Age Barometer - Page 2 - The Firearms Forum

Old Grump · 05-11-2012, 10:20 PM

Not only are all 25 very familiar to me I still have some Butch wax and a few of the ice cube trays with the levers. The little wax coke bottles are terrible and I don't know why we bought them but if we saw them we had to have one. Maybe because they were a penny and it was the only coke we could afford. The fake wax lips were better, we got more chewing time out of them. Better yet if we took our little red wagon and walked the mile to the grocery store by the time we got there we had picked up enough bottles to treat 3 or 4 of us brothers and sisters to something, it wasn't much but it made the walk home a little bit more fun.

Carne Frio · 05-11-2012, 10:33 PM

Who are Beanie and Cecil ? I remember the other 24 very well.

nstoolman1 · 05-12-2012, 12:53 AM

Beanie and Cecil was a Bob Clampet cartoon about a sea serpent(Cecil) and a young boy(Beanie).

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://e...LgyW2b8kGERNwg

68c15 · 05-12-2012, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 25yretcoastie

Tin foil on the rabbit ears only one or two channels

HA! we had 3 channels. NBC, CBS, and PBS. nener-nener-nener

I got 17 of them :sigh:

carver · 05-12-2012, 07:16 AM

Another old fart here; I rember them all! I remember the flies that were attracted to the light form the TV, one of my jobs was to kill them. When I started using a stopper gun to do the job, I got demoted! Seems the stoppers left rings on the screen!

25yretcoastie · 05-12-2012, 07:43 PM

Nickle for the large soda bottles and 2 cents for the small ones penny candie and 10 cent candy bars

Appliancedude · 05-12-2012, 09:01 PM

Crap I got 11. I was hoping to stay in the 10 and under bracket. One of these days cassette tapes and vhs is gonna be on that list. I still have a few customers that have those old metal ice trays

armedandsafe · 05-14-2012, 12:49 AM

I remember all those listed and the ones in the subsequent posts.

I also remember going to the store, buying a box of 22 long rifle cartridges and a box of wooden matches. I got in trouble for buying the matches.

Pops

Guts3d · 05-14-2012, 05:31 AM

I remember finding a quarter in the wash machine ( the one with two rollers that scared the bejeezus out of me ) and went to the corner store and bought a huge bag of penny candy and shared it with my sister. My mom found out and yelled at me for spending the money, I got zero credit for sharing!

carver · 05-14-2012, 07:27 AM

We used to ride our bikes to the General Comunity store, a couple of miles from our house. Along the way we would pick up soda bottles. We used the money from the bottles to buy ammo. 12ga shells cost a nickle each, didn't matter what size shot, and .22 ammo was 2 cents each. We felt like we were being taken advantage of because we were paying twice the amount we would have payed for the whole box! But we couldn't afford the whole box!

Curtis R · 05-14-2012, 06:29 PM

15 here

cycloneman · 05-14-2012, 06:46 PM

got 9 of them

Buckshot · 05-15-2012, 02:36 AM

Familiar with most all...remember 16 first-hand.

And remember when we trusted the evening news anchors? (Even if that damnable Cronkite turned out to be a closet progressive socialist.) Who remembers Huntley and Brinkley? Wow. It's official, I'm getting old.

When did that happen...

flyingtiger85 · 05-15-2012, 04:09 PM

Number 8,11,18 don't apply to me but I'm still less than half a century old.

Zane71464 · 05-15-2012, 05:01 PM

17 for me...dang, I didnt relise I was older than dirt?
(reckon' so)

mncarpenter · 05-15-2012, 06:38 PM

counted 16-I bought a Winchester model 94 at Woolco Dept store(kind of a grandaddy to Walmart) for 62.00 + sales tax. Tax was like 2 percent. White people still worked in the packing houses and my hometown had the largest stockyards in the world- now a massive parking lot littered with stores here and there. I went 2 years once without buying new license for my pick-up or even registering it, got picked up in it while driving drunk and the cop told me to go home,he'd be by in a few minutes to see if I made it...registering the truck after 2 years cost less than if I'd registered the truck when I bought it and paid for new tabs. We still walked the bean fields, and baled hay and stacked it in the barn. Most of our vegetables and fruit were canned by Mom or Grandma. I walked beans for 2 weeks to save enough money to buy a transistor radio. It came with a single earbud. A 340 Rupp was a mean snowmobile and the '59 Harley Panhead I bought a week after high school graduation was worth more when I sold it than when I bought it.You could knock the snot out of some kid it school, if he was messing with you, and no one would say much about it. You could buy Ripple for about .55 a bottle. Life was good.

