What are your fondest memories growing up as a kid?

[Louie Detroit]

I'll start

Back in the 60/70's for me it was stuff like:

Music
Collecting sports cards, stamps and coins
Playing baseball and football
Riding my bike
Fishing
Snake Hunting
Doing the Dog (riding the Greyhound bus)

[Don Rickles]

Your mama!

[Steve_R]

Heading out after breakfast with friends on our bikes in the summer and returning home for dinner.

Having no cell phones or iPads to stare at all the time like kids today.

[Mick]

Your mama!

You nailed Louie's Mom?

[Anjdog2003]

Dealing drugs and extorting money.

[Bruze]

Spending summers on my uncle's dairy farm in the late '50s into the '60s. Learning to drive a tractor before I could push the clutch in all the way, doing hay, milking, gathering eggs, going out in the summer evenings picking wild blueberries in the pasture, hunting woodchucks, deer season, making maple syrup, gads there were endless fun things to do there as a kid.

My sisters and I often talk about how much fun it was there. We're all still alive, so far, but my uncle and all of that generation have been gone for decades.

[KenHorse]

Getting beat up by other kids at my elementary school for being Jewish.

(wasn't a total loss - taught me to fight and protect myself)

[Onebadcad]

Paying every bill I had, movies and haircuts and BMX bikes and clothes, since I was 13.
Mom had enough family bills, was glad I could help out.

Another was riding my bike 6 miles to the beach, I was 10 when this started, spending all day there, leaving at dusk and hitting McDs for dinner on the ride home.
Back then you could get two burgers and fries for under a buck, never ordered the soda, drank water, as we were starving due to no lunch.

[Anjdog2003]

Getting beat up by other kids at my elementary school for being Jewish.

(wasn't a total loss - taught me to fight and protect myself)



If you were a real Jew you would have paid some Italians to take care of business. :yesnod:

[04 commemorative]

Playing outside all of most days,using our imagination and never had to worry about crazies taking any of us but.....it was the "cold war" so there were searchlights at night at times and sirens,along with the hiding under our school desks but we still were able to enjoy life much more than kids do now I think.

We would climb up my neighbors fence and onto their garage roof,we loved being able to see so much more than on the ground....two of my friends lived next door to me so we actually waxed up string (with wax my mom used to seal grape jelly I helped her make every year) connected tin cans and we had a string phone that really worked from my bedroom to theirs ! Life was pretty good !

[KenHorse]

If you were a real Jew you would have paid some Italians to take care of business. :yesnod:

Actually, had a black friend who taught me :D

[CurtP]

BMX. Enough so that I've been building a couple. Just got done with my GT I rode when I was Navy, now working on a Mongoose Californian like I had in the early 1980s.

[Taurus]

Beating up Jewish kids in elementary school. :D

Actually, bike rides to the fishing hole, street football and camping out.

[Bill]

Dealing drugs and extorting money.

So, about the same as now, just with no van?

Checks out.

[Rodnok1]

Just being outside without a care...

[GTOguy]

Riding my bike...exploring the new housing being built and making forts in the tall grass...catching crawdads in the creek...going to the drive in movie in pajamas...getting my first BB gun...learning to build and fly control line airplanes...racing my slot cars at the local slot car spot...Straw Hat pizza with all the old silent films playing...Rat Fink...The Tijuana Brass...riding in Dr. Cramer's '62 XKE...getting a ride in a Aeronca 90 HP and doing aerobatics...the fun house in San Diego on the way to our vacation in Ensenada in '66 and '67, and on and on. It was an analog world where the sky was the limit and our freedoms were encouraged.

[Aerovette]

Neighborhood games on those certain nights where every kid was available. It was a bit rare, but sometimes the stars would align and it seemed like every kid in a mile radius was out and ready to play. Kick the Can, Release the Den, Hide and Seek, etc.

Card games at 14 and 15 on the cute girl's back patio listening to Bob Welch, Wings, Peter Frampton, Gerry Rafferty.

Saturday morning bike rides to places we'd never tell our parents that we rode to.

Tree forts, go-karts, Hot Wheels.

I have lots of great memories as a kid.

As an adult...not so much.

[KenHorse]

Beating up Jewish kids in elementary school. :D



I knew it!!!

