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Originally Posted by Chitown
Does anyone remember when we were young and most of the families on the block sat outside on the front porch. The parents would be on the porch and the kids would be playing Red light green light yellow light stop, Ollie Ollie ocean free, Marco Polo, it, the girls played hop scotch, Red Rover. And of course the Good Humor Man. The Good Humor Bar, Chocolate Eclair, coconut bar, fudge sickle, or my favorite the X15 popsicle shaped like a space ship. Sunday nights watching television. Ed Sullivan. Gun smoke, the man from UNCLE, Get smart. And since you couldn’t afford a color tv you bought the multi colored plastic cover for your black and white tv. Can anyone else share childhood memories?
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Yes, grandpa came to live with us and after school grandpa and I would sit and chat while we each petted a cat on our lap. I still get a good feeling thinking about it. We could ride the buses or walk all over the city without fear of anything ...we’ll perhaps loose big dogs now and then. We had paper routes, helped in the home and respected our neighbors. We were not perfect but by comparison to today, it seems like a wonderful dream. We lived in a mixed cultural neighborhood and no one was rich. If someone was Polish, Jewish, black, we would say that meaning nothing negative and they would call us Irish and make good-humored fun...and we new it was just fun as we loved each other, needed each other. I can’t remember any over-riding group trying to make trouble or get rich. We had unions, people disagreed, got angry, got over it and continued on.