How many remember Gus Wilson?

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

Growing up I always along with my dad would eagerly await the new monthly issue of Popular Science Magazine. Our favorite part was always reading the short, informative stories of Gus Wilson's Model Garage and the problems his customers brought in for him and Stan to fix. My dad in his garage had a place were he would save these issues. 

One can get all the stories and read them for free here. Maybe some may remember Gus?

https://www.gus-stories.org/

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Never read "Popular Science".
My go to read as a pre-teen was....

[Blackwater 53393]

Mine was Mechanix Illustrated…

 

It had/has lots of automotive stuff and offered neat DIY projects and even some gun stuff occasionally.

 

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

Yeah, I was a teenage nerd, grew into an adult nerd.

 

Thanks to an older cousin who got a degree in Electronics Engineering and wound up building guidance systems for Boeing, I bought more than one issue of

 

 

 

 

[Pat Riot]

Mine…

 

[Dirty Dan Dawkins]

30 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Mine…

 

Figured….🤣

[Michigan Slim]

[Blackwater 53393]

I went from Mechanix Illustrated to Hot Rod Magazine to The National Dragster!

 

Seemed like a natural progression to me at the time!

 

 

But yeah!! I remember Barbie Benton too!!

[Pat Riot]

Actually, when I was a kid my Dad didn’t subscribe to or allow me to subscribe to magazines. My Mom did get me a subscription to MADD magazine for one year. 
One day my Dad picked up one of my MADD magazines and literally read one page, tore it up and threw it away then went off on my Mom and me over “bringing idiocy into our home”. Me, being the me, I couldn’t help myself and said “Then why are you here?”. 
Man, did he beat my butt! It was worth it. 

 

I was nuts over Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Outdoor Life, Field and Stream and a few others that our public library subscribed to and kept in their “Periodicals” section. I spent a lot of time at our public library as a kid. 
 

But, I did trade a pocket knife for that issue of Playboy above. My butthead little brother told my Mom about it and where I had it hidden. Got me 3 cracks with the paddle. 
 

I had a tough backside as a kid. 

[Blackwater 53393]

42 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

 

I had a tough backside as a kid. 

 

Yeah!  I heard my old man tell my mom one time that I had “…a head like iron and an ass like saddle leather!”

 

Mom never found the girly magazines though! 

[Texas Jack Black]

12 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Mine…

 

 I remember her well. 

[Pat Riot]

43 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

 

Yeah!  I heard my old man tell my mom one time that I had “…a head like iron and an ass like saddle leather!”

 

Mom never found the girly magazines though! 

My Mom had help. I am the oldest of my brothers and sisters. My youngest brother and the oldest of my 3 sisters were always in cahoots to tell on me every time they got a chance. Heck, they made stuff up at times, for their own entertainment. Brats! 
Oddly enough, now they claim that they do not remember any of that stuff.  

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Yep!!  Got a sister just like that!! 
 

And she’s an exteme lefty liberal now too!!

[Eyesa Horg]

My sister would sit watching TV with myself and the other sister. She would rub her upper arm and then suddenly start screaming. My parents would come running to see what happened. "Steven hit me", " let me see the mark" said one of them. She'd roll up her sleeve to expose a very red upper arm and I get grounded and of course, the belt!

[Texas Maverick]

5 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

My sister would sit watching TV with myself and the other sister. She would rub her upper arm and then suddenly start screaming. My parents would come running to see what happened. "Steven hit me", " let me see the mark" said one of them. She'd roll up her sleeve to expose a very red upper arm and I get grounded and of course, the belt!

Should have gone ahead and hit her and really earn the punishment you were going to get. LOL   Maybe then she would quit that crap. 

 

TM

[Eyesa Horg]

5 minutes ago, Texas Maverick said:

Should have gone ahead and hit her and really earn the punishment you were going to get. LOL   Maybe then she would quit that crap. 

 

TM

You're right!!! Unfortunately I was taught to never hit a girl!! That's a rule I'd of liked to disobey occasionally!

[Dirty Dan Dawkins]

On 8/5/2024 at 11:15 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:

I went from Mechanix Illustrated to Hot Rod Magazine to The National Dragster!

 

Seemed like a natural progression to me at the time!

 

 

But yeah!! I remember Barbie Benton too!!

Who could forget her?

[Grumpy Old Man]

Barbie's birthday is same as mine.

[Blackwater 53393]

2 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Barbie's birthday is same as mine.

She obviously got the looks!  What’d you get? 

[Texas Maverick]

On 8/6/2024 at 8:53 AM, Eyesa Horg said:

You're right!!! Unfortunately I was taught to never hit a girl!! That's a rule I'd of liked to disobey occasionally!

yeah, same here. Some times I would have to really look hard at the definition of a girl so see if she really fit into that category. Some of them were just not lady like and deserved hitting.

 

TM

[Grumpy Old Man]

8 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

She obviously got the looks!  What’d you get? 

To get to see her nekid.

[Cypress Sun]

My parents ordered National Geographic, Reader Digest and two newspapers, The St. Pete Times and the Clearwater Sun (St. Pete Times is now the Tampa Bay Times and is a left wing paper and the Clearwater Sun went out of business 40 years ago mol).

 

I liked going to my Grandparents house because he had Popular Mechanics, True Detective and Argosy magazines that I would read cover to cover multiple times.

 

In the teenage years, I had Playboy and Penthouse magazines that were well hidden. They never found that hiding place until many years after I moved out when they were selling the house and only because I showed them where it was. When I was about 10 or so, I found that the raised wooden shoe rack that spanned the length of my closet lifted up and had plenty of room under it. When I showed them were my hiding place was all those years later, there was still an old Playboy under it.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

Wilson ?  ....... wasn't he "Tim the Toolman Taylor"'s neighbour  🙃