You only turned on your headlights if it was night, or if you were in a funeral procession.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
You only turned on your headlights if it was night, or if you were in a funeral procession.

Freda's Buick turns them on and off whenever it feels like it. I only use the switch to cut them on/off in the garage, as I don't like leaving them on for five minutes with the engine off.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
You only turned on your headlights if it was night, or if you were in a funeral procession.

Yes..and in a rainstorm..but still at my discretion..

In my work truck I have the option;in my Cadillac it is automatic.

Speaking of funerals, we still have them here occasionally in a procession with lights on, police car in front of the hearse. I hadn't seen these in years.

I call them the Chevy cyclops. Whenever I see a car coming at me on the highway, middle of the day, with one headlight on, I know it is a Chevy. Do they come that way from the factory, only 1 working headlight?
C.G.B.

In Minnesota, if it is raining, lights on!

I leave mine on "Auto" all the time. They come on when they feel like it.

cgbach,In reference to your comment on the Chevys coming that way from the factory.Years ago I had a buddy that was a VW mechanic + he commented on the fact that there were NO Karman Ghias w/o a dent somewhere on the body.This was in the 70's when you still saw a lot of them so I started looking just out of curiosity.He was right,I NEVER saw a Ghia w/o a dent somewhere which came to a running joke that the last position on the assembly line was occupied by Hans w/ his ball peen hammer.

There is some good statistical evidence that having head lights on reduces.

Head on crashes by good amount.

Remember when.........The postman and the homeowner both knew what the little red flag on the mailbox meant, and how to use it? Many mailboxes no longer have red flags.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
Remember when.........The postman and the homeowner both knew what the little red flag on the mailbox meant, and how to use it? Many mailboxes no longer have red flags.

They still do around here

Remember when... Homes had one, and only one, telephone and television? The phone was black and the TV was black and white.

I'm down, Hogfarmer. And I remember Dad setting the kitchen timer when my Mom got on the horn with a friend, long-distance. Those Bell Telephone lines were truly so quiet you could actually hear a pin drop.

Remember when: You sent three boxtops and 10 cents to Kellogg's for a set of baking soda frogmen, and then checked the mailbox starting the next day and they NEVER CAME -- for at least several weeks.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Remember when: You sent three boxtops and 10 cents to Kellogg's for a set of baking soda frogmen, and then checked the mailbox starting the next day and they NEVER CAME -- for at least several weeks.

Yep, I do. I also remember giving my Dad $5 that I had saved up to order a surplus Remington rolling block from an ad in the back of American Rifleman magazine. Those were the days.

Yes indeed! I remember the rifles you could buy,Mausers + Springfields for $12.00 + under prior to 1968.

Remember when there was such a thing as a telephone party-line? I never listened-in. I swear to God.

I remember when I was 14 or 15 walking into the hardware store & buying a Rem. 552 Speeddmaster.

Here's one making the rounds.
THE YEAR WAS 1955...

Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter?

If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon? Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.

Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.

I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They're even making electric typewriters now.

It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.

It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.

I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.

Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.

The fast food restaurant is convenient for a quick meal, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.

There is no sense going on short trips any more for a weekend. It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.

No one can afford to be sick anymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for myblood.

If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a haircut, forget it.

I remember and miss my Herters catalogue,,,,

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Originally posted by jimatcat:
I remember and miss my Herters catalogue,,,,

George had a way with the adds.

True,I have'nt had a Herter's catalog since the 70's.

Remember When.....For $7.50 a Resident hunter in New Mexico could:

1. Hunt anywhere in the State during any day of the season, and .....
2. Kill one buck deer, one bear, and one turkey

I remember when you could approach a landowner/farmer,etc. + just ask him if you could hunt on his land for free.Usually the answer was yes w\especially if you were hunting birds.Even now when the hogs are devestating the corn pasture lands there are still most that want to charge you for taking care of their property. Their call of course;but when I was hunting hogs on the Steen acreage in Gonzales (the corn belt) where a pack of pigs would take out a field in a night;he was glad for the help.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
Remember when.........The postman and the homeowner both knew what the little red flag on the mailbox meant, and how to use it? Many mailboxes no longer have red flags.

Mine isn't red, it's black but it still works fine. Our carriers are even nice enough that if I don't have a stamp but I paper clip a dollar to the letter they will mail it and bring change the next day when they deliver the mail.

A lot of people complain about the USPS but in our area they provide very good service.

I'm moving to Kansas!

The flags around here stay in whatever position the postman finds it. He's too busy to lay it down.

About 40 years ago in Walburg,Tx. I knew a little old man + his wife that raised chickens.They were in the country but on an old F.M. road.He would put an ice chest down by the road with dozens of eggs in cartons + a box to put your $1.00 in for your egg purchase.Sad to say I don't think that honor system would work today;more's the pity.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
About 40 years ago in Walburg,Tx. I knew a little old man + his wife that raised chickens.They were in the country but on an old F.M. road.He would put an ice chest down by the road with dozens of eggs in cartons + a box to put your $1.00 in for your egg purchase.Sad to say I don't think that honor system would work today;more's the pity.

It still works around here, not with eggs but with vegetables from peoples gardens. There are quite a few around here that put their fresh vegetables on the porch or down at the end of their drive with a box for the money to go in.

I remember coming from football practice and stopping by the Rexall drug store for a glass of carbonated water, and some cinnamon toothpicks. We thought we were cool.

We use to have pick-your-own tomatoes. Once the soybeans were ready to harvest there were days when no one would be home to count bushels of tomatoes and collect money. School was back in session so many mothers would can then. The tomatoes were $5/bu. Returning after dark we would find up to $300 cash in a coffee can left at the edge of the field. That was a lot of money 40 years ago!

Tom

Kids used to play baseball in vacant lots. I haven't seen that in about thirty years. Most kids seem to prefer to stay inside in the A/C, playing with their smart phones, or playing video games.

Remember opening OL or F&S magazine and the ad on the inside cover listed Martini Cadets in 310 Greener for $9.95 and rechambered to 357 Mag for a few bucks more and 32 Winchester Special for yet a few buck more?
Many years later I ended up with on in what could best be described as "Long Neck 30X357 Max".

Also the AR + others (prior to 68) that had Springfields + 98 Mausers for under 10 bucks.I also must make the comment regarding the different mindset of then + now. Then,no one would ever even consider poisoning Tylenol or any other of the horrendous acts going on these days including these mass shootings of civilians.Brave new world,eh?

If you were driving from Texas or New Mexico west to California in the early 60s, that you left New Mexico in the evening so you would be driving across Arizona at night to avoid the daytime heat. No car air conditioner and a canvas bag of water hanging on the front of the car in case you or your radiator needed it.

Yes indeed I kept a canvas water bag hanging on my side mirror on my 61 Ford unibody P.U. in the early 70's + that was around here.

I miss the day when you bought a new or used gun and was given your first box of ammo for that gun for free,now they look at me like I am some kind of stupid for asking.

I still want a free glass when I fill-up with gas.

Or get some S+H Green stamps when I filled up + again at the Piggly-Wiggly grocery store.

here in Mitchell,SD our grocery store gives out stamps and when the card is filled out you save on certain items and then get gas at 6 to 10 cents off per gallon