[69camfrk]

Family reunions at Roan Mountain Tennessee and the follow family gathering at my mom's homeplace in Abingdon Va with Grandparents, all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was a 400 some odd acre working dairy farm. We would hear the pump house come on in the morning and we were off to help. Running all over the farm, fishing with a cane pole in Parks creek. Yes, those were wonderful times that I reflect on with great fondness.

[Anjdog2003]

Baseball cards.

[6spdC6]

Many of the things I did as a kid would be illegal now or at the very least very frowned on. Born mid 40s, very early boomer!

[Louie Detroit]

Hanging out at various relatives places in Indiana for two weeks a year.
Hearing the hogs and cows making racket all night with the lid on their feeders.
The sound of a zillion crickets, cicadas and other bugs providing a summer soundtrack.
Listening to Kodachrome, Shambala and Smoke on the Water blaring on farmer’s tractors.

[GTOguy]

Many of the things I did as a kid would be illegal now or at the very least very frowned on. Born mid 40s, very early boomer!

I can still hear the ringing in my ears from taking an entire roll of red or green paper caps, putting it on the sidewalk, and hitting it with a hammer. I can remember the cement chunks in my eyes, too. Great times. :seasix:

[mrvette]

Grew up with a Jewish Synagogue about1/4 mile from my folks back door....newer development around it, many houses....about ten acres in Bethesda Md. outside DC.....Old Georgetown Rd.......

everyone got along, had a group from another hood that was about a mile away try giving us a hard time playing on a golf course that is now Nat. Inst. of Health campus the golf course was fun for us.....the houses I grew up among are worth welll OVER a million bux each yet are only 3brm, 2.5 bath, porch and ONE car garages.....walk about 1/2 mile to a bus stop.....

[Aerovette]

I can still hear the ringing in my ears from taking an entire roll of red or green paper caps, putting it on the sidewalk, and hitting it with a hammer. I can remember the cement chunks in my eyes, too. Great times. :seasix:

The smell of caps. :yesnod:

I used to scrape my thumbnail across them and they'd sizzle/pop. My thumb would be ever so slightly burned from it after a while.

Also, the metal "bombs" that you'd put a couple caps in and twist tight, then throw it up in the air.

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[GTOguy]

Lawn Darts. Creepy Crawlers. Creepy Crawlers 'Incredible Edibles'. LOL...Wham-O plastic Boomerang....which was absolutely lethal. Spring-equipped jumping shoes (ankle busters)

[Ol Timer]

Riding bikes, pick-up basketball and football games, Indian ball at the park, catching fireflies in Mason jars, nickel root-beer in frosted mugs at the corner drug store and picnics with family.

[Mick]

Boy Scout summer camp. Two weeks outside without the parents around. Rifle shooting, archery, canoes, row boats, swimming at the pool, fishing in the river, rappelling board, always a ton of fun stuff to do!

[LATB]

What are your fondest memories growing up as a kid?
Playing "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" with the girl up the street. Ironically, she was my 1st several years later. :D

[Don Rickles]

Getting those young girls thick winter sweaters up, for a swing at second base!!!.

:iagree:

[slewfoot]

I can still hear the ringing in my ears from taking an entire roll of red or green paper caps, putting it on the sidewalk, and hitting it with a hammer. I can remember the cement chunks in my eyes, too. Great times. :seasix:

Did you ever make a firecracker out of a roll of caps

[Frankie the Fink]

Leaving the house Saturday morning with my posse on our bicycles and staying gone until the street lights came on - playing around the Elizabeth River in Tidewater, exploring the woods, getting in BB gun fights (stupid as hell, I know) - I pity the current crop of kids in Mom's basement with a game controller attached to them like glue.

[Swany00]

riding my Diamond back bmx bike

[snide]

You nailed Louie's Mom?

Didn't you?

[CurtP]

Shrinky Dinks
Super Elasic Bubble Plastic
Erector sets
Radio Shack 150-in-One Electronic Kits
Chemistry sets
Getting Craftsman hand tools at Christmas
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Gokarts
Minibikes
Plowing the fields in a new International Harvester 5488 FWA

[markids77]

Pinball. Ice fishing. Partridge hunting with Dad. Night fishing for eels on the Mill river. Moorewood lake, just a stone's throw from Miss Hall's girls school. Dirt bikes. Hot glazed donuts from my grandfather's bakery after watching the fireworks on July 4th. Feeling like royalty in the back seat of my Uncle's various Cadillac convertibles.

