Things Kids of Today Wouldn't Recognize

This talk about old things on cars and trucks. Does anyone remember when the accelerator was just a steel rod that you stepped on? Well, there was a wide spot at the end where you put your toe and if I remember right it was about a inch wide. Also the choke control was on the dashboard and you pulled it out to start the car and then when it was winter you really had to feather it until the car warmed up.

But then, when I was a young lad I used to go to town with my mother. The reason was that she needed someone to start the car for her. After all, it was a simple crank. Oh how my mother was happy when they finally got a car that had an electric starter!

 

When I was in grade school, there was a coke machine by the gym and for a nickle one could get a cold coke.

 

Oh yes. My brothers and I used to ride our bikes around (we lived in the country) and find pop bottles that people threw out of their cars. We'd collect them and then turn them in for $.02 apiece. We'd then buy ourselves a bottle of pop for $.08, plus a $.02 deposit.

 

Am I the only one who misses the old nurses uniform? For sure I've never met a nurse that misses them.

 

Fried bologna?

 

I did not mind all the crank starters. Our tractors also had crank start or on the John Deere tractors those were started with the flywheel.

 

I do too, kiddo has an ancient merry go round at her school, it's the kids favorite!

What happened to the glue with rubber dobbers anyway?

 

Just a cranky old man on it at times.

 

Yes! And I do remember the drive-in restaurants. Some had the girls on roller skates but all had pretty girls. That is what drew in the customers. One of my favorites was the Hawaiian and they always played Hawaiian music too but sadly the girls did now wear grass skirts.