What Was Your Fav As A Kid??

[Rafter H BBQ]

When growing up… as kids we were either running cows, branding or tagging. Some sort of cattle … and I loved and lived those days. Miss them… My Grandpa and I used to go get the cows up in the hills on horseback and bring em down for winter. He was an ol WWII vet that seen the worse of the war…. on the front lines… he never spoke of it .

But we were best friends! I still miss him today.

BUT, when Friday night and The Dukes Of Hazzard was on… no one questioned where I would be.

I could be out in the corral… but if I heard Waylon singing… I was asses and elbows running and be glued to the old RCA.

In front of the set watching Bo & Luke Duke with the General Lee! Never forget Boss Hogg, Uncle Jessie, Roscoe, Cooter and Daisy!

Daisy!! Wow, as a teenage boy she was beyond beautiful.

I just loved the show in general “no pun intended “.

Oh… the good ol days!

I can just hear Waylon now… “Just some good ol boys, never meaning no harm…. “

What was your fav as a kid?

 

[JIMSMOKES]

My first go cart I got for graduating kindergarten to first grade. 5 yr with a 5hp! Ran over a newly planted pecan tree.
7 yrs later I had a small engine repair sign at end of driveway. (Thanks Dad) Kept neighbors mowers running. Go cart then running twin rotax 2 cycle. One turning left the other right. Stupid fast and started my first interactions with the police. LoL
I can remember cringing when watching the General Lee land jumps and seeing the sheet metal crinkle!

 

[Jim_C]

My first go cart I got for graduating kindergarten to first grade. 5 yr with a 5hp! Ran over a newly planted pecan tree.
7 yrs later I had a small engine repair sign at end of driveway. (Thanks Dad) Kept neighbors mowers running. Go cart then running twin rotax 2 cycle. One turning left the other right. Stupid fast and started my first interactions with the police. LoL
I can remember cringing when watching the General Lee land jumps and seeing the sheet metal crinkle!

Those cars are worth 50K fixed up these days, and they wrecked hundreds of them doing that series. The pain..................

 

[Flatrate]

I come from a family (both sides) of car guys, I am one too. My grandfathers best friend has a mint 69 Charger RT 440, matching numbers and all that, its like it just rolled off the line in 1969. He paid a lot of cash for it.

Back when they were making the Duke's of Hazard movie he got a letter in the mail from the studio, they looked up VIN's and were trying to buy the cars for the movie. He declined, then they offered him a lot more, he declined.

I remember Roger telling Grandpa and I that to him it was worth more to preserve a beautiful car then let it get destroyed for money.

Dave

 

[chef k-dude]

We had a "Cooters Place" that used to be closer to me, I think it was Orange County. When the city slickers started turning the area in to a bedroom community for DC, they were aghast at such a "racist" place existing near them, so they used an ordinance of some sort to refuse them license renewal, so they moved and opened up an even bigger place in Luray, a beautiful area.

It was cool to drive by, they had all the decorations one would imagine and a General Lee parked out front, all right on the roadside, with a diner and everything in it. I stopped in one time for a burger and browsed the merchandise. Picked up an SOS (save our southern heritage) tee shirt and a couple "keep it between the ditches" bottle coozys.

When shopping, there was an FBI team there (they stand out like a sore thumb because they all look the same and squeak from the holsters and shoes and wear the same aftershave). I overhead them saying how it was a shame Cooter's was bieng run out of town. It was apparently a favorite lunch spot for them.

I haven't been out to the Luray location, I'm never out that way. It's about an hour and a half away but I've already seen the caverns, etc. out there so not much else out there to make it a "destination" other than Cooter's.

 

[mneeley490]

Daisy!! Wow, as a teenage boy she was beyond beautiful.

Those short, shorts didn't hurt, either!

I can remember cringing when watching the General Lee land jumps and seeing the sheet metal crinkle!

I remember being astonished at how it seemed to heal itself by the next scene.

When shopping, there was an FBI team there (they stand out like a sore thumb because they all look the same and squeak from the holsters and shoes and wear the same aftershave). I overhead them saying how it was a shame Cooter's was bieng run out of town. It was apparently a favorite lunch spot for them.

One of my college instructors years ago, was a former LAPD sergeant. He told us about a new policy the mayor of LA had come up with, that no restaurants were allowed to serve law enforcement for free anymore, as it had the appearance of graft.
The LA restaurant association basically told the mayor to e'ff off. They would run their businesses however they pleased, and they liked having cops inside as a crime deterrent.

 

[crazymoon]

Justin, I'm a bit older and " I Dream of Jeannie" was my show. Barbara Eden was my Daisy Duke ! :)

 

[gmc2003]

Justin, I'm a bit older and " I Dream of Jeannie" was my show. Barbara Eden was my Daisy Duke ! :)

yeah baby. Barbara and Elizabeth(Samantha). Both were zipper poppers.

