Post by pcalu on Jan 4, 2020 0:00:51 GMT -5
I live in a unique part of the USA...
There are no major freeways here, so time has passed this area by. I live in a small rural town void of any fast food chains, the nearest one is 30 min away. People use their tractors as cars, it is very normal to see some seriously large tractors in the diner parking during lunch lol.
You time travel here.
Typical example; Hot Sunday summer day, few clouds in the sky. I turn on the road leading to home from church and there is a farmer wearing jean bib overalls, plaid short sleeve shirt, straw cowboy hat wearing those cool black glasses your grandad wore. He's driving a narrow front early 1950s Farmall H series pulling a 1950s hay rake coming out of a field. (tractor and hay rake looked mint) and waves at me .... Now at that point I had to ask myself. "Did I just time warp back to the 1950s?" Nothing but my clothes and the 2010 Honda I was driving was telling me it was 2019. Nothing in site that remotely was modern, there was a farm, with the traditional silo and the Red barn off into the distance.
Another example: It's 6am and I'm going to work, driving out of town... (Two lane highway 50min to another small town to my place of work) & out of morning fog rolls a mint!!! 1950s Two Tone Bel Air, again nothing but me and 2010 Honda to indicate what decade it is. Gas stations around here are stuck in between the 1970s and 1980s. Remember the old gas pumps with the lever on the side? We got them here still in use (along with full service) I watched and laughed as a woman pull up in a Lexus crossover, (obviously lost) got out and stared confused for several min at the pump looking for the card reader. Remember drive through convenience stores? We got them too! The nearest grocery store (I swear on a stack of Bibles) is straight out of the 1960s.. You just expect Marsha and Greg Brady (or the equivalent looking) to come around the corner from the next aisle. Think 1960s deli and meat counters, 1960s white long open top waist high coolers in the center of the aisles (the type that has cheese, meats, cold cuts chicken etc... that you reached in and take from) remember those? How about the old school hardware store .? where you tell the guy behind the old school cash register what you need, and he goes and gets it (You wait there... because the place look like it is a cross between a Hoarder's garage and Sanford and Son's Business) But amazingly he's got everything one would ever need and real expert advise ... unbelievable old school !
Yep... still the land of Budweiser, Miller & Bush (they don't do the fancy Boutique beers here lol)
I love this place! It's like I time warped back to my childhood. Center of town has a Grain Elevator and railroad tracks that Trains pull cars up to! Yep 1950 Mayberry is real...
I should post some picks
There are no major freeways here, so time has passed this area by. I live in a small rural town void of any fast food chains, the nearest one is 30 min away. People use their tractors as cars, it is very normal to see some seriously large tractors in the diner parking during lunch lol.
You time travel here.
Typical example; Hot Sunday summer day, few clouds in the sky. I turn on the road leading to home from church and there is a farmer wearing jean bib overalls, plaid short sleeve shirt, straw cowboy hat wearing those cool black glasses your grandad wore. He's driving a narrow front early 1950s Farmall H series pulling a 1950s hay rake coming out of a field. (tractor and hay rake looked mint) and waves at me .... Now at that point I had to ask myself. "Did I just time warp back to the 1950s?" Nothing but my clothes and the 2010 Honda I was driving was telling me it was 2019. Nothing in site that remotely was modern, there was a farm, with the traditional silo and the Red barn off into the distance.
Another example: It's 6am and I'm going to work, driving out of town... (Two lane highway 50min to another small town to my place of work) & out of morning fog rolls a mint!!! 1950s Two Tone Bel Air, again nothing but me and 2010 Honda to indicate what decade it is. Gas stations around here are stuck in between the 1970s and 1980s. Remember the old gas pumps with the lever on the side? We got them here still in use (along with full service) I watched and laughed as a woman pull up in a Lexus crossover, (obviously lost) got out and stared confused for several min at the pump looking for the card reader. Remember drive through convenience stores? We got them too! The nearest grocery store (I swear on a stack of Bibles) is straight out of the 1960s.. You just expect Marsha and Greg Brady (or the equivalent looking) to come around the corner from the next aisle. Think 1960s deli and meat counters, 1960s white long open top waist high coolers in the center of the aisles (the type that has cheese, meats, cold cuts chicken etc... that you reached in and take from) remember those? How about the old school hardware store .? where you tell the guy behind the old school cash register what you need, and he goes and gets it (You wait there... because the place look like it is a cross between a Hoarder's garage and Sanford and Son's Business) But amazingly he's got everything one would ever need and real expert advise ... unbelievable old school !
Yep... still the land of Budweiser, Miller & Bush (they don't do the fancy Boutique beers here lol)
I love this place! It's like I time warped back to my childhood. Center of town has a Grain Elevator and railroad tracks that Trains pull cars up to! Yep 1950 Mayberry is real...
I should post some picks
