Guest guest Posted October 9, 2009 Report Share Posted October 9, 2009 Pink..I can say "Yes" to all the things mentioned. I can remember gas being just .25 a gallon !! I was already married , living in Cherry Hill and working in Philadelphia. Z fibriotic NSIP/05 Z 65, fibriotic NSIP/05/PA And “mild” PH/10/07 No, NSIP was not self-inflicted…I never smoked! Potter, reader,carousel lover and MomMom to Darah and Sara “I’m gonna be iron like a lion in Zion” Bob Marley Vinca Minor-periwinkle is my flower Joyce T Rosenberg wrote: remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur" a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2009 Report Share Posted October 9, 2009 How about Willow Grove was an amusement park and not a mall AB remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2009 Report Share Posted October 9, 2009 yes yes yes Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund.org--- Subject: Re: remember whenTo: Breathe-Support Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 5:15 PM How about Willow Grove was an amusement park and not a mall AB remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2009 Report Share Posted October 9, 2009 Adrienne, Mike and I had our first date there...the Wild Mouse was the best...next best was the carousel!! Z fibriotic NSIP/05 Z 65, fibriotic NSIP/05/PA And “mild†PH/10/07 No, NSIP was not self-inflicted…I never smoked! Potter, reader,carousel lover and MomMom to Darah and Sara     “I’m gonna be iron like a lion in Zionâ€Â Bob Marley Vinca Minor-periwinkle is my flower   Adrienne Bishop wrote:  How about Willow Grove was an amusement park and not a mall AB  remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child  gas was 30 cents a gallon  soda was 15 cents  candy bars were a nickel  cigarettes were 30 cents  fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents  milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles  seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top  this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia  produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop  amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on  ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur" a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06)  IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 I lived in " rural " Minnesota, a town of 1500 people. My mom used to send me down to the local Grocery Store (The Fair Store) with a grocery list. I would had it to the cashier up at the front of the store. They would pick out all of the items and drive them to our home (yes, they still had free delivery). They would bring them into our home and mom would unpack them. Everything was put on a 'tab' and we would be billed at the end of the month. The same went for the meat market (you would buy meat and cheese at a separate market). The dime store (Ben lin) and drug store (local Slocumb Drug) would sell candies in bulk (you could go in and as for 2 or 3 cents worth of an M & M type candy, chocolate covered raisins, or whatever and they would weigh them out). My parents would have friends over 1-2 nights a week. Everything was pot luck. They would often play cards, but sometimes they would get around the piano and sing and just have an evening of visiting with 2-3 other couples. There was definitely more smoking and drinking back then as well. They would start at 8:00 pm. My mom would let us stay up until 9:00 and we would pour everyone a cup of coffee as they arrived or go fetch another ashtray. We would have to head for bed at 9:00 to the sounds of people visiting and the smell of smoke in the home. Not many people entertain at home like that any more. Maybe that is just small towns in those cold Minnesota winters LOL. Small towns have theaters, but in todays world, they cannot keep up with the releases to television/DVD. Today, DVD rental in small towns is a killer business. Stefani 61 year old Utahn ILD 2/2006, NSIP (cellular) 6/2009, UIP 9/2009, Diabetes II 2/2006, Sleep Apnea 4/2009 > > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds > remember when > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child > > gas was 30 cents a gallon > > soda was 15 cents > > candy bars were a nickel > > cigarettes were 30 cents > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on > > ice cream trucks like " Jack and Jill " and " Good Humur " > a dixie cup was a dime > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 > www.transplantfund.org<http://www.transplantfund.org/> > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 These remember when things really take me back to some good times. We had an "ice box" and when the ice truck came he would shave ice for us and my grandma would put flavoring on it... snow cones at their best. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Oh, such memories! We lived on a farm in a time when there was no electricity in rural areas, nor paved roads, nor running water. We had kerosene lamps and caught rain water from the roof which drained into a cistern. Water was always in short supply, especially during the summer when it was hot as hell and no rain. In the summer, a No. 3 bathtub was set out in the sun to heat up for our baths. There were four of us kids and we took turns. My kid brother was a scamp and my sister whould scream out, "Mama, Billy peed in the water." We had no ice, so things like milk were in tin buckets and lower by rope into the well to keep cool. On Saturdays, which were shopping days, we were given a nickle to buy whatever we wanted. I bought a soda pop, hanging over the ice full cooler savoring relief from the heat and trying to decide on which soda to buy. The big RC cola or the little grapette which my mother liked? Grapette always won out. We were poor, so poor that we didn't wear shoes in the summer. We outgrew them in the winter, and didn't get a new pair until school started in September. The thing is that we didn't know we were poor because we were so rich in love. And the greatest legacy from our parents, that and their belief that you help those who had less then yourself. What little we had they shared with neighbors who had even less. And you know what? Despite our poverty, I was able to attend fine schools, earning my BA and my MA, living a far richer life than I could have ever imagined, living in places like Madrid, Spain, New York City, meeting and knowing people from every economic class and accomplishment. The best part is that I have been able to follow my parent's example, helping those who have need. Sorry for this sentimental remembrance. All those "remember when" posts triggered it. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 10:03:08 AMSubject: Re: remember when These remember when things really take me back to some good times. We had an "ice box" and when the ice truck came he would shave ice for us and my grandma would put flavoring on it... snow cones at their best. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004 "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 as a 10 yr. old, movie .25 2 candy bars and a soda .05 each and had .10 left over for a donut and another soda on the way home. ken To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sat, October 10, 2009 8:09:37 PMSubject: Re: remember when Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Jack, Please never be sorry when you write such lovely memories. Have you written a memoir yet? Please think about it...your life has been fascinating. I loved the movie star episodes! Z fibriotic NSIP/05 Z 65, fibriotic NSIP/05/PA And “mild” PH/10/07 No, NSIP was not self-inflicted…I never smoked! Potter, reader,carousel lover and MomMom to Darah and Sara “I’m gonna be iron like a lion in Zion” Bob Marley Vinca Minor-periwinkle is my flower Jack Marshall wrote: Oh, such memories! We lived on a farm in a time when there was no electricity in rural areas, nor paved roads, nor running water. We had kerosene lamps and caught rain water from the roof which drained into a cistern. Water was always in short supply, especially during the summer when it was hot as hell and no rain. In the summer, a No. 3 bathtub was set out in the sun to heat up for our baths. There were four of us kids and we took turns. My kid brother was a scamp and my sister whould scream out, "Mama, Billy peed in the water." We had no ice, so things like milk were in tin buckets and lower by rope into the well to keep cool. On Saturdays, which were shopping days, we were given a nickle to buy whatever we wanted. I bought a soda pop, hanging over the ice full cooler savoring relief from the heat and trying to decide on which soda to buy. The big RC cola or the little grapette which my mother liked? Grapette always won out. We were poor, so poor that we didn't wear shoes in the summer. We outgrew them in the winter, and didn't get a new pair until school started in September. The thing is that we didn't know we were poor because we were so rich in love. And the greatest legacy from our parents, that and their belief that you help those who had less then yourself. What little we had they shared with neighbors who had even less. And you know what? Despite our poverty, I was able to attend fine schools, earning my BA and my MA, living a far richer life than I could have ever imagined, living in places like Madrid, Spain, New York City, meeting and knowing people from every economic class and accomplishment. The best part is that I have been able to follow my parent's example, helping those who have need. Sorry for this sentimental remembrance. All those "remember when" posts triggered it. Jack 79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine From: Peggy <pac1773 (AT) cfl (DOT) rr.com> To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 10:03:08 AM Subject: Re: remember when These remember when things really take me back to some good times. We had an "ice box" and when the ice truck came he would shave ice for us and my grandma would put flavoring on it... snow cones at their best. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004 "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds ----- Original Message ----- From: Joyce T Rosenberg To: breathe-support@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:59 AM Subject: remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur" a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Yes, stefani! San Diego wasn't as small as your town and neither was La Mesa but I remember couples coming over and having drinks and smoking and talking and playing cards too! they had a great time. And, I think you are right. I don't think that happens very much any more...but I may be wrong. Joyce R remember when> > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > soda was 15 cents> > candy bars were a nickel> > cigarettes were 30 cents> > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> a dixie cup was a dime> > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> www.transplantfund.org<http://www.transplantfund.org/>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Jack! What a wonderful life you have had! What a wonderful story! Please write more! Joyce Rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Jack, what wonderful memories. playing kick ball with a can was really big. lol I remember so many things that I haven't thought of for years.The worst of the worst was the OUTHOUSE in 3 ft. of snow... OK that did it.. I'm done. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Oh, such memories! We lived on a farm in a time when there was no electricity in rural areas, nor paved roads, nor running water. We had kerosene lamps and caught rain water from the roof which drained into a cistern. Water was always in short supply, especially during the summer when it was hot as hell and no rain. In the summer, a No. 3 bathtub was set out in the sun to heat up for our baths. There were four of us kids and we took turns. My kid brother was a scamp and my sister whould scream out, "Mama, Billy peed in the water." We had no ice, so things like milk were in tin buckets and lower by rope into the well to keep cool. On Saturdays, which were shopping days, we were given a nickle to buy whatever we wanted. I bought a soda pop, hanging over the ice full cooler savoring relief from the heat and trying to decide on which soda to buy. The big RC cola or the little grapette which my mother liked? Grapette always won out. We were poor, so poor that we didn't wear shoes in the summer. We outgrew them in the winter, and didn't get a new pair until school started in September. The thing is that we didn't know we were poor because we were so rich in love. And the greatest legacy from our parents, that and their belief that you help those who had less then yourself. What little we had they shared with neighbors who had even less. And you know what? Despite our poverty, I was able to attend fine schools, earning my BA and my MA, living a far richer life than I could have ever imagined, living in places like Madrid, Spain, New York City, meeting and knowing people from every economic class and accomplishment. The best part is that I have been able to follow my parent's example, helping those who have need. Sorry for this sentimental remembrance. All those "remember when" posts triggered it. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine From: Peggy <pac1773 (AT) cfl (DOT) rr.com>To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 10:03:08 AMSubject: Re: remember when These remember when things really take me back to some good times. We had an "ice box" and when the ice truck came he would shave ice for us and my grandma would put flavoring on it... snow cones at their best. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004 "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Ken you must have been from a rich family. When I was a kid movies were 10 cents. I didn't see a movie until I was an adult. Ten cents was a lot of money then. No store bought candy either. My dad made the best fudge, taffy, cakes and pies any one has ever eaten. I can still see in my minds eye the five layer banana cake he made for my fifth birthday. And if I focus a bit, I can still taste it. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 12:22:42 PMSubject: Re: remember when as a 10 yr. old, movie .25 2 candy bars and a soda .05 each and had .10 left over for a donut and another soda on the way home. ken From: JOYCE RUDY <greycharlie@ q.com>To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. comSent: Sat, October 10, 2009 8:09:37 PMSubject: Re: remember when Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 oh my, what a wonderful story....write more! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when> >> > > >remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> >> >gas was 30 cents a gallon> >> >soda was 15 cents> >> >candy bars were a nickel> >> >cigarettes were 30 cents> >> >fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> >> >milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> >> >seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> >> >this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> >> >produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> >> >amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> >> >ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> >a dixie cup was a dime> >> >Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania> >Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> >www.transplantfund. org > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I truly enjoyed reading Your post of "Remembering When!" One of the first things I read this morning and it put a smile on my face! Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful day to you and to all...Donna (Iowa)To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 11:10:58 AMSubject: Re: remember when Oh, such memories! We lived on a farm in a time when there was no electricity in rural areas, nor paved roads, nor running water. We had kerosene lamps and caught rain water from the roof which drained into a cistern. Water was always in short supply, especially during the summer when it was hot as hell and no rain. In the summer, a No. 3 bathtub was set out in the sun to heat up for our baths. There were four of us kids and we took turns. My kid brother was a scamp and my sister whould scream out, "Mama, Billy peed in the water." We had no ice, so things like milk were in tin buckets and lower by rope into the well to keep cool. On Saturdays, which were shopping days, we were given a nickle to buy whatever we wanted. I bought a soda pop, hanging over the ice full cooler savoring relief from the heat and trying to decide on which soda to buy. The big RC cola or the little grapette which my mother liked? Grapette always won out. We were poor, so poor that we didn't wear shoes in the summer. We outgrew them in the winter, and didn't get a new pair until school started in September. The thing is that we didn't know we were poor because we were so rich in love. And the greatest legacy from our parents, that and their belief that you help those who had less then yourself. What little we had they shared with neighbors who had even less. And you know what? Despite our poverty, I was able to attend fine schools, earning my BA and my MA, living a far richer life than I could have ever imagined, living in places like Madrid, Spain, New York City, meeting and knowing people from every economic class and accomplishment. The best part is that I have been able to follow my parent's example, helping those who have need. Sorry for this sentimental remembrance. All those "remember when" posts triggered it. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine From: Peggy <pac1773 (AT) cfl (DOT) rr.com>To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. comSent: Sun, October 11, 2009 10:03:08 AMSubject: Re: remember when These remember when things really take me back to some good times. We had an "ice box" and when the ice truck came he would shave ice for us and my grandma would put flavoring on it... snow cones at their best. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004 "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds remember when remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child gas was 30 cents a gallon soda was 15 cents candy bars were a nickel cigarettes were 30 cents fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"a dixie cup was a dime Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund. org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Gio, I loved your memoir. Your dad is my kind of man. Innovative in areas most people are just now becoming aware of. He was both a man of his time and the future. I wish I could have known him. I really understand the drive to provide necessities at low cost.. The generation that did it on their own innitative and not demanding the government to do so is long gone. Thanks for such a sparkling and inspirational story. It started my day with a glow. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine To: Breathe-Support Sent: Sun, October 11, 2009 6:10:56 PMSubject: Re: remember when I too enjoyed your reminisences Jack. You were most fortunate in many ways to come from a poor background in the sense that it must've allowed you awareness of all the benefits of your adult life. Of course the bedrock of a loving family is the greatest richness of all Although I'm of a younger generation than you Jack, I too remember the day our rural regional town home had it's GAS lights turned off & the electricity was connected. However it was still some time before the Ice Box was swapped for a real Fridge....even longer before the Kerosene Chip Heater in the Bathroom was tossed out. Amazingly my father went to all the trouble of building Grafton's very First SOLAR hot water system. My Dad who was a lowly paid, Public Servant, got plans from the CSIRO (Commonwealth Science & Industry Organistion) for the system . He spent every spare moment he had (including his lunch hour) on this wild experiment. The Tank for the Hot Water & the enormous glass panels to catch the sun sat atop a tall Tower ..the neighbours were VERy puzzled as to why our family built a new OUTDOOR DUNNY higher up than our roof line! My father considered that Grafton's frequent Spring/Summer storms to be a great threat to the glass panels so he then constructed two wire screen panels that could be lowered in Stormy Weather to protect the glass. At other times they were held upright so the sun could work its full magic. I often was allowed to ride my bike home from school to lower the Panels when a storm was building up our great wide river. I remember the terror that the storm would catch me either on the way home OR the way back to school! Occasionally if I was lucky it would break just after I'd done the job but before i could make the return journey to school! When my mother complained about the lack of hot water during prolonged wet spells my father decided the next step was his Booster Scheme...that consisted of an old empty Kerosene Tin hooked up to the Water Tank...he'd light fires underneath & burn our household rubbish while the Tank Water was diverted ....strangely though the water was always a rusty dirty colour that we hated showering under...you can imagine my mother's horror at washing linen in THAT! Eventually Dad was persuaded that the cheap but dirty diversion was a failure & at last an electric Booster was organised. (we were constantly chided during these expensive wet weather times to take EXTREMELY short showers as Electrically Boosted Hot WAter was considered by my Dad to be way too expensive!) That would've been in the early 1960's & NOT done for environmental reasons. That Solar