txtrophy85
Veteran Tracker
Reged: 08/12/05
Posts: 3317
Loc: San Antonio
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"Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. "
What genius decided to take them off the floor board? I liked it better on the floor board.
my first truck had the switch on the floor....seemed to work better that way. i can remeber filling my truck up for $0.82 a gallon.
we played outside, had no internet and if we wanted to go somewhere we rode our bikes.
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cody
Tracker
Reged: 09/22/04
Posts: 918
Loc: Abilene TX
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I'm only 30 and I remember 16! I remember seeing or hearing about the other nine but did not have first hand experience with skate keys and the like... We kinda grew up "behind the times." I especially remember the wringer. At about 4 years old I had a first hand experience with one of the electric variety. The Co-op used to have one out by the gas pumps with chamois in the tub to wash you wind shield. I was always amazed my the rolling and squishing of the wringer and one day got a little two close and experienced the rolling and squishing first hand. All the way to about 4 inches above the elbow on my right arm. An old man ran over and kicked it in reverse and rolled'er back out the way she came in. I'll never forget the blue arm I had for several weeks after that.
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birdtracker
Outdoorsman
Reged: 01/08/08
Posts: 51
Loc: Stratford, TX
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"Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. "
What genius decided to take them off the floor board? I liked it better on the floor board.
I heard they were gonna move them back to the floor!!
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Too many aggies are getting their foot caught in the Steering Wheel 
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psycho0819
Tracker
Reged: 08/20/05
Posts: 646
Loc: Kaufman, Texas
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mothers NEVER left(forgot) their kids in hot cars! 
37 here. I scored 16 myself.
And I was given two choices when I acted up in a store...Go sit in the HOT car 'til Mom was done shopping, or get a butt blistering right there in front of god and everybody. But we were allowed to roll the windows down.
And then there was the saying, when I was really young, "stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about"!
And I own a truck with the key in the dash, and dimmer on the floor.'71 Chevy...Wouldn't trade it for two new trucks.
Jay
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hutchag
Light Foot
Reged: 09/06/08
Posts: 17
Loc: NW Houston/Cypress
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I remember being able run the neighborhood without my parents worrying about us getting snatched, molested, etc. Heck we were expected to run the neighborhood and play sports in the vacant lot until we were whistled home by my Dad! And man can he whistle.
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cibolo
Pro Tracker
Reged: 02/05/08
Posts: 1041
Loc: central texas
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i remember the party line's and my grandpa's 3 minute rule,if you can't get it said in 3 minute's write em' a letter.
the outhouse and those cold winter nights and wandering what the corn cob was all about.
wandering why grandma made us wash clothes outside in a tub and that musical instrument you saw on hee haw.
hanging clothe's on a line.
3 on a tree and learning how to drive on country roads with the cool great aunt who packed a pistol and thought wrestling was real.
and playing outside until it was time for dinner and then going outside again if there was enough light.
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Seadog
Pro Tracker
Reged: 09/26/07
Posts: 1405
Loc: East Texas
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Remember when you could actually work on the engine of you truck without a degree in electronics?
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Why are we here if not to wish on stars, build sandcastles, dream dreams, and let others know we care about them.
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jgiles
Veteran Tracker
Reged: 04/19/07
Posts: 2300
Loc: Grapevine
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"Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. "
What genius decided to take them off the floor board? I liked it better on the floor board.
I heard they were gonna move them back to the floor!!
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Too many aggies are getting their foot caught in the Steering Wheel
Thank God I'm went to Tarleton the best "Part of the A&M System"
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Bullseye
Light Foot
Reged: 08/21/08
Posts: 19
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I remember I refused to buy a car because it had a dimmer switch on the column didn't think anyone would ever go for that. I remembered 21 and much of the added. How about hair-oil, dippity-do, clackers. Playing marbles with the whole family. Vulcanizing patches for your tires and using them yourself. Bull Durham cigarette tobacco as well as the chewing tobacco.
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rstewlandman
Tracker
Reged: 10/17/07
Posts: 787
Loc: Brownsboro, Texas
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1. Blackjack chewing gum --what??? no wrigley?
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water --yuck
3. Candy cigarettes--like when i was 4...mom wouldntever buy them 4 me
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles---at the barber shop when I was little...all the barbers are now dead
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side juke boxes=uh Waffle House...duh
6 Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppe rs--when did they stop doing this...before my lifetime
7. Party lines- is that like a Rave
8. Newsreels before the movie- My kids watch ANNIE they are before...my boy says...u need to rewind it...lol
9. P. F. Flyers- not a clue
10.Butch wax-see answer above
11.Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)- how did u dial
12.Peashooters- is that like a potato gun?
13.Howdy Doody-that was real?
14.45 RPM records thats what they mix with at the club
15.S&H Green Stamps-no bells ringin here
16 Hi-fi's is that like Wi-Fi
17.Metal ice trays with lever- we have a metal lever on ours here...keeps the ice from overflowing?
18.Mimeograph paper---really?
19 Blue flashbulb- like a black light huh...
20.Packards the packers were good then too?
21.Roller skate keys- they lock?
22.Cork popguns--well I'm glad those arent around anymore..
23.Drive-ins Sonic is still kickin
24.Studebakers-cadilacs
25.Washtub wringers---like a shammy ringer at the carwash...see they still exist
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Live like no one else, so later I can live like no one else....Dave Ramsey
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Big_Orn
THF Celebrity
Reged: 10/12/04
Posts: 11002
Loc: Simms, Texas
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nuts you had to shell on your own!
Them dang Walnuts. Just took too much work to eat. 
What about real Black Walnuts?! You had to peel them with a thick-bladed knife and then crush them in a vice.  
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Life's funny...huh?
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