Summer Essentials in the 70s

What do you remember using/having the most in the Summer time in the 70s?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, busheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
We are not a history podcast. We just want you
guys to know that sometimes we get things wrong, and
if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
be screaming at your device trying to give us the
right answers.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Listen up as we recount growing up in the Midwest
and our unique experience. Go to seventies Buzz dot com
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Got the new music and music, Got the musica? I
got the music can be Yeah, I've got the mute.
Where's the music? Words the music? Cueue?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Cue, cue the music bow.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Bound.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Maybe we should release a song with this uh forty
five with this song on it?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, I thought of an idea for a show upisode.
Oh yeah, I don't know how well would go? Like
b sides of famous A sides. The only is there.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I wonder if there's a place that tells us that, Oh, surely.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's there's the internet. It tells you everything.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
You could ask your buddy Scooby Doo, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, that might be.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
That might be kind of fun. Yeah, it's a musical,
and so it would you would think you'd do it.
Could we could play a little bit of the A
side and then like, what do you think the B
side was? And do the B side?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It would be interesting because most people would have no
idea what the B side song was.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, and every once in a while a B side
turns out. Bet I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well anyway, I wish I still had my big stack
of forty five.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
We could just flip them over.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
We could just you know, I know it was on
the other side of Ryanstone Cowboy.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Ryan Stone cap what's that? Uh uh uh? You thought
you knew.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Beeto oh lone Ranger song? Yeah, but I don't. I
can't remember that anyway, that was on the other side.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Of ry Really what a what a what a cop out?
I know, That's what I thought. So so they were like, hey, Glenn,
what do you want to put on the B side,
He's like, I don't know, just put beto. Who the
heck was that? Oh? You know what?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
We got a podcast going on here.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Hey, everybody has been so long we forgotten we were
doing a podcast.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's been it's been two weeks. And how's that song going?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
So so two weeks ago we recorded four podcasts episodes
in one night.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Then we skipped a week.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, now we're back together for tonight and we're gonna
record four episodes and we'll be gone next week. You'll
be in Alaska and so we'll be back to normal
next week.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So if yeah, if you if you call in, and
that's gonna be alive and that'll be that'll be a
live oh will oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So if you call in uh for next week's episode
and we don't answer something, that's because we're.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Because I'm in Alaska and I won't have any cell
service there you go, or electricity or running water or anything.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, and I'm back from my nine day vacation in
the Lando.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah. If you want to find out all about that,
tunes into Turning, Turning, tune in, listen to Bushead Radio.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'll give you highlights on Bushead Radio. And then I'll
do an inm depth episode on his winkies. Yeah, but yeah,
so I'm back, and uh, you're I'm back. You're gonna
ready to leave.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
This is weird that happened. This is our in between
your week. Why can we do that the same week? Yeah,
I don't know that had been weird.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'd have been down one end of the like as
far as you can go that way, so in ye,
as far as that way freezing.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that had been weird. That'd been cool. It'd been
cool for me. It's gonna be cold. I was cold, wet,
rainy in but that's okay. It's gonna be fun. It's
gonna be an adventure. And the thing is is you
posted stuff all along the way. I won't be able
to post anything except well, Justin did get that starlink thing.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I guess we'll be able to post something so we
know if it works.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's you know why he's getting that
starlingk thing. Because every day for the last like I
don't know how long it's been ten, twelve years, maybe longer,
my son Justin and his son Jackson have posted something
to each other on like Instagram.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
They've got a street, going got a street.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
He wants to keep the street. Yeah, So he goes
and invests, and he says, well, it's you know, to
you know, it's for safety, you know, yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
but street, it's really because we don't want to lose
our streets. Oh yeah, I guess those are big deals. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
And I think is it Snapchat? I think it might
be snapchat or yeah, it's one of those social media
platforms I do not get on.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm on too many right now, trying to keep him updated. Yeah,
I got a lot going on. Let's see Gretch and
call Gritch and coal.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
She talked a little bit about her favorite Disney movies
and Mary Poppins and the Seven Dwarves and thanked us
for the.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Big wheel, the big wheel.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
She wanted a big, big wheel.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, she didn't specify a big big wheel. She wanted
a big wheel.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
We sent her a small big wheel.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's all we can afford. We we don't have much
of it.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
We got we got a small budget around here, so
you're going to get small things from us.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's the thought that counts. It's the thought. She did
say it was her favorite birthday present.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, and if you guys have birthdays out there.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
And there we do have one. I wrote it down.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh okay, there we go, and I hang on, give
me a minute, hang on, let me see uh Jeffrey,
jeff he emailed, and he also sent.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
To find the other day.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You say it's your birth Hu, I'm trying to remember
the name of the song because you it's not under bees,
it's it's.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Under eyes eyes.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, it's your birthday.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh that's why you couldn't find it last time. I
din't know where I found it last time.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
So Jeffrey sent a very nice green ink calligraphy.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, I who you?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Who is?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Who you playing a song for? Hang on? Hang on?
I was just saying, if you go Susan for Suzanne
Thompson here in town, that her birthday was yesterday, okay,
and it's hang on. We're waiting on. It's a watch
wait for you. I guess she's still listening. She's still listening.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I think so. Okay, I got

