Have you lived?

[Bird]

And Gunsmoke, Scruffy. Was Red Ryder and Little Beaver on the radio, or just in the comic books?

 

[Bird]

Gosh, Jim, my first school had 12 classrooms; one for each grade. Of course there was no "lunch room"; everyone carried their lunch. I usually had either sausage in a biscuit or scrambled eggs; no iced tea, a mason jar of milk (no refrigerator to keep it in; really hated it when my milk soured before I got to drink it). Dessert was biscuit and jelly - mother made that and we didn't buy peanut butter or molasses very often. We did have honey at home; dad bought it in 5 gallon cans until he got his own bee hives. And we had store bought bread once a week (if I had picked up enough coke bottles along the road to buy a loaf that week), because my dad was gone overnight one night a week, and he wouldn't eat lite bread until I was 16 years old. Mother made some kind of homemade bread for every meal. Seriously, I got married and left home before I found out you could buy flour in sacks smaller than 25 pounds.

 

[StanInCalif]

The William Tell Overture is still one of my favorite songs. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats. Give me my Cheerios, Kimosabe- you can have the Wheaties.

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[ERNIEB]

Yea, that was her. MikePA had it too. I don't remember the show. But I do recall her in those tight gowns holding a White Owl./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif When those ads appeared I had just reached the age where I becan to notice girls had curves. And Edie Adams had CURVES/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

 

[ERNIEB]

Jeff, you may be thinking of Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme. Singers by trade, when they weren't playing Password.

Ernie

 

[ERNIEB]

Scruffy, We got our first TV when I was about 4 or 5, so I don't recall most of them. I do recall Fibber Magee and Molly, and Amos and Andy, when I stayed at my grandparents.
When I was stationed in Germany 74-77, I listened to them on AFR in the evenings. Gunsmoke (William Conrad was Matt), Lone Ranger, Johnny Dollar, Jack Benny, and Fibber Magee were my favorites.

Ernie

 

[pdxman]

How bought a few more things...Remeber when pop/beer cans were all metal and not aluminum? Used to have to either open with the pointed end on a can opener or some machines had a lever to puncture it. Then came the tear drop shaped pull ring that tore an opening in top of the can. People used to drop the leftover piece in the can to dispose of it. Accidents involving choking prompted the bottlers to change to a push button type opener. Todays common opener evolved from that. I think Coors beer was one of the first to use aluminum. Also, Coors was only allowed in some states and not in others(or something like that). Was cool to have 'smuggled' Coors if your state didn't allow it.

I'll admit I'm only 37, but hard to believe I can recall about 2/3 what is being brought up in this thread. Kids today can't believe some of these things existed.

 

[EdDekker]

Another town was determined to keep franchised fast food out in the 1970's was Evanston IL.

McDonalds and Burger King both wanted to build restaurants near the Northwestern campus but the town used the building code and every other regulatory roadblock to keep franchised carry out fast food out of town.

The town did miss one. In 1976 (or 1977) the Chart House Family Restaurants chain applied for and received permission to build a restaurant across the street from Northwestern. Chart House didn't volunteer one piece of information; that they had just been given a multiple restaurant Burger King franchise (and the city had failed to ask before issuing the permits). Evanston tried to void the permits but the courts ruled the permits were valid.

Even after the one Burger King opened the city still stopped every other fast food franchise.

Ed

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I have a kid works for me, 21, who never heard of a block & tackle. Last week, we used one for the first time in a couple years, and after we got past how really cool this thing was, I spent the lunch hour explaining 4 part lines, and how you only had to pull 25% of the weight, but 4 times as many feet as the lift was. I think he finally got the idea.
I constantly find myself appalled at how little these hids know, and how much self esteam they have, cause they learned to feel good about knowing nothing in school. I did an inventory of knowlege content in a High School Diploma back in 98, and figure I had to know more to get into 9th grade than today's kids know to get a High School Diploma.
The part that scares me is my Social Security is dependant on these kids being employed.

 

[EdDekker]

Edie Adams was married to Ernie Kovacs. She appeared on his TV show. (She was one of the Apes in the original 'Nirobi Trio'.)

Her picture is on http://us.imdb.com/PGallery?Adams,+Edie&source=mptv
http://www.ie-commerce.net/library/photos/234/234912.jpg
http://www.ie-commerce.net/library/photos/164/164189.jpg
and http://www.ie-commerce.net/library/photos/169/169538.jpg


Her bio is http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Adams,+Edie Under Other Works this database credits her with TV commercials for Muriel Cigars.

I don't think that she was in the White Owl commercial, she just doesn't look like I remember the White Owl Commercial.


Ed