Hadn't thought about the jeans in a long while. So stiff they would stand up by themselves. Cuffs so big you would pour a half a dump truck load of sand out of them at night. That was the good old days. God Bless and take care.
Remember?!? I still use ‘em to this day! My wife thought I had lost my mind when I picked up a pack of patches. “What are you gonna do with that?” She asked. Watch and learn! [my all time FTV response to questions like that. ]
I’m older too. I remember my dads air conditioner. It was a tray with ice cubes. It had holes in the bottom that dribbled the melt water over a piece of burlap hung in front of a fan.
Do y'all remember a commercial about 1971 or 1972 where a lady says "Why did I cut my hair? I look like a squirrel?" I don't remember the product, but I sure do remember that lady thinking she resembled a squirrel!
Got new jeans at the dollar store when school started each year and they would stand up by themselves. My dad worked at a plant that packed chicken. It had a ice room as big as a barn. He would bring home 100 lb bags of ice and poor it in a wash tub and set the fan in front of it. I do miss those days. I thought we were living in high cotton.
One evening a long time ago I went across the hill to the next hollow to get Uncle Vern to cut my hair for 50 cents. After the cut, Uncle Vern would play his old guitar and I hung out with his pretty daughters way too long. When I started back home, it was dark. Really dark. So dark you could stick your finger in front of your face then pull it back real quick, and you could see the hole where your finger had been. I had no flashlight nor lantern. Only way to tell that you were in the path was to feel with your feet. Only thing was, the path went through a part of the cow pasture and one cow had decided to lay down across the path. I stumbled over the cow which scared her, and she immediately jumped up which pitched me on across her back onto the ground on the other side. Never been so scared in my life!
You have to remember the nighttime routine before AC of getting out the Flit gun and spraying every bedroom to kill the mosquitoes 🦟 then having to smell that all night.
I remember going to 2nd grade, my mom had bought a pair of 16 slims blue jeans and I had a 4 or 5 inch cuff and in less than 6 months I didn't have a cuff any more and she had to buy a pair of 16 huskies blue jeans. I was the second tallest kid all the way to sixth grade. And it stayed that way until 10th grade when the guys got to within 3 to 5 inches shorter than me instead of head and shoulders shorter than me. Now the younger generation is getting taller than me at the family reunions, I'm now 5th tallest, and there are some youngsters that look to pass me next year. Learning to be short is hard.
I remember living with my grandma her house was so hot even after dark we would we put the tv in the window to watch it make something called smut pots to smoke to keep skeeters away
Remember the fatigues issued in basic training? They were so stiff you could barely push your legs through! Ruined them right where the crease was. Mine tore all the way from the pocket to the cuff right along the crease! Just thought of something else! Remember the canvas bag that you put water in and hung on the side of the tractor or the front of the truck?
We never did have air conditioning. I didn't have that until I moved into a newer apartment building with a buddy. Yeah, boy, I remember them starched blue jeans. They were stiff as it was without that. I still think it's the reason I ain't go no hair on my legs. Hahahaha
When I was a boy I went every year to church camp. In the boys dorm, guys had a bad habit of using shaving cream to pull tricks on people... Well, my Grandmother had the good fortune of having found me a nearly brand new suit at Salvation Army, she bought it and it fit me well. It was hanging up at the end of my bunk, and some idiot came by and just doused it with shaving cream, ruined it entirely before I ever even got to wear it to church. I cried... Grandma was near mad enough to lose her Assembly of God religion!
I remember my granny starched everything😯 but some of my favorite memories were from my uncle's tent revivals in SE Kentucky❤❤ Thanks for reminding me 👍👍
We didn’t have a TV till I was 9 the people up the road had one he would come out on the porch and hollow and we would go to his house and watch the Lone Ranger Mr Early Coker was his name
My daddy grew up so far back in the woods, he had to walk toward town to deer hunt. When he joined the Army, they had a lot of fun with him. Daddy had never seen a toothbrush and toothpaste, running water, electric lights, deodorant etc.he said that first week in the Army there was a lot of laughter at my expense......
Stiff blue jeans... a size too big, so you wouldn't grow out of 'em. Plus, we had to have the top button on our shirts buttoned... along with 'burr' haircuts at the start of the school year, that left "white sidewalls" around ears contrasting the parts touched by the summer sun and those covered by hair.
Gillette's "Cavalcade of Sports" (boxing) was on Wednesday night long before it was on Friday night.....SO, You just aren't THAT OLD, eh ....haha.....Our town had a small cemetery and the town drunk fell into a fresh grave that was dug for a funeral the next day....Well, he woke up at dawn and lifted himself to the edge , looking out over all the misty gravestones he said, "Holy shit,...it's resurrection day and I'm the first one up ! " .....
Hadn't thought about the jeans in a long while. So stiff they would stand up by themselves.
Cuffs so big you would pour a half a dump truck load of sand out of them at night.
That was the good old days.
God Bless and take care.
Remember gettin my clothes starched. I still like my button up shirts starched.
I remember those jeans and yeah my mother ironed them too. Hey boys remember those iron on patches for jeans?
Remember?!? I still use ‘em to this day! My wife thought I had lost my mind when I picked up a pack of patches. “What are you gonna do with that?” She asked. Watch and learn! [my all time FTV response to questions like that. ]
@@harryl7946 lol
I’m older too. I remember my dads air conditioner. It was a tray with ice cubes. It had holes in the bottom that dribbled the melt water over a piece of burlap hung in front of a fan.
