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One of my summer jobs during college was as the "runner" on a milk truck. We loaded up the milk,eggs,and butter at 3 AM(that huge freezer was so cold at that hour). I would load up each order in the metal hand carrier , and hoof it up to the front door. Great way to get in shape!
 
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Butch Wax! Wow! Wild Bill was my barber; 5 minutes was all he took to run that clipper over my head. Early on that wax was critical. I was probably 30 when I finally let my hair grow.
 

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One of my summer jobs during college was as the "runner" on a milk truck. We loaded up the milk,eggs,and butter at 3 AM(that huge freezer was so cold at that hour). I would load up each order in the metal hand carrier , and hoof it up to the front door. Great way to get in shape!
I had the opposite problem. I had a summer job in a printing place. The propane dryers ran at about 800 degrees and the ink wouldn’t dry properly if the place was air conditioned. Hottest that I remember was 142. I dropped about 20 lb and 2” off my waist. I learned what dehydration feels like and discovered salt tablets.
 
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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.
Wow,yes, the old "English Racer"! Got mine at xmas, probably 1952; went right out with it on the snow and ice. I put thousands of miles on that bike.
 
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How many of you have ever ridden in a rumble seat or stood on a running board?

I must admit I do not remember Black Jack gum. But then I did not pay any attention to the brand except to the double bubble kids commercial. How about the small coke bottles you bought out of the machine for 5 cents. Or how many of you ever had a Winky Dink set? I did not care for Howdy Doody. He looked too weird ( kind of the Chucky of his era ) and Clarabell and Mr Bluster were just too bazear for my taste. The same went for Pinky Lee who was just plum crazy.

Who ever remembers talking through cans connected by string?
Rode many miles in the rumble seat of my uncle's Ford.
 

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A little shaky on the 1st three; then 100%

But I'm only 85 in July, I imagine some, much older
But still playing a half hour of BB every day, hitting quite a few 15-footers and just booked January in the Dolomiti ski region.

It all has to come to an end at some point...but not yet.
 

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"Plunk your magic twanger Froggy"! Just saw a video of Andy Devine summoning Froggy.
I used to hear Froggy the Gremlin on a Saturday radio show ...Was it, "No school today?"

Howdy doody, Claribel and Buffalo Bob

Carl Braun, "Sweetwater" Clifton and Harry "the horse" on the Knicks...Couz, Sharman and Easy Ed on Boston; Bobby Wanzer on the Rochester Royals...

"Victory at Sea" and "Omnibus" on TV

Mary Martin in the latest Rodgers and Hammerstein on B'way.

Stickball and curb ball in the Bronx

Olinville 5-4050 our telly number
Joe D, "Country" Slaughter, Johnny Mike, Scooter, King Kong Keller and ":Flash" Gordon on the Yanks

And the "breakenest" curve I ever saw from Sal "the Barber."
 
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How about "The Hap Richards Show"? Were you a citizen of Joyville? I was . . . sort of.

Also, I'm surprised that so many people don't remember Black Jack gum. It was made by Adams along with Clove, Beeman's and my personal favorite -- Teaberry. And no, I could not do the Teaberry Shuffle. :oops:
 
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I used to hear Froggy the Gremlin on a Saturday radio show ...Was it, "No school today?"

Howdy doody, Claribel and Buffalo Bob

Carl Braun, "Sweetwater" Clifton and Harry "the horse" on the Knicks...Couz, Sharman and Easy Ed on Boston; Bobby Wanzer on the Rochester Royals...

"Victory at Sea" and "Omnibus" on TV

Mary Martin in the latest Rodgers and Hammerstein on B'way.

Stickball and curb ball in the Bronx

Olinville 5-4050 our telly number
Joe D, "Country" Slaughter, Johnny Mike, Scooter, King Kong Keller and ":Flash" Gordon on the Yanks

And the "breakenest" curve I ever saw from Sal "the Barber."
My brother couldn't get enough of Victory at Sea. A career in the Corps.
 

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I had the opposite problem. I had a summer job in a printing place. The propane dryers ran at about 800 degrees and the ink wouldn’t dry properly if the place was air conditioned. Hottest that I remember was 142. I dropped about 20 lb and 2” off my waist. I learned what dehydration feels like and discovered salt tablets.
I had a job offloading tractor trailers. Those things are like an oven during the summer. Every one of us was soaked as if we had come out of a pool. I remember one particular time we were offloading linens for some kind of sale event at a hotel ballroom A bunch of guys dripping wet and stacks of towels are not the best combination.

Pro tip: you definitely want to wash those before using them.
 
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I used to hear Froggy the Gremlin on a Saturday radio show ...Was it, "No school today?"

Howdy doody, Claribel and Buffalo Bob

Carl Braun, "Sweetwater" Clifton and Harry "the horse" on the