[Sca-cooks] Re:nostalgia-OT OOP

[Sudden Service #5]

    Well I may be a Grandpa, but there are some things I am not old enough
to remember.  Driveby shootings started in the '20s during Prohibition,
Gangs started even earlier & were just as violent then as now-just not as
well armed.  However, I do remember $.05 cokes & getting $.02 deposit back
for the bottles.  I remember $.15 loves of bread & going to the movies on
Base for $.25, buying cigarettes for Dad at the store for $5/carton.  I
remember the having signs  that said "Colored" explained to me.  The year I
got a microscope for Christmas instead of the telescope I wanted so I could
watch the Mercury 7 spacecrafts orbit the Earth.  When the guy who raised &
sold vegetables used to come through Nashville in a horse & wagon.  I
remember getting the first copy of Spiderman  & when McDonalds came to
Columbus, GA (we had KFC & Krystals already).  I was the first kid in the
neighborhood to get a skateboard.  I remember the Beetles coming to America
& watching "Gorgeous George"  & the Fargo Brothers wrestling on TV.  I
remember the Cuban Missile crisis, Ft. Benning was rumored to be one of the
targets. I remember skate keys & when they sold street skates that fitted on
your shoes.  Playing in my Zorro (it was my first sword) & Daniel Boon
outfits. I was sitting on the concrete around the base of the flag pole when
I asked the Principle came out & I asked her why she was crying, she said
"they shot Kennedy".  I was in a Cub Scout meeting when they came to get the
assistant Den Mother-there was a notification team waiting to tell her that
her husband was one of the first advisors killed in Viet Nam.   I remember
reading an Army Training manual on how to survive a Nuke attack.  I nearly
got trampled when Johnson visited Ft Benning, the day he made the speech
where he quoted a GI who wrote to him on the C-rats box.  I built a model of
a bomb shelter for a school science project.  I was a freshman in High
School in Kaiserslautern Germany when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in
'69.  They integrated the GA school system when I was in 10th grade.  I
voted for Nixon in my first election, because I believed him when he said he
would end the War.  I turned 18 the year they changed the drinking age in GA
& the County became wet.  They ended the Draft the year I was eligible.  I
was at Boot Camp when 7 of the Aldays, some neighbors from down the road
were killed & the fall of Saigon.  I was in the Control Room of the USS
Finback SSN 670 when Cat Futch danced topless on the port fairwater plane
leaving Port Canaveral.  I was on a Northern Run when Carter made the
campaign promise to legalize Pot.  I was working for Satellite Business
Systems when Ma' Bell was broken up & the Iranians took hostages.  I was in
St. Louis when Regan was shot.  I was at lunch when the Challenger exploded.
I remember playing 99 records & 33 1/3's.   I remember playing "Pong" for
the first time the year my oldest daughter was born.
Pax,
Olaf of Trollhiemsfjord

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> Subject: [Sca-cooks] nostalgia-OT OOP
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> OK, guys. I know there are others out there who remember buying 1# loaves
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> f doughy white bread @ 12 for $1?
> When going to the movies took a quarter, and you could get a soda or
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> n, too?
> No PC's, CD's, or even 8 track tapes? TV was only black and white? No
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> kers? No McDonalds or other hamburger chains? No cussing, nudity or
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> ve violence in movies? No gangs? No drive-by shootings? No one cussed,
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> rce was frowned upon? Etc.  I'm not saying times were better. I was
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> lly and emotionally abused as a child. But overall, I think I'd rather go
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> ack to when "you can't tell a book by it's cover." People were judged by
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> eir actions, not their social status or bank account. People who returned
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> allets with money still in them and refused a reward was normal, not
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>  for the evening news.  Never mind, I'm probably in the minority now.
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>  been laughed at for returning excess change to the Walmart cashier - "she
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> made the mistake, it was really your money!" Nope, not my way.
> OBC - I miss being able to eat full-fat cheeses and real butter, bacon,
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> ces and other high fat foods without worrying about cholesterol, heart
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> ase or bypass surgery. If I die young, I will die happy!
> Liadan Arendell