Country images you don't see much anymore

[Ken N Tx]

1939;;;
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[Pappy]

Outrageous Ken, simply outrageous. Next thing you know it will be 25 cents a gallon.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Gimme two dollars worth!

I don't think my grandmother ever bought more than $2.00 worth of gas at a time in her whole life!

When I was a kid I used to get a kick out of the gas pumps with the fancy spinner flow indicators, it didn't take much to amuse me!

 

[Pappy]

 

[NancyNGA]

...When I was a kid I used to get a kick out of the gas pumps with the fancy spinner flow indicators, it didn't take much to amuse me!

Like this one, Bea? (I don't see any spinners.)

Restored gas pump. Now a working pump on a farm in Utah.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Like this one, Bea? (I don't see any spinners.)

Restored gas pump. Now a working pump on a farm in Utah.

That is a neat gas pump.

The ones that I'm referring to had a small clear glass cup or bubble, about the size of a teacup, with a plastic spinner that would whirl around as the gas was being pumped. The plastic spinners inside were different colors and shapes, some quite elaborate.

 

[Sunny]

But on the other hand, how much was the average person earning in 1939?

 

[Pappy]

I know the type your are referring to Bea, but I couldn't find a photo of one anywhere. Little glass top and the gas swirled around in it.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I know the type your are referring to Bea, but I couldn't find a photo of one anywhere. Little glass top and the gas swirled around in it.

I couldn't find one either, this is the first time the internet has failed me in a long time!!!

 

[Pappy]

You know Bea, maybe it wasn't on the top. Check these out.

 

[NancyNGA]

Is this it, in action? (Starts at 0:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4JvXpyu-lU&t=20s

 

[Aunt Bea]

Is this it, in action? (Starts at 0:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4JvXpyu-lU&t=20s

Yup!

 

[Pappy]

Double yup.

 

[Meanderer]

There's no fuel, like an old fuel!

 

[NancyNGA]

Community Cotton Gins

Madison County Alabama

Madison, Georgia

 

[Pappy]

There's no fuel, like an old fuel!

 

[NancyNGA]

Horse drawn hay rides. This was in Connecticut in 1988. Actually they may be more common now? Maybe a myth, only in old movies?

 

[Meanderer]

Playing comb, with wax paper.

 

[NancyNGA]

Playing comb, with wax paper.

Yes! We used to do that! It tickles your lips. Guess what I'm going to do after I log off, to try it again. layful:

Update: Still tickles, but not as much as I thought.

 

[Pappy]

 

[NancyNGA]

Home made slingshots.



This looks like the one my dad made me, except he used hickory, it was symmetric, bands cut from an old inner tube, and the tongue from an old shoe.

 

[NancyNGA]

How To Make A Whistle Out Of Your Hands

(Great explanation)

How to do a Loon Call with it.

Just tried it. As kids, we used to use a piece of grass in between the thumbs, like a reed. This is much better.

 

[NancyNGA]

Anyone ever spend the night in a barn hayloft?

My girlfriend and I tried it one night at her place when we were kids, in the summer. This is her barn from the back side in the winter.



The hayloft looked something like this at the time.



We didn't make it through the whole night. As soon as we started hearing the rats scurrying around on the rafters, we headed for the house. :eewwk:

 

[Meanderer]

 

[hauntedtexan]

Burma Shave Roadside Signs