I remember EVERYTHING that he mentioned.
That says it all about me.
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Me, too. Even the first pizza.
We ate fruits when they were in season - I remember being excited by orange and banana season, an expensive special treat.
****’Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?’****
I suspect the ‘someone’ was his grandson and was the inspiration for the reverie.
Remember, Mears, I’m even older than you-that says it all. I grew up in the early 30s. I was married before I lived in a house with running water, a bathroom, a telephone or television. Gram and Gramp were the only one on our rural road with a telephone and all the neighbors depended on it in an emergency. Gramp also harvested chunks of ice from a nearby river every winter and packed them in layers with lots of sawdust between layers and about a foot of sawdust all around the outside of the layers. We kids loved to take an icepick , sneak out to the icehouse in the summer and chip off an “icicle’ to suck on.
Loved to visit Gram and churn butter in her big butterchurn. It seemed like magic to see that heavy cream turn into a huge slab of butter.
When I was quite young U.S Rt 1 near our home was still a dirt road and I remember when we used a detour while concrete slabs were laid with seams between the slabs that thunked when you drove over them. We all thought we were quite privileged to have this modern improvement.
Except the teevee test pattern wasn’t up all night. The transmitter shut down, there was “dead air” for many hours. Live air with test pattern at 5:30 am maybe, I don’t remember the exact time. But before that, -nothing-.