Have you lived?

[TWINKLE_TOES]

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

 

[Bird]

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]

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

 

[Mike_Dumond]

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 *** 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

 

[gator]

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.

Wally
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[jimmoore]

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

jim

 

[GlueGuy]

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

 

[scruffy]

Anyone remember listening to the The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Green Hornet (and others I don't remember) on the radio?

 

[Jeff396]

Was it Steve Allen? I seem to remember Steve and Edie...

Jeff

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[Mike_Dumond]

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

 

[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