ryan42 · 05-15-2012, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brass Tacks

not in our family. I was the remote control! put it on channel 3, turn the sound up a little. wasn't too busy, only 4 channels

Im with ya there brass,My dad used us as the remote and when we got our 1st vcr it was as big as a suitcase and the remote had a wire on it.

25yretcoastie · 05-15-2012, 07:41 PM

does anyone remember western union boys on bikes delevering telagrams or telatype machines

Shoobee · 05-15-2012, 07:44 PM

17 on the first list.

Actually the WW2 guys are now older than dirt technically speaking. I only know one guy like that and he is in our F&AMs lodge.

The Korean Conflict guys are almost as old as dirt.

The Viet Nam guys are not quiet as old as dirt.

Anyone since Viet Nam is not really old yet.

redmond · 05-20-2012, 09:51 AM

25 of 25 here. I guess that makes me petroleum.

The remote control issue wasn't much of a problem - we only had one channel. Did have to adjust the rabbit ears and volume as needed, though.

I did see recently that there is a new electronic device coming out - the console TV - now why didn't someone think of that before???

OK - it's got more than just a TV.

Skipper · 05-20-2012, 10:29 AM

Just a note; my Wife and I took a road trip along the full length of Route 66 last year. Before the trip, we got 2 cases of these; one orange, one strawberry.

Ain't nothin' like crusin' Route 66 sippin' on an Orange Crush!

http://www.beveragesdirect.com/Orange-Crush.aspx

Brass Tacks · 05-20-2012, 10:50 AM

I'm thinking more like a RC Cola and a Moon Pie

Skipper · 05-20-2012, 12:04 PM

Amen to that. By the way, we went through Siloam Springs to see my cousin on the way.

JohnHenry · 05-20-2012, 02:34 PM

I didn't even SEE a T.V. set until I was 12 .... in Michigan's U.P. ( where I grew-up )there were no broadcast channels.
First T.V. that ever I saw was on a visit to an uncle in the Detroit area .... I forget the make / model but, it was a T.V. with a round screen.

geds · 05-20-2012, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skipper

Just a note; my Wife and I took a road trip along the full length of Route 66 last year. Before the trip, we got 2 cases of these; one orange, one strawberry.

Ain't nothin' like crusin' Route 66 sippin' on an Orange Crush!

http://www.beveragesdirect.com/Orange-Crush.aspx

How cool! I've driven part of the route as an adult. How long did it take?

05-11-2012, 10:20 PM	#26
Old Grump Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Little hut in the woods near Blue River Wisconsin Posts: 2,320	Re: Age Barometer Not only are all 25 very familiar to me I still have some Butch wax and a few of the ice cube trays with the levers. The little wax coke bottles are terrible and I don't know why we bought them but if we saw them we had to have one. Maybe because they were a penny and it was the only coke we could afford. The fake wax lips were better, we got more chewing time out of them. Better yet if we took our little red wagon and walked the mile to the grocery store by the time we got there we had picked up enough bottles to treat 3 or 4 of us brothers and sisters to something, it wasn't much but it made the walk home a little bit more fun. __________________ "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."~~- Thomas Jefferson Roman Catholic, Life Member of American Legion, VFW, Wisconsin Libertarian party, Wi-FORCE, WGO, NRA, JPFO, GOA, SAFand CCRKBA

05-11-2012, 10:33 PM	#27
Carne Frio Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Near Fairbanks Posts: 702	Re: Age Barometer Who are Beanie and Cecil ? I remember the other 24 very well.

