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larrypen Prowler Junkie Posts: 220 |
posted 09-28-2004 10:47 AM
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?" "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow." By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The c!ard was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger. I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine." I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue! with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them. If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam Iron! . Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young Don't forget to pass this along!! |
BuckNekkid Prowler Junkie Posts: 652 |
posted 09-28-2004 11:51 AM
Excellent. I guess I'm older than dirt too. I don't care what anyone says, the world was a better place then. |
halicat unregistered Posts: 652 |
posted 09-28-2004 12:30 PM
i remember all that stuff..... thus i'm a fossil |
CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 09-28-2004 04:13 PM
Hmmmmmmm.........24 out of 25........well, they may say I'm old.........but I sure don't think so! ------------------ Classic/Beautiful - I'm referring to the Cat of course! |
BeWare Prowler Junkie Posts: 18511 |
posted 09-28-2004 04:25 PM
I remember all. The milk box sat on the front porch. Was meatl lined on the insdie with cork for insulation. You could also get eggs delivered to your home where I lived. In fact my ucnle at the time was an egg man. How about watermelon candies the outside was green with dark stripes the center was pink with black dots that were supposed to represent the seeds. They even had a white layer to represent the rine. Also rootbeer barrel candies. I know one thing, I never asked my parents what I could do because I was bored. I only was indoors for lunch and dinner. Must of put a million miles on my bike. No amusement parks or water parks, not even a public pool near where I lived. Going to the beach or a carnival when they were in town was a big deal. This message has been edited by BeWare on 09-28-2004 at 04:48 PM |
halicat unregistered Posts: 18511 |
posted 09-28-2004 04:52 PM
i had a big old schwinn that i rode from dawn till dusk.. except when i was playing baseball... we used to ride up to the drive in and sneak over the fence to watch the shows... there wern't any malls then... just red hot candies and that great old orange crush...funny i can't remember what i did last week but remember the good old days growin up in St Clair Shores...13 mile and jefferson |
pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 |
posted 09-28-2004 07:03 PM
quote: Darn.,I grew up down the road from you 7mile rd and Gratiot. East side, Denby high. We even had White Castle hambugers on sale for a Nickel with a coupon. ------------------ More 'Pumpkin' photos . . . . . More cars and other stuff New pictures in Personal Scrapbook (02/23/03) "The Prowler is not a car to go from Point A to Point B. The Prowler is the Point!" |
halicat unregistered Posts: 7907 |
posted 09-28-2004 07:12 PM
i went to lake shore high...gratiot ! what a road for cruisin, we used to go up and down all night in my friends 65 stang... you must have lived handy to the go cart track ! what a great time to grow up ! we used to ride our bikes to metropolitan beach every weekend. |
pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 |
posted 09-28-2004 07:18 PM
quote: You went to the big beach, we always went to Olsens beach, right next too St Clair beach. |
halicat unregistered Posts: 7907 |
posted 09-28-2004 07:27 PM
i can't believe we swam in that water !! brown, with dead clams floating in it ... but it was all we had ... i havent been back since 1972... my buddy says the lake is clean now.. those were the days when the hot rods at school were the 55 chevy's with the a$$ ends jacked up.. i remember being in grade 8 when the tigers won the world series and grade 4 when jfk went down. |
pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 |
posted 09-28-2004 07:59 PM
quote: Your right about the water, try the Detroit river. We used to go out to Belle-Isle, that is when you could go out there and go canoeing and the water was well, who cared at that age. |
Dave Mills Prowler Junkie Posts: 5419 |
posted 09-28-2004 08:14 PM
I remember all of them and still have about half the things on the list that I have saved over the years. Ignition switches on the dash board are back. Our 2004 Pacifica has one. |
CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 09-28-2004 11:53 PM
Bob and I grew up at 9 Mile and Gratiot! Grant Jr. High and Oakwood Jr. High, East Detroit High School........our first home was in St. Clair Shores. White Castle on 8 Mile and Gratiot.......a nickel each! We had a milkman that delivered our milk, potato chips and ice cream!! We even had a milk shute. We had a party line for a while and when it changed over, our phone number was PRescott 12231! Belle Isle was the place to go. We used to ice skate on the canals there in the winter. Bob-lo was always a school trip. Cruising on Gratiot and Woodward in Bob's 55 Chevy.... Ted's Drive-In....ahhhhh.........those were the days! |
idive Prowler Junkie Posts: 8483 |
posted 09-29-2004 12:39 AM
I haven't thought of Charlie's Chips delivery in ages... They still have milk delivery in the porch boxes in Aurora Colorado, right Marc? |
halicat unregistered Posts: 8483 |
posted 09-29-2004 07:33 AM
hey cj, do you remember that army surplus store out your way ?? it had everything including a tank !! i used to beg my dad to take me all the time.... the big deal when i was young was when the opened the Macomb Mall....(spelling?)...we got the orange julius and the big soft pretzles.... they were the Great Old Days.. |
ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 09-29-2004 08:59 AM
I remember all of those,,,,,even 78 records before the 45's. Wow, real old like Ed and Dave Mills, lol. I even remember when the Ben Franklin stores had wooden floors in them. Saturday movies for a nickel. MEMORIES |
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