(07:18):
the little spinny thing going on here.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh we got the spinny thing. That's your birthday spinny
thing right there.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's there you go, Susan yesterday, Monday the.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Twenty sixth, is it Suzanne or Susan? Well, there's a
c I know, but I think it's Susan. Okay, because
I think we've had we've asked her that before.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
She should call in and remind.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Us, Yes, she should, Susan call in, call it but
happy birthday belated.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, call it two five O five for what's our
what's O.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Five eight five for one three oh five?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I don't think or buzz at buzz immediate dot com.
So if you guys, yeah, if you guys have a
birthday or know of somebody that listens to the show
and you'd like us to give a shout out, we
do that for twenty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
So I'd be bored. We make an advertising these days.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
So anyway, back to Jeffrey real quick, a nice green
calligraphy letter, lots of really cool stuff, and he sent
us like this little card he made with buzz.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
What's the card?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I think it's kind of could be our logo and
it's got our names on it and it's it's very cool.
So and yes, we do like the ink Jeffrey. And
even though we have like a seven hour time difference.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, so like right now, it's like two o'clock in
the morning where he's at.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, so it may be difficult getting you on the show.
But I can't remember why I've heard your voice before,
but I have, I can't remember what you sent, but
call in five eighth five, four one three ozo five,
So everybody else and I think I might have played
that four, But if I haven't.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Everybody would love to hear your voice.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, call us in, leave us, leave us a message,
you call in any time.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, and if you did do that, it was years ago. Yeah,
that's yeah, we have how many years? Eight nine years now,
I don't even know. No, it's been a while, but
it's been a while, been a while. Yeah, So you know,
we love talking about the seventies. Yeah, and so much
the sixties.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
We did try. We did attempt the eighties, and we
stopped after five episodes, but we continue to do the seventies.
And why is that, mister.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Wheelers, Because I was a great man. Yes, it was,
it is always will be.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
And so because of these time gaps, and so I
did I talked about Ai and played my little buddy
on our Live or After our Life. So I've got
more more done on the book. So Here's here's the
thing about my banana set squad growing up in the
seventies book is the first chapter.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Is in the future. You can do that, and then the.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Second chapter is where it goes back to the seventies.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
So you do that flashbacks now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
So I almost hate to post the first chapter because
it's not really because there's not anything to do with
the seventies in it. So I'm either gonna post the
second chapter or the first and second chapter soon. But
now I'm still honing, still tweaking.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Still.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was gone for nine days, give me a break.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah. So I saw somewhere speaking of books that Steve
Stewart's stuff is on. What do we listened to it?
What do you call that? Oh? Voice audio audio books?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh yeah, I think I yeah, Steve, Hey, Steve, do.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You listen anymore? Hello? Steve don't know if he listens anymore.
But so he's up to what'd we decide? Four books? Well, yeah,
there's one, two, three, four yep. Yeah. So if you
guys have not bought us, he's got a new one out.
Steve Stewart's Books.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's his his remembrance of the seventies. He and Fancy
check that out. Uh yeah, and so yesterday today's Tuesday.
Yesterday be Monday Memorial Day.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer. The actual
start of summer is another month from now when it's
going to get hot.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
So it was hot in Orlando, felt like summer the
whole time there. I get back to Enid and it
was drizzle, cloudy and almost cool this morning.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, oh oh it was cool. I've been sleeping with
the windows open, and of course the front door's open.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
All the time and all day long. And now all
of a sudden, now that we're podcasting, the sun came out.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah it's still cool. Yeah, it's still a little cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
So we're only going to be in like the high
sixties and seventies and then we start heading to the
eighties and next week.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
So but we still got storms on the way here
and there.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
So anyway, so anyway, that got my got me thinking,
I hate I hate that. Sometimes we'll do an episode
on a subject and almost feel like we can't go
back to that subject because we already did an episode
on it. But they're big episodes and it's it's something
that you really remember from the seventies, So the spin

(12:35):
on summers in the seventies is if you got the
if you got my message right, if you understood my
message correctly.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I read it literally, I read it like three or
four times, not in a row. But I'll be searching
something on hang on the hang on? What do you say?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, so basically what you basically an effect is I'll
read you the message if you had if you if
you needed a the essentials as a kid in the seventies,
what would you put on your list?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Okay, that's pretty much pretty much?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
What was an essential thing to have in summers in
the seventies.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
This is what Curtis sent me since it's the first
day of summer, which was yesterday, not technically, but well, yeah, basically,
how about we do a list of twenty essential things
every kid needed in the summer in the seventies, like
a banana, SA bike, maybe a canteen, just whatever. Your
top twenty list would be there you go. That's so

(13:35):
that's all. And I said, remember we got to do
four episodes.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, I was just trying to get one. I'm be
gone nine days.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I've been gone for ninetays. Shell I got ten.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh, I got twenty I racked in my.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Brain, I scoured, I did all that I can see.
I just I'm sure maybe once we get started some things.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, and mine all yeah. Once once you
hear some of mine, you'll feed into them and you'll
think of new ones you got to remember, and then
you'll be like, oh, yeah, I wouldn't yeah, yeah, because
I probably included stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
What you got to remember is although we grew up
in the same town as a crow fly, as what
a mile a mile and a half from each other, Yeah,
it was a lot different in this neighborhood than it
was your neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, and we didn't really connect until late late seventies,
so a lot of this is like the kind of
younger seventies of stuff, because by the time we connected
we were almost about to drive almost, so this would
have been stuff probably before. I included mostly stuff before driving.

