In the 70s, my mother used to say 3 of the worst things to happen to our culture was TV, air conditioning and no more covered Front Porches. We've all gone inside instead of sitting out on the porch till the cool of evening talking and sharingwith neighbors. Today most of the country doesn't even know their immediate neighbors, they're locked inside watching cable or addicted to their cell phones.
I purchased a house in 1996 that was built in 1923 and needed work. I fixed it up and put an oak porch swing on the front porch. I used to smoke cigars out there in the evenings. I sold it a few years later and just drove by that house 6 months ago. That same porch swing was still on the front porch and it brought a smile to my face! Great Memories !!
Spent evenings as recently as three years ago sitting on the front porch with my cousin Robert as we enjoyed each other's company and talking about everything and anything that crossed our minds from the neighbors cat to our favorite country singers. Robert has since passed on and I miss him dearly. I just hope they have FRONT PORCHES IN HEAVEN and I believe with ALL MY HEART they do. James you are without a doubt the Funniest Man In America.
I listen to this man and he reminds me that the entire country isnt afraid to speak truth or be politically correct. Won't be long before these clips disappear.
My brother ( 56 years old ) just past away this week very unexpectedly. You were his very favorite comedian... he took me to see you when you came to Charlotte NC and we laughed till we hurt. Those are great memories together... and seeing this tonight made me laugh and smile for the 1st time in days... thank you!! 😊
@Julie Monarch... thank you so much ! Yes it’s one of the hardest things I’ve been through... he was not just my brother but only sibling and very best friend!
I can remember sitting on porch after supper handcranking homemade ice cream. Didnt have cable t.v or computer just t.v with 4 channels. It was a lot better then.
I can happily say I was lucky when I found my house , cause we have a front porch & all summer we sit outside watchin the dogs play , spend time together with our family on the front porch & it's true , that porch has brought our family closer just cause of how often we spend on it.
@@delorestaylor8114 No , I'm a responsible furkid owner , all of my dogs are fixed & have been since we rescued them , I don't believe in breeding animals , to many are in shelters dying from over population. I can honestly say that since I was a kid every furbaby I have ever had I always got them fixed because I didn't want to be part of the problem.
It is true. I wave at total strangers cuz hey they might be people I know from somewhere and they will mention it. "Saw you on the porch yesterday" "You didn't have when I saw you the other day"
Dated a girl in a nearby small town. Her house had a front porch.... AND a side by side swinging chair on it. Located on Main Street (not kidding). I loved sitting out there waving at people, talking to people walking by. A life I never knew..... but guess it just made sense to me - especially in this modern excuse for life. Miss her and miss that porch. Cute little house as well. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
I remember so well sitting on the front porch of my grandma's house in Kentucky stringing beans. We would sit and talk and have a wonderful time laughing and telling stories. If you didn't experience times like that I feel sorry for you. It was the best of times.
We had an old picnic table to do peas and snap beans on. I couldn't wait until my mom pealed apples to can in the fall we could eat all the apple peals we wanted to that night I would call the other kids over for that. I remember when my mom would pick small cucumbers and we'd fill up the kiddie pool and we'd each have a brush to clean them off with. We didn't have a microwave until 1983 so everything was home cooked back then too. My foster mom didn't work but between the two gigantic gardens, the house, and kids she was pretty busy all day except for two hours of soap operas she would watch every day. My dad had a full time job then worked for his nephew at the gas station down the street a couple nights a week, and we'd cut the cemetery lawn and trees on his days off. I remember Wednesday nights and all day Sunday we would go to church and they had youth group stuff they would do because we had the church bus in our yard
Neighborhood watch groups are almost as ineffective as gun free zones when it comes to keeping people safe. What keeps people safe is the Second Amendment
True, never thought about that. Here in Texas, I gotta agree with the A/C comment. I’m in a region where it’s not unusual to get 115° July and August. Now I have a “smart” phone I can sit on my porch and watch TV 😂
Putting on a front porch this spring because of this video. All my neighbors have fences to keep their kids and dogs in. I took the time to train my killer Bassett hound to stay in the yard.
