Nostalgia anyone......

[chicot60]

http://i.imgur.com/YmoFQRl.jpg

[steveOtoo]

You might be taken out by a swat team if you deployed those today..................

[hutch]

wheres my cap gun???

[steveOtoo]

wheres my cap gun???Chico's got it

[whoknows]

Just moved last year and my Hop along Cassidy cap gun got lost in the move. Someone must have wanted it for flea bay.

[chicot60]

http://www.mouseguns.com/observe/capbomb.jpg

http://www.capgunstore.com/images/Roll%20caps%20in%20gun.jpg

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1960s-FULL-DISPLAY-BOX-60-CAP-FIRING-ROCKETS-SPACE-SHIP-BOMB-SHOT-MODEL-MINT-/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$(KGrHqR,!loF!TiJhP(kBQUQD(UD+!~~60_3.JPG

[bkr™]

Even our 25 year old children and grand children would not have a clue what we had back when...kinda feel old...:wheelchair:

[Hunter11]

Ahhhhhhhh the memories of yesteryear. Thanks guys I''m ready for the rocking chair.lol.

[Hunter11]

Wha wha whad ya say????
It seems this thread is populated with old timers....maybe we need our own sub forum.lol

[Hunter11]

.................................................


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[dukeathome]

back when victoria day in canada was called fire cracker day,from lady fingers to block busters.

[hutch]

M-80s & cherry bombs...

[bkr™]

It seems this thread is populated with old timers....maybe we need our own sub forum.lol
We are not old timers...only sometimers...because sometimes we forget, now what the hell were we talking about?

[bigbadbrother]

You know I found a old cap gun from the late 40s or 50s in the back yard this last fall. boy you talk about memory's all I need is my davy crockett coonskin hat.

[The Cobra]

You know I found a old cap gun from the late 40s or 50s in the back yard this last fall. boy you talk about memory's all I need is my davy crockett coonskin hat.

Wanna borrow mine(coonskin cap/tail)....I`ve still got it. my mom surprised me a few years back with posters from pics she had made of me as Zorro, Superman and Davey Crockett in full uniform. Still hanging in my pool room today. I`ll get my kid to take a pic and I`ll post them (I don`t know how lol)

[The Cobra]

back when victoria day in canada was called fire cracker day,from lady fingers to block busters.

Sure were a lot of good uses for lady fingers and cherry bombs for any kid with an imagination and a score to settle.

[dogdayz]

I remember playing with cap guns (and fire crackers) during recess at school - nowadays you bring one to school and they call the cops, go into lockdown and expel you.


You might be taken out by a swat team if you deployed those today..................

[hutch]

Wanna borrow mine(coonskin cap/tail)....I`ve still got it. my mom surprised me a few years back with posters from pics she had made of me as Zorro, Superman and Davey Crockett in full uniform. Still hanging in my pool room today. I`ll get my kid to take a pic and I`ll post them (I don`t know how lol)

Used to take the coonskin cap & tie a fishin' line to the front... lie it on the side of the road & run & hide behind a bush on the other side & wait for a car... lol... jerked it so it looked like it was alive & crossing the road,,, man we heard alot of squealing tires

[The Cobra]

Used to take the coonskin cap & tie a fishin' line to the front... lie it on the side of the road & run & hide behind a bush on the other side & wait for a car... lol... jerked it so it looked like it was alive & crossing the road,,, man we heard alot of squealing tires

BWAHAHAHA good one..................

[jazzman]

The good old days...my mom had one of those callapsable clothes lines you could store in the garage that mounted into a pipe in the ground. My friends and I would drop a lit cherry bomb in the pipe and drop a golf ball in after it. The golf ball would go so high you couldn't even see it any more. We ran for cover pretty quick cause you never knew where it was coming down. I'm amazed we're still around lol...

