[cripplecreek]

I was rural born in 64 so I caught a glimpse. There was even still a soda fountain till I was 10 or 12 years old.

[Norm Lenhart]

Born in 65, grew up in NY Adirondacks. Almost but not quite Leave it to beaver. Sure it had problems, but I miss that era.

My barometer is that what we did as kids ‘normally’ would get our families arrested for abuse/neglect/endangerment today.

How and why did so many of us survive I wonder...

[Ouderkirk]

I was born in 62. I too, saw glimpses of the remaining vestiges of the America once was. The big steel mills of Buffalo, a busy downtown bustling with shopping, movie theaters, and pedestrians. There is nary a city where downtown is nothing but a cavern of high rise office space. Busy by day, a ghost town by night. Everyone leaves the democRAT run shattered cities and their welfare war zones.

[Rome2000]

There were soda fountains in NYC and no riot gates on the stores up until about 1969.

Then the communists took control.

[who knows what evil?]

There was even still a soda fountain till I was 10 or 12 years old.

I remember my grandparents taking me to a soda fountain inside a drug store where we could get a one-scoop ice cream cone (scoop was the size of a basketball...no, really) for only ten cents.

It WAS a big scoop.