I do remember those days. I would love for my boys to know those days too.. I grew up in North Texas in a wood floor house and one swamp cooler air conditioner. I was lucky it was actually in my bed room.. I still love that smell. It was probably mold but I loved it. You would go to bed hot and wake up cold with damp sheets. In the winter you would just stack quilts on the bed and crawl in under 50 pounds of cotton..
Excellent post, BurkLee!
+1. Really good Burk.
Keep them up guys, I love hearing all the old nostalgia. We might not be able to go back physically, but when I read these posts, it takes me back at some level. Maybe we can impart some of what we went through, learned and achieved on to the next gens.
Remember taping playing cards to the forks of your bike to make the flapping noise? Remember fighting with your sibling over who could ride under the back window in your parents 4 door car or who could sit in the very back of the station wagon, the seat that faced backwards? Remember S&H green stamps? The kids would all sit and lick the stamps to fill the books. Man, those were the best times!
Forgot to mention I miss trading Yu Gi Oh cards on my friends porch. Playing freeze tag in the neighborhood. Times were so good back then that we could hide ANYWHERE. We could hide in peoples backyards and even in some of their houses.
Outstanding Burk!
A Friday Night payday treat when I was very young and my sister just an infant, was dad would go to the store, get a bag of chips, some french onion dip, and 3 bottles of coke. We'd watch the B/W TV and pig out. Didn't happen too often because there wasn't money in the budget for that sort of extravagance.
A Friday Night payday treat when I was very young and my sister just an infant, was dad would go to the store, get a bag of chips, some french onion dip, and 3 bottles of coke. We'd watch the B/W TV and pig out. Didn't happen too often because there wasn't money in the budget for that sort of extravagance.
That reminds me of cheap taco night that Taco Tico used to have way back in the late 70's / early 80's. We didn't put in our order and get all picky, Dad just showed up home from work with a big old bag of tacos and we ate every single one.
That reminds me of cheap taco night that Taco Tico used to have way back in the late 70's / early 80's. We didn't put in our order and get all picky, Dad just showed up home from work with a big old bag of tacos and we ate every single one.
Best ever made! And I'd pay good money to know what peppers they used in their "very hot" sauce! I could drink the stuff. Won many a bet in HS! Suckers....
Edit: I would forgo the drink so I could get another taco. Truth, I promise!
BurkLee, what are street lights? Just kidding.
We could ride our bikes to Clear Creek and swim all day long. By the time I was 15 my grandad would let me drive his GMC cattle truck to go swimming. We would spend hours playing hide and seek in a friend's lumber shed. I spent a couple of summers at Sand Point on Lake Texoma. We played hide and seek under the boat docks. It doesn't take much of an air space under a boat dock to keep you alive. I could swim under water from one dock to the next and no one could find me.
Up at Lenapah we would ride to the Verdigris and shoot turtles from the bridge.
Great times.
We could ride our bikes to Clear Creek and swim all day long. By the time I was 15 my grandad would let me drive his GMC cattle truck to go swimming. We would spend hours playing hide and seek in a friend's lumber shed. I spent a couple of summers at Sand Point on Lake Texoma. We played hide and seek under the boat docks. It doesn't take much of an air space under a boat dock to keep you alive. I could swim under water from one dock to the next and no one could find me.
Up at Lenapah we would ride to the Verdigris and shoot turtles from the bridge.
Great times.
My goodnes allll this crazy activities....its Lucky most of you arent dead or...Worse
Bu it sure was Fun....
Bu it sure was Fun....
