I'm 47 but I can remember .20 cent gas, sometimes lower when a gas war was going on. And when it hit $1 and no one had pumps that went that high so it was sold by the half gallon.. And if you were 14-15 yrs old no one asked you for an ID to buy beer or get into strip clubs.. At least in Waco.. lol

I remember Gas War prices at 12 cents/gallon. Remember 10 oz cokes at 6 cents.

Grew up surrounded by truck farms. Fresh fruit and vegetables year round from "real neighbors". Remember hot summer days, wandering into the watermelon patch, selecting the best watermelon, slicing it open, eating the "heart"(sweetest part!), and leaving the rest of it for the birds, and God's other creatures!

Remember "striking it rich" which usually meant u had a quarter in your pocket, going to the "EZ shop", getting a 16 oz Mr. Cola(10 cents), a pack of Tom's or Lance's salted peanuts, or a moon pie, a nickel pack of Topps Baseball cards with the bubblegum stick in them, and 5 jaw breakers! 10 cents for Mister cola, 5 cents for the mooon pie or the peanuts, nickel for the baseball cards, and penny apiece jawbreakers(the red hot ones were the best!)

Across the fields opposite the truck farms was 5 mile creek, and Wes Nunnally's gravel pits. I remember fresh clear water(back then)channel and blue cats from the creek, and monster "white perch"(crappie), bluegills and fat thick bodied, brilliantly colored black bass from the Gravel pits! I remeber Woozie Strawberry soda, Grapette,and Nehi, and twin pop Popsicles!

You used to be able to cash in glass bottles(plastic soda bottles did not yet exist, 10 oz'ers for 3 cents, 16 oz'ers for a nickel. Living next to South Central Expressway(the only road to Houston back then, you could always make quick money walking the shoulder and picking up bottles to sell(people were pigs as far as littering goes, even back then!)

Minnows were a quarter a dozen, but our preferred summer bait were the big yellow grasshoppers we caught in the pasture!

You are right Ernest, Bring on the Fall and winter crappie season!

Rudy

I remember being an E-4 and going over 2 years of service, had no idea how to spend that much money. $265 a month.

What the heck is that old man babbling about?!
I've never heard of half that stuff!!!

No limit on crappie, minnows 3 doz for $1.00 and they never counted 'em, it was more like six dozen,

prices like these on fishing tackle




MO

I owned my share of those Zebco 33's! and those Garcia-Mitchells, but being left handed, that handle was on the wrong side!

remember old Johnson motors? This is the motor I fish with on a weeky basis, on a '57 Crestliner. 1954 Johnson Seahorse.

I remember when lakes were above level and it was under 100 outside.....oh and water used to fall from the sky. They called it rain way back then.

Ahhh the good ol' days.

Cajundave, you have a better memorie than me. Don't know what you're talkin about.
Okie Bob

I remember working in my grandfather's store and pumping gas by hand into an overhead sight glass and then letting it gravity flow into the cars. The measurement was by a line on the overhead glass. We got 9 cents a gallon for regular. We sold white gas from a 55 gallon drum for lanterns. It was a whopping $.15. There was no electricity. Refrigeration used butane.

My first real job was pulling cotton for $1.00 for 100 pounds.You had to furnish your own sack and gloves.

When I got older I got a job at Furr Foods for $.35 per hour wrestling 100 pound crates of lettuce or carrots or 100 pound bags of potatoes. We came in before school at 4 AM to put out fresh produce and clean up in preparation for the day, then came back after school and worked to closing at 8 or 9 o,clock. I was 13 at the time.

The only fishing was at Buffalo Springs Lake. I remember catching sunfish and catfish. No crappie or bass there in those days.

Now that's going back there. First job was at $.25 an hour at Kiddie Land when I was 13. Next year moved to $.50 an hour at Turners Boats and Motors and I was in heaven. Best gas war was in Waco in the 50s when it was 11.9 a gal. Dad was a Game Warden and that first boat was 14' with a 7.5hp Johnson. When he got the 15hp Johnson, we were flying. That first TV station had good shows like Amos and Andy; "holy mackrel Sapphire, now look here Kingfish, hhmmmm let me see there Andy". And all those Sat morning cowboy shows; Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Lash LaRue, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger. I remember being a junior in high school thinking if I could get a job after college and make $12,000 a year I'd be in tall cotton.

Kiddie Land? In Wichita Falls?

Temple

I remember when - fle-flys were about the only crappie jigs, horseshoe taps I nailed to my shoe heels, flat tires happened all the time and steel bumpers and real carjacks. Dad and I fixing the TV by taking the bad tubes down to the drugstore and testing them then trying to find the best replacement that would fit. Thinking that our TV repairman Harry was a family member because he came by so often. Hearing him say that "color TV's will never make it, just stick to black and white." Thought that Studebakers were the only car on the road. My grandad thought that kerosene, coal oil, and white gas were almost as important as a glass of milk. Attic fans and "go water the swamp cooler". At bedtime Daddy telling me and my sister to cover our heads with the sheet while he sprayed Gulf mesquito spray he had poured into the sprayer. Going to 7-11 and the man grinding us a bag of ice and then walking it out to our car. When a Snicker bar had a real paper wrapper. Two dollar a car load night at the drive-in..and I remember a country that enjoyed a wonderful nievity prior to losing JFK and the Vietnam days.

Vel-Mar Root Beer stand on Lake June in Pleasant Grove