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Post by Murph on Jan 1, 2008 20:05:08 GMT -6
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Post by Caretaker on Jan 1, 2008 23:38:28 GMT -6
God bless you Sis;
Remember it well. Thank you for sharing.
$.35 for cheeseburger, fries and a coke.
$.21 per gallon for gas.
"Duck and Cover" taught in school.
Taking turns reading from the teacher's King James, and reciting the Lord's Prayer, in school,(before 1964).
The first polio vaccines and the swimming pools being re-opened in summer.
Slide-rules
Memeograph machines
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan about Jan. '64.
Bomb Shelters
Civil Defense placards
cars without turn signals
It is amazing to be a part of history, and to have the kids study what we think of as being only yesterday.
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Post by Keith on Jan 2, 2008 9:24:14 GMT -6
Awesome link Marilyn! I'm a child of the sixties and I cherish those memories. The innocence. The naivete. I wouldn't have wanted to have grown up during any other time in history. Thank you... It's thoughts of those times past that, with the Spirit's leading, spawned the commentary Mayberry[/url] a few years ago. If you didn't get the chance to read it then, please enjoy it now... |
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Post by Caretaker on Jan 3, 2008 23:42:52 GMT -6
God bless you Bro;
I loved your commentary, well written and from the heart.
I too long to leave the hectic life in Raleigh, drive back through Mount Pilot, and drive out along Myer's lake, and then stop by Wally's for a cold bottle of pop, on the outskirts of Mayberry.
Remember those old top lid pop coolers with the water, and the bottles were hung in slots. You put in a dime, slid the bottle along the track and popped-it out the pop-up. Then you used the opener on the side. We had one at the roller rink, and also one down at the little gas station that looked like Wally's/Goobers.
I sure miss those days.
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Post by Murph on Jan 4, 2008 16:55:18 GMT -6
Wish we could get back to Mayberry Days too. I live within spittin' distance of Mt. Airy, NC...and this fall, God willing, we plan to switch beaches and go back to Hatteras, NC...close to Manteo where Andy now lives.
It was such a simpler time and I was thinking about things today as I drove up to Danville to make detention visits...wonder, would my Grandparents even reconize things if they were to come back today.
or even my Parents?
What changes have occured in just our lifetimes! and how little the younger generation realizes just how much things have changed. They haven't the age to make the comparrisons.
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Post by Keith on Jan 5, 2008 11:32:56 GMT -6
Remember those old top lid pop coolers with the water, and the bottles were hung in slots. You put in a dime, slid the bottle along the track and popped-it out the pop-up. Then you used the opener on the side. We had one at the roller rink, and also one down at the little gas station that looked like Wally's/Goobers. Ahhh, brother Drew, I'm waxing nostalgic! My grandfather owned a furniture store on Main Street in Mountain View, Missouri. I grew up in that store... At the end of the street was Lynn Holden's Sinclair Station. You could buy gas all day for less than twenty-five cents a gallon, and when a 'gas war' would erupt in town, Pa would fill up the delivery truck for around fifteen cents a gallon... Just inside the one and only work bay of the garage was a lone Coke machine. You remember, the kind that had the little ten ounce bottles with the opener that stuck out on the front. I'd buy a bottle, go into the front office of the station where Lynn always had a rack of little bags of salted peanuts. You always had to swig several gulps of Coke, then tear open a newly purchased bag of the goobers and pour them into the Coke bottle. Guaranteed a mouthful of peanuts with every sip... I'd sit there and watch Lynn work on cars for awhile, sipping Coke and peanuts, then walk back up the street to Pa's store where he, my grandma Meem and mom were helping tend. I miss Pa, Meem, Lynn, nickel Cokes and quarter gas. One day we'll enjoy times like that again. Pa, Meem, Mom and Lynn will be there. I'm hoping there'll be ice cold Cokes and salted peanuts too... |
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Post by Murph on Jan 5, 2008 12:40:45 GMT -6
When I started reading Keith I knew you were going to bring up the peanuts.
Every day during the summer we lived at the swimming pool when I was a kid...and just up a little dirt road was Mr. McGee's store. Five cents for a coke out of the coke box...bag of peanuts, and a whole bag of penny candy and we could go all day! All on about 25 cents...
walked up there barefooted...Mr. McGee had all the candy in seperate jars
on the counter...counted your pennies to make sure how much you could get and then went for it.
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Post by Keith on Jan 5, 2008 16:32:55 GMT -6
One hasn't appreciated the nuances of an uncomplicated life till they experience eating salted peanuts from an ice cold bottle of Coca-Cola, eh Marilyn...
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Post by Murph on Jan 5, 2008 16:56:52 GMT -6
got that right!
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Post by Steve on Jan 5, 2008 17:40:35 GMT -6
Y'all stop, you're makin' me homesick.  |
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Post by Steve on Jan 5, 2008 17:43:01 GMT -6
You forgot to add that when you finished you put the empty bottle in a wooden crate sitting on the floor so the store owner could send them back to the bottler.
