Are you old enough to remember........

I knew there was something I liked about you. :thumbs:

 

I will be 50 this year, but it seems surreal. i dont feel anything like I thought I would at 50. I still feel young, but of course I am not.

I graduated in 78 because my birthday is on oct 4 and you had to be 6 by sept 1 to start first grade...i had to wait a year.

Hey, what about all these other grades they require now? kindergarten? prek?

How many years do kids have to go to school now? I didnt ever go to kendergarten and I can read...i just cant spell.

AJ

 

I know it's unreal. How old did fifty seem when we were eighteen? Who knew it would feel like thirty?

You slacker :laugh:

What I feel bad for with young kids of today is having to be strapped into car seats for a long trip. Sure it is safer, but I ember climbing all around the car having fun trying to keep from being bored on trips. I even used to ride up on that little platform behind the back seat and the rear window!

 

How many times did your parents leave you in the car while they bought groceries? Mine did it all the time, but we'd get thrown under the jail if we did that today.

My 3 year old hates his car seat. he dosent mind a short trip but more than an hour in it makes him really cranky.

AJ

 

My momma taught Kindergarten at our home church-------and she always had a "continious" supply of chicks at the house



I remember, though, in high school----------the school campus was directly in line with one of the runways at the Baton Rouge Airport------when the jets would come in for landing----when they went over the buildings-----you could just about reach up and touch 'um---they were low and with landing gear down!!!! Noisy!!! But I didn't mind the engine noise interrupting Algebra class!!!!!!!!!!!raying: "Please, Lord!!! Send more planes onto that runway!!!"

Glen Oaks Sr. High--------class of '77!!!

 

I remember 'ol Foghorn, Miss Prissy, Henery Hawk and Barnyard Dawg.

:laugh: :laugh:

Ed

 

Chicks for sale in the spring?

How long ago?

Every year at my friendly local neighborhood TSC and Southern States farm supply stores, at least through this past year, here in KY, although I've never seen any that were already color-dyed.

Ed

 

I can remember the Black-outs as they called them. That was when I was a small boy. I was born in 1938. A black=out as I understand, was when everyone had to cut their lights in their houses and probably cars for around a 1/2 hr. It signaled being bomoed by our enemy, Germany. I was really too young to understand the reason.

But the most excitable times I had was in the 1900's when for excitement I was to go and oil the Turnpike and just sat back and watch.
Of course that's not true.

 

They still 'oil' the roads, in some places.

In fact, when we went on a family vacation to Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore, etc., in June, 2003, US-26/89/191 from Moran, WY through the Grand Teton National Park to Jackson, WY, had just had a new "chip and seal" surface applied, and the equipment was sitting along the side of the road, as we passed, around nightfall, and the fresh gravel chips could be felt still loose as they were not all yet embedded in the pavement.

I really don't know why more of that is not done here in KY. It would certainly be far less expensive for some less heavily traveled roadways than a fresh asphalt paving every 5-10 years or so, although this would not be very feasible for an Interstate, or other very heavily traveled route, to be sure.

Road fan, Ed

 

Obviously old enough - but I just don't. We moved so much AND my parents were not pet people . . .

 

Ray, during the 40's, a blackout in London was just that. We even had inspectors who went about to make sure no light reflected through the curtains. From the air, any light at all would be a target for a bomb.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Jim, as I was told by my Mother that we had the Blackouts just for that purpose. We lived out in the country but I still remember what Mommy told us. It is an education from you to relate your experience about that by living in that tragic land.

 

We had 'um all the way through high school------the tornado drills sure did beat doin' Algebra!!!!!!!!!:laugh: :saint:

 

See, Ray???? Jim'99 tells of the blackouts in metro London---and stuff like that-----but MY dad living over here in the US---told me this when I asked him if the US had mandatory "blackouts" during the war----------"Son!!!! We didn't have nothin' at my house to blackout!!!!"---------electricity didn't reach rural areas of Louisiana until '48 or so!!!!