(14:47):
And yeah, and of course you said it because it
was in the message and I'm writing the book about it.
You need a transportation Oh that was my number one? Yeah,
number mind, yeah, number one. Well, now, I I included
skateboard as well, but bike was Oh, I mean, if
you wanted to go long distances, you had to have
a bike.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Wheels do not go on these feet, even back then,
especially now. No, I tried skateboard. No, I tried roller
buddy and it was a disaster. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
No, the skateboard. I think you never rollerbladed. Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Can roller skate kind of No, no, no, no, anyway,
go ahead. Yeah, so bicycle was my number one.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, bicycle because that could get us literally across town quick.
Oh sure, Now we could ride skateboard.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
We did ride skateboards.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
You know, mostly around the neighborhood, and then usually we'd
find a hill and do the hilly thing.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
But I guess maybe I've never had that quiet sense
of balance. And the other thing is is I'm like,
look watching these guys, you guys ride skateboards. I'm like,
it looks like a lot of work. Actually, no, I
don't know that you're I think you're putting out more
energy than you're getting into return when I can just
like pedal.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh yeah, definitely, Yeah, you're definitely putting out a lot
more energy than on a bike.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh yeah, I just didn't see I never saw the appeal.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, and the bike's way way faster. I mean, if
you're wanting to get across town before your parents know
you've left the house.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Now, I can't appreciate like doing like the swimming pools
and all that stuff. If I could stay on the
damn thing, I would I wish. I would love to
have been able to do that. When I was a kid,
I just couldn't do it well.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
In Oklahoma, skateboarding wasn't the thing, so there was no
it wasn't like you. There was like a set of
kids in your neighborhood that were skateboarding in a pool, right,
So the only skateboarding we saw was like in a
TV show or a movie, and there was nobody around.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
To really help you and around here.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's why I skateboard Mondo, goofy footed, Mungo, mngo, goofy footed.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, because that's just the way I started.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Nobody told me it was wrong.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
There you go, so anyway, which I don't know, I
just don't anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm a right I'm a right handed person. But I
skateboard left pointing the wrong direction, and I instead of
putting my forward foot on the back of the skateboard,
I are on the front of the skateboard. I put
it on the back of the skateboard and then when
I get going, I put my other foot on the front.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Of the skateboard.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
So what do you Basically everything's opposite of what normal
people do.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
So you push off with your left foot.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Correct, okay, and my right foot is on the back
of the skateboard, not the front of the skateboard.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh so you're doubly backwards. I'm double back.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
That's mungo goofy footed O. Yeah, I'm but I'm right handed.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
But don't you like shoot left handed? Don't you do
something I do?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Put I shoot a rifle and a and a pool
stick left handed. So I think that has something to
do with your eye, your dominant eye or something.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
I don't know. So you're kind of not quite ambidexious. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
So so basically, transportation was the big thing as a kid,
and you know, if it came down to it, we'd
just walk. We did a lot of walking if you
really wanted to get somewhere, especially like if we'd go
to the creek, Boggy Creek. You didn't really want to
ride your bike to Boggy Creek because you wanted to
get in the creek and like go down the creek.

(18:27):
And if you did that, you had to leave your
bike and then you have to go back up the
creek and so.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
So yeah, sometimes we just walked.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
So next thing on my list cut off shorts, really
really high cut off shorts.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, with the pockets hung out the.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Bottom, pockets hung at the bottom, like in my little
picture there with the Bruce.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
By the way. I came across that again. Last way.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I've had three people, I think in the last two
weeks email me with there's a video where just yesterday
Brett over in Still Waters he had just emailed because
a video popped up with me holding the Ferro poster.
And then like two days later but he messaged again
and said is this you?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
And it was me and Bruce picture and I'm like, oh, yeah,
you should be getting royalties from this. I wish. Yeah,
who'd a thunk?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Uh So yeah, So cut off shorts or shorts. I
mean in the seventies, it was hot in Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
The summers are very hot here. It's oh, something I
forgot I thought about. Hang on, I'm writing this down
so I don't forget it again.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
And we usually had T shirts with the stomach cut
off where it came like right below your chest.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, so what going along with that? Do you remember
the mesh old jersey? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:44):
The old mess yeah mess shirts.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, they had like it looked like a football jersey
with a number on it that was you know, but
I had a blue one. I think. I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yes, yellow is popping in my mind. I must had
a yellow one.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Really, I forgot to be green? Yeah, I just had hat.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I basically everything I had that was green was hats.
I had a green hat collection, and other than that,
I didn't wear a lot of green.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
I guess not. I guess yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
So so basically your clothing had to be as scant
scantily covering your body as possible so you could stay cool.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah did you were you required to use like? Was
there even was he even called sunscreen back then? Sorry,
my chimes are going, I thank you. Yeah, I think
it was sunscreen, but I never use it. Oh no, Now,
my sisters would put that baby withill arleam.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
I was gonna say, yeah, Connie put the baby oil
stuff to bake your skin, not to protect you.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, no nobody. I don't even remember anybody that was
like kind of nerdy and their parents like slathered them
with Well.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now there, now they're saying that stuff's bad for you. Yeah,
there's all those chemicals are in it. So yeah, maybe
that's why we're okay, we're normal. We didn't use sunscreen.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, no, nobody used sunscreen that I.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Know of back in the day. Okay, yeah, yeah, to
go with real quick, to go with that, sneakers.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
You always wanted kind of a grubby pair of sneakers
because we would always pretty much end up at Boggie
Creek looking for tadpoles, and so you didn't want to
go through Boggy Creek barefooted, so you'd basically have to
jump in with your tennis shoes on.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
That's all we wore was sneakers. There was no other
kind of shoe. And I think there were what I
finally figure out they're called fast track that had the
pointy up toes. Oh yeah, no, no soul at all.
I don't know how we didn't destroy our feet. But
so you had to have sneakers that could get muddy
that your mom wouldn't kill you, yeah when you got home.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
So you weren't wearing those of church on Sundays by
the gully. Yeah, another thing we had to have goes
along with the bicycles, have a ramp.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Oh ramp jumping.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
That was kind of big, and we actually jumped our
friends because for now and then, yeah, be brave enough,
but you want to be real close to the rampant.
Oh yeah yeah. And also we used we could find
a good driveway curb that was yeah, it felt like
we were like three feet up and we were like.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I think that's what we usually used is just put
the board up on a curb and jump. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I remember Eric Wright. And then I remember one time
there was a dirt pile. I probably told this before,
a dirt pile and Eric Wright took off and he
jumped it and crashed and chipped his tooth. Oh it
wasn't like set up like a ramp. He just randomly

