Are you this old?

[2LaneCruzer]

I remember my Grand Dad buying 160 acres of land on Grand Lake in Eastern Oklahoma when the lake was being built (about late 1930's early 1940's) for $1.00 per acre. That's right; one dollar per acre. My Dad was in that part of the country scouting for limestone deposits that could be quarried for material for roads and air fields, when he found the land for sale. They called it "dead Indian land".

He built a house and three cabins that he rented out; they didn't have electricity for several years; they used Coleman lanterns for light, drew water from a well with one of those long, tubular well buckets, cooked on a kerosene stove and heated with a fireplace. They had a Servel Refrigerator, that ran on kerosene. I spent many a Summer there (until I discovered girls); the house was only 100 yards to the lake.

 

[jyoutz]

Are you old enough to remember the connection?

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No. Please explain

 

[Doorman63]

Ha yeh cool, what town?

Oak Forest HS

Still live about 15mins away.
South suburbs are pretty nice still.

 

[oosik]

Well - the pile is getting mighty high. So ..... here goes. I'm not quite as old as 2LaneCruzer but older than k0ua.

I can remember before dirt. It was all rocks and gravel. Then one day - Wallah - there was dirt. The only time I ever heard my Mom swear. It was just a whisper.

It was right after the war. We lived in a small rental house - right next to a gravel pit. Then my Dad got moved. This new house was right next to an apple orchard. Hundreds of acres of good 'ol black dirt. I will never forget - all that dirt was a true joy in my young life.

 

[PILOON]

How about gasoline @ 36 cents per imperial gallon?---
---and I drove a VW 'bug' back then! (about$2.00 /full tank)

 

[oosik]

1965 - I graduated from the U of W. My father bought me a brand new VW. It cost $1695. It was that spring - a gas war in Seattle. Gas was $0.20 per gallon. The wife and I drove all the way to Anchorage in the VW. Many of the potholes in the AlCan were larger than that VW.

 

[Pixguy]

No. Please explain

Some have mentioned but you would need to put a coin on the needle arm so the needle wouldn't jump and skip.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The first record player I remember was my Grandmothers. It was a stand alone model; you had to wind it up, and the music came out of a big megaphone shaped like a morning glory flower. Yucky music.

 

[WVBill]

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I do remember those, and looking at the bones of my feet. Thank goodness I never got a new pair of shoes very often, but during the war they made kids shoes out of cardboard. One pair lasted one day...I stomped through a puddle of water on the way home, and they ended up falling apart.