You know you're a geezer when.......................

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

In the 50's you couldn't get away with wearing them.
Especially to school,heck a lot of schools didn't
allow "jeans or denim" of any kind.

Who pays a huge price for "per cut up" jeans?

My mom would have had a melt down if I had jeans with holes.

Oh well times are a changing.

Frank

 

[buckland]

I spent hours back in the early 70’s sewing patches on my jeans over the holes. Ok so I was a hippie with army coat too … long hair and moccasins. At least I did not pay for the look!!!

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Home grown fashion,way to go Rob.
Frank

 

[JaSAn]

.....when you cannot understand why anyone would buy brand new jeans with holes in them.

 

[ski3pin]

What's the price tag on those beauties?

 

[buckland]

Aren't they called thongs!?

 

[ski3pin]

..........................when you clearly remember the sound and smell of coffee percolating.

 

[AWG_Pics]

When you remember needing to buy mantles for the gas fueled lantern.

 

[SkyP]

I spent hours back in the early 70’s sewing patches on my jeans over the holes. Ok so I was a hippie with army coat too … long hair and moccasins. At least I did not pay for the look!!!

The Army Coat reminds me- back about 1972 when I was in college I was still a military dependent.

So one day I was deathly ill with a cold or flu or something- so I went to the Hospital on Fort Jackson SC.
I got to the gate and they would not let me in wearing an "army coat"! I had to take it off and then already being near death with a respiratory issue had to walk a 1/2 mi from parking in 20F weather. That didn't help. Good times....

 

[buckland]

My dad worked for the US Army Corp of Engineers in Natick food/gear labs where they tested everything for the foot soldier. I got a lot of discards of cool stuff. When they were working on "Tang" and other dehydrated awful food for the Gemini and Apollo missions I got to taste them all and man they were bad!

 

[ski3pin]

.....................when everyone is suggesting the apps you can't live without and you tell them you don't have a smartphone.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Does anyone remember ,know about Shmoos?
I was given a set they nest like the "Russian dolls",
in 1950.Played with them for a few years some broke
so don't know what happened to the set.Mom probably
gave them away.

That's geezer vintage.Answer after a few guesses.
Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Shmoo’s? Like Lil’ Abner Sbmoos? The ones that first appeared 18 days after my entrance to the world?

Nah, I don’t remember those, nor the Jeep character in Popeye…

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

You win the prize Steve.
Yes the Shmoos from little Abner.
Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Frank, if I remember correctly, they were tasty.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Yes they had that old plastic taste.
Frank

 

[ski3pin]

......................when your favorite t shirts are looking worn and thread bare and you just don't care.

 

[ntsqd]

......................when your favorite t shirts are looking worn and thread bare and you just don't care.

Or you think that $30 for a t-shirt that advertises the t-shirt brand is a bit ridiculous. I'll wear their shirt when they pay me the $30 to wear it. Until then I'll continue wearing all of my high school vintage t-shirts.


oops, this is the geezer thread, not the curmudgeon thread......

 

[ski3pin]

.....................when you remember being adept at pushing your own vehicle by yourself, hopping in once you got it rolling, and popping the clutch to get it started.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

A clutch,what's that?

Frank

PS I actually remember those days.
Many a time I needed to do that.
Haven't had a "clutch" car since I sold the GT 350 back in 2017.