Back in the day.

[tr206]

I grew up in small town U.S.A. Do you guy's remember when most towns had a bus depot? Greyhound use to service our area they moved people yes but also brought parts for the car dealers and goods for the hardware.

[Ed Hackenbruch]

I grew up just outside of small town usa.  310 people. No bus depot, no car dealers, gravel streets and roads.

[luvrbus]

Living outside Houston we had a trolley that ran from Baytown to Houston, parents would let the kids ride the trolley on Sat to movies or skating rink, the rink was on 1 side of the track the theater was on the other side of the track.The trolley was neat it had a drivers area on both ends the driver would drive to the last stop go to the other end and head back.You couldn't let the kids do that now with all the weird people now.That trolley ride cost $.10 for all day he punched a little card when you got off and you showed the card to get back on,lol even when you lost the card he knew where you going and made sure you got back home. I took my daughter in my arms on the last trip Mr Jim (we called him) and trolley made before it was taken out of service, Humble Refinery before it became Exxon paid the upkeep and Mr Jims salary for years for that old trolley   

[tr206]

The train use to bring in the big stuff lumber,coal,etc the buses hauled smaller expedited goods and people semi trucks for the inbetween the town was a buzz with activity now it's almost a ghost town of coarse the rail is gone it's a atv trail the buses run the duffers to the casino.

[tr206]

I grew up just outside of small town usa.  310 people. No bus depot, no car dealers, gravel streets and roads.

Sounds almost like my kind of place. Where was that?

[windtrader]

Big towns too. Even my early recollection was they were meeting grounds for the down and out and the go to place where pimps got new workers?

[dtcerrato]

I grew up in a small town of Keyport NJ right on the bay. You could see NY across the bay. Keyport was noted for a famous eating place called Yee Cottage Inn and where Oldtown Boats were built.

[richard5933]

Greyhound used to be the best thing going for shipping bulky/heavy materials. I used them a few times back 'in the day' getting parts for my 1952 CJ I was rebuilding and picked them up at the Dallas bus terminal.

[tr206]

Do you guys remember J.C Whitney catalog back it the day? Pop use to buy model T parts out of it? and if you didn't get what you needed on Saturday you were screwed until Monday out in the boondocks anyway couldn't buy anything on Sunday.

[Ed Hackenbruch]

tr206   Duvall Wa. in the Snoqualmie Valley 20 miles east of Seattle.

[tr206]

Ed: Duvall is far from rural these days but what a beauiful place to grow up. When I was a yound man I worked for a outfit building forestry roads on south side of Mt Hood and then Mt Adams but I,m back in Wisconsin where I was rised now. I can smell that mountain air from here.

[chessie4905]

How about the Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Wards, and other heavy catalogs? To think they were sent to everyone. Linda remembers the Christmas wish book. She and her sisters spent hours pouring over the pages till it was all corner curled and pages coming loose. AFAIK, you can still order from JC Whitney online. Great for obscure automotive items and stuff not available elsewhere.

[tr206]

Yep Sear and Wards I figured was a given wasn't sure about J.C Witney. I remember spending hours as a kid going through Sears and Wards so I could show Mom and Dad what I would like from Santa Claus and when we were older when the new catalogs came out we would use the old ones for target practice see if we could shoot thru them.

[tr206]

I just remembered I got a chemistry set one year for Christmas thats not going to happen these days.

[luvrbus]

Growing up Texas gun racks with rifles or shotguns in the pickups back windows at school was standard equipment lol even with the windows down they would be there when you left class at 3 pm