05-12-2012, 12:53 AM	#28
nstoolman1 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Southern Calif. Posts: 109	Re: Age Barometer Beanie and Cecil was a Bob Clampet cartoon about a sea serpent(Cecil) and a young boy(Beanie). http://www.google.com/url?q=http://e...LgyW2b8kGERNwg

05-12-2012, 07:16 AM	#30
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,552	Re: Age Barometer Another old fart here; I rember them all! I remember the flies that were attracted to the light form the TV, one of my jobs was to kill them. When I started using a stopper gun to do the job, I got demoted! Seems the stoppers left rings on the screen! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Last edited by carver; 05-12-2012 at 07:18 AM..

05-12-2012, 07:43 PM	#31
25yretcoastie Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Fort Pierce Fl Posts: 557	Re: Age Barometer Nickle for the large soda bottles and 2 cents for the small ones penny candie and 10 cent candy bars

05-12-2012, 09:01 PM	#32
Appliancedude Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The true northern Cal Posts: 1,610	Re: Age Barometer Crap I got 11. I was hoping to stay in the 10 and under bracket. One of these days cassette tapes and vhs is gonna be on that list. I still have a few customers that have those old metal ice trays __________________ It ain't broke it just lacks duct tape. The nice thing about opinions is everybody has one.

05-14-2012, 12:49 AM	#33
armedandsafe Former Guest Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Moses Lake, WA Posts: 10,344	Re: Age Barometer I remember all those listed and the ones in the subsequent posts. I also remember going to the store, buying a box of 22 long rifle cartridges and a box of wooden matches. I got in trouble for buying the matches. Pops

05-14-2012, 05:31 AM	#34
Guts3d V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 166	Re: Age Barometer I remember finding a quarter in the wash machine ( the one with two rollers that scared the bejeezus out of me ) and went to the corner store and bought a huge bag of penny candy and shared it with my sister. My mom found out and yelled at me for spending the money, I got zero credit for sharing! __________________ "I don't like the idea of gettin' shot in the hand" - Blackie from "Rustler's Rhapsody"

05-14-2012, 07:27 AM	#35
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,552	Re: Age Barometer We used to ride our bikes to the General Comunity store, a couple of miles from our house. Along the way we would pick up soda bottles. We used the money from the bottles to buy ammo. 12ga shells cost a nickle each, didn't matter what size shot, and .22 ammo was 2 cents each. We felt like we were being taken advantage of because we were paying twice the amount we would have payed for the whole box! But we couldn't afford the whole box! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

05-14-2012, 06:29 PM	#36
Curtis R V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: N.C. Posts: 289	Re: Age Barometer 15 here __________________

05-14-2012, 06:46 PM	#37
cycloneman Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Louisiana Posts: 7,437	Re: Age Barometer got 9 of them __________________ Who are you going to serve today?

05-15-2012, 02:36 AM	#38
Buckshot Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Southern AZ Posts: 918	Re: Age Barometer Familiar with most all...remember 16 first-hand. And remember when we trusted the evening news anchors? (Even if that damnable Cronkite turned out to be a closet progressive socialist.) Who remembers Huntley and Brinkley? Wow. It's official, I'm getting old. When did that happen... __________________ United States of America - Born July 4th, 1776 - Killed by 50 million brain-dead zombies November 6th, 2012 Mack: Shame what this town's come to. Charley Waite: You could do something about it. Mack: What? We're freighters. Ralph here's a shopkeeper. Charley Waite: You're men, ain't you? Mack: I didn't raise my boys just to see 'em killed. Charley Waite: Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying. - Open Range MOLON LABE Last edited by Buckshot; 05-15-2012 at 02:38 AM..

05-15-2012, 04:09 PM	#39
flyingtiger85 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Nevada Posts: 777	Re: Age Barometer Number 8,11,18 don't apply to me but I'm still less than half a century old.

