Lets play: I remember when.

Canadian Club $5.10 a 26

Players plain 50¢ for a pac of 25 2 guys could smoke their face off and get pissed for 5.60. And have some left over "LOL". This was only the mid 60's

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When people used common sense and didn't need a whole lot of regulations and laws to guide them how to behave at the range or anywhere else in public.
People were admired for their contribution and to achieve honours list really meant something - like winning gold !
 
A Cooey Junior was $9.95; a Senior was $11.95; a single shot shotgun was $19.95.
Saturday matinee was 15 cents. Previews, cartoons, a serial, and a double feature. Comic books were 10 cents.
Gasoline was sold by the gallon, and was 30 odd cents.
TV was black and white, the station had to be within 60 miles or so, and you needed a roof top antenna. First TV I saw was in a large cabinet, and had a picture about half the size of a sheet of typing paper.
There were lineups for mass inoculations against polio.
Kids got mumps, measles, chicken pox and sometimes scarlet fever or whooping cough.
Allergies were rare.
 
After the monthly meeting of the "Piston Poppers Car Club" in Montreal we would all head out to the Bon Voyage Tavern on Upper Lachine road where 25-30 guys would each lay down a buck and end up with 250-300 glasses of draft sitting on the table @.10 each, it was an awesome sight. Or just slip over the border to Massena, NY, a pitcher of ice cold draft at Charlie's was only $1.50, US smokes out of the machine were .25-.35 cents a pack, and gas .25-.30 cents a US gallon. Next door at the Willow Grove, we watched Diana Ross and the Supremes perform with no cover charge, and after the show they mingled with the crowd, and we got to buy them a drink, try that today. I remember buying CIL Whiz-Bang ammo for .35-.50 cents a box at Snetsingers Hardware on Pitt St in downtown Cornwall, they also had a powder magazine in their back yard where you could buy Dynamite if you had a rural address and engaged in farming. I could also tell you what it cost to buy a "Champagne Cocktail" ( cold tea) for a bar girl on Tu Do street in down town Saigon but that would lead to a lot of other stories and that would probably take several days to tell them all, one last thing, I still have my Browning T-Bolt, grade 2 that I paid $77.50 for in 1966.
 
I remember when a young boy of no more than 11 years could buy a Rambo knife from Consumers Distributing with no questions asked.

I remember when you could get a Root Beer float from Woolco

I remember when kids actually played outside til the street lights came on or until Mom starting yelling to come in.
 
The Lord's prayer in school.
Stores were closed on Sundays.
A wallet held money, not a bunch of cards...........PAL, boaters card,
Costco's card, pass port, and such.
 
6: First Slingshot
8: First BB gun, 'pocket' knife, bag of 'scabs' was $0.10, roller skates, street hockey
10: First Pellet Gun, 'Rambo' knife
13: .22 and 12ga plinking back in the woods
15: An outboard motorboat for burnin' around the harbour. Officially it was for raking moss. Life jacket? Yeah, it's in here somewhere...
16: Driver's beginner's license with a written test, full license two months later with a road test
19: Legal drinking age, WooHoo! Didn't document actual drinking history, but would start several lines above this one ;)
Moved to Bantario the next day.
 
kamlooky said:
The milk man came to the door.
The cows gave the eggs and the chikk'ins gave the milk.
There was a real Santa.
You were nawty, down the office and got the strap.
Dad found 'bout it and you got it agin at home.
Shooting BB guns in the back yard, Vancouver.
Riding in the pick up box.
No FAC.
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Ah, the strap.....I was lucky, only had to worry about one guy finding out cause my old man WAS the guy in the office with that piece of tire in a desk drawer. It's still hanging up on the wall of his garage in case I step outta line....
 
when you when to cop station cop would fill out a form in 5 days they had your fac ready to pickup an the cop was very nice about it too....i remember when box of 22s were a buck lol had a heck of a time to come up with a buck back then
 
I remember when M1 Garands were still under $1,000.00....

I know a a guy who remembers passing up .55 Boys anti-tank rifle for $350.00 and an M1 Garand for $250.00....
 
I remember when gas was 49.9 cents a gallon, you would have a real hard time squeezing in $10.00 to fill the tank, and pop bottles had a 2 cent refund, and you could get a coke for a dime.
 
My dad would phone the cashier at the ALCB so she would let me pick him up a 6 pack on the way home from Jr. High, after I picked up a couple of packs of smokes next door at the Mac's Milk (when it was still Mac's Milk) for myself with the note I'd faked from him saying it was "Ok"

When I was 8 and my "infinitely older and wiser" 9 year old cousin would be getting under my uncle's feet, he would hand us a couple of .22s and a couple of boxes of shells and tell us to go to the back field and shoot stuff, preferably gophers.
 
A BIG TV was 32" and weighed 200 lbs.

A CD was "high-tech".

Peanuts were still allowed at school.

Movie "special effects" were made with real models and lighting - CGI what?

If you wanted to order a rifle in, you had to either do it in person at a store or pick up the phone.

People bought things with money instead of credit.

You could pay cash for a new car.

China was just another third world country.

The "average" house cost $100K.

7% GST.

The Libs had a majority government.

We still trusted the RCMP.

We used an actual map to get us where we were going in the car.

A 386 was a fast computer and a 1GB hard drive was HUGE.

Everybody wore a watch.

We could shoot our SAs and 858s at the range.
 
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