This pic makes me sad to think of all I took for granted back then with innocent ignorance.
This pic makes me sad to think of all I took for granted back then with innocent ignorance.
We weren't taught that it was the Golden AgeThis pic makes me sad to think of all I took for granted back then with innocent ignorance.
This pic makes me sad to think of all I took for granted back then with innocent ignorance.
Faith in many things I now know are bullshit. It was comforting to be ignorant.
I need some more of those airline stewardess photos too.
The same hereI grew up in a neighborhood where everyone had a dirt bike. After school, the race was on in the back forty. Ranched didn't mind, his son also had a dirtbike. Nobody's parents complained. Good old honest fun. Went through lots of tires and lots of thread.
I miss everyone being skinny.
I was with a friend who ordered an ice cream treat at the window at McD's and was told the machine was down. He said that he didn't need it anyway, true enough. I told him the heart wants what the heart wants, I added that my heart wants me to lose fifty pounds.Heh... I blame SUVs. J/K I blame all vehicles, or more precisely a society configured for them.
Acceptance is better than the "off" Button, at least achievable.At least youse byrds HAD girls at yr Ice Kewls.... I was sent off to a boys' boarding school, & I was PAINFULLY shy around female Grrrls of the womanly persuation til way into my 20s. I was-AM-Fat, wore extra, extra, extra thick glasses, & as such, I had no earthly idea how to talk to girls, & I considered myself about as attractive as yr basic Mud Type Fence, so I rarely ever approached one of these strange creatures. Figured I'd get laughed at if I ever asked for a date, but if said gal ever said "Yes" what daphck would I have done THEN ?!? See, growing up around girls, you learned to read-Hopefully, all the little verbal & non-verbal clues they give out constantly, which I never did. Plus, I've LONG suspected I'm likely a bit Autistic-Let's just say that I REALLY "Identified" w/Dustin Hoffman's character, Raymond, in "Rainman". I'm rather "Odd", I tend to obsess, &I can often tell you who did almost any pop song from roughly 1945 til about 1990. I don't get every one right, but I get a lot more right than I do wrong. I can tell you the year, & on a lot of 'em what TIME of the year they were big, too. If I really am mildly autistic, I'm certainly NOT complaining-It is neither good, nor bad-it merely just IS. I DO wish I could turn it "Off" though, every once in awhile.
You know that I "get" you, I was "that" kid."Socialism is agonizingly awkward at times..." Oh, yeah... Tell me about it. Back in the balmy days of 1971, there were likely only 3 people in NE Tennessee who even knew "Autism" existed, & NONE of 'em practiced here. I saw "Rainman", & then ran across this book, "The Man who Mistook his wife for a Hat" by Dr Oliver Sacks, & after "Rainman" & devouring that book, so many things became clear to me. I'd go to parties as a kid & teen, I'd invariably plant myself up against a wall, & PRAY nobody would come over & wanna chit-chat w/me. I never told a soul about any of this, my parents would likely have "Spazzed Out" & sent me off to some shrink-Or worse. Basically, what I always tried to do was just keep my head down, not raise a stink, & hope they'd all just leave me dafuq alone. When I got interested in some new car or some such, I'd try to learn EVERYTHING I could about it-I HAD to gain an "Encyclopediac" knowledge of my latest interest. B4 the Internoot, that was rather difficult, to say the least. I dunno if I've ever truly ACCEPTED this, but at least I've more-or-less come to terms w/it all, & DON'T-nearly as much as I used to-wanna do myself in to make it all stop.
Do you have "Wheels for the World"?Yeah, IIRC, you 'n' me have e-mailed back & forth about this a time or 2 B4... But I think the kind of guys who are interested in stereos, old radios & TVs, crap like this may have tendencies towards at least MILD autistic behaviors. Again, NOTHING wrong w/that, we are what we are & we ain't what we ain't. In an odd sort of way, I'm kinda proud that I can prattle on incessantly about topics that The Great Unwashed majority basically haven't a CLUE about. No, I can't tell you who won the Superb Owl 2 weeks ago-Aww, bullshit-I KNOW it was Dallas, right ?!? (grin), but aks me about how many times the standard Ford was re-designed prior to 1979 & I can tell you, or when GM's line of std cars were re-done & I'll tell you.. For the record, every Ford in the 5-6 years prior to 1908 was a unique car unto itself. Then, in '08, the Model T made its clattering debut, & Ford basically could not shove 'em out the door fast enuf. Then, in late '27, the Model A hit the scene, & it hung on til '32 when the V-8 began. The next big road-to roof change occurred in 1949, when the 1st real Postwar cars came along. The next big change came in 1965, which lasted til '79. GM is a bit hazier, the divisions generally jealously guarded their independence, but one year really stands out, 1965, there was a new company-wide bodyshell introduced that offered improved interior dimensions, a new perimeter frame, more attention to quiet riding, curved side windows, improved heating & cooling abilities-they anticipated the coming almost total use of A/C on every vehicle. Again, I guess I could go into more detail, but I DO tend to prattle & obsess, so let's leave it there...(Grin)