Get off my lawn! (the over 50 thread)

[Neo]

Awesome reads!

 

Sixties ...

 

Getting out of bed to watch the first moon walk. We lived on Culver Road.

 

PS 67

 

Goodnight, David ... goodnight, Chet and Walter Cronkite.

 

Men came to the house and fixed the television.

 

Saturday morning cartoons; Go, Speedracer, Mr Peabody and the Wayback Machine, Bugs and friends.

 

Bicycles, everywhere.

 

Playing Army and Cowboys and Indians

 

Acme and A & P. Super Duper, Loblaws, and The Park Edge

 

McDonalds and over 1 million served.

 

OJ at USC and in Buffalo; the Rock Pile and parking, walking and climbing to sit behind a column.

 

Andy Griffith, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island ... Samantha and Mary Ann made me, um, fidgety. I didn't know why.

 

Danny moves your fanny ... In the morning ..

 

Listening to the radio on snowy school days, fingers crossed ... "Albion Central Schools, Arcade ... All Buffalo Public and Parochial ...."

 

Caz Park and fishing at the Botanical Gardens

Edited August 6, 2016 by N'eo

[wjag]

Danny Everith (sp?)

 

Your Host

 

Jimmy Griffin

 

Irv Weinstein

 

Bowling for Dollars

 

It's Academic

 

UHV atennas

 

AM radios

 

Snowmobile boots

 

Hospital Hill (only Hamburg residents will get this)

[Neo]

Drinking from a hose

 

Walking every where

 

Go out and do something

 

Kickball

 

I am not a crook

 

Milk machines

 

Milk 25 cents a quart, gasoline 32 cents a gallon, phone calls 10 cents, Candy bars 25 cents, cigarettes 50 cents, six pack of Budweiser 1.99

Milk delivered to our door ... Aluminum box on the porch. The Milkman (my kids thought that was crazy ..)

I'm not quite 50, so I should probably get off the lawn, but if you remember the wheelchair juggling dude who sold peanuts in front of the Aud can I get a day pass?

I remember him well. Wore an army jacket and gloves with the fingers removed, if I recall ...

[Neo]

Glen Park Casino and Amusement Park in Williamsville

Playing war with friends with our toy machine guns

Schwinn stingray bikes with a Mattel Vroom engine noise maker

12" GI Joes and Captain Action, Major Matt Mason astronauts, Hot Wheels orange track

Creepy Crawler makers that were basically hot stoves for kids

Wearing bread bags over your feet inside your rubber winter boots whose zippers would freeze

Walking to school a couple of blocks away alone as a little kid and nobody worrying if you were safe

Going to the hardware store with dad to use the tv tube testing machine

Going to Christmas midnight mass spoken in Latin

GI Joe and Stingrays!

 

How about Keds and PF Flyers .... "make you run faster and jump higher"

 

Tiger in your tank ...

[Stoner]

The great Pop Rock run (and scare) of 1976 (?). It was hard to find them and they were actually being sold for obscene profits at school. (God, we were druggies.) Then the story came out that someone somewhere (Mikey, maybe) died after eating too many Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke. Stomach exploded. Also, Bubble Yum gum had spider eggs in it. I always believed that one. There were tiny egg-like thingies in it.

Edited August 6, 2016 by PASabreFan

[SwampD]

What if I'm under 50 but self-identify as an over 50er?

[BagBoy]

Channel 29...

 

Using the Beta Capsule, Hiata becomes ULTRA MAN !!!!

 

I remember I was playing outside when they landed on the moon, so my dad told me to come in and watch it.  I was only 5 and didn't care.  I stuck around for 5 minutes and then asked him if I could go back outdoors.

Anyone remember the Tarzan guy at the Aud?  If the game was late in the 3rd period and the final outcome was not in doubt, some guy in the stands would do an awesome Tarzan yell.  It got to the point that in games like this, everyone would get really quiet in anticipation.