(22:48):
jumped it and crashed.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
We need to call him one of these days.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, I know, I you know, I email him on
his birthday every year, and then in the in between
will just randomly sometimes he'll email me or we keep
talking about trying to meet in Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
So one of these days, but yeah, we ought to well,
you know, we lost one of our another classmate the
other day. I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't even know he was sick.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Donnie.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, I still call him Donnie. I guess he went
to as he got older, he went to Dawn.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, that's what I say. He's always Donnie.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now here's one that you know, most kids did not
have in the seventies. But I could not have had
the life in the seventies that I had without Staaten's trampoline.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, that was a big deal.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
I mean, Stayn's trampoline was was exercise, it was games.
It was where we camped out. It was where we
just laid and stared at the clouds.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
And it was it. And it wasn't a normal trampoline.
It was by today's standards. Now you get these these
round things on this. This is a hye dollar trampoline.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
It was a rectangle, large rectangle, and it was before nets.
Nobody even thought of.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Putting nets or pads on this.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Now he did have pads.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
But they didn't last long.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah. No, the pads didn't last long. They finally just
fell off or something.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
But yeah, yeah, and it was like a ritual late fall.
We had to like take it apart and put the
bed whatever you call that thing.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Uh yeah, put it all out of the out of
the weather.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
But man hours and hours an hour spent on Staaten's trampoline.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
God ball.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
I feel bad for any kid that grew up in
the seventies and didn't have a friend that had a trampoline.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Now they're everywhere. I bet there's three on this road
right here.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, and I was, they're on Facebook groups for free,
like almost every week, somebody's given if you'll come pick
it up, here's a trampoline for free. In the seventies,
you were like the cool kid in your whole section
of town if you had a trampoline, because it was
like only I wonder if there was five trampolines in

(25:07):
the whole city of Enid in the seventies, they were
they were cooler than swimming pools. Well to us, Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure I've
told a story too, because I found out State's got tramplining. Cool,
I mean, but you can't jump on it to get
a note from your parents' permission. Slip my parents. Yeah,
I was like, you know, I'm not holding responsible if
my son breaks his freaking neck on your trampoline, which

(25:36):
would today would never Oh yeah, it would either. So
missus Pagean was like, did you bring a thing?

Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm like, gosh, darn it, I forgot you have your
permission ship. And I think that was the same thing
that happened to Eric, right because Eric, Eric and I
were still best friends, you know, when Stateon first moved
to town, and then we got separated in sixth grade,
but we started going over to Stateon at the beginning
of the year when I found out he had a trampoline,

(26:03):
and every time Eric would go over, he didn't have
a permission slip, And I think that's he kind of
faded away and and I became best friends. We got
stuck in one six Stateon and I were in one
sixth grade and Eric and.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
The other Klan was in the other sixth grade. Yeah. Yeah,
I always hated that. That ans of like, you.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Know, all my buddies are in the other. Yeah, And
that's literally kind of what most of the guys that
I hung out with like in our neighborhood. What I
think happened was I don't know for sure, but it
almost seems like they divided the classes by neighborhood because
when I lived on Johnson, I was always in class
with the guys that lived near me and Johnson, and

(26:47):
then I moved over to Broadway, and I ended up
in a different class because I was further away from
those guys. So I wonder if they might have broken
it up by where every I don't know, I can't
say for sure, but anyway, when I moved over to Broadway,
I wasn't in class.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
With those guys anymore. Yeah, so huh, but yeah, make
sure wonder Yeah. Uh. It was nice to have in
the summertime, like you compleat in sprinkler or have like
a slip slip slide things.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Slip slide water that was that was actually on my
list too.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
But sprinkler, sprink just a sprink.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well, and that goes along too with the trampoline because
that was always one of the funnest thing was to
put the sprinkler under the trampoline. Well, you could jump higher, well,
you could keep cool.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, my kids, my kids swore up and down that
once it got wet, it got tighter or something. That's
gonna say it.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
It also gains weight. The bed gets really heavy and
so when when you and that's how you get thrown
way high in the airs when two people on the
bed with you. So that extra water it's like another weight. Yeah,
that extra water weight would throw you you back up
and a lot further.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, that's what that was all about.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, how about the old transistor radio.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
You couldn't plug it in. We usually didn't have Yeah,
d D batteries.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
There was no adapter.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, or what do I want to say, batterily? I mean, yeah,
you couldn't rechargeable. Oh, there was no rechargeable radio. So
basically you had to have batteries. And you know, sometimes
we'd go to somebody's house or a fort or something.
If you wanted music, you had to take your transistor
radio with you.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, that's true. And we rarely had batteries. You had
to steal batteries out of something in the house, like
a toy. Back in the day, everything was D D sized.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
And everything had to have a battery.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
D and C. You hardly ever see c's anymore. Oh yeah,
Now it's all double a's and triple a's and sometimes
tiny ones.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
But now it's now we've gone to almost all rechargeable.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah, like there's no batteries at all. Their batteries are
built in. You can't take them out.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, fewer, fewer and fewer batteries, but different kind of
batteries exactly.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Uh, going along with your with with bicycles, it was
really cool if you had a spentometer.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
And only one person had a spedometer.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah. Or a headlight for your bike. Oh yeah, remember
the little headlight and it rubbed up against the wheel.
It never worked with crap, but yeah, yeah, it's nice
if you had that spedometer and you can keep it
more than fifteen minutes until you go to see your
friends and they they trick you into destroying it. I'm
just saying, I'm I'm just saying. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
So basically what you're saying is bike accessories bikes.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Oh flags, remember the flags we come on.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
We had flags and we put the cards in our
little spokes.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
And or or if you ran over a popcin just right,
it would pick it up and makes got off a
noise or some ridiculous grab.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
All kinds of fun stuff. Now here's something really simple.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Still not over this spanometer, but I can't.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Tell stating we did good?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
How about it just how about.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
A play no cardboard box?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Uh, I didn't start playing with cardboard boxes. Still hung
out with you and we built mazes.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, but when we were little, we would go find
the cardboard boxes and go to the grass.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, you'd flatten out the box and you'd go sledden
and then or you'd build a fort somewhere with.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Just a cardboard box.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
And then of course we got old enough and started
making the cardboard mazes. But yeah, so in my book,
that's one of our forts, is mister petty John, let
us leave the maze up for the whole year, so
in the summer fiction because yeah, because in the in reality,
we always took the maze down, and so we didn't

