Posted on 09/03/2017 12:00:05 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Every Sunday the huuuge Pittsburgh Press was on the front porch and after breakfast my mother would have her cigarette and coffee and read the paper. The Press was basically conservative.
My mother also insisted in getting the sunday New York Times, which came around 2 PM at the local candy store. I guess she liked seeing the real estate section and my dad would say "I'm spending good money on a paper whose motto should be "All the news, that's fit to tint"".
We also had a new german shepherd puppy and my mother had planted newspapers all around the house to house train him. I was reading the comics on the floor and the dog came over and urinated over Nancy and Sluggo.
“And ours was an ice box and the ice man delivered big blocks every other day...”
I’m not old enough to remember that, but I know now that’s why my grand parents called the refrigerator “the ice box”.
As I kid I had thought it was just an expression, a slang term.
I hadn’t known it used to be literally true.
Do you remember the good ole days when the Trib was the premier conservative newspaper? I do.
i show my age by saying that not only do I remember them, I used to DELIVER them! The Philadelphia Inquirer was heavy enough on its dailies BUT the Sunday one was a bear, especially in the Holiday season. Just getting the bundle assembled with the inserts was a true task for the 10yo newsboy that I was. Talk about child labor, I even had to be bonded because when I collected for the newspaper I also collected insurance (funeral) premiums. Then, of course, there were the skips and mis-throws and rain and ...
Dick tracy for the toys, Li’l abler for the legs and cleavage. (I was a little advanced in the hormone department) The lA Times has been my paper, but now it;’s free when i go out to eat. i wouldn’t pay a penny. All anti-trump and pro-illegal all the timer. I read the beee in Sacramento for 17 years when the Union folded. Even as liberal as they ere, when i came back south I was started at how far left the times was.
my favorite was living with a lovely lady in my sinnin years and sitting outside and reading the paper and discussing issues. we were both state employees and the Bee voters state news like local because it’s in the capital.
I still like the tactile feeling ope the paper. I’m 70.
I remember the mayor of NY reading the funny papers on the radio when there was a strike.
I miss The Katzenjammer Kids.
Mine didn’t break so much...learned a lot about maintenance and how to fix stuff myself...it was just that other people seemed to like my bikes so much, they would tend to disappear.
I do wish I had a Schwinn tho...of course nowadays they are made in China, IIRC.
“I’m not old enough to remember that, but I know now that’s why my grand parents called the refrigerator “the ice box”.”
We lived way out in the country, no ice delivery there!
We had a spring house. A shed built over the spot where the water came out of the ground.
The water was channeled into a trough and eggs, milk, cream, butter and other perishables were put in heavy crockery and kept cool as the water flowed around them. Even leftovers were put in metal pails and stored in the spring house until the next meal.
We bought our first refrigerator in 68. It was a second hand one we bought from my mother’s oldest brother. He had bought it new in 51.
It was such a hit we bought a second one.
Ended up with four.
One in the kitchen for daily use.
Four in the pantry, one for eggs and butter only, we sold a lot of eggs.
Two for milk and cream only.
I miss that spring house. It cost nothing to operate and upkeep was minimal.
My mother still has that original fridge in her house. It works better than her much newer one.
Wow. Thanks.
I like to hear things like this right from the horse’s mouth.
That’s a glorious story. I hope the fridge ends up as a family keepsake. And I hope you record that story for the generations that will forget. Your library might have some sort of memories program and, if not, you might want to suggest they start one. We’re losing too many memories!
I delivered the Lima News in Findlay, Ohio for 6 years, via bicycle. Always had money in my pocket...
Yours plus ...
The Katzenjammer Kids
Henry (he never spoke)
The Little King
Jiggs & Maggie
Smoky Stover
Gasoline Alley
Brenda Starr
Nancy & Sluggo
Terry & the Pirates
Prince Valiant
Mutt & Jeff
Rex Morgan, MD
The Jackson Twins
Mary Worth
The Pittsburgh Press,
The Sun Telegraph (the “Sun Telly”)
And the Post Gazette in the morning.
For sure - Uncle Don or somebody used to read the Sunday funnies to the kids on the radio Sunday morning - we went into Philadelphia on Saturday morning for art lessons at the Philly Museum of Art and would stop at the large newsstand in the Thirtieth Street Station on the way home to pick up the Sunday edition of - I think - the New York Tribune (?) which had a couple of color cartoon sections to have them available the next morning - Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy, Li’l Abner, Ozark Ike - good times.....
Making my ignorance obvious, but I haven’t bought a Sunday newspaper in decades. Are there still color comic sections? Loved Prince Valiant and Dick Tracy.
Ah yes...thanks for that list. I remember most of them from my youth.
I had the morning route for the morning Dayton Journal-Herald.
I walked, because I knew all the shortcuts through yards.
The daily paper was not that bad. I had around 45 customers.
The Sunday edition was heavy, but I could do it.
The ONLY time I remember not being able to get into my bag was on Thanksgiving eve.
I wasn't strong enough to lift it, so I had to make several trips.
About eight papers per front and eight in the back.
When you are 11 years old, that really sucks, particularly because I did this at 430 am.
Don't get me started on bitchy customers who would call my house and wake my parents up.
Some times the presses would go down, and boy would my customers throw a fit if they "Wanted to see what Garfield was doing this morning."
FFS, I was a KID.
And it's 630 am.
Aaahhh yes, 6-8 FULL PAGES of color cartoons. I miss Bloom County and Opus & Bill the Cat !!!
I used to get the Sunday paper for Comics, TV Guide, Want Ads (to look for Firearms, but most papers have banned them now) and Sports to see if there was any Motorsports covered.
Now they hardly have Comics, TV Guides are on the Cable/Dish Systems and Flog is the Sports page.
I wouldn’t buy a paper these days even to use for Birdcage liner, the danged Parrot would be spewing the propaganda.
We used to buy the Charlotte Observer about once a month to use in our snake’s cage, but we don’t have a snake anymore.
My fondest memory of the Sunday papers was the comprehensive baseball stats in the sports section.
During the week, the newspapers only published the leaders in baseball stats so the only way to find out what all players were doing was to look at stats on Sunday. And the hometown players would be in bold. Unlike today, individual players stats weren’t published in the box score.
Nowadays with the Internet and what not, you can find any statistic on a player as a game happens.
My brother had the morning paper route and I had the evening route. When he went off to school, I did BOTH.
I was lucky enough to have a small apartment complex on my route, so could deliver quite a few papers rather quickly. I made pretty good money for a kid, but I disliked having to go around and collect. Probably half the people paid in advance and the rest you had to collect yourself. The newspaper charged you for the papers you received for delivery, so you definitely had to get out there and hustle to make a buck.
I’m ignorant too - checked our copy of the Sunday “Press of Atlantic City” which is as close as I can come to a newspaper - found lots and lots of color ads, but no comics - I’m guessing that’s the way most papers have gone these days.....
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