She was and still is the Cat’s Meow.
The Official "Showing Your Age" Thread
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Grade one in Canada. President Kennedy was shot and the nuns sent us home from school.
The first TV Show I remember. Watched it on an old Arvin TV. Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob and Clarabell.
Lord just looking at Clarabelle makes me think "serial killer".
This is the kind of car my parents drove when I was small.
I almost managed to kill myself when I was around 18 months old, because I was sitting unsecured in the front passenger seat while my mother was driving, and opened the door to look out. Got a good 20mph look at the crushed pea gravel that made up the surface of South Indiana Avenue in West Bend, Wis. that day before my mother hauled me back in. Kids can't do things like that anymore.
I almost managed to kill myself when I was around 18 months old, because I was sitting unsecured in the front passenger seat while my mother was driving, and opened the door to look out. Got a good 20mph look at the crushed pea gravel that made up the surface of South Indiana Avenue in West Bend, Wis. that day before my mother hauled me back in. Kids can't do things like that anymore.
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I took my first driving test to get my license in a Buick just like that
When people talk about a Space Shuttle blowing up, I think about the school teacher on board.
I traveled cross country riding in the back of the truck on bench seat from a station wagon.
Thanks for the link!My first (and only) bike was a Birmingham Small Arms Co. folding paratrooper's bike. Here's a link to an article about it.
The British Paratroopers Who Parachuted Into Enemy Territory with Folding Bicycles
The BSA Airborne Paratrooper Bicycle was carried by British soldiers who landed on D-Day and in many other conflicts during World War II.www.popularmechanics.com
I'm showing my age, because I don't think today's cars can hold a candle to that one. Purely beautiful.
The year before I was able to drink in Texas, they upped the drinking age to 19.
Used to ride in the back of a pickup on the wheel humps as a child.
Never heard of a bicycle helmet as a kid.
Would get home from school with no one to supervise me.
There were 5 VHF channels and 1 UHF channel in DFW area.
My first computer was an Atari 400.
Used to ride in the back of a pickup on the wheel humps as a child.
Never heard of a bicycle helmet as a kid.
Would get home from school with no one to supervise me.
There were 5 VHF channels and 1 UHF channel in DFW area.
My first computer was an Atari 400.
Star Raiders!
this but with slip on shoes LOL
Would defeat the purpose if you had to bend down and tie them!
When I was a kid (Canada) there was no KFC. Colonel Saunders sold his KFC franchise in the states, moved to Canada and started Scott’s Chicken Villa. It later became KFC.
Yup . . . met the good Colonel at a Mississauga Scott's when I was a young lad. He funded a significant portion of the Trillium Healthcare Centre in that City.
It was 1972. I was 14. And a boot boy. (Skinhead with long hair for the uninitiated...)
Now I’m a skinhead thanks to nature rather than the barber. And grown up. Still, the boot boy spirit sometimes lives on ...
Now I’m a skinhead thanks to nature rather than the barber. And grown up. Still, the boot boy spirit sometimes lives on ...
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Excluding my wife of 50+ years, my longest crush is my avatar, Musidora, from the 1915, 7 hour, French silent film "Les Vampires". Greta Garbo is also in the running.
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