The Fonz on Happy days, would walk up to anything that wasn't working and give a thump of his fist. Everything would suddenly be right again...


ehyyy!

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/fonz.html

 

Im in a diffrent time frame than you my friend, however I am rebuilding a Model A engine now for my gramps. Hes been away for the winter and the truck has been in his garage since 87. He loved that truck and the engine lost a bearing in her. Im fixing it now with a total rebuild because that was a great memory for me... riding around with gramps in his Model A

 

dad used to tell stories of my granfather when he drove his model t dad said the front of the front fenders were all dented up from grandpa loosing his temper starting it and beating the hand crank on the fenders. "that 'll learn it" he would say. he was a blacksmith and prefered horse to cars.

 

I remember my Dad being stationed at Toul Rosierre (sp) just outside of Nancy, France in '57; Ramstein AB, Germany in '59, listening to Hank Williams, Ferlun Husky, Hank Snow, Bobby Helms, Lefty Frizelle, and so many others; running away from home in '61 and getting my butt whipped when I got back, $.29 gas and $.10 bulk oil from the Humble station in Fresno, a 3-room school house in Brenda, CA, going cross-country (from Sherman, TX to Madera, CA) in a '53 Chrysler wagon, and most of the 'rock & roll' songs from the early '60s on up. I also remember my oldest son's birth and death (almost 23 years apart), and weeping with joy when my grandson was born last year.

Wayne

 

Farmer, did that intercom ever have problems when the twine in between the soup cans went slack?

Dodgecowboy, I also remember the rajihneshee's. My godparents ate at Shakeys and ended up with food poisoning from them. And they ruined a really neat area of the state.

I remember trips with my parents/grandparents to that area as a child. That area does not seem the same now as it did then. Maybe I am just getting older.

 

back them we didn't have twine we were a wire bale only farm. my dad was a lineman and my oldest brother would get him to bring home what he needed for his projects . dad still has two of them old desk top magneto phones. hang on to them wire and crank wow.

 

Farmer, I was making light of the old soup can and twine phones like in the "old" cartoons. I was sure it was more upgraded than the ol' boyscout stuff.

And yes, those things have a bite.

 

i figured so . we used to have a pair of them soup cans and you know i think it worked better than my cell phone . course they both have dropped calls.

 

I remember.....
-when i thought 400HP was plenty of power for my truck
-crawlin hundreds of miles on my knees playin with my toy tractors
-when one thing i wanted the most was a real batman cape
-looking at the sears christmas wish book
-when we used to rides bikes everywhere instead of 4wheelers
-those little "slap braclets"
-when i couldnt wait to get to mow the yard
-when i thought it was cool to have to shave
-spending many hours with my bb gun out in the yard and fields on the hunt for the elusive "Blackbird"
-playin hide and go seek
-when recess was the highlight of the day
-shootin basketball with my cousins everyday after school
-when we didnt worry about locking the doors
-when the only thing i had to worry about was what flavor of kool aid i wanted mom to make and whether to play with tractors or ride bikes
-when dad let me shoot a real gun for the first time
-when i thought $1 was a lot of money
-riding on the hay wagon with my grandpa while grandmother drove the tractor
-when granddaddy let me mow my first field of hay all by myself

 

Yeah, you're answer was way better. I'd forgotten what a whiny, irritating thing Sally Struthers was. Got me thinking about Archie, Edith and Meathead. I got a buddy that can imitate Edith singing to a tee. I blew beer out of my nose the first time I heard him.

This was a great idea for a thread.

 

up till i got that image in my head.... i can't knock it out...

yeah, remember playing "kick the can" with ALL the cousins.

one family lived in Gary Indiana, and they would drive down ~14 hours,
and the WHOLE clan would stay up and wait on them, no matter how late, even the kids,

and then the men would rehash the whole drive for hours.

and then we had a pile of kids for kick the can.

"an age of innonence"

 

don't want to live in the past , but , it sure is nice to visit it once in a while. i wanted one of those little light generators that ran on your bicylcle wheels. If i had one of them wow , I wouldn't have wanted another thing in life. (now its just one more cummins)