You know your getting old when ....

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When the doctor tells you you have "furniture disease"... because your chest fell down in your drawers...
 
You know your old when:

You can remember who "Froggy" on the Howdy Doody Show was.:confused:

You remember nagging your mother to buy more Ovantine so you could get the two labels to send in the get your own Captain Midnight "Secret Decoder Ring":rotfl:
 
I thought it was a decoder badge??? I know I know You know your old when you can remember it was a badge. :biggrin:

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I can relate to all those. My teeth are like stars, the come out at night. According to my kids I missed Lincoln's assassination because I was out getting popcorn. No disrespect to President Lincoln intended. You put poligrip on you tooth brush by mistake and have to throw the tooth brush away because you can't get the stuff off the brush. I swear Poligrip is better than CA sometime wonder if you can MM to a high shine?


In the morning I alway strive for the big V as in vertical, as long as I can do that I am good to go and every thing else is a piece of cake.
 
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Old....

You're gettin up there when:

You know what a three-holer is.

You actually knew a Fuller Brush Man.

You know what a babushka is?

You still think America is Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and red pop.

You know what a Nehi is?

You know what a coney is
 
Smitty37 said:
You're gettin up there when:

You know what a three-holer is.

You actually knew a Fuller Brush Man.

You know what a babushka is?

You still think America is Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and red pop.

You know what a Nehi is?

You know what a coney is
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Smitty:
I sometimes think I have outlived my usefulness (certainly my eyes and my hair)!

I certainly remember Neihi! Georgia was the only place (at least, I think, that you could get grape, OR Orange, for a short while before the orange became "orange crush").

But a Coney will always be a Nathans hotdog with curly french fries.

God, you MUST be old:)
 
Smitty37 said:
You're gettin up there when:

You know what a three-holer is.

You actually knew a Fuller Brush Man.

You know what a babushka is?

You still think America is Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and red pop.

You know what a Nehi is?

You know what a coney is
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Smitty:
I sometimes think I have outlived my usefulness (certainly my eyes and my
hair)!

I certainly remember Neihi! Georgia was the
only place (at least, I think, that you could get grape, OR Orange, for a short while
before the orange became "orange crush").
But a Coney will always be a Nathans hotdog with curly french fries.

The last remaining local Fuller Brush man died last year. His funeral was a sight to behold! The lone remaining "Raliegh Man" was in attendance at the funeral and said Paul was a great man and a great "saleman, considering the product he had to work with". At least, old rivalries never die!

Your post was a great reminder of better times. God, you MUST be old:)
 
Babushka

I know women who occasionally wear a scarf but none who really wear a Babushka although I would expect that in Eastern Europe (i.e. Poland/Ukraine)...particularily in rural areas tha Babushkas would be common.
 
PenMan1 said:
Smitty37 said:
You're gettin up there when:

You know what a three-holer is.

You actually knew a Fuller Brush Man.

You know what a babushka is?

You still think America is Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and red pop.

You know what a Nehi is?

You know what a coney is
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Smitty:
I sometimes think I have outlived my usefulness (certainly my eyes and my
hair)!

I certainly remember Neihi! Georgia was the
only place (at least, I think, that you could get grape, OR Orange, for a short while
before the orange became "orange crush").
But a Coney will always be a Nathans hotdog with curly french fries.

The last remaining local Fuller Brush man died last year. His funeral was a sight to behold! The lone remaining "Raliegh Man" was in attendance at the funeral and said Paul was a great man and a great "saleman, considering the product he had to work with". At least, old rivalries never die!

Your post was a great reminder of better times. God, you MUST be old:)
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You don't have to call me "God"...I am not that old. Older than dirt maybe but....
 
My grandfathers family is from a little town called Trybukhivisti in the Ukraine and the town I grew up in had a large Ukranian population. You would see some lady in a babushka about once a week.
 
Evening

ThomJ said:
When you "'watched" the radio on Sat morning, The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Amos & Andy
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But.....those were all evening programs. Along with - Don Ameche in the Bickfords, Jack Benny, Major Bowes and the Original Amature Hour. The Green Hornet was evening also

After school we listend to

"It's Yukon King swiftest and strongest lead dog in the great Northwest blazing the trail for Sargent Preston of the Royal Canacian Mounted Police as he meets "The Challenge of the Yukon"

Captain Midnight

Jack Armstrong the "All American Boy"

During the day my Mother listened to "Young Dr. Malone"



On Saturday I listened to "Big John and Sparky" in the "No School Today Program"

Later on I listened to country music...on WCKY in Cincinatti Ohio, and WWVA from Wheeling West Virginia. I also listened to top 40/rock & roll on WOWO
 
when your car started to loose power and you had to file your points.
when you fixed up your car and got the new bigger 15 inch rims.
when the fad was to jack up the back end and put narrower tires on the front and wide ones on the rear .
 
.....when you go on a family outing and your kids ask you if you have been to the loo as you go out the door:redface:

......when you tie your shoe laces and you look for other things to do while you're down there:rolleyes:
 
Well not where I lived

ThomJ said:
They were on Sat morning in eastern MA Smitty
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They were all family shows and were on in what is now called "prime time" where I heard them. Lone Ranger was on at 7:30 and a kid named Eugene Fritz (they didn't have electricity so no Radiio) used to come to my house to listen to it.
 
Harry was talking to George and mentioned that he saw a great movie last night. George asked what it was called. George said," It's a flower, 16 inch stem with thorns and it's red." Harry said," Rose" George said "Yeah that's it, Hey Rose what was the name of that movie we saw last night. :biggrin:
 
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Some other things ---

I remember when

The Volunteer fire department had ONE fire truck.

We never had snow days because everybody including the teachers walked to school.

When the only vehicles in the school parking lot were bicycles

When Indian Motorcycles were as popular as Harleys

The Henry J was sold by Sears as the All State.

Easter Sunday was the occasion for Women to parade their new clothes...especially hats.

A new car in town would have people gathering around everytime it appeared.

For a kid fishing with a bamboo pole was living high on the hog...we usually had to cut a small maple or beech tree for a pole.

When every train that went through our town had a steam engine pulling it (and now and then another pushing)

When there were Mail Cars on the trains and they actually sorted mail as the train was moving. And at the smaller towns they tossed the mail out as the train went through. Also caught outgoing mail from a post without stopping too.
 
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