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Drive-in cafes where you were welcomed to eat, talk to your friends, or just drive thru to check out whomever might be there (waitresses, friends, or strangers), . |
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Bare necessities, or less, were a way of life for many, but they earned them and aided those who couldn't. |
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Drive-in movies. |
Sitting and swinging on the front porch. |
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No air-conditioners. |
Trading comic books. |
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Playing cowboys and Indians (no cowgirls allowed) and cops and robbers. |
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Rubber guns made from clothespins and real rubber inner tube strips. |
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Flips. |
Banging blackbirds & crows. |
Cap guns |
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Red Ryder BB guns. |
Red, metal Western Flyer wagons. |
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Dripping in perspiration and rubbing and favoring fingers sore from picking cotton. |
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Nasty black soot and coal fired heat. |
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Respect. |
Rolling and racing old car tires around the block |
Innocence. |
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Rolling and racing old barrel hoops around the block. |
| Sno-Wite. |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto by radio. |
Drive-ins |
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Drenched in Spring showers by morning and sunshine by noon with a rainbow canopy |
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Doodle Bug calling with wild onion stalks and broom straws. |
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No rappers. And hoes were implements of hard, honest work in cotton fields and gardens. |
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A snoop-doggy-dog was a four-legged, leg sniffer. |
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Jerry's, Bill's, and Mullins
Drive-in Cafes |
No McDonald's, Burger King, Hardee's, Wendy's, Arby's, Sonic, etc. |
| "Dressing up" to go to town. |
A bus transportation system. |
| Shooting marbles. |
Paper routes delivered on bicycles |
Real cars with lasting beauty & style. |
| Fireworks and freedom to shoot them. |
Nuclear war fears, fallout shelters, and other preparations. |
| ZESTO for the family, no bar. |
Milk and soft drinks in glass bottles. |
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Slurping black walnut ice cream |
clocks working mechanically to keep you timely |
| Tax tokens. |
Supporting the war effort by saving and collecting tin cans and other metals. |
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Wartime rationing of almost everything; gasoline, sugar, lard, appliances, rubber, tires, etc. |
| Victory gardens. |
Green stamps, dishes, and other gifts at the gas stations. |
No Interstates. |
| No shopping centers/malls. |
Court house trade meets. |
Downtown shopping. |
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Flour in usable, pretty, fabric bags (dresses, curtains, quilts, etc.). |
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Hunting and fishing freedom with and among people of responsibility and consideration. |
| No school/student shootings. |
Sunday family drives. |
Sunday closing of most businesses. |
| Windshields washed & oil checked by attendants. |
Reverence for funeral processions. |
| Favorite Indian Creek swimming holes. |
Also Hatfield Lake and Guntersville Lake |
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Uncrowded and private fishing spots on the Tennessee River, Guntersville Lake, Indian Creek, Beaver Dam Creek, Dug Hill, Flint River, and many other places. |
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Blackberry picking & snakes. |
Battles with wild, green, plums. |
Beagle hounds and rabbit hunts. |
| Scooters from two-by-fours and roller skate wheels. |
Cocklebur battles. |
Rock battles. |
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Push cars/racers from boxes, two-by-fours, roller skates or other available wheels. |
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Big, round, juicy, red watermellons |
Water-melon rind & corn cob battles. |
tender black nights |
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Huge round circus tents and big long roller-skating rink tents |
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Plump black blackberries free for the picking! Watch out for the snakes! |
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"Reunion"the band Playing the Oldies in Huntsville, Alabama Big Spring International Park |
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