For Old Guys Only

[Allen_Wrench]

I remember all of the above. Plus Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. When my grandparents were babysitting me and my brothers, they'd put us in the living room with Rex and Leitze (a husband-and-wife pair of German Shepherds from the old country) and put Wild Kingdom on the TV. Then they knew we'd stay in one place for at least an hour.
And the space program; from watching Neil Armstrong put the first footprints on the moon to the Apollo missions to the Space Shuttle. I had a plastic toy lunar rover from a Cheerios box, and I had a Revel Shuttle Columbia model kit when I was a bit older. Man, I truly miss the space years, regular moon missions followed by regular shuttle missions. It was all so cool back then.

 

[2door]

Government PCP or LSD studies, or something like that Otero?

How about the US Navy doing studies on using Frizbies? That made national news along with the $700.00 toilet seat and the $400.00 hammer

Tom

 

[Buzzard]

The 70s are a complete blur to me. All I can think of is Johnny Cash and a Boy named Sue.
buzzard

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

I once used a hammer that maybe cost about a hundred dollars. Not four hundred, as this was one made of some metal alloy that was not magnetic. At the time working around MRI magnets and you could have a nasty accident with a steel material made hammer.

Steel toe boots were a little awkward when near the magnet but it did not sweep me off my feet.

MT

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

I still listen to KOMA ---- it's just that their oldies aren't so old anymore......hmmm, on second thought, maybe they are.......

I saw on TV American Graffiti a week ago, and yea Wolf Man Jack behind the console with a broken freezer full of ice pops.

Classic!

 

[Mike B]

"Rock & Roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died" - John Milner

 

[2door]

"You're one weird chick. But you'll respect me soon. You'll be hangin' on for mercy when I get this sucker rollin'" Bob Falfa

Tom

 

[Otero]

If you think zippin' past spandexters on a MB is fun.
Shooting by 'em at age 65 under pedal power alone,
priceless.

 

[scotto-]

If you think zippin' past spandexters on a MB is fun.
Shooting by 'em at age 65 under pedal power alone,
priceless.

Even more so on a mountain bike with knobbies! That was one of my favorite things to do in my mtn. biking race days.....blowing past road fags on the road, especially up a hill in a really tall gear.....sitting down!!! They were crushed.

Yes, thems were the days.....

 

[Greg58]

Ethel gasoline, motor honey, no/NOx. All are gone as far as I know.

 

[Goat Herder]

Did'nt Buddy Holly marry his sister or somthing like that?

 

[xseler]

Did'nt Buddy Holly marry his sister or somthing like that?

Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin.

I believe that Buddy Holly married the receptionist at his record company.

 

[Goat Herder]

My bad. Got them mixed up. Just remember my grandfather talked of him years before he died. Been long enough to mix up the names.

 

[xseler]

My bad. Got them mixed up. Just remember my grandfather talked of him years before he died. Been long enough to mix up the names.

No bad.......

It's a shame that I can remember trivial drival such as this, but can't remember what I wore yesterday.

 

[xseler]

After reading some of the threads on this forum and other forums that I frequent, I'm certainly glad that I've learned to read with 'phonics'.........

When I went to school, the English teachers would whack your knuckles with a ruler if you turned in this kind of stuff!

 

[Otero]

Yeah, & Jerry's cousin was like 14 years old at the time.

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

I came across Youtube Vido of Paul Le Mat, an aged actor John Milner in American Graffiti.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKekpheBBjA

 

[2door]

I came across Youtube Vido of Paul Le Mat, an aged actor John Milner in American Graffiti.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKekpheBBjA

I have his autograph. Actually a pretty neat guy to talk to. Met him at a car show several years ago. He and Candy Clark tour together and hit the bigger national street rod events.

Tom

 

[xseler]

"Beer. An excellent health improvement drink that exercises the kidneys and liver. Drink it for better health!"


An ad from the 1900's.....................or at least it should of been........

 

[2door]

Wine. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said, "Wine. It's God's way of seeing us happy."
You don't need to be a religious person to agree with that.
Just don't mix it with beer.

Tom