[Bruze]

We used to play something called "Knife." I don't know who invented it but it wasn't me. It was a lot of fun.

We had an old rusty kitchen knife, probably about 10" long. We'd put two sticks in the yard maybe 50' apart, didn't matter.

We'd stand behind one stick and one guy would throw the knife forward; if it stuck in the ground you advanced to that point. Odds of sticking it in were pretty good once you got the hang of it.

Then the next kid would try, often sticking the knife in not far away from someone else's shoe which would make everybody laugh.

Or you could "Chance it," winging the knife end-over-end in the air, and if it stuck in you advanced to that point, if not you went nowhere. That was probably a 50/50 chance of scoring.

Our parents didn't care, and nobody ever got hurt.

[Don Rickles]

Rope swings!

[Cool 50th AE]

My dad taking me to work during the summers.

[Yadkin]

We used to play something called "Knife." I don't know who invented it but it wasn't me. It was a lot of fun.

We had an old rusty kitchen knife, probably about 10" long. We'd put two sticks in the yard maybe 50' apart, didn't matter.

We'd stand behind one stick and one guy would throw the knife forward; if it stuck in the ground you advanced to that point. Odds of sticking it in were pretty good once you got the hang of it.

Then the next kid would try, often sticking the knife in not far away from someone else's shoe which would make everybody laugh.

Or you could "Chance it," winging the knife end-over-end in the air, and if it stuck in you advanced to that point, if not you went nowhere. That was probably a 50/50 chance of scoring.

Our parents didn't care, and nobody ever got hurt.

We used to play a similar game but with folding knives. Everyone carried one back then. You would stand facing each other, feet shoulder width apart. Toss your knife between your opponents feet- if it stuck in the ground, then he had to bring his feet one width closer. First guy to hit someone's sneaker lost the game.

Best memories? Playing street hockey. Stickball. Full tackle football with just a sweatshirt for protection. Ice hockey on the pond. Riding bikes everywhere. Hitting 40mph downhill, pedaling like mad, passing cars. Swimming in the lake; jumping off the boulder into the cold water. Hiking the trails from my grandfather's cabin to Mt. Anne- our favorite route included a narrow ledge- certain death if you fell.

[donuts]

Locusts singing, the smell of fresh mowed lawn and a ice cold jug of whole milk in the avocado green fridge.. basketball, baseball and football camps. Little league baseball.. born in ‘69 so attended a lot of my now brother in laws ballgames and the smell of second hand smoke floating from the men lined up along the fence , still love that smell.

Late 70’s going out to aunt uncles farm during harvest and hanging out, feeding calves and climbing on tractors , listening to the locusts sing in the evening ..

[Anjdog2003]

Picking up my friends in a brand new Mercedes Benz my parents let me drive. I would always pick up the tab. I was in desperate need for friends :sadangel:








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[Yadkin]

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:Jeff '79:

[Yadkin]

The smell of caps. :yesnod:

I used to scrape my thumbnail across them and they'd sizzle/pop. My thumb would be ever so slightly burned from it after a while.

Also, the metal "bombs" that you'd put a couple caps in and twist tight, then throw it up in the air.

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I never saw one of those. You must have grown up in Hollywood with rich parents. We just smashed the rolls with rocks. :Jeff '79:

[Frankie the Fink]

We used to play a similar game but with folding knives. Everyone carried one back then. You would stand facing each other, feet shoulder width apart. Toss your knife between your opponents feet- if it stuck in the ground, then he had to bring his feet one width closer. First guy to hit someone's sneaker lost the game.

Best memories? Playing street hockey. Stickball. Full tackle football with just a sweatshirt for protection. Ice hockey on the pond. Riding bikes everywhere. Hitting 40mph downhill, pedaling like mad, passing cars. Swimming in the lake; jumping off the boulder into the cold water. Hiking the trails from my grandfather's cabin to Mt. Anne- our favorite route included a narrow ledge- certain death if you fell.

Sounds like a version of mumbly-peg...

[StudleyJames]

Christmas when my late uncle stopped by and stayed over night and playing a game of trying to guess what present he got for each of us.

Watching TV game shows with my grandmother and drinking coffee and building model cars

Going for a ride to the corner bar with my Grandpa and having a pop and heated cashews

Staying outside until dark playing with all my neighborhood friends

[BayouCountry]

My uncle taking me around with him to pick up women. I guess men now use dogs. Never thought about it before my aunt told me one day how she met my uncle.

