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[Rickard Five]

Jim check out these Smartly dressed young men

in their Ties and Jackets the exude an air of Professionalism
and Sportsmanship. it's a formality that excludes Rudeness
and Bad Behavior While saying this is good Clean Fun

[don.siegel]

They were also factory pros, paid to dress up as part of their job representing Russkit!

Personally, I don't remember any correlation between how one was dressed and how one behaved, and I worked at a slot track in 1967 and 1968, then raced again in 74-75.

Rickard, assuming you're not kidding, were you actually around in the 60s?

Don

[MantaRay]

Jim/Don......Mr. Five is pulling something.......but it's not your leg..lol

[Rickard Five]

Don
No I was a child of the 70's, I think I started Racing in 74-75, But I know everyone dressed like that to race, Madison Ave. Told me so No but seriously Be it growing up or just a fact, I've seen lots of changes since then in just general Attitude

[MantaRay]

Mr. Five..............Since you seem to have all the answers..........Where is the track you work at? Any pics of how everyone is dressed? LoL..........PS...I think I know...........
Are you sure you are not John Cauthen............Senior bloggers will know what I'm talkin' about..........

[JohnnySlotcar]

Tennis anyone????????????

[endbelldrive]

Hmmm...the tennis boom started around 1973...about the time slot racing started to disappear into the ozone.

[Jim Webb]

Yah - all those suits are exactly the same. Sure seems unnatural - as in "When will the picture taking be done so we can get into our jeans and checked sport shirts?!" And the third guy in looks like Jack Webb. Rikard - I think you're having a lot of fun at our expense!

[Bill from NH]

Hmmm...the tennis boom started around 1973...about the time slot racing started to disappear into the ozone.

Bob, the only person I ever knew to mix tennis & slot racing was John Cauthin on OWH. No longer on the slot boards, he must have settled on tennis.

[Rickard Five]

Mr. Five..............Since you seem to have all the answers..........Where is the track you work at? Any pics of how everyone is dressed? LoL..........PS...I think I know...........
Are you sure you are not John Cauthen............Senior bloggers will know what I'm talkin' about..........

Mr. Ray
NO I AM NIOT John Cauthen, I apologize if my Sarcastic Satire has out paced your Dull Wit, I could have just as easily said it was your teddy bear that KILL Slotcar Racing in 1968, but if you want to throw more attacks at me Please do it in a PM

[Rick]

A very large number of enthusiast were young boys. DO any of you remember when you turned 16 and got a drivers license?? You were comsumed with buying a car and fixing it up etc etc etc, and then along came the girls too. Go check out most garages today that has a son turn 16 and you'll probably find a real expensive BMX bike with all the doodads laying there idle. LOL Same thing in the 60's, get a car and slot cars and box go direct to the attic.

[Mopar Rob]

A very large number of enthusiast were young boys. DO any of you remember when you turned 16 and got a drivers license?? You were comsumed with buying a car and fixing it up etc etc etc, and then along came the girls too. Go check out most garages today that has a son turn 16 and you'll probably find a real expensive BMX bike with all the doodads laying there idle. LOL Same thing in the 60's, get a car and slot cars and box go direct to the attic.

.......and if they made it past 16 and were still interested in slotcars, when they turned 18 they got sent off to Vietnam.

[MantaRay]

Mr. Five........No Attacks.....Just questions.......You are correct.....My wit....(more than half and not dull) did not see humor in your posts.
Rick and Rob are spot on...... I was lucky.....I had a high draft number....some of my friends were not as lucky....

[Rickard Five]

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..................Rick and Rob are spot on...... I was lucky.....I had a high draft number....some of my friends were not as lucky....

If I may Make a Guess as to what killed Slot Car Racing in the 1960's was the Escalation in Vietnam by President Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara all the young kids going in to combat as Children Playing with Toys and coming back, as messed up Men who have seen the World, Death and $5 "Women of Nonnegotiable Affections". and when they came home they had no time for Models or to pass the hobby on to the next generation.