[dukeathome]

We had a life like dummy we used to beat up on the side of the road,no copps till we thru it into traffic lol,they took it away after we hanged it from a powerline

[zelig]

I used to bang an entire roll with a hammer.......
My ears are still ringing.
I had the agent zero-m cap guns that looked like a camera and movie camera.
The movie camera popped open to become a machine gun.
You must also remember the greenie stickem caps of that era.

http://www.retroist.com/2013/06/02/kurt-russell-is-mattels-agent-zero-m/

[torpainter]

who had one of these?23419

[Hunter11]

Yes, endless hours of playing army with my best bud's in the old neighbourhood, sheesh were did the time go.

who had one of these?23419

[dogdayz]

Speaking of nostalgia...
I remember very well visiting my uncle who just got a color TV and seeing Little Joe Cartright wearing a green jacket. That's my first memory of seeing color TV. We had a 17" Admiral B/W TV with only one channel and they went off the air at night.

[dogdayz]

I used to ask my father if we could get color tv and he would tell me to go paint the antenna.

[chicot60]

Speaking of nostalgia...
I remember very well visiting my uncle who just got a color TV and seeing Little Joe Cartright wearing a green jacket. That's my first memory of seeing color TV. We had a 17" Admiral B/W TV with only one channel and they went off the air at night.
https://katournica.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/1862743.jpg

[Hunter11]

I think Lorne Green is the only surviving actor in that series, it was on for about 14 seasons.nope just checked he passed in 1987, they are all gone now.

https://katournica.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/1862743.jpg

[bigbadbrother]

Time is a very funny thing.Sometimes it only feels like yesterday that we were playing those games, and other times it feels like a lifetime ago.I guess at 58 years old,that is a lifetime to some.

I know what your saying. A few days ago I turned 70 and I feel all 70 years today but in my heart and mind I'm still 19 or so. funny isn't it.

[steveOtoo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqJ8XYYliA

[The Cobra]

Speaking of nostalgia...
I remember very well visiting my uncle who just got a color TV and seeing Little Joe Cartright wearing a green jacket. That's my first memory of seeing color TV. We had a 17" Admiral B/W TV with only one channel and they went off the air at night.

15 inch Philco.........I was the remote.

[The Cobra]

23418
Do we remember this guy?lol

and Buffalo Bob

[The Cobra]

Name me one self respecting kid that didn`t have a complete set of.........

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608000084879740821&pid=15.1&P=0

[The Cobra]

to go along with a pile of these...

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607987809858358267&pid=15.1&P=0My mom used to hunt me down with a wooden spoon when she`d step on the ones I left laying around.

[dogdayz]

I remember my mom coming after us kids with a wooden spoon too - must have been the weapon of choice for mothers back then. Dad's used their belt.


to go along with a pile of these...My mom used to hunt me down with a wooden spoon when she`d step on the ones I left laying around.

[Hunter11]

Had them all, we were spoiled, man you should have seen the living room on Christmas mornings.
Name me one self respecting kid that didn`t have a complete set of.........

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608000084879740821&pid=15.1&P=0


to go along with a pile of these...

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607987809858358267&pid=15.1&P=0My mom used to hunt me down with a wooden spoon when she`d step on the ones I left laying around.

[Condor]

My how things change........I do miss those days.....Look at them now..........

http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr298/bolivia_04/miscellaneous/kids_and_guns_zps6944de97.jpg

http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr298/bolivia_04/miscellaneous/512474-Kids-With-Guns-0_zps300c5547.jpg


http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr298/bolivia_04/miscellaneous/gun-kid1_zps672f9469.jpg

[whoknows]

I was 8 years old and still remember the xmas I got the BB gun. Accidentally shot one of my buds in the ass from a good 50 feet and boy did he do some dancing. He was the same guy the shot me in the arm pit with an arrow the previous spring. Ah those were the days.

http://www.timewarptoys.com/deagle1.jpg

[teamwork000]

who had one of these?23419

I did and still have it in the box...

[Hunter11]

You will put an eye out with one of those. lol.
I was 8 years old and still remember the xmas I got the BB gun. Accidentally shot one of my buds in the ass from a good 50 feet and boy did he do some dancing. He was the same guy the shot me in the arm pit with an arrow the previous spring. Ah those were the days.

http://www.timewarptoys.com/deagle1.jpg

[dogdayz]

Nowadays the kids probably want iPhones for Christmas.
When I was a kid I begged for one of these:
23422

[Terryl]

who had one of these?23419


I had one when I was 18, (or was it 20?) but it looked different, and got real hot when shot too fast, and ate up a ton of ammo, I think I still have one in the ZORT gun locker in Nevada.

