<VV> You know you are old when... (no Corvair!)

[shortle]

I remember one night my mother and aunt were sitting on the couch crying. I asked "what's wrong"? My mother then told me Senator Kennedy had just been shot in Los Angeles. Now how's that for being old! Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301 


-----Original Message-----
>From: chuck mckinley <cmckinley313 at verizon.net>
>Sent: Sep 19, 2011 8:47 AM
>To: PETER INMAN <monza1965 at yahoo.com>
>Cc: virtual vairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Subject: Re: <VV> You know you are old when... (no Corvair!)
>
>>From 1945-1951 my family lived in a tiny town in NW Illinois where the
>telephone system used phones that didn't have dials - you picked up the
>earpiece and listened for the ONE operator in town to ask "Number,
>please", and gave her the number verbally. My dad's office number was
>31. There were some 3-digit numbers in town - a guy down the alley from
>our house had the number 313 that we sometimes got when we said "three
>one, please" and the operator (who was a little old lady, slightly hard
>of hearing) thought she heard "three one three". 
>
>We also had our ice delivered on a horse-cart driven by a very athletic
>young guy who could carry two big ice blocks at a time using a big
>nasty-looking ice-pincher in each hand.
>
>Chuck McKinley
>63 Monza 900 80hp 3sp manual
>
>On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 07:23 -0700, PETER INMAN wrote:
>> Here in Michigan I remember the school busses being red,white and blue. not yellow . Late 1950`s
>> 
>> 
>> From: "ScottyGrover at aol.com" <ScottyGrover at aol.com>
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 11:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: <VV> You know you are old when... (no Corvair!)
>> 
>> I remember horse-drawn milk trucks in Detroit until the late '40's or early 
>> 50's.  Hay and straw for the horses wasn't rationed during WWII---gasoline 
>> WAS!!  And it took a while for light truck production to be resumed after  
>> the War was over.  
>> 
>> Scotty from Hollyweird
>> 
>> .
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 9/18/2011 7:39:28 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
>> corvairgrymm at gmail.com writes:
>> 
>> Few of  you if any can beat my father on this one.
>> 
>> My father grew up in New  York city, first in the Bronx, then at the edge of
>> Harlem.  When he  was a kid in NYC milk and ICE were delivered by a guy with
>> a horse and  cart.  The streets were DIRT, and there were only a couple of
>> cars  parked on each block... many had none.
>> 
>> He'll be 85 in January, and I  think he's in better physical shape than I am
>> at 31!  We spent all day  yesterday walking around and riding roller 
>> coasters
>> at Dorney Park, his  idea NOT mine!
>> 
>> Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez  III
>> _______________________________________________
>> This message was  sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all copyrights are 
>> the property
>> of  the writer, please attribute properly. For help,  
>> mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
>> This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of  America, 
>> http://www.corvair.org/
>> Post messages to:  VirtualVairs at corvair.org
>> Change your options:  
>> http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs  
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> This message was sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all copyrights are the property
>> of the writer, please attribute properly. For help, mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
>> This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America, http://www.corvair.org/
>> Post messages to: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
>> Change your options: http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs 
>> _______________________________________________
>>  _______________________________________________
>> This message was sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all copyrights are the property
>> of the writer, please attribute properly. For help, mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
>> This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America, http://www.corvair.org/
>> Post messages to: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
>> Change your options: http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs 
>>  _______________________________________________
>
> _______________________________________________
>This message was sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all copyrights are the property
>of the writer, please attribute properly. For help, mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
>This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America, http://www.corvair.org/
>Post messages to: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
>Change your options: http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs 
> _______________________________________________