I was on Ranger Andy with my Cub Scout den. I was elected to stand up and give the troop and den number info. At school the next day, I was a star! It was all downhill from there.
There was a jingle on the radio: "Yoo-Hoo for you-u-u, it's Yogi Berra's favorite drink."
I remember most of these from the radio. (TV was a disappointment when I saw them.) Sky King's niece and nephew were Penny and Clipper, and his 2-engine Cessna was the Songbird. Cisco's sidekick was Pancho. The Lone Ranger's nephew (son of the Ranger's slain brother) was Dan Reed, who was sent to school back east (presumably Harvard), and later had a son (Britt Reed), who became a newspaper publisher and was secretly known as the crimefighting Green Hornet. Each show would end with the newspaper boy hawking on the street -- "Extra, extra, read all about it: Police capture bank robbers, Green Hornet still at large." Gene Autry was my favorite cowboy. At the end of each show, he would urge his listeners to chew "delicious, refreshing, doublemint chewing gum, . . . until we're back in the saddle again . . ."
I still have a Flexible Flyer sled in my garage. They were the best. My first "English" bike with hand brakes and gears was a Raleigh.
Before bell bottoms, we had Madras shirts and white Levi jeans. (High School circa 1965)
Maybe it was 4 cents.
My mother and grandmother had tickets to the circus the day of the fire, but they for some reason decided to go to the movies instead. To this day my mom doesn't know why they choose the movies, but it was a very lucky choice. My mom is 97.
My mother and aunt (who was visiting from Wisconsin) were going to take me but that day, for some reason, they decided not to go.
The Saturday afternoon Matinee at the Capital Theatre in Willimantic just before the start of the school year- 25 cents, cartoons, a "serial," the movie and a "pen and pencil set." It was a cardboard box that contained items for school- pencils, erasers, wooden ruler, etc. I think that it was a remnant of the depression when parents didn't have the money to pay for both a special treat movie and buy the necessary school supplies for their kids.
The Barnam and Bailey was outside of Willimantic in a tent just before that fire. I went to it and sat at one end of the massive tent looking at the three rings, one behind the other from my position (it was a "three ring circus.") There were acts in all three simultaneously, on the ground and in the air, with the elephants being walked around the perimeter. It was amazing.
I prefer the Doublemint twins.
You mean "bleeding" madras shirts?
I scored a 12 - I'm gettin' there!
Me too.
The blue prints used for the construction of I-95 from Bridgeport to Greenwich. I can remember the Q bridge being built back in the 50’s. My brother and sister can remember them blasting the tunnel through West Rock.
