You know you're getting old when.........

[Deleted User]

I thought this would be a fun topic to start the new year and for me every one of these applies to me!!!
The toys you played with as a kid are now considered antiques.....
You start getting literature from AARP...
Your conversations with friends no longer center around pretty girls but your latest aches and pains.....
You have more hair growing out of your ears than on your head.....

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Bigstew-----
RT and I were separated at birth

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

If any of you can tell me when the fishing was actually good in Washington. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Deleted User]

OK 'Stew, with that post you now must remove that silly signature of "RT and I were separated at birth"! You said all of those things applied to you; and none apply to me. So ... remove please. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif I have gotten quite a bit younger in recent years.

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

Wanna compare catch cards? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hey now, I took a break from fishing, came back, caught fish, this past weekend is the only skunk weekend and that's because we half-@ssed fished. Ya know, boozing late, waking up early (9-ish). Get there at 11, leave by 1:30p kinda fishin' days. My brother and I made our New Year's resolution to cut that crap out. Oh yeah, I did some sleuth work and found out the name of that honey hole of yours. Of course I post it only if you send me an email telling me the name of it, and then I will reply telling you whether or not that's what I guessed http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif I think it's the blah blah river. Am I right?

[Osprey]

Do it and you won't get old enough to be called Old....more like worm food

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

So you're saying that you have more than 30 salmon on your catch card, 2 steelies, and a sturgeon on your catch card when you are a self-proclaimed c-n-r man? Well scratch that, you are also a self-proclaimed egg *****. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif Besides the ink ran on my card too http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif well it did it did.

[Osprey]

Compare punch cards http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif sounds like you need to be with some of the studs on Bob's board http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
I was refering to posting a certain River's name Dork! http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
considering I had a 15 day on Silvers and 20 fish day on chums and lots of double digit others...besides I'd hate to see you're punch card since it's wrote in crayon....sure does look bigger though http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Phish_on]

You know you're getting old when ...

you remember dweeb Larry AND "Lucky" Jim (but sometimes can't recall your kids' and pets' names on the first try)

[Jennie@ifish]

Close your eyes,
And go back . . .
Before the Internet or the MAC,
Before semiautomatics and crack.
Before chronic and indo;
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo.
Way back. . .
I'm talking about hide and go seek at dusk.
Sitting on the porch, hot bread and butter.
Eating a 'super-dooper sandwich' (Dagwood)
Red light! Green light! Chocolate milk. Lunch tickets. Penny candy in a
brown paper bag. Hopscotch, butterscotch, double Dutch, Jacks, kickball,
dodge ball, y'all!
Mother, May I? Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, Jaw breakers, blow pops,
Marians. Running through the sprinkler!
I can't get wet! All right; well, don't wet my hair.
The smell of the sun and licking salty lips....
Wait. . . Catching lightening bugs in a jar. Playing sling shot and Red
Rover. When around the corner seemed far away, And going downtown seemed
like going somewhere. Bedtime, Climbing trees, a million mosquito bites
and
sticky fingers, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Sitting on the
curb.
Jumping down the steps, Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Being tickled
to
death; Running till you were out of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt!
Being tired from playing.... Remember that?
I'm not finished just yet . . . What about the girl that had the big
bubbly
hand writing? Licking the beaters when your mother made a cake. Didn't
that
feel good? Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when . . . When there were two types of sneakers for girls and
boys
(Keds & PF Flyers),and the only time you wore them at school, was for
"gym."

When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance,
and
another quarter a huge bonus.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated
nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your mom wore nylons that
came in two pieces.
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their
hair done, everyday. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked,
and
gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. You didn't pay for
air....or drinking water. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When
laundry
detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry
groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a
thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to
dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. The price of gas was
affordable. Milk came in jars with real bottle caps. When they threatened
to
keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate
that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by
shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Disapproval of our parents and grandparents was a much bigger threat! If
you
can remember any of these things, I smile with you. Pass this on to people
you care about, it will make them smile too! Talk of these things to your
children. Don't let these memories fade away completely. Just talking to
your children, friends, or loved ones, and trading memories is a joy. Life
goes quickly. Seize it!

[Deleted User]

Hey RT is this one better?


