Remember when

K-Mart was the big spin off of the S S Kresgee stores, a “dime” store.

 

O Yea Kresses and Woolworth were next to each other And Scarborough's drug store with grill and soda fountain mmmmmmm cheeseburger & rootbeer

 

I remember all the green porcelain equipment at the soda fountain, the mixer thingy that could mix two at once.

 

I could walk around and find coke bottles to sell 3 cents for regular size a nickel for family size and get enough change to go shopping buy some Tareyton cigarettes for 27 cents " I would rather fight than switch" was the commercial

 

Coke bottle was a little green, Pepsi was clear. Penny a piece deposit, $$$$

 

Thats right it was 1 penny for a bottle and 3cents for family size, thanks all coming back now slowly like everything else and those great wooden crates for the bottles were cool

 

Wish I had one of the old metal ones

 

Remember the coke machines that dropped the paper cup, then ice and the syrup and carbonated water? Sometimes the cup wouldn’t drop and you just stand there watch your drink go down the drain!! We had one in Jr high

 

Ah yes...laundry basket, shelf building material, end tables. Multiple uses for milk crates. And great in the shop until the bottom fell out.

 

You couldn't get one of these?

650cc Yamaha

 

Those were urban myths!

 

We were better off. I engage in Amazon avoidance to the extreme.

 

For some reason, I loved that mine because it had a throttle on the handle unlike my father's which was vacuum operated, if I recall correctly. I knew for sure that mine had more power, Tim Taylor. I was cool - back when.

 

By the time Iwas legal to drink in PA 21 .

I had pretty much quit drinking for good .

I never cared for the taste of Beer I was told it tasted better if you smoked which I never did.

2 bad hangovers out with my coworkers after the end of 2 finished jobs cured me of drinking but for a taste of Home made wine now and then.

 

I still have night mares of when that light went off right above me.

I have been around Cattle getting spooked and running off .

This was far worse. Elephants maybe the floor shook from the charging Hoards .

How normal (??)people could be changed so much by a flashing blue light is scary.

 

I cobbled bicycles together from the neighbors busted parts.

Once I was big enough to saddle the horse I went every place on Horse back

The thing was all my closest friends were Girls with horses.

 

Me too...Oh wait...

 

Same here. I didn't know that chain was disappearing too.

 

Like almost everything else (except Walmart) I think online shopping is killing them.

 

I think they were called a "Slo-Gin Fizz". I never drank it/them.