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Curt Dalton 471 posts Jun 21, 2011 10:23 AM	Hi everyone, I'd like to start a list of things that are going or have gone from our lives since the mid-1960s on. These should be universal to everyone as a nation. So instead of some place like Parkmoor, I am looking for items like the rotary telephone, or telephone booths. Or things we used to own, like transistor radios or portable tvs. These items can still be around, but close to extinction, like department store catalogs (I THINK that J. C. Penny's still prints one). You get the drift. I'll start out with a list of my own. I'm sure that it will spark your memories, as yours will spark mine as well. This could go on and on, I know. And let me know if something needs to come off the list. I may not know that something is still going strong. Video arcades Handheld calculators (that only calculate, not part of a phone, etc) CBs in the home (At least around here, it seemed everyone had one at one time in their home) Drive-in theaters - still going strong here in Dayton, but going away Eight track tapes and tape players Cassette tapes and tape players VCRs and VCR tapes (I still have mine, but tapes are getting hard to find) Regular DVD movies (Still going strong, but BlueRay will be their death one day I think) Encyclopedias (in book form - and the door-to-door salesman) Door-to-door salemen in general (Of all things, I used to sell Fuller Brush door-to-door. Are they still around?) High Karate - "Be careful how you use it" (But Love's Baby Soft is still around) Lawn Darts - with the metal tips, not the sissy plastic ones today McDonaldland commercials (I miss Hamburgler "Robble, Robble, Robble") Pay phones Roller skating rinks Local television "all-night movies" stars like Dr. Creep, Bob Shreves - and other local chidlren shows like Uncle Al and Captain Wendy (I'm sure every "big market" city had their own shows like this) Disco ('nuff said) Station wagons (minivans, etc are now leading the way) Sun-In (I burned all the pictures of me with the Afro perm that turned bright orange after I used Sun-In on it the day after - also all of the pics that show my hair all but shaved off the day after that...) 8mm and Super 8mm cameras (I still have a bit of film left from when I made the production "A Man and His Chickens"... don't ask...) Last Edited by on Jun 21, 2011 10:24 AM
maxed out 280 posts Jun 21, 2011 11:17 AM	QT suntan lotion, tans with or without the sun. (gave your skin most beautiful color of orange) silver coins Crosley Field (loved that place) 33 1/3, 45, and 78 records Variety shows...ie (Carol Burnett and Sonny and Cher) Home milk delivery Pickup sticks and Tiddlywinks Studebakers
AllenN71 239 posts Jun 21, 2011 12:32 PM	Common sense (Yesterday some study was announced that showed that little kids could drown in inflatable backyard pools. Who knew? [answer - every parent with more than two brain cells back in the day, but I could write a book about the dumb responses I got just yesterday - like "with cell phones it's easy to forget about the kids" etc.]) Dinner time. The evening meal used to be the cap for the day, where the family would bring each other up to speed about what was going on. There is nothing like breaking bread together to affirm and nurture bonds. Pity. The Welcome Wagon. Time was, a new arrival in the community would be "welcomed" by a delegation bearing information about the community and a basket of "goodies" (such as coupons, etc.) Hashish. Not pressed leftover bong resin, good Lebanese blond hash made from the compressed pollen of the plant. Law enforcement around here tell me it's almost extinct. But really, not such a pity (I haven't engaged in Cannabis use for nearly 35 years). High school dances with local bands. The excuses given me for this by local educaators here in Northern VA include stuff about gangs and violence, but really. Is chaperoning a lost art? Or are the adults just too lazy (or fearful) to do the job? "The Board of Educaation" (aka the paddle) in school; as well as the disciplinary restorative "Cowhide Tea" administered in the home. I witnessed the death of a local student at the hands of a gang of other boys just shy of seven years ago. The dead boy had been taught not to fight even in self-defense. And the killers had never recieved an a$$-whipping from their parents in their lives. (and believe it or not, the dead kid's mom publicly stated she was proud that her son, who could have knocked his attackers out of their socks - literaly - did not resort to "violence" to defend himself. Sheesh. Funny cartoons. We saw lots of stuff like: "Duck season! Wabbit season! Wabbit Season! Duck season, FIRE!" and somehow we never got the idea that it was okay to shoot someone because the result would be mere hilarity. Yet today we have been exposed to decades of cartoons made under the consultation of "child psychologists" who ensure that the kiddies never get exposed to anything scarier than bunnies kissing butterflies in a beautiful flower meadow. Then they become teenagers and shoot up the school. Yikes. I could go on, but yall get the idea....
