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I remember a television was something special, and only about half the folks i knew had one. You were high falootin if you had a Color T.V. or a real stereo! We had a consol black and white t.v. abiut 12 inches. Our Rotory phones had a special counter and a diladex with all phone numbers and addresses hand written! Listening to Paul Harvey on an old A.M. radio ( made of bakelite) every morning while eating a real breakfast made by GrandMom. Walking to school and walking to the park after school. Shallow wading pool in the park was where it was at middle summer, and we didnt have child molesters and drug dealers around. 5 pm had the steady stream of Loaded Logging trucks rumbling through town for the last run to the mill of the day! Ridding around in a log truck and watching out for Smokey the Bear, taking up collections from all the log truck drivers for the one guy to "Run the Scales" and distract the truck cops so all the other over loaded log trucks could sneak by, got paid in cash at the end of the day!
Sneaking all the kids in the back of the biggest car we could borrow and sneaking in to the drive in! Having neighborhood football games, baseball, or wrastlin matches, settling things with boxing gloves and a hand shake after. Big hunk candy bars for .10 cents, Pop Shop soda by the crate, (Black Cherry was my favorit) and the Organ Grinder pizza place! The Sandy Bar flea market, Saterday wrestling matches live or on T.V.
Yea, we had it good!
Sneaking all the kids in the back of the biggest car we could borrow and sneaking in to the drive in! Having neighborhood football games, baseball, or wrastlin matches, settling things with boxing gloves and a hand shake after. Big hunk candy bars for .10 cents, Pop Shop soda by the crate, (Black Cherry was my favorit) and the Organ Grinder pizza place! The Sandy Bar flea market, Saterday wrestling matches live or on T.V.
Yea, we had it good!