Ah yes, so much more popping back ito memory now. And, if you ain't never heard of sen-sen, you're young..
I was born in 1940, so I was there for more than most of you, and can still remember a lot of it. I rember the litle round ration things from the war; and my old man alkng up the drive in his uiform with his duffle bag on his shoulder, after he walked about a mile from the tracks
- no station there, the train crews did things like that for the military guys back then.
I rember 2 cants for soda bottle, and 5 cents for the big ones. Loved blackjack gum, but haven't seen that in years, I'd probably still get some once in awhile. Spruce beer, birch beer, and ginger beer - I know they probably still make th em just haven't seen any in years. And ginger beer is NOT ginger ale. I don't quite recall what .22s cost, but know I usually bought shorts because they were a bit less, longs if I had some extra, and long rifles if I eally felt wealthy.. Paper covered licorice "cigarettes". I remember the candy cigarettes too, but licorice has always been my favorite candy. I remember my great-gaandmother making corncob syrup - clean dry corncobs boiled with sugar, no ide where the recipe came from but the syrup on pancakes was great.
I rember collecting coke bottle that came from different parts of the world too. Arabis lettering at times, others that looked like a regular coke bottle, until you looked at the bottom and it would say what country it came from.
Baby Ruth candy bars for a nickle, and the really big ones for a quarter. A nickle could usually be spared, but not so often a quarter. And Turkish taffy, that was so sweet it would almost make you sick - I don't know if that's still around or not, and don't really care. Chocolate malted milk shakes for a quarter, and once you'd drank it down a few inches, the guy would pur the rest of it in your glass. Soda fountains in the drug store, where you could get a glass of root beer for a nickle.
We never saw any fireflys in MI, but down here I have them in my front yard in the summer.
I remember RC Cola, but haven't seen that for a long time. And, moon pies, also not seen. I never could see the reason for combining the two, but would still have a moon pie and an RC Cola every once in awhile. I used to put a pack of peanuts in my bottle of Pepsi too. Plastic bottle just aren't quite the same as a glass bottle you would set aside and later turn in at your local grocery store to get the two cent deposit back.
Some things it's good to remeber, and some things technology should h ave left alone.
And how many of you remember going thru a cow pasture - barefoot? Been there, done that. Some things are good to remember, but not enough so to repeat. LOL
JOAT When in doubt, go to sleep.
- Mully Small