unixTechie 17 posts Jun 21, 2011 12:58 PM	Vacuum tubes CRT's Full-Service filling stations (except New Jersey and Oregon - self service still not permitted) cigarette commercials Full-size spare tires Drive-in restaurants & carhops ---------- "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
Doug68 136 posts Jun 21, 2011 5:48 PM	Sandlot baseball fields and neighborhood kids playing ball. In our case, it was a vacant lot surrounded by homes. Now it almost seems that kids today can't seem to find the time to get away from their computer games, IPODS, and cell phones. Sadly, they'll never know how much they have missed. We made our own fun.
driver62 372 posts Jun 22, 2011 7:17 AM	Slide Rule - I still have mine from high school. Burger Chef 16mm Movies Atari Game System Pong - I think it was the first video game. Red Ryder BB Gun - I had one. Muscle Cars - I had a 1966 GTO and wish I still had it.
maxed out 282 posts Jun 23, 2011 7:13 AM	driver62... When you mentioned the slide rule it reminded me of other items in my desk... The compass and protractor, and the gum eraser that made a mess all over... And that jar of glue that had the brush built into the lid. I still remember that smell. Some of the kids even would eat the glue.... Was it Elmer's.?
BB64 14 posts Jun 23, 2011 12:35 PM	I miss slot cars and Saturday afternoon races
AllenN71 242 posts Jun 24, 2011 1:09 PM	Mom and pop businesses and the local pub. Seems more and more every place you go to shop or have a drink is located on the ground floor of some multi-tenant property and the name of the place is on those gawdawful backlit plastic signs with uniform lettering. Ever notice how increasingly cities look the same everywhere you go? I used to like going to Baltimore for a day trip because it, like Dayton, was a very blue-collar city. There was once a bar in the Highlandtown section called "The Red Bearean". The sign bore a Fokker triplane, so obviously the owner, when he ordered the sign, spelled the name in "Bawlmorese". There used to be a "Joe's Bar" in the same area. But the creeping Yuppification meansd that incresingly the places with individual chaaracter are in places where no one with any character (or desire to live long) would go. There's a part of Dayton (I am speaking conceptually and not geographically) that is funky and a little weird. I hope the trend toward "sameification" doesn't crush it out. There needs to be more, not less, room for individual creativity and initiative if Dayton is to rise again to her former glory. And I'll say it again: YES SHE CAN. There may be many things that are "going, going. gone"; but if Dayton is one of them, then we might as well say that of our whole Republic.
rodat6 172 posts Jun 24, 2011 4:35 PM	Punch cards were a big thing when I was little, in the Forties and Fifties they were all over the place. It was like a dime or something. Like the lottery of today although I have zero invested in the lottery, I did purchase a punch card from time to time, nothing extreme. Man I wish I were psychic, lol
DebCB 62 posts Jun 25, 2011 1:09 PM	Metal ice cube trays Garter belts Ramblers - I loved my 64 American with the windshield wipers that worked on a vacuum. LOL
Keugene48 170 posts Jun 26, 2011 5:14 PM	Yep that was the one. It is so funny the things that you remember from when you were a kid. Seems like it is the little things that stick with you.
