May 12, 200719 yr Looking forward to watching the Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone on Thursday nights with my Dad with a big bowl of popcorn popped in a kettle.
May 12, 200719 yr Looking forward to watching the Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone on Thursday nights with my Dad with a big bowl of popcorn popped in a kettle. Twilight Zone was my all time favorite. All though I thought it was on Friday nights right after Roller Derby.
May 12, 200719 yr Twilight Zone was my all time favorite. All though I thought it was on Friday nights right after Roller Derby. Could have been..been a LONG time..but I remember they were both on the same night..and do you remember the Time Tunnel (You 'Sliders' fans should see this one!!)
May 12, 200719 yr Could have been..been a LONG time..but I remember they were both on the same night..and do you remember the Time Tunnel (You 'Sliders' fans should see this one!!) That I don't remember. But as a kid on Friday nights after football I would go to my room and watch Roller Derby at 11:30 and the Twilight Zone was on just after that.
May 12, 200719 yr Goldie - I know what you really meant here; but this part of your post just struck me as funny. I remember mom going early in the morning to pick up work hands to pick strawberries...we had 5 acres. That afternoon we would take them to Morehead and sell them...any left over we would stop at peoples homes until all was sold. Goldie - Just how old are you?
May 12, 200719 yr Old Stores: Albers in Fort Thomas Rinks in Bellevue on the "Fill" Ontarios in Newport Arlens in Latonia Swallens on Red Bank Road in Cincinnati Zayres in Fort Wright Harts Hardware (got my first BB gun there) Big Chief Eating Post The Open Air Market Teddy Bear Hamburgers Louis Marx and Bros. Furniture
May 12, 200719 yr Harts Hardware (got my first BB gun there) Big Chief Eating Post The Open Air Market Teddy Bear Hamburgers Louis Marx and Bros. Furniture How about: Bluegrass Carry Out Luigi's Pizza - Best ever! Kwik Shop Premier Grocery Schulker's Blank's Pharmacy Neltner's Oil Every Gas Station in Ft. Thomas Feldman's Dairy Enslen's Grocery J. C. Penney's in Newport Federle's Drug Store All of the above have now been replaced by Wal*Mart.
May 12, 200719 yr How about: Bluegrass Carry Out Luigi's Pizza - Best ever! Kwik Shop Premier Grocery Schulker's Blank's Pharmacy Neltner's Oil Every Gas Station in Ft. Thomas Feldman's Dairy Enslen's Grocery J. C. Penney's in Newport Federle's Drug Store All of the above are now...Wal*Mart. I worked there, breifly. My mom worked there.
May 12, 200719 yr I remember gettin up at 8am every day during the summer. We would tape the balls, cut the tops off of the bats, load them with newspaper, cut bicycle innertubes up and pull them over the bats, and finally cover those with electrical tape. We'd buy bags of flour to make the baselines and use badminton nets for foul poles. We'd play for 8-10 hours a day depending on whether we had a little league game that night. If we did we'd call it a day early and play Stratego or Risk on the front porch. On Sundays we'd go to the local theater (there was only one screen) and we'd watch a kids double feature, usually a Disney cartoon and maybe Flash Gordon for $2. I remember taping my favorite songs off of WOKI in Knoxville on the top 10 at 10 with Shotgun Stevens or Brother John. I remember buying skinny ties because we thought Kevin Bacon in Footloose was the coolest guy ever, we'd wear them to the mall on Fridays.....I could go on but I'm embarassed enough already......
