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Remember when........? (mainly for us old folk)

Farmhand640 said:
Chuckles. You spoiled folk who had television. No reception at the ranch. Still isn't and too close to the hill to get satellite.

I remember when o

Young un lol. I remember when the phone was on the wall with a dial handle and a pick up mike. Cell phones were 25 + years away. We had just converted to a rotary dial phone on the 12 party line. But the old cranker was still hooked up.
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Dont lie old buddy.. I saw the wires from that hand cranker dangling in the fishpond in your front yard....?
 
Farmhand640 said:
Oh, and there were no zippers on our jeans. All button up. I am not sure when zippers came along, but I remember that the first pair I owned I worried they would come open (age 7 to 10 or so). And everyone wore Levi's until Lee came along with a boot cut.
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Remember the Comic in the back pocket of Wranglers? Jim Shoulders and Casey Tibbs were featured.

And Levis and Bluebell jeans still had a belt in back, between the pockets to adjust the waistband
 
Farmhand640 said:
Chuckles. You spoiled folk who had television. No reception at the ranch. Still isn't and too close to the hill to get satellite.

I remember when o

Young un lol. I remember when the phone was on the wall with a dial handle and a pick up mike. Cell phones were 25 + years away. We had just converted to a rotary dial phone on the 12 party line. But the old cranker was still hooked up.
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Well that's before me, but I remember watching TV shows where that was to mode of communication.
 
PonyLove said:
I remember them high top keds with the big quarter sized rubber trade mark on the side. I think they were keds. White and blue
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You talkin' classic Converse All Stars? Unless I misremember, they could be had in two flavors: White with blue pinstripes, and white with red pinstripes. WAY later they showed up in black with white stitching, and the same white soles with blue or red stripes.
 
I was thinking of some of the old TV shows. Westerns were quite popular. Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman. And some other animal ones like Rin Tin Tin, and My friend Flicka. Even way back then in my early years I was identifying with that horse. And maybe the earliest one I can bearly remember was The Real McCoys.

Westerns became quite popular in other countries, and I think they gave America the image that we are the good guys.
 
UR20Z said:
You talkin' classic Converse All Stars? Unless I misremember, they could be had in two flavors: White with blue pinstripes, and white with red pinstripes. WAY later they showed up in black with white stitching, and the same white soles with blue or red stripes.
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Yea, that's right. I remember the star now, it would eventually pull off around the edges.

 
"Cons" before they were " Chucks". They were the choice of the basketball crowd, and still are. The others are just fishheads with a fat price tag.

The Tall Man....Pat Garrett ( Barry Sullivan) and Billy Bonney ( Clu Gulagher)...They did ol' Clu wrong. When they shot that first episode, they used the ending for subsequent opening credits....no one told Clu not to wander around with his fake Colt Thunderer tied to his leg all day....watch the lad limp down the street next to Sullivan. I learned the hard way too.
 
Clu also had the prettiest Sorrel Horse at the time. The only more striking critter in the day was Cochise, the original Paint that Michael Landon Rode, in 'Bonanza'. The replacement pony was just not in the same league
 
saddlebum66 said:
Clu also had the prettiest Sorrel Horse at the time. The only more striking critter in the day was Cochise, the original Paint that Michael Landon Rode, in 'Bonanza'. The replacement pony was just not in the same league
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Cochise was "meh" for me. But then, aside from *SOME* Appys, I'm pretty boringly plain-vanilla. Given two horses otherwise equal, I'll take a solid over a paint or other horse with "lots of chrome". My personal absolute top-of-the-heap preference is Palominos - the kind that actually fit the definition, not the washed out ones that you can barely tell where the coat ends and the mane begins, or the "Bay that thinks he's a buckskin, but we call him a palomino", but the ones with the nice, deep metallic gold body and near-white mane/tail. Think Trigger.

