Christopher said:
"The depression certainly created a mindset in that generation and it is
unfortunately lost in my generation."
Good stories Christopher....
yeah and when they are all gone forever this country will never be the same.
We have become a nation afraid of our own shawdow...
Case in point all the TV adds for drugs which say "Ask your doctor about so
and so.." My parents would have
A) not worried about it
B) waited for the doctor to prescribe it only as a last resort.
Regards Tom Scordato
Bellefone PA.
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From: "Christopher McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Harry Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mercedes mailing list"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] cold day reflections on owning a diesel
on the other extreme: my four year old, when in a 1991 Toyota Tercel asked
(with hand on the window crank), "What is this TURNY thing?"
My Gramma (SW PA, NW W.Va) chewed road tar for gum, had their stove
repossesed by Sears & Roebuck (while in use!), and her brothers pushed coal
off of moving trains, hopped off and collected it. One of the brothers is
now a millionaire but that's becuase he worked four jobs his whole life and
never spent a penny. The depression certainly created a mindset in that
generation and it is unfortunately lost in my generation. My grandfather
can BARELY pass a TV on the side of the road without pulling the copper
coil out of the back (and he is by no means poor)...just what happens to
people who nearly starve to death.
Chris
Harry Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When you were born, I was a
Marine without indoor plumbing in Korea.
Growing up, we moved into a house with plumbing when I was in the 2nd grade.
Harry Watkins
Newton, MS
86 SDL Silver
85 300D Euro
86 SDL Gold
81 240D manual trans
----- Original Message -----
From: "LT Don"
You didn't even have indoor plumbing, did you? I can still remember homes
with outhouses, and I was born in the early 50s.
On 12/3/05, Harry Watkins wrote:
>
> Tom Wrote"
>
> "I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times
> still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing."
>
> Do any of you remember when all headlights were required to have the top
> half of the lens blacked out?
>
> We probably had it bad but didn't realize it. Many families did not
have
> a
> car, the ones that did shared.
>
> Harry Watkins
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