Category: Back in My Day
They were out of peyote
It came to management’s attention that people on the factory floor were under stress. Stressed out people make mistakes! So they brainstormed, picked up plastic…
Junk in the trunk
Look at the way this Buick is riding! What does she have in her trunk? I know there’s a full size spare back there, and…
Stinky cops and robbers, cap guns make a nice gunpowder stink.
I don’t recall having a cap gun when I was a kid. But when I could get these 20 grain caps, I put them on…
OUT OF ORDER
Normally I don’t like to reference the turmoil in the world today, but I ran across this Mad Magazine cover trading card, and COME ON……
Bobo had more fun
I sometimes get Bobo, a gorilla who lived at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, confused with Ivan, a gorilla raised as a pet and…
You can’t go home again
I was looking at the house I grew up in on Google Maps, and I noticed something that kind of made me sad. That tan…
Man in blue doing a crackerjack job
The reason I think this guy came out of a box of Crackerjacks, is I think I got one in like 1966 or so. He…
Tune to the UHF channel located for your vicinity
Before my dad had cable, he had a standard roof antenna, or on the other TV, just “rabbit ears”. The roof antenna usually would do…
The Army needs men to work in movies
My sister was complaining that she spent the whole morning looking for this particular “army man”. Her grandson claims that this one is the “chief”….
Nobody fixes anything anymore.
Another item from my dad’s old 1958 Jensen-Byrd catalog, supplier to hardware retailers all over the west. This is a set of the locking mechanisms…
