Posted on 01/09/2007 9:18:52 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
There's still a drive through in Port Washington. They used to be called Dairy Barn. Very convenient when you had a car full of toddlers.
Had a school shooting at Morningside H.S. in Inglewood Ca in 1964, Inglewood Ca. Graduates of Morningside, the McKiever Twins (NFL FOOTBALL), Mario Savio (not a graduate, kicked out)of the Berkely free speech garbage. Tom Nardini, played Lee Marvin's sidekick (the Indian) in "Cat Balloo), (one of my beer drinking buddies, almost punched his lights out when I saw him with long hair for the movie the night before I flew off for the Nam), Vickie Lawrence (singer, actress), Whatever his name is that manages the Oakland A's etc.
A clown at the school broke into Ketchum's sporting goods store and stole a bunch of guns, brought them to school and got drunk in the head. Walked out, and tried to shoot a cigar out of the mouth of one of the janitors across the way. That is the same sporting goods store that Patty Hearst's kidnappers robbed prior to the shootout that killed the SLA terrorists.
"hot chicks hitchhiking everywhere"
Heck, everyone used to hitchhike. I first hitchhiked when I was 12 years old. I stopped doing it in 1980 after I got a ride with a guy who was really weird.
We had a turquoise blue Corvair as our 2nd second car (first was a little Renault that looked like a miniature "Untouchables" car - or sort of like a mini-Cooper now) and on long trips, we watched for the newer Monzas which were burgundy colored.
The color was actually "cranberry" which was a "new color" and we'd yell "cran ... bear .. ee" in a high-pitched voice. Have no idea why.
AC Bristol Cobra ate up all challengers !
I went to Catholic school.
The DEVIL! lived in the basement.
We had to make do with hiding under our desks.
Cobra radios? I think I remember......
Yes,that show was Dark Shadows. Barnabas Collins was the name of the main vampire.
I also remember the fire whistle went off in my small town at noon every day................. so we would know it is lunch time I suppose! I would go back to the 60's in a heartbeat!
Glen Cove, that's where my local Draft Board was. I was in Massapequa, now in Great Neck.
I remember those drills. We loved it because they let us out of school early. I walked to and from school (about 20 minutes) and they emphasized we needed to be home in under 45 minutes because that was the time needed for fallout from Birmingham to reach my home town of Pell City, Alabama.
We had a "tennarotor' . It remotely turned the antennae on the roof because each of the three stations we recieved broadcast from different directions .Still remember the Click,Click noise as it operated .
Yes,that show was Dark Shadows. Barnabas Collins was the name of the main vampire.
That really took me back. Barnabas Collins!!!!!
It's hard to imagine now, but people smoked in the grcoery store, department store, and so on. Guess the ashes were just flicked on the floor.
I smoked in the late 60s, but can't remember. I do know I would go find one of those stand-up ashtrays with sand in it to put my butts out, but not everyone did.
I remember girls putting their hair on the ironing board to straighten it. I never did that, but I did go into the "colored neighborhood" and buy hair straightening product. Nobody was afraid to go into a "colored neighborhood."
Remember the cream pushing the cardboard cap out the top of the bottle if it was delivered in freezing weather? Sometimes the pillar was 2 inches high out of the top of the bottle . Then they moved to crimped foil tops .
Did not know that. That sounds more like a stupid, dangerous, drunken prank than a hate-filled psychotic killing spree like the UT tower or Columbine.
The kickers (cowboys) in our town would chase down and shave the heads of the hippies. There weren't many of them.
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