[Frankie the Fink]

Second best memory was discovering a sturdy oak tree that my 13 year old pal and I could climb at night to watch our 19 year old neighbor change into her pajamas some nights though a window. File it under "extracurricular educational activities"..

[Bruze]

I never saw one of those. You must have grown up in Hollywood with rich parents. We just smashed the rolls with rocks. :Jeff '79:

LOL yes. I never sore one of those either. :Jeff '79:

Another fun thing in the spring: I grew up next to a creek that emptied into Irondequoit Bay maybe 2 miles downstream. It was all woods between my house and close to the bay.

In the spring, suckers would swim from the bay upstream to spawn. We'd walk maybe a mile downstream from my house and spear the crap out of them and throw them on the banks. It was just a bloodlust rampage for us.

My dad got wind of it and told me to bring some back, so we did. Having been a young man during the Depression, he had a good sense of what it was like to not have enough food. He would clean a bunch of them up every year and put them in the freezer.

They were bony but okay to eat in the spring before they sat around in the mud during the summer.

[Bruze]

What Louie Detroit did during his youth:


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[Aerovette]

I never saw one of those. You must have grown up in Hollywood with rich parents. We just smashed the rolls with rocks. :Jeff '79:

I'm not sure 29 cents indicates we were livin' large. :Jeff '79:

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[VITE1]

Summers spent at the backdoor pool with friends and neighbors, Winter sleigh riding down the front lawn, Ride bikes for miles on side roads and backwoods trails.

[GTOguy]

I'm not sure 29 cents indicates we were livin' large. :Jeff '79:

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We had these. In ca they were all over the place.

[WydGlydJim]

Stopping for an ice cold flavored pop, in a glass bottle, either grape, strawberry, or orange, out of a vending machine at a gas station on my paper route. I enjoyed it with a package of peanuts.....can remember it like it was yesterday......
:party3:

[Louie Detroit]

Baseball cards.

What years and type did you buy?

[Louie Detroit]

catching crawdads in the creek.

Do they actually call them that where you grew up?

[04 commemorative]

I never saw one of those. You must have grown up in Hollywood with rich parents. We just smashed the rolls with rocks. :Jeff '79:

:lol: we also just used some red bricks

[Thunder22]

not having any responsibilities other than being a kid.

[Bruze]

Do they actually call them that where you grew up?

We just called them crabs. As I found out after I grew up, I guess technically they were crawdads.

[Louie Detroit]

We just called them crabs. As I found out after I grew up, I guess technically they were crawdads.

Here in Michigan they're usually called Crayfish. My cousins in Indiana call them crawdads and others call them crawfish.

I was asking GTO because he's on the Left Coast and they usually have a different perspective on things regarding nomenclature.

[Don Rickles]

I miss…. Being told by our Scout leader, to get the left handed wind shifter from the other troop….

[Bruze]

Here in Michigan they're usually called Crayfish. My cousins in Indiana called them crawdads and others call them crawfish.

I was asking GTO because he's on the Left Coast and they usually have a different perspective on things regarding nomenclature.

Yeah I know you didn't ask me directly. I just thought I'd throw what I knew about it into the mix.

My dad might have been the one to first call them crabs, not sure. But we knew what they were and knew how to catch them.

I agree, the Left Coast people, like GTOguy, are weird. :eek:

[Louie Detroit]

I agree, the Left Coast people, like GTOguy, are weird. :eek:

They're weird, but so are the most of the rest of us. :yaddy:

[Bruze]

They're weird, but so are the most of the rest of us. :yaddy:

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[Anjdog2003]

What years and type did you buy?



The 50's and 60's and then i grew up and tossed them. Had probably more than a half a million dollars on my spokes. Their wan't a base ball card i didn't have from 1951 to 1968. I also had a sign autograph baseball by Jackie Robinson. I also caught a foul ball by Ernie Banks. Played in the street with both balls. You paid 5 cents for a pack of 5 baseball cards and some bubble gum. Go out and collect bottles at 2 cents a bottle or unless you got the big ones and got five cents. We'd leave the house broke and scrounge up enough money to buy baseball cards and eat a big lunch at McDonals.