[The Cobra]

I remember my mom coming after us kids with a wooden spoon too - must have been the weapon of choice for mothers back then. Dad's used their belt.


After breaking countless wooden spoons swinging at me as I ran........her new weapon of choice was the indestructable.....
https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607997976045487046&pid=15.1&P=0

[The Cobra]

Anyone remember the guy coming around to houses taking pics with.......

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ecowsert/pony-page/gene-on-pony.jpg

[The Cobra]

Remember when "black balls" aka jaw breakers were 3 for 1 cent..........perfect ammo for..

http://www.urbanlifestylegear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/old_time_slingshot.jpg

[The Cobra]

I was 8 years old and still remember the xmas I got the BB gun. Accidentally shot one of my buds in the ass from a good 50 feet and boy did he do some dancing. He was the same guy the shot me in the arm pit with an arrow the previous spring. Ah those were the days.

http://www.timewarptoys.com/deagle1.jpg

Got my cousin in the back of the head with a dart for shooting me in the ass with that gun.

[The Cobra]

I remember my mom coming after us kids with a wooden spoon too - must have been the weapon of choice for mothers back then. Dad's used their belt.

My dad is still alive and at 94 he still remembers hitting me with his belt.....once. I stole $10 got caught and started to run upstairs when he pulled off his belt, he flicked it at me and let go of the wrong end and the buckle went under my arm pit, swung around and caught me in the mouth splitting my lip. Bled like a stuck pig and swelled like a balloon, my mom almost killed him when she heard me screaming and saw all the blood.......................I fixed his ass...I went and told anyone and everyone my dad hit me in the mouth with his belt when they saw me. never again LMFAO.

[dogdayz]

Remember when "black balls" aka jaw breakers were 3 for 1 cent..........perfect ammo for...

We used rocks and marbles. My sister got my brother between the eyes with a slingshot.

Yep... hard to believe we survived, built character though.

[steveOtoo]

Anyone remember the guy coming around to houses taking pics with.......

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ecowsert/pony-page/gene-on-pony.jpgWe call them predators now.............

[dogdayz]

We call them predators now.............

Right on! LOL!

[The Cobra]

We call them predators now.............

That does explain a couple things.......................LOL

[The Cobra]

We used rocks and marbles. My sister got my brother between the eyes with a slingshot.

Yep... hard to believe we survived, built character though.

We`d collect pop bottles till we hit 25 cents go to the store and get 75 black balls......cats were the target du jour.

[The Cobra]

If I wasn`t asleep for my afternoon nap by 2pm my mom was going to give me to the sheeny man.......

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nORpglosa5U/VDfWAYbYIUI/AAAAAAAAGsc/IRjuOJMzxzM/s1600/Sheeny%2BMan%2BDetroit.jpg

[bigbadbrother]

Remember this?

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/bc/71/b1/bc71b106ec653a2eac10d12c5a0fa8e9.jpg

I would hit them after school for a burger and shake.

[Anubis]

Remember this?

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/bc/71/b1/bc71b106ec653a2eac10d12c5a0fa8e9.jpg

I would hit them after school for a burger and shake.

OMG. Do I remember.

[The Cobra]

OMG. Do I remember.


Same here.......we lived in the `burbs so it was Sat with my mom going downtown on the bus to Kresge and Woolworths

[Anubis]

Same here.......we lived in the `burbs so it was Sat with my mom going downtown on the bus to Kresge and Woolworths

Yup, the 2 big dept. stores at the time. If Woolworth didn't have it you went to S.S. Kresge's and vice versa.

[steveOtoo]

Milk tasted better out of glass23431

[The Cobra]

Yup, the 2 big dept. stores at the time. If Woolworth didn't have it you went to S.S. Kresge's and vice versa.



Kresge was the first and only one for a while to carry 45 rpm Beatles records hot off the charts.....new releases were on sale Sat mornings and they were sold out by noon.

