Ahh, The Good Old Days

[was thatguy]

We had a small neighborhood store. Back in the 1980's, small stores would sell cigarettes to kids for their parents. We'd buy our candy and cigarettes there and hang out on the beach across the street. Or go to a huge park nearby. We had zero adult supervision, probably how I started smoking at eleven.

Found a picture of the store. Fun times. There is still a store there, but they built a new building a few years ago. Good times except the cigarette smoking part!

Yep. We’d buy cigs at the quick stop near our house when we were in 3rd- 4th grade. Then they cracked down and we needed notes from our parents...which we promptly forged.
Once we were like 14-15 or so we would literally have to be gone for 2-3 days before any parents would even notice. No big deal, we’d be at a friends house or whatever for a few days. School days no different.
Summertime we were out the door on our bicycles by 6AM or so. See ya!
Could be days before we finally posted at home just to change clothes.

 

[boatdoc55]

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To this day I wear a scar on my ankle from these man eaters.

 

[boatdoc55]

Remember my mom in the belts at Kinder's Camp and back bay Newport.

 

[DRYHEAT]

Yeah, and pull your boats in enclosed trailers. What has the world come too.

Putting a boat in an enclosed trailer seems to make a lot more sense than putting dirt bikes and side-by-side‘s that you’re going to ride in the dirt into an enclosed trailer.

 

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[KENDOG689]

The young guys are going WTF is that...

 

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[4Waters]

The young guys are going WTF is that...

They are trying to figure out how to dial it. My mother-in-law still has one and my kids 11 and 7 years old know how to use it.

 

[4Waters]

My kids will learn how to drive one of these as well.

 

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OK OK LAST ONE FOR TODAY.............................

 

[Taboma]

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And for you youngsters who don’t have a clue on what a “ Church key “ is

Thanks to a gift from my older cousin, I had the US Army version --- P38, yeah baby I could eat beans with my beer

 

[H20 Toie]

KMET and the parties they would have near sherman way and reseda in the morning, go there before work, damn that was a fun time, i remember a toga party and the best costume contest, one girl didnt have the best costume but she lifted it up to show everyone that there was nothing underneath, she won

 

[RCDave]

I remember rotary dial tv sets with tubes. Black and white too

 

[dryhoze1]

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Jerry.
This picture is awesome!
Love mom and kids all dressed up & pops in a T-shirt..

 

[MOUZER]

as a kid 1 xmas we all got a small black and white tv for r bedrooms..it was the coolest i was cool tv in my room

 

[KENDOG689]

They are trying to figure out how to dial it. My mother-in-law still has one and my kids 11 and 7 years old know how to use it.

There is a vid on youtube. of teens trying to figure it out.I was lmao

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

OK OK LAST ONE FOR TODAY.............................

Lol we didn’t have a red ball so we use a basket ball ouch

 

[4Waters]

There is a vid on youtube. of teens trying to figure it out.I was lmao

 

[monkeyswrench]

My parents were old school, you had to drive a stick if you were going to drive. Pops had a CDL, and his logic was pretty good, if you could drive a clutch, you could always find a car. Also, if you had a CDL and kept clean, you could always find work. How the hell do parents my age raise these snowflakes? Hell, car-jackers can't drive a stick now?!

 

[KENDOG689]

Pop rocks candy and a soda....

 

[bowtiejunkie]

You could walk over to your friend's house, without scheduling a month in advance.

Driving a dune buggy with a manual trans before age 10 was just another day in a desert town.

Riding your bike solo or with friends all over the desert, the town, down to the River and swim without a life vest, was a normal way of life.

If Mom wanted us home, she'd blow Grandpa's WWII whistle. If the whistle blew a 3rd time and you weren't in sight, your ass was getting the wood spoon.

You could roll out late at night with your friends, all dressed in camouflage, with toy guns (the realistic variety), bust into school grounds and claim mission accomplished without getting arrested.

You messed up at school, the Principal had first crack at your ass with his paddle (and it had holes in it of course).

 

[MOUZER]

You could walk over to your friend's house, without scheduling a month in advance.

Driving a dune buggy with a manual trans before age 10 was just another day in a desert town.

Riding your bike solo or with friends all over the desert, the town, down to the River and swim without a life vest, was a normal way of life.

If Mom wanted us home, she'd blow Grandpa's WWII whistle. If the whistle blew a 3rd time and you weren't in sight, your ass was getting the wood spoon.

You could roll out late at night with your friends, all dressed in camouflage, with toy guns (the realistic variety), bust into school grounds and claim mission accomplished without getting arrested.

You messed up at school, the Principal had first crack at your ass with his paddle (and it had holes in it of course).

oh ya i got the swat from are wood shop teacher all the time.........paddle with holes n it

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

oh ya i got the swat from are wood shop teacher all the time.........paddle with holes n it

Georgia just brought this back , take the swat or 5 days expelling

 

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I was born in 89. I remember drinking out of the hose at the barn, peeing in bushes, riding my bike all day, bike jumps made of plywood and stacked bricks then jumping over the neighborhood kids, boogie boarding down carpet stairs, using a skateboard deck to ride down dirt hills, riding in the bed of a truck in Ca, yelling "car" when playing in the street, filling squirt guns with gutter water, Dukes of Hazzard was on TNN, racing to the bike jumps after school because someone was going to attempt the big jump and we only showed up to see them eat shit.
What I see people bring with them on the lake and river goes over my head. I'm still stuck on boring I guess. Beer, music, and enough gas for the day is all I bring.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

So ? Raised on a sheep farm

 

[92 cole]

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My kids will learn how to drive one of these as well.