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Bigstew-----
RT's evil twin

[HOGTIDE]

Gosh, Jennie. Ya kinda made me sad. I remember saving my Red Ball Jets just to wear for gym.

[jawbreaker]

http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif you know you're getting old when you're at the park playing some hoops and somebody blurts out, "Hey, the old guy is pretty good". You look around the court and realize
they're talking about you! I'm 31 and over the hill. Yikes. I've still got a couple moves left in the old tank though. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Kinebra]

Stew. Maybe it should read "Twins from a different Mother"

[First Bite]

Wow Jennie that brought back a flood of memories. I always loved getting my new black & white Keds at JC Penney. When they got dirty, we just threw them in the washing machine.
Mark

[Spooled]

Wow. How old are those pictures you guys are always posting? You sure look younger than these post make you sound. PF Flyers?! Whats that a frisbee? I still remember that show named Dallas, I think it was in color. Does anyone go back to the original Charlie's Angels? I heard it was big way back when. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Snagly]

Jenny, that thoughtful post describes a time that doesn't exist anywhere but in the over-40's memory banks. At age 7 I used to walk a half mile to elementary school on my own, crossing a couple of busy roads at the light. I have little doubt that most parents don't let their kids ride their bikes unsupervised up and down the block any more, or go to a matinee unchaperoned.

I'm probably the only adult I know who disciplines other people's kids (nothing physical, something along the lines of "Hey! Stop hitting him/ her!"), and I do that only because we live in gun-free, virtually crime-free Singapore. (The American School here is excellent, BTW. Great teachers and motivated kids. Anyone who doesn't behave is kicked out. It's ironic that to find a school like we used to attend, I've had to leave the US.)

Yours was a happy post so I'll stop my lament there, adding "You know you're getting old . . .

when it takes two tries to get the leader through the hook eye,

you find yourself casting at a "fish" that 10 feet closer turns into a rock,

when on a multi-day fishing adventure, after day 4 you wake up stiff and sore like you used to after a tough football game (and all you've done is fish!)

when the girls you find pretty weren't born when you were old enough to (pick one) drive/ go to college/ go to work."



[This message has been edited by Snagly (edited 01-03-2001).]

[Trout,myster]

Interesting topic since I celebrate (??) my 50th this weekend. 30 was tough, 40 was strange...but 50? Looking back is a whole different perspective than it ever has been. Some of the "you know you're getting olds" that I've experienced.

You mention to a co-worker after a meeting ends "Well, King, this case is closed" and he/she says "excuse me? King who?

A Huey helicopter approaches (yeah, you never forget that sound) and you turn to look.

Stawberry Alarm Clock plays "Incense and Peppermints" and your kids ask you "Dad...were they really a band?"

You get melancholy when someone brings up the subject of 8-track tapes.

A '69 Camero Z-28 is your dream car.

And from reflections of a comedian, your dad would take time out from his busy day just to beat your a$$!

Let's also not forget walking to school 5 miles in the snow, uphill each way!



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[Deleted User]

That is better 'Stew. And I'm flattered, I guess. But you aren't evil though. You are a good guy. .....

How do we know when we are getting old? Well, it's certainly not a chronological thing; such as 'you're old after you turn 70'. I think getting old is when someone loses their mental zest for life and also their physical conditioning to a point that it significantly hinders getting out and doing things. That's a generalization. ...

For some not so serious specifics; you know you are getting old when:

- You'd rather lay on the couch watching an outdoor program than go outside and make your own real experience.

- You'd rather have a table for 4 at a resturant than a 'table dance' at Jiggles, or Good Time Charlie's in Soldotna. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

- You go out in front of your house in your underwear to get the newspaper; and it takes quite awhile to get it.

- You spend a good portion of the day drooling on yourself for no reason.

- It takes you 15 minutes or longer to get off the couch after you first think it's what you want and need to do.

- One loud rap song can send you into convulsions.

- When you stop re-filling your Viagra prescriptions.

[4u2fish]

I think I am in love with Jennie I am not sure if she is married but my wife would be ****** is she saw this and I'm sure that if she is married her husband wouldn't be to happy either so I will stop. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif I just mean to say that that was beautiful and I intend to e-mail it to everyone in my contacts list.

