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Bird, I thought McDonalds was a modern day creation. I never saw or heard of one until ~ 1975. Turns out they started in 1948. McDonalds History
Al
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Bird
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Yeah, Al, I had looked at that history. Of course the original was apparently a single little hamburger joint until Ray Kroc got involved in '55, and it says he opened one in Dallas in '56, but I don't even remember when I saw the first one.
ERNIEB
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I remember looking for them on trips to Garner State park, and San Angelo. While I was asking if we were out of Texas yet./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Here is a link to somehttp://seniors-site.com/funstuff/burma.html
Ernie
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Mike_Dumond
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Updated list, some of these are so cool.
If you remember:
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...(Drexel-5505)
12. Pea shooters.
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM Records
15. Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue Flash Bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork pop guns
23. Drive ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
28. Tinker toys
29. The Erector Set
30. The Fort Apache Play set
31. Lincoln Logs
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards... with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
34. Penny candy
35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
OR IF YOU REMEMBER A TIME WHEN ...
* Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
* Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming "do over!"
* Sales assistants who assisted the customer rather than talking to a collegue.
* When holding a door open for a female wasn't considered sexist.
* When Sunday Drivers only drove on Sundays.
*RC Cola and Moon Pies
*Double Bubble
*Grapette
*Orange Crush
*kerosene lamps
*rubboards
*kick start washing machines
*the first day that you had rural electric
*hog killing the first cold frosty morning in the winter
*rabbit gums (traps)
*killing and cleaning a couple of fat chickens for supper
*watching Modern Farmer around 5:30 am on Saturdays
*Cigarette machines!! With a pack under 30 cents
*TV and Radio that went off the air during the night
*Oleo Margerine in the plastic bag with the dot you had to squeeze to turn it yellow
*45 and 67 volt batteries for plate supply
*78 rpm records, and the victrola
*a slide rule
*Burning trash in a barrel, in town.
*On the column 3-speed manual.
*Cracker Jacks with a real prize
*"Strange as it seems" peanuts
*turning the handle on the phone to get the operator
*and then just telling her who you wanted to talk to
*2 holer out by the barn
*hair oil
*8-track tapes
*Pixie Stix,
*wax lips
*butch wax
*wringer washer
*Brylcreem A little dab'll do you
*Dippity-Doo
*10 cent McDonald hamburgers
*baseball cards 2 packs for a nickle
*Desoto sportsman
*Swats from the teacher
*WWI vets cutting their lawns
*80 year old neighbor, born in 1880
*Burma Shave road signs
*Mary Janes
*none of your friends were on Ridlin
*CC camps
*milk bottles with the metal caps
*Gas 18 cents per gallon
*Non-homogenized milk
*Chocola in the ice box
*Stage Planks
* "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
* Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
* It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
* The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties".
* Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
* A foot of snow was a dream come true.
* Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
* "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
* Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
* The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
* War was a card game.
* Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
* Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
* Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
*Hunting for crawdads, fish, salamanders, exploring woods, hiking hills, building trails, kissing girls, "reading" lingerie sections of the Sears-Robuck catalogue in areas that were vast woods that are now populated only with Volvos and PTA moms
*Airplanes flying over town dropping free samples of candy
* IF YOU CAN REMEMBER MOST OR ALL OF THESE, THEN YOU HAVE LIVED!!!!
Keep the greasy side down.
Mike
If you remember:
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...(Drexel-5505)
12. Pea shooters.
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM Records
15. Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue Flash Bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork pop guns
23. Drive ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
28. Tinker toys
29. The Erector Set
30. The Fort Apache Play set
31. Lincoln Logs
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards... with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
34. Penny candy
35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
OR IF YOU REMEMBER A TIME WHEN ...
* Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
* Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming "do over!"
* Sales assistants who assisted the customer rather than talking to a collegue.
* When holding a door open for a female wasn't considered sexist.
* When Sunday Drivers only drove on Sundays.
