JB
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Friday and Saturday were date nights.<br /><br />$.25 worth of gas was enough for a double date.<br /><br />You went to the girl's door to pick her up. Lot's of "Yessir and Yesmaam" were required or you left alone.<br /><br />$1.00 per carload got 10 of us into the drive-in.<br />Billy Walker once got 71 people into his '37 Lincoln Zephyr 4door to drive through the ticket gate. He had people under the hood and in the trunk. I never got more than 10 into my '31 Model A Cabriolet with the top down; 4 in the front and six in the rumble seat.<br /><br />Two Cokes and one box of popcorn came to $.20.<br /><br />After the show, at The Clam Box Drive in, 2 banana splits and 2 cokes came to $1.10.<br /><br />Girls had to be home by 11:00PM on pain of something too horrible to contemplate. "Scoring" was getting a real, on the mouth, kiss at the door.<br /><br />Soda jerking at the Jewel Box was worth $.25/hour on weekdays, $.35/hr on weekends. Both included all the goodies you could eat and drink during slow periods (of which there were none). <br /><br />All the grown-ups complained about the wild and undisciplined youth and wished for the simpler, "good old days".<br /><br />If something tasted good, you ate it. If you wanted more and there was more, you ate it. If you were hungry and something was considered edible, you ate that, too. Fat was the best tasting part of dead critters.<br /><br />Exercise was what you might do in PE. Hunting, fishing, playing ball or just walking or running for the sheer joy of it were not considered exercise.<br /><br />Drugs were stuff the Doc prescribed and you got at a drug store. You tried to keep it secret, so as not to be considered an invalid, like any fat kid.<br /><br />Used tires that had any tread left were a prize at $2.00 each.<br /><br />Anyone who had an outboard motor was a friend in demand. Decarb with water and refuse to put it on any "boat" that required constant bailing to stay afloat.<br /><br />Anyone who fished with a flyrod was considered an elitist possessing magical powers.<br /><br />A 2lb bluegill was a life's trophy and any bass was a sign of bargains with the Devil.<br /><br />There are more. What do you remember?
Fuel injection is great, but man that 4 bbl sounded sweet exspecially with the air cleaner lid flipped over.<br /><br />Ken