You guys have been makeing me think of all the things in my life that have made it so wonderful to be alive. There are many blessings in this world but the greatest of all is being able to recognise what they are.

I think that we have seen one in Jennies post ---- Thanks for the memories

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[Gone Fishin]

You try to smooth out the wrinkles in your socks and realize you aren't wearing any!!! http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Deleted User]

What you used to be able to do all night now takes you all night just to do.

[HOGTIDE]

Y.K.Y.G.O.W. - An open boat and tiller steering seems twice as cold as it did in the '80s.. Gosh golly, I'd like a windshield this time of year.

[Steelheadman]

When you finally remember to turn in last year's catch record a year later.

[Osprey]

You know you're getting old when you start finding Gray hairs everywhere and I'm mean everywhere http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
When Hot young chicks start calling you Sir http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

Well "Hey yall" for one it's not like you are putting a dent in the fish population http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif



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Row quietly and fish a Cataraft !!---
Release all Wild Fish --<'))>><

[Deleted User]

When you walk around the house looking for your car keys and they are in your hand!
When you call your kids by one of your other kids name.
When you can recall 501s being less than $10.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Jennie that was a great post in this thread. Love those PF Flyers,Red Ball Jets and Paul Parrot shoes along with Clutch Cargo(remember him with the bad animation with real actors lips moving?),Felix the Cat and all those other cartoons.
Remembering vividly the death of JFK and what you were doing at the time.For me it was being in spanish class in the 4th grade.

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Bigstew-----
RT's evil twin

[Jennie@ifish]

PS I didn't author that post, it came in e mail.... so you don't have to be in love with me anymore! It just touched me, and when I read this thread it matched so well, that I had to include it!
What I did do that can make you love me though, is remove all the <<<<, representing the times it had been forwarded!
It's a gem!
Jen

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

When Daisy Dukes was your dream woman, or Raquel Welch for all the really old dogs. Personally I fell in love with Heather Locklear at the ripe age of 3. Gotta remember that old show "The Fall Guy" cause he's the unknown stuntman, that makes Eastwood look so fine. Hey I am just singing the song.

When you remember you could buy gas at .73 a gallon http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif

If your dream job was being JR from Dallas http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif (still is) I mean what good is money if you can't inflict pain on your fellow man?

Hey RT, I'm 23 and a rap song puts me into convulsions. So what's the name of those places in Oregon that involved a jiggle and a table? And do they sell alcohol at those places?

I'm 23 (like I said) and I can remember when you could actually fight someone and not have to worry about getting sued, even if you were defending yourself. I can remember also when it was cool to defend a woman's honor, now they will just kick the guy's @ss thanks to tae bo..lol

[Phish_on]

well at 23 you have no clue about "old" !

hey_yall, don'tcha know ... in Oregon you're always within walking distance of a Starbucks OR a (*)(*) bar ! or a RATTLESNAKE

[Pitch Pocket]

You know you're getting old when.....

Advil is your favorite drug!

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

Yeah Phish, I am older than 23, but not in years. I have old man knees thanks to football. Plus, I had to grow up earlier than most, but that's personal. Now about these ( . )( . ) bars, do they serve alcohol at these places because I don't think they serve it at any of the ones up here, and I think that is so lame. That was one of the best places to hit for drink specials and pool back home. Of course the scenery wasn't bad either http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Losers eat beans. Winners eat steak. Fish on.

[Deleted User]

You know you're getting old when you forget what...um...huh. I forgot.

[Phish_on]

Mercy me! I certainly don't know. I've HEARD that they serve alcohol at high prices. A few have lost their liquor license and go on in "juice bar" mode ~ ~ ~ ~

I think you should do extensive research.
http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Deleted User]

It seems that lighthearted discussions about getting old invariably end up about nude dancer bars? Cool. 'Yall, most of the ones in Oregon are licensed by the OLC to serve alcoholic beverages. ...

Who brought these discusting establishments, that are demeaning to women, into this thread? Shame on you, but thanks; it has given me an idea! With the fishing so slow in general around Tillamook, and other north coast areas, this fall and winter seasons, is anyone out there interested in a partnership venture to open a large combo sports/exotic dancers bar, with both fruit based health drinks and alcohol based drinks and pizza on the menu, near Tillamook? It would be very popular with fishermen and others, even when the fishing is good. Get off the river and head for "RT's Sportsmen's Corral" !!! We could even have some dancing sheep, for those into wool http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif . ....