[Louie Detroit]

The 50's and 60's and then i grew up and tossed them. Had probably more than a half a million dollars on my spokes. Their wan't a base ball card i didn't have from 1951 to 1968. I also had a sign autograph baseball by Jackie Robinson. I also caught a foul ball by Ernie Banks. Played in the street with both balls. You paid 5 cents for a pack of 5 baseball cards and some bubble gum. Go out and collect bottles at 2 cents a bottle or unless you got the big ones and got five cents. We'd leave the house broke and scrounge up enough money to buy baseball cards and eat a big lunch at McDonals.

Back in my day of the 60's and 70's the packs had 10 cards, an insert, and a strip of gum for a dime. Sometimes that ****ing stick of gum left an imperfection on that card.

[Louie Detroit]

I currently have the complete 1957, '61, '64, '65, '67, '68, '69, '70, '71 sets of Topps MLB cards. And some other stuff.

[Anjdog2003]

I currently have the compete 1957, '61, '64, '65, '67, '68, '69, '70, '71 sets of Topps MLB cards. And some other stuff.



Turn them in and get the money only paper.

[Bruze]

Back in my day of the 60's and 70's the packs had 10 cards, an insert, and a strip of gum for a dime. Sometimes that ****ing stick of gum left an imperfection on that card.

The packs in my yoot when I was collecting baseball cards, around the late '50s into the early '60s, had a sheet of gum the same size as the cards. Don't remember how many cards there were or what the pack cost, maybe a nickel. :shrug:

I had Mickey Mantle, Yogi, and several other famous players.

[Aerovette]

When I lived in Ohio, they were crawdads. :seasix:

[GTOguy]

Here in Michigan they're usually called Crayfish. My cousins in Indiana call them crawdads and others call them crawfish.

I was asking GTO because he's on the Left Coast and they usually have a different perspective on things regarding nomenclature.

All of us kids called them crawdads. This was in Concord, CA. My dad was from Valparaiso Ind. and my mom was from Ann Arbor, Mich. and they called them crawdads too. I didn't hear crayfish until much later. We catch them still when in the Sierras fishing for trout, etc. Have them with the fish for dinner.
In fact, the Sacramento Delta town of Isleton has had an annual Crawdad Festival for decades. I've been a few times. 96076

[Aerovette]

Per Grammarly...

Crawfish, crayfish, and crawdads are the same animal. Which term you use may depend much on where you live. Louisianans most often say crawfish, whereas Northerners are more likely to say crayfish. People from the West Coast or Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas often use the term crawdad.

[Anjdog2003]

I miss when all the Gentile kids would let me hang out with them if i bought all the candy. It cost me a lot but i felt wanted. :yesnod:








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[Bruze]

Per Grammarly...

Crawfish, crayfish, and crawdads are the same animal. Which term you use may depend much on where you live. Louisianans most often say crawfish, whereas Northerners are more likely to say crayfish. People from the West Coast or Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas often use the term crawdad.

So that makes GTOguy . . .

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[Yadkin]

The proper word is crayfish. Other names for them are slang, and used by the uneducated or unwashed. :D

[Louie Detroit]

The proper word is crayfish. Other names for them are slang, and used by the uneducated or unwashed. :D

Some of your homies would disagree. The "proper" tight asses are usually homos or liberals.

http://www.luckysci.com/2014/09/crawdads-in-nc/

[Louie Detroit]

Stopping for an ice cold flavored pop, in a glass bottle, either grape, strawberry, or orange, out of a vending machine at a gas station on my paper route. I enjoyed it with a package of peanuts.....can remember it like it was yesterday......
:party3:

What brand? Nehi, Crush or other?

[04 commemorative]

Funny,as a kid I used to (like all others) love soda and ice cream....now I never have either except for maybe 1 or 2 Chocolate malts (made with malt powder) a year if lucky.

[lrobe22]

If you want to eat them, you'd better order from a place that says CRAWFISH.
Anybody who says crawdad or crayfish can go weep in their embroidered crying towel.

[04 commemorative]

If you want to eat them, you'd better order from a place that says CRAWFISH.
Anybody who says crawdad or crayfish can go weep in their embroidered crying towel.

Or those little tiny lobsters :lol:

[Louie Detroit]

If you want to eat them, you'd better order from a place that says CRAWFISH.
Anybody who says crawdad or crayfish can go weep in their embroidered crying towel.

The gauntlet has been thrown.

[lrobe22]

Let's get it duuu

https://youtube.com/shorts/OSL3a75OMj4?feature=shared

[lrobe22]

South Louisiana woman cooking with crawfish
https://youtu.be/7bXOyXQnqWo?feature=shared

[Louie Detroit]

Many great stories. Keep them coming.

