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

[Ray Davis]

Yeah, I was kicking the slats out of my cradle!  Actually, I was on my way to the Chevy dealer to have something done to my "63 Corvair Convertible!  When I got there I did not know what had happened.  I knew something was up because no one was working.
Ray

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> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:08:35 -0600
> From: shortle556 at earthlink.net
> To: cmckinley313 at verizon.net; monza1965 at yahoo.com
> CC: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> You know you are old when... (no Corvair!)
> 
> 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
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