The Old Farts Bar, Grill and Infirmary

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Gee you guys are old. 50! 50? Ever hear of a song called My Generation? Sheesh...oughta call it the Depends Club.
 

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I remember when towns closed down on Sunday and forget finding things open on any holiday. I remember Combat, Queen for a Day, Mitch Miller and watching Jack LaLaine when he was still a young stud. I also remember when I got my first Go Go boots I thought I was the hottest thing on the block.:D
 

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Bluntforcetrauma checks out the ancient history books to see what the hell these folks are babbling on about.
 

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Finally....have found my place at AW.

Sigh.

Will return, (if I can find this place again.) and share some of the good 'ol days.

Sigh.

Will aimlessly wonder away for now........I know I had something I was suppose to be doing.........
 

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  • Large candy bars 5 cents each. Great groaning when they went up to 10 cents.
  • The big innovation in car stereos was the new 8-track, much better than the 4-track (but my old 1965 Datsun [now Nissan] had positive ground!).
  • Dissertation typed on an IBM selectric typewriter (great new device, by the way)
  • Bought one of those wonderful new hand-held calculators for $80. Four functions only (add, subtract, multiply and divide) and decimal fixed at two places
  • Bought my first brand-new car--1969 Volkswagen Beetle. It had a sunroof, upgraded wheels and upholstery, and pop-out rear windows. Full price out of the dealership with all taxes and fees, $2,337.00
  • That gold-painted chick in Goldfinger was NEKKID.
  • You had to buy your girlfriend a diamond to get laid, or at least give her your Letterman's Jacket
  • Flattops and buzzcuts the first time around
  • Mini-skirts and dropped pencils
  • Taking the girlfriend to watch the submarine races
  • California license plates were black with yellow letters
 
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o.k., I get out of my walker this morning to find three AW farts threads - young, medium, and old fart. Being 50 qualifies me not only for bales of AARP junk mail but this thread as well.

Stamps - 5 cents
Penny candy - a penny
One chunk of Bazooka bubble gum - .02
postcard - .03
1 pack ciggies - .45
silverware and glassware - free each time you filled your gas tank
small appliances - free when you opened a checking account

Soda - no high fructose corn syrup in it. Everything was in glass bottles. Often in outdoor storefront coolers, honor system, you grabbed one, went in and paid for it. People actually honored the honor system.


Vending machines looked like this -

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and this -

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Ties were skinny, pants were pegged, brainiacs had pocket protectors full of pens. You dressed for church, Saturday night dinner out, airplane flights and attendance at any public event. Soda fountains, dusky smoky faintly dangerous bars, rock and roll, mom and pop businesses, not gigantic chains and box stores where nobody really gives a shit about their customers and no one knows what the hell they're talking about.

omg. I could go on all day, there's so much that I miss. I'm an OOF. Official Old Fart, it's true.
 
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Are you 50+ years old? No. Do you remember when gas was 20 cents a gallon? No, but I remember when petrol was less than a pound a gallon. Come on, I remember that they actually sold it in gallons not these new fangled litres, whatever the hell they are. Do you remember when a penny postcard didn't cost 26 cents? No, but I remember when postcards cost 5pDo you remember when there was actually a key representing the symbol for "cents" on the keyboard? I have a key for pence, it's the p one :) Then this is the thread for you.

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I remember 1/2 p coins, that would buy you two sweets in the pick and mix. When a pint cost less than a weeks wages. I remember the stuff they had in playgrounds that would give the 'Elf n Safety Brigade an apoplexy ( Witches Hat, the danger was half the fun!) I remember being able to roller skate up and down the roads because you got about two cars a day. Does that count?
 

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  • The Mickey Mouse Club with Annette *sigh*
  • Clove gum
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  • AM radio
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o.k., I get out of my walker this morning to find three AW farts threads - young, medium, and old fart. Being 50 qualifies me not only for bales of AARP junk mail but this thread as well.

