Age and life experience

[Willow]

Windows 95 - you're a late-comer to computers !

I started with DOS 3.1  -3.3 at work, 4, 5, 6.0-6.3, and Windows 3.0/ 3.1 before Windows 95 and everything (except Bob and ME) since. While I was using DOS I played with Quarterdeck's Desqview , and QEMM-386 was my "GOTO" 386 memory manger (beat the pants off what MS offered).
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My first personal computer was an 8K Commodore Pet but I was a full grown man by then.  The first computer on which I programmed was a 4K IBM 1401.

[Robert]

 

[old2soon]

          Jess-WHAT is this child labor law ya speak of? Saturday and Sunday were for work around the house-pick a season. Oh we had time fer fun now and then-summer with no school we could go to the lake and swim. In the winter we could go ice skating at times. Never once felt deprived-food on the table clean clothes warm jackets in the winter-patched as needed and good solid shoes. Mom made cursed Sure we could do Everything needed to take care of ourselves when we were on are own. In fact I have More Suzy homemaker "stuff" to accomplish today! Thanks MOM fer the Good upbringing I received.                                           RIDE SAFE.

[scooperhsd]

Yeah - with my wife working 60+ hours / week (she's doing Mortgage loan processing) - I do the majority of things to keep us going - laundry / housecleaning, grocery shopping, cooking, running out for takeout, etc. She really missed me wed afternoon - thursday afternoon when I had to make a quick trip to Hutchinson for a memorial service for another aunt (one of dad's sisters). Met more cousins I haven't seen in 40-50 years. Came home to a sink full of dishes...

Mom did teach all 4 of us to get along, but I've really learned alot about cooking / baking from my wife over our 33 years of marriage.

[Oldfishguy]

I live on a small lake in Minnesota, this is my ride.   I sold my nice ski boat about 10 years ago and picked this up, original interior and the metal flake gel just needed minor work.  But the floor/transom, well lets just say I was smelling resin cooking for some time.  

1972 Glastron Carlson CV16, and 1973 Chrysler 120

 

[hubcapsc]

Windows 95 - you're a late-comer to computers !

I started with DOS 3.1  -3.3 at work, 4, 5, 6.0-6.3, and Windows 3.0/ 3.1 before Windows 95 and everything (except Bob and ME) since. While I was using DOS I played with Quarterdeck's Desqview , and QEMM-386 was my "GOTO" 386 memory manger (beat the pants off what MS offered).
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My first personal computer was an 8K Commodore Pet but I was a full grown man by then.  The first computer on which I programmed was a 4K IBM 1401.

My first computer was a GRiD... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass

-Mike

[f6john]

I live on a small lake in Minnesota, this is my ride.   I sold my nice ski boat about 10 years ago and picked this up, original interior and the metal flake gel just needed minor work.  But the floor/transom, well lets just say I was smelling resin cooking for some time.  

1972 Glastron Carlson CV16, and 1973 Chrysler 120

 

I love your boat! I’ve never owned one but if it has an engine and you can get your face in the wind, I’m interested. The water is icing on the cake.

[shadowsoftime]

Definition of Boat--- A hole in the water to dump money into.

[old2soon]

Definition of Boat--- A hole in the water to dump money into.

                   OR-break out another thousand.  RIDE SAFE.

[RP#62]

Having been on both sides, I came to the conclusion that it is better to have a friend with a boat than it is to have a boat.

-RP

[TTG53#1717]

Yes,

It’s an H-D ‘54 KHK flathead. The father of the Sportster and my first motorcycle.

One of about 320 made that year.

I’ve actually gone faster on that than I have on the Valk.

[Jess from VA]

Having been on both sides, I came to the conclusion that it is better to have a friend with a boat than it is to have a boat.

-RP

Same deal with a pool.

One's a hole in the water, the other's a hole in the ground.  Into both you pour money (and work).

I have a buddy with a 42' Chris Craft.  The funny thing is when a guy offers 5-10 bucks for gas. 

Twin 454s use the same amount of gas, as if you just bailed out the tanks with buckets over the side.  Gallons (not miles) per hour

Of course, it mostly sits at the dock.  That and the club membership is another bunch of thousands per year.  It's more like a luxury condo on the water.

