O/T I remember......

Boy do you have that right slowflapper, all the police lived in the same town as you did,
Get pulled over for having to much to drink you had two options , either drive straight home or they would drive you home,

We were all drunk as skunks.. cops would pour out your beer and told you to go home!! LOL Inner city streets of Detroit in the 70's.

Thats What Happened to =DETROIT!! NO BEER!!  

A100 Wrench wrote:Rotary phones and only one usally in the hall or kitchen.

Do you remember the party line? Always hated when someone else was using it.

BillyBlaze wrote:Free love without fear of death....

I don't remember 'free love'..... it always ended up costing plenty either up front or later....

Going to New England Dragway with my buddies and eating burgers that tasted like they scraped them off the track after burnouts! Burgers were lousy but the Drag Racing more than made up for it!

The one cop in your town that was a Barney Fife.

Finding a dollar and you were rich

driving through town with open headers and slicks and the cops pretending to look the other way

phone booths 10 cents a call.and yes,they were rotary dial.two 'dings' from a bell as you dropped in the dime.

heres one being able to take your old light bulbs back to edison an get new one free

Most TV's were B/W as were the shows... After watching it year after year as a little one, I was shocked to learn most of the Wizard of OZ was in color!   

all we had were 3 tv stations and only watched it Saturday morning for speed racer and Sunday night for bonanza, most of the time I was outside playing till dark, no I phones or computers,

You hit it there we were always outside doing something building forts in the woods, riding bike all over the town putting baseball cards in spokes to make  them sound like motorcycles balloons and you sounded like a Harley then came the mini bikes and then the vans boy we had a blast back then

telephone booths

Speaking of old phones, once a few of us went down to the mall and we bought a bag of postachios and we took the empty shells and put them in the change return of the phones. One of the mall security guys saw us sitting on the benches and asked if we had seen who might have put shells in the phones and we said we didn't see anyone. Every last one of us had purple lips and fingertips from the shells...I guess Paul Blart didn't notice!

how about the old peddle cars

I had the fire chef pedal car

Dial tones.


My neighbor was telling me about how his granddaughter was visiting and there was an ad on the radio where part of the gag was thge caller hung up and you heard the 'beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep' of the dial tone. His granddaughter had no idea what that sound was. She had always used a cell phone, her mom and dad didn't even have a land line in the house.

I pulled away and ripped one off, scratched my car too,,

Sadly, they just closed the last of 3 drive-ins in our area