Remember this one?
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Remember this one?
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Last edited by marv2; 10-14-2015 at 08:12 PM.
Remember how K-Tel have these package albums of a bunch of popular singles in the 70s:
Don't forget Mister Microphone...
Last edited by Jerry Oz; 10-14-2015 at 09:15 PM.
Didn't they have one in Windsor?
If I were anywhere near Toronto. I'd always eat in an "ethnic" restaurant, [[Indian, Jamaican, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Lebanese, etc.). They have a lot of great ones there. Speaking of "ethnic", -take a look at The Four Tops' "Sexy Ways" thread again. I put up another funny story.
Hey, you remember...
Harvey Houses were on The Toll Roads even in the 1950s [[Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and Pennysylvania that I can remember, and, possibly Nebraska)! They usually had a Standard Station with them [[Standard of Indiana, or Sohio). Maybe they had Sinclair stations with them in the great plains and Mountain States?
Of course, Harvey Houses were general family eating restaurants [[glorified coffee shops with expanded menus-rather than "hamburger fast-food joints). I guess they must have been similar to Howard Johnson's. I don't think we ever stopped at a Howard Johnson's. Most often, we stopped at "Ma and Pa greasy spoons", - and had mostly good luck doing so. We did a LOT of car driven trips across USA and Canada for not having a "Caravan" [[live-in trailer or RV).
We traveled across Canada1 [[Trans Canada Highway), US Route 66, US Lincoln Highway, US I 90-94, US 60, US I 70, and US I 40. Before most of those Interstates were completed, and while they were still, for the most part, old 2 to 4 lane highways, rather than limited access expressways, tollways and freeways.
Where were you living in the 1970s?
Last edited by robb_k; 10-15-2015 at 12:10 AM.
Gosh, I loved Howard Johnson's. Famous French chef Jacques Pepin worked there when he moved to America and became the research director for their food lines and menus.
And this Judy Garland movie is about the waitresses at Harvey House.
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Well, that's true, Robb. But those Harvey House restaurants were steeped in tradition. Part of what made them so popular. I loved going there--always felt like a wonderful step back in time. [[With fresh food, of course!)
Were you a "swinger" back in the day? We had one of these! And I use to sing along with the commercial..."Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger!"
Geno's was started by geno marchetti who played for the baltimore colts.
Geno's was started by Geno Marchetti who played for the Baltimore Colts.
The football player's name was spelled G-I-N-O. So, why was the restaurant G-E-N-O's?
Last edited by robb_k; 10-15-2015 at 07:23 PM.
Ummm..gino's!!!
Last edited by supremester; 10-15-2015 at 10:01 PM.
This is my school lunch box from 1969:
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Marv,you must have alot of stuff in your attic,hehehehe!!!
Remember]valley forge beer]?
It was great - it actually tasted like fresh orange but still had that yummy, old time fake orange taste as well. It wasn't carbonated which made it tastier. It was THE orange drink in the northwest until orange crush expanded here and ran TV ads incessantly for years and finally it disappeared. It is still sold in Japan.
I also loved Green River - we had a VERY popular restaurant that had it on tap. They still make it!
Maybe it was local,but was very popular in the sixties.
I know most of you remember Mikey who liked his Life cereal.
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=vYEXzx-TINc
Last edited by Jerry Oz; 10-17-2015 at 03:07 PM.
this is not anyone i know but is a good representation of how we went out Trick or Treating in the mid 60s LOL!
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What about these guys? We played with plastic, non-moving army men for long periods of time, proof that kids can function fully well with little more than their imagination.
Oh shit, those were my guys! LOL! You use to could get a whole bag of them for probably under $2 . I Went from chewing the heads off and spitting at my brother at about age4. To throwing at him by 5 or 6 , to setting them up in elaborate battlelines by 7. By 8 I had moved on to Hot Wheels.
When I was a kid, we didn't have those little soldiers. We had larger, soldiers and cowboys and Indian figures [[probably 3 or 4 times as big. Cheaper ones were plastic, and one solid colour. But there were also wooden, hand painted ones. But those sets were much more expensive, and had much smaller amounts. But they cost more, and you couldn't have as many. The bags of many little ones for low cost, started around 1958 or so. I remember the adverts, 99 Soldiers for $1.85, on the back of comic books. They had a Civil War set, current WWII set, a Cowboy and Indian set, etc.
I never got into those war/G.I. Joe action figure crap. My family was too close to the Viet Nam situation in the 60s and 70s, anyway. I got into collecting Matchbox and Hot Wheels stuff. At one point, I even had one of those "juicers".
Remember those[crash cars]that you would run into the wall and then put it back together for another run?
Uh huh, I remember those. You also just made me remember those little rockets where you had to mix baking soda & vinegar as the jet fuel to make the shoot across the room. I remember having a milk truck, a fire engine and train sets made out of real metal with sharp corners on them.. LOL!!!
You are all so young! I think my growing up was more like that of my parents than like that of many of you who are only 10-15 years t=younger than I. I am lonesome for some of the other "Oldies" to post on this thread, like Ralph, or whoever else is above 70.
Gee rob,i've always thought of myself as one of the old heads here,but i feel like a kid next to your knowledge.....thanks,hehehehehe!!!
Robb has forgotten more than most of us will ever learn about the last 60 years' history of music.
Back on theme: Remember when you could tell a kid's mom that he was acting up and she'd thank you for it instead of threaten to go home and get her gun?
Hey jerry,i've been down that road,today's parents don't wanna hear nothing negative about thier little[angels]......remember when every mom had one of those black iron frying pans and the great fried foods that came from em?
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