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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / April 2005Do You Remember? (ot)
Do You Remember??? Sit back, relax, listen, read, & smile. Kind of reminds you to stop & smell the roses of life, and to give thanks to God for life and memories. Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did? When a 57 Scotsman was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? (Heck no, I don't remember that at all!) No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .." (and then realizing you were laying in a pile of dog doo..) and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie 16.. F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM records Green Stamps Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny candy 35 cent a gallon gasoline Jiffy Pop popcorn Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya! > Do You Remember??? \ > Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? > > You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? > > Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? > Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from > their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya! When you got dressed up to fly in an airplane Men wore suits and ties with real hats to sporting events Going out to dinner meant sitting down and havning the soup brought to you with a steel server and poured for you A cndy store on every street corner when every railroad station had a ticket agent you could actually ship stuff by railway express and it would not get damged two colored typewritter ribons th local gas stationn would fix your bike you could ride in your dads car when they put it on the lift Airplanes had propellers, and your name was pinned to your seat back Conductors really ran the train New cars had a special smell Airplaines had a special smelll Long distance buses were luxury You could walk into a gas station and take a map for every state and not pay There were supposedly 13 TV stations and only 5 or 7 of them worked in large cities TV shows were repeated live 3 hours later for the west coast Bill Our 12" TV had knobs: On our GE, left to right: Volume, focus, channel, tuning, horizontal hold, vertical hold, contrast & brightness. 3 stations at the start - all in different directions. (Dumont wasn't in Boston) Fixed antenna to pick up two, with rabbit ears to get the third. Knife switch to select antenna. Sid Ceaser on Saturday Night with Admiral Broadway Review and Jerry Lester on late during the week with Broadway Open House, assisted by Morey Amstradam and DAGMARRR! (I was too young and innocent to watch that one.) Hoppy for me! In Boston, we got them live - the rest got kinescopes or a second live show. OK, who's going to admit remembering back before then with TV - radio doesn't count, but feel to remind me. Karl I remember lots of the above-mentioned stuff, though I think I grew up a little later. Who remembers watching "Sky King", "Astro Boy" & "Thunderbirds" after school? Walt Disney & Ed Sullivan were our Sunday night entertainment. Who remembers Al Hirt, Boots Randolph, and Perry Como? How about when the Andy Williams show featured "rising stars" The Osmonds (before Donny), and Wayne Newton when he was a fat kid who sang real high? When Tom Jones was as "dangerous" as 50 Cent? You went to a drive-in for A&W root beer, not the Walmart? When Walmart was just another "five&dime" store, like TG&Y? You could buy guitars (plus other stuff) at the Oklahoma Tire & Supply (Otasco) or it's counterpart Western Auto? "Gas wars" between the service stations? Unleaded gas seemed like a punishment? Remember? >I remember lots of the above-mentioned stuff, though I think I grew up > a little later. Who remembers watching "Sky King", "Astro Boy" & [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Western Auto? "Gas wars" between the service stations? Unleaded gas > seemed like a punishment? Remember? I remember when the A&Dub was a Drive IN; not a Drive THRU, but Wal-Mart??? Not even in the retail vocabulary 'til recently. Unleaded Gas? That was a 70's punisment. I remember Esso was one of the first to market it, calling it 'THE Gas For '71 Cars', and Gulf called theirs 'Air Care'. Craig. AMACO had "white gas", which was just unleaded with extra refining to raise the octane, back when my dad was alive - and he died just after the Lowey Coupe showed up in the showrooms. Karl (That was in Boston) Haas > AMACO had "white gas", which was just unleaded with extra refining to > raise the octane, back when my dad was alive - and he died just after > the Lowey Coupe showed up in the showrooms. > > Karl (That was in Boston) Haas We never had any "white gas" or Amoco stations here for that matter. We did have Red and Bronze, and they were both leaded. Craig. > AMACO had "white gas", which was just unleaded with extra refining to > raise the octane, back when my dad was alive - and he died just after > the Lowey Coupe showed up in the showrooms. > > Karl (That was in Boston) Haas And it was used for Dyna-Jets! > AMACO had "white gas", which was just unleaded with extra refining to > raise the octane, back when my dad was alive - and he died just after > the Lowey Coupe showed up in the showrooms. > > Karl (That was in Boston) Haas White gas was always naptha, a petroleum solvent which is heavier than gas