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Post by SuperDaveGulvak on Aug 5, 2012 6:03:31 GMT -6
I remember newer things from my past but I will say the world is degrading at a rapid rate- values, respect & don't forget common sense. I am happy to be alive & love my country but will not shed a tear when we & the rest of the world crash into the ground. I feel that the only way the phoenix of humanity may rise is from the ashes of the sewer we call a world now. Don't mean to be a downer just saying my thoughts & 2 cents on the past. And in saying that I may not like todays world but I wouldn't go back if I could the past is just that & I look forward to the future no matter what it may bring.
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Post by larrball on Aug 7, 2012 1:43:55 GMT -6
Love this thread JR. I remember almost all of this. I also sold Grit as a kid, had about 25-30 people i sold them too. One older man Mr. Fisher i will never forget every time i came by we would look at it together and talk for about 30 to 45 min's.. He was about 60 at the time. Had that Grit toke bag as well. A time when they would send you as many as you thank you will sell.. no up front cost, no tricks,scams or BS. A good way to help instill responsibility and made you feel like a real businessman. A REAL newspaper that just about anyone could find something he/she would like... even a 10 year old.
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Post by JR on Aug 7, 2012 6:55:32 GMT -6
Yes Larrball that was what it was like. Myself with my dad taking them to work and my route I sold about 75 of them weekly. He would put them in the lunchroom and the man taking money for meals would just drop the dimes in a cup. I could have sold more there but there was another kid's dad who brought them to work and he gave us both equal opportunities to sell.
Yes I had a lot of elderly customers and since they all knew me and my family I would always have to asnwer questions like is your mama coming to the PTA meeting this week or tell your grandpa I need a new axe handle next time he comes this way, etc. My grandpa was a expert wood worker especailly from fresh cut timber. He would cut select hickory trees and hand fashions handles of all kinds, axe, hammer, hoe, rake even a pick handle. They were straight and durable. There were floor beams in his house that he cut out with a broad axe and hand draw knife.
Also I had a coin collector on my route and he bought two papers, one for himslef and another for his mother. He also was always glad to see me because I would always have a few lady head dimes, buffalo nickles and wheat back pennies and he would buy them from me. 5 cents for the pennies, 10 cents for the nickels, and 15 cents for the dimes.
Man how I wish I had just kept them!
Trivia questions?
I'm sure Wolf will beat me on these but I'll ask anyway.
(1) What is the cheapest every day soda pop you remember? ( don't count the cheap grocery store canned ones) (2) What is the cheapest price you remember to mail a letter or a post card? (3) What was the cheapest price you remember gasoline?
JR
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Post by jct842 on Aug 7, 2012 9:37:04 GMT -6
I was 10 in 52 I came down with polio, stamps were 3 cents, pop was less than a dime depending on the stores though some did charge a dime in a machine, my first recollection of gas was 17 to 20.9 a gal. Even when I got out of the navy in 63 gas wars kept gas at 17.9 and it went as high as 28.9 regular price. john
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Post by JR on Aug 7, 2012 11:40:23 GMT -6
I can remember all that too John I was 6 in 52. So we can both remember this;
Not just the show but the war itself.
JR
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Post by jct842 on Aug 7, 2012 14:24:26 GMT -6
A friend just sent a link in one of them forwarded emails of a vj day parade in Hawaii. shows a lot of clips but there is one part for me hard to believe. there is what looks like the rear of a 50s lambretta. vespa and lambretta were basicly a after the war product. a cusman rear end is more square. I may send the link to one of the antique scooter clubs and see if they can identify the brown and yellow scooter about at 1:30 in video. To me it is just totally out of place, the rest looks real.
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Post by JR on Aug 7, 2012 14:44:43 GMT -6
Awesome video John! Did you see people riding on everything! You do that today and they'll put you in jail!
I really couldn't tell on the scooter either.
JR
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Post by wolfhound on Aug 7, 2012 19:59:51 GMT -6
Loved that video. I had turned 9 in May before VJ day on 8/14/45. I remember the celebrations on VE and VJ days on Patton Ave. in Asheville., NC. OK, JR, jhere is your answers the best that I can recall. Royal Crown Cola in a 12 oz botthe was 5 cents. Post cards were a penny and regular mail was 3 cents. Cheapest gas that I can remember was 17 cents a gallon. In the 40s colas were not in cans. John was born in 42, JR was born in 46, and I was born in 36. I am sure that there are others here who are as old or older than we are. John and I were kids during the war. Every thing that was old will be new again.
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Post by larrball on Aug 10, 2012 2:29:03 GMT -6
I'm not that old.. yet. But i do remember having a few Crown Cola's, and if candy and icee pop's where to be had, well mom can make them when she makes a few loves of wheat bread. Tough times, i would not trade and would pay a better dime to have back.Fresh homemade bread and churned butter?-- there is no, not even one compersion to that .. not in any store bought i've tasted. Now I grew up in the country and we only went "to town" about every 2 weeks-- to the coop (MFA coop -Columbia Mo) for supply's. But that was ok because we as kid's didnt have time for all that in town stuff.. we had a NEW tree fort to work on, and this time we need it to be higher then 50'.. too much gravel dust from trucks at 50'.
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Post by larrball on Aug 10, 2012 2:32:27 GMT -6
Oh ya you cant let your kid's do that now.. no tree looking...lol. or you go to jail.
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Post by wolfhound on Aug 10, 2012 4:29:57 GMT -6
Larbell, fresh milk and butter!!! Those were the days. We bought ours from a neighbor. My mom would make fresh biscuits and that butter plus a litle grape jam was delicious.
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