Mikey 130 posts Jun 27, 2011 9:23 AM	Foto-Fair... little booths in parking lots where you could drop-off your film and get poor quality prints returned in a day. The one that I used was at what is now Handyman Hardware on Wilmington Pk. The really great schtick was the TV commercial, poking fun at the other parking lot photo booths... Dom DeLuise "the Foto-Fairy" dressed as Snow White's fairy godmother dancing in a parking lot, singing "some day my PRINTS will come." ---------- Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN Last Edited by on Jul 06, 2011 8:15 AM
DebCB 64 posts Jun 27, 2011 9:26 AM	cilla46....Your memories brought back many for me. We lived in Overlook and until the gas furnaces were installed sometime in the sixties our coal was delivered and stored in a big bin in the back yard next to the house. When it was no longer used as a coal bin my Dad cleaned and painted and added a new roof to it and made a play house for my sister and me. And the spoolies, oh my goodness, my sister Sharon could work wonders with those things. We still have my Mom's treadle sewing machine and with the proper belt it would still work. I had to laugh when you mentioned the peanut cart at Huffman Dam. We weren't even allowed to say darn. What a great childhood I had.
cilla46 56 posts Jun 28, 2011 12:59 PM	DebCB....Our coal bin was in our basement.I wrote about it here in the Once Upon a Time area which is right under the Dayton Memories Blog link on the right side of the page. Spoolies were the worst things I can remember as far as hair curlers go!Impossible to sleep with all those bumps all over your head!Worse than the metal rollers with brushes inside, to me anyway. My grandmother had both a treadle sewing machine and a rain barrel.She said that using rain water and lye soap was the best shampoo in the world!
rodat6 173 posts Jun 28, 2011 10:06 PM	ParkSide in the Forties and early Fifties had good heat, I am not sure if it were electric or gas but I don't ever remember being cold inside. In McGuffy Homes when we moved in there was a coal storage container for each unit, made of wood, had a door that latched. When we moved in because Mom who divorced Dad in the early Fifties took a job at WPAFB in Fairborn as a Clerk Stenographer for 23 years, took a 6 week cram course in Gregg Shorthand. She supported the family, dad was supposed to pay 25 a month for 4 children which he seldom did. An aunt who married a millionaire who lived in Coral Gables, Fla. and was a chemist who produced woman's beauty creams and such. The beauty salon on Salem near Gallaghers Drugs handled the cream, Callies Salon of Beauty, owned by Callie Warren. She reverted to her maiden name when her husband, last name of Stackhouse who was killed in a Detroit speed boat race in the mid Fifties. Our aunt bought for us a oil stove which sat in place of the coal stove in the living room, we kept a pan of water on it at all times. A 55 gallon barrel contained the fuel oil and was propped in the coal bin. We kept warm even there. The only times I would get cold at either place was when my shoe sole would wear a hole or flap while walking. We put cardboard for holes and chewing gum for flapping soles. We wore a lot of military surplus as the war had just ended, in first grade I wore paratrooper boots and an aviator cap with hooks all over it. Don't know their exact function but they were for those who fly. In 1950 there was a big blizzard, I was in the 3rd grade and we kids loved it, no school, drifts as high as a Parkside building. Dad couldn't get home right away and the military passed out either C or K rations to the people. I enjoyed it as a kid just as I enjoyed Hurricane Betsy in 1965, New Orleans. Pretty terrific wind, scored more of a direct hit than Katrina, without electricity for 2 weeks, linemen from Ohio and Pa. coming there to work. Eastern New Orleans flooded after a levy in the Industrial Canal broke, I worked with a friend whose family had to climb on their roof to escape the rising water. At ParkSide Mother had a Singer Treadle sewing machine, I used to lay on the floor as a small boy and make it go. Mother kept the belt off so I would not damage anything, it was a table model with the 4 drawer cabinet the machine was almost hidden when put away. She used it. We also had a washing machine that we kept in the pantry at Parkside, rolled it out on Monday, wash day. It was a large tub on wheels,had a hand wringer attachment that you would not want to kept a finger caught in, a twist cap for the drain and a motor that did some sort of agitation but I'm not certain. I think it had a garden hose on the drain bib. I don't remember doing any laundry in the winter, I thing we took them to a laundrymat on Keowee Street, rows of front loader washers and some dryers. The clothes smelled so good when we were carrying them home. I don't know when showers were invented but Parkside had a bathtub only. McGuffy Homes had small bathrooms and only a shower. Later when we lived on west Grand at Rosedale or on Lexington a block west of Broadway, we did not have showers there eight, those old 2 story homes were built around 1925. The one on Lexington didn't have a automatic hot water heater, had to light a fire under a tank and wait for hot water.
