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Get off my lawn! (the over 50 thread)


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Drinking from a hose

 

Walking every where

 

Go out and do something

 

Kickball

 

I am not a crook

 

Milk machines

 

Milk 25 cents a quart, gasoline 32 cents a gallon, phone calls 10 cents, Candy bars 25 cents, cigarettes 50 cents, six pack of Budweiser 1.99

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And don't go home until the street lights come on. Speaking of which:

 

Touch football in the street, lamppost to lamppost. 

 

Giving rides to friends on the handlebars of your bike. 

 

Everyone us has gone over the handlebars too.  Right of youth passage.

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Two Guys (apparently they found 3 more guys and started selling hamburgers at some point)

Twin Fair

Gold Circle

Child World

smear the

getting drunk at the cemetery

playing super mario bros at the local pizza joint after school

going to the original aud club with Dad, getting a root beer and thinking you were a man

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Party line phones. You had to wait on your neighbors to hang up to use it. Ha. Kids nowadays have no idea.

 

Bowling for Dollars, with Johnny and Jimmy. "Do you know the count And the amount"?

 

Candy cigarettes

 

Buying an FM converter for your car by submittiing your penciled in order form at Brand Names.

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I'm not quite 50, so I should probably get off the lawn, but if you remember the wheelchair juggling dude who sold peanuts in front of the Aud can I get a day pass?

Lol! You get a day pass from me.

 

Bumper skitching...gotta get around in a Buffalo winter.

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Followed by 'Love American Style'.

Remember Match Game being naughty? And Hollywood Squares? Pretty innocent stuff when you watch old clips.

 

Did anyone "accidentally" dial a 900 number when they first came out? My mother with the phone bill was like the Government Accounting Office.

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Glen Park Casino and Amusement Park in Williamsville

 

Playing war with friends with our toy machine guns

 

Schwinn stingray bikes with a Mattel Vroom engine noise maker

 

12" GI Joes and Captain Action, Major Matt Mason astronauts, Hot Wheels orange track

 

Creepy Crawler makers that were basically hot stoves for kids

 

Wearing bread bags over your feet inside your rubber winter boots whose zippers would freeze

 

Walking to school a couple of blocks away alone as a little kid and nobody worrying if you were safe

 

Going to the hardware store with dad to use the tv tube testing machine

 

Going to Christmas midnight mass spoken in Latin

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