Hey Shane, I was a few grades higher than 4th when Kenndy was shot. So you being a little younger than me enables you to change your signature from my evil twin to "RT's big little bro"? I like that much better than the other 2 http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif .

[Phish_on]

yeah yeah,
throw in the "bait & tackle corner" and a hearty breakfast (spotted owl 'n' biscuits) we'll have it all

[Barnyard]

Phish....You forgot the brothel

[Bait O' Eggs]

Couple years ago Tillamook had a nudie bar for a very short while. I heard the brass pole came loose from the ceiling and the girl ended up in the front row. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Good reason to sit ring side was my take on the issue. The ambulance had to come take her to the hospital for stitches was the story I heard.

Mixing it with a sports theme would be a big hit. Could always call it "the quick fish", or "the bait shop".

I think this thread is about to de-generate.

[Hoosier Daddy]

What I love is when the communities around the (.)(.) bars decide they want to shut them down. The first thing they do is pull the liquor license, and the first response by the bar? Open it for 18 and over so the preacher's kids can go in. Makes a lot more sense than making it 21 and over, huh? Not that I've ever been in one, mind you. No sir, that's a vicious lie. Allegedly. Maybe, maybe not. OK, but not like a habit or anything. Honest. Aww, forget it.

[SteelieSteve]

RT
how's about making it on a big moving barge? Then people could fish and crab while enjoying libations and good food. Plus it could be towed to Portland for the rose fest. Attract gobs of out-of-town money. As for age I was in the eighth grade when Kennady was killed. Bring on the rain so we can get some bright fisheys!!!!!

Happiness is a zinging reel

[Deleted User]

How is this one Steve? You'll never see me at Starz Cabaret http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif


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Bigstew-----
RT's future exotic bar partner

[Fishin Magician]

You know you are getting old when you start farting dust... http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[WildHawg]

Degenerate? I resemble that remark! Watch it about the "wool" jokes. Us folks from Southern Oregon Take offense at that stuff! I once had a client from California ask me if it was true about farmers and sheep (you asked for it RT). I told him,yeah I suppose some very lonely folks might've "stooped" to such a level--I'll be dipped if that son of a B!#@# didn't run down and stick his head in the fence!!!! SICK B^$#@&D!!! Damn, I sure miss the old days!

[Osprey]

Hey Yall: 23 years old and gas for 75 cents,I've got shoes older than you http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I remember when I could fill the gas-can for a quarter(1 gallon).

Black and White Television
I was in jr. High when we finally got a color TV,I never realized Gilligan had a red shirt http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

When all there was..was AM radio..I still have few 8 tracks left

I was 4 years old and living in Texas at the time(Kennendys assination)Never forget that day http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif

When all ambasaduers reels had swedish writing on them...

Btw Yall,I heard they do serve alchol in those (.)(.) places (never been myself)

.......Os...a 41 year old grand father



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Release all Wild Fish --<'))>><

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

Hey O's how was your Chimeric River fishing trip? Email me. If you have shoes older than me, then for your wife's sake, throw those things out! I can only imagine how they must smell after those years, especially coming off of your feet! http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Gilligan had a red shirt????? Color TV, what's that?? Mama said that's the devil.

We had a 10" black n white until I was 4, with antenna only. Dad got a promotion, we moved, got a big color tv and satellite. We were living the good life then http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif Ya know that old black n white tv still works I think, but I think lightening blew a tube in it a few years ago, but I'm not sure.