[Bruze]

What brand? Nehi, Crush or other?

Who remembers those old pop machines that looked like a chest freezer?

You'd open the lid, insert a dime, and slide your selection through the chilled water, through a maze of steel until you got to the place on the left where you could slide it out?

[Denbelt]

Deposit on soda bottles was 2 cents. We lived on the road to "The Lake". I would ride my bike to the country store about a mile away, and I could pick up enough bottles to exchange them for a Mtn. Dew and a bag of peanuts. Almost every day. Some days I would have enough extra for a tube of BB's. Great times!!

[Yadkin]

If you want to eat them, you'd better order from a place that says CRAWFISH.
Anybody who says crawdad or crayfish can go weep in their embroidered crying towel.

I'd rather eat real lobster, thanks.

[Yadkin]

Who remembers those old pop machines that looked like a chest freezer?

You'd open the lid, insert a dime, and slide your selection through the chilled water, through a maze of steel until you got to the place on the left where you could slide it out?

There was one at a local gas station, a 7 oz coke in a returnable bottle was a dime.:seasix:

[lrobe22]

I'd rather eat real lobster, thanks.

Yea, it's lot less work to eat a lobster tail but I'll take the cajun life, people, and the seasoning flavors any day over unseasoned lobster with hoity-toities.

[Louie Detroit]

Deposit on soda bottles was 2 cents. We lived on the road to "The Lake". I would ride my bike to the country store about a mile away, and I could pick up enough bottles to except them for a Mtn. Dew and a bag of peanuts. Almost every day. Some days I would have enough extra for a tube of BB's. Great times!!

Nice anecdote new guy, keep on posting.

[GTOguy]

Who remembers those old pop machines that looked like a chest freezer?

You'd open the lid, insert a dime, and slide your selection through the chilled water, through a maze of steel until you got to the place on the left where you could slide it out?

This was when I was a little kid in the mid '60's. I remember the bottles were small, you drank them there, and put them in a rack when you were done. You did NOT take them with you or throw them away. I remember 7-Up, Orange Crush, RC Cola, Tab, etc. On our canned sodas at home which we occasionally got, you needed a church key to open them. Pop-top's were just starting to come out, but the cheap beer and soda still had the all- steel can. Pop top cans had the steel can, where the tab was steel with an aluminum pull ring, which were all over the place, and later, they had aluminum tops and bottoms and then, the whole can was aluminum by the mid '70's. My first beer as a kid was a Coors in a steel can opened with a church key.

[Bruze]

This was when I was a little kid in the mid '60's. I remember the bottles were small, you drank them there, and put them in a rack when you were done. You did NOT take them with you or throw them away. I remember 7-Up, Orange Crush, RC Cola, Tab, etc. On our canned sodas at home which we occasionally got, you needed a church key to open them. Pop-top's were just starting to come out, but the cheap beer and soda still had the all- steel can. Pop top cans had the steel can, where the tab was steel with an aluminum pull ring, which were all over the place, and later, they had aluminum tops and bottoms and then, the whole can was aluminum by the mid '70's. My first beer as a kid was a Coors in a steel can opened with a church key.

The pop machines I remember all had 12 oz. bottles, I don't think any pop companies made anything smaller, at that time anyway.

When I first started drinking beer (1967) there weren't any poptops yet. But everybody had a church key with them or in their car.

Once in a while we had bottles and no key, and opened them on the door latch on the pillar.

[WydGlydJim]

What brand? Nehi, Crush or other?

hmmm......ya know I can't really recall?......I'm leaning towards Crush
:island14:

[Anjdog2003]

I remember back in the 50's all the baseball games on T.V were in black and white. So when i went to my first baseball games in 1959 it was at the L.A Coliseum. I remember walking through the tunnel and seeing the grass was green the Dodger uniforms were blue. It was like the Wizard Of Oz. I just stood there for a couple of minutes in awe. Johnny Podres was pitching against the Giants. The Giants won. The screen in left field was 5 ft hight than the wall at Fenway.

[Yadkin]

Yea, it's lot less work to eat a lobster tail but I'll take the cajun life, people, and the seasoning flavors any day over unseasoned lobster with hoity-toities.

You forgot to add, unintelligible speech.

[lrobe22]

Your loss :)

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