(30:58):
have the maze in the summer. But to get it
into my book, we are going to have the.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Maze throughout the summer. So I see you took artistic
license with that. I'm taking lots of licenses. Ah, did
you ever this is? This could have been spring or fall,
but I remember doing this in the summer. Did you
ever walk around on homemade stilts? No? Yeah, it was

(31:29):
a big thing around here. I could walk, I could
walk forever. A pair of stilts. Uh. One day, I
don't know how it came up. Somebody somebody around here
built a pair of stilts and I'm like, well, let
me on those, and off you went, off I went,
and I was it was cool because I was like
at the rough height, I was like, well, it wasn't

(31:50):
probably that tall. I mean I was probably only like
five feet tall and I was up another that was
seven feet tall.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Had I We were We were never handy with wood
and hammers and nails, so we just never I guess
we never thought.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
About I take it, or I could do them right now,
I could get them I could jump on to the
par of stills right now. I'd like to see that.
And the funny thing was it was the kind that
so you you know, you got a piece of wood
and you got a little foot foot hold, but then
the piece of wood came on up and you had
to hang on to it with your hand.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You didn't have you didn't put like a rope. Now,
some people put a tighter rope onto it and then
they held onto the road.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
You could do that too, but so when you walked
you had to like pick you basically picked your foot
up with your with your hand so it stayed tight.
But if you were good, you could you could let
go when you're standing still. Oh yeah, yeah, you had
to be you know, it couldn't be moving around a lot.
But oh yeah. Interesting. It was like two pieces of

(32:47):
one by four and at the top it was a
little notch to give your place for your hand hang
on to. Did you paint them? Just leave them wood?
You know what? Now that you mentioned that seems like
I remember in white. For some reason, it could have
been wood. Could have been white when you made him. Yeah, man,
it makes me want to get up. Go ahead and

(33:07):
make a pair of steels. Hang on, I'll be right back. Okay. Now.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
The closest thing we had was Jack Baker had a unicycle.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Oh that's so we did you ride it? I don't
think any of us could ride it. I don't.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
I think it was like his brothers who had moved away,
so he couldn't really ride it, and we could. We
tried and never did. I don't know why we never
did really catch on. I get I I just didn't
spend enough time with it. It'd be like five minutes
here and a month later, maybe five minutes there.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
I just never so.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
But we in the in the limited time. No, we
never learned how to ride it.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I never I never tried. I never was around one.
I've ever I've never touched one. But I can imagine
it would be incredibly hard to do. But once you
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh yeah, it's just like riding a bike. Yeah once,
once you get gone, I.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Ride a skateboard because that's just that's like other world
to me. But yeah, yeah, yeah, so unicycle.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, how about uh, when you went out a lot
of times you wanted to have and that you never
had to have, like money, You just needed change, so
you'd go through the house and take your mom's change
and go check the ashtray in the car because you
only needed like twenty five cents for one byte burger
at McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh yeah, or now tell everybody what what what what
a one byte burger for McDonald's is.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, So in our neighborhood, the closest and really only
restaurant was McDonald's, and they sold the regular hamburger for
twenty five cents and for somewhere reason, Oh I guess
maybe because of animal house.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah it was it was late seventies.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
We decided to uh, we'd go call them the one
byte burger, and it was always a test to see
you could stuff the entire McDonald's single hamburger into their
mouth and eat it in one byte.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Uh, and don't start laughing and spiel because that's the
hard part. It's kind of like the brito challenge they
do now all over the internet where you have a
mouthful of water and you.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, slap your slap with the tortilla.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah yeah, and nobody can do it because you know, yeah, no, no,
that was that was That was fun times.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Or you'd go with a quarter and you'd get twenty
five jolly ranchers. Yeah, so I mean it didn't take
much change to get all kinds.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Of good stuff now yeah, speaking of change. Arcades, Oh yeah,
we got occupied a lot of our time. Yeah, Q Spot, go.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Down to the Q Spot was on West Broadway. It
was just across Van Buren. When you cross Van Buren,
you were out of the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, you were downtown, almost downtown, almost downtown. Do you
remember that? Do you remember the day we wanted to
go Maybe it was me that wanted to go to
the arcade and you and Stateton didn't have any quarters.
Do you remember the day I gave you guys a
roller quarters? Huh, Yeah, I don't know why. I don't

(36:06):
know why I had rolls of quarters, but that's back
when I was riffing, and my sister says I was
the richest teenager she ever knew. I don't. That's not
true at all, by any stretch of.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
The well, for been or for any for our gang.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, and of course Curtis didn't need a lot of
quarters when he's playing Asteroid. He needed one quarter, one quarter.
But this, but this was like early on. We were
still we were we were still riding bike because this
is before cars, so we couldn't go to the Electric
Eagle or or the the one by the video what
was that called. I don't remember anyway. Yeah, I remember

(36:42):
Overland Trail, Overland Trail. I remember I either gave both
of you guys a roller quarters or we split a
roller quarters, and I distinctly remember it. Well, I guess
I should say distinctly, but I remember doing that. It
just had to carry. I was like, I wonder what
a roll of quarters in the late seventies would be worth.

