Do You Remember When?

[Jim1927]

4th sign

99 jars

 

[Jim1927]

5th sign

Burma Shave

 

[Hackett]

'Oh you'll wonder where the yellow went
when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!'

 

[flaglady]

You can tell an Englishman, but you can't tell him much! Sure, we know it all.......
Jim

In the hospitals round London we had a slightly different take on that "You can always tell a Bart's man - but you can't tell him much!"

Mind, it didn't stop me from trying!




Explanation for others - Barts was a great London Hospital St Bartholomews in Smithfield (the meat market! - very appropriate!) and when I was working in Harlow, we used to have orthopaedic registrars from there as part of the their training. Very bossy chaps, some of them!!

 

[kw5kw]

"A little dab will do ya!"

BrylCreem

 

[Hackett]

"A little dab will do ya!"

BrylCreem

Now more than ever !!

 

[Jim1927]

Well, London gents were very chauvenistic, I don't have to tell you. There is even a law, still on the books: "It is illegal to beat your wife after 9M." Just by way of explanation, this is actually a noise violation.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Lenora56]

'Oh you'll wonder where the yellow went
when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!'

I remember that one.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

Where's the beef.

 

[Jim1927]

Rad, wasn't Camels one of the first tobacco companies to be sued?

Cheers.

Jim

 

[bcauser]

How about when bikes had real tires(wide ones) and a basket on the handles bars and a bell? Oh yea and fenders on the tires; washing and waxing it and then putting crape paper on the wheels and handle bars to ride in the parades(which I only did a few times because I was always in the band). On time for my birthday my parents finally bought me the bike I just "had" to have. It was called a Eng. bike with the skinny tires and brakes on the handles. Well my Dad told me to NOT to ride up and down the curbs with it because the tires would pop!!Like a kid I said yaya and off I went. We rode all over the place that day up and down curbs and all over ,nothing happened. Well about the fifth time I went down a Large curb and I heard a pop and lost control and fell!! Looked at my tire and sure enough it blew!! Well I thought and thought, knew I was in trouble for sure. Then I remembered we knew the local gas station guy. Took the bike to him and he patched the tire and I think I had a $1 and gave it to him and said he would make it out secret!! Well the summer before my Dad died I wrote of a letter and told him what he meant to me. I just happened to mention the tire incident,after he got the letter he told me he had known all these years about the tire, and figured I would tell him when I was ready, also the man who had fixed it eventually worked for my Dad at the Firestone Stone Store(remember this store) and told him how upset I was about what I had done, he thought that was punishment enough Dad agreed!
He was a great Dad and it was a great bike. Didn't end up liking it as much as the regular bike with the wide tires because the skinny ones kept popping.
Bless
B

 

[davidklewis]

Speaking of flat tires: My first car was a 1940 Ford. I drove it across a harvested wheat field to go see my girlfriend. The next week I had three flat tires, so I went and bought new tires. Four tires, 7.50X16, mounted,balanced, and installed was $25.00. But that was a week's wages.

 

[Jim1927]

oh, David, and $4.00 would "fill 'er up, please!" Including a windscreen wash, oil checked and radiator topped up if needed.......Those were the days, my friend, we thought the'd never end......................"

And yes, not to forget the wage! I came out of college with a Masters and received $22.00 weekly. Thought I was a millionaire.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Hackett]

Millionare indeed. My first real paycheck seemed like so much money. I could hardly imagine what I would spend it all on. I would hoard some of it stashing it in letters I kept in a little wooden box. Sometime later I surely was glad to rediscover my hiding place and the suprises in those envelopes. I could have put it in the bank but that would have meant walking long blocks to the bus stop and riding several miles away to the bank....that could be a 1/2 day wasted.

 

[davidklewis]

My first real job paid $0.75/hr. It was at a greenhouse. The next year I got a 25 cent raise--"We're in the money!" The guy who owned it got mad at me for leaving a shovel out over night. He said, "I wonder if you're worth a dollar an hour.." I set my wheelbarrow down and told him to pay me up if that's the way he felt. He sort of apologized, and I finished the season with him.

That fall I got a job at the dime store. I made a whopping $1.45.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

Well I don't remember what I made as a bus boy at the Italian restaurant but I know I could eat anything I wanted and usually had steak. Started when I was 14. What's so really unique is that the restaurant is still there with the same name.

After I got married my very first weekly check of $75 went to buy a new camera. Talk about selfish.

 

[fieldlily]

Speaking of flat tires: My first car was a 1940 Ford. I drove it across a harvested wheat field to go see my girlfriend. The next week I had three flat tires, so I went and bought new tires. Four tires, 7.50X16, mounted,balanced, and installed was $25.00. But that was a week's wages.

When I was in college the guy I was dating owned a 1953 Plymouth...red and white with a standard transmission. He taught me to drive so I learned on that car. I didn't get my license until some years later when my husband and I were first married. The surprising thing was that we also owned a 1953 Plymouth (four door) but it was blue and white and standard transmission.

birdie

 

[leytonstones]

I learnt to drive in a three wheel Reliant and a Ford Cortina estate but it was some years before I got around to taking my test so I took my test in a Ford Sierra, having sacked my driving instructor.

 

[Hackett]

I did not learn to drive until after my son was born. There was no point since my DH was in the service and I went everywhere on the bus. MY how things have changed...now kids think they must have a car before they are old enough to have a valid license.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

Take the front bumper off the the V insignia off the hood and it looks exactly like mine when I was a kid.

Took it out when we had ice storms and went to the first shopping mall in St.Louis county and did "donuts" on their parking lot.