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Old Timer Memories
Was talking to my coworkers the other day about my childhood and thought it might be interesting to get others memories. Anyone remember when:
Cigarettes were a quarter in the machine and there was two cents change wrapped in the cellophane?
Vending machines
Root beer floats were a dime at the soda fountain...all you could drink.
Soda fountains...
Telephones had a dial but you dialed "0" to get the operater to place a call
Yo Yo tournements (sp) at the local corner store
corner store
Buster Brown show on sat morning tv
Real cartoons on sat morning tv
A half hour of cartoons before the main feature at the sat movies
That should be enough to spark some memories, huh?
And YES I do have the shack nasties and am awaiting the Pa Fish- in.....
Bernie
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How bout the X-ray shoe fitting machines . I have a few more but don't want to "hog" the topic. After all memory and old-timers are a mild OXYMORON.
Mark
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When I go to: http://oldtimefishinggear.com/ and see fishing stuff I used to use as a kid it brings back memories. Do you remember buying split shot in little metal tins that slid open? Some of those tins we used to discard are now selling for 10 bucks a pop.
Tim
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Well, I recall that when I was a little kid, back around the early 1870s, we had a fair in town and my daddy, who was a gambling man when he wasn't an officer at one of the banks, had our family portrait done, then went out and had himself a couple gunfights in the street that day. This is one of three or four photos in existence of me wearing any sort of tie. That is me in front on the right.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...sborneFair.jpg
I remember grape and strawberry Nehi in the pop machine across the street. First in the courthouse building (background of the photo), but my sisters had to take me over there. Second place was across the street at a service station (remember SERVICE at stations?).
The first fishing car I recall was Dad's '63 Chrysler, with the canoe rack. My oldest sister's boyfriend at the time, Claire Hoblitzer, backed it down the boat ramp into the lake when the brakes failed one day. I think Dad still misses that car. I don't think my sister misses Claire, tho, but you never know.
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"Gas wars" at the gas stations with gas at .09 a gallon. And that isn't a typo--9 cents a gallon!!
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I remember...
When we had no television, and Mom played the radio in our kitchen every Sunday after church while she fixed our biggest weekly meal
walking a mile each way to elementary school, which never closed for a snow day
Collecting and returning pop bottles for the $0.02 deposit, so I could buy the biggest candy bars in the store for $0.05 each
Watching Negro league baseball games when "coloreds" lived in the Quarters on the other side of town
The Ed Sullivan show
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How about these....
Polio Shots.
"LSMFT"
The Atomic Bomb drill "duck and cover"
A Davy Crockett Coon's Skin Hat
A Ballentine Blast in Ebbet's Field
May's playing center field at the Polo Grounds on a sunny day
"Irene Good Night", Shrimps Boats Are A'Comin", When The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie"......Hit Parade
Stick Ball
My Dad's pay stub for a weeks wages....$24.64
Dad's bamboo fly rod with the automatic fly reel
The list goes on.
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Old News
Delivering 100 newspapers for a buck a day - six days a week, on a bike, in any weather, and Saturday's paper was a BIG one.
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Fly Tying Materials
I spent a lot of time hanging around the one store in town that sold fly tying materials (about 1956). It took hours to decide on the necessary material for that week and how to best spend my one dollar allowance. The dollar actually bought a pretty good amount of material at those prices.
Universal Vise Co. 10 cent card of Chenille
Stanley's Fly Tying Wool 10 cents.
Pack of 12 saddle hackle 15 cents
Pack of 24 saddle hackle 25 cents
Tying Wax 10 cents
Spool of Tying Thread or Tinsel 15 cents
Hooks 10-15 cents a dozen
Then there were the things that we just dreams like half a jungle cock neck for $5, well out of my price range for years. 8T :)
BTW John, I earned 15 cents a bushel picking apples after school. A kid my size could manage about 7 bushels in an afternoon.
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Listen to the "SHADOW",all we had were bamboo fly rods and later a hollow steel rod. BILL