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

69SS454 · MILTON, ONT

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

123pugsy · MARKHAM, ONT

My brother had an Envoy Epic.
Man was he pissed after me and my buddies picked up the back and rolled it up the street.

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, 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

My house still has the Milk/Bread door on the side.

I've since removed the exterior door and put a 3/4 wood panel on there, inside still has the door.. Screwed on the inside with no way to gain access to the inside. Has a mail slot but only used to run my electrical inside from my generator when necessary.

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

123pugsy wrote:
My brother had an Envoy Epic.
Man was he pissed after me and my buddies picked up the back and rolled it up the street.

My Auto shop teacher had a Vauxhall Viva. I always thought it would have been a cool car to drop, fat rubber, suspension and install a V6 or hop up the 4 banger.......but that was over 40 years ago.

-- Edited by Iwannagofast on Wednesday 26th of August 2020 04:31:15 PM

BARRIE, ONTARIO

Long Johns

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

123pugsy wrote:
Kids outside playing.

When parents would say to their kids "Come home when the street lights come on"

BARRIE, ONTARIO

Men waiting for the women to sit before sitting themselves , and getting out of their seats before a woman did .
cars w ash trays
bias plies
the squeal of bias on pavement
the thump of frozen bias on cold mornings
catching or getting posi
shackles an leaf springs
8 tracks
chrome reverse rims
safety rims from the sixties with the wide beads and you had to mount dismount tires from back side of rim
when headlights were made outta glass
glass packs
thrush mufflers with a smoking wood pecker painted on them
when you heard a v8 in the distance and you could tell whose car it was just by the sounds ( Now its all lifted 4x4 trucks w upgraded exhausts and you dont even turn your head )
when oncoming head lights didnt give you retina burn
when people could drive any where w just two snow tires and they were on the back
driving three on the tree
pistol grip shifters
bull low four speeds
3 speeds w overdrive
exterior trim not made of plastic
port holes on vans
red bondo
fender flares
purple road runner beep beep horns
car and truck doors popping open before the invented secondary latches
when hub caps were metal
when a 15 was biggest tire you could get
when 60 series was a fat mean bad @ss tire and 50,s were even badder .... Not the low profile pos they are now today

BARRIE, ONTARIO

short boxes
step sides
flare sides
camper vans
slide in campers
when you rode your harley or triumph off road
1 barrel carbs
2x4 intake manifolds
when muscle cars dint have a c power windows and heated seats
when bench seats reclined
when if you didnt come home with a black eye fat lip shirt ripped off once in a while , people asked your mom if you " were ok "
walking your sister or brother to school every day
kids lineing up their lunch kits and stuff waiting for the bus
when kids didnt carry their whole life in their back pack
when t shirts were white and didnt have pictures or writing on them

I had a 72 vauxhall firenza sport coupe w a 350 an a glide in it

-- Edited by 77 on Friday 8th of January 2021 08:44:55 PM

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Funny I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday but I can remember old toy
commercials . In fact I seem to remember the jingles for Pepsodent , Brillcream ,and countless TV
shows and how about sill knowing the words to old songs that our parents played. Ed

-- Edited by flatblack55delivery on Friday 8th of January 2021 10:21:44 PM

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

123pugsy wrote:
My brother had an Envoy Epic.
Man was he pissed after me and my buddies picked up the back and rolled it up the street.

X2

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

We lived one block away from the train tracks. Big old steam engines.
7 years old and running on top the box cars while they were being shunted.
Across the tracks were the Army barracks. I remember seeing soldiers returning home from WWll.
That still makes me a tad emotional. Some of them lads had been away for 5 years.
Some never came home.
DJ

Cuddles · PETERBOROUGH, ONT

I remember toys in cereal boxes - and a guy coming up the street dragging a wheel to sharpen knives on - and the TP drive-in - and my friend across the street had a coal chute in his house we used to slide on and he had what looked like a school bell on the side of his house. It was a fire alarm. And his family was the first on our street to get a colour tv. He still had the same tv but for Christmas they got a colour wheel that spun automatically when you plugged it in in front of the tv. It cast coloured lights on the tv screen as it rotated.

