Buckshot Bear Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Are you this old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 ............. I ain't sayin' ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 He**, I remember being able to take the free cigarettes given to all with an airplane meal home to my parents - age ten! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 I can remember smoking in movie theatres and public buses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 The smoking section, aka the Loge, was open to teens for an extra 25 cents. If you had a date for the Saturday Matinee, classy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 That is the cheap ones they went to because people kept stealing them. Are you this old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I remember seeing the tin ones in restaurants. I don’t recall the glass ones except at yard sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I can remember when there were no McDonalds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Depending on where you are, that ain't so very long ago. I remember they were all excited in Eastpoint Florida, in 1985 because there was a rumor they were going to put in a McDonald's. There were no fast food joints in that town. There was a convenience store at each in had a gas station in the middle. If you wanted to order pizza you had to call in to another town and they had to bring it across the river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Alpo said: 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Are you this old? ............. NO! ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Small Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Yes and I used a few......regrets...we had a 24 hour one that tolerated us. Don't regret it all... some bad decisions let to good times. Cs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I just got two Zippo lighters back from being repaired by the factory. First one I got from my girlfriend for my birthday in March 1965. Four months later we were married. The other was a going away gift form the 69th Maintenance Battalion when I left Vietnam. I still have my Dad's 1948 Ronson that I got when Mom cleaned out his stuff after he died. Zippo bought Ronson and I'm trying to see if they will restore it, too. JFWIW, I quit smoking at midnight December 31, 1999 / January 1, 2000. I need ash trays and lighters like a pig needs a side saddle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I can remember when there were no McDonalds. me too , it was a big deal when they sold a million too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 When I started practicing law in 1973, you could smoke in the courtrooms during recesses. The counsel tables had ashtrays, and the pew seats had those small ashtrays on the back of the seats in front of you. When the judge came out on the bench, the lawyers hurriedly put out their smokes at the table. Within 3 or 4 years, no smoking in the courtrooms, but you still could out in the hallways. Then that disappeared. People hardly can believe it now. I can hardly believe it, and I was there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 back then we could smoke anywhere , the glass ashtrays were common , my uncle had a nifty one that sat in a brass floor stand - wish i had that one , would use it for my cigars as he did back in the 60s-70s when i last saw it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 My first job was a bank teller (early 80s') one of Australia's best known banks. I used to have a bank provided ashtray in my tellers cage and would have a drag of my cigarrette whilst in between counting a customers bills placing it on the ashtray between drags. Like @Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said above "People hardly can believe it now. I can hardly believe it, and I was there...." P.s Banks had Colt .38's for the tellers (this was still in the day of massively large payrolls) but most of the branches I worked at through the 80's the branch managers wouldn't let the tellers have them in their cages and they were in safes in the main strongroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said: P.s Banks had Colt .38's for the tellers (this was still in the day of massively large payrolls) but most of the branches I worked at through the 80's the branch managers wouldn't let the tellers have them in their cages and they were in safes in the main strongroom. From age 19 through 21 I worked swing shift at the Post Office Terminal Annex in the south end of Seattle. I was an undergrad, married young and with children, and the job was perfect; classes in the morning, work from 2 to 10 pm, mostly loading parcel post onto to rail mail cars. Mostly outside, great exercise. They tabbed me to ride now and then with the Registered Mail from the annex at night to the downtown station. You had to be armed, so they gave me a couple of lessons with a .38 S&W snubbie and issued me a Federal license. Nobody had robbed the mail run in generations, but that was the procedure. Veterans told me to lay my gun down quietly in the extremely unlikely event of a heist. One single shift I was told to guard the Queen Anne post office downtown on a Sunday. I walked around the perimeter with the .38 on my hip, in jeans and a flannel shirt, for 8 hours. A couple of Seattle cops saw me in this improbable role and came over to ask what I was up to. I showed them my Federal license. They were friendly and rather amused and departed. I encountered no desperados seeking after the mail.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Sam, SASS #34718L Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I can remember buying ammo for my .22 at 7-11 when I was about 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Uncle Sam was my boss for 51 years and for at least half of that time two items were government supplied : coffee urns and ashtrays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I'm older! Banks with cages for the tellers, guards with guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largo casey #19191 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I can remember being able to buy a gun at 12. Largo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 13 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I can remember when there were no McDonalds. Yep, me too. I remember when a Moonpie and RC Cola were 10-11 cents..... total. 3 candy bars or 3 packs of gum were 10-cents. Bazooka bubble gum was 1-cent...... and yes, I have a collection of all 50 of their cartoons. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 When I was in grade school we would scour the park for deposit bottles, turn them in at the store and buy Hostess Cupcakes or Snowballs! A steady income stream! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I can remember when Twinkies were big, moist, and tasted great!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 20 minutes ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said: I can remember when Twinkies were big, moist, and tasted great!!! Haven't tried one in decades - I'll keep the memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 The ash trays were handy to put things you didn't like to eat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I remember when my Dad came home from WWll. He was in the RCAF and when the train pulled in, all the airmen met their wives, girl friends, parents and went home. A couple of weeks later my uncle came home from the army and they had to line up, be inspected and march around a bit before they were released to go home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Used to go into J & J Anderson's and buy individual cartridges (except for .22. They wouldn't break a box of them.) Five rounds of 12 gauge, three of -06, six of long .45, etc. Deer tag was $2.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 I remember when McD's were 15 Cents and a cheeseburger was 17 cents. I could get a cheeseburger, fries and a coke for 50 cents and get change. I went to the new Five Guys burger place a few days ago. Cheeseburger, small fry, small Coke, $19.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painted Mohawk SASS 77785 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Not McDonalds but I remember in 1966 as a 13 yo riding on the main road near an army base to my favourie 'rabbit location with a Sportco auto shotgun over my shoulder & even the cops gave me a wave..yes Australia did have freedoms ...ah for the good ole' days !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Remember being able to smoke on airplanes?? And Trains?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Heck, there was a student smoking area at the High School! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Yeah! I remember when the first McDonalds opened in Nashville. Didn’t even have those “Golden Arches”!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 44 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said: Remember being able to smoke on airplanes?? And Trains?? Yeah, and I remember a flight from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C. in a Convair 240 chartered to the Army. Hit bad weather over Nebraska and some jackass up from lit up a really foul cigar. I was doing okay until someone puked and the everyone did. We set down at Offutt AFB and sat the rest of the storm out and went on ourway. The plane had been cleaned up by a ground crew who deserved medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 20 hours ago, Buffalo Creek Law Dog said: I remember when my Dad came home from WWll. He was in the RCAF and when the train pulled in, all the airmen met their wives, girl friends, parents and went home. A couple of weeks later my uncle came home from the army and they had to line up, be inspected and march around a bit before they were released to go home. My Father, a Pre-War, RCAF Regular, was an instructor at #2 AOS, Edmonton. As a babe, (Born 1943) I remember being outside at night, carried in my Mother's arms. There was a lot of shouting and people picked up my Father and carried him on their shoulders. My Mother was crying saying what I later learned was "The War is Over! The Japanese surrendered!" Funny the things that stay as memory fragments. She had her four brothers and three BIL's overseas in the Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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