Though I think the most striking critter I may ever have laid eyes on was a blue roan QH that was very nearly *REALLY* blue - I can't even do justice to how gorgeous he was. One of those horses you have to see for yourself to realize how stunning his color truly is/was. Can't be certain, but his build strongly suggested that there was at least a dash of Impressive in his bloodline - this boy was *STACKED*. Same person who had him also owned what may be the finest example of a strawberry roan I've ever seen. Damn near strawberry pink, complete with little white "seeds", and though it was a quarterhorse, had a lot of the refinement of an arab. When she trotted, you could tell she was REALLY just going through the motions of the trot, but doing it about 8 inches above the dirt. Never before or since have I seen a horse where the phrase "big floating trot" was more appropriate. Put the two of them side by side, and they'd make a strong man weep at the beauty.
 
As preference goes, Im partial to Lineback Duns....Appaloosas too....anything that can go barefoot.

Robert Horton had a beauty of an App that I think he may have owned, since he rode the critter in Wagon Train, and later in "A Man Called Shenandoah". A genuine Buffalo Runner....might even have been part of the old Nez Perce blooded Critters. Some of that line was bred by Ollokot, Chief Joseph's brother in the Wallowa Valley.
 
When it comes to Blue Roans The Flying U roughstock company has a squad of them....some beauts among the Brutes....when the Rodeo comes to town take a look....
 
That outfit supplies stock to rodeos all over....Ol' Cotton Rosser is 92 and still doing the thing...He usually takes a bow at the Show.
 
UR20Z said:
Cochise was "meh" for me. But then, aside from *SOME* Appys, I'm pretty boringly plain-vanilla. Given two horses otherwise equal, I'll take a solid over a paint or other horse with "lots of chrome". My personal absolute top-of-the-heap preference is Palominos - the kind that actually fit the definition, not the washed out ones that you can barely tell where the coat ends and the mane begins, or the "Bay that thinks he's a buckskin, but we call him a palomino", but the ones with the nice, deep metallic gold body and near-white mane/tail. Think Trigger.

Though I think the most striking critter I may ever have laid eyes on was a blue roan QH that was very nearly *REALLY* blue - I can't even do justice to how gorgeous he was. One of those horses you have to see for yourself to realize how stunning his color truly is/was. Can't be certain, but his build strongly suggested that there was at least a dash of Impressive in his bloodline - this boy was *STACKED*. Same person who had him also owned what may be the finest example of a strawberry roan I've ever seen. Damn near strawberry pink, complete with little white "seeds", and though it was a quarterhorse, had a lot of the refinement of an arab. When she trotted, you could tell she was REALLY just going through the motions of the trot, but doing it about 8 inches above the dirt. Never before or since have I seen a horse where the phrase "big floating trot" was more appropriate. Put the two of them side by side, and they'd make a strong man weep at the beauty.
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I get on em first "grins". Good thing too. Best horse I ever owned was a big ole raw boned appy mare (true to the original breed, not one of the new color things). Head bigger'n a studs with a little roman in her nose, buggy blue eyes, and a single trot that put me to sleep many a time heading home. Fast, smart, quick, strong, and sure footed.

Which brings up the point. I remember when an appy was a breed, not a color.
 
I am not that old by a long shot. Probably what most of you boomers would consider a millenial. My dad would pump the gas then send in one of us to pay afterwards with some extra to buy from one of those coin operated prize machines.
 
Farmhand640 said:
I get on em first "grins". Good thing too. Best horse I ever owned was a big ole raw boned appy mare (true to the original breed, not one of the new color things). Head bigger'n a studs with a little roman in her nose, buggy blue eyes, and a single trot that put me to sleep many a time heading home. Fast, smart, quick, strong, and sure footed.

Which brings up the point. I remember when an appy was a breed, not a color.
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Oh, no question - a good horse comes in any color, and there's no way to know until you climb on top, but I'm speaking from pure a "eye-candy" perspective here. I've met some god-awful fugly, jug-headed, pinned ears, bones everywhere, ugly-in-every-way-you-can-name critters that were some of the sweetest rides you're ever gonna put a leg over. But if you put 'em in a horse show, they'd be in the "dogmeat" class, if you could even get 'em into that.
 
