(noon – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)
Local Drum and Bugle Corps organizations
Amateur radio operators
Ice Cream Trucks
Drive in movie theaters
A well rounded public education complete with extra-curricular activities
Full service gas stations with tire inflating air machines for free
The American dream of suburban homeownership
The 30 year marriage anniversary
Neighbors who mind their own business
Drivers who don’t give you the bird
Cashiers at stores
Calling a company and getting to talk to a real live person
Family traditions
Bank tellers being bank tellers and not Customer Service Representatives
Police with simple six shot revolvers
The town square and hardware store
The Joke shop
The town hospital
The several local farms
The tractor/farm impliment supply dealer
Riding bicycles without helmuts
Flattening nails and pennies on the train tracks
Church attendance-any religion
Santa Claus parades
Muscle cars
Custom vans
The CB radio
The Fuller Brush Man and Electrolux salesmen
ABC,CBS or NBC yup, only three to choose from
Dad’s being able to work for the same company all their lives
Mom’s being able to stay home
Home delivered milk
The doctor making a house call
Ah, yes those long forgotten times of old. Yes I did do total lamestream media avoidance yesterday, nine years after 911 and I am still currently involved in the deconstruction of my former suburban life.
Well look here. Here it is in black and white. No matter that I spent 28 years providing below market rents.
http://www.personalliberty.com…
Here is another guy who can really tell it like it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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That sounds like, feels like, the Americana we once knew!
I hope you are O.K.
Hugs, Tahoebasha! All I can give and wish for — for you and so, so many, LH!
So many of us are basically just scraping by, but you know, the oligarchy is far more important, n’est que c’est pas?
science fiction stuff. And that hard yellow, sticky candy bar that would lock your jaw shut. I think I still have some of that stuff in my teeth, what’s left of them.
Best to you LH—Sending you good vibes—-
I count sixteen or seventeen of your items that still more or less apply in my community. We are just big enough to have the regional medical center and be the county seat and lots of the farms and ranches are for “gentelman farmers”, but there are also lots of real operations. We have a town square, but it has no hardware store. It does have an excellent health food and vitamin store, a jewler and clothier and three restaurants though. The newer chain outlets are on the north side of town and include Home Depot, Lowes, Staples, Pet Smart and, of course, a super-WalMart, but we also have other chain grocers including the up-scale Harps, an ESOP, possibly more banks than churches.
It is a retirement and vacation destination and, of course, the distinction between churches and banks is a bit arbitrary, as Mammon is our true God. Need someplace for worshipers to stash their loot while going to church.
in America…
I used to ride my bike and skate (those old key skates) without a helmet – I loved the feel of the wind in my hair —
Gosh the kids today with knee pads and helmets look like they’re going to quell a riot.
I loved the wind.