We have a drive in here in Bend where the carhops still use roller skates. Great food, but the prices are pretty high.
https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/02/dandys-drive-in-bend/
A Tough Generation
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We have a drive in here in Bend where the carhops still use roller skates. Great food, but the prices are pretty high.
https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/02/dandys-drive-in-bend/
In Sweet Home, We still have an A & W with the drive up stalls and intercoms, but no roller skates.
OP
How true.
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
So the comments herein apply to those born from 1930 to 1980. That applies to me. But I'm not sure I have a lot in common with someone born in 1930. Can anyone with a brain see that?
OP
No Brain here.
I think or not thinking MOST of this pertains to us no brainers of the late 30s and 40s that were born brainless.
Notice the words A LOT OF US. Most of us brainless can figure that out.
From my post #1
I think a lot of us on here are the same generation. How many of you got sick and or fell off of one of these???
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
That makes ZERO sense.No Brain here.
I think or not thinking MOST of this pertains to us no brainers of the late 30s and 40s that were born brainless.
Notice the words A LOT OF US. Most of us brainless can figure that out.
From my post #1
I think a lot of us on here are the same generation. How many of you got sick and or fell off of one of these???
OP
Well let me see if I can make sense. After 3000 views and 156 replies you are the only one to complain.
If you did not mean for your post to be a complaint I do apologize
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If you went to school without the internet. You have more in common with someone born before 1930 than you do with people born after 1980.
I remember having to learn the Dewey Decimal System in the library at school and actually learning how to research something instead of looking it up online. I was always a voracious reader so I didn't mind it. The problem I had and still do is physically writing and printing. Dyslexia was not diagnosed or in the case of my family believed. I was "lazy and careless"... I am ambidextrous but was predominantly left handed which they tried to break me of... I do have an affinity for machinery and I have been told that things run better when I just walk past them. It has made me a good living and I am satisfied with my life.
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Didn't have one of these on my car steering wheel but had them on the farm tractors. We called them doodling knobs made it easier to drive with your arm around your Main Squeeze. Think center consuls and bucket seats were invented to keep this from happening along with 3 in the front seat. I call Shotgun 
They'd break your thumbs if you didn't get them out of the way when the wheel spun back. (Ask me how I know) We called them brody knobs.
If you were really daring you had one with a scantily clad female in the center of the knob!
They don't work.
Steering spinners, dimmer switches and starters in the floor and vents down by your feet you opened by hand. Shoot we even had to parallel park to pass our drivers license test. I still drive an old Chevy with the floor dimmer. Once you get it started you can even pull the key out and it keeps running! Actually pretty handy when you need to use the mailbox key on the key ring!
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Robb,
I had a 57 Roadmaster convertible with a switch similar to yours. You could start it without the key.
The position were???? Lock---Off----ACC---On----Start.
Something like that CRS I very seldom used the key.
My Roadblaster also had the Wonderbar Radio which had a switch on the floor that would change the station.
Isn't your Chevy a 55-56, 210????
I had a 57 Roadmaster convertible with a switch similar to yours. You could start it without the key.
The position were???? Lock---Off----ACC---On----Start.
Something like that CRS
I very seldom used the key.My Roadblaster also had the Wonderbar Radio which had a switch on the floor that would change the station.
Isn't your Chevy a 55-56, 210????
You are right Jim, mine is a 1956 Chevy 210 two door hardtop.
Steering spinners, dimmer switches and starters in the floor and vents down by your feet you opened by hand. Shoot we even had to parallel park to pass our drivers license test. I still drive an old Chevy with the floor dimmer. Once you get it started you can even pull the key out and it keeps running! Actually pretty handy when you need to use the mailbox key on the key ring!
Got some of that covered
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Soooooooooooo long ago they have not hired the the other 3 guys to flip burgers
Neckin' knobs; remember them vividly.Didn't have one of these on my car steering wheel but had them on the farm tractors. We called them doodling knobs made it easier to drive with your arm around your Main Squeeze. Think center consuls and bucket seats were invented to keep this from happening along with 3 in the front seat. I call Shotgun
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Come and get them.
And if you don't like the color Ole Earl will paint it REAL good
After that paint dries we will do a little cursing then stop at the A&W. I hear they got some new good looking Carhops
And if you don't like the color Ole Earl will paint it REAL good
After that paint dries we will do a little cursing then stop at the A&W. I hear they got some new good looking Carhops
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I remember Two Guys as well. There were a couple of them in the area. I can't remember if they sold firearms but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Mine did. I bought my first CO2 pistol there in high school.
I remember riding in my Dad's pickup and loosening the knob on either side of the windshield and tilting it out to get more air flow through the cab.Steering spinners, dimmer switches and starters in the floor and vents down by your feet you opened by hand. Shoot we even had to parallel park to pass our drivers license test. I still drive an old Chevy with the floor dimmer. Once you get it started you can even pull the key out and it keeps running! Actually pretty handy when you need to use the mailbox key on the key ring!
Those small side windows, which we called "fly windows" were essential if you were a smoker. You could flick the ashes off the cigarette safely. If you cranked open the drivers main window and tried to flick off the ashes they might blow right back on to you or just as likely, into the back seat of the car. Before air conditioning they were crucial in getting more airflow into the car on hot days.
FWIW, I bought my first car, a brand new VW Beetle 1300 a few days before I got married in 1966, and had never driven a manual transmission. That car, with zero money down, came to about $1,900 with tax, title, and any other add ons, which I paid off in 36 months at $63 a month. And in those days, making that $63 payment was a big deal. Maybe the best years of my life.
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We used to tell our friends “I heard your parents opened a store. They called it “Two Guys”.
