy better! :D For years and years we saw that SuperSport toodling around our area. Oh! The good old days! :lol: :wave: Since those days we have had just about every GM car that you can think of! (But alas, no Cadillac)We have had Corvettes, Chevettes, Vega's, Cavilliers,A Monte Carlo, numerous Chevy Pick-ups, S-10 Blazers,and mini vans. But of all of them I really prefer the Chevy Silverado truck. "Like A Rock".............................. ;)
This is what we are driving now and have been for years! A1994 extended cab Chevy Silverado. But ours is red What a great vehicle! :D

I prefer compact cars, just bought an Escort wagon :D

Fleet. When my husband and I were going together He had a cool 1967 Chevrolet Super Sport convertible. It was a dark green with tan interior. It was SO cool;! He traded it in after we were married for a 1969 Buick GranSport. I liked the Chevy better! :D For years and years we saw that SuperSport toodling around our area. Oh! The good old days! :lol: :wave:
Yeah, those '67 Super Sports were nice... especially with the big 396 engine.
Here are a few (Motor Trend, Nov., 1966 and March, 1967):

And the "new" '69 Buicks (Road Test, Oct., 1968):

I prefer compact cars, just bought an Escort wagon :D
Well, I do like the compact muscle cars, like the '68-'69 Dodge Dart GTS 340 and 383 (and the very rare 440 Dart) and 327, 350 and 396 Chevy Nova.

I remember a time when you played recorded music on vinyl discs, Ayds was a diet supressant candy,

I remember the Aids Candy....they didn't have a shot of surviving in the 80's :lol:

I remember Getting MIO pop delivered to the house, it wasnt very good, but it was cheap...the milkman( also a relic of the past ) drove a horse cart...id go to the store with a dime and get a bag of candy ( especially MOJOs<mmmmmmm ) that lasted an hour...Mountain Dew had a hillbilly on the bottle and didnt taste like 7up at the time...a 25 cent bag of sunflower seeds lasted a week...And the VW Beetle had the engine in the back...Ahhhh, the good old days :)
Yeah - I remember the pop to - and orange juice and eggs. My dad drove a bread cart for Canada Bread - his first job - with the horse drawn cart. Horse knew the route itself.
I haven't had a Mountain Dew in years - you mean to tell me it doesn't taste like it did in the 60s/70s?? :(
And popsicles were a nickle, so was the big stick of Bazkooka grape bubble gum - Popeye chocolate "cigarettes", but I liked the bubble gum ones better -you could "puff" the powder out the end!
You were rich if you had a quarter - $10 for a chocolate bar, $15 for a pop - another $15 got you a darn good Archie comic book and that was a great summer afternoon taken care of! ;)

And the "new" '69 Buicks (Road Test, Oct., 1968):


Ah yes - recognize the old Skylark a mile away! I loved those. An old boyfriend had one in the pale yellow body with "bone" vinyl roof!

Ah yes - recognize the old Skylark a mile away! I loved those. An old boyfriend had one in the pale yellow body with "bone" vinyl roof!
Yeah, they sure were easy to spot! Unlike about 90% of today's cars.

Moutain Dew bought 7up and now they are virtually identical Cathie :eek:
or...is it the other way around? :rolleyes:

Well, I do like the compact muscle cars, like the '68-'69 Dodge Dart GTS 340 and 383 (and the very rare 440 Dart) and 327, 350 and 396 Chevy Nova.

I love the Ford Capri, My parents had one in the mid 70's

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it was a lighter brown, but, that's what it looked like. It was a nice car.

40s, 50s, and 60s are hughly overrated.