Yes I remember those
Do y'all remember a commercial about 1971 or 1972 where a lady says
"Why did I cut my hair? I look like a squirrel?"
I don't remember the product, but I sure do remember that lady thinking she resembled a squirrel!
My folks bought a console radio at Barney Millers back in the day. Remember those school blue jeans too.
Got new jeans at the dollar store when school started each year and they would stand up by themselves. My dad worked at a plant that packed chicken. It had a ice room as big as a barn. He would bring home 100 lb bags of ice and poor it in a wash tub and set the fan in front of it. I do miss those days. I thought we were living in high cotton.
Mom always ironed my britches
One evening a long time ago I went across the hill to the next hollow to get Uncle Vern to cut my hair for 50 cents. After the cut, Uncle Vern would play his old guitar and I hung out with his pretty daughters way too long. When I started back home, it was dark. Really dark. So dark you could stick your finger in front of your face then pull it back real quick, and you could see the hole where your finger had been.
I had no flashlight nor lantern. Only way to tell that you were in the path was to feel with your feet. Only thing was, the path went through a part of the cow pasture and one cow had decided to lay down across the path. I stumbled over the cow which scared her, and she immediately jumped up which pitched me on across her back onto the ground on the other side. Never been so scared in my life!
Wonderful, looking in from Tynemouth England.
You have to remember the nighttime routine before AC of getting out the Flit gun and spraying every bedroom to kill the mosquitoes 🦟 then having to smell that all night.
Thank you for the laugh about the cemetary. My mother told us a story similar to yours. Thank you 🇨🇦Ontario Canada
Can't make this stuff up 🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was hams beer on Friday night fight
I been everywhere man 😂🤦
I remember going to 2nd grade, my mom had bought a pair of 16 slims blue jeans and I had a 4 or 5 inch cuff and in less than 6 months I didn't have a cuff any more and she had to buy a pair of 16 huskies blue jeans. I was the second tallest kid all the way to sixth grade. And it stayed that way until 10th grade when the guys got to within 3 to 5 inches shorter than me instead of head and shoulders shorter than me.
Now the younger generation is getting taller than me at the family reunions, I'm now 5th tallest, and there are some youngsters that look to pass me next year.
Learning to be short is hard.
I remember my dad telling me when he was young TVs didn't have screens - no picture - just sound.
It's called a radio........
I remember living with my grandma her house was so hot even after dark we would we put the tv in the window to watch it make something called smut pots to smoke to keep skeeters away
Short but funny
We grew up so poor we never went on a vacation. If other people could go around the world for five dollars we couldn’t even get out of sight.
Remember the fatigues issued in basic training? They were so stiff you could barely push your legs through! Ruined them right where the crease was. Mine tore all the way from the pocket to the cuff right along the crease!
Just thought of something else! Remember the canvas bag that you put water in and hung on the side of the tractor or the front of the truck?
Grew up in Miami with out AC ...
Some people pay crazy money for jeans like that these days.
Oh yea...I remember those gold old days. Those were the days!!!
Dadgum we're old!
We never did have air conditioning. I didn't have that until I moved into a newer apartment building with a buddy. Yeah, boy, I remember them starched blue jeans. They were stiff as it was without that. I still think it's the reason I ain't go no hair on my legs. Hahahaha
When I was a boy I went every year to church camp. In the boys dorm, guys had a bad habit of using shaving cream to pull tricks on people... Well, my Grandmother had the good fortune of having found me a nearly brand new suit at Salvation Army, she bought it and it fit me well. It was hanging up at the end of my bunk, and some idiot came by and just doused it with shaving cream, ruined it entirely before I ever even got to wear it to church. I cried... Grandma was near mad enough to lose her Assembly of God religion!
I remember my granny starched everything😯 but some of my favorite memories were from my uncle's tent revivals in SE Kentucky❤❤
Thanks for reminding me 👍👍
We didn’t have a TV till I was 9 the people up the road had one he would come out on the porch and hollow and we would go to his house and watch the Lone Ranger Mr Early Coker was his name
That's funny stuff.Yeah I remember starch and new blue jeans with a cuff.Good ole days I reckon.
My daddy grew up so far back in the woods, he had to walk toward town to deer hunt. When he joined the Army, they had a lot of fun with him. Daddy had never seen a toothbrush and toothpaste, running water, electric lights, deodorant etc.he said that first week in the Army there was a lot of laughter at my expense......
Stiff blue jeans... a size too big, so you wouldn't grow out of 'em. Plus, we had to have the top button on our shirts buttoned... along with 'burr' haircuts at the start of the school year, that left "white sidewalls" around ears contrasting the parts touched by the summer sun and those covered by hair.
Yall still have the Ole shanty boat?
I would love to go for a ride on that boat!
Not brothers? 2 moms, who was dad then?
People get older and talk about the past cuz they quit going forward,don't stop MOVING it's a new day for new stuff !!
Gillette's "Cavalcade of Sports" (boxing) was on Wednesday night long before it was on Friday night.....SO, You just aren't THAT OLD, eh ....haha.....Our town had a small cemetery and the town drunk fell into a fresh grave that was dug for a funeral the next day....Well, he woke up at dawn and lifted himself to the edge , looking out over all the misty gravestones he said, "Holy shit,...it's resurrection day and I'm the first one up ! " .....