Thread: Born in the 50's, 60, 70's...stuff we grew up with!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Ohhhh Yeah! Those rich guys who could buy the 4 pack of Co2's! Then the things would leak. Remember?

Not quite! stamped tin and maybe with luck hit a tin can at 20 feet!

Shooting fer real I had a WWII .45 Webly automatic revolver. And one of their break action air pistols in .177

A member of the Class of '55 remembers all of these.

Originally Posted by Geezer

Not quite! stamped tin and maybe with luck hit a tin can at 20 feet!

Shooting fer real I had a WWII .45 Webly automatic revolver. And one of their break action air pistols in .177

"Webly-Forsby 45, they don't make 'em any more" ...Sam Spade

Originally Posted by Geezer

Not quite! stamped tin and maybe with luck hit a tin can at 20 feet!

Shooting fer real I had a WWII .45 Webly automatic revolver. And one of their break action air pistols in .177

"Webly-Forsby 45, they don't make 'em any more" ...Sam Spade

Originally Posted by CaliforniaCajun

"Webly-Forsby 45, they don't make 'em any more" ...Sam Spade

Figures, the Japanese are the only one to remember them

I had a daisy. But the spring musta been weak wouldnt even break the old thicker bottles, the early pump up bb guns were great itd shoot through tin roofing and keep going, first real gun was a stevens over under .22 on top, 410 on the bottom....

As a child instead of xbox, online games or cell phones i hunted, trapped, and played real baseball, football n basketball outdoors year round. Spent hours just wandering the fields and creeks behind my house. If we happened to have a blizzard, wow, what a unique opportunity to go out and play in addition to skating on the frozen ponds.
Everytime I see a warning label now i think of Road Runner and Wiley Coyote. How did we survive with such violence? One of our highlights of the week was on Saturday mornings when mom returned from the store. It was pop, bologna, and potato chips watching the Lone Ranger. I didn't think there was anything better.
The biggest travesty from then to current times is music. If you ever get the opportunity to sit and watch utube videos of the music from the 60's-70's and compare it to today's commercially driven music it almost make you want to cry.

Was watching a movie last night I hadn't seen in a long, long time. Peter Sellers and the Pink Panther series, hate to say it, but they really just don't make such classic movies like this anymore. Aside from the Pink Panther, the other classic we watched was, "The Party", we all, even the teenagers in the room, couldn't believe how awesome it was, it was like opening a door to another world for them.

They all loved this scene in particular:

Just got done reading this thread start to this point. I have to thank all of you for helping me remember a lot of what I missed growing up. I grew up in a small family run grocery store in Chicago, open 7 days a week, 6am to 11pm. If you could add numbers you waited on customers. If I wasn't in school I was in the store. Took Sunday afternoon, my Mother would tend the store and my Dad and I went to the movies. He'd immediately fall asleep in the darkened theater, or so I thought. He was in a state of suspended animation because he could tell you the plot of every movie he "slept" through. As they say. "Those were the days."

Originally Posted by Phrank

Was watching a movie last night I hadn't seen in a long, long time. Peter Sellers and the Pink Panther series, hate to say it, but they really just don't make such classic movies like this anymore. Aside from the Pink Panther, the other classic we watched was, "The Party", we all, even the teenagers in the room, couldn't believe how awesome it was, it was like opening a door to another world for them.

They all loved this scene in particular:

I love Peter Sellers, he's very typical of British eccentricity I seem to know lots of British people that have this quirky trait,I think a lot of other nationalities mistake this and usually read the Brit's incorrectly maybe that's why British humor can be quite confusing to some, I was told by another American friend that a lot of people from the USA don't understand or get sarcasm as a form of humor I'm not sure though.