 

I also remember the figure skating ladies who came out on the ice before the players and refs did when the game was ready to start.  There were 2 of them in silver spangly costumes and they both had two sabres.  They would wait for the refs to skate by the nets and then they would throw the sabres toward the refs, narrowly missing them and sending the sabres into the nets.  

[3putt]

"Hit em with your purse Rick"

The Munich Olympics

Watching the news and asking your dad what KIA meant

[Eleven]

I'm not quite 50, so I should probably get off the lawn, but if you remember the wheelchair juggling dude who sold peanuts in front of the Aud can I get a day pass?

 

 

His "PeaNUTS crackerjack" is part of the soundtrack of my life, but I won't belong in this thread for quite some time.  So no.  Come join me in the more fun thread.

[ROC_exEMT]

(younger) - walking everywhere

(older) - riding my bike everywhere

 

tv channels that shut down at midnight with the national anthem and started back up in the morning with the national anthem.

 

You want to play a sport?  Find some buddies, choose teams and play.  None of these organized leagues (town, travel, etc).  You want to play hockey?  Wait 'till winter and the pond freezes over (or play in the street with chunks of snow marking the goals)

 

As others have said, landing on the moon, party phone lines and "be home when the street lights go on"

 

rotary phones

 

No 911 - 232-2121 and 225-2525  (local fire and police)

 

What was the word that made up the 1st couple digits of YOUR phone number.  Mine was 'Northfield' - NO3-2517

 

JFK, RFK, MLK  :(

 

Having a cop visit the house to talk to me for some reason or another and getting slapped upside the head by mom or dad even before they heard what happened.  A cop wants to talk to me about something - I MUST'VE been doing something wrong.  Also, substitute 'teacher' for cop.

 

Growing up on the shores of L. Ontario - want to go swimming?  Go behind so-n-so's house and jump in.  No pools. No need for parents.  Just do it.

 

board games

 

returnable bottles - I know we have them now but back in the 60's how many kids would look for them to get the .02 or .03 back so they could load their pockets up with candy and gum?

 

Yellow raincoats and galoshes

[wjag]

V8 engines

 

leaded gasoline

 

runner sleds and coasters

 

Intellivision

 

Foosball and pinball

 

Encyclopedias

 

Kindergarten rugs for nap time

[K-9]

Fort Makowski

[GoPre]

Damn you guys are old. J/k

[K-9]

Damn you guys are old. J/k

Well, it's better than the alternative. 

[Claude_Verret]

Danny Everith (sp?)

 

Your Host

 

Jimmy Griffin

 

Irv Weinstein

 

Bowling for Dollars

 

It's Academic

 

UHV atennas

 

AM radios

 

Snowmobile boots

 

Hospital Hill (only Hamburg residents will get this)

Ha, Hospital hill/ Gunther's hill! ....sledding through the trees. and of course you always risked sledding right into 18 mile Creek...

[TrueBlueGED]

I remember most of this stuff and I'm only 31. Y'all are a bunch of fake old people.

[ubkev]

I remember most of this stuff and I'm only 31. Y'all are a bunch of fake old people.

Yep, same here. I was around for like 85% of this stuff. Maybe it's their oldness that won't allow them to remember anything from farther back. Or maybe nothing interesting happened "way back when"

[jsb]

Southside Junior High, Father Baker Victory High School, being threatened to be taken to Father Baker's if you were bad, Bishop Timon Annex (for freshman), seeing Dick Weber and Earl Anthony at Airport Lanes, actually seeing Cookie Gilchrist, Billy Shaw, Elbert Dubenion and Jack Kemp play football, going to a Buffalo Bisons hockey game with the Pepsi bottle cap logo, nickel candy bars, family owned grocery stores, PAL baseball leagues, Republic Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Allied Chemical, Catholic grammar schools, Sattlers, when Humboldt Park was a white neighborhood. 

