BajaNomad - Ron and Val of Alaska...

Ron and Val of Alaska...

mcfez - 8-31-2010 at 08:40 PM

this is for you folks....my son Nicky and Salvador's grandson

[Edited on 9-1-2010 by mcfez]

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Udo - 8-31-2010 at 08:41 PM

:?:

Skipjack Joe - 9-1-2010 at 01:02 AM

Makes a father feel all proud inside ....

David K - 9-1-2010 at 03:51 AM

I remember candy cigarettes, growing up in the 60's. Never made me want to smoke... Illegal in the U.S. now, but young people have still become smokers years since... :no:

David K - 9-1-2010 at 03:52 AM

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Originally posted by mcfez
this is for you folks....my son Nicky and Salvador's grandson

[Edited on 9-1-2010 by mcfez]

Help us Nomads out with this... :?:

What does this post and photo mean???

Bob and Susan - 9-1-2010 at 04:44 AM

Good-bye candy cigarettes...

Like the sunday newapaper...pagers...
pay phones... and smoking indoors...

you had a good run
but the times have simply passed you by

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woody with a view - 9-1-2010 at 05:08 AM

i'd prefer he don't explain. i'd rather make my own storyline....

Pompano - 9-1-2010 at 05:33 AM

Wait...I think I've got it!

Bizarre, but......it could be.

"It's a photo of two young kids having fun together?"

bajabass - 9-1-2010 at 06:15 AM

:lol:

capt. mike - 9-1-2010 at 06:39 AM

tobacco is my favorite vegetable

Pompano - 9-1-2010 at 07:08 AM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
tobacco is my favorite vegetable

Funny story about Cuban cigars..

At a Washington, DC c-cktail party, a young reporter from CNN remarked to a navy admiral who was openly smoking a Cuban cigar,

"Don't you feel guilty smoking on of those illegal and BANNED cigars from Castro?"

The admiral blew some smoke and said, "Young lady, I prefer to think of it as burning his crops to the ground."

I allow my kids to whatever they want....

mcfez - 9-1-2010 at 07:09 AM

Except smoking!

This is another great moment in time.....I had just bought the kids a bunch of fireworks (little stuff!) and they were using cigarettes as a lighting tool. They were too afraid to strike a match :-)

Pompano - 9-1-2010 at 08:01 AM

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Originally posted by mcfez
Except smoking!

This is another great moment in time.....I had just bought the kids a bunch of fireworks (little stuff!) and they were using cigarettes as a lighting tool. They were too afraid to strike a match :-)

My dad did the same thing with me and my childhood partner in crime, Randy.

We used Dad's Camels.

Iflyfish - 9-1-2010 at 08:18 AM

Ah, brings up memories of my own childhood and the first pack of Lucky Strikes my amigo stole. We smoked them down by the creek. I was the first to puke, Dewey went next. It was the 1950s in Santa Clara, California.

Now Dewey was from Guadalajara and insisted he was Spanish, not Mexican, we had an ongoing dispute about this. I didn’t understand the deal about pigmentocracy; it was all very confusing to me. His mother made handmade corn tortillas on their porch and she cooked tamales all day, they were from Guadalajara, were dark skinned, and in my mind just had to be Mexican.

Well, Dewey had a phobia about germs. I recall the day our teacher, Mr. Erickson, a real dream, and source of much fantasy at the time, told us about germs. “Germs are tiny creatures, smaller than the eye can see, and they can make you very sick.” Now that particular day, for some reason, Dewey was paying rapt attention. I don’t know if it was hormones or just a genuine interest in the subject. At any rate Dewey got the concept. It was a Friday and it all was pretty boring for me, I had a microscope and this was by now common knowledge for me. I had examined lots of blood, guts and pond water under my 10 power.

So it’s the next day and Dewey scores a bar of chew. Dewey, Bruce and I head down tot he creek. I had only seen pictures in the movies that showed fancy Frenchmen snorting snuff. Big stuff snuff. Anyway we are at the creek and Dewey hauls out this plug of tobacco. None of us had the slightest idea of how to use it. Of course none of us told the others, too much face at stake for that. So we each take a bite and off we go on our bicycles.

