I remember Oven brand bread at .10 cents
Are you this old?
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And I forgot about mills. We used to play with them when I was a kid. Red and Green ones.
k0ua
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Same here. I had a few as a kid, both the red and green ones. I haven't seen one of those in many decades.
Larry Caldwell
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The sign off of half the TV stations in America, typically followed by the National Anthem.
buckeyefarmer
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I remember bread 10 loafs for a Dollar. You could get a whole cart of food for $10.
Bird
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Funny thing about that. I've never seen that college.
You know police officers (in Dallas, at least) used to work rotating shifts. So I used to work one month at a time on all 3 shifts. That could make it difficult to find courses that I could work into my schedule. And then our federal government thought officers should be better educated, so a program was started (LEAP - Law Enforcement Assistance Program) in which I paid all my college exenses, BUT when I received my final grade card after a class, I could send it in and was reimbursed for the tuition (but not any other expenses), and Uncle Sam checked on officers once a year after that. If you didn't stay an officer for 3 years, you had to pay back that tuition money.So Abilene Christian, like some other colleges, opened a small campus in the first suburb east of Dallas, and that's where I went to the classes. Their professors would have a morning class, then repeat the same class in the evening, so we could make either class.
Over the years I took classes that interested me at the time at a lot of different colleges; North Texas State (Denton,TX), SMU (Dallas, TX), El Centro College (junior college in Dallas), Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Sam Houston State College (Huntsville, TX). So, eventually there came a time that I thought perhaps I should consider a degree. So, I found that I needed a couple of more English classes, some more math, another science class, and at Abilene Christian, Bible classes. So I got a Bachelor of Science degree, *** laud, (major in Criminal Justice; minor in Sociology) when I was 35 years old and had more than 150 semester hours.
I was first told that I'd have to go to Abilene for the graduation but then they decided they'd have enough students graduating that year in the Dallas area that we'd have the cap and grown ceremony here. So my parents got to see me graduate. And now I still get the alumni magazine, even though I've never actually seen the campus.
2LaneCruzer
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Speaking of Oklahoma boot leggers; my Dad ran a sand dredge for many years; and although I'm not familiar with the details of the bidding process, I know that when he would call on a potential customer, he always took a 5th of good whiskey as his calling card. Oklahoma was dry until 1959, but whiskey was available if you wanted it bad enough. In fact, I had friends who made occasional trips to Kansas to keep their liquor cabinet stocked. Otherwise, all you could buy was 3.2 beer and Hadacol.
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Oaktree
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Never heard of them, period. What were they?
Bird
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I don't recall hearing that tune before, but in 1951-52 we had moved to Healdton, OK where my Dad worked for Johnston Testers and bought a nice 10 acre place. And one night I went to see the only traveling medicine show that I ever saw. They had their trailer set up in a vacant lot, opened and let down one side to make a stage, and put on a comedy act. No charge, of course, but then they were trying to sell "Hadacol", bottles of medicine that was good for whatever ailed you. I still remember him saying, "Well, we had a call it something." And after the show left town, I remember some bottles of that Hadacol stuff in the window of the local drugstore.