Keugene48 171 posts Jun 29, 2011 8:05 AM	rodat6, it was so interesting to read your post. Please consider posting it to the Once Upon a Time, it fits so well that category. Times were hard but families worked together and loved each other and that made all the difference.
CLee 12 posts Jun 29, 2011 3:00 PM	Horse shoe taps and trench coats for the coolll guys:) Ok they were called hoods but they looked cool to a 14 year old Freshman girl.
mjr1960 44 posts Jun 30, 2011 4:11 PM	Cash Emburgy commercials, Come on down to Cash's big bargain barn in south Lebanon Ohio where this week we have a sale on avocado stoves (thats green down in kentucky) and say hello to Mary lou on the tractor. Save Cash with cash!! Wow I remember that like yesterday. lol
AllenN71 245 posts Jun 30, 2011 4:41 PM	DIPPITY DO? Oh good Lord I had all but forgotten about that cheesy stuff. Someone should resurrect that stuff, it would be much in demand with the "spiky Mohawk" crowd (but you'd have to call it something else, no self-respecting skateboarder would let folks know he used something called "Dippity Do")
mjr1960 45 posts Jun 30, 2011 4:52 PM	Well, My mistake its Kash Amburgy.
mjr1960 47 posts Jun 30, 2011 5:56 PM	And last but not least for today, The days when your teenage son or daughter can get a part time job that consisted of 30 to 40 hours a week, The days when local chain establishments were managed by 40ish adults. This subject really bites hard. Not only are jobs hard to find for them but when they do get one the manage ment will work them 4 hours on a tuesday and not agian until thursday of the next week. Answer is that they hire 4 people for each tme slot, so if one person whooses out of their shift they still got it covered. Where is the NON college youngins supposed to learn responsibility commitment etc. We all cant go to college.
Keugene48 173 posts Jul 10, 2011 11:55 AM	I was going to post about the little one-serving size cereal in the variety packs you used to see in the grocery stores. But then I saw one in a convience store in Kentucky on my way back from vacation. Guess I just haven't looked hard enough.
AllenN71 255 posts Jul 10, 2011 2:36 PM	The Bookmobile. It really made the gift of reading something to be looked forward to, something special. There is something to be said for making reading a gift that would arrive on a certain day, and be looked forward to. Even with branch libraries operating in almost every little burg in the Miami Valley, still it seems to me that the younguns in, say, grades 2-5 ought to experience the joys of reading as something to be looked forward to, that would arrive on a certain day, that is to be planned for. I for one looked forward to the arrival of the Bookmobile quite as eagerly as I listened to the bells of the ice-cream vendor. And perhaps a bit more. If there is anything more basic to attaining knowledge than reading, I'd like to know what it is. The Bookmobile instilled a passion for reading in me (and others) that has served me well to this day.
delcodude 179 posts Jul 12, 2011 4:36 PM	Don't forget Popeil's Pocket Fisherman. You never know when the situation may present itself. And Ronco's Veg-o-matic was responsible for one so-so comedian making it big with his sledge-o-matic.
cilla46 57 posts Jul 13, 2011 11:56 AM	Pegged pants and Ducktail haircuts.....My brothers were so cool!! Static cover for a TV to make it color...like that worked...! Floor model radios Party line phones Western series on TV
rodat6 175 posts Jul 13, 2011 8:19 PM	Emergency pull handles for Fire Emergencies, coated with phosphorus on poles, painted red. Never pulled one, never really wanted to. I did wear pegged pants, I made my own having learned sewing machines at McGuffy, 8th grade in Home Economics. It was great, we made an apron, a duffel bag with a round bottom and in cooking we made coffee cake. I also had a DA haircut and wore chuckle boots with Cuban heels. I also carried a church key and a dog choke collar but never used either to hurt anyone. I got out of fighting in grade school. Another thing that's gone is sitting in the doctors office smoking a cigarette and the doctor coming out smoking one. Finding cigarette butts on the floor all over the supermarkets and banks, everywhere except in oxygen rooms, lol. Were you allowed to smoke on airplanes? I forget.