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Post by Caretaker on Jan 5, 2008 19:12:41 GMT -6
God bless you; Love it!!!!! The old wooden pop cases, the empty one stacked on top of the filled ones. They had one of the newer ones in the soybean mill, where the cokes were inside the glass door. You put in a dime turned a lever on the front and the bottle was able to be pulled-out. The little one-story wooden grocery stores with the screen door with the Rainbow sign angled down the door. We had alot of little service stations in town and on the outskirts. Most of them closed in the early 70's with the fuel shortage. Out along the two lanes there are many service stations long closed. "Get your Kicks on Route 66" It was Ike who got the interstate system started. It was amazing to see four lanes. Here is a pick of one of the more modern service stations with an inside service bay: www.edyoungs.com/images/5601main1956.jpgRemember the old A & W and the root beer floats in the glass mugs? Drive-in movies with current features, "How about some hot buttered popcorn at the snack bar?" Motels were a new thing and Diners: www.edyoungs.com/images/5613main1956.jpgEvery few blocks there was a little Mom and Pop grocery store, with bulging shelves, narrow aisles and small carts. Then along came the A & P Supermarkets with magic open doors, bakeries, and more than one check-out. It was amazing to see electric cash registers, and some even had automatic change dispensers. Then the Safeways, and the IGAs. The little grocery stores had to close one by one. www.edyoungs.com/images/5641main1956.jpg |
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Post by Murph on Jan 5, 2008 21:17:49 GMT -6
Roller skating and riding bikes were big in my town. They were the heavy metal skates and they attached to your shoes. You had to have a skate key and we all wore our on string around our necks. I still have mine...the key and my neck...
at age 61 I have several necks now... ;D
Every kid had a bike and most of us had at least one dog.
We had the run of the town and summers back then are like a dream now. Maybe that is a little like what Heaven will be like...that feeling of being free and happy with a bunch of friends doing what friends do. Riding bikes, roller skating, swimming, going to the movies and eating pop corn till it came out of your ears and drinking ice cold Coca Colas with a whole bag of peanuts in them.
Don't forget to return the bottles when you are finished...2 cents deposit if you don't.
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Post by Murph on Jan 5, 2008 21:22:19 GMT -6
Long ago my Grandparents, my Mom's parents lived in Oxnard Calif. When I was 12 Mom and Dad decided to drive to Calif and we went all the way on Route 66. It was quite a trip!
After that tho, we went by train...still quite a trip! Best bowl of chilie I ever had was in Alberquerquuiezz, NM. I felt the effects of it all the way to Oxnard...
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Post by Keith on Jan 6, 2008 9:06:03 GMT -6
Maybe that is a little like what Heaven will be like...that feeling of being free and happy with a bunch of friends doing what friends do. Riding bikes, roller skating, swimming, going to the movies and eating pop corn till it came out of your ears and drinking ice cold Coca Colas with a whole bag of peanuts in them. Oh please Lord please. Tarry no more. We ache to be with You. We yearn for You to make everything right. We want to come Home... |
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Post by Caretaker on Jan 6, 2008 11:15:11 GMT -6
God bless you;
With us older folks its like we been on a long trip, and the closer we get to Home, the more we long to be there.
ANNIE HASLAM
Going Home
Going home, going home
I'm just going home
Quiet light, some still day
I'm just going home
It's not far, just close by
Through an open door
Work all done, care laid by
Going to fear no more
Mother's there expecting me
Father's waiting, too
Lots of folk gathered there
All the friends I knew
All the friends I knew
I'm going home
Nothing's lost, all's gain
No more fret nor pain
No more stumbling on the way
No more longing for the day
Going to roam no more
Morning star lights the way
Restless dream all done
Shadows gone, break of day
Real life begun
There's no break, there's no end
Just a living on
Wide awake with a smile
Going on and on
Going home, going home
I'm just going home
It's not far, just close by
Through an open door
I am going home
I'm just going home
Going home, going home
[Repeat]
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Post by Murph on Jan 6, 2008 14:39:20 GMT -6
Maybe that is a little like what Heaven will be like...that feeling of being free and happy with a bunch of friends doing what friends do. Riding bikes, roller skating, swimming, going to the movies and eating pop corn till it came out of your ears and drinking ice cold Coca Colas with a whole bag of peanuts in them. Oh please Lord please. Tarry no more. We ache to be with You. We yearn for You to make everything right. We want to come Home... got that right again Keith!...and Drew! nailed it with "make everything right." I know there will be a straghtenin' out party on my end but, talking about the old days when we were growing up has really brought home to me how wrong things have gotten and how much I wish they could be so simple again...and right. Only one place and one Person that can do all that... brought to mind the song that goes... "People get ready there's a train a comin' Don't need no baggage you just get on board." wouldn't it be something if when we get there, Jesus is waitin' with an ice cold coca cola and a bag of peanuts for each of us... From what I have read it is gonna be even better than that..."Eye hath not seen nor ear heard"... |
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Post by Murph on Jan 6, 2008 14:43:48 GMT -6
Now "ain't" that something, and don't that beat all. We can take something that seemingly has little to do with the Lord and run it around right back to Him and make it have everything to do with the Lord...
Didn't take "no whole long time" for us to do it either...
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