For Old Guys Only

[happycheapskate]

I remember when I was small, one of my cousins from a very rural area, would always want to ride over the highway overpasses in Dallas, because he had not seen anything like that before.

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I remember when the first piece of pavement was laid down in my town.
It was a 1 block stretch right in front of our house. They blocked off the
road on both ends of the block so it could dry.

After it got just hard enough so my bicycle tires wouldn't sink in I road
around and around on it and I thought it was some kind of magic!
Like rideing on a cloud compared to gravel !

It was such a big deal that when they took down the road blocks
everyone in town would go round and round the block just to ride on
the pavement. Most traffic I ever saw in front of our house!

Rick

 

[RicksRides]

Growing up as a southern country boy, we lived back in the sticks. ya'll know, the kinda place they pump daylight to you. (and we drink our corn) We had a root cellar, this is where we kept the Ice box. We even had gas lights, natural gas was free, gran-dad ran a pipe into the ground. Any ways when the older kids were little we took them for a trip back home. uncle Robert told my oldest he could get a frozen lemonade out of the Ice box in the root cellar took him 10 minutes to come back to ask "out of what and where"? He was afraid of looking stupid. He looked all over the house for the toilet, I explained it was in the little shed looking thing with the moon shape cut in the door out behind the house. That evening he starred at the light with one of the dumbest looks ive ever seen on my sons face, I eventually asked him " figured out how to turn on the light yet" you remember how to turn on a gas light?

 

[RicksRides]

ya'll remember these? Dad says he remembers having to make your own holes in a beer can

 

[2door]

I had a buddy who made curtains and room dividers outa pull tabs. He liked his beer.

Tom

 

[fasteddy]

I remember that it wasn't smart to fold the tab over with your bare hands. It was close kin to trying to unroll the strips you unwound off the coffee cans.
Only thing sharper than them is a razor. You could tell a dedicated beer drinker because he had a small pair of needle nosed pliers and a chain made out of beer tabs yards long.

We still have a beer can punch around the house somewhere. One end was for taking caps off bottles and the other end punched a triangular hole in a can top.

Steve.

 

[Greg58]

Jimmy Buffet made a living singing about "pop tops ".

 

[Ilikeabikea]

We always called the coke and beer can openers a church key. Everybody had one. Then they came out with pop top rings. We always called them an Aggie nose picker.....

 

[2door]

And what about the caps on Coke/ soft drink bottles? No 'twist-offs in our day. You had to use an opener.

Bottle openers are a favorite item found in antique stores. All kinds, every description of handle. Manufacturers used them to advertise their products. They were a favorite item in souvenir shops. (Wall Drug) Everyone bought bottle openers when the traveled. They were like coffee mugs.

Tom

 

[george_n_texas]

Beer used to come in cans that resemble brake fluid cans you see today.

 

[Dan]

That's the problem with kids today. To easy to open a beer. We had to use our church keys and work for our beer. Ya had to open 2 holes too! This was back when men were men, cans were cans and sheep were nervous. None of this namby-pamby, pop top, wimpy aluminum stuff!

 

[Greg58]

I remember using coke and pepsi caps on a home made checker board at my grand parents house, it looked old in the 60's. It was probably 30 or so years old at the time, old farmers made a lot of what they wanted back then. My grandpa had a "store bought " set but we always played on the home made set.

 

[tooljunkie]

i was up at a fire cabin a couple weeks ago,back when they used a tower to spot forest fires.there was a spot on the island where the trash was deposited,and rummaging around i found one of those beer cans mentioned,old soft drink bottles and lots of liquor bottles.i guess i know what the fire watch guys did to pass the time....

 

[fasteddy]

Yep, that church key got you one step closer to Heaven.

George,
Those cans were called "cone tops" in beer can collecter talk.

We used to pull the cork liners out of the bottle caps and take an old or not so old T shirt and put the cap on the outside of the shirt and the liner on the inside and press them back together.
Looked like you had some wierd sort of armour if you could cover the entire shirt with them. We'd try and get different makers and all the flavours they made.

Steve.

 

[NEAT TIMES]

How about this;

Approx 50 yrs ago my father in-law did not have his church key so he opend his beer with a screwdriver and some how injured his hand. As he was drinking it, some one informed him that it had the flip tab on the bottom! lol

Ron

 

[Dan]

How about this;

Approx 50 yrs ago my father in-law did not have his church key so he opend his beer with a screwdriver and some how injured his hand. As he was drinking it, some one informed him that it had the flip tab on the bottom! lol

Ron

Har, LOLOLOL.....

 

[2door]

Yep, that church key got you one step closer to Heaven.

George,
Those cans were called "cone tops" in beer can collecter talk.

We used to pull the cork liners out of the bottle caps and take an old or not so old T shirt and put the cap on the outside of the shirt and the liner on the inside and press them back together.
Looked like you had some wierd sort of armour if you could cover the entire shirt with them. We'd try and get different makers and all the flavours they made.

Steve.

I remember doing that. Mom hated it because she said it ruined my t shirts by making little crimped rings that were permanent.

I also remember when the fad was 'taps' on your shoes. It was considered cool to walk down the halls in school clicking your taps. The schools eventually outlawed them because guys were slipping and falling down stairs.

Tom

 

[Greybeard]

"town" was 385 people. Shell, Richfield, Chevron, and Union stations. 4 Churches, 2 butcher shops, 1 grocery, 1 police officer driving a 6cyl Ford. We had piano and "Tap Dancing" classes available. The school had Dance classes manditory. No girl sports (A real shame as the fastest person afoot was a female that could put 10 yards on the fastest guy in the 100yd dash wearing loafers).
We NEVER locked the house and most every car had the keys in it.
If you were too drunk to drive the cop took you home.

It was a totally different universe from the one we live in today.

 

[george_n_texas]

"town" was 385 people. Shell, Richfield, Chevron, and Union stations. 4 Churches, 2 butcher shops, 1 grocery, 1 police officer driving a 6cyl Ford. We had piano and "Tap Dancing" classes available. The school had Dance classes manditory. No girl sports (A real shame as the fastest person afoot was a female that could put 10 yards on the fastest guy in the 100yd dash wearing loafers).
We NEVER locked the house and most every car had the keys in it.
If you were too drunk to drive the cop took you home.

It was a totally different universe from the one we live in today.

I took tap dancing lessons at the rec center in Roswell NM back in the mid-60's...was real popular back then with Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin & Fred Astair. I had a lady tell me everyone thought Fred was such a great dancer but Ginger Rogers dis every step BACKWARDS wearing HIGH HEALS! Talk about lettin the testosterone outta ya LOL!

P.S. I also took gymnastics i used to love springin off the spring board & flippin over the palmel horse...sprang my dang collar bone doin it.

 

[Greg58]

I remember going to town with my mom to buy groceries and leaving the doors open on our house, with only the screen door with the big spring keeping it closed. Sometimes we would be gone for hours and didn't worry about the house. Many times we would return home and find a dime on the three leged phone table in the corner next to the front door, some of our neighbors didn't have phones so they used ours.

 

[NEAT TIMES]

Here is a dime, call me in ten years! Have not heard that for a long time.