I remember riding in the bed of my dad's truck going 80 MPH or laying in the back window of our Buick on long trips.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Clu also had the prettiest Sorrel Horse at the time. The only more striking critter in the day was Cochise, the original Paint that Michael Landon Rode, in 'Bonanza'. The replacement pony was just not in the same league
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I don't recall that series. Probably before my TV time. I remember Lassie back then but that show ran for years.

Your mention of Appaloosas made me think of when the US army slaughtered the Indians' horses. Seems I recall that the Indians developed this breed.

And my favorite "eye-candy" color is a Palomino. I have a pony mare that's a chocolate Palomino, she darkens up quite a bit in the summer. When I am selling ponies, everyone want to buy her. She's my Barbie pony
 
PonyLove said:
I don't recall that series. Probably before my TV time. I remember Lassie back then but that show ran for years.

Your mention of Appaloosas made me think of when the US army slaughtered the Indians' horses. Seems I recall that the Indians developed this breed.

And my favorite "eye-candy" color is a Palomino. I have a pony mare that's a chocolate Palomino, she darkens up quite a bit in the summer. When I am selling ponies, everyone want to buy her. She's my Barbie pony
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I know the type :)
 
PonyLove said:
I don't recall that series. Probably before my TV time. I remember Lassie back then but that show ran for years.

Your mention of Appaloosas made me think of when the US army slaughtered the Indians' horses. Seems I recall that the Indians developed this breed.

And my favorite "eye-candy" color is a Palomino. I have a pony mare that's a chocolate Palomino, she darkens up quite a bit in the summer. When I am selling ponies, everyone want to buy her. She's my Barbie pony
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Killing the Enemy Horses was a regular tactic in the day. It was axiomatic: "Kill the Horse, Kill the Man". Rotten, but true. A man afoot on the Prairie was no longer much of a threat.

"The Tall Man" was about two seasons, maybe 1960 and 61. The theme music was Jazz-ish, by a composer named Esquivel
 
saddlebum66 said:
Killing the Enemy Horses was a regular tactic in the day. It was axiomatic: "Kill the Horse, Kill the Man". Rotten, but true. A man afoot on the Prairie was no longer much of a threat.

"The Tall Man" was about two seasons, maybe 1960 and 61. The theme music was Jazz-ish, by a composer named Esquivel
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Yes I realize that but they could also round them up and use them for their selves.
 
PonyLove said:
Yes I realize that but they could also round them up and use them for their selves.
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Ever seen the actual reports of the numbers? Average Comanche in the day had eight or nine; so did the Cheyenne, and Nez Perce. They were used in taxi form; one tires, switch to another....Most of the plains tribes used Mustangs, which are smaller than the US and other Cavalry Standards allowed for. They're also not capable of carrying a two-hundred pound trooper and gear very long...the taxi system lends itself to this but spare troop remounts were never taken on patrol or missions. The Cavalry here got its remounts from Posts like Forts Reno and Sill, in Ok., Robinson in Nebraska, and depots in Front Royal, Va Pomona, Ca and a few others...these were breeding areas. I said its a rotten policy but it was the practical solution to travelling with captive warriors and families....it just wasn't in the cards...

I CANNOT visit Palo Duro, and I walked away from the Washita Battlefield Park. There are too many screams in those places, and a lot of them are of dying horses.
 
PonyLove said:
Site an example of how life use to be and has changed over the last 50 years

Remember when you use to pull up to a gas station to pump gas into your car and you paid for the gas after you got done pumping.
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Ummmm cat head biscuits over a cast iron pot of rabbit stew dumplings. Sitting on an open fire, percolator bubbling, a smell of pride in the air after a long day's work building bigboy the biggest baddest steamer on the line. Cigar chewing front porch pickin good times. Only I missed it by 60 years and watch the greatest generation to ever live become history and dust.
 
When I was born the pay phone was just starting to die lol ? cars still had ash trays and lighters and a big mack was under 4 bucks for the large meal. I still have the wild wild west glasses mc Donald's gave out on its release. Back when micky ds looked like a happy child instead of a middle aged adult.
 
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