05-15-2012, 05:01 PM	#40
Zane71464 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Ohio NRA Member Contributor Posts: 5,415	Re: Age Barometer 17 for me...dang, I didnt relise I was older than dirt? (reckon' so) __________________ Two Words; "Simple Man", song by Charlie Daniels sums up my thoughts on a "few things"!

05-15-2012, 06:38 PM	#41
mncarpenter V.I.P. Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Minnesota Contributor Posts: 480	Re: Age Barometer counted 16-I bought a Winchester model 94 at Woolco Dept store(kind of a grandaddy to Walmart) for 62.00 + sales tax. Tax was like 2 percent. White people still worked in the packing houses and my hometown had the largest stockyards in the world- now a massive parking lot littered with stores here and there. I went 2 years once without buying new license for my pick-up or even registering it, got picked up in it while driving drunk and the cop told me to go home,he'd be by in a few minutes to see if I made it...registering the truck after 2 years cost less than if I'd registered the truck when I bought it and paid for new tabs. We still walked the bean fields, and baled hay and stacked it in the barn. Most of our vegetables and fruit were canned by Mom or Grandma. I walked beans for 2 weeks to save enough money to buy a transistor radio. It came with a single earbud. A 340 Rupp was a mean snowmobile and the '59 Harley Panhead I bought a week after high school graduation was worth more when I sold it than when I bought it.You could knock the snot out of some kid it school, if he was messing with you, and no one would say much about it. You could buy Ripple for about .55 a bottle. Life was good. __________________ *"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."- Ronald Reagan* *"Remember to have your democrats neutered or spayed" -Ann Coulter*

05-15-2012, 07:41 PM	#43
25yretcoastie Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Fort Pierce Fl Posts: 557	Re: Age Barometer does anyone remember western union boys on bikes delevering telagrams or telatype machines

05-15-2012, 07:44 PM	#44
Shoobee Former Guest Join Date: May 2012 Location: Peoples Republik of Kalifornia Posts: 91	Re: Age Barometer 17 on the first list. Actually the WW2 guys are now older than dirt technically speaking. I only know one guy like that and he is in our F&AMs lodge. The Korean Conflict guys are almost as old as dirt. The Viet Nam guys are not quiet as old as dirt. Anyone since Viet Nam is not really old yet.

05-20-2012, 09:51 AM	#45
redmond Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 12	Re: Age Barometer 25 of 25 here. I guess that makes me petroleum. The remote control issue wasn't much of a problem - we only had one channel. Did have to adjust the rabbit ears and volume as needed, though. I did see recently that there is a new electronic device coming out - the console TV - now why didn't someone think of that before??? OK - it's got more than just a TV.

05-20-2012, 10:29 AM	#46
Skipper V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: People's Republic of Kalifornia Posts: 345	Re: Age Barometer Just a note; my Wife and I took a road trip along the full length of Route 66 last year. Before the trip, we got 2 cases of these; one orange, one strawberry. Ain't nothin' like crusin' Route 66 sippin' on an Orange Crush! http://www.beveragesdirect.com/Orange-Crush.aspx

05-20-2012, 10:50 AM	#47
Brass Tacks Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: NW Arkansas Posts: 557	Re: Age Barometer I'm thinking more like a RC Cola and a Moon Pie __________________ The Second Amendment, America's Original Homeland Security I don't know how I got over the hill without ever getting to the top.

05-20-2012, 12:04 PM	#48
Skipper V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: People's Republic of Kalifornia Posts: 345	Re: Age Barometer Amen to that. By the way, we went through Siloam Springs to see my cousin on the way.

05-20-2012, 02:34 PM	#49
JohnHenry Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Livingston county, Michigan Posts: 1,244	Re: Age Barometer I didn't even SEE a T.V. set until I was 12 .... in Michigan's U.P. ( where I grew-up )there were no broadcast channels. First T.V. that ever I saw was on a visit to an uncle in the Detroit area .... I forget the make / model but, it was a T.V. with a round screen. __________________ Freedom .... Is Never Free ! We need Term Limits .... Send the "Professional Politicians" home .