The first car my kids drove was a stick in a baja bug down in san felipe. ON THE beach and road. They were only about 10 and 12 so I told them to stay in camp and let them go. M

 

[RCDave]

Dr. Evil!!!

 

[92 cole]

Thanks to a gift from my older cousin, I had the US Army version --- P38, yeah baby I could eat beans with my beer
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Back in those days in the military that was known as a John Wayne, you could open a can of beans and a beer in 2 moves. Just like a church key.

 

[bowtiejunkie]

oh ya i got the swat from are wood shop teacher all the time.........paddle with holes n it

Yep, that’s it! Hurt good. I’m sure a modern day principal would be arrested and career would be over for swatting a kid today.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

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Jerry.
This picture is awesome!
Love mom and kids all dressed up & pops in a T-shirt..

Back before everyone became so high maintenance.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

 

[Go-Fly]

Thanks to a gift from my older cousin, I had the US Army version --- P38, yeah baby I could eat beans with my beer
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My family made those and the Jeep kits during the war. We also made light bulbs. If they didn't break, they are still burning today. Two poor thought out business plans.

 

[4Waters]

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I've got that ski, thinking about selling it. It's a work of art, beautiful.

 

[Yellowboat]

Not always! We have one now. View attachment 681172

Compared too the many I went off as a kid that looks super strong... We tried building one out of cardboard and duct tape, worked great until jump 4.

 

[grumpy88]

I grew up with almost all of the above . The one thing I don't understand today is the sports in tbe street . Did people not care about there cars back in the 80s ? The neighbor kid shoots hoops in his driveway and all i can think of is a dent in my truck ! We played football or stickball in the street with 15 cars parked along the curb and not one guy outside freaking out . Different times I guess

 

[Sharp Shooter]

Compared too the many I went off as a kid that looks super strong... We tried building one out of cardboard and duct tape, worked great until jump 4.

Yeah, I remember using whatever was available as a kid. Usually went with the cinder block with the plywood ramp just sitting on it.

We soon realized finding an empty field that you could shovel a dirt ramp out of worked better. lol

 

[Yellowboat]

Yeah, I remember using whatever was available as a kid. Usually went with the cinder block with the plywood ramp just sitting on it.

We soon realized finding an empty field that you could shovel a dirt ramp out of worked better. lol

Having family in construction, there was no way in hell I was going to get caught shoveling.

 

[KENDOG689]

I would build landing ramps as well and keep moving it back each time till the big fail would happen.

 

[spectra3279]

Back then cars were made of steel. Not beer cans.

I grew up with almost all of the above . The one thing I don't understand today is the sports in tbe street . Did people not care about there cars back in the 80s ? The neighbor kid shoots hoops in his driveway and all i can think of is a dent in my truck ! We played football or stickball in the street with 15 cars parked along the curb and not one guy outside freaking out . Different times I guess

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[grumpy88]

Back then cars were made of steel. Not beer cans.

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Not the paint . I get your point though

 

[DrunkenSailor]

I grew up with almost all of the above . The one thing I don't understand today is the sports in tbe street . Did people not care about there cars back in the 80s ? The neighbor kid shoots hoops in his driveway and all i can think of is a dent in my truck ! We played football or stickball in the street with 15 cars parked along the curb and not one guy outside freaking out . Different times I guess

We always played in the street. Baseballs, footballs, street hockey balls and pucks flying around almost daily. It was the bikes that did the real damage though. I think I hit more parked cars on my bike than I broke windows with a ball. Turning around to talk trash on the friends crashed into a parked Honda left a nice little crease on the hood. Wanted to fly a kite but no wind. Tied it to the bike left a body shaped dent in the side of a motorhome. Went off a jump and got wiggly on the landing broke the mirror off a Toyota and left a handlebar scratch down the side. Funny people started to park their cars in their driveways and garages more often on my street.

 

[Just Ducky]

I remember that crap.It must have worked cuz I never got a serious infection and I had many visits with Mr. road rash. Skateboards bikes and surfboards.Worst one was Having the side of my foot ripped open by a surfboard fin.Ever try and get across a sandy beach with a big flap of meat hanging off your foot trying not to get sand in it.Not gonna happen and you get to emergency room and get to put your meat flap foot into a bucket of surgical soap and water.Then the intern guy scrubs the sand out of it with a brush and local anesthetic that does nothing.Then they determine its not clean enough and do it again before finally stitching it up.Left a pretty cool scar though.Tell the chicks you did it on the reef in Hawaii.

 

[KENDOG689]

Riding one time a few blocks to my house on my buddies vw running boards,hit a bump and ran over my foot.Took half the skin off the top of it.Next weekend went the beach and thought I was good being wraped up......But no.Got super infected and back to the doc again.

 

[Chili Palmer]

I really miss when sports figures and celebrities didn't make stupid political statements.

 

[SBMech]

I really miss when sports figures and celebrities didn't make stupid political statements.

It was like they realized that their income depended on the audience...