the I must be old IF I remember......thread..

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

the I must be old IF I remember......thread..

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Milk came in big jugs with red handles. Ed

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

Milk came delivered to your door in quart glass bottles. And from a horse drawn wagon.
In the winter frozen horse balls were hockey pucks.

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

When we had our first apt in Toronto it was an older 5story low rise .Probably
50 or so apts in it. We had what was called a milk chute by the door that led to a closet.
The idea was that the milkman/breadman would put the product in the chute and we
of course would leave there payment in there as well. We never considered that some
dishonest person would steal from us or worse enter our apt thru it. I wonder how many
of those little chutes are still there? Ed

123pugsy · MARKHAM, ONT

I remember the milkman was my pal's father.

54vicky · OAKVILLE, ONT

I remember the jokes about the milkman fathering children on his route.ED you are right about the milk doors I am sure if they were around today then they would be used for illegal entry.those days sadly will never be seen again

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

In the winter, the milk would get almost froze and the cream would start to come up out of the bottle. The little cardboard top was on top of it.
How about seeing a TV for the first time?
A man down the street owned a radio repair store and had a little TV at home.
He would let all the kids on the street look in through his front window to watch it.
Probably a 4" tube screen.
TV antennas on house roofs later.

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

54vicky wrote:
I remember the jokes about the milkman fathering children on his route.ED you are right about the milk doors I am sure if they were around today then they would be used for illegal entry.those days sadly will never be seen again

oh they were used for illegal entry back in the day

'used to be they stuck a kid through the milk door to let the adult thief in..

sometimes you'll find the milk passage has a bar in the middle so bottles can go 'round but no one can go through no matter how small

- so granddad said..anyways..

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

chocolate bars went from 5 cents to 10 cents .. izz about where I start rememberin' stuff

EXCEPT .. pre gas crisis .. muskoka

bumper to bumper traffic even into the bush

driving out of Baysville on .. I remember Echo lake rd being bumper to freaking bumper all the way into the bush well beyond our turn off..

and the undeveloped end of the lake .. guys in boats every twenty feet .. another boat .. more guys.. all the way around the shoreline , entire end of the lake

gas crisis came along and THAT ENDED..300 boats became 3 or 4 ..

when I say Muskoka doesn't see the tourist traffic like it used to peeps look at me like I'm nuts ... BUT I KNOW I'M RIGHT

'cause I've lived that difference

when my folks first bought the property .in 51-2, . Baysville was an EIGHT HOUR trip away from scarborough

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flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

In the late 60s I remember it being an epic journey from my home in
Mimico to visit my buddy who moved to Scarborough. Can't remember
how many transfers on the TTC it took but it was hours back then. Ed

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

still epic in 1984
the bus at sheppard ave and meadowvale rd .. toronto zoo ,to kennedy stn , to kippling station ,.. didn't start running early enough to get to work at north queen and shornclife rd by 8:00 am..

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

flatblack55delivery wrote:
In the late 60s I remember it being an epic journey from my home in
Mimico to visit my buddy who moved to Scarborough. Can't remember
how many transfers on the TTC it took but it was hours back then. Ed

i boarded at a place in mimico on hay ave. in the early 70's. i was driving truck all through the states back then.

123pugsy · MARKHAM, ONT

The good ol RCA Victor repair dude with his suitcase full of tubes was a regular at our house.

54vicky · OAKVILLE, ONT

funny you mention testing the tv tubes. remember taking them to the local drugstore and testing them on the machine most had if bad call the clerk they would open the cabinet under it and they usually had the one you needed.I do not recall which one off hand but most times it would be the same one.

tc · ST THOMAS, ONT

When I was six years old I lived in Lucan Ont. and helped the milk man deliver milk in a horse drawn wagon in the summer and a horse drawn sleigh in the winter.

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Hey Shag we were neighbours. Evans ave here. Back when I was a kid we played
hockey on Evans as it was only two lanes back then that basically went west into the country
. It was the dividing line between Mimico and Etobicoke. Sometimes I
remember during power outages on one side the other would still be on. The Mimico reformatory
was a couple blocks west of our house and and pretty much nothing past that. My interest in
cars came from a group of rodders called the EtobiCams on Portland Ave in Mimico. I was the hangaround
as a kid and went for coffee and cleanup. They showed me how mechanics work and how to build and fix stuff.
They very kindly built me a chopper bicycle that I wish I still had. Mimico was a great place to grow up back then. Ed

TIME TRAVELLER · NIAGARA REGION, ONT

I worked part time at a gas station during high school. Soon after I started the price of regular went up to .49 a gallon – everyone behaved like the world was about to end! Years later I inherited my parent’s old TV, the one they bought brand new in 1957. Every so often a tube would go on the fritz and I’d run to the local hardware store or wherever I could find a tube testing machine to get a new tube. When the last tester disappeared we bought a new TV, no tubes anymore, just a little 12” black and white from CTC.

