[mrtysmm]

I've read them all here so far. Please keep them coming. This is a wonderful nostalgic way to compare our past with others from other parts of the country. So many things I've forgotten have been listed...and I hope many more to come. I think I'll just keep coming back to this site for as long as it's here. Thank you all for your contributions. It's great to remember and share.

[gcruse]

My favorite soft drink was something called a Chocolate Soldier, which I could get at the Texaco station run by my father's friend.  The  grease pit for the station was a real hole dug into the ground.  You drove your car over it, then the guy would go down into the pit to drain the oil.

Saturday mornings were remembered the best.  That's when Space Patrol, Big John and Sparky, the Buster Brown Show, and one I can't remember, but its theme song was Teddy Bear's Picnic....maybe that was BJ&S.  Every boy's dream Xmas present was a Lionel electric train set.

Later, around the time of Queen Elizabeth's coronation and the sinking of the Andrea Doria, TV came to our town.  It had to compete with 9¢ Saturday movies (Flash Gordon serial included) in movie theaters with floors so sticky from spilled drinks it almost pulled your shoes off your feet.   Box kites, crystal radio sets, Inner Sanctum, Judy Canova, home permanent 'parties',  sleeping out on the front lawn under a canopy of so many stars it seems impossible today.

[cake_crumb]

I forgot a lot too. I'm surprised at how much!