Remember looking at the African titties in National Geographic in the school library? HA!
Regards, GF.
When I was a child...during the time when dinosaurs freely roamed the earth...my mother and I would take the city bus to downtown Milwaukee. Of course, that was BSM, also known as "Before Shopping Malls." We would always have lunch at the counter at Woolworth's, and that's where I learned to LOVE bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches! But then, the dinosaurs died and capitalists built shopping mall after shopping mall, and I grew up.
glenn514
And don't forget the flint knives & bear skins! We had Woolworth's & Grant's as well. Both the original families stores. But in downtown Elyria,we also had a early victorian Era one called Neisner Bros 5 & 10c store. Dark carved wooden panels,a staircase to the second floor rivaling the Grand Staircase on the Titanic as well. Even the very old school soda fountain,just like my mother remembered. When I was a kid,she'd take me shopping with her To help carry packages home. Not to mention,the way a proper lady dressed in those days. But we always stopped by Neisner's soda fountain for a burger with "Coke & soda". How many on here remember that bit??
Graffiti from pay stalls. "Here I sit, broken hearted. Paid a dime, and only farted."
Air and water used to be free at the gas station.
Remember when they used to use real plaster & lath for interior walls?
Regards, GF.
gratus fermentatio said:Remember when they used to use real plaster & lath for interior walls?
We had an old shoe repair shop in Elyria,OH that had nearly one whole side for shoe shines. They even did minor sewing repairs on the fly. My dad taught me the lime/lath/plaster kind of walls when I was young. It's def a lost art. And the 10-15c 7up popsicles at the stand by the playground in Cascade Park (cool name for a park looking back,huh!?) & the ever not so popular summer crew cut at Kosco's barber shop. I remember mom asking me how I felt after the 1st one. I said I felt like a peeled onion...How bout the Harley Davidson cop sorta hats?Remember the shoeshine stands outside the barbershop or in the train stations/bus stations/airports?
Remember when they used to use real plaster & lath for interior walls?
Remember when you were a kid & your dad would take you to the barber for your "summer haircut." The Army calls it a "mighty fine," others call it a buzz or a burr, but the fact that you no longer had any hair wasn't so bad after your friends got the same haircut.
Remember sitting on the curb, eating a popsicle you got for a dime from the icecream truck?
Remember your Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone coonskin hat?
Remember using all the dental floss to make a trap to catch an animal of some sort?
Regards, GF.
Remember when you got 12 hours of sleep and it was enough? You woke up refreshed instead of hating the world and everything in it.
I have lath and plaster too. My house turned 75 this year.
I also discovered that some walls have rubber insulation in them between the lathe. I found this out while trying to hammer a nail into one and it bounced back at me.
I find it interesting to see that some "old school" stuff has died earlier in the US than Canada. My mom, in the small town I grew up in (near Montreal), still goes to the old shoe cobbler, the gent went to shoemaking school because he was mute/deaf. Very common back in the day. He still operates his shop 5 days of the week.
Mom was still getting milk delivered to the door until about 5-6 years ago, when the milkman retired.
MC
Hmmmm...I guess I must go back a bit further than most of you. I can remember during my freshman year in college I worked part-time at a gas station. On Sundays, the boss would close the repair bays, and all we'd do is pump gas. And the boss made sure we were a cent or two cheaper than any of the closest stations. And we sold gas for...wait for it...
TWENTY-SEVEN CENTS A GALLON! Most cars could fill up for about five bucks!
glenn514
Square rooms? You're telling me! The wife wants the radiators moved underneath the windows in all the rooms, the only problem is that the floor and the windows aren't parallel. Makes it REAL fun trying to get it not look goofy.
I think I remodeled 2 rooms of the house before I bought a spirit level.
The wife wants the radiators moved underneath the windows in all the rooms
Anybody remember the sawmills/factories that would sound an "air raid" siren or steam whistle at noon or some other time of day?
I know of several small towns in North Dakota that use their weather siren at noon to this day.
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Anybody remember the sawmills/factories that would sound an "air raid" siren or steam whistle at noon or some other time of day?
Was helping teach Billiards to my housemate's daughter this afternoon.
I was a year older than her when I started playing kids for money at the youth center. I was a year older than that when my mom busted me for playing kids for money.
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