My dad's old fridge is in his shop the freezer doesn't work but the fridge part does. He keeps extra pop.and beer out there along with fishing bait. They keep the wine out in the garage and the homemade wine down in the basement where my dad makes it. He's going on two years in his large bottles right now for his latest batch before he bottles it
Comin' from the "Front Porch Generation" I clearly recall settin' next to my Grand Daddy and Grandmother and watchin' the cars and trucks go by on what was first a dirt road and later the "paved road" and doin' the wave and gossip thing....And when Grand Daddy said something along the lines, regarding a stranger walkin' or ridin' by the house, of "He best not come up on our place."...He meant it....Since there was a 12 gauge break top shotgun leanin' up against the wall within easy reach....Loaded with 00 buckshot...Just sayin'....And just in case Grand Daddy needed to reload....Daddy had a short barreled .38 in his pocket....
I'm thinking similar. We would sit out there with my grandparents. Grandma would call some scandalous woman a "Jezebel" , Grandpa would be petting his white german shepherd teasing her about it. We kids would wait for the Frost boys to come race their Novas down the gravel road. They would come by rip roaring and slinging.gravel everywhere. There'd be a dust cloud 20 feet high chasin those cars. We would hoop and holla, grandpa would laugh and grandma would shut the screen door.
Right on James. True even up here in the north. And we all knew our neighbors. Used to love sitting on the porch on a rainy summer night. Slept out there sometimes too.
Remember the porch swing? They were nice. During the 1960's-1970's when I was a child and teen, in summer we'd sit on the porch in evenings. My brothers and I would wonder where people driving by were going.Alot of houses in my town still have large front porches but people prefer using computers and watching tv now, and staying in a/c. In my youth, the porch was sat on in summers to feel cooler, because alot of us had no a/c. James Gregory is hilarious, and his comedy makes him like a spokesman for us baby boomers. LOL.
My Uncle and Aunt moved in the 60's to the D.C. area. My aunt, years later, told me that she went door to door knocking just to meet her neighbors. Weeks after, they set folding tables up in a driveway and all the families brought a covered dish over! 😊
Other things that got put on the front porch: the old couch, the old recliner, the fishing cooler, the old transistor radio - the one with the sharp broken handle, deck of 51 playing cards, Grandpa. What did you have on your porch?
I don't have much of a front porch but I can sit on my front porch on my chair in a bag and someday when I can afford another chair in a bag I can have a friend sit on my front porch with me.
I grew up country…….Appalachia………Left there at 16……..but I still cry when I see and hear banjos and clogging……..Irish Step Dance makes me jump……..My friends say …….What ?…….
I miss sitting on the porch with family, friends, & neighbors on a rainy afternoon or evening, just peacefully chatting & listening to the rain. And if not on a porch, it was in lawn chairs under a carport, or a garage with the door open, especially during the first rain after a long, hot stretch in the summer. Many of the best & funniest stories & jokes I ever heard were in one of those places, just passing time with pleasant company.
I sure wish I had a front porch and lived where people passed by so I could wave. I sure miss that. I have a great screened porch but it’s in the back. 😏
When I cash in all of my stock, I am going to have a house built with a porch on it that wraps all the way around that house. When the sun is rising in the east in the morning I am going to sit on the back porch and sip my coffee. When the sun is setting in the west in the evening I am going to sit on the front porch and sip my lemonade. In between those hours is when I am going to get all of my work done, now that is some high-class living.
My grandmother's house when I was a kid ( 71 now) went across the front and was 15 ft wide. The half where the front door to the loving room was was open, but the other half was screened in and had to sets of bunk beds on it. During the hot Louisiana summers we'd sleep out there. You really don't miss AC if you've never had it. ( 15 ft deep, not wide.)
"Neighbourhood Watch", gives the biddy a right to snoop. We built a Front 'deck' only for the EMT to rest when bringing in the Guernsey. Prior we had only a stoop. That olde refrigerator went into the cellar with the new Freezer. [BTW, we was Mountain Williams, that is Rich Hillbillies proven by we had linoleum on the floors.]