The memory of Bruce hurling a brown steam of undigested tobacco, which hit Dewey, following close on his heels, made me laugh my burro off, I nearly fell off my bike as Dewey then puked and yelled “Germs, Germs!!!”

I have lost touch with my good childhood friend and I have had dreams of Dewey, Michael Jackson, or Howard Hugh’s style, with white gloves living in a clean room.
Don’t we all have these stories?

Iflyfishandwonderifgodwantedustosmokewhyshedidn’tgiveusachimney

[Edited on 9-1-2010 by Iflyfish]

tripledigitken - 9-1-2010 at 08:31 AM

experimentation is part of growing up, never did take a liking to it myself...........................surely not the case for this little guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxPe891-JQ

Gotta say he does have a swagger!!

[Edited on 9-1-2010 by tripledigitken]

vandenberg - 9-1-2010 at 08:37 AM

Good story flyman.
Grew up during WWII. Born in "36. No tobacco to be had anywhere, but had some Rizzla (rolling paper) and we just pulverized some dry tree leaves and smoked them, like "Big" people. Got a little sick, but....part of growing up. Remember though that during those times people gave their eye tooth for a smoke, my old man included. They had, in "44, "45 "bukshag", which in Dutch means it came from butts that were opened and the little leftovers made into "new" cigarettes. Buk meaning "bend over"
Imagine the amount of tar in those handrolled cigarettes. :no:

Nice to read positive stuff here

mcfez - 9-1-2010 at 10:14 AM

yeah...real nice!
Iflyfish...great story!
Think I''ll post more photos here to get more positives...

wessongroup - 9-1-2010 at 10:39 AM

Iflyfish, still laughing.. as it reminds me of myself growing up in the 50's... hell just everyone smoked.. just about .. my mom did not.. but most all of my relatives did ... even my uncle in AZ and he was a Mormon .. and he drank coffee.. but he was a really cowboy, no joke..

Check out the John Wayne movie The High and the Mighty ... or Now Voyager.. (they must have had to have exhaust fans to clear the set) ...hell, when I was playing Little League most of my hero's in Baseball and Football smoked.. my Dad did as did all his friends.. plus they drank "whiskey" "Old Crow or I.W. Harper" straight , not white wine.. some Lucky Lager or Brew 102, it's the water...

Just a different period of growing up.. what was considered ok at that time.. is not now.. very funny story... thanks..

Agree with Pomp.. kids appear to be having a great time.. to me too

[Edited on 9-1-2010 by wessongroup]

akshadow - 9-1-2010 at 01:14 PM

Thanks for pictures, does this mean that you are there now?

Correct caption is likely "two kids having fun in the sun"

I remember candy cigs. as a kid. Not sure they ever did any real harm.'

I used them but do not use the real things now.

Ron and Val

Cypress - 9-1-2010 at 01:37 PM

Found/stole? a pack of Lucky Strikes when I was about 11 yrs. old, smoked a couple, had to lay down in a feed trough for a while to get over the dizziness. Shared the rest with an old man that lived in a shack on the edge of the marsh. Quit smoking about 20 yrs later.

mcfez - 9-1-2010 at 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by akshadow
Thanks for pictures, does this mean that you are there now?

Correct caption is likely "two kids having fun in the sun"

I remember candy cigs. as a kid. Not sure they ever did any real harm.'

I used them but do not use the real things now.

Ron and Val

Hello Ron and Val....
Jeanette will be there this Saturday. They decided to not stay at our house...but yours there overlooking the sea !~

I will be there most of October......and not working!

mulegemichael - 9-1-2010 at 07:34 PM

i have tried smoking EVERYTHING over the years...banana peel, nutmeg, oregano, pot, tobacco, blue palm leaves, etc...tried it all...still alive...i had fun in the sun and all is well..thank god we are still alive and well