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Sunday, March 06, 2011
12 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Oh, rats. My favorite place to ride was the package tray.
mary -
3/6/11, 10:17 AM
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Jess said...
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Kids don't have a chance. They're strapped in for long periods of time, so their parent won't get a ticket by the safety seat police. We might as well install catheters and give them tranquilizers. It would be kinder.
Back in the day, we would ride in the back of pickups for hours. It was a treat. Now it's a quick trip to jail for mom and dad. -
3/6/11, 10:27 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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To paraphrase someone:
The government that can protect you against failure will assuredly also diminish your opportunity to succeed. -
3/6/11, 10:50 AM
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TimO said...
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Note the kids back then were NOT strapped in. That seat put the kids up high enough to get a perfect launch up OVER the dashboard (OK, it was hard metal and wood back then too) and right through the windshield, which wasn't made of safety glass....
Owwww!!! -
3/6/11, 11:07 AM
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DougM said...
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Mary,
Yep, my folks used to put me on the rear-window shelf in their '40s-something coupé to sleep during long trips.
Then there was sittin' on top of cargo in the station wagons with the tailgate down so the stuff didn't bounce out. -
3/6/11, 1:51 PM
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SFAOV Sgsaur said...
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When I was 14 my family moved about 60 miles back to our home town North of Kansas City because Dad got transferred. I still remember laying on top of a load of furniture & stuff piled high above the cab of Dad's pickup all the way there. Those were the days...
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3/6/11, 2:35 PM
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DoubleU said...
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I am reading "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks"I recommend it to everyone.
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3/6/11, 2:35 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Late 40's, early 50's, Dad had a Chevy business coupe. No back seat, just a shelf where the seat should be, and no radio. We kids sat on orange crates everywhere we went, and all of the family sang together to pass time on a trip.
Miraculously, we all survived without government 'help'.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
3/6/11, 2:41 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Jess, you don't put vodka in the kiddies cherry Koolaid? Benedryl works too, according to the Ray Wylie Hubbard song.
Casca -
3/6/11, 3:03 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Earliest car travel memories is standing next to my dad on the seat of his red & white 56 Chevy station wagon. I was 3 or 4 loved going to great grand dad's out at the end of Cactus road WAY north of Phoenix. In those days the roads followed every contour and my dad would gun it a little at the crest of every hill and at the bottom of every wash...
RAK -
3/6/11, 4:58 PM
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TheOldMan said...
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My folks had a hand-me-down car from someone that had a hole in the rear floor. It was covered with a piece of plywood.
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3/7/11, 1:46 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Yes, OldMan, us too. A woodside Ford you could kneal on the floor and watch the road go by. I hated getting dust in my eyes.
---TDB -
3/7/11, 9:20 PM
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