Getting Old...

[Big Steve]

For the guys in South MS, WDAM's McCaffree's Showtime. Paul Ott was a kid singing and playing his gee-tar!!
Thought everybody was supposed to go to Nam when they finished High School.
Could fill up the push mower gas can, get a Coke in a glass bottle (nickle bottle deposit!), and bag of M&M's for 50 cents!
Mowed yards all day on Saturdays for the neighbors.
Remember when we got our first colr TV set, and my dad invited my grandparents over to watch Lawrence Welch in color! man we we kids pissed!!
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, when the parents would let you watch it! THE GALS IN THE BIKINI'S! ! ! !
And yea, being Dad's remote control.........

[SoftCall]

Copenhagen was less than $1.00

Old Bugle camp dues on King's Point Island - $125

Jeeps with Levi's interior packages (and a V8 )

CO OP 750 16's and white spoke rims

knocking on doors and getting permission to duck hunt

chiller killers, rubber waders, jones style hunting hats and 870 wingmasters....

Those were the days...

[tunica du4u]

Ya'll are just too young....

what about getting up at 4:30 to feed and milk the cows, feed the chickens and gather eggs at daylight, breakfast and then off to school.

The week of deer season was an excused absence from school

remember : (and I ain't talking bout reruns on TVLand)

The 1st episode of Twilight Zone- 59
Sky King
Fury
Sea Hunt
US Marshal
Have Gun Will Travel
Highway Patrol
Whirlybird
Jim Bowie
Rifleman
Dragnet
Judge Roy Bean
Real McCoys
Lone Ranger

Saturdays were always fun and something to look forward to. No reruns, very few commercials. Wasn't any all night tv. went off the air after Tonite Show ( Jack Paar then) and showed a test pattern until about 6 am

1960 we got a RCA 21" color tv Boy we were in tall cotton

My dad made us watch Ed Sullivan religiously until the Beatles appeared, never watched it again

Remember when cigarettes went to 30 cents my dad quit smoking, bitched about the cost

Beer back then didn't have pull tops or aluminum cans, steel cans & church keys

1st duck hunt - 1960 - scatters at Wabaseka Ar. shot a double barrel sxs Stevens 311 20 ga.-no stinking points - don't remember limits but do remember more ducks than you could imagine

1st deer - a doe 1960 - 410 with buckshot

squirrel season - hunting every day after school - wasn't any such thing as not getting one once the dog treed. Smoke-em out, anything goes

Never lock your doors unless you were gone for several days

Dam I'm old........but those were the days.

[Blackduck]

I could have done without this walk down memory lane. Just when I thought I was feeling old some one has to go and talk about Capt. Kangaroo and Romper Room. Actually I was wondering when did TV stop showing cartoons on Sat. Morning. Where is the justice league?

[eastwoods]

I was in 2'adays guzzling water during a break when someone yelled Elvis died.

I remember wrestling with my brother after The King would get whup'd by Jacki Fargo in less than 2 minutes every Saturday. That's pre Tojo and Dundee you youngins'.

I remember chopi'n cott'n.

I remember not asking permission or needing any keys to go kill some ducks.

[BeastMaster]

what you used to do ALL NIGHT, now takes you ALL NIGHT to do !!!!!!

[mudsucker]

I might not be as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was! Pop top Jax beer! Or Falstaff! was my first "snucked" beer. Three Stoggies and Gilligians Isle after school then out to play!

[stumpjumper]

I remember the good ole days when we had ducks and lead was the shot of choice

[webfoot]

Sputnik, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Miller Pony's, Meeting Richard Nixon, Yom Kippur War, 1972 killed my first duck at Beaver Dam, Memphis Sound, Stax Records, Taxi, Flipper, Ted Knight, Isaac Hayes, Al Green, Danny Thomas, Memphis Belle, Jack La Lane, gas 28 cents a gallon, Jack Eaton, Levis $ 8.99, Nash Buckingham, Pogo Stick, Herman's Hermits, ABA, Jefferson Starship, Buzz Aldrin, Earl’s Art Gallery, Larry Kenon, The Revolving Tables.

[Money]

Three Stoggies and Gilligians Isle after school then out to play!

Dammit boy, did you really smoke three stoggies and watch Gilligans Isle everyday after school ?!

[mudsucker]

Yep, We start drankkin and smokkin young in 'Nawlins!

[Super Black Eagle]

As you get older you learn to never trust a fart or waste a dart!

SBE

[Mud]

track style tenny shoes, gettin a rebel hat at the Beachwood on Sunday after church, wore a football jersey everywhere, Archie Manning ruled, monogramed jackets, Rat Patrol and Combat, BroncoII's, PaPa had the first remote controlled TV in Vicksburg (or it seemed) if you touched it you died, Elvis singing Dixie at midnight on TV, the hookman in the Nat. Park., fishin' all day with a cane pole, Woody Asaf doing the weather, played baseball for Piggly Wiggly, gettin grape gum at Toot's grocery, eatin fresh bread from Koestler's bakery, .....I gotta stop...long day tomorrow....... You dudes make me smile....good stuff.

[duckamateur]

TTT

[ducman77]

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