[Ramie]

A lot of memories reading through this thread.  John sparked one taking about his gravity furnace.  I remember getting up on a cold winters morning along with my four brothers and my sister and having to decide if I was willing to give up my spot on the furnace grate in the hallway to use the only bathroom.  We slept really good with no heat upstairs in Minnesota and about 3 heavy quilts on top of us.  Couldn't move under the covers but I was warm.

I also remember my mom buying her first can of cool whip when it first came out.  We were all seated around the dining room table for desert after supper and my mother was trying to figure out how the dispenser on the can worked.  She figured it out as it was pointed right at my father.  he ended up with whipped cream all over his face and sat there stock still.  All 6 of us kids ended up rolling around on the floor laughing.  He calmly took off his glasses and said, "What's so funny."  I think it took a good 10 minutes for everyone to stop laughing and eat dessert.

[Ken aka Oil Burner]

Having 2 boats currently, I'll add to the boating cliches: The two best days of a boat owners life; the day he buys it and the day he sells it.

[Patrick]

I live on a small lake in Minnesota, this is my ride.   I sold my nice ski boat about 10 years ago and picked this up, original interior and the metal flake gel just needed minor work.  But the floor/transom, well lets just say I was smelling resin cooking for some time.  

1972 Glastron Carlson CV16, and 1973 Chrysler 120

 

Thats a nice boat !  I like well maintained stuff and that fits the bill. I always liked West Bend engines and it carried on with Chrysler.

[Robert]

I live on a small lake in Minnesota, this is my ride.   I sold my nice ski boat about 10 years ago and picked this up, original interior and the metal flake gel just needed minor work.  But the floor/transom, well lets just say I was smelling resin cooking for some time.   

1972 Glastron Carlson CV16, and 1973 Chrysler 120

 

Awesome boat but get rid of the engine and put a 200 Merc on it, the Glastrons were great boats.

[Patrick]

I live on a small lake in Minnesota, this is my ride.   I sold my nice ski boat about 10 years ago and picked this up, original interior and the metal flake gel just needed minor work.  But the floor/transom, well lets just say I was smelling resin cooking for some time.   

1972 Glastron Carlson CV16, and 1973 Chrysler 120

 

Awesome boat but get rid of the engine and put a 200 Merc on it, the Glastrons were great boats.

For the past 50 yrs I've been a Mercury guy.

But, I like that boat/motor combo. It fits. Those Chryslers were good motors.

[Ken aka Oil Burner]

Last one from me about boats. I know many don't do facebook, but for those that do, you'll get it. 

[Tarkus]

What a great topic this is. Love the nostalgia. Here's a few to add to the mix.

Metal dashboards.  Anyone remember those?  I remember as a young child riding in the car with my grandmother in her 1953 Pontiac Chiefton...standing up in the front seat.  No seat belts in the car.  The only thing between my head and that dashboard was her arm swinging out in front of me each time she had to stop suddenly.  But hey...it worked. I have no drain bamage at all.



Coonskin caps.  They were all the rage back when Disney had its TV series Davey Crockett.  That may as well be me in the photo.  Yes sir...I took my Injun fight'n pretty seriously back then.  



Probably most anyone who was a child during the 50s in the USA remembers the air raid drills...duck and cover.  In reality it probably did little, if any good.  But it made some people feel better.  You know...kinda like wearing face masks nowdays during the Wuflu scamdemic.  The worst part about it is if the person in front of you had to pass gas.

[Patrick]

Duck and Cover ?   We had to get under the desks. I always tried to get the pretty girls next to me to get in with me. 

[Beardo]

Windows 95 - you're a late-comer to computers !

I started with DOS 3.1  -3.3 at work, 4, 5, 6.0-6.3, and Windows 3.0/ 3.1 before Windows 95 and everything (except Bob and ME) since. While I was using DOS I played with Quarterdeck's Desqview , and QEMM-386 was my "GOTO" 386 memory manger (beat the pants off what MS offered).
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My first personal computer was an 8K Commodore Pet but I was a full grown man by then.  The first computer on which I programmed was a 4K IBM 1401.

I remember actual fights in high school computer class over who would get one of the new Apple IIgs’s instead of the Apple II.

[pais]

As Tarkus said above, "great topic"!