System was finally pulled down only 2 years ago by my brother because the Wooden structure had become unsafe. The glass panels & hot water were still doing their job just fine! OMG I feel so OLD FASHIONED..it seems unimaginable now that I was poart of the gas-light generation! It was piped to our house from the Town's Gas Station...gas is still very popular for cooking but all the old gas mains are unused. Ugly great cyclinders sit besdie people's houses these days. Cheers, GIO > > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds> remember when> >> > > >remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> >> >gas was 30 cents a gallon> >> >soda was 15 cents> >> >candy bars were a nickel> >> >cigarettes were 30 cents> >> >fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> >> >milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> >> >seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> >> >this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> >> >produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> >> >amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> >> >ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> >a dixie cup was a dime> >> >Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania> >Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> >www.transplantfund. org > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I lived 2 miles outside a small town imagitively named North Prairie, in Wisconsin that had 392 official people in the 60's and 70's. We had 1 small grocery store, 1 drug store and soda fountain, 2 bars, 1 gas station and the Medthodist church at one end the Lutheran church at the other... The poor Catholics had to go to a neighboring town for Mass. We got our milk and butter delivered to a tin box that sat on our back porch, maybe cheese too. The dry cleaner would stop if you put a sign in your front window. We mostly ate what my mom and dad grew in a huge 1 acre garden. My dad worked in a factory and actually raised white rabbits to sell for doctors for pregnancy tests. Yes the rabbit actually had to die! lol. We also ate them. I still remember how to skin a rabbit not exactly a skill I need but I bet I could still do it! I remember running "wild" all summer after my mom learned to drive at age 32 and got a job. I could walk to town and if I took the shortcut through the corn fields I arrived full of corn silk but at 10 who cared. I remember before Mt. Dew ha ha. I need to write this all down for my grandkids and kids who were raised in Phoenix and grew up with locked doors and stranger danger. It really was a simplier time and place and I'm very sorry we don't have it anymore. Dyane phoenix ifp 02> >> > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds> > remember when> > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > > > soda was 15 cents> > > > candy bars were a nickel> > > > cigarettes were 30 cents> > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > > > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> > a dixie cup was a dime> > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> > www.transplantfund.org<http://www.transplantfund.org/>> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 When I was a youngster-still in Elementary school I lived in Pt Loma which is in San Diego. Our house was within walking distance to the bay and my grand parents walked me and the dog twice a day to the water where I collected the most beautiful shells. My grandmother would make tea in a glass and play cards with me while she listened to her soaps on the radio and so I was well versed in all the lives of many soap opera lives. We lived directly across from the Chief's Club and I loved to go trick-or-treat there. They always had the most delighful treats. The sailors were all very nice to me and my dog. My dog especially loved them because the guys in the kitchen would bring the left over meat for to eat! Today, our house is a hotel! Ahahahahahahah we would have been rich if they had kept it! LOL Joyce Rudy AZ birds remember when> > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > > > soda was 15 cents> > > > candy bars were a nickel> > > > cigarettes were 30 cents> > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > > > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> > a dixie cup was a dime> > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> > www.transplantfund.org<http://www.transplantfund.org/>> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I love to read these memories. It personalizes the writer so I can see him/her as a child as well as visulaizing them as an adult from their regular posts. I hope all of you will share, whether the memolries are good or bad. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine To: Breathe-Support@...Sent: Mon, October 12, 2009 12:48:06 PMSubject: Re: remember when I lived 2 miles outside a small town imagitively named North Prairie, in Wisconsin that had 392 official people in the 60's and 70's. We had 1 small grocery store, 1 drug store and soda fountain, 2 bars, 1 gas station and the Medthodist church at one end the Lutheran church at the other... The poor Catholics had to go to a neighboring town for Mass. We got our milk and butter delivered to a tin box that sat on our back porch, maybe cheese too. The dry cleaner would stop if you put a sign in your front window. We mostly ate what my mom and dad grew in a huge 1 acre garden. My dad worked in a factory and actually raised white rabbits to sell for doctors for pregnancy tests. Yes the rabbit actually had to die! lol. We also ate them. I still remember how to skin a rabbit not exactly a skill I need but I bet I could still do it! I remember running "wild" all summer after my mom learned to drive at age 32 and got a job. I could walk to town and if I took the shortcut through the corn fields I arrived full of corn silk but at 10 who cared. I remember before Mt. Dew ha ha. I need to write this all down for my grandkids and kids who were raised in Phoenix and grew up with locked doors and stranger danger. It really was a simplier time and place and I'm very sorry we don't have it anymore. Dyane phoenix ifp 02> >> > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds> > remember when> > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > > > soda was 15 cents> > > > candy bars were a nickel> > > > cigarettes were 30 cents> > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > > > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> > a dixie cup was a dime> > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> > www.transplantfund. org<http://www.transpla ntfund.org/>> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Jack It does, doesn't it. And I think its good for the soul. While writing that I could remember how the fields smelled and how nice it was to just be a child with no worries past getting home in time for supper. I hope everyone remembers whether they post or not. Chicken soup and memories for the soul:) Dyane > > > > > > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds > > > remember when > > > > > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child > > > > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon > > > > > > soda was 15 cents > > > > > > candy bars were a nickel > > > > > > cigarettes were 30 cents > > > > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents > > > > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles > > > > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top > > > > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia > > > > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop > > > > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on > > > > > > ice cream trucks like " Jack and Jill " and " Good Humur " > > > a dixie cup was a dime > > > > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 > > > www.transplantfund. org<http://www.transpla ntfund.org/> > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 You are right Jack! It does help visualize each of us. joyce rudy AZ birds remember when> > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > > > soda was 15 cents> > > > candy bars were a nickel> > > > cigarettes were 30 cents> > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > > > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> > a dixie cup was a dime> > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> > www.transplantfund. org<http://www.transpla ntfund.org/>> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I was raised in Chattanoga, TN on Graysville road just a few hundred feet from the GA line. There were 6 of us two older sisters and a younger brother. We lived in a very small two bedroom home. My parents had one bedroom and my sisters shared the other one. My dad put up a partition in the dining room and my brother and I slept on bunk beds behind the partition when we were older. The house was built as 4 rooms in the 30’s with an indoor bathroom added just before my dad and mom bought it. We converted the back porch into a galley kitchen in the 40’s. My dad was a house painter and was out of work quite often and sometimes for long periods. As I look back on it all we were quite poor but I never knew it during my formative years. I was always proud of the clothes that my mother would make for me even though some were made from flour sacks. People who I thought at the time were rich were most likely poor too and I just had no frame of reference for wealth. My Dad worked at different TVA steam plants and we moved to be closer to them but kept the house on Graysville Road and always returned to it. When I was there the traffic was not heavy on that road and we played in the road and rode bicycles there all the time. That road is now a well known shortcut from Ringgold, GA to the Hamilton Place Mall My dad had a large garden and my mom would can vegetables. When I would visit I would take as many of the canned quarts of green beans as she would allow as she canned the most delicious Kentucky wonder beans I have ever had. We had a large crab apple tree which produced some of the best crab apple jelly there ever was. It wasn’t until much later in life that my brother finally realized that my mom’s favorite parts of the chicken were not really the backs and necks. She would always make sure the rest of the family had all the more edible chicken parts. We raised chickens and at one time or another a cow and a couple of pigs. We always had electricity and running water but we would make trips to Arkansas to visit my grandparents who lived without electricity or running water. On those trips we would expect to have one or more flat tires when we made those 500 mile trips on 2 lane roads (boy has tire technology improved since then). We always carried a tube patch kit and used it a lot. On one visit in the early 50’s we made the trip in our fairly new 49 Plymouth