Chris

 

[normanaj]

Jane Seymour as Solitaire in the Bond film Live and Let Die.And as sci-fi nut when she showed up in the original Battlestar Galactica.

 

[indaswamp]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!

 

[ajbert]

My favorite thing as a kid? Easy...SUMMER VACATION from school!

 

[Elf@shore]

My favorite thing as a kid? Easy...SUMMER VACATION from school!

My Favorite was going cross country and back!
My Dad sold a tavern, So ? its VACA!
Being in NJ , we went to CA and back.
Remember Dad added a an Air conditioner to the car, that it did not have.
We went on a trip for over a month.
I was a bit too young to really appreciate it, but I remember it as yesterday!
I believe It was 66 or 65 Summer?
it was the real MC COY, Not FAMILY VACA TV !
I was able to see the USA Better then most?
Something most will never be able to do ?
To this day? I still remember where we went !

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

I loved the Dukes growing up. Now I live where most of it was filmed.

Disney Ranch, Placerita Canyon road, Newhall Ave. I know exactly where they stored the hundreds of General Lee's and Sheriff cars. That is about 5 miles from my house. Now it is a gas station and storage lot.

I used to have a spot on my website where I would take pictures side by side of Dukes of Hazard shots and how they look now but I no longer have it up.

If you were truly a fan you would remember when Cale Yarborough was racing the Duke boys on a small race track. That was filmed at Saugus Speedway 10 miles from me. I used to go there twice a month until they closed it down.

Like most TV shows and movies a lot of them are filmed North of Los Angeles. There are a large number of them filmed close to my house. The closest was Fear Factor. They filmed episodes in a quarry across the freeway from my house. Junkyard wars also filmed there. There are many western or outdoor filming ranches in the area.

 

[chef k-dude]

One of my college instructors years ago, was a former LAPD sergeant. He told us about a new policy the mayor of LA had come up with, that no restaurants were allowed to serve law enforcement for free anymore, as it had the appearance of graft.
The LA restaurant association basically told the mayor to e'ff off. They would run their businesses however they pleased, and they liked having cops inside as a crime deterrent.

I'm pretty sure these Feds were paying for their food at Cooter's Place. But I will never forget how they seemed to be clones. I know all FBI doesn't do that, they need to blend-in sometimes, but these guys were literally duplicates of each other! Probably a dress code thing. I'll bet they also have "approved cologne" because of the psychological effect odors have on people. I'm not anti-law enforcement at all, but I do prefer to limit my contact with them!

As far as favorite TV shows as a kid? Too many good ones back then to really pick one, but the Six Million Dollar Man was a fave in my neighborhood. As far as the ladies on TV, as a boy, Linda Carter on the Wonder Woman TV series. I always loved me some "curves".

 

[Gonna Smoke]

My favorite thing to do as a kid was fish and roam the woods around our house. There was a creek down in the woods behind the house and I knew every inch of it. Several ponds around I could ride my bike to and fish.

As for TV, didn't watch too much, but occasionally dad would let us watch Woody Woodpecker. We had a black & white TV, but they advertised WW "in living color" so I thought it would be on our TV in color...

Saturday was Bugs Bunny and the Flintstones. After school was Dark Shadows if I wasn't in the woods. Lots of memories...

 

[mneeley490]

As far as TV shows go, I was always glued to Batman, same Bat time, same Bat channel. The Lone Ranger was a favorite, too. Later on, I got into Star Trek reruns & anything Sci-Fi; Time Tunnel, Battlestar Galactica, Man from Atlantis, etc.
Although in the summer, as my folks both worked, I could watch any daytime shows I wanted. Most channels just had boring soap operas, but a local channel showed old B&W movies. On PBS, I watched a lot of The Galloping Gourmet, and Great Chefs of the West. Might be why I've enjoyed cooking all my life.

 

[gmc2003]

As far as TV shows go, I was always glued to Batman, same Bat time, same Bat channel. The Lone Ranger was a favorite, too. Later on, I got into Star Trek reruns & anything Sci-Fi; Time Tunnel, Battlestar Galactica, Man from Atlantis, etc.

Don't forget about Bruce Lee playing Kato on the Green Hornet.

Chris

 

[mneeley490]

Don't forget about Bruce Lee playing Kato on the Green Hornet.

Chris

That, too. But I think it only ran for one season.

 

[JLinza]

We used to do alot of Rodeo when I was a kid ( Team Roping mostly). Always had a good time doing that. Got to expensive to keep it up. But definitely some good memories.

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

This video just popped up on my Youtube. I found it interesting.