Stamps - 5 cents
Penny candy - a penny
One chunk of Bazooka bubble gum - .02
postcard - .03
1 pack ciggies - .45
silverware and glassware - free each time you filled your gas tank
small appliances - free when you opened a checking account

Soda - no high fructose corn syrup in it. Everything was in glass bottles. Often in outdoor storefront coolers, honor system, you grabbed one, went in and paid for it. People actually honored the honor system.


Vending machines looked like this -

P2070092.jpg



and this -

coca.gif



Ties were skinny, pants were pegged, brainiacs had pocket protectors full of pens. You dressed for church, Saturday night dinner out, airplane flights and attendance at any public event. Soda fountains, dusky smoky faintly dangerous bars, rock and roll, mom and pop businesses, not gigantic chains and box stores where nobody really gives a shit about their customers and no one knows what the hell they're talking about.

omg. I could go on all day, there's so much that I miss. I'm an OOF. Official Old Fart, it's true.

I guess I'm not quite old enough to qualify as an old fart (I'm 46) but I remember all of the above so I'm almost there. Is that good or bad? I haven't decided yet!;)

Things I remember....

being able to buy both a bag of chips and cupcake for my lunch at the corner store for a quarter with change

when girls could not and did not wear pants of any kind to school

collecting discarded glass pop bottles to get the deposit back which I spent on candy

Blue Laws still in effect so most stores were closed on Sunday and even in stores that were open, you could not buy some things. People used to gripe that you could buy beer (Sunday beer only) on Sunday but not a baby bottle!

More kids came from a two-parent home than didn't and the majority of moms were home during the daytime. PTA met during the day.

Most families had one phone in a central location and it was a black rotary dial model.

Television was black and white (I can remember well when we first got a color set) and you got whatever channels were available in your area with rabbit ears or a TV antenna. No remotes - kids usually were the ones called on to get up and flip the dial around.

No dishwashers, air conditioning, microwaves, boneless chicken, and computers were something huge that no one knew much about. A computer took up an entire room or so we heard.

People still said the moon was made of green cheese or that there was a man in the moon. That one went out after the '68 Apollo moon landings.

TV weathermen pointed to a really cheesy map with felt stick on numbers for temps

All that and so much more...........
 

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  • Clark Gable's ears
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  • Alfalfa's hair spike
  • W.C. Fields' attitude toward kids and dogs

And the submarine races were around Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, CA)
 

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1940s high school memories--Falsies and Sen-sen; tiny squares of sticky parts of bandages to cover zits; while dancing closely fear of erections getting trapped in Levis; necker's knobs on steering wheels for one-handed driving while the date cuddled and shifted gears; tiny hand knitted Argyle socks (knitted by your steady) hanging from the rear view mirror; struggling against limits of curfews.

My specific high school generation was too late for Swing, too early for Rock and Roll, and in San Francisco we danced to pop singers while in the hotels the orchestras always concluded before a break with a rumbaa and samba.

The other contemporary music for my high school/college years was bebop, cool jazz and the emergence of Brubeck and his contemporaries plus the beginning of commercial folk music. Gateway Singers and Kingston Trio.
 

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I remember going to the penny candy store. I used to buy those candy necklaces.

Can you buy ANYTHING for a penny now?
 

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  • Gidget and "beach" movies
  • Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs (beatniks in general)
  • Where I was when JFK was shot
  • Beatles versus the Rolling Stones
  • Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and platinum hair everywhere (other parts of note, too)
  • Clark Gable's ears
  • Joe E. Brown's mouth
  • Alfalfa's hair spike
  • W.C. Fields' attitude toward kids and dogs
And the submarine races were around Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, CA)

Submarine races reminded me of some good time. For those of us living in the city it was the Marina Greens, Inspiration Point, Twin Peaks, and Coit (aka coitus) Tower. Loved the privacy of foggy nights in a parked car.
 
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