Posted on 05/01/2017 1:37:42 AM PDT by Jacquerie
“Even Stewarts root beer doesnt taste as wonderful as it used to.”
Nothing does, it seems. When I was a kid I loved Social Tea cookies. I picked some up a year or so ago and they were disgusting. They tasted like cardboard.
Tommy’s in Carteret still has them.
I loved Social Teas too. I guess they are constantly changing the formula. Or our palates grow up.
I remember those; a kid in our neighborhood had one. I made do with a Schwinn Typhoon handed down from my oldest brother. I got a speedometer for it that went to 50 mph, and could peg it on one of the hills nearby. Blind intersection at the bottom, and then smoke the coaster brake trying to get stopped in the (also downhill) quarter mile or so before the highway. It’s a wonder any of us lived.
P4L
We would get Crazy with playing cards
and clothes pins...
Those were the days!
Ah, we learned the ethnic slurs from our fathers :)
It was funny by the ‘80s but not so funny in the early 1900s whey white groups really did hate each other and fight each other.
But that disappeared as we headed to the suburbs and everyone was on the same black :)
Interesting what you say about the Philippines.
I am glad you guys got on well without any of today’s nonsense affecting you.
PC = ANTI FREE SPEECH AND FREEDOM = NAZI
Yuck.
Risk of injury made playing ever more fun. Fifty mph on a coaster bike? Balls for fifty.
No stewed tomatoes? Sacrilege!
As an aside, for decades the Blue Plate Special on the Friday Pennsy RR from NY to Philly was grilled swordfish, macaroni and cheese, and stewed tomatoes. All aboard!
I always ordered them with extra potatoes. I left NJ in 1978 and never ate one again :-(
I had one sorta like that. Had a banana seat and a rounded tail guard. Otherwise identical.
And that price is ~$395 is 2017 money!
Thank you, Dad!
What was it about those yeast roll the cafeterias used to serve?
You can’t get anything as good as those any more!
Aaa WHAT?!?
Seems correct...
1960 dollars equals 2017 dollars;
50 bucks inflated to 300.
Okay?
Sorry...400!
Sheesh.
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