I sure do remember McCrorys but not neisners. Flying kites and making hot chocolate with Ovaltine and cocoa powder.
I made a big mistake on the year of that Chevelle. No way could we afford a car only 2 yr.s old. haha. So it had to have been at least before 1965. It was 1969 when I rolled it over.
I loved the candy stores on many corners. Pulling taffy in the windows. Smell candy all over the n-hood.
I've gto to come back here tomorrow and finishing reading all these great memories. See yall tomorrow ,I hope,lol.
This is one I miss the most. Of course ' in my case ' there are not many movies I care to watch now. Family diners and get together's.Big roomy cars. Loved them Lincoln Continental's.
A mile from my parents home was a drive in movie. We got the idea we could stay warmer by taking cardboard boxes and getting into larger ones and wear heavy clothing and enjoy the movie. Worked until I got too big. Somebody cut an opening in the chain link fence to enter. Things kids do that we thought was fun. LOL
I remember going to see a lot of Disney movies et al, at the drive in, when I was very young. Even by the mid 70s, many drive ins around Los Angeles were being converted for uses like swap meets. But in fact the last drive in I visited was around 1992. It was torn down not long after that. I don't even remember what we saw but do remember that it really sucked! LOL! Those speakers were terrible. Strange aside: When I was about 16, I went with some older friends to the drive in. I was walking to the snack bar when I heard three bullets whiz right by my head, with the sound of the distant gun shots after. And I was certain about it because I had been around guns since I was about 5 years old. I told some people but they just looked at me like I was nuts.
And back when I was young, we still had the grand theaters. There was one nearby was YUUUUUUUUGE! I could only guess now how big but you don't see places like that anymore. The screen was so big that years later they broke it up into I think 5 different theaters. We also had a couple of smaller theaters nearby. But both were still seemingly majestic in the style of the 40s and 50s. As a young boy we did the Saturday Matinees every week in the summer.
I remember lawnmowers that you could walk away from and they would stay running. Not today’s crap that requires you to hold the lever down.
Murphy's 5 and 10 cent stores were pretty cool. I think they had an unbelievable selection of products. That was the top place to buy records.
Lucky you. I really enjoyed drive in. You could take the kids or just go sit in your own car.I don't like inside theatre's anymore. Chewing gum wrappers with cartoons inside wrapper. Mens hair cremes like Vitalis
We however have some excellent indoor movie theateres. I am a mile from an IMAX. Been a very long time since I saw an outdoor theater. Wait, were they really theaters given we watched movies from inside our cars as adults? Were our cardboard boxes theaters when I was a young kid?
I remember using this when I was very young. It was super-thick Vaseline! LOL! My dad had a crew cut and he used it. But then came "the dry look" and the wet head was dead!
Been there and done that myself when growing up. Always remember the testing of the air raid sirens on the last Friday of every month. Duck and cover... cawing under the desk staring at little Suzy rotten crotch panties. Girls always wore clean underwear on the lat Friday of every month. The Democrats wanted to restart the "Cold War"...get use to it.