DebCB 66 posts Jul 13, 2011 11:30 PM	rodat6....Being an ex-smoker, I remember that there was smoking on airplanes into the early 70s. But only in certain rows. All the same recirculated air. So glad I quit a long time ago.
KennyE11 53 posts Jul 14, 2011 12:04 AM	cilla46 - "Western series on TV" are not necessarily gone forever. Hollywood goes in cycles, and hopefully TV Westerns will be in vogue once again. Hollywood still occasionally makes (or re-makes) Westerns for theatrical release (e.g. "True Grit", "3:10 to Yuma"), and HBO had the excellent "Deadwood" series not that long ago. Keep up hope for the good old days...
cilla46 58 posts Jul 14, 2011 7:34 AM	KennyE11....You are correct about the remakes and hopefully about westerns coming back to TV! At our house we watch all the old shows...Gunsmoke,Cheyenne,Have Gun Will Travel,Rifleman,Maverick,Bonanza,The Virginian,Lawman and any others my husband can find on cable.He was born in the wrong century!
KennyE11 54 posts Jul 14, 2011 10:45 PM	cilla46 - I've often felt like I was born in the wrong century myself. My lifelong love of old westerns led to my recent trip through the Western U.S., where I visited a number of old forts, battlefields, and National Parks where many western movies were filmed.
rodat6 177 posts Jul 16, 2011 9:45 AM	There is a cigarette commercial that was made and shown in 1952, the tobacco industry were serious about creating as many addicts as possible which in retrospect is a criminal act. The title of the commercial and it's still on Youtube is, Most doctors Prefer Camels. The commercial starts off with a doctor going to a house call in his automobile, the shot is from the rear and it's winter time, there is a big puff of smoke coming from the tailpipe as the car leaves. Inside the doctor/actor lights a Camel using the lighter in the dash. The last 30 seconds of the commercial is a foxy looking woman in a evening dress and a big smile while puffing away giving that 'yes you can have me' look. There is also a Flintstones Winston commercial designed for kids and it also demeans females in a big way. In comparison going through a human life as a female compared to a male, is like females have the pain is gain influence while males use the might is right idea. The alcohol industry is doing the same thing along with the caffeine people which would be coffee or a soda pop that contains the highly addictive substance. Coke was the gateway drug for us kids, look at some of the early Coke commercials if you can find them. They basically showed us how much pep and energy we would have and how happy we would be by drinking their product which is about the same as beer and whiskey commercials of today as well as yesterday. The ad industry has a job to create as many addicts as possible for their client. Now we are being hit with pill commercial where they gloss over the side effects like, "may cause sudden instant death or suicide", all done with a smile as if that would be perfectly normal and natural. I lucked out, I quit smoking cigarettes after pretty much sleeping for 6 weeks at which time I did not have a memory connection to my human brain. When I first began stroking I was trying to get a cigarette going and was not very happy that I could not and after regaining my memory at 6 weeks and waking up, I didn't want a smoke. It was worth it, the last smoke I had was 7 years ago almost to the day.
rodat6 178 posts Jul 16, 2011 9:48 AM	When was the last time you picked up a phone and dialed 0?
delcodude 180 posts Jul 18, 2011 7:36 AM	^^^Winston tastes good 'like' a cigarette should. Do you want good grammar or good taste?^^^
Nile 26 posts Jul 20, 2011 10:07 PM	Running lights. They were lights, a single one, that was mounted in the grillwork and would be on in the daytime. My Dad had one and I thought, "How stupid". If you needed one of those to show other drivers that there is a car there then they shouldn't be driving. I told Dad it looked dorky.
