Nostalgia

[JMD]

I wasn't a little kid in Oklahoma. I grew up in Indiana. In the summertime there we had mosquito fogger trucks drive through the neighborhood blowing whatever poison that was through the air. We'd follow it on our bicycles getting eye and lung fulls of it. We were stupid.

edit- this wasn't from any pic I had. My wife saw this on another site and texted it to me asking if I remembered this from my childhood.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

I did the same in NY; it was DDT.

 

[XYZ]

Remember that from my time at both Duluth and Lac Du Flambeau.

 

[Angler2312]

They still do that through our neighborhood in the summer. Newer equipment obviously.

 

[enuf]

I lived in IN back in the 70's and 80's and I remember them doing that too. A little newer truck, but....

 

[j99tc88]

Born and raised in Indy, yes common back in the day .

 

[Firpo]

Not that long ago (from my perspective) back in the late 80s we had this critter that was wiping out the citrus crops called a Med Fly. If you had citrus trees in your yard they’d place traps in them and at night a squadron of helicopters flew over spraying little pellets covering an entire city/county. Stuff was none to kind on the paint job of your car.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

I had a Med Fly Invasion t-shirt.

“Med Fly cocktail, one sip and your fly drops”

 

[DRC458]

And, yet ... you're all still alive!!!

 

[38Super]

Grew up in Daytona Beach on the 70's. I remember those going down the street.