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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #30 on: March 10, 2009, 07:08:42 AM »
How about when every kid had a knife,and no one in school got stabbed.
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #31 on: March 10, 2009, 07:24:38 AM »
the Sadie Hawkins...    I got "the invite" every year, ...always the ugliest girl

Why do you think the home made likker was so popular when I was growin up!   ::)
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« Reply #32 on: March 10, 2009, 03:30:58 PM »
  Yup!

    My childhood years..radio was king..TV only came in my mid teens..then only about 5-6 hours a day.
   
  Banana seat bikes for my neices & nephews..I had a bike I built from scavanged parts,
   
  no plastic handlebar streamers..but a coon tail from the back of the TROXEL seat..
 
  Starter button on the floor, gearshift on the column..until they went back on the floor.

  Don't miss replacing points every 12K though..

  Ice skating on the farm pond..doing great,...till my skate hits a stone imbedded in the ice..

  Playing "pull the bag" or "pull the tire"..

  Smoking corn silk..

  Swimmin hole..no "cement pond" for us..


  Oh yes..apologies to Abner's momma..she was not Sadie Hawkins; this was Sadie Hawkins:
  So now you know why they had to arrange a day for lonesome girls..

   
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #33 on: March 10, 2009, 04:04:21 PM »
AtlLaw, hadn't thought about rabbit tobac in many years

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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2009, 04:50:29 AM »
  OPK..What's rabbit tabac ? I'm guessing it is a southern replacement for corn silk...
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2009, 01:08:57 PM »
Down here rabbit tabac is a small plant looks similar to tabac plant only very small. Dried and smoked made u see funny.

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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #36 on: March 12, 2009, 01:57:44 AM »
leaves turn sorta silver when dry
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« Reply #37 on: March 12, 2009, 03:51:16 AM »
I've heard rabbit tobac referred to as Everlasting. In the folklore, the Indians around these parts used to use (smoke it) it to drive off bad spirits and bad dreams, or something like that. It could also be used as medicine for ailing respiratory systems.
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #38 on: March 12, 2009, 05:25:42 AM »
Good stuff!

But I'm sure I'm not old enough to remember any of it..................

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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #39 on: March 12, 2009, 10:48:37 AM »
 that rabbit tabac reminds me of another old Indian remedy. My dad was in the 1950s, suffering from sinus problems. An
   old Indian friend told him to take mullein weed (mullein weed grows somewhat tall like corn and has fuzzy leaves), dry it, crumble it up and put it in a saucer.light it up and inhale the smoke. He did, and never had sinus problems again.
    Twenty five years later my preacher was having a terrible bout with sinus, I told him about the cure and even gave him some dried mullein weed from my hay storage area. He tried it once, and than decided to quit the treatment. I asked him why he stopped and he confessed that if anyone saw him sniffing mullein weed smoke to cure sinus they wouldn't understand, and it would not go easy on his credibility.. :D

    My Dad introduced several of his co-workers to the cure also...what a difference 25 years makes
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« Reply #40 on: March 12, 2009, 11:19:02 AM »
Many folk tales have been generated about how young boys began smoking. It seems that boys in the country always began smoking by experimenting with the dried leaves of a weed called “rabbit tobacco.” Some boys smoked, or said they smoked, a dried piece of cross vine. I tried smoking cross vine once – and only once. When I inhaled the smoke, it felt as if I were on fire from my nasal passage to the last lobe of my lungs.

A boy progressed from smoking rabbit tobacco to copping a cigarette or two from an open pack left around the house by an unsuspecting uncle or older brother. As the story is often told, those smoking behind the barn were usually caught by a mother of father or were “told on” by a younger child who was not included in the surreptitious smoking. When the story of “behind the barn” smoking is told, no one ever escapes punishment. Privileges were denied or whippings were administered.

It is not an exaggeration to say that 50 or 60 years ago cigarettes, or any other form of tobacco for that matter, could be bought and used almost anywhere. Smoking areas were even designated on school grounds. High school boys usually gathered during recess to have a quick cigarette around the “smoking tree.”

And they call those the "good old days."  Looking back I wish I had never been exposed to some of the evils I experienced as a youth.  I don't think snoking was totally the caause for my by-pass, but it was a contributing factor.  Smoking can surely be linked to my wife's COPD and her being tied to an oxygen tank.  I am sure the kids of today will look back later in life and have simular thoughts.

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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #41 on: March 12, 2009, 11:25:51 AM »
  I tried cornsilk and even driftwood as a youngster..but I sure didn't even think of inhaling. Back about 40 years ago, I completed (and quit) a ten year span of smoking a pipe. Never did inhale though..hated the feeling of taking smoke into my lungs. I'm am glad now that I never liked the inhaling idea.
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #42 on: March 12, 2009, 01:51:50 PM »
grandpaws arthoritis wouldn't let him roll his smokes so i did it for him and he always gave me one or 2
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #43 on: March 12, 2009, 03:00:58 PM »
I was never scolded for smoking, even as a small child.
All of use used some form of tobacco on a rather irregular basis thru the years.
I never felt any guilt about doing it in my mothers presence.
I did not start smoking regularly until my last year of high school.
I did stop for ten years once---most miserable 10 years I ever spent.
I still like chewing.
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« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2009, 03:08:24 PM »
...And you seem to be doing OK, Bill ! :D
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #45 on: March 12, 2009, 04:11:29 PM »
AMOS & ANDY and KINGFISH.
Try making a tv show like that now a days!

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starter buttons on the floor board of the car

vacume wipers

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everyone you see on the street knows you or knew your dad by name and it was mostly preceaded by Mr.!

The soda pop being a nickle and don't forget the two cent deposit on the bottle!

who had seatbelts?

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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #46 on: March 13, 2009, 03:57:02 PM »
Any of you guys remember the gas pumps with the glass jar(s) on top that you pumped up yourself??
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #47 on: March 13, 2009, 04:11:57 PM »
  I can barely remember them..but the ones I saw were no longer being used. i do remember the pumps that had a little glass jar or ball in the face (dial) iof the pump, so you could see the gasoline coming through the pump.
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« Reply #48 on: March 16, 2009, 04:51:25 AM »
yep ! saw um but not in use
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #49 on: March 16, 2009, 05:56:02 AM »
How about the glass oil bottles with the tin spouts?
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« Reply #50 on: March 16, 2009, 07:13:31 AM »
bulk oil ! used them , when gas was .179 a gal ( gas war )
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #51 on: March 16, 2009, 11:58:53 PM »
Does anyone really know the reason for the little visible glass container on the pump and on the car. remember the ones on the motor?
Hint: Drip Gas.
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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #52 on: March 17, 2009, 12:49:35 AM »
The big glass container on the pump was a measure. You pumped the gas up into it,by hand, until it reached whatever mark you wanted and then let it gravity flow into the car. The little glass bowl on the motor was a sediment bowl. It was an old way of filtering the gas that you cleaned yourself. They were glass so you could supposedly see if there was water in there and you could clean it. They were always too dirty to see through though.

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Re: One for we "old geezers"..
« Reply #53 on: March 17, 2009, 02:02:42 AM »
Seems everyone there is so old, we don't buy green banana's
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