Re: Does anybody besides me and JB remember...
Yup, I remember that stuff.
I also remember when the milkman delivered fresh milk to the door in glass bottles with a cardboard cap inserted into the neck. The used bottles were put back in the tin box that stayed on the porch and were washed/reused. Imagine that - recycling in the 50s!
What I remember the most about the milkman, though, was that the truck that he drove was refrigerated with ice! In the warm weather months when we didn't have school, we would wait for him with napkins and he would chip a bit of ice off a block and give it to us as a treat. Imagine no corporate lawyers screaming about the liability of doing such a thing!
Another thing that I remember, was going down to the Sinclair gas station with two dimes to get my dad a pack of Lucky Strikes, out of the vending machine. Twenty cents for smokes and no one screaming about a minor buying them for his dad.
My best memories are of going to my grandfather's house in Rhode Island as a kid, to spend the summer. Every day, he would go to the general store and gas station (they were one) to buy groceries and/or gas. If we went with him, we always got to pick out two penny candies (and yes, they really cost a penny). I always got the bubble gum with the comic inside. What I remember about that place too, was how the wooden floor boards were "scalloped out," from decades of being walked on.
If anyone has seen the movie, "Summer of 42," that's pretty much what it was like, just pushed forward a decade or so. I didn't get to make out with the hot widow, though. The closest thing was the older sister of one of my friends - she was in her early 20s and we all used to tell lies about her. LOL, as if any of us had a snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere near her! She was a "babe!"
Now that y'all have me thinking about "back in the day" and I feel like an old dude, its time to go fiddle with my latest computer project. I'm feeeling a need to be "all technical and stuff!"
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