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

Air Raid Sirens on poles everywhere
Penny Loafers
Eldon slot-car tracks

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

I'm pretty sure the school around the corner still has the pole for the air raid siren .. not sure about the siren but I think I've heard it tested sometime in the past couple of years

and

- still have 3 large sets worth of Eldon slot car track , some car bodies and bits

remember the Elden sail boat and catamaran ? .. I still have most of the sailboat.. and it's cardboard stand

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Not a very fun or nice memory but I remember when we went downtown Toronto,
seeing, what I now believe were veterans, some with out legs, using what looked to be
large wheeled creepers/carts to get around. They were selling pencils and small trinkets. Ed

DJD · SCARBOROUGH, ONT

.. just thinkin'

.. old enough to remember hearing the "old" saying , .."nothing real has happened since nineteen fifty seven"...

looking at media and really knowing what it is , was and has become .. I'm inclined to believe it

just one big social engineering project..

and a hideously corrupt one at that.

-- Edited by DJD on Saturday 9th of January 2021 08:27:42 PM

Iwannagofast · ONTARIO

ah - yup

GLHS60 · Member

Hitchhiking!!

I hitchhiked everywhere, even to school, didn't want to ride the bus.

Hitchhiked many times to Magnetic Hill, New Brunswick, a friend's mother owned a campground.

There was a dump somewhere up on Lutes Mountain and I used her old Chevy pickup to make the run.

No drivers license yet meant I grabbed any opportunity to drive, even if it was hauling trash to a dump.

Taking a leak on Magnetic hill before it was paved to see if it ran up hill was something I thought was fun.

Needed some relaxation after the hard work of rowing through the 3 speed column shift!

I was never a drinker so had to relax in a sober manner.

Anyone else do any hitchhiking back in the day?

Thanks
Randy

GLHS60 · Member

flatblack55delivery wrote:
Not a very fun or nice memory but I remember when we went downtown Toronto,
seeing, what I now believe were veterans, some with out legs, using what looked to be
large wheeled creepers/carts to get around. They were selling pencils and small trinkets. Ed

Amen Brother:

This is why I never buy imported vehicles as many patriotic heroes sacrificed so much for us.

Many were "shell shocked" what is probably PTSD today and had some serious societal issues.

The despair many felt when German and Japanese vehicles started showing up on streets in Canada.

These guys fought for us and we we rewarded their sacrifice by importing, buying and driving enemy cars.

Very few at first but each year more and more they steadily became accepted and commonplace.

Little wonder so many turned to alcohol to deaden the betrayal that many veterans perceived.

Many thought the big THREE contributed greatly in assisting our home team with winning.

Their reward was to have their noses rubbed in seeing vehicles from enemy countries.

May God Bless those forgotten souls and companies that assured our freedom.

Thanks

Randy

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

GLHS60 wrote:
Hitchhiking!!

I hitchhiked everywhere, even to school, didn't want to ride the bus.

Hitchhiked many times to Magnetic Hill, New Brunswick, a friend's mother owned a campground.

There was a dump somewhere up on Lutes Mountain and I used her old Chevy pickup to make the run.

No drivers license yet meant I grabbed any opportunity to drive, even if it was hauling trash to a dump.

Taking a leak on Magnetic hill before it was paved to see if it ran up hill was something I thought was fun.

Needed some relaxation after the hard work of rowing through the 3 speed column shift!

I was never a drinker so had to relax in a sober manner.

Anyone else do any hitchhiking back in the day?

Thanks
Randy

did a lot of thumbing a ride in the early sixties.

Redneck Rydes · TRENTON, ONT & SOUTH CAROLINA

I remember when my mom would give me a note to take to the store to get her a pack of Rothmans smokes and with the change,you could get double bubble for a penny,and a candy bar for a quarter,then I would get home and she would ask for the change and with chocolate all around your lips and smacking on 2 double bubble,i really couldn't tell her,she always laughed,geuss that was pay for going to the store for her!