Nostalgia anyone......

[jazzman]

I had a stingray too but mine was a five speed. Used to play hell keeping the chain adjusted so it wouldn't slip off the sprockets lol. BTW...58 here too.

[dogdayz]

I was late learning how to ride a bike, up til then I kneeled in my radio flyer wagon and pushed myself around.

[bigbadbrother]

Only if you lived in SoCal in the early 60s would have seen this.The Donut Truck

[dukeathome]

I feel like the kid here 57

[bigbadbrother]

[The Cobra]

He better have... I made 75 cents on a daily basis doing my paper route on my Schwinn Stingray w/metal saddlebags no less...lol


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cool.........did you have a metal carrier of the front too missy?................I just couldn`t resist LOL

[The Cobra]

Hutch caught delivering papers...........




You gotta know I`m wetting myself laughing right now................

[The Cobra]

This is the store where we used to go to select our bikes............

[hutch]

I did give the milk route up and got a paper route also. Was a long route and I wouldn't be exaggerating at 2 miles. 60 some papers. I know I was tired at end of each day.
The last stop on my route was a farm and it was a long walk down his drive. That drive or field in front of the farm house is now a subdivision. I just moved into that subdivision(farmer field) in the past year. I still find it hard to believe.

my route was about that long... & hilly so it took me a few hours... I had to load up twice(20-30 each time)... I had an inner circle & an outer circle... the bike had 3 speeds... didn't mind the hills but Spartan the dalmation & a couple other dogs on the route would try to bite me on occasion... It ended when I hit the curb & wrecked while being chased by two other dogs... Of course for them it was all about the chase... as soon as I went down they left...lol

[chicot60]

EATING IN THE FIFTIES

• Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.

• Curry was a surname.

• A take-away was a mathematical problem.

• Pizza? Sounds like a leaning tower somewhere.

• Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.

• All chips were plain.

• Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.

• A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

• Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

• Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.

• Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves, and never green.

• Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

• Chickens didn't have fingers in those days.

• None of us had ever heard of yogurt.

• Healthy food consisted of anything edible.

• Cooking outside was called camping.

• Seaweed was not a recognized food.

• 'Kebab' was not even a word, never mind a food.

• Sugar enjoyed good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.

• Prunes were medicinal.

• Surprisingly muesli was readily available. It was called cattle feed.

• Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.

• Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more thangasoline for it they would have become a laughing stock.

• The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties... was elbows!

[chicot60]

From the Eaton's Christmas Catalogue, 1960

[hutch]

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[hedley]

[The Cobra]

These things had one major defect...............a hole the size of a fist would appear in less then a month of the purchase date......

[dogdayz]

I remember getting the Eatons and Simpson Sears catalogs. When I asked my father for something in the catalog he would tell me to get the scissors and he would cut it out for me.