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mntlblok 03-20-2024 08:31 AM
Baseball cards
 
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Walking to Ben Franklin’s 5 and dime to get wax candy or baseball cards. Then going next door to Lawton’s to get a drink.
Reminds me of the big day when the two six packs of empty coke bottles hanging on my handle bars yielded *three* Mickey Mantle baseball cards! Made me oddly concerned that I'd now never be able to get that bike back across Manslick Road without being struck by a car.

PugMom 03-20-2024 09:03 AM
getting a lemon ice from Vechittos' and watching fourth of July fireworks from the Portland Bridge.

PugMom 03-20-2024 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by BigDawgInLakeDenham (Post 2311518)
The day JFK was shot
The day MLK was shot
My brother going to Viet Nam
The day RFK was shot
The day George Wallace was shot

They are all with God and praying for us

Lord, what a violent country
sending a virtual hug.

PugMom 03-20-2024 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by margaretmattson (Post 2311624)
That is my point. It was so commonplace back then that everyone thought it was funny. Test it yourself and watch some of the older shows with your grandkids. You will find it difficult to explain why it was acceptable.
because Don Rickles delivery was too funny to take offense. he jabbed everybody & was almost 'lovable' in the way he went about it. but things WERE different then: it was tougher to offend people as they were more apt to take a joke. today it seems everybody is offended by everything :shrug: it doesn't mean you hate them, it means we can laugh together-- it wasn't to make someone uncomfortable, we laughed with them, not @ them

PugMom 03-20-2024 09:16 AM
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- Walking 1 1/2 mile to school, taking a shortcut through a little wood that was so magical to me.
- Crazy snowstorms that made the doors completely inaccessible so we had to get out through the kitchen window, no school but lots of shovelling!
- Watching The Flintstones, cartoons, Walt Disney.
- Playing records and writing out the words so I'd be able to memorize them.
- Camping trips to the Atlantic coast.
- Skiing in Quebec and Vermont
- Watching color TV for the first time
- Watching Nadia Comanici's perfect 10. WHAT A GYMNAST!
- The first steps on the moon.
- Getting to wear a tutu for my first ballet recital.
- Swimming ALL DAY until my fingers and toes turned into prunes.
- Picking fresh blueberries in the forest near our house and having a pie made from them by mom. YUM
if i didn't know better, i'd say we grew up in the same house! :MOJE_whot:

mntlblok 03-20-2024 09:22 AM
Sleuth work
 
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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2313451)
getting a lemon ice from Vechittos' and watching fourth of July fireworks from the Portland Bridge.

"Lemon ice" was not a term that was heard where I grew up. A fun summer in Cherry Hill, NJ, however, introduced me to something called an "Italian water ice", IIRC. The one I tried was, indeed, of the lemon variety. I thus narrowed down my speculation for which "Portland Bridge" might be getting referenced. Am therefore guessing this one. :-) Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge – DRJTBC

Velvet 03-20-2024 09:46 AM
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I think of things on TV programs, sexist things, racist things, dumb things, mocking things, something to "hit" everyone, and we all just laughed, did not take each word in a TV show as some personal assault or insult... we laughed, like it was no different than an live comedy show where the comedian targets every group in the audience from seniors to clergy to teens, people then did not sit there just waiting for an opportunity to jump up and be "insulted". NOW .... that's the name of the game !
Perhaps there was less awareness of empathy, and mental health? I am thinking back to the dark ages when war was a daily fact of life and impalement was a regular form punishment. Each age has its values and those values seem to be constantly “evolving”. For the better, or for the worse?

PugMom 03-20-2024 09:52 AM
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My favorite childhood memory was when my back didn't hurt.
:beer3:

PugMom 03-20-2024 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by mntlblok (Post 2313467)
"Lemon ice" was not a term that was heard where I grew up. A fun summer in Cherry Hill, NJ, however, introduced me to something called an "Italian water ice", IIRC. The one I tried was, indeed, of the lemon variety. I thus narrowed down my speculation for which "Portland Bridge" might be getting referenced. Am therefore guessing this one. :-) Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge – DRJTBC
apologize for not being more specific. i grew up in Ct., & Vecchioto's was a local institution. an italian family devoting themselves to making us kids happy with flavored ice & REAL gelato. they had maybe 2 stores, the one near me was Middletown. OBB would most likely remember where the other one is, they are still open today!

