Favorite childhood Foods, Stroll down memory lane.

Boomer Food ^

[Nea Wood]

Our first Tv, was bought from 'Mad Man Muntz', as my dad called him, and that set lasted probably 15 ys....

My father worked for Muntz TV in Chicago for a while. Maybe he was the salesman who sold your dad the TV! :-D

[maxwell]

My mother fed us carrots. Alot of 'em. Probably explains why I got spectacles like coke bottles now, hehehe...

I reckon one of my favorite things to eat was coffee cake... With obscene amounts of brown sugar topping on it... Now I can't hardly stand to eat the damn stuff, haha...

[andysandmikesmom]

HI there...so glad to see another person who remembers the old Prince Castle burgers....yummy...that was a grand childhood treat to be taken out there...I seem to remember that it was near North and Harlem aves...tho I could be wrong...

And Flukys? Yessiree....best dang stuff in town....I originally grew up in the Humboldt Park-Logan Square areas of Chicago, but when I got married, moved to my husbands area, West Rogers Park....originally we lived on Farwell Ave, just off of Ridge, and when we went out for our once yearly fancy dinner for New Years, we always went to Grassfields on Ridge...

Then later we moved over to Estes Ave, just off of Clark St...right next to the railroad tracks...and right across the street from the Adelphi Theatre side exits...

One of our favorite places for burgers and dogs, was Bills...that was in the 70s...and they are still going strong today...my husband goes back to Bills every time he visits Chicago, from our home here in Olympia, Wasington...

And I agree....a 'soda' is always something that has ice cream in it....

And I remember all the Jewish Delis and such...West Rogers Park had many Jewish businesses and residents, altho my husbands family, who lived there for years, were pure Sicilian...I remember Ashkenaz, I think on Touhy...used to go in there for great cheesecake...

Those were the days...

[andysandmikesmom]

After rereading my post, I realized I made an error...our first Tv, was a little screened job, in a big cabinet...I think we got that one around 1950....had it for years, until slowly the picture tube dimmed and dimmed to where you could almost see nothing on the screen...

That is when dad finally broke down, and bought our 2nd TV...that one came from 'Mad Man Muntz'....Wouldnt that be a hoot, if your dad, sold my dad, our great long lasting TV...

What I remember about that TV, was that we loved it, because the screen was so much bigger than our old TV...I think the screen on our old TV was about 10-13 inches, but the new 'Muntz' TV had a 19-21 inch screen, and we thought that was just so fine...I also remember that the cabinet of the TV, was an odd color, one which I rarely saw then, and never see now...it was like a beige, or tan, or light brown...and I think dad said it cost $99...that set lasted for at least 15yrs, and rarely if ever needed repairs, perhaps just needing an occasional tube replacement...

Dad always said, it was the best $99 he ever spent, as it lasted so long...he always said, God bless 'Mad Man Muntz'...have no idea why he called it that...I think he just liked the way those words sounded together...

[breakem]

Fried Chicken from Morrison's Drive-In Logan WVA.

Borden's peach ice cream.

My noni's (grandmother's) homemade bread, italian cookies, spaghetti, and meatballs.

50-50 bars

My dad making cocoa from scratch from Hershey's powder.