Hey old farts..how many over 50 yrs?

**Walter9999** · 07-15-2012, 03:05 PM

Skateboards made out of your sisters roller skate nailed to a 2 X 4...........one day while shopping for back to school I overheard my father tell my older sister "no I'm not buying you those dungarees (Levi's) they are a Communist plot to get the youth of the U.S. to all dress the same"...........really stiff patches ironed to the knees of your pants to make them last until you grew out of them.......Space food bars, the really shitty tasting Astronaut Food marketed during the space race..........remember the dangerous playground equipment that has since been outlawed, like the "piano slide"?

**Coho** · 07-15-2012, 03:21 PM

I hated those damn patches mom got.

**WattSaver** · 07-15-2012, 06:34 PM

Thank you all for a great read. Hit the double nickel this yr.

1st car 65 Thunderbird, 28 cents a gal gas and I remember the wk gas went from .40 to 1.20 and none of the pumps had a third dial for the price, just used a magic marker, or taped a 1 to the face of the pump.

1st concert at age 14 - N.R.P.S. & Grateful Dead, I'll let you guess how that turned out. I just saw NRPS again last wk at a local venue, looking at them made me feel young again.

**Stillbuzzin** · 07-16-2012, 07:32 AM

http://youtu.be/3Q3j-i7GLr0

**Barrelhse** · 07-16-2012, 08:23 AM

Zig-Zags were a nickel, and Bic lighters weren't invented. It's hard to light a bowl with a Zippo and matches get to be a pain in the ass, so I suppose that's why we smoked more joints then. Bongs came in with the Viet Nam vets returning.
(EVERYTHING was a nickel when I was young- gum, coca-cola, popcicles, candy bars, cough drops- and they were in bigger sizes!)

**jimmu** · 07-16-2012, 08:47 AM

in 70s? you are one of the senior most person here. Well, I've started growing it in my 6th grade and it's been 13years now. As you said, learned many stuff and it's still interesting as it was initially.

**Cobnobuler** · 07-16-2012, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by Barrelhse

Zig-Zags were a nickel, and Bic lighters weren't invented. It's hard to light a bowl with a Zippo and matches get to be a pain in the ass, so I suppose that's why we smoked more joints then. Bongs came in with the Viet Nam vets returning.
(EVERYTHING was a nickel when I was young- gum, coca-cola, popcicles, candy bars, cough drops- and they were in bigger sizes!)

Thats when a nickel had some power back then.
I picked a quarter up off the sidewalk the other day, and when I did I imagined some fat guy too lazy to bother to bend over to pick it up. When I was a kid in the 60's and I had a quarter, I was all hooked up. I had a lot of possibilities with that quarter.

**Magic Rabbit** · 07-16-2012, 09:02 AM

I remember them days. Everything was a nickel. I was a lil sprout. As I got older We use to buy lids. Columbian Gold, Red Bud.Man them was the best days

**dadio161** · 07-16-2012, 10:39 AM

I remember being a kid in the late 60's in Southern California and going to Thrifty Drug Store to get an ice cream cone. They had an ice cream counter. 5-cents for a single scoop , 10-cents for a double scoop , and 15-cents for a tripple scoop .
And we didn't buy shorts for the summer. We cut our Levis that had holes into shorts.