May 12, 200719 yr I remember... The family doctor making house calls when I was sick. He was also on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. It took two and a half days to drive from Maryland to southern Florida for summer vacation. No interstates - the entire trip was down US 1. Gas was twenty-something cents per gallon. No air conditioning in the car. Erector sets, Tonka trucks, Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs and my Gilbert chemistry set (the Phenolphthalein always turned pink). When the first McDonald's in the area opened, hamburgers were 18 cents and cheeseburgers were 22 cents. Much later, the cornerstone of their TV ads was that you could by a burger, fries and a coke and get change back from your dollar. AIDS was a diet chocolate candy. The neighborhood kids played outside ALL DAY LONG. IF you were cool enough, you rode your Stingray bike from one place to another. Walking to the school on Saturdays to scrounge for change under the merry-go-round and the jungle gym. If you were lucky enough to find some, the next walk was to the gas station to buy a jawbreaker or a pixie stick. Playing spin the bottle. Worrying that since you had braces, the bottle would land on the one girl in the circle who also had braces; and that the two of you would get stuck forever. The bonfire at school on the night before Homecoming, and piling 11 people in my mom's 1966 Mustang after the bonfire. My dad's burgundy 1965 Mustang ragtop. Price - $1,995. Problem was, it usually ran on 7 cylinders.
May 12, 200719 yr Great thread LBBC. 1. How about making Jiffy POP popcorn on the stove because microwaves didn't exist? The big silver ball would grow and grow until it was ready to eat and it always tasted burnt. 2. How about trying to find a Reds score when they played on the coast? No ESPN, no 20-20 sports updates on the radio, no computer to log on. You'd have to hope your Dad stayed up or maybe you would call you old uncle and see if he did and knew the score. 3. How about trying to find the Indians game on the AM radio or the Cardinals on KMOX. Or maybe the Phillies game. 4. How about riding in the back of a station wagon with the seat facing the other way. And dangling your legs out of the window while facing the car behind you? Maybe giving them the peace sign? 5. What about turning the TV on about 15 minutes before a game so it could "warm-up" properly? 6. What about cameras needed a flash bulb or flash bar to work correctly? 7. How about running in from outside to watch The Monkees or the Brady Bunch or some band on Ed Sullivan because if you missed it there was no VCR or DVD and the only time to see it was maybe once during the summer? Speaking of baseball. We would sneak little AM radios to school to listen to the world series.
May 12, 200719 yr Goldie - I know what you really meant here; but this part of your post just struck me as funny. I remember mom going early in the morning to pick up work hands to pick strawberries...we had 5 acres. That afternoon we would take them to Morehead and sell them...any left over we would stop at peoples homes until all was sold. Goldie - Just how old are you? :laugh: Reread my post and had to laugh...glad you know what I ment. As to age..I am as they say....one of the wiser ones. :sssh:
May 12, 200719 yr I remember: The movie camera with the bank of lights that could illuminate a football field. When we showed the movies on the screen, everyone in all the interior scenes were covering their eyes AND squinting at the same time. Family membership at the neighborhood pool was $40 for the summer. I had to work for my $10 share in the yard at 50 cents an hour. Going to Chincoteague Island and buying a bushel of clams or a bushel of oysters for $3.00. Eating some of them on the way back in the car; seawater and all. When My Space was my room. Driving to Friendship (now Baltimore-Washington International) Airport to watch planes take off and land. That was entertainment at the time of the month when there was more month than money. The sick feeling I had when I came home from school early on the day JFK was assassinated and saw my mom crying. Visiting my grandparents in the summer and catching lightning bugs in a jar. Rubbing Witch Hazel on all the mosquito bites suffered while catching the lightning bugs. Going to YMCA day camp for 6 weeks every summer. Making key chains out of jute. Swimming, bb-gun and archery practice. Nature hunts - trying to find something that started with every letter of the alphabet. Queen Anne's lace was always at a premium. Entertainment on a rainy day consisted of playing monopoly, checkers, scrambled words and hangman. Or sometimes mixing stuff up at random from that old chemistry set. The big console stereo in the living room. Playing badminton in the back yard. Seeing the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt in concert. Price - $7.00. Green stamps. Bomb drills in grade school that consisted of crouching under the classroom desks. Telegrams.
May 12, 200719 yr When using headphones, meant lying on the floor with your head between the speakers.
May 12, 200719 yr My youth baseball coach used to come around and pick us up in his pickup and we'd all pile in the back and STAND at the front of the truck bed. Same on the way home.
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