Sweetpea46 15 posts Jul 22, 2011 7:18 AM	I have not been here in a while but I so enjoyed reading about all the things we no longer have or use! lol Every time I thought of something it would be mentioned in the next few posts. It was nice to remember. When I was 15 I remember taking my transistor radio to bed but I had an earpiece so as not to wake up the feared all hearing & seeing Daddy!!!
KennyE11 60 posts Jul 23, 2011 12:43 AM	Sweetpea - When I was a little younger than you were, I too used to go to bed with my transistor radio and earpiece, listening to Cincinnati Reds games. I remember listening to games with Al Michaels doing the broadcast with Joe Nuxhall, prior to Marty Brennaman joining the broadcast team.
Mike80 14 posts Jul 23, 2011 5:32 AM	Add my name to the list of transistor radio heads!! I can remember many nights listening to the Reds or Jim LaBarbra "The Music Professor" on WLW. Listening to Marty and Joe for Reds games was priceless. So many great games by those two. And what does that have to do with Going, going, gone? Here's just an example... "The ATT Reds lineup". "That home run was sponsored by Stacy Storage and Moving". "The Blue Chip Highlight of the Game" The advertising has taken the place of the game itself. I guess this is one of the reasons I no longer listen to the games when I am on the road.
Sweetpea46 17 posts Jul 23, 2011 6:34 PM	Well, at that time I was not a sports fan...just music. But WSM in Nashville was the only thing you could get late at night or early morning hours. I can't remember if WING went off at midnight or my transistor wouldn't pick it up. Transistors were kind of fickle, you had to be angled and turned just right or you got nothing! But I didn't care, I was a teenager, wide awake and nothing to do but listen so I did! I love Oldies and Classic Country!
driver62 375 posts Jul 24, 2011 6:34 AM	I'm dating myself but I remember being in bed listening to Waite Hoyt broadcast the Reds games. I loved rain delays as he would always tell stories about his days with the Yankees back in the 20's.
Sweetpea46 18 posts Jul 25, 2011 4:20 AM	My girlfriends online used to post a few lyrics in a song and see who could get the next line...no googling allowed! That was fun and I won a lot! With kids and grandkids and not listening as much, I have probably forgotten quite a bit!
roge 115 posts Jul 25, 2011 1:24 PM	Driving by the Hewitt Soap Company on Linden Ave and smelling that soap smell....Those wooden airpanes in a little package that you put together in five minutes and threw in the vair and watched them glide sometimes right into the wind shield of a car......those 10 cent kites
AllenN71 265 posts Jul 25, 2011 3:19 PM	When I was a kid it was possible to walk unimpeded from the intersection of Chesham Drive and Tomberg in Huber all the way across the Wayne campus to Chambersburg Road. Back in 1964 or so, it was just an overgrown meadow with lots of milkweed. One night when I was 10 or 11 I got curious as to what the dawn looked like, so I slipped out and walked through there, flushing ground-nesting birds along the way. There was a huge mound of dirt piled about 50 yards from the creek on the west end of the property that we called "Flint Hill", where we dug and found stuff like knives and tobacco pipes and even one time, a beat up old wallet with some deteriorated money in it. This dirt was of course what the construction crews had dug up during the building of Wayne HS and the "treasures" were stuff that had been dropped by the construction crews and other people who had been at one time or another present on the land. Along the creek, (which we all called "Six-Mile Crick" but now I am alternately told is really called "Honey" or "Mud" Creek) there were the mossy remnants of stone buildings of some sort - I am guessing a mill. In a couple of places, the water was deep enough to form - well, imagine a kid's inflatable swimming pool five feet deep. Kind of a mini-swimming-hole. I suppose they were excavations for a mill-race of some sort. To the west, the creek was closed off by a wire fence where it flowed under Troy Pike. On the East, where it went under Chambersburg it was closed off by barbed wire before it flowed by the Annarino estate. Further upstream, the creek ran through Huber Community Park. Back in the day, the banks sloped gently and the water was easily accessed from the footpaths through the brush. The last time I saw things in this condition was the