Ot-would you like to go back to a slower time?

[plyroadking]

what really scares me is the thought of restoring a '09 car/truck with a grandchild and taking it to a car show in 50 years

[Young Ed]

I'm sure Superior itself probably doesn't have much in the way of gravel roads anymore. Our cabin is about 50 miles south of superior on WI35 and there are plenty of dirt and gravel roads by us. One of the roads was scheduled to be redone but after the old pavement was removed the tornado happened and used up all the budget. Maybe this summer it'll get finished.

Edited March 27, 2012 by Young Ed

[Merle Coggins]

Superior Wisconsin , population 27,000 . The population was 32,000 when I lived there . Just a few miles from Duluth , Mn .

Did you take 5000 people with you when you left?

Yup, that would be northern Wisconsin. Not many points further north in the state without getting your feet wet.... And like Ed says, still many gravel roads once you're out of town.

[Bingster]

I think that it's pretty natural for most adults - if they had a good childhood growing up - to look back and see their youth as the good old days.

[Joe Flanagan]

I know I've posted this before, but this thread makes me think of that time I went into a parts store looking for a mechanical temp gauge and the kid went to his manager and translated my request into "old school temp gauge." They pointed me in the direction of the timing lights.

[Don Coatney]

I'm sure Superior itself probably doesn't have much in the way of gravel roads anymore. Our cabin is about 50 miles south of superior on WI35 and there are plenty of dirt and gravel roads by us. One of the roads was scheduled to be redone but after the old pavement was removed the tornado happened and used up all the budget. Maybe this summer it'll get finished.

One thing I like about Tennessee is you have to look really hard to find an unpaved road. In Indiana there are unpaved roads at the exits on the freeway.

[Young Ed]

I don't the cabin would feel quite right if it wasn't for the 10miles of mixed roadways leading through the woods. My plymouth travels this route couple times a year.

[pflaming]

I was born in '38. We got electricity in '48, telephone in '51, TV in '55. We lived at the end of the road on the edge of the sandhills. We got a road to our farmstead in '53. We had no neigbors to the East or South. Just sections of grass land.

I milked cows twice a day, 7 days a week, gathered eggs, and brought in corn cobs for the cooking stove, (my daily chores). I slept in the basement, no heat, and drove to high school in a '38 chevy pickup and later in a '47 chevy sedan, see attachments.

We had a solar water heater and green electricity so I guess in some ways we were ahead of the times.

Go back??? Would like a nice little acreage and a coupleof horses at the end of the road. Solitary is becoming nicer all the time, so working on my truck is a great retirement hobby.

Chickens: I would bet there isn't one kid in a thousand who knows how to dehead a chicken, pull feathers, and draw the innards. Probably only those who hunt.

Edited March 27, 2012 by pflaming
Drawing Chickens

[blucarsdn]

The good ole days were not so good... I was born in 1934, I was raised in Eastern Idaho, I know all about outhouses, no central heat and temps that ranged from thirty below zero to 100 + in the summer.

I went to work at my first paying job when I was 14 as a ceramic tile helper, my wage.. .65 cents an hour..

I remember when my father had a new home built in 1949, it had central heat, an oil furnace in the basement that had a large oil tank buried in the yard.

One morning we awoke to a very cold house, the furnace had quit... Dad and I tried our best to get it working to no avail... Finally I went out in the yard, moved the snow off of the oil tank fill pipe and stuck the measuring rod down into the tank... NO OIL... 500 gallon's gone in just a few short weeks. That house was never warm again.

Would I go back... Never, modern life is great...

Several years ago I did buy 32 acres in a very rural section of Idaho... No power, an out house and very few neighbors.. Many of my relatives/friends wanted to know if I was going to move out to the 'ranch' to retire.. My response... are you nuts? A week or so is enough for me, then I get in my self contained motor home, fire up the big diesel engine and head for home in California...

Memories are great, however, reliving them is not a long term option...

[PatS....]

How about this for jogging some memories. Our SS Kresge's was almost identical to this, no tables just the U shaped counter.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/775?size=_original

[Frank Elder]

I'm sure that in this world today and at the rate it is changing that your kids will look back and say, "what I'd give to relive the good ole days.." I grew up in a very rural area..had acres of land to run on, no such thing as trespass, lakes and streams to fish and swim in..mountains to climb, sled riding and hunting..raising your own garden, helping the grandparents on Saturday in the fields and then having a mini reunion every couple weeks with good food and games..most kids today would keel over if they had to use muscles other than their two thumbs..

I have 4 grandsons they participate in almost everything you mentioned....they pay for it though, I work em liked rented mules in the morning then the rest of the day belongs to them, no electronic games on the farm, no cable, one hour each of laptop a day......for 2 weeks every summer.

[Smokeybear]

I found an old photo of my hometown back in the late 40's hanging on the wall of a cafeteria of the local grocery store. They were doing some renovations so I asked the manager what he was going to do with the picture. He said I could have it. It shows main street with not one but TWO P15's in it. The black one looks very similar to mine so I'm hanging it in my office. Here's a picture of the picture...

[Frank Elder]

I found an old photo of my hometown back in the late 40's hanging on the wall of a cafeteria of the local grocery store. They were doing some renovations so I asked the manager what he was going to do with the picture. He said I could have it. It shows main street with not one but TWO P15's in it. The black one looks very similar to mine so I'm hanging it in my office. Here's a picture of the picture...

A while back Don C. compared the over all designs between the plymouth and ford, as much better looking as the plymouth is ford was still king....

Edited March 27, 2012 by FRANKIE47

[40P10touring sedan]

I was born in '65...grew up with muscle cars, howdey doody reruns, old flash gordon movies...."I" was the TV remote and there were only 6 channels to choose from then. No cell phones, no computers...the fanciest thing was my Texas Instrument red LED wrist watch! Saw many a muscle car parked in groups on the main drag thru town as a teen and we had two 1340's marked off outside of town{which is now part of the town} to race on for bragging rights and sometimes cash. We were surrounded by cornfields then, the main drag had it's batches of stores to shop from...no malls, as kids we could play out till 9pm or when dad whistled for us, with no threats to our safety- unless we weren't home by that 3rd whistle...knew that a belt was for more than holding up pants{ouch}, Kick the can/baseball/football/tree forts/bicycles with cards flapping on the spokes/pedal car races/hotwheels/models/pulling out the scout knife and whittling something- it was all good. The in our school teachers were Nuns {with rulers}, and I personnaly tossed up many a lawn jart{dart?} to watch it come down near me and lived to tell about it. Loved every B movie out there caused it scared the heck out of me...man, I wish I could give all that to my kids now!!!