How Many Do You Remember?

[cosgig]

My uncle worked at Montgomery Wards, when they closed he went to Sears.

when you got a “boo boo”, it got sprayed with Bactine, if it was a gash or worse, it got the Methiolate.

Playing baseball all day on the fields at school, within walking distance of course, and playing Hide and Seek after the streetlights came on.

Singing your friends name out in front of their house, at the top of your lungs, to see if they could come out and play.

Cinder block and plywood bike jumps, and broken glass between the ramps, and the whole neighborhood of kids there to watch you crash and burn.

And my favorite memory from when I was a kid….the smell of a candle burning inside of a pumpkin at Halloween.

 

[No name needed]

When movies were a story, not mindless quips.
Had really leading actors, and actresses, who could actually act.
I sure have turned into Good Old Mr. Wilson

 

[Ahoey]

When movies were a story, not mindless quips.
Had really leading actors, and actresses, who could actually act.
I sure have turned into Good Old Mr. Wilson

Great isn’t it

 

[426hemi]

how about penny candy

 

[Ahoey]

how about penny candy

Ya red hots, chew chubs, jaw breakers, black babies, mint Xmas trees, remember thrills the gum that tasted like soap.

 

[RedFish]

Previous posts reminded me of one. When the K-mart store, that was within walking distance of where we lived, a lot of my fellow trailer tramps would try to be present when the "blue light special" on ham sandwiches would happen at closing time. Sometimes 4 for a dollar, sometimes 5. Yes those sandwiches could bring 50 cents each outside the door. Some wanted a sandwich and a pack of cigs. I've been on both sides of that deal. Gone are the good ol' days.

 

[halifaxhops]

Stick ball!

 

[Ahoey]

Remember when

 

[LocuMob]

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I could fit in a booth with the seat so close to the table? Been a while.

 

[diymirage]

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when you could look over the top of one booth into the next one?

 

[Jeff Seighman]

Remember when you could look at a pretty woman and not be called a pervert, look at one now with her triple plastic D's hanging out and see what happens.

 

[Mark Wainwright]

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We have a local restaurant just like that with the juke boxes at the tables. They have a half of a 55 Chevy convertible hanging up on the wall. Pretty neat and the food is really good also.