Maybe a little bit?

I remember being able to get $.50 at one place when I first started driving ('91). Didn't pay too much attention for the first 15 years

I love that...

Yes................yes you are.
Time is a very weird thing.
I remember in da early 70s, thinking that the 50s was sooooo long ago.......it may as well have been the stone ages as far as I was concerned.........even though it was only 15-20 years prior.

Now, I’m like, heck, the 80s wasn’t THAT long ago...




Ok Boomer...

A lot of good music in them 50s. I am not nearly old enough to listen to it when it was new but I appreciate that period in music, in fact, 50s country music is the only country music I don't find to be crap. I was born in 82 and it seems like things are slowing down. Then I see some random news program show a clip from 2000 and I am like "Man, video quality was crap back then." yet still, without those reminders, it feels like 2000-2020 wasn't that impressive.

on the day after my 60th birthday, I think it was JadeRose who said I was now one day closer to 100 than to 20.

The day I heard my oldest daughter refer to the "classic rock" station as the "Oldies" station I about lost it.

Crap. OK. Damn.#-o

Good point, I've decided to start making more out of the dash between my birth date and death date!!!

Told my wife that I need to start writing down many of the life episodes and jobs that I've survived. You would be surprised at how much kids and grandkids wish they had some of those details, LONG after their parents and grandparents are around to tell them.

I don't have many, but still have a few regrets. One, that I didn't get my Granny's picked beet recipe, although there's a brand on the Walmart and grocery shelves that's almost identical. Also that I didn't get my Grandaddy a bottle of the GOOD moonshine I was getting in my teen years. My father would get him a pint of Sour Mash every so often, he just took a sip every so often, just before bedtime for his nerves, he said. He made moonshine during the depression and told me MANY stories about his escapades. He evaded the "revenuers" many times, only had one shotgun pellet that went thought the cartilage in his ear, always got away, LOL. He said that one time, he spent all night hiding in a tree, sun came up, he looked all around and shinnied down that tree and boogied back to his place. He was 60 when I was born and in his late 70's, he and I cleaned part of the high school. I helped him as janitor after school almost all of my high school years. The man NEVER stopped working. When he passed at 80, he had the local Doctor's and the Pharmacist's push mowers in his little basement area. He would've had them fixed by spring. Never went to school a day in his life, his Father put him to work at 8, walking miles between log cutting camps with meals and orders, sometimes he said it was after dark before he would even get home! The State bought that area in the 40's, I think. It's the largest State Park in TN. He knew every trail around that area.
INterstate 40 goes right through the middle of it and we have a family cemetery in the Park. Me, my kids and current wife are about the only folks that ever go there. My 3rd Gr. Grandfather is the oldest burial in the cemetery. It was grown over in '81 when my Grandfather, Granny and parents re-found it and the State cleared it and put some timber type fencing around the graves.

3rd Gr. Grandfather migrated from the Cary, NC area (Cary just happens to be our last name as well) to that spot in the 1830's-40's and he had a 160 acre land grant. I-40 goes right through where his property was, he had 11 children with the same lady!!! His youngest child was younger than his oldest grandchild!!!! All his children survived!!! I found a copy of that land grant as a young teen in the local COUnty Court House basement in the early 70's while doing genealogy research with my Mother.

I remember gas being as low as $.22. I also remember it being above $1.50 during the Oil Crisis.

Yeah...........the gas lines!
In those days I was on a motorcycle (Honda 305) and didn’t have far to go between work and school, so it never really impacted me. I’d keep a gas can filled in da garage, or siphon some off a roommate (for a beer or two) in a pinch.

Very cool stories numismaniac! Thanks for sharing them.

Quite welcome. If I can help just one person to add to their "dash" in life, it's worth the typing and pain.

I've been told MANY times that I need to wrote some books, likely so, but I can't travel around to promote them and all, did some research and once you sell so many per week, I think, you have to hit the NYC morning shows, etc to REALLY push those books. OR, already be famous, hehe

I also warn folks that I can tell stories and life experiences for DAYS, LMAO!


I live by the adage that Every day above ground's a good 'un! I tell that anytime I'm asked how I'm doing.

While working the waterways, I was told by almost every captain and pilot that while that went on, there were hundreds of fuel barges and LARGE tankers in a LARGE fleet sitting just off the Intercoastal, south of New Orleans. Makes ya wonder just how much truth there is to the fact that it's always about control, and money!!??!?!

LOL, sorry, midmo, you know this place and we can take a thread sideways pretty fast, at least it didn't turn "gay", and NO, I'm not PC

Don't worry about Midmo, if he gives you any chit we will lock him up in room 101.

What’s everybody’s view on Tesla stock?