Quick Sherman - Into the Way-Back Machine

I myself remembre the emmision passe-partout

 

No Kidding - I learned to lay in front of the TV and change the channels with my toes.

We also had our own skateboards - take the wheels off our roller skates and screw them to the bottom of a piece of plywood. Viola - skateboard.

 

Man - I loved this show!!

I think I must have watched a lot of westerns. "The Rebel"(Johnny Yuma), "Gun Smoke", "The Cisco Kid", "Palladin", and of course "Roy Rodgers and the Sons of the Pioneers"

 

it used to be much easier to meet girls when i was a kid...the first thing i would do is find out where she lives..then i would put some hockey cards with clothes pins on the wheels of my bike and ride it up amd down and around the block until i got her attention..


...by the time 'friday night skating' came around i would have worked up the nerve to ask her to ''skate with me''..which basically meant that we would hold hands and skate around the rink...this usually led to having to walk a girl home way the hell out in the middle of nowhere and freezing my ass off on the way home...but it would have been worth it if

she kissed me

 

:love: you sentimental old-timer ,you

nice memory- they,re good to hang on too
best>
jack

 

Great story - wish it was mine - particularly the kiss part

 

The boys used to ask us to go "listen to the crickets" with them.

I listened to a hell of a lot of crickets in my day.

 

I had 3 brothers and was always part of the gang or the football team. I don't think any of the boys saw me as anything other than another cowboy or indian until I was about 13years old.

 

I don't know what it was like down south where you guys grew up but up here in the great white north we only ate fresh fruits and vegetables when they were in season. The rest of the time, canned good that your Mom sweated to make, were all that we had. In the summertime, there used to be a fellow who came around in a horse and wagon who sold fresh fruit and vegetables . The one thing about him that was really great was that he offered us kids samples of what he had available. All us kids would go running to the wagon to get a tiny morsel of pears, apples, cherries and best of all-----watermelon. Needless to say, after one taste, we went begging to our moms to buy some! Smart businessman~ wasn't he???
By the way, Granny, when we were kids, we used to tell this joke:
and it went something like this.........
A young fellow and his girlfriend were out one evening, listening to crickets. She pleasantly said : "my, there are an awful lot of crickets out tonite" and he slyly grinned, "them ain't crickets- them's zippers". oh well, what can you expect - I was only 8 or 9 yrs old when I first heard that.

PAX

 

LOL ... oh, I knew what they were all right.

 

I really liked the song ,we would sing it all time .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZzY6KZuLUo"]YouTube - Have Gun Will Travel

PAX

 

Yeah - me too -
From memory - Paladan, Paladin, where do you roam. Paladin, Paladin, far far from home. Your fast gun for hire meets the calling wind. Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of --- Paladin.

 

Ok, there was a movie some years back with a scene of a group of young boys singing that song, but I can't remember the movie. Anybody else remember it?

(Dang it, Doright ... now I'm gonna be singing that song all day long!!)

 

Of which there were only two or three ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2LHlZRVrQ"]YouTube - The Ballad of Paladin Stand by me film


I think all kids sang it back then.
PAX

 

Oh yes, that's it ...

Thanks PAX

Here's another one that we used to sing as kids ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTfdiHxYivA"]Zorro

 

Remember those transparancies with the red yellow blue green stripes that you could tape on to your black and white?they had blue at the top for sky reddish orange in the middle for faces and a green one across the bottom for grass i guesss..if you were half blind they were fine:mickey:

 

Remember Cherry bombs & M-80's - I don't know if you can get them any more. I remember going up to the fireworks stand and the guy reaching under some hay and pulling out the Cherry bombs. Why do we still have all our fingers?

I remember having a wasp fly in my ear and I slapped my hand over my ear and couldn't take it off - I was immobile. I'm still afraid of wasp.