[The Cobra]

Milk tasted better out of glass23431

Yup.....remember this?

http://www.diecast.org/data/sac_cars/920_2.jpg

When the milkman went to the house trying to hit on your mom we snuck in the other side and got choco milk, juice and ice cream.

[chicot60]

Young 68.....

[dogdayz]

Mentally younger than 58 but the aches and pains are kicking in.

[The Cobra]

"will ya still need me, will ya still feed me"?......when..... I`m 64.

[hutch]

Kresge was the first and only one for a while to carry 45 rpm Beatles records hot off the charts.....new releases were on sale Sat mornings and they were sold out by noon.

I used to get mine on sale at Woolworths... sometimes even on a five finger discount...lol

Noof & dogdayz... we are the same age

[The Cobra]

I used to get mine on sale at Woolworths... sometimes even on a five finger discount...lol

Noof & dogdayz... we are the same age

I remember they had these old lady cashiers and old ones as store greeters trying to keep us kids at bay and orderly in the record dept. they lasted about 15 mins before having meltdowns LOL

[dogdayz]

"will ya still need me, will ya still feed me"?......when..... I`m 64.

For you youngsters - that was part of the lyrics from a 1967 Beatles song. :Idontgetit:

[The Cobra]

For you youngsters - that was part of the lyrics from a 1967 Beatles song. :Idontgetit:
Mere rookies LOl......thanx

[whoknows]

Yup.....remember this?

http://www.diecast.org/data/sac_cars/920_2.jpg

When the milkman went to the house trying to hit on your mom we snuck in the other side and got choco milk, juice and ice cream.

Worked with the milkman after school on one of those trucks for an hour each day. .75 cents a week

[dogdayz]

I highly doubt ANYONE in this thread didn't know that song...lol
Yeah, this is a great thread but probably nobody under 50 is reading it.

[The Cobra]

Worked with the milkman after school on one of those trucks for an hour each day. .75 cents a week

and all the juice and Ice cream you could fill yourself with ????

[The Cobra]

Yeah, this is a great thread but probably nobody under 50 is reading it.

Too bad.........we had it so much better than them and theirs and theirs.

[whoknows]

and all the juice and Ice cream you could fill yourself with ????

No the guy was a real cheap prick. Got nothing extra.

[hutch]

and all the juice and Ice cream you could fill yourself with ????

He better have... I made 75 cents on a daily basis doing my paper route on my Schwinn Stingray w/metal saddlebags no less...lol

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[hutch]

cool Noof... did you have the wheelie bar in back? I always wanted one...

[whoknows]

He better have... I made 75 cents on a daily basis doing my paper route on my Schwinn Stingray w/metal saddlebags no less...lol

23438

I did give the milk route up and got a paper route also. Was a long route and I wouldn't be exaggerating at 2 miles. 60 some papers. I know I was tired at end of each day.
The last stop on my route was a farm and it was a long walk down his drive. That drive or field in front of the farm house is now a subdivision. I just moved into that subdivision(farmer field) in the past year. I still find it hard to believe.

[jazzman]

I had a stingray too but mine was a five speed. Used to play hell keeping the chain adjusted so it wouldn't slip off the sprockets lol. BTW...58 here too.

[dogdayz]

I was late learning how to ride a bike, up til then I kneeled in my radio flyer wagon and pushed myself around.

[bigbadbrother]

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/71/96/f6/7196f645c59d2bbd529fb7a330bc38a4.jpg
https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607992504264361208&pid=15.1&P=0

Only if you lived in SoCal in the early 60s would have seen this.The Donut Truck
https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608046208533401111&pid=15.1&P=0

[dukeathome]

I feel like the kid here 57

[bigbadbrother]

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608015087197225483&pid=15.1&P=0

[The Cobra]

He better have... I made 75 cents on a daily basis doing my paper route on my Schwinn Stingray w/metal saddlebags no less...lol


23438

cool.........did you have a metal carrier of the front too missy?................I just couldn`t resist LOL

[The Cobra]

Hutch caught delivering papers...........

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cHBm-Hyexu0/TLueRdcKaLI/AAAAAAAABaM/9GaUCpS1hQE/s1600/monkey_on_bicycle_vintage_.jpg


You gotta know I`m wetting myself laughing right now................