and lighter than kerosene. Has low odor and can be highly distilled to have almost no odor. You can buy the latter in most camping supply stores. Well, in my world it was Standard Oil Co. , not this new kid Amoco... ( My mother in law call it AamOhko.. too funny) And white gas was not naptha, ever as far as I ever knew. It was gas without anything in it, the most highly refined gas...btu wise. Naptha is just a solvent, and not as near volatile.. I used to have to run it (white gas) in my fathers lawnmower. I don't think a mower would run on Naptha very well. Jeff "Sport Pilot" wrote... > White gas was always naptha, a petroleum solvent which is heavier than > gas and lighter than kerosene. Has low odor and can be highly > distilled to have almost no odor. You can buy the latter in most > camping supply stores. Karl wrote(with spell check <g>): >> AMACO had "white gas", which was just unleaded with extra refining to >> raise the octane, back when my dad was alive - and he died just after >> the Lowey Coupe showed up in the showrooms. >> Karl (That was in Boston) Haas > Well, in my world it was Standard Oil Co. , not this new kid Amoco... > ( My mother in law call it AamOhko.. too funny) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I don't think a mower would run on Naptha very well. > Jeff The white gas that used to be sold at gas stations was unrefined naptha, a leftover from the refining process, smelled a lot like av gas. To thick for gas and too thin for kerosene. The camping gear naptha is a refined naptha which is refined to eliminate odor. There is also refined naptha used for a paint thinner. An older low compression flat head mower will run well on the first two. Not sure about the paint thinner. Go here for a definition. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/White+gas > "Sport Pilot" wrote... > > White gas was always naptha, a petroleum solvent which is heavier than [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >> the Lowey Coupe showed up in the showrooms. > >> Karl (That was in Boston) Haas >... Unleaded Gas? That was a 70's punisment. I remember Esso was one of >the first to market it, calling it 'THE Gas For '71 Cars', and Gulf called >theirs 'Air Care'. Unleaded gas was available long before that- Amoco Clear from the 40s(?). Or how about "white gas"- low octane, unleaded gas used in some farm equipment like old Case tractors? My father-in-law kept a big gravity tank of white gas for his Case. While he was away one time someone stole a fillup. Can you say rattle, rattle, ping, ping? Paul Johnson >>... Unleaded Gas? That was a 70's punisment. I remember Esso was one of >>the first to market it, calling it 'THE Gas For '71 Cars', and Gulf called [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Or how about "white gas"- low octane, unleaded gas used in some farm > equipment like old Case tractors? Okay, I know the fuel you're talking about, but it was never sold at the pump, at least in the city, anyway. If I remember right, that was delivered along with purple gas to the farmer's tanks as it was 'federal tax exempt'. Unless you are a farmer, you don't want to get caught running purple gas in your tank...huge fines if you do. Craig. My father-in-law kept a big gravity tank > of white gas for his Case. While he was away one time someone stole a > fillup. Can you say rattle, rattle, ping, ping? > Paul Johnson There is a similiar system in GB, where the tax it much higher.. Rumor has it that one guy got caught and brought the investigator out to his barn and showed him a bottle of the same dye and got away with it. Urban (Rural?) Legend? I tend to think so,but... Karl Yea,we used to have purple,or marked gas to run our snowmobiles and stuff on.Dad used to buy it in 45 gallon drums and he was usually pissed at how fast my brother and I were empty them(G). I used to run my 29 Stude on that stuff,turns the carb purple inside.You could tell just by looking in the carb that you were burning it. >>>... Unleaded Gas? That was a 70's punisment. I remember Esso was one of >>>the first to market it, calling it 'THE Gas For '71 Cars', and Gulf [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> fillup. Can you say rattle, rattle, ping, ping? >> Paul Johnson here is a link of fun things in the 50,s http://home.hiwaay.net/~singer/Fifties.htm hope the link works > Do You Remember??? > [quoted text clipped - 135 lines] > Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from > their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya! Lenny Apr 7, 2:55 pm I rember all that Sgt.Preston of the Youkon and all that from the late 40s and up.My Mother would listen to Helen Trent on the Radio we all had to be quiet or go out of the room.Its nice to no that some people on the NG remember the old days. Lenny About 10 years ago I was driving out west and was heading down out of the Appalachians in east central Tennessee. It was around 2 AM and I was tuning around the AM dial. Picked up a station out of Chicago and they were playing Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. It was a great trip, and stuff like that is one reason why I love AM radio. Jeff DeWitt (even better with tubes!) > Lenny Apr 7, 2:55 pm > I rember all that Sgt.Preston of the Youkon and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Lenny |
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