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MoBeans said:
Hitch hikers. It was a valid form of transportation when I was young. The day we got out of high school a friend and I grabbed a couple backpacks and stuck out our thumbs in upstate NY. Three months later we were in Berkeley California. We got a place to stay every night except one along with food and other amenities. Some places we stayed for a while. Almost three weeks at one place in Boulder Colorado. You just can't do that these days. It was an amazing trip.
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A gfriend and I used to hitch hike up around the San Francisco Bay area in the early 70s, Sausalito, Larkspur, Marin County....everyone was doing it. We only had one bad experience.
But, I'd never do it today
 

dobielvr said:
A gfriend and I used to hitch hike up around the San Francisco Bay area in the early 70s, Sausalito, Larkspur, Marin County....everyone was doing it. We only had one bad experience.
But, I'd never do it today
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Yeah everyone I knew hitch hiked everywhere back then too. It was more reliable than the public transit system. Good times.
 
MoBeans said:
Hitch hikers. It was a valid form of transportation when I was young. The day we got out of high school a friend and I grabbed a couple backpacks and stuck out our thumbs in upstate NY. Three months later we were in Berkeley California. We got a place to stay every night except one along with food and other amenities. Some places we stayed for a while. Almost three weeks at one place in Boulder Colorado. You just can't do that these days. It was an amazing trip.
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I agree, MoBeans! I hitch-hiked a lot as a kid. Only had one weird experience. About the time I turned 20 I got a car, so didn't need to hitch-hike. It was a common practice, and you'd see many servicemen hitch-hiking. Things were simpler and far less dangerous then.
 

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Colicky Babies.

Later known as The Baby Killer, this "calming elixir" with a maternal name contained morphine, was sold without a prescription, and the suggested dosage was not printed on the embossed bottles. It was a very popular product from the mid 1800s til the early 1900s, when schools of medicine began proliferating across the US and popular newspapers began reporting the sweet syrup's connection to baby deaths.
 
dobielvr said:
A gfriend and I used to hitch hike up around the San Francisco Bay area in the early 70s, Sausalito, Larkspur, Marin County....everyone was doing it. We only had one bad experience.
But, I'd never do it today
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In my hitch-hiking days, 1953-56, I don't recall ever seeing a woman hitch-hiking. Those were my service days and I used to hitch from the shipyard in Hoboken, NJ to home in Mass. My ship was in drydock for a fairly long period and I used to head home on week-ends to see my girlfriend (now wife). I could always count on my grand-dad to give me train ticket money to get back.

As an aside, it was during this period that the Navy/Coast Guard banned the use of winter "flat hats" which were dark blue, along with the uniforms and coats. Too many guys were hit (some killed) by cars when they were hitch-hiking. It was always "white hats" year round after that,
 
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In the days before our currency was decimalised, as in 100 pennies to the pound, we had 240 pennies per pound. Our largest currency note during pre-decimalisation, was five pounds. It's commonly referred to as the white fiver. Post decimalisation the five pound note shrunk in size and changed colour from white to blue.
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This was the old white fiver. Have you got a decent one? Today currency collectors pay up to £300:00 for one.
 
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