OR it could be those Dang Hippies and their Long Hair. Their minds too drug addled to make it around a single turn much less a full race. then that long hair was a hazard in the dremel and in gears

I Rather like the like the second thought all bad things can be traced back to hippies

Mr. Price .... if you look back at my first post you'll notice it was the true and correct Answer, I may have been Quite young in the spring of 75, but after the fall Saigon, and to this DAY You could/can always tell the young men that lost their love for fun in that Horrible war. they were the ones with the look of seriousness in their eyes, it was no longer fun but a serious competition, They were just there because their VA Councillor told them it would help , not just to have fun. and by the 80's Slot Car Tracks around the country became bastions of pot smoking Hippies Just like this Guy:

Randall the First cover Guy for SARN Latter Died of a Heroin over dose, Randall Was a Good Guy, and I worked with him in Collage, but Quit frankly, with the influx of Hippies durring the late 60's-70's by the time I was in Jr. High, The best place to score a bag or find a "Friend" to get you a bottle.
SO YEA I STAND by my ASSERTION that Vietnam, Hippies, and the loss of ties and Jackets that caused Slot Car Racing to fade
And Mr. Price there are Over 58,044 Men who are envious of your "High Number"

[Rick]

Rickard, you are painting the children of the 60's with a pretty broad brush. I know that era well, I lived it and also knew many many people that were deep into the recreational enticements, although I never got into them. We all make decisions for ourselves on right and wrong and get they're kicks in their own way. I am not saying a made all god decisons either, all of us have some skeletons in our closet. LOL

As far as the suit and tie thing, check out the photos of Joel and the "boys" at the big races, they were wearing the fashions of their time, long hair, paisley, striped pants etc. That was the "in" thing. Most are still racing today and pretty upstanding citizens and I don't think they are passing judgement on the fashion statement of todays youth?

Everything in the 60's was moving at light speed, many things came and went, slot car mania along with it. But the 70's the 5500 tracks had dropped drastically and the most of them either went full line hobby or folded up. No one reason for it, just how it was. Like CB radios of the 70's, that was HUGE and then fell off greaty.

Live and let live and be thankful there are still some people around to have a facility to go play in. In a country of a couple hundred million people and we have like 250 slot car places, tells a lot of how it is.......................

[tonyp]

This is turning pretty funny,

X, No tie, pot smoking, long hair, blue jean & paisley wearing hippy.

Kick out the jams!

[Rick]

This is turning pretty funny,

X, No tie, pot smoking, long hair, blue jean & paisley wearing hippy.

Kick out the jams!

Tony, if you were 16 today, I predict you would be GOTH. LOL..................

[MantaRay]

Five........Before I gave up slots in 67 ...I do not remember guys like Randall hanging around.......
I do not need the likes of YOU to tell me what My friends and all those that died, did for this country....
I do not see many folks siding with your views........According to your profile, you were born November 13, 1967....WTF do you know about the 60's and 70's ...........I think you are Wrong about Hippies, Vietnam and not wearing ties to race slotcars as the downfall of the hobby...........My opinion...........entitled to it

Please Stick to Slot Cars or take it to freeblog

[Ron Hershman]

Randall Webb

Mr. Gr 27 of his time.

[tonyp]

Let's hope Mr. 5 never sees an issue of the Grundy gazette old weird herald or somebody's got to eat it. Lol...

[tonyp]

If anyone showed up wearing a tie to race at nutley Jersey John, Tony Paterno and his crew would beat them up.

[MantaRay]

My hair is to long to race where he works...........Lol

[tonyp]

God damn hippie freak. Where's my shot gun? Do you got your captain America chopper parked outside with the dope in the gas tank?

[Ron Hershman]

God damn hippie freak. Where's my shot gun? Do you got your captain America chopper parked outside with the dope in the gas tank?

LMAO

[MantaRay]

Nope............It's in the forks