which had low ground clearance and we used to drag bottom going over some of the dirt roads in Arkansas. I still marvel at my grandmothers’ ability to bake the most delicious bread and cakes on a wood stove. From: Breathe-Support [mailto:Breathe-Support ] On Behalf Of Jack Marshall Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 2:39 PM To: Breathe-Support Subject: Re: Re: remember when I love to read these memories. It personalizes the writer so I can see him/her as a child as well as visulaizing them as an adult from their regular posts. I hope all of you will share, whether the memolries are good or bad. Jack 79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine From: DyaneB <dyane.billings (AT) ball-mcgraw (DOT) com> To: Breathe-Support (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) .com Sent: Mon, October 12, 2009 12:48:06 PM Subject: Re: remember when I lived 2 miles outside a small town imagitively named North Prairie, in Wisconsin that had 392 official people in the 60's and 70's. We had 1 small grocery store, 1 drug store and soda fountain, 2 bars, 1 gas station and the Medthodist church at one end the Lutheran church at the other... The poor Catholics had to go to a neighboring town for Mass. We got our milk and butter delivered to a tin box that sat on our back porch, maybe cheese too. The dry cleaner would stop if you put a sign in your front window. We mostly ate what my mom and dad grew in a huge 1 acre garden. My dad worked in a factory and actually raised white rabbits to sell for doctors for pregnancy tests. Yes the rabbit actually had to die! lol. We also ate them. I still remember how to skin a rabbit not exactly a skill I need but I bet I could still do it! I remember running " wild " all summer after my mom learned to drive at age 32 and got a job. I could walk to town and if I took the shortcut through the corn fields I arrived full of corn silk but at 10 who cared. I remember before Mt. Dew ha ha. I need to write this all down for my grandkids and kids who were raised in Phoenix and grew up with locked doors and stranger danger. It really was a simplier time and place and I'm very sorry we don't have it anymore. Dyane phoenix ifp 02 > > > > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds > > remember when > > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child > > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon > > > > soda was 15 cents > > > > candy bars were a nickel > > > > cigarettes were 30 cents > > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents > > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles > > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top > > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia > > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop > > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on > > > > ice cream trucks like " Jack and Jill " and " Good Humur " > > a dixie cup was a dime > > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 > > www.transplantfund. org<http://www.transpla ntfund.org/> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Thank you, Ken. I especially appreciated your story because it so parrallels my own childhood. I could see my Dad squatting on the side of the road patching one more inner tube, wrenching the tire back on the rim, then pumpting it up and we were off again. This was a 25 mile round trip and I think there three flats that day. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine To: Breathe-Support Sent: Mon, October 12, 2009 5:14:31 PMSubject: RE: Re: remember when I was raised in Chattanoga , TN on Graysville road just a few hundred feet from the GA line. There were 6 of us two older sisters and a younger brother. We lived in a very small two bedroom home. My parents had one bedroom and my sisters shared the other one. My dad put up a partition in the dining room and my brother and I slept on bunk beds behind the partition when we were older. The house was built as 4 rooms in the 30’s with an indoor bathroom added just before my dad and mom bought it. We converted the back porch into a galley kitchen in the 40’s. My dad was a house painter and was out of work quite often and sometimes for long periods. As I look back on it all we were quite poor but I never knew it during my formative years. I was always proud of the clothes that my mother would make for me even though some were made from flour sacks. People who I thought at the time were rich were most likely poor too and I just had no frame of reference for wealth. My Dad worked at different TVA steam plants and we moved to be closer to them but kept the house on Graysville Road and always returned to it. When I was there the traffic was not heavy on that road and we played in the road and rode bicycles there all the time. That road is now a well known shortcut from Ringgold , GA to the Hamilton Place Mall My dad had a large garden and my mom would can vegetables. When I would visit I would take as many of the canned quarts of green beans as she would allow as she canned the most delicious Kentucky wonder beans I have ever had. We had a large crab apple tree which produced some of the best crab apple jelly there ever was. It wasn’t until much later in life that my brother finally realized that my mom’s favorite parts of the chicken were not really the backs and necks. She would always make sure the rest of the family had all the more edible chicken parts. We raised