Yeah, some of it was 2 cents, or 3.
But, a pack of Snaps, a pack of gum, & 2 Mary Janes were a dime.
A 7 ounce bottle of Mountain Dew was 7 cents at that store.
A couple dimes got us candy & a bottle of pop, and 3 cents change!

I remember what it was like to watch TV without 3 minute long drug commercials about boners, eczema and depression.

Mt grandfather would give me a quarter when he visited and I could buy 2 comic books !

along with every other hot rod in Portland Oregon.

The telephone in the kitchen with a long cord that made it possible for me to climb into the broom closet and talk to my friends with (sort of) privacy.

Trading cards, dime stores, riding in the back of the station wagon.

black and white. If the wind was right. We would get the channel from Steubenville or Altoona. I could watch the Roller Derby or the Pirates home games. Thank you For the memories.

I remember watching Roller Derby.

very much KarenS

was first in black and white then color.

have thought?

The cream rose to the top. I would grab the bottle and pour the cream on my cereal.

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Therefore we got the cream

TV vacuum tubes would burn out,
And need replacing

and nighttime sledding parties.

In the 60s

Which is where we went cruising around on a Friday and Saturday night,,,, jeez,,,

The old wringer washer in the basement and the crickets were singing. Foil on the TV antenna. Climbing trees and hanging upside down. Riding my bike all over town with my friend.

work of art.

in a closet in my grandma's cabin - IIRC it had been painted by a relative or a family friend - and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I didn't understand why the grownups wanted to keep it stored away in the closet and I wasn't allowed to have it for myself. So disappointed!



As to shag carpeting - my house once had orange shag carpeting in a couple of upstairs rooms. It doesn't any more, but before I could remove it I discovered that it's really hard to get cat vomit out of shag fabric.

The house I live in now originally had brown shag carpet. One of the first things we did after moving in was replace that awful carpeting.

I can just imagine that black velvet painting hanging on a wood paneled wall.

going to betsie ross ice cream parlor for a doubble scoop hot fudge sunday.

i love all these memories .

leos . fire people . amblance attendances . drs . nurses . vets esp teachers or anyone who has been nice to me .

I remember when grocery stores gave out s&h green stamps. Along with my mom, I dutifully pasted them into the stamp books to take to the Green Stamp store to redeem for wonderful things.

Every once in a while, I think of something from my childhood and remember "Hey, we got that from the stamp store."

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

the redemption center.. I remember getting a jewelry box with a ballerina in it that danced when the lid was opened. I haven't thought of that in a long time.

I think that was in 1962.

I walked by myself to school starting at age 5. The school was 5 blocks away. I walked home for lunch and walked back to school after lunch (which was often a hot dog and a bowl of Lipton chicken noodle soup).
I recently told my 32 yr. old son about going home for lunch and going back to school after I ate lunch, and he was astounded. “Wow, if they had let us do that nobody would have ever come back to school, “ he said. Well, my mother made me go back, I said.

Our school had a summer garden program. You had to sign up for it, and it was free. In the summer, you’d walk to school around 8 am where there was a bus waiting to take all the kids out to a farm somewhere (I wasn’t quite sure where, because I often daydreamed looking out the window as we rode). Each kid got an allotted plot of land and hoes to hoe the dirt and vegetable seeds to plant. There were adults there to help you learn what to do. Around noon the bus took you back to school, and you walked home from there. I remember bringing home a huge bag full of green beans several times. I don’t remember what else we planted. If you got your gardening and weeding done early enough, some adults would take you to a fishing pond on the property and you could learn how to fish. It was a nice program for city kids to keep us busy with something productive during the summer, and my mother didn’t have to drive us anywhere.

Gardening program you had. That is terrific.

At bedtime.

Cardinals games on KMOX St. Louis or sometimes KOAM in Pittsburgh, Kansas. Jack Buck was a great announcer, you could tell he was a die-hard Cardinals fan.

I like to look back and count my blessings for all the things I hated that are gone. Like party lines. And people smoking everywhere. I often tell young people that they can't imagine how much life used to stink. Then I say "And by 'stink' I don't mean life used to suck, I mean it literally smelled horrible. Women smelled like they dipped themselves in perfume, men slapped aftershave lotion on their faces, and everyone smoked everywhere! Restaurants were absolutely revolting!"

Riding my bike across our small town to Sandberg's Pharmacy to buy a comic book...Neighborhood grocery stores, we had one right across from our house...Simmon's Grocery. The older, kind of grumpy lady who owned and ran it lived in the connected apt in the back. She had one of those curved glass display cases full of candies for you to choose from...

We could usually find at least a dollar and that would give us a night of cruising. Fun times.