summer of 1971. After that, coming home meant spending time in the house with family and going out to the drive ins or maybe the Air Force Museum. When I finally decided to explore my old stomping grounds after my Dad's funeral, I was astonished. A chain-link fence bars foot trafic from the west side of the Wayne campus, and the creek now flows through a five-foot deep ravine. Evidently 48 years of storm runoff had done their damage. I think the last straw must have been the establishment of Studebaker MS and its grounds on the north bank. The hills have been replaced by a slope leading straight down to the creek. All that runoff helped carve out the ravine, and the water is devoid of the minnows, water striders and crayfish that used to be so common. I wonder what my high school best friend Mike Usas, whose father Tony kept most of his property as a sort of private nature sanctuary, thinks about this. Mike lived almost smack-dab where the Huber Wal-Mart is now, and I think he and his brothers sold the place when they inherited it. And I like to think that the easement for a wildlife sanctuary in back of the place was Mike's idea. Last time I saw Mike was over 25 years ago. I'm pretty sure he knows what has happened here, and he did his bit to ensure that the wild places around Huber might be going; but so far as he was able to ensure it they would never be gone.
driver62 376 posts Aug 01, 2011 6:58 AM	I think they might still make pogo sticks. A young girl who lives down the street is always outside bouncing on one. I still have one in my basement that we bought for the kids many years ago.
AllenN71 270 posts Aug 01, 2011 1:28 PM	Pogo sticks, skateboards and scooters: I couldn't ride any of them decently because I am slightly bow-legged and it messes with my center of gravity. Ditto inline skates. But scooters, well. You know how they came out with those metal "Razor" 2-wheel kid's scooters a few years ago and marked them to adults? ADULTS! IMHO anyone over the age of about 12 looks completely ridiculous on a kid's scooter, high tech or no. Once I saw a guy in his late 20s on one and yelled for him to hurry 'cause the ice cream truck was leaving. He turned redder than a stop sign, and I never saw him on that thing again. I remember exactly how old I was when I realized I was too old to play with kid's toys. I was about a week shy of 13 and I bought a "Man from U.N.C.L.E." gun kit, with the extended magazine and barrel and detachable shoulder stock, etc; it was pretty neat. But as I was opening it I realized that I had basically smuggled it all the way home. Face it, even in that day, showing off a toy gun was not the way to make friends with a - ulp - girl. So I gave it to my kid brother, who immediately got suspicious about my motives and started asking questions, with blackmail aforethought. Then my Mom found out and there was this whole big kerfluffle about what was I trying to bribe my kid brother to cover up. I finally admitted that I had just realized I was too old to be playing cops and robbers, and Dad just said, "yeah, you are" and that ended that. My bro enjoyed the gun kit and it got all busted up during some of his roughhousing with his pals. I wish I had just kept the thing unopened in my closet. Do you realize how much some people would pay for that today??
Sweetpea46 19 posts Aug 01, 2011 6:00 PM	Memories...my husband and I were at the grand opening of the Southland 75 Drive in! It must have been late fall of 1964 because we were married the next summer. I got a rose for being one of the first 25 cars or something like that and we were there the night it closed as well! They had to make way for more stores!!!
Sweetpea46 20 posts Aug 01, 2011 7:33 PM	Yes, it certainly has! My husbands grandparents home was on the corner of 741 and Lyons Rd. PNC bank is there now it was National City Mortgage. You could leave their driveway and go straight across to Lyons Rd. They even changed that entrance before they put in the drive-in. I'm still down on the south end of town by the Dayton Mall so I have seen the change and the mall was the beginning of it. But believe it or not there is still a lot of country down here and I love the country.
newsnot 269 posts Aug 04, 2011 8:26 AM	remember those hand held little plastic caculators that would help you add up your grocery purchases as you went thru the store. they had three plastic buttons to push down.

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