lonesomebob
Hero Member
Re: Do Y'all Remember.....
I guess I really am old. You kids that came along as baby boomers, dont remember tin can collecting drives, collecting any metal that wasnt bolted down ,for scrap drives, no butter but margarine that came in a bag with a color button, we would sit on the porch,squeezing the bag to mix in the color. A B and c stickers for gas, bribed the owner of the hardware store for extra candy bars ,by mowing his lawn . one mowing = four hershey bars=20 cents for his hellish big lawn. then collecting railroad torpedos and big old bolts and nuts, to make bolt bombs,if thrown offf the porch roof on to the concrete, they would explode and fly sometimes two blocks. My grandfather used to sit in the window ,keeping count of what kind of war materiial went by, and B24 bombers check flying from Willow Run ,over jackson and Kalamazoo and back. Hightop boots with a knife pocket And knife. Now I am feeling really old. Bob
I guess I really am old. You kids that came along as baby boomers, dont remember tin can collecting drives, collecting any metal that wasnt bolted down ,for scrap drives, no butter but margarine that came in a bag with a color button, we would sit on the porch,squeezing the bag to mix in the color. A B and c stickers for gas, bribed the owner of the hardware store for extra candy bars ,by mowing his lawn . one mowing = four hershey bars=20 cents for his hellish big lawn. then collecting railroad torpedos and big old bolts and nuts, to make bolt bombs,if thrown offf the porch roof on to the concrete, they would explode and fly sometimes two blocks. My grandfather used to sit in the window ,keeping count of what kind of war materiial went by, and B24 bombers check flying from Willow Run ,over jackson and Kalamazoo and back. Hightop boots with a knife pocket And knife. Now I am feeling really old. Bob