Shipping up to Boston 03-20-2024 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2313496)
apologize for not being more specific. i grew up in Ct., & Vecchioto's was a local institution. an italian family devoting themselves to making us kids happy with flavored ice & REAL gelato. they had maybe 2 stores, the one near me was Middletown. OBB would most likely remember where the other one is, they are still open today!
Where I grew up its called slush. Richies Italian. An Everett MA institution that operates out of a tiny retail space adjacent to Encore Casino. Retail and wholesale. Theres my shameless plug ;)

Two Bills 03-20-2024 11:41 AM
Being a drummer in our local Boys Brigade Bugle Band.
No one slept in on the first Sunday of the month when we paraded.
I wanted to be a bugler, but I had 'buck teeth' and my mother thought blowing a bugle would make them worse.
Left me as a lifelong 'finger tapper' which now drives everyone mad!

PugMom 03-20-2024 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston (Post 2313538)
Where I grew up its called slush. Richies Italian. An Everett MA institution that operates out of a tiny retail space adjacent to Encore Casino. Retail and wholesale. Theres my shameless plug ;)
do you have a Rita's there too? They were booming when we left.

Shipping up to Boston 03-20-2024 03:09 PM
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do you have a Rita's there too? They were booming when we left.
The catering company?
Not sure. The casino is buying up everything within a breath of their parcel and developers are throwing up 600 unit apt complexes everywhere else in area

PugMom 03-20-2024 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston (Post 2313608)
The catering company?
Not sure. The casino is buying up everything within a breath of their parcel and developers are throwing up 600 unit apt complexes everywhere else in area
no, it was a flavored ice store, kind of like Jeremiah's over on 466a

Shipping up to Boston 03-20-2024 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2313614)
no, it was a flavored ice store, kind of like Jeremiah's over on 466a
Hmmm...doesn’t ring a bell.

Taltarzac725 03-20-2024 09:50 PM
I took off at age three-and-a-half when they brought my new younger brother home. Got on that tricycle and went about a mile up to a park where a cop eventually found me and brought me back from Killer Hill. Just a lump though outside of a suburb of Milwaukee.

That was my first ride in a cop car.

mntlblok 03-21-2024 01:26 AM
Memory
 
Just came across this childhood memory related article. This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went Tricky stuff. It's complicated.

BrianL99 03-21-2024 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2313602)
do you have a Rita's there too? They were booming when we left.

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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2313614)
no, it was a flavored ice store, kind of like Jeremiah's over on 466a
Rita's is in Chelsea, on Everett Ave.

BrianL99 03-21-2024 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston (Post 2313538)
Where I grew up its called slush. Richies Italian. An Everett MA institution that operates out of a tiny retail space adjacent to Encore Casino. Retail and wholesale. Theres my shameless plug ;)
At one of the Country Clubs I belonged to, we served Richie's at the half-way house. There's nothing that will cure the shame of a double-bogie on a hot summer's day, better than a Richie's Watermelon Classic Italian Ice.

Shipping up to Boston 03-21-2024 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2313829)
At one of the Country Clubs I belonged to, we served Richie's at the half-way house. There's nothing that will cure the shame of a double-bogie on a hot summer's day, better than a Richie's Watermelon Classic Italian Ice.
I played a course in Myrtle Beach years ago that served fish chowder at the back nine. Strange choice of fare on a hot, humid round. But then again, I can't explain why people rush out to supermarkets to buy milk when a storm prediction is for power loss

BrianL99 03-21-2024 09:01 AM
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I played a course in Myrtle Beach years ago that served fish chowder at the back nine. Strange choice of fare on a hot, humid round. But then again, I can't explain why people rush out to supermarkets to buy milk when a storm prediction is for power loss
2018 World Series. Of course, when it's 33 degrees in the stands in Fenway, the menu has to change.

Shipping up to Boston 03-21-2024 09:39 AM
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2018 World Series. Of course, when it's 33 degrees in the stands in Fenway, the menu has to change.
Agree Mr Berkowitz! ;)


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