(37:03):
The day you know, oh yeah, it's like thirty seven dollars.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Quite a bit, like, oh, yeah, that's why I say
nobody had a nobody had a stack of quarters. I
mean I had to go scrounging through ash trees and
nooks and crannies. But again, if you had anything over
twenty five cents, you were set for the day. Because
we didn't usually come home to eat.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
I mean, did I guess we just didn't eat.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah, a lot of well or won by Burger which
only cost twenty five cents, so we would.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, it just didn't take much. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Now, for for a short period of time, we all
kind of got into the eight millimeter cameras. My mom
had one without sound, so me and Stateton would take
it out and we would film ourselves skateboarding and missed
taking a leak for somewhere reason, and and we always
did the one deal where you the guy tried to
stand real still and he'd film the parramen stop.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
And then and then you take it away and people disbear,
and then Brendan hanging by the way, You might want
to clarify that mister was our Chinese pug that could
do backflips.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, he would, like I do I do have him
on eight millimeter peeing on a bush.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, but that you know, when you're a kid with
an eight millimeter it's funny. I just don't want everybody
to think you were milming men. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, our dog named mister best dog ever except for
Graham and yeah, so anyway, but yeah, so Brendan had
a hoity toyy camera with sound and he would film.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
He would come around and film, and.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Then Bruce, which I don't ever, I don't remember Bruce
having that eight millimeter camera. Yeah, but he filmed a
skateboarding all around the church and like, I don't know,
three four years ago, send me that video, which I
didn't even know existed. Yeah, I mean, I was like
the one of the coolest things ever to have a
video of you and your buddies in fast track shoes

(39:00):
skateboarding in front of the church. You played musculines on forever.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
So so yeah, so a lot of us had borrowed
our parents eight millimeter cameras and did a lot of
filming in the summer.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah. We never had a name Mela aud here. My
uncle did, and every time we got together he would
show the films from the summer before and then film us.
You know that's about that was back when you know,
I only have three cousins. Christy she had hundreds of cousins. Uh,

(39:36):
And we'd go to family reunion. I'm like, who's that.
She's like, I have no idea, So we don't mean.
And the sad thing is is we don't get together anymore,
like we don't. Does anybody do family or unions anymore?
You know? Some?

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I mean, I don't think near what used to. But
a few families do, but way way fewer.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Than used to.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, every now and then you'd find a big tree
or a bush and it would become your fort or
your treehouse.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Tree and not that kind of bush and the bush
and bush.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
And usually like and when I say bush, but usually
it was bushes around the house. But if you'd find
a big I don't know what they call them.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
But a bamboo, oh, bamboos.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
An area of bamboo, you'd climb into the middle and
tear out some bamboo and you'd have like a whole
fort in the middle of a bamboo.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
We had the forest over the woods. We had the wood.
We called it the woods across the street here and
but before that house there was built, there was nothing
from and Jerry Sturge just hadn't built that house. So
literally we thought this across the street was our woods.
And back when I was little and my brothers and

(40:52):
sisters were still young enough to play, we all had
an area that we would clear out and claim as
our own and just hang out.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
You guys, ever built a treehouse over there?

Speaker 2 (41:03):
No? No, never had a treehouse until I was an
adult and my youngest child wanted one. I built the
one with a slide. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
We our treehouses were like a board. You get up,
you know, you find two branches that you could put
a board and sometimes we'd nail it, sometimes we wouldn't.
But that literally was the treehouse was a big board
on two limbs.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, no roof, no sides.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
No. Unfortunately, we didn't have the skills or the tree that.
You didn't want to put too much effort in a
tree that wasn't yours. So these were like these were
like random trees, like you know, somewhere along Boggy Creek
or here or there, somebody somebody some dude's house that
you didn't know.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Who, or you'd come across somebody who would build a
treehouse ish type things.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Hey, oh yeah, yeah, no, there were.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Every now and then you would they'd be like, hey,
there's already boards nailed onto the tree.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
We can't climb up there, and you just confiscated or
acquire it or take it over. Yeah it's mine now,
that's exactly right. Did you ever have a tether ball? Uh?
Only at school? I had one if turn in the backyard.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
I don't think we ever set one up, and I
don't know why we didn't.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Tether Ball was a big time. Yeah. I always thought
it was a weird game. It's kind of a silly game,
but I loved it. But I didn't know we played
with that, me and the mocks, and.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Well that's why you play tetherball. See, kind of like
a Napoleon dynamite. You just play with yourself.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Oh damn it.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Now, speaking of a tether ball, how about a rubber dodgeball?

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Oh? Oh well, we.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
I mean a rubber dodgeball would go a long way
in the summer because you could play dodgeball kickball.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
You could play kickball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
We played a lot of four square. Oh yeah, I
remember playing burnout. Oh yeah, but our big deal was
dodgeball on the tramp was trampoline dodgeball.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
It was like one of the funnest games.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Ever, getting bean while you're up in the air and
there's nothing do you.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Do about it? Yeah, you can't dodge.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
You can't dodge when once you commit to something in.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
The air where you're in the air, you're you're stuck.
You're yeah, you're free, free for all. Uh, well, like
outdoor you know outdoor games like uh, musculinges or like well,
I was thinking more like jars jarts, Oh yeah, charts
or uh, it wasn't really an outdoor game. You remember

(43:35):
that game you put the you put the hoop around
your ankle and you yeah jump. I looked that up
because couldn't remember what it was called. There's like eighteen
different names for that game. Huh. But I thought I
thought that was a silly game too.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Well along those lines, how about this simple frisbee?

