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re: You know you are old - 65+ when you remember
Posted on 6/4/17 at 1:56 pm to Purplehaze
Posted on 6/4/17 at 1:56 pm to Purplehaze
The state fair was on a huge corner lot that became a mall. The mall has run it's course and is dying.
School lunches were .25 in EBR as well.
The news was news. There was no room for speculating, opining, pontificating, and just mindlessly talking to fill air time. Just the facts, ma'am.
Deposits on bottles.
Respecting authority figures.
Milkmen.
Keeping handicaps hidden in their schools and homes so the rest of us didn't see them.
School lunches were .25 in EBR as well.
The news was news. There was no room for speculating, opining, pontificating, and just mindlessly talking to fill air time. Just the facts, ma'am.
Deposits on bottles.
Respecting authority figures.
Milkmen.
Keeping handicaps hidden in their schools and homes so the rest of us didn't see them.
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Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:11 pm to tigersbh
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Hell, the gym at Mamou High still doesn't have A/C.
LOL!! Not sure whether to laugh or cry about that one.
It's the only gym in the parish that is not air conditioned. Seems a bit unfair to me.
ETA: My graduating class (1978) was the last class to use the gym for graduation ceremonies. Every year after, they've had graduation at local churches or other halls with A/C.
This post was edited on 6/4/17 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:27 pm to LongueCarabine
How easy it was for us: 30 cents
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:32 pm to Purplehaze
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10. Tiger Stadium had wood bench seats, no charge for the splinters
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Obviously pre-TAF. those would have quite a surcharge today.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:32 pm to OlGrandad
Nickle Pay phones
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:35 pm to Purplehaze
I have an old pencil that says "LA Schools" on it. Is that one of the state-issued pencils you mentioned in your OP?
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:38 pm to Purplehaze
My mom told me she remembers when she was a kid that the city of Gretna had 2 pools. One for whites, and the other one was referred to as the "n***** pool".
And she's only in her 50's so it really wasn't that long ago.
So that's something different. If you're in your 50's or older you remember the different pools.
And she's only in her 50's so it really wasn't that long ago.
So that's something different. If you're in your 50's or older you remember the different pools.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:42 pm to PrimeTime Money
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I have an old pencil that says "LA Schools" on it. Is that one of the state-issued pencils you mentioned in your OP?
They were a kind of medium to light blue and said LA schools.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:43 pm to Hangit
Oh... mine is just yellow like any other pencil but I can tell it's old.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:54 pm to Purplehaze
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13. Driving around Baton Rouge without getting murked
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:57 pm to Purplehaze
Yep, I'm old
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:58 pm to Hangit
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The state fair was on a huge corner lot that became a mall. The mall has run it's course and is dying.
Before it was there it was at the old "Downtown" airport which is now Independence park.
Going on the old highway to Pensacola Beach in the old mans 1966 Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors-one of the kids laying across the rear dash, hit the Florida line and the old man would stop and open a cooler in the trunk and get a Jax beer, pull the tab and give to my sister who made necklaces out of his beer tabs (she could have opened a beer tab jewelry store) fire up a Pall Mall hit the gas and say "roll the god damn window up son. You're letting all the smoke out."
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:59 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Oh... mine is just yellow
They may have had yellow as well since you have one. I remember seeing a big box of the blue ones in the supply cabinet and thinking it would last a whole grade forever.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 2:59 pm to Purplehaze
Klonopin
Eta that was meant for the sleep aid thread
Eta that was meant for the sleep aid thread
This post was edited on 6/4/17 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 6/4/17 at 3:00 pm to Purplehaze
I remember my phone number having 5 digits.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 3:02 pm to Martini
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Before it was there it was at the old "Downtown" airport which is now Independence park.
I remember the airport but don't remember the fair being there. I do remember seeing a lot of airplanes taking off and landing there. They made the big hangar a fire dept. substation.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 3:14 pm to Purplehaze
All white schools were a plus back then. Right Gramps?
Posted on 6/4/17 at 3:15 pm to Martini
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Before it was there it was at the old "Downtown" airport which is now Independence park.
Remember this well, one year it rained like all hell and was a mud hole.
Posted on 6/4/17 at 3:19 pm to birdieman
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All white schools were a plus back then. Right Gramps?
How's the John Parker forced integration working out for blacks or whites?
Say it with me. It was a bad idea. It was a bad idea....
Posted on 6/4/17 at 3:28 pm to Hangit
Congrats to all the old.folks in this thread
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