What are you thinking about? Part VIII

Jane B. said:
As a teen and young adult did you ever put 4 in the backseat? For us it sometimes took alternating sitting forward and back on that seat depending on the size of the individuals in the group.
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Wait, What???? Didnt any of your parents own a Station wagon??? lmao
 
Jane B. said:
As a teen and young adult did you ever put 4 in the backseat? For us it sometimes took alternating sitting forward and back on that seat depending on the size of the individuals in the group.
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I didn't own a car until I was 22 but I remember riding with friends crammed into the back seat with more than three. People crammed into front bench seats, too.

The worst was riding in my friend's Karmann Ghia sports car. It was a two-seater, so one of us three friends always had to ride scrunched up sideways in the little space behind the front buckets. Not even a jump seat. Not comfortable! :lol:

karmann ghia
 
Reba said:
I didn't own a car until I was 22 but I remember riding with friends crammed into the back seat with more than three. People crammed into front bench seats, too.

The worst was riding in my friend's Karmann Ghia sports car. It was a two-seater, so one of us three friends always had to ride scrunched up sideways in the little space behind the front buckets. Not even a jump seat. Not comfortable! :lol:

karmann ghia
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My bunch did not own cars ourselves as teens but different ones took their family car at different times.
 
Reba said:
I didn't own a car until I was 22 but I remember riding with friends crammed into the back seat with more than three. People crammed into front bench seats, too.

The worst was riding in my friend's Karmann Ghia sports car. It was a two-seater, so one of us three friends always had to ride scrunched up sideways in the little space behind the front buckets. Not even a jump seat. Not comfortable! :lol:

karmann ghia
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When we went to our summer camp us 4 kids and 2 dog had to sit in the back . We a German Shepherd and a Beagle it was a very tight ride. I would tell my ex brother to open the door and move over !
 
sonocativo said:
Wait, What???? Didn't any of your parents own a Station wagon??? lmao
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Nope!

My family didn't own a car at all; we got to use an Oldsmobile 88 sedan that was provided to my dad as a demonstrator like the family car. He sold Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac. He had Olds demonstrators. One of the other guys had Buick and the owner had Cadillac.

One of the bunch the family had a, I think it was a Dodge, limousine from the time when the father had a transportation service for a number of factories (I think the term on the "east side" from back in the late 40's & 50's will mean something to Sono). The mother was a very enthuestic (sp) high school sports fan and would drive for a real crowd of us to out of town games. That had jump seats and we continued to use even the one the support broke on by putting a bucket under it!
 
At the other extreme one of the gals in my class (but not the bunch I ran around with) who lived in one of the small towns close by that was part of our high school was very active singing etc. Her folks got her a Nash Metropolitan so she could take herself to things in town. At home football games a good deal of parking was on the practice field by the one the games were played on. One night when it was really crowed a bunch of guys picked that car up and turned it around so that it was heading the opposite way from the one around it. She had to wait for the others to move before she could leave after the game. The best shots to see what one looked like are part way down the following link.
https://nashmetropolitancarforsaleaue.wordpress.com/
 
Jane B. said:
Nope!

My family didn't own a car at all; we got to use an Oldsmobile 88 sedan that was provided to my dad as a demonstrator like the family car. He sold Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac. He had Olds demonstrators. One of the other guys had Buick and the owner had Cadillac.

One of the bunch the family had a, I think it was a Dodge, limousine from the time when the father had a transportation service for a number of factories (I think the term on the "east side" from back in the late 40's & 50's will mean something to Sono). The mother was a very enthuestic (sp) high school sports fan and would drive for a real crowd of us to out of town games. That had jump seats and we continued to use even the one the support broke on by putting a bucket under it!
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The East Side.... lol Good Ole East St. Louis, Which is not even in St. Louis or Missouri for that matter.... Wont catch me over there...lol
 
sonocativo said:
The East Side.... lol Good Ole East St. Louis, Which is not even in St. Louis or Missouri for that matter.... Wont catch me over there...lol
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I heard it is very creepy area like Detroit, Gary, Compton and Camden.
 
Jane B. said:
At the other extreme one of the gals in my class (but not the bunch I ran around with) who lived in one of the small towns close by that was part of our high school was very active singing etc. Her folks got her a Nash Metropolitan so she could take herself to things in town. At home football games a good deal of parking was on the practice field by the one the games were played on. One night when it was really crowed a bunch of guys picked that car up and turned it around so that it was heading the opposite way from the one around it. She had to wait for the others to move before she could leave after the game. The best shots to see what one looked like are part way down the following link.
https://nashmetropolitancarforsaleaue.wordpress.com/
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Nash Metropolitan was an incredibly cute car.
 
sonocativo said:
Strip clubs n drugs.... not too far from there is washington and it gets real shady.
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Yes, same with Birmingham (90% neighborhoods are bad), New Orleans, Atlanta (not Buckhead, Midtown, Downtown), Jackson, Memphis and Richmond.

I rather to stuck in good area with no public transportation over bad area with public transportation.
 
Foxrac said:
Yes, same with Birmingham (90% neighborhoods are bad), New Orleans, Atlanta (not Buckhead, Midtown, Downtown), Jackson, Memphis and Richmond.

I rather to stuck in good area with no public transportation over bad area with public transportation.
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Ive been to Buckhead and the Underground...
 
Reba said:
I didn't own a car until I was 22 but I remember riding with friends crammed into the back seat with more than three. People crammed into front bench seats, too.

The worst was riding in my friend's Karmann Ghia sports car. It was a two-seater, so one of us three friends always had to ride scrunched up sideways in the little space behind the front buckets. Not even a jump seat. Not comfortable! :lol:

karmann ghia
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My brother has one of those... a bright green one lol. Dad has a 1974 MG right now also. Tiny thing- I'm not sure which is smaller- that or the Mini...
 
I forgot Sono doesn't go back as far as I was referring to about the "east side". That seems to have brought out a lot of others that are just thinking about what conditions have gone down to by now. There was a time when there were a lot of plants there. And I am not talking about just East St. Louis.
 
The car discussion reminds me of "my" first car - which was really "our first car as married" - hub's and mine - a 4 door early 90's black Nissen XLE with a sunroof. It was the first car I ever drove by myself - also in my mid-20's, Reba - first time I drove myself after adult driver's ed - went to get allergy pills at the small, family pharmacy a few blocks from the apartment hub and I lived in at the time. It was 10 minute drive but hub was worried and it felt like a longer drive to me :)
 
Jane B. said:
I forgot Sono doesn't go back as far as I was referring to about the "east side". That seems to have brought out a lot of others that are just thinking about what conditions have gone down to by now. There was a time when there were a lot of plants there. And I am not talking about just East St. Louis.
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My uncle used to live just across the bridge in Cahokia, so we had to drive through... I remember Monstanto, it stunk to high heavens all the time over there and the fallout of the chemicals would eat the paint off the cars (acid rain) they called it.
Trains, used to be a lot of traffic on those tracks and especially the one we had to cross to get to his house, and these were always LOOOONNNGGGG trains to wait for....
 
Calvin said:
I've been to Crystal City Underground... that was awesome! Remember I was in Chesterfield few years back.
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Crystal City cave is right by me (walking distance) I used to work in Chesterfield ( rich people area) St. Louis is like Day and Night in areas....
 
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