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Ah, yeah, we take take the fruit.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
You could play frisbee for tang seven eight minutes straight
before you got bored and had to go do something else.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah, it was sometimes it was tough playing frisbee in Oklahoma.
We got a little bit of wind and it seems
like frisbee or frisbees.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
It's either I got the cheap ones because you'd throw
it in the wind would just take it off.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Or we were really bad back.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Then and throwing because if you spent more time running
after the frisbee than catching and throwing.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, that's true, true. Yeah, I'd have kool Aid cool
laid and popsicles Coo Layden popsicles. Summertime. You gotta have
cooladen and popsicles. You gotta stay cool. Yeah, hydrated. I'm
not sure how I hydrated that made you?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
But yeah, uh, Now, I didn't usually have to take
a sleeping bag, but it seems like I always had
a sleeping bag. But sometimes you take a sleeping bag
over to your friend's house because you'd spend the night
for two or three nights in a row and you
might want to sleep on the floor out on the trampoline.
We'd have blankets and sleeping bags out on the trampoline.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Yeah. I only spent the night at Kent's house and
Mark's house. I don't remember taking usleep I think we.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Just yeah, I don't know that I ever really took
one to Stay's, but I.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Just just slept on the couch or something. I don't know.
I actually, I actually, I think we all just slept
in the living room wherever the TV was. Yeah, and
by the way, don't be the first guy I sleep.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah, it was pretty safe when you were young, but
then once you started learning about drawing mustaches and sharpies
and yeah, that kind of that kind of came at college. Yeah,
you don't want to be the first one to go
to sleep in college.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah you're yeah, speaking of Kent comings, uh huh, don't
let me forget. I got some news I want to
share on bushead radio. Okay, yeah, Kent, but to the radio. Yeah,
I got a note. Okay, I didn't want to forget.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Now this sounds kind of weird. But an empty can.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Oh yeah, just kicking the can.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Well, or if you found worms or tadpole you had
to have. You always needed something to carry something home,
whether you found a bug or a salamander or so,
having a can was always a good thing and you
could dig, you know.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Or do stuff with the water.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Yeah, I mean empty cans were kind of valuable. Back
you have to go search and form or you take
one with you. How about Ammo in the form of
crab Apples.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Or dirt clouds, dark clouds.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
You always kind of wanted to carry a little AMMO
with you in case you got into trouble with another
a gang, a rival gang from the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Get a dirt cloud fight.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah, or crab apples hurt man.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Yeah, those dudes were big. Yeah. Yeah, Mike McGee bean
me right in the forehead with one one time. Youch yeah,
uh still for.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
That hours and hours using the cassette recorder. Oh yeah,
if you'd spend the night with somebody in the summer,
you get the old cassette recorder out and record things
that only juvenile.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Boys would want to record.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yeah, episodes of Saturday Night Live and Doctor Dementto and.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Oh oh uh uh uh Monty Python. Oh yeah, Monty Python. Yeah,
we'd record Monty Python all the time.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Anything, anything and everything on Friday and Saturday Night.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah, especially, and the more inappropriate the better. Exactly. Just
don't talk about it at church next day. Uh. Okay.
Summertime soth is July fourth of July. To have Roman
candle fight.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
One of my first thoughts was, what hell you had
to have Roman candles in the summer.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yes, Roman candle fights.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Come to Todd's house and have Roman candlefights.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
You guys doing to do that at your house?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
No, I don't think I ever bought Roman candles except
over to bring over here.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Oh yeah, well this was at one time, this was
this was a dairy farm. Well we're at right now.
This was a dairy farm back in the forties, the
nineteen forties, and this was out in the country at
one time. So yeah, it was we were kind of
out in the boonies. Those houses weren't there, and those
houses back there weren't there. So yeah, we we just

(48:30):
right there. And it was my mom's birthday, so it
was the fourth July was bigger in here.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
And in the seventies there wasn't the restriction of no
fireworks in city limits.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
I don't think that came till quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
I think it was like, hey, guys, not supposed to,
but you know, it's no big do whatever. We never
had the police never came here. And my brother, who
was nine years older, so let's say I was eight,
I mean he was seventeen, and all his friends would
come over and that's when it was really fun when

(49:06):
brothers friends all came over and and you know, and
they all this was this was the kool ead house
for my brother's clan, and there was a bunch of
them and we had a cheese sweet a great time.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Yeah, and we so we basically just bought black cats.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
We'd go find red ant bens and.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
It was Yeah, it was fun blowing up stuff the
stuff the black cats in there and blow up the ants.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yeah. Yeah. There was none of those cake things that
they have now you light one fuse and five thousand
things flat out of it.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, it was basically black
cats and Roman candles.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Yeah. And bottle rockets. Oh yeah, those got aren't those
band now though? Are they still sell them these days?
And I think they're banned in Oklahoma? I think they're
legal in some places. Yeah, I don't know why those are.
And Roman candles aren't. To me, a Roman candle's much
worse than a I think.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
I think the bottle rockets go way further. I think
that's why.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Well, who cares how far they go? There's a lot more.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Well, because you can land a bottle rocket on a
roof two blocks away and not know it's on fire,
whereas a roman candle. You're probably gonna know the roof's
on fire if you if it randomly goes up on the.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Road on fire.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, but at least you can call the fire department.
If you don't know it's on fire. Nobody's gonna be
calleding the.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Fire department, that's true. Oh. I did set the ones
on fire one time. It was a dry summer, and
you know what I think it was. It was either
a bottle rocket or a of course, the verbiage back
then was different, whistling chaser, uh huh. And it went
and immediately a big flame. I say, big flames like this,

(50:48):
And I had to be like eight nine years old.
I hauled ass over, was stomping that thing out to
save my I got it out. I saved the entire community.
There you go.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
And it didn't burn down because it died.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
By belly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Last one on my list a good old fashioned.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Flashlight, yes, and if you Oh and they didn't last
very long and they corroded like crazy. Oh yeah, and
yeah the batteries a little silver one with the all
the rings around it. Yeah, and you had to look
your all time slapping it to get at the work.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, but you needed it if you were going to
camp out or if you were going into We rarely
had a flashlight with us when we'd go into a
spider tunnel.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
I don't know that we ever had a flashlight going
to We might have. Why did you not.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Well, because once you get down there, the great, oh
there's light now there the oh. Yeah, there was always
a little bit of light coming, especially when you got
to the middle of Vanbura and Gariot. There was like
one on every corner. So I think it added like
kind of led an extra light in that area.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
So did you ever see pd Wise down there?