[The Cobra]

This is the store where we used to go to select our bikes............

http://www.stow-on-the-wold.gloucs.sch.uk/oldwebsite/images/bike%20rack%20and%20alphabet/bikeracks%20and%20playground%20004.jpg

[hutch]

I did give the milk route up and got a paper route also. Was a long route and I wouldn't be exaggerating at 2 miles. 60 some papers. I know I was tired at end of each day.
The last stop on my route was a farm and it was a long walk down his drive. That drive or field in front of the farm house is now a subdivision. I just moved into that subdivision(farmer field) in the past year. I still find it hard to believe.

my route was about that long... & hilly so it took me a few hours... I had to load up twice(20-30 each time)... I had an inner circle & an outer circle... the bike had 3 speeds... didn't mind the hills but Spartan the dalmation & a couple other dogs on the route would try to bite me on occasion... It ended when I hit the curb & wrecked while being chased by two other dogs... Of course for them it was all about the chase... as soon as I went down they left...lol

[chicot60]

EATING IN THE FIFTIES



Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.




Curry was a surname.




A take-away was a mathematical problem.




Pizza? Sounds like a leaning tower somewhere.




Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.




All chips were plain.




Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.




A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.




Brown bread was something only poor people ate.




Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.




Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves, and never green.




Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.




Chickens didn't have fingers in those days.




None of us had ever heard of yogurt.




Healthy food consisted of anything edible.




Cooking outside was called camping.




Seaweed was not a recognized food.




'Kebab' was not even a word, never mind a food.




Sugar enjoyed good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.




Prunes were medicinal.




Surprisingly muesli was readily available. It was called cattle feed.




Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.




Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more thangasoline for it they would have become a laughing stock.




The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties... was elbows!

[chicot60]

https://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/libpics/kidguns.jpg

From the Eaton's Christmas Catalogue, 1960

http://tri-ang.weebly.com/uploads/4/7/4/0/4740720/_8057811_orig.jpg

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/images/f_229_1_0_235_no_35_cov_270.jpg
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/toys/pics/229_231_0_26_1962_hockey_27.jpg
https://threespeedmania.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1960-schwinn-traveler.jpg?w=590

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/06/f2/46/06f2460d36226c337b0641658080bb43.jpg

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/toys/pics/229_231_0_17_1954_fosterhew.jpg

[hutch]

23445..........

[hedley]

http://i58.tinypic.com/293zgg6.jpg

[The Cobra]

These things had one major defect...............a hole the size of a fist would appear in less then a month of the purchase date......


http://www.civilization.ca/canadaplay/media/images/artefacts/2_4_dining_room/4241-2111-7614-D2004-29302.jpg

[dogdayz]

I remember getting the Eatons and Simpson Sears catalogs. When I asked my father for something in the catalog he would tell me to get the scissors and he would cut it out for me.

[The Cobra]

Had me a few of these...

http://img.blogdecine.com/2010/02/erector-set-foto.jpg

[The Cobra]

I remember getting the Eatons and Simpson Sears catalogs. When I asked my father for something in the catalog he would tell me to get the scissors and he would cut it out for me.

HAHAHA.......brilliant dad.

[Hunter11]

Mine was the size of my brothers head, coincidental....hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

These things had one major defect...............a hole the size of a fist would appear in less then a month of the purchase date......


http://www.civilization.ca/canadaplay/media/images/artefacts/2_4_dining_room/4241-2111-7614-D2004-29302.jpg

[chicot60]

http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu

[chicot60]

A 11 Minute video of the 50’s/60’s…. Turn the sound on and enjoy “Memory Lane”…

This one should awaken some great memories!


If you don't remember, then you missed it.
This is such a great video.... enjoy it.

A decade that will never be repeated....
The cars are fantastic. The music was so wonderful, romantic, nostalgic, magical.... We were rich and did not know it!

We were innocent and thought we were experienced. We were very fortunate to have lived in such an era.

Enjoy the past as revealed here. Who knows what the future brings.....

Where oh where is the white sports coat and the pink carnation.....





















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDc0ID6PJeg