Name Something You Grew Up With That Is Gone & Not Coming Back

[26 Inf]

That's rough. Was this years after you were no longer together?

She was a year older than me, we dated almost two years in high school, she moved to Colorado (I lived in Nebraska); I went to her wedding (in Colorado) and then we kind of lost touch. I heard she had passed from a high school friend.

I lost several high friends and acquaintances by apparent suicide the first couple years after we graduated, one drowned and one ran his HD into the back of a parked pickup and a high rate of speed after a fight with his girlfriend.

Kind of shakes you up at that age.

[AKDoug]

Got in on that.

What may be the ultimate version was when a couple of friends (8 to 10 years old at the time) visited their Grandpa who had just retired and was about to move from northern Indiana to southern Kentucky. Part of the move was a stack of 16' corrugated sheet metal panels which went in the back of a pick up which their Grandpa had them sit on to weigh it down so as not to lose any. They said between the weight of the metal squatting the truck down and the length overhanging the rear it was like looking down a ramp to the asphalt.

My dad used to think it was perfectly acceptable to put all the adults in the front of our '78 Ford Supercab and 4 kids in the bed, under an uninsulated aluminum canopy, at -10F, for 200 miles, with nothing but a pile of packing blankets to keep us warm.

[flenna]

My dad used to think it was perfectly acceptable to put all the adults in the front of our '78 Ford Supercab and 4 kids in the bed, under an uninsulated aluminum canopy, at -10F, for 200 miles, with nothing but a pile of packing blankets to keep us warm.

You know, if we think about some of the things we and our parents did it is a wonder we made it to adulthood. But we did, and I think we are better for it.

[1_click_off]

Dragg’n Main on Friday and Saturday night looking for a race.

[Diamondback]

The country I grew up in.

Truth, brother. Truth.

[Honu]

Dragg’n Main on Friday and Saturday night looking for a race.

reminded me
70s and 80s was cruzin time used to love that so many cars so slow traffic everyone together etc.. good times

[1_click_off]

Also drive in theaters. Just remembering how those old crappy aluminum speakers would hang on the window and turn the pot just right to not only get volume but also less static sound.

My dad and I were talking about drive in’s one day and he said the speakers were new when he went and just as bad.

My brother in law just tore down an old drive in and had a pile of those things. I told him he should clean house on eBay with them, he sold them for scrap instead....

[jsbhike]

Also drive in theaters. Just remembering how those old crappy aluminum speakers would hang on the window and turn the pot just right to not only get volume but also less static sound.

My dad and I were talking about drive in’s one day and he said the speakers were new when he went and just as bad.

My brother in law just tore down an old drive in and had a pile of those things. I told him he should clean house on eBay with them, he sold them for scrap instead....

Not all gone. I think there are at least 3 in Kentucky with one 30 to 45 minutes from Knob Creek. Think they have all ditched the box speaker for transmitting on a weak FM frequency though.

http://www.skylinedrivein.com/

[chuckman]

Doritos and 1/2 gallon ice cream without nutritional information on them, 1981 Toyota 4x4 and girls that would do anything for concert tickets and a ride in the dunes.

Yes, "full size" ice cream, and "full size" everything. Volumes have been shrinking while prices keep going up....

[Digital_Damage]

Lawns... to tell people to get off of... Amiright?