chickens and at one time or another a cow and a couple of pigs. We always had electricity and running water but we would make trips to Arkansas to visit my grandparents who lived without electricity or running water. On those trips we would expect to have one or more flat tires when we made those 500 mile trips on 2 lane roads (boy has tire technology improved since then). We always carried a tube patch kit and used it a lot. On one visit in the early 50’s we made the trip in our fairly new 49 Plymouth which had low ground clearance and we used to drag bottom going over some of the dirt roads in Arkansas . I still marvel at my grandmothers’ ability to bake the most delicious bread and cakes on a wood stove. From: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com [mailto: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com ] On Behalf Of Jack MarshallSent: Monday, October 12, 2009 2:39 PMTo: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. comSubject: Re: Re: remember when I love to read these memories. It personalizes the writer so I can see him/her as a child as well as visulaizing them as an adult from their regular posts. I hope all of you will share, whether the memolries are good or bad. Jack79/IPF - UIP/dx06/05 Maine From: DyaneB <dyane.billings@ ball-mcgraw. com>To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. .comSent: Mon, October 12, 2009 12:48:06 PMSubject: Re: remember when I lived 2 miles outside a small town imagitively named North Prairie, in Wisconsin that had 392 official people in the 60's and 70's. We had 1 small grocery store, 1 drug store and soda fountain, 2 bars, 1 gas station and the Medthodist church at one end the Lutheran church at the other... The poor Catholics had to go to a neighboring town for Mass. We got our milk and butter delivered to a tin box that sat on our back porch, maybe cheese too. The dry cleaner would stop if you put a sign in your front window. We mostly ate what my mom and dad grew in a huge 1 acre garden. My dad worked in a factory and actually raised white rabbits to sell for doctors for pregnancy tests. Yes the rabbit actually had to die! lol. We also ate them. I still remember how to skin a rabbit not exactly a skill I need but I bet I could still do it! I remember running "wild" all summer after my mom learned to drive at age 32 and got a job. I could walk to town and if I took the shortcut through the corn fields I arrived full of corn silk but at 10 who cared. I remember before Mt. Dew ha ha. I need to write this all down for my grandkids and kids who were raised in Phoenix and grew up with locked doors and stranger danger. It really was a simplier time and place and I'm very sorry we don't have it anymore. Dyane phoenix ifp 02> >> > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then....today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds> > remember when> > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > > > soda was 15 cents> > > > candy bars were a nickel> > > > cigarettes were 30 cents> > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > > > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> > a dixie cup was a dime> > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> > www.transplantfund. org<http://www.transpla ntfund.org/>> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yes it Does, doesn't it...I think it's also part of receiving a deeper understanding of each other's life experiences. Getting beyond our shared PF Condition..showing ourselves as More than our Disease! Cheers, GIO> > >> > > Pink- I remember all these things and gas being 10c a gallon and they washed your windows and checked your oil and tires and you got glasses or green stamps toboot! Cigerettews were 15c and yes, candy bars were a nickel. Indeed, I remember the milk man and wish they would come back! We got our eggs and cheese and sherbet from them too! didn't have a Good Humor truck...too rural but alas, it seems that prices were more in line with salaries then...today you work and work and pay horrible prices and never get a head! The house my father and mother bought in La Mesa California in the 50's had hard wood floors and real plaster walls! It was a tract home but stil lnot so close to our neighbors. It cost them $1200! We had a mortgage of $50 month!!!! Yes, those were the days! Joyce rudy AZ birds> > > remember when> > > > > > > > > remember when the movies were 25 cents for a child> > > > > > gas was 30 cents a gallon> > > > > > soda was 15 cents> > > > > > candy bars were a nickel> > > > > > cigarettes were 30 cents> > > > > > fast food hamburger stands started with hamburgers for 15 cents> > > > > > milk was delivered in glass bottles, milkman delivered milk and picked up empty bottles> > > > > > seltzer in glass bottles with squeeze thing on top> > > > > > this is from the 50's and 60's in Philadelphia> > > > > > produce hucksters used to bring trucks into neighborhoods for people to shop> > > > > > amusement rides such as the whip were on trucks and used to go to neighborhoods for children to ride on> > > > > > ice cream trucks like "Jack and Jill" and "Good Humur"> > > a dixie cup was a dime> > > > > > Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania > > > Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09> > > www.transplantfund. org<http://www.transpla ntfund.org/>> > >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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