🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

[Anonymous]

👍Tell us about YOUR "good old days"......

BORN: Age 50 - 1973, Age 60 - 1963, Age 70 - 1953, Age 80 - 1943, Age 90 - 1933, Age 100 - 1923.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Back in the "good ole days" everything wasn't fun. This is one of them.

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

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[SereneSeagull]

Collector’s item now!

[papawofboo]

After its first job had played out it then became a door stop.

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 During my single digit years I wore one on each hip to the Roy Rogers double feature every Saturday..

[MsStretch]

We used to just take the ribbon of caps and pop them with rocks.  Sorta like bubble wrap. 😁

[SereneSeagull]

Did the same.  Can still smell that smell too by looking at pic

[papawofboo]

Sure did, had a belt with 2 holsters, also had a rifle.

Did the hammer thing also

[OlderWiser7s]

Oh the smell and freedom of those.  And then when feeling especially adventurous, we'd take an entire roll and hit it with a hammer for the biggest bang.  

[LisaS961881]

…..Yes! 

        We would flatten the roll out on the sidewalk or curb, and smash each “spot” with a rock - - just for a whiff of that acrid smell, a glimpse of a spark or a tendril of white smoke, but most of all, for that  “BANG!”

…..talk about a perfect summer day - doing this, playing kickball, spotting a praying mantis, or a snake sunning itself on a rock, or a pair of toads, hearing the sound of the Good Humor truck, then patting the quarter in your pocket in anticipation, racing bikes, ….all capped with a dusk filled with lightning bugs and hand-held sparklers !

   ~ Lisa 🙋🩵 💥 

[MsStretch]

@LisaS961881 , yes! to all of the above and also playing dodgeball, catching grasshoppers and tadpoles, and for sure, the Good Humor truck. 🍦

[SereneSeagull]

Run as fast as you can too, to catch hm.  Sometimes I swear he was  pretending that he didn’t see us so we’d have to run further!

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

Yes!  Don’t know what happened to them?

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

This was our first family car!

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Many times.

[LisaS961881]

    I wanted to share this!  Of course everyone knows what it is, but do you remember the sound that it made when you opened the barn door?

     ~ Lisa 🐴 🐈‍⬛ 😊 🐓 

[DaveMcK]

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[papawofboo]

Looks like a single blade pocketknife, use to whittle a lot with mine, but never could make anything except a spear.

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

Many a summer retreat was had. Loved A&W root beer and a PAPA burger with fries. 

[DaveMcK]

Remember when we did Air Raid Drills in School back in the 1950's