Pickles by Brian Crane for March 19, 2025

And if you were lucky, an airline pilot would do a barrel roll.

Wait until he asks what it was like riding in a covered wagon, or what Abraham Lincoln was really like.

Monkey hats? I want one!

Good eply Earl. It will be a few years before he figures you out.

Absolutely true!

Walked to school 5 miles in the snow, uphill both ways.

Perfectly rational reason to wear a hat

And TV was only in black and white, and signed off with test patterns at the end of the broadcast day, and rotary phones had to be dialed, came only in black, and had no area codes. If you couldn’t figure out the phone number, a live operator could help you…

Also bad memories

I remember those days !

And my mother wrote letters and addressed the local ones “city” and they would get there!

Flying monkeys?

And mammoth burgers were cheap and plentiful!

Flying monkeys, isn’t bad enough that they fling their poo?

“Gee our old Lasalle ran great, Those were the days”

“Before we had telegraph lines, the cowboy hats and Easter bonnets protected our heads from carrier pigeons’ doo-doo.”

GOOD IDEA

And every guy dressed up in suits and hats to see baseball games.

In the 50s, I was a teen. We would dial our own number to get a busy signal, then start yelling “Hello, hello, hello” between the beeps. Other teens would answer. Then it was “What – is – your – number?” Then “Hang – up – i’ll – call” We called it “the grapevine”. Get dates with girls from other schools. The phone co. put an end to that pretty quick.

And us kids were channel changers. And we’d lie on the floor listening to the radio.

The flying monkeys are an urban myth. The pigeons are the dangerous ones.

Great response Earl! Absolutely great!

Lol

Is this guy 150 years old?

A quibble: they only addressed half their elders as ‘sir’.