Hey O's don't feel too old, my uncle is the same age as you, maybe a year younger, and he's a grandpa too, twice over. Both of his daughters had babies 2 weeks ago. 4 days apart. Don't blame me. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Jeffhead]

Mighty Mouse
Fearless Fly
Beanie and Cecil
Precious Pup
Magilla Gorilla
My Favorite Martian
The Outer Limits
The Beatles had "long hair"
My Sisters favorite song was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (Man I hated that song, heard it about 27 million times!!!)
Saturday afternoon scary movies
A pay phone call was a dime
My first car (a 57 Chevy) cost $500
Skateboards were made from a 2X4 and a pair of strap on roller skates
PF Flyers and Keds were the "high priced" tennies, mine were the $2.99 JC Penny's specials.
When I was a little older Chuck's were the rage.
Man this thread is making me feel old!!!
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Deleted User]

That's interesting Jeff about "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". I love it. I'll tell you what other songs I love after I tell you that thru the early 70's I was reared on progressive heavy rock (as they called it then). I learned to play lead guitar copying my idol Eric Clapton foremost, and also Jimmi Hendrix. The 2 bands I played in did some original stuff but we 'covered' a lot of the 'heavy' stuff at the time; such as "Lead Zepplin" and "Vanilla Fudge", and some lighter harmony stuff like "Three Dog Night". Ring any bells? And someone on here mentioned the national recording band "Strawberry Alarmclock" and their hit "Incense and Peppermints". What a flashback for me. Our local Portland band "The Jamm" played the opening act at the Memorial Coliseum for the Strawberry Alarmclock concert. Here's the funny part of this. I now mostly like listening to the really old early rock stuff the best. Lighthearted songs like 'Lion' and "Duke of Earl". And I bought a 4 part collection of all the best 'Doo ***' songs a couple years ago by the original performers and copied all my favs on one long tape (soon on disc) and love listening to it! "Dion Demuchi and the Belmonts" and also many of the original big city black doo *** quartets. Great feel good music. Energizing too. So you heavy music guys can go ahead and dis my doo *** http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif I don't care, I love it! Hey Superfly, if you read this don't be tryin to blackmail me about this doo *** thing, OK? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif - RT

[superfly]

Let's see, I was a war baby, a vietnam war baby, I remember the seventies really well because I was a little young to playing with dope then. Lets see my first concert, Kiss in the kingdome, Lied to mom and dad about where I was going that night. Got drunk on MD 20/20 that we had a street guy buy us, got sick of course, recovered in time to see show. New after that show that I wanted to be a rockstar someday because of the money and girls and not necessarily in that order. I remember the arrival of the Dawgfather Don James to the U.W and within 4 years we beat michigan in the Rosebowl.
I remeber driving the parents in the nieghborhood nuts and the little girlies krazy with the purchase of the ramones and sex pistols and judas priest albums, not tapes or compact disc. I remeber the sad day that I found out I would not be attending the Lynard Skynard concert because ronnie and steve were killed in a plane crash. I remember when the worst thing that could happen to you in a fight at school is get beat up, not shot, I remember when there use to be big native steelhead in the nisqually in march and it was open to fishing and you could keep them, where did we go wrong!
EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace Superfly

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[superfly]

Steve, Doo ***, what's up with that, My next thing, okay, how about square dance rap !!!!
and Jennies first post, excellent lyrics for a song!!
Now I bring in the chainsaw guitars and we will see how old you really feel.
Actually, lets do the Tit bar thing in Tillamook, I know some guys that would probably put up the money, man that place would rock, I am sure it would be almost as popular as the cheese factory.
Superfly

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[Deleted User]

You crack me up Super. LOL. If we start a strip club in T-town, or anywhere for that matter, and don't pay out high enough wages, the name "The Cheese Factory" might be pretty appropriate for it? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Trout,myster]

A few more "oldies" since I'm looking back this weekend.

Favorite toy as a kid - erector set
Daisy Red Ryder BB gun (original from Western Auto...wish I still had it!)
Spending summer trail riding on Honda 55
Getting my first fishing rod (Garcia and a Mitchell 300 which was state of the art)

In high school "dragging main" and drooling over those who could afford (or their parents could) a Dodge Charger with a hemi.

Watching news clips on Vietnam, then suddenly finding myself there.

And for RT...listening to Strawberry Alarm Clock. Still have their original album! Kind of scratchy as I also played guitar in those days and that was how I learned, listening over and over. Still have my Venture's Mosrite in the case that I've been offered some pretty tempting bucks for!