So many comments touch close to home here. I was right on the line of the coal burning furnaces. Very young but remember going to the basement with Mom to either watch her throw a shovel full or two in or watch her supervise a coal delivery when Pops wasn't home. That same furnace turned into a gas fired, gravity furnace. The fight for the two registers on those cold mornings.
I grew up a Woody guy, no Buzz Lightyear for me. We were playing cowboys and Indians or war. Plenty of toy guns involved. Not one of us grew up and killed anyone.
Went swimming in freshwater lakes and the river (Mighty Cuyahoga) that runs right through town. When I think about it, there were 3 places, pay to swim lakes within a bicycle ride from our house. Guess what we did all Summer long. In my teenage years we swam at the local sand and gravel pit.
Raked leaves into a pile then played in them, raked again and stood by as Pops burned them. Nightly burning of the house trash in the "burn barrel".
4 brothers, 4 sisters, Mom and Pop and a stray Uncle all living under 1 roof. Ate dinner together every night except for Saturday. Mom and Pops night out.
Like all of you, I could go on and on. Oh what pleasant memories!

[Robert]

What a great topic this is. Love the nostalgia. Here's a few to add to the mix.

Metal dashboards.  Anyone remember those?  I remember as a young child riding in the car with my grandmother in her 1953 Pontiac Chiefton...standing up in the front seat.  No seat belts in the car.  The only thing between my head and that dashboard was her arm swinging out in front of me each time she had to stop suddenly.  But hey...it worked. I have no drain bamage at all.

For Tarkus,
My grandmother used to have a 50's Chevy that had this dashboard on it. I can remember it like it was yesterday, I used to love looking out over the hood at the airplane hood ornament as we would go along.

[Robert]

For the past 50 yrs I've been a Mercury guy.

But, I like that boat/motor combo. It fits. Those Chryslers were good motors.

I never liked the Chrysler's but for the lakes Mercs took the win. But being on salt water the early years or the Mercs were terrible with corrosion. So Johnson and Evinrude seemed to hold up the best. The later years around the 70's Mercury finally started to pay attention to the corrosion problem. 

Does anyone remember this boat?
https://www.macombdaily.com/sports/vintage-race-boat-miss-thriftway-makes-way-to-historic-detroit-river/article_8f67e730-a011-11e8-aefd-b7531f8e5b80.html

I never liked inboards or inboard outboards but this was one of the first ones I owned



I'm thinking of Brit on this one,

My mother always wanted a sports car so when these came out my father bought her one. I got to use it a few times and with gas at 25 cents a gallon it took me a long way. I used to love to drive it and the engine sound was something I always enjoyed. I loved the color and the stripe and would wax the car for her a few times.
Triumph TR250

[Robert]

How about a song?

I was picking up dinner on the motorcycle and this song came to mind

FRIEND AND LOVER-"REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS"(LYRICS)

https://youtu.be/YIle499B-o4


Spanky and Our Gang Like To Get To Know You

https://youtu.be/rqxkdV3Odj0

[f6john]

Saw this on Facebook and thought it would fit good here. The poster said it was made by Indian and another said no way. But whatever, my lawnmower is cooler than your lawnmower.

[Patrick]

Saw this on Facebook and thought it would fit good here. The poster said it was made by Indian and another said no way. But whatever, my lawnmower is cooler than your lawnmower.

Now that thing is some kinda neat !

[Tarkus]

How about a song?

I was picking up dinner on the motorcycle and this song came to mind

FRIEND AND LOVER-"REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS"(LYRICS)

https://youtu.be/YIle499B-o4


Spanky and Our Gang Like To Get To Know You

https://youtu.be/rqxkdV3Odj0

Next time you do that...and if that dinner has a pickle on the side, here's one that should definitely come to mind.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI

[f6john]

Along the lines of metal dashboards, I found this picture that is the same make and model of car my Dad had when I was born. I don’t remember how long we had it but I do remember riding in it and the years it sat in the barn after it was retired from service.





Only differences are the paint was black, fender skirts, and air horns.

[Jess from VA]

Saw this on Facebook and thought it would fit good here. The poster said it was made by Indian and another said no way. But whatever, my lawnmower is cooler than your lawnmower.

In for the win.  

Valanced wheels and taillights (or lenses) Art Deco aerodynamic (for high speeds), and a hood (deck) ornament (armyman?).

Now I've got to look around for a hood ornament for my honda.



https://www.ebay.com/c/14020436747