Speaker 1 (52:00):
We never stayed long enough and then and this was
before penny Wise, so oh luckily, Yeah, I'm sure we
would have seen penny Wise had we had been after
the movie.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Of course, you know, when you're that age, you always
trying to scare each other, you know, Like our biggest
fear was, uh, a druggy.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
It was a seventies so we were always thinking there's
gonna be some some drug some high school college drug
guys down there, yeah, because that's.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
What that's the last place they would want to be.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Yeah, but not when you're a kid, you're not thinking
that way.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
They have their vans are hanging out, or their buddy's
apartment or.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
But when you're a kid, yeah, never know what's gonna
or or a whino or.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
You just never knew who you were gonna run into.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Down in a dark tunnel that you had to crawl
through and practically crawl through.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Well, that's why I made it fun going down there,
just like, oh there could be something down there. I mean,
if it was totally safe, Oh yeah, he wouldn't money.
I was like, that's nothing. It's like there was always
a house like not on Pine but elm Over there
that was always vacant, and we decided it was haunted.
So whenever we were in our boxing around, we rode
by there real quick because it was haunted.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Yeah, I think we I think there was a house
on Broadway. I can't remember which one, but if there
was a house that normally had its lights off and
you rarely ever saw people, it's haunted.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Well that house across the street west from Stayton. The
thing was it was, Oh yeah, it was it was.
There was never anything.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
I say, there was almost never never saw anybody cutting
the grass or.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Never saw anybody there for years and over the windows
they had those weird shades that almost like radiator girls.
Do you remember those? They were like very very fine
slits and they were just metal and you could go
up to them if you're brave enough, and you could
like push on them and they would bend. You remember those? Yeah, Oh,

(53:57):
I distinctly remember that. It was like I was convinced
that house was haunted. I don't know if we ever
talked about the house being haunted. Yeah, I don't. I
would have remembered if we didn't. I always felt the
house was on it even and this is when I
was an older team. Yeah almost. Yea.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
It is weird though that we never saw anybody outside
doing anything at that house.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Apparently there's somebody now, because it looks a lot better
now and it did back in the seventies. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Anyway, yeah, anyway, So there is You got any more
on your list now?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
I saved the fourth July or last because that was
my favorite. That was a fourth your Life stuff fun time.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
So there you go a list of our essentials that
every kid needed in the summer in the seventies. And
I'm sure you guys probably have different lists depending on
what area of the country because I'm sure a lot
of people would say, like fishing poles.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
We didn't. We didn't really ever go fishing. Nowhere to
go fishing around?

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Well, you're the pawd. Not that we'd ever.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
The pond wasn't there till late seventies. Yeah, I guess
that's true. So, yeah, there was upon next door though
we knew, we just weren't allowed to go into. That
was the makis let, the Makis parents' house.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Well, let us let us know what you guys had
would have on your essentials, summer essentials in the seventies,
especially the girl perspective. I'm sure that's way different than
what you know.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
I kind of I kind of thought about that the
like the bronzing thing in the oil that did run
across my mind thinking about this. I'm sure there was.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Lip stuff and halter tops and I'm sure they got
a whole list of And that's one thing we did
not do much in the seventies to go to swimming pools.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
I mean, we had two three, two or three public
swimming pools, but we just I don't know, we just
never hung out.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Well, the one was like racially divided and I never
I never went there.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Yeah, I don't remember really ever going to Champlain. And
then there was well the Phillips.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Well there was someone that the government springs. Yeah, yeah,
you just didn't go there. Yeah. Well I didn't really
go to Champlain either. I went there like I think once.
It was super uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
And none of our friends had a pool. One interesting
story that I would have to sit down with David
reppin they were putting in a pool in the seventies,
which would have really screwed up our Musculines game because
it would have taken up their entire backyard, which was
one of the main thorough fares on Musculanes. And something

(56:38):
happened like the contractor. They paid the contractor and then
it fell through. So they had this big hole in
their backyard for like I remember, like a couple of
years and it never panned out. They never did get
this one which house his was the one we played
that was base. It was across the street from Brendan's.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
It was in the middle.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
It would have had been a small pool, but it
was in the is a house next to the church,
the White Church on the corner, and the very next
house was David but yeah, so they they I think
they took the fence down and they dug a hole
and they were gonna have a swimming pool. I can't
remember why, but something happened and they never never got
the swim ploy. They finally filled a hole back in and.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
When we went swimming. Now, I did go to the
country club with the Mankins.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
And I went with Steerman, but that was like late
late late, like seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
I was like mid seventies. But we would go to
the motels. I went with my sisters because they were
all enough to drive. And you go to the.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Like Motel eight, Lazy eight, Lazy eight.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Which is still there, still has a swimming pool, and
you go in. You'd pay a couple of bucks and
they'd let you swim that afternoon.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
And I posted on Nina Buzz and a lot of
people say they swam there. I didn't even know it was.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
You could trail trail had a good one.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Trail now. I pull slopped a lot of those in
the late late seventies, early eighties, We pull hopped a
lot of those.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
But trail fields in now, it's a garden.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
It's a garden. Dig it, Okay, guys, let us know
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Speaker 1 (58:21):
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