Where I went to junior high school, Tuesdays lunchroom special was a steak sandwich with grilled onions and tomato sauce. Couldn't wait to get to school . . . on Tuesdays.
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Where I went to junior high school, Tuesdays lunchroom special was a steak sandwich with grilled onions and tomato sauce. Couldn't wait to get to school . . . on Tuesdays.
I remember when I discovered newspapers. I knew much more about current events back then because I read them from front page to last. So, I was forced to know a little bit about a wide range. Thanks to the web, I know a whole lot about a few things and a lot less about things that don't interest me.
Don't read too much into my steak sandwich post. It was a Philly steak sandwich which, at that time, was a few thin slices of chuck steak [[I think called braising steak in the UK) and onions, tomato sauce, and roll. It was delicious and impossible to pass up at 35¢!
Remember those round potatoes that we ate at lunch,we use to have potato fights and they would close the cafeteria.
Remember when potatoes were not coated with a substance that inhibited the growth of eyes [[allowing us to grow our own)? Also, I remember when corn and soy beans weren't genetically manipulated and classified as pesticides by the FDA, allowing Monsanto and other companies to bully farmers into paying only them for seeds under fear of being sued into bankruptcy.
Hey jerry you just mentioned[greasy grady's]entire food output.
[[Grady's a different issue. His food isn't a pesticide because no decent fly would go near it.)
Remember when it took two minutes to sign on to the internet through your modem so you could wait for 45 minutes to download video for a 90 second movie trailer?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...hey jerry it takes me forty five minutes to sign on,this thing is so slow i can order a snack from greasy's wait for the health inspector to condem it and still have time before this thing comes on.
Lunch was so bad in jr.high that we petitioned the schoolboard to eliminate lunch.
Remember when only the bad guys went out with their faces covered [[except for the Lone Ranger).
I remember Friday night fish fries. My Pops wore the coolest sunglasses [[even at night), porkpie hats, and stove pipe pants and used to drink Stroh's from long necked bottles. He remains the epitome of cool in my mind to this day. [[Think I'll tell him that when I see him later today.) All of my family would show up and Motown seemed to be played every other song on the record player.
Remember when we used to[block]our hats and you wouldn't dare leave the house with[dirty chucks]or unpolished shoes.
Remember when churches only had[one]offering on sunday?
I started swimming lessons when I was in second grade at the YMCA in the fall of 1969. My mom would give me a quarter, which I used to get a soda [[5 cents) and two candy bars [[10 cents each) out of their vending machines. One Saturday I finished swimming and went to the vending machines and my heart sank: sodas had been raised to 10 cents and candy bars to 15 cents. In one week, my snack purchases had been cut from three items to two.
Remember when comic books cost a dime instead of $4.00?
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Haaaaaaaaaaaa..hey jerry,remember when finding a dime on the sidewalk was a big deal?
Yep. I also remember when gas wars had gas prices below 30 cents a gallon.
Remember when you could form your hands in the shape of a gun and point at your buddies without the swat team showing up at your school?
I remember not knowing what 'SWAT' was until the TV series debuted on ABC. Now, it's not just something that we are all familiar with, it's actually become a verb for when people call 911 and report an active hostage situation at a private residence necessitating deployment of SWAT to rush out and endanger lives. You know, because the caller thinks it's so very funny.
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Remember when people didn't do reckless and incredibly dangerous things [[like calling SWAT when there's no emergency) because they think it's funny?
Oh yeah! We'd beg our moms for some change so we could go down to the convenience store on our bikes and buy a bottle of soda, a candy bar, and a comic book.
I remember around 1974, we discovered Wacky Packages. We'd go down to the convenience store during school lunch [[the one year they actually allowed us fifth and sixth grade kids to leave campus during school hours) and buy them with our lunch money. We stuck those things on everything: our notebooks, books, desks, and bikes. We all outgrew them a year later.
It's it just me, out did kids seem to enjoy the simplest things back in the day more than they do now? My Mom would cut holes in paper bags and we would put our heads and arms through them and walk around playing "robot" for an hour. I wonder if kids still play tag or hide-and-go-seek these days. I've seen them have meltdowns when they aren't given $59 for a brand new video game.
WE played cops & robbers with our toy cap guns, but never had to worry about someone using a real gun, or someone calling the cops.
Hey, how about putting playing cards on your bicycle spokes with clothes pins to make noise, or putting hi-bars on the back of your bike to make them mimic Harleys. We called 'em "sissy bars" for some reason.
I remember putting the cards in the spokes as well as a balloon [[louder, at least until they burst) to make it obvious when I was riding by. And I remember sissy bars on old Stingray bikes. Stingrays look so funny nowadays. For some reason, I only see old stoner looking dudes on them instead of kids.
Horn & Hardart's Menu - 1959
The food was delicious & the portions generous.
When I look at the menu now, it just doesn't seem possible--but it was!
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here's one with a sissy bar, hand brakes, and gears. These bikes look fugly now.
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The bags were over our whole bodies. Tells you that was a long time ago, eh?
Remember when [am]was all you got on the radio?
I Remember When [[Dedicated to Beverly) - Ivy Jo...oops, sorry, wrong thread.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,marv we all did that,you guys are babes in the woods talking bout[one fm station]nope not in da hood,heck we were lucky to get[am].