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

flatblack55delivery wrote:
Hey Shag we were neighbours. Evans ave here. Back when I was a kid we played
hockey on Evans as it was only two lanes back then that basically went west into the country
. It was the dividing line between Mimico and Etobicoke. Sometimes I
remember during power outages on one side the other would still be on. The Mimico reformatory
was a couple blocks west of our house and and pretty much nothing past that. My interest in
cars came from a group of rodders called the EtobiCams on Portland Ave in Mimico. I was the hangaround
as a kid and went for coffee and cleanup. They showed me how mechanics work and how to build and fix stuff.
They very kindly built me a chopper bicycle that I wish I still had. Mimico was a great place to grow up back then. Ed

ha, small world eh. that was the safest neighborhood i lived in all the years i lived in the big smoke and ending up around the alliston area before moving back east to this area. had a lot of fun around there when i was home. that sh!t kinda goes along with the title of this thread, lol

69SS454 · MILTON, ONT

the I must be old IF I remember..... Getting my first BJ on horseback...lol... just kidding it was in a Datsun

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

I must be old if I remember my Grandfather telling me I couldn't get a box of common sense or a quart of elbow grease at the hardware store. He was a good old guy, taught me lots of stuff as a kid that would come in handy as an adult. Now I'm the Grandpa and doing my part.

supernash · WEST PERTH, ONT

I remember a bottle of Coke and an O'henry was 25 cents and the bottle was 2 cents for return.

I also remember opening the hood of a car and would see an engine I could fix, not a bunch of plastic shrouds and electronics !!

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

I remember when they used to lay two cables across the road to check speed and if they were too close together, you were driving too fast.

Warren

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

I remember when smokes were .35 for a pack of 25 and the s--t hit the fan when they went up to .41

Warren

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

The Saturday matinee was 6 cents.

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

old enough to remember the folks had the radio on from the time they got up until supper was done..
and THEY said I watched to much TV..

funny that..

so ..old enough to remember I don't need the media telling me what to think.....EVER

one day when I was older I mentioned how I didn't appreciate so much being told to shut up at dinner because ,, you know gotta listen to that same news loop AGAIN..and how MAYBE the one time of day when we sit down together MAYBE they should try turning the radio off and try talking to each other

BIG BLANK LOOKS .. but the bleepin radio FINALLY got turned the blank OFF

small victories ..

-- Edited by DJD on Saturday 15th of August 2020 01:51:03 PM

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

69SS454 wrote:

the I must be old IF I remember..... Getting my first BJ on horseback...lol... just kidding it was in a Datsun

lmao-lol---- good post for that topic on a remembrance thread. kudos lol i actually had to stop and think about that for a minuet. it kinda gives new meaning the age old phrase, "this getting old sh!t suck's"

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

I had a Whizzer when I was 15.

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

Dave
Had the wheel been invented yet when you were 15?
Warren

51 Styline · NIAGARA FALLS, ONT

I remember the Horse Drawn Wagons for delivery of ICE for the fridges. Street Cars on Queen St. in Niagara Falls. Going to Capitol Theatre on Saturday morning with 25 cents for ticket and popcorn and a drink. The Saturday morning serial at the movies, Flash Gorden, Dick Tracy, Rocketman. Good memories.

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

wuga wrote:
Dave
Had the wheel been invented yet when you were 15?
Warren

A man down the street had invented the wheel a few years earlier.

It didn't take us long to add it to everything.

He also claimed that he invented fire.

I'm not so sure about that one.

BARRIE, ONTARIO

Coal Chutes

123pugsy · MARKHAM, ONT

Kids outside playing.

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

I remember in our school back in the early 60s there was always some kid with a cast
on an arm or leg or an arm in a sling in almost every class .I was talking to a recently retired
teacher who said for the last 5or so years he taught he doesn't remember
seeing anything like that in the entire school . Ed

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

Ice boxes, TV antennas, pencil cases in school, getting the strap in school, Good Friday hikes,
Outside playing until the street lights came on.....

123pugsy · MARKHAM, ONT

flatblack55delivery wrote:
I remember in our school back in the early 60s there was always some kid with a cast
on an arm or leg or an arm in a sling in almost every class .I was talking to a recently retired
teacher who said for the last 5or so years he taught he doesn't remember
seeing anything like that in the entire school . Ed

Hard to break your arm firing up the laptop.....maybe break a nail, ha....

