re: You know you are old - 65+ when you remember

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2. Using a hand cranked ice cream machine

Used to love making homemade ice cream when we had company over.

3. School lunches cost a quarter in Vermillion Parish

Here in Evangeline Parish as a senior in 1978, they were .75.

4. State of Louisiana issued 3 tablets and pencils to each school kid

I remember this from grade school.

6. No seat belts in cars

No car seats either, and yet most of us lived.

7. No school in Vermillion parish had air conditioning

Didn't have A/C in my grade school rooms either. Hell, the gym at Mamou High still doesn't have A/C.

8. The tv might get 2 stations if you turned the antenna correctly

I guess here in Evangeline Parish we were lucky, we got 3 until cable arrived here in the early to mid 80s.


9. Baton Rouge had one bridge

Yeah I remember going to Baton Rouge and driving in front of the old Esso refinery, with the Tiger painted on the oil storage tanks.

10. Tiger Stadium had wood bench seats, no charge for the splinters

Didn't attend my first game in BR until 1976, so I missed this one.

11. LSU had mandatory ROTC, freshmen wore those stupid beanies

Yep, that's what my Dad told me.

12 Worrying about your draft status

Didn't have to worry about the draft, but still had to register for Selective Service.

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