 

Emergency Hospital, 

You know you've entered the elderly age when a female doctor gives you a prostate check, WHOA!!!!!!! I've done some kinky things in my life but that wasn't one of them

 

Seeing Dizzy Dean and Phil Rizzuto do the Saturday afternoon national baseball games

Actually seeing the Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon landing

Being in school when the Kennedy Assassination was announced

Air raid warnings

Watching the thruway get built from what once was a train trestle

Remembering when a computer was the size of your family room plus punch cards

Learning Old Math

Edited August 6, 2016 by jsb

[Doohicksie]

Everyone us has gone over the handlebars too.  Right of youth passage.

 

Hell, I've done that twice in the last three years.... broke my right arm, screwed up my left wist.

 

To tie it back into the thread..... not admitting that you're too old to do stuff.

going to the original aud club with Dad, getting a root beer and thinking you were a man

 

Substitute Knights of Columbus for Aud Club and yeah....

We called it pogying.

 

Same here (grew up in Cheektowaga)

Glen Park Casino and Amusement Park in Williamsville

 

Playing war with friends with our toy machine guns

 

Schwinn stingray bikes with a Mattel Vroom engine noise maker

 

12" GI Joes and Captain Action, Major Matt Mason astronauts, Hot Wheels orange track

 

Creepy Crawler makers that were basically hot stoves for kids

 

Wearing bread bags over your feet inside your rubber winter boots whose zippers would freeze

 

Walking to school a couple of blocks away alone as a little kid and nobody worrying if you were safe

 

Going to the hardware store with dad to use the tv tube testing machine

 

Going to Christmas midnight mass spoken in Latin

 

This.  All of it.

[Doohicksie]

I remember most of this stuff and I'm only 31. Y'all are a bunch of fake old people.

 

 

Yep, same here. I was around for like 85% of this stuff. Maybe it's their oldness that won't allow them to remember anything from farther back. Or maybe nothing interesting happened "way back when"

 

Get off my lawn, deh bot' of yeahs!  I know where yeahs live, don' make me call yer parents!

 

[JJFIVEOH]

I remember most of this stuff and I'm only 31. Y'all are a bunch of fake old people.

Well, BFLO is about 15 years behind the rest of the country. Didn't black Starter coats and poof hair just go out of style?

[Weave]

Hell, I've done that twice in the last three years.... broke my right arm, screwed up my left wist.

 

To tie it back into the thread..... not admitting that you're too old to do stuff.

 

More recently than I'd care to admit, I was horsing around on my sons' old Razor scooter and went over the handlebars, pancaked on the driveway, and broke two ribs.

 

If there were video, I'd imagine it would be hilarious. Not one of my finer moments.

[2 minuter för grovbearbetn]

Blue laws. For you young 'ins, you couldn't buy anything on Sunday's. Only drugstores were open.

[gilbert11]

Two Guys (apparently they found 3 more guys and started selling hamburgers at some point)

Twin Fair

Gold Circle

Child World

smear the ######

getting drunk at the cemetery

playing super mario bros at the local pizza joint after school

going to the original aud club with Dad, getting a root beer and thinking you were a man

LOL! I worked at a cemetery one summer and one week the boss was on vacation and we were drunk all week. Jumped out of a Cushman going full speed between headstones and didn't feel a thing.

 

Seeing Dizzy Dean and Phil Rizzuto do the Saturday afternoon national baseball games

Learning Old Math

Wow, it was Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek for me.

[North Buffalo]

And don't go home until the street lights come on. Speaking of which:

 

Touch football in the street, lamppost to lamppost.

 

Giving rides to friends on the handlebars of your bike.

 

Oh crap yea... Kick the can on Summit Ave in summer. Street hockey in the snow in sneakers with tennis balls. Had a racing slick on that day glow burnt yellow banana seat bike. Picking up pig iron from tracks and the rope swing behing Nichols school in the ditch behind on the rope swing.

 

Salambas pool tables when I was 15.

Edited August 7, 2016 by North Buffalo