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

jarvis1 wrote:
Ice boxes, TV antennas, pencil cases in school, getting the strap in school, Good Friday hikes,
Outside playing until the street lights came on.....

Swiping dry ice from the Good Humour guy, climbing the TV tower to get in the house when I forgot my key, tucking a couple joints in my pencil case, getting the strap in school - then at home, Poison Ivy 2 days after Good Friday, we didn't have street lights, riding our bikes to the local Public pool, riding our bikes to the dairy bar for a milkshake....riding our bikes all over the damn place.....road rash, going fishing and cooking smelt over a fire, accidentally setting the marsh on fire cooking fish over the fire, explaining to my Mom why one pant-leg of my jeans was burnt off up to the knee ( skipping school & swimming, drying our cloths over a fire before heading home).....

Sniper · WATFORD, ONT

Skinny dippin in one of the ponds just down the railroad tracks. Had a sunfish or something grab me by the pecker while treading water in the deep end. Paddled so hard getting out of there that I just about walked on water.

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iron horse · HAMILTON, ONT

I remember working at the gas station pumping gas, .49 cents a gallon! If you worked night shift on the weekends, we had a pile of spark plugs to clean, gap and test. When was the last time you saw a spark plug machine. BTW, a trip from Hamilton to Toronto took 40 minutes...lol

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

Hamilton to Niagara Falls was an all day event and a big deal.

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

77 wrote:
Coal Chutes

X2

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

123pugsy wrote:
Kids outside playing.

isn't that the truth, lol. some how it made a turnaround, we use to get hell for not coming in for meals, etc and today they are getting hell for not going out. let alone missing a meal. lol

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

flatblack55delivery wrote:
I remember in our school back in the early 60s there was always some kid with a cast
on an arm or leg or an arm in a sling in almost every class .I was talking to a recently retired
teacher who said for the last 5or so years he taught he doesn't remember
seeing anything like that in the entire school . Ed

wasn't there a big school down close to the blue goose ed? just a guess is all.

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Back then there were 2 actually one was the grade 7/8 called John English and
the other was Mimico High School . I spent 3yrs in both of them. You can do
the math. biggrin Ed

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

I went to W H Ballard school in east end Hamilton.
It was the largest school in Canada.

69SS454 · MILTON, ONT

My older brother and I would hang drop out of the second story bedroom window at night and sneak my Mom's Envoy 2000 out of the underground and drive around the neighbor hood in the middle of the night siphoning gas as we went. Mom use to think her car was magic as she would have more gas in it then when she parked it the night before. Don't think I was more than 9 and my brother age 11.

Living in a townhouse complex at the time with a large number of kids we use to have epic games of Kick the Can, One by One and everybody's favorite blood sport Red Rover Red Rover

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Red Rover taught us two things strategy. Find the weakest guy on the other side ,and tolerance to pain when the strategy didn't work. Ed

-- Edited by flatblack55delivery on Sunday 23rd of August 2020 12:12:17 PM

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

69SS454 wrote:
My older brother and I would hang drop out of the second story bedroom window at night and sneak my Mom's Envoy 2000 out of the underground and drive around the neighbor hood in the middle of the night siphoning gas as we went. Mom use to think her car was magic as she would have more gas in it then when she parked it the night before. Don't think I was more than 9 and my brother age 11.

Living in a townhouse complex at the time with a large number of kids we use to have epic games of Kick the Can, One by One and everybody's favorite blood sport Red Rover Red Rover

lol. you had me until you mentioned the year of your mom's car, you are still a pup. lmao i use to steal mom's car but it was only a few years old in about 61-2. 1958 nomad wagon is the first one i use to borrow for a couple of hours the odd time. the last one i use to borrow from her was a 65 impala s/s which i wrote off and truthfully she never did forget about that one, she was a pretty neat lady. the first brand new car i bought was a 1968 hemi road runner and dad had to sign for the loan. he said he wasn't signing for a g-d hot rod so i took mom with me to test it out and she say's we won't tell your father how big the motor was. the ownership had bellevedere on it not road runner and she told him it is was a small v-8. that is pretty funny now in hindsight.

69SS454 · MILTON, ONT

The Envoy 2000 was the model not the year. It was a 1960 sumthin

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

69SS454 wrote:
The Envoy 2000 was the model not the year. It was a 1960 sumthin

lol ooops you got me.

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

69SS454 wrote:
The Envoy 2000 was the model not the year. It was a 1960 sumthin

Did it look like this?.......