So I said self
Sep 2, 2023 18:17:45 #
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
Sep 2, 2023 18:31:36 #
Crunchy
Loc: Clark Fork, North Idaho
Graywulff wrote:
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
GW, You've been read'en my mail.!
Crunchy
Sep 2, 2023 18:49:43 #
Graywulff wrote:
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
Wulffy, I've seen them all that's the good old days 😂
Sep 2, 2023 19:12:43 #
Graywulff wrote:
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
Know them and experienced them all. Mercurochrome worked like a charm. I remember my mom’s Rambler with the push buttons and metal dashboard. 😳. I also remember my folks and grandparents calling out phone numbers beginning with the call letters, like DI, or Dickens 3-6861. This happened to be our phone number in the 60’s. Don’t ask me how I still remember it. 🤔. You had to pick up the phone to see if someone was on it, party lines. Thanks for taking me back to a much better and simpler time Wulfy. 👍
Sep 2, 2023 19:22:55 #
Graywulff wrote:
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
Can't admit to having the banana seat or seeing the push button shifter, but the rest sure hits home.
So you must be older than me Wulffy.
Sep 2, 2023 19:28:43 #
ghaynes1
Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
urchromeI remember all but Mercurochrome. My mother used some disinfectant in a tube that still stung. Getting those feet clean required a lot of scrubbing. My friend had a banana seat bike. I didn't use the phone much. We yelled out the door for our friends. Usually somebody was within earshot.
Sep 2, 2023 20:36:10 #
plumbob wrote:
Can't admit to having the banana seat or seeing th... (show quote)
Bob, I don't think the age has much to do with it I'm 65 and remember all of it and then some. Did any of y'all take your bath in a #3 wash tub had to heat up the water in a pot, or use a outhouse, milk the cow before school, grow your vegetables, make butter,had chickens, hogs,cow's,and goats all for food. Mom went to town maybe twice a month. Well that's the way I was raised and wouldn't changed a thing ( well having to go to the outhouse at night) 😂 My childhood was the best, makes me appreciate the ease of things today....🙏🙏🙏
Sep 2, 2023 20:48:39 #
ghaynes1
Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
Chuckay wrote:
Bob, I don't think the age has much to do with it ... (show quote)
The outhouse smell always made it such a great experience to go. Grandparents' cottage with outhouse 40 yards from house. Everybody but Grandma had to use it. She wouldn't and had grandpa add a bathroom.
Sep 2, 2023 21:17:50 #
FourchonLa. wrote:
Know them and experienced them all. Mercurochrome ... (show quote)
I can still remember my phone # from when I was 10 (59 yrs. ago) CYpress 9-3046. Wierd… 😳
Sep 2, 2023 21:27:31 #
All bring back memories. Who remembers having a Sears Catalog tied up in the out house for toilet paper?
Sep 2, 2023 21:29:48 #
campbellclan wrote:
All bring back memories. Who remembers having a Sears Catalog tied up in the out house for toilet paper?
So that’s where it went. 🤣
Sep 2, 2023 21:30:28 #
campbellclan wrote:
Only heard the stories. I have been in them that were furnished with old newspapers tho.All bring back memories. Who remembers having a Sears Catalog tied up in the out house for toilet paper?
Sep 2, 2023 21:35:24 #
Mikeldean
Loc: North Augusta SC
Graywulff wrote:
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
A former Pastor when I was a teen had Chrysler with push buttons, my stingray bike with banana seat and racing slick back tire was my fav.
Never did the mercury stuff but iodine stung like the dickens.
Hm ph was 835-2852. Dont bother to call, I'm not home. Hehe
Sep 2, 2023 21:49:29 #
campbellclan wrote:
All bring back memories. Who remembers having a Sears Catalog tied up in the out house for toilet paper?
Well we had the Sears catalog but I enjoyed looking at the pictures of all the things I wanted but knew I'd never get, we had paper bags and newspapers also. I guess our first phone # will always stick in our minds (375-4082) was ours 😂
Sep 2, 2023 22:57:56 #
Graywulff wrote:
That’s what I call myself when I’m alone. Self Hacksaw says I’m elderly. Am I???
Lived them all, Wulffy. The Mercurochrome had the glass applicator. And there was another called Methiolate, I believe. Mom used them regularly. Phone number, JEfferson 8-3688. Then my sister and I got our own phone, LUcurn2-2024. Built my own “Stingray” banana seat, sissy bar, butterfly handle bars , bobbed chrome fenders from an old 20” bike that I paid a couple of dollars for. Painted orange. Recirculating hand towel, Chrysler push button transmission. Push mower, without a motor, barefoot and death defying play grounds. Those were the good times, fer sure…
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