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OT: Are you older than dirt?

Hoops66 said:
I've been really enjoying everyone's stories and memories from "dirt-times." Thanks. I remember that some of the roads in my town were still dirt in the 50s, and our local ball field only had a few tuffs of grass.
I highly recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Wait Until Next Year" to everyone, but particularly those who grew up in NYC in the 50s. She brings you right back to those times, as Doris always can do. I still have my copy and now I think I'm going to read it again.
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Despite the title of Goodwin's book, as a kid growing up in NYC, I didn't have to "wait until next year." I grew up in The Bronx, and my team was in the World Series every year. It must have been very sad growing up in Brooklyn.
 
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Of course I know about all of them, but I only have a direct memory of actually experiencing 18 out of 20. Never had a party line, and as far as I recall, newsreels were replaced by coming attractions and snack bar ads by the early- to mid- 1960s.
 
Steelerone said:
Az, I got home from Boot Camp in 1954 and when I looked into my cedar chest where I had stored about five hundred Topps cards they were gone. My favorite team at that time was the Dodgers and I had five or six complete player sets. I asked her what happened to them and she said, "I thought that you outgrew them," I could cry when I see the prices for Robinson, Hodges, Snider, Campanella and Reese.
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Steelerone- - -After College (1970) and I got a teaching and coaching job in MO my Mom in NYC sent out my desk, bed and dresser.
After the movers delivered it and left I checked the drawers of my desk and everything was there but 6 complete years of Topps baseball cards weren't there, I called my Mom to check and she said she sent everything out the way they were, so the movers stole my Baseball card collection (late 1950's to early 1960's)!
Nothing I could do then!
 
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Rixxx said:
Give me mercurochrome anytime. What was killer was merthiolate. Had a light red color with a green tint when the bottle was held up to the light. It was a killer on my young scrapes.
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Yes, and there was also iodine, which was as bad as, or maybe worse than merthiolate.
 
I thought I was pretty cool with my Davy Crockett Coonskin

Cap, but I couldn't wear to school. The neighborhood dogs liked it though...that's was when they could be let out on their own.
 
We had the first color TV in the neighborhood. It consisted of a plastic sheet with three colors on it placed over our 8 x 10 Dumont console. Blue = sky, Green= Grass, Brown=dirt. Nice, we kids were very proud showing it to our friends. We could get only two channels, both out of the Albany area. Thank you GE.
 
Even though I have back problems, when I retired 3 years ago I decided to go back to golf. Last year I replaced my Driver and 3 Wood. I didn't even notice, but my 3 wood was actually made of wood instead of metal and whatever they are using now. (not the shafts, I'm not that old). That club was part of a 4 wood set that I purchased when I was a teenager and I figured technology may have improved over the last 55-60 years. LOL. I was right, but it really hasn't helped my game that much, so I have to resign to myself that my age will prevent me from playing as well as I did back then. Mentally I haven't figured that out as yet, but eventually I will.
 
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'If you go out in the woods today; you better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was will be there for certain
Because today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

and it continues with: "Picnic time for teddy bears,
the little teddy bears are having a lovely time today..."
 
I think that no form of entertainment surpassed the Republic serials like Zorro's Black Whip, Captain Midnight and Batman. Yes, they were corny, made in a week on a cheap budget but for the young men and women who sat in the audience they were instruments in fine tuning your imagination and, in the final analysis, the fun time of your life.
 
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