Sunday, June 29, 2025

Our Grandparents In Their Youth

 


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  1. No squares there man…

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  2. That 1956 Buick isn't "round" enough for them to be my grandparents.
    I would have been 1 year old in that pik. (assuming the ride is brand new)

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    1. It's 4:30am. I thought I was the only guy up this early, but only because I'm crazy like that. Your excuse?

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    2. why you sleep in like that? 3:00 for me. cst. in bed at 7:00 though.

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  3. My older cousins, maybe, but not my gramps. Cousin Larry came back from his stint turning wrenches on choppas in the Air Farce with a 57 Chevy hard top that a speed shop in Vegas had massaged until it could mortally fly. It was not more than a couple years old, had black paint with baby moons and Lake pipes and got a lot of attention.

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  4. I didn’t see a GAY or Black couple in that photo, that's racist and shit.

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    1. To be fair, the guy on the far right is a wop.

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    2. Unfortunately, the good old days are a thing of the past. Homosexuals are a little over 10% of the US population (if you can believe it) ... and blacks are 12%. Maybe one black faggot would be good sitting in the trunk with the lid closed.

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    3. Wop? Dontcha mean dago? Funny how back then those slurs were more endearing among friends than pejorative.

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    4. "Wop" is the sound that cooked spaghetti make when you throw it against the wall. And yes, goofy names were loved and adored by friends, and no one was "hurt" and certainly did not have to run to their "safe place" when a name was used.

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  5. A simpler, happier time.

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  6. My grandfathers were born in the 1870s, so probably not.

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  7. Our Grandparents.
    They did things.

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    1. Mine did WWI. One with the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, the other shovelling coal on a cruiser. I'd have been a little kid in this picture.

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  8. WOP - With Out Papers - Immigration jargon at Ellis Island

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  9. we all have OUR turn. it was their's.

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  10. You'd have to go back about 100 years for mine.

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