Some memes and ads from ‘back in the day’… Enjoy!!! And for those of us who remember WLS, especially at night… From my senior year in high school!!! Did this more that a few times… @#$%% cheap ass timing gears … Continue reading
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If you’re old enough to remember, you’re OLD… The menu is supposedly from the Downy, CA location in 1953!!! I don’t remember ever eating in a McDonalds until the early 70s… … Continue reading
Just in time for Christmas… Back in the day… Western Auto, Sears, Montgomery Wards, and I ‘think’ Woolworth all had pedal cars like these for roughly the same prices. This ad is from 1962! Today, those $20 pedal cars/tractors are … Continue reading
Cars and Christmas… Sigh… $3795 back then, $100,000 and up today… If you had every car in that ad, you would easily be sitting on a half million dollars worth of vehicles. … Continue reading
Remember when… It took three minutes for the TV to warm up. Nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and made with real Silver! You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. Made with … Continue reading
Sigh… Granted the minimum wage was $1.25/hr, but I swear it went a LOT further back then… That was six gallons of gas, compared to the $15/hr vs. $4/gal today. A Woolworth menu, supposedly from the late 50s/early 60s… And … Continue reading
Sneaky sailors… LOL The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought the master, … Continue reading
Thoughts on Growing Older- By folks with a way with words… “To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” – Oscar Wilde “The older we get, the … Continue reading
Back in the day, the P-3s had a fairly wide range of operating locations… I had the ‘pleasure’ of visit all of these at one time or another over the years. Pleasure…yeah, right… And I got a question in an … Continue reading
Only the Navy… Can take a sophisticated game and turn it into a raucous rule bending game played all over the Navy… Welcome to Acey Ducey! This is a picture of an old WESTPAC board, probably from a Chief’s Mess … Continue reading