There is no better time than now. We got it made, and you know Fleet, modern cars are much more reliable. ;)

I've hearing about these things clled "common courtesy", "common decency", "common sense", "morals", and "respect for others" that existed in the old days. Too bad they don't seem to exist anymore. Now, it's "All about ME and what I want and need!" :(

40s, 50s, and 60s are hughly overrated.
You can't say that modern cars are more reliable when you're talking about cars only 5 or less years old.
I do know that maintenace for the non-compter cars is much more easier and less expensive. A fuel pump for one of my Cadillacs costs $20-30. A tune-up only involves spark plugs, oil change, carb. adjustment and maybe distributor parts. The classic cars don't need a $500,000 diagnosis machine to find out what the problem is (not to mention the labor to use those).
If one of my Cadillacs has a rough idle, I know it's something simple and will be inexpensive to fix. With a modern car, it could be computer-related which means big bucks to fix.

There is no better time than now. We got it made, and you know Fleet, modern cars are much more reliable. ;)
We'll have to wait and see when today's cars are 30 or 40 years old.

Do you mean '40s, '50s and '60s cars or just life in general?

Because if you mean life in general, every single person who has lived through the '50s I've asked said it was much better then. And I agree.
Guns in school weren't even thought of... same thing for drugs.
Teen pregnancy was practically unknown and when it did happen, the girl was looked upon with shame.
Back in the '40s and '50s, you could walk down the back streets of downtown Los Angeles without fear- no way can you do that now!
You thought nothing of letting your 8-year-old walk home from school.

Back then most people still had morals. Most people didn't even know what marijuana was!

Even though parents weren't too sure, in the '40s and '50s, popular music was harmless- there were not songs about killing cops or glorifying drug use.

I could go on and on about how much better it was back then.
And I won't even mention how much better the schools were (kids actually learned things and would not graduate unless they passed).

I love the Ford Capri, My parents had one in the mid 70's
it was a lighter brown, but, that's what it looked like. It was a nice car.
Well, that is a subcompact. Too small (and lacking in power) for me.
I was referring to this kind of compact... a '68 Dart GTS 340, pictured with it's big brothers a '68 Charger R/T and Coronet R/T...

^I'm talking about life in general.

There was just so much racism, oppression, etc. In reality, our education system is much better today. Back then education standards were much lower, thus it seemed like people were doing better.

P.S.: I walk the streets of downtown L.A. almost everyday fearlessly.

Life was great back then... if you were white.

^I'm talking about life in general.

There was just so much racism, oppression, etc. In reality, our education system is much better today. Back then education standards were much lower, thus it seemed like people were doing better.

P.S.: I walk the streets of downtown L.A. almost everyday fearlessly.

Life was great back then... if you were white.
What? Our education system is better today? Where did you get that from? Everyone knows that general test scores were much higher 30 or 40 years ago than today. There education standards were not lower then... they were much more strict, especially in the '50s and earlier.
Remember the saying, "Why Johnny Can't Read?" That started in the 1970s. There was no need to point that out before then.
If you tested people who went to school in the '50s VS today, the '50s people would score much higher. Geography is not even taught in some schools anymore. Some kids point to Canada when they are asked to find the U.S. on a map.

Kids used to skateboard down some streets which today they wouldn't dare (what with the homeless people, drugs and crime).

Do you know what the biggest problems were in schools in the 1940s VS the 1990s? Here is a sample:
............... 1940s............................ 1990s............................
............... Running in the halls.......... Drug use
............... Chewing gum.................. Unwed mothers
............... Talking in class................ Assault

Take also illegitimate children... it's about triple now than in the 1950s.
Same thing for single-parent families.

Now tell me again it was better in the '90s and 2000s.

Moutain Dew bought 7up and now they are virtually identical Cathie :eek:
or...is it the other way around? :rolleyes:


Oh THAT sucks! Why change a perfectly good drink only to taste like another you've already got on the market? Stupidity! Life sucks. <Goes to sulk.>

yeah thats the 21rst century Cathie, amalgamate amalgamate amalgamate

Happily I am glad to report that I was born past 1945! :lol: The good Old days......................... I'm glad that they are gone! :happyface :wave:I hope your not serious Penny. You like NOW better than he good old days??

Everything is rubbish and gross.. I very much would love it to be 1950 again!!