*RC Cola and Moon Pies
*Double Bubble
*Grapette
*Orange Crush
*kerosene lamps
*rubboards
*kick start washing machines
*the first day that you had rural electric
*hog killing the first cold frosty morning in the winter
*rabbit gums (traps)
*killing and cleaning a couple of fat chickens for supper
*watching Modern Farmer around 5:30 am on Saturdays
*Cigarette machines!! With a pack under 30 cents
*TV and Radio that went off the air during the night
*Oleo Margerine in the plastic bag with the dot you had to squeeze to turn it yellow
*45 and 67 volt batteries for plate supply
*78 rpm records, and the victrola
*a slide rule
*Burning trash in a barrel, in town.
*On the column 3-speed manual.
*Cracker Jacks with a real prize
*"Strange as it seems" peanuts
*turning the handle on the phone to get the operator
*and then just telling her who you wanted to talk to
*2 holer out by the barn
*hair oil
*8-track tapes
*Pixie Stix,
*wax lips
*butch wax
*wringer washer
*Brylcreem A little dab'll do you
*Dippity-Doo
*10 cent McDonald hamburgers
*baseball cards 2 packs for a nickle
*Desoto sportsman
*Swats from the teacher
*WWI vets cutting their lawns
*80 year old neighbor, born in 1880
*Burma Shave road signs
*Mary Janes
*none of your friends were on Ridlin
*CC camps
*milk bottles with the metal caps
*Gas 18 cents per gallon
*Non-homogenized milk
*Chocola in the ice box
*Stage Planks
* "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
* Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
* It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
* The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties".
* Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
* A foot of snow was a dream come true.
* Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
* "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
* Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
* The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
* War was a card game.
* Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
* Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
* Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
*Hunting for crawdads, fish, salamanders, exploring woods, hiking hills, building trails, kissing girls, "reading" lingerie sections of the Sears-Robuck catalogue in areas that were vast woods that are now populated only with Volvos and PTA moms
*Airplanes flying over town dropping free samples of candy
* IF YOU CAN REMEMBER MOST OR ALL OF THESE, THEN YOU HAVE LIVED!!!!
Keep the greasy side down.
Mike
Got our McDonalds sometime in the 60's. Like Jeff396 said they had the big golden arches that lit up from front to back of the building. Used to watch through the side windows as they pealed the taters then sliced them into fries while they were cooking our burgers, bag of 10 for a dollar and they didn't charge tax either.
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jimmoore
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Walking to a one room school house, grades 1 through 8 and carring your lunch in a 4 pound lard pail with a bail for a handle, lunch being fried potatoes and a piece of ham or sausage stuffed inside a "cathead biscuit", desert being sorghum molasses mixed with peanut butter inside another biscuit of the same type. We didn't get store bought "lite bread" very often, and a mason jar full of iced tea
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Ernie,
I think her name was Edie Adams or something like that. She was married to the comedian that her ads ran on. I can't remember his name though (I guess it's CRS again /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif)
The GlueGuy
I think her name was Edie Adams or something like that. She was married to the comedian that her ads ran on. I can't remember his name though (I guess it's CRS again /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif)
The GlueGuy
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Anyone remember listening to the The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Green Hornet (and others I don't remember) on the radio?
Jeff396
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Was it Steve Allen? I seem to remember Steve and Edie...
Jeff
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Mike_Dumond
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Speaking of Macdonalds. Good trivia questions. The only Macdonalds to go bankrupt in the US, is in Van Buren Maine. About 45 miles from here. Only place to ever deny MacDonalds permission to build, Fort Kent, Maine. My home town. Both happened 20 or so years age. Don't think it's happened anywhere else.
The denial one is worthless trivia, but the bankrupt one is in trivial pursuit.
Keep the greasy side down.
Mike
The denial one is worthless trivia, but the bankrupt one is in trivial pursuit.
Keep the greasy side down.
Mike