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[Deleted User]

Hey Trout, the word Hemi, when mentioned in conjunction with old muscle cars that is http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif , really stirs up the memories! My high school friends and I would go to the Woodburn drags all the time to watch the hot stock and superstock classes (doninated by Hemi's '65 onward). My Dad used to work for Chrysler back then and he brought home the occassional 440 big block GTX/Road Runners and was lax (stupid) enough to let me take them to Woodburn and enter them in the street division. They always smelled 'overheated' when I came back http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif . That's what my flashback ride the last 3 years in the modern era Camaro SS was about; drag racing it and also running it in the Team Continental road races around PIR track against Porches and Corvettes. I had run the thing into the ground and finally sold it recently. Wish I could get a rebuilt '70 Hemi-Cuda built to run the 1/4 in about 11.5 sec. or so. Ooooweeeee! Fast track down memory lane! - RT

[SteelieSteve]

My first car was a '55 chev, bought it for $100. That was just a few years after the beatles were on Ed Sullivan. Gas was about a quarter a gallon, for fun we would run up and down Willamette street in Eugene and drive through the A&W. The beach boys were real popular then. Keds were the shoes! Levis were cheap. The muscle cars came out about 1968. The Doors and Jimi Hendrix were the new sound. Now I feel older than dirt. However I've still got my hair and the inspiration to get out fishing in the dark and early mornings. BTW are the fish runs ever going to come this winter?

[Mr. Fisherman]

When you're on a board and your member number is only 2 digits images/icons/shocked.gif

27.... A lucky number...

Aw shoot... 72....

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What's a steelhead?....

[invader]

you know you are getting old when you remember boaters and fishermen would give you a wide distance if you were fishing at anchor!

[fishbait]

You know you are are getting old when:

Your favorate reel is older than the person you are fishing with, and he brought his kid along.

You have pictures of your three fish limit and people ask you how many days it took to catch all those fish.......

Your drift boat is older than your daughters boyfriend

You have bobber rods that if you were to measure all the fish they have caught you would be in double digits........of Tons...

You can remember launching in Wilson tidewater off McKinster road and parking next to the milkin parlor

And Superfly, the t bar thing in Tillamook has been done before, long ago........IT was great while it lasted......Where were you?, I think it was called the "92158"

[Firedog]

You know your getting old when you arent concerned about your hair turning gray you are just happy it is still attached to your head even if it is gray. images/icons/smile.gif

[fishchaser]

Remeber, Old fisherman never die, They just smell that way. images/icons/shocked.gif images/icons/shocked.gif

[Deleted User]

'Bait, launching off McKinster Rd I remember. But T-bar in T-town I don't. I don't remember the "milkin parlor" either. They weren't one and the same I hope? images/icons/shocked.gif Nah, but I can imagine your attraction to both places.

Now that IS getting old if I went and forgot about that! Where was 'it? images/icons/grin.gif

[ 09-26-2001: Message edited by: RT ]

[fop]

THE AFFLICTION...
Thought I'd Let My Doctor Check Me,'Cause I didn't feel quite right . . .
All those aches and pains annoyed me And I couldn't sleep at night.
He could find no real disorder But he wouldn't let it rest.
What with Medicare and Blue Cross,We would do a couple tests.
To the hospital he sent meThough I didn't feel that bad.
He arranged for them to give me Every test that could be had.
I was fluoroscoped and cystoscoped,My aging frame displayed.
Stripped, on an ice cold table,While my gizzards were x-rayed.
I was checked for worms and parasites,For fungus and the crud,
While they pierced me with long needlesTaking samples of my blood.
Doctors came to check me over,Probed and pushed and poked around,
And to make sure I was livingThey then wired me for sound.
They have finally concluded,Their results have filled a page.
What I have will someday kill me;
My Affliction Is OLD AGE!

[fishbait]

RT, Milkin parlor was about 5 blocks back up McKinsterws from the ramp at the end of the road.If you ever launched at this ramp, this was the ONLY place to park without getting towed.Paid a buck per day.......As for the T bar.about 10 or so years ago, maybe 8...lasted from Oct 1 till Nov teen something.If I remembe right, it was in the back of the Dutch Mill or there abouts..........I was only in there 2 times... did not dirve either time if that tells you anything......But I GURANTEE it di exist.....ask around..........I've had alot of halliculations on this part of the coast over my life, but this is not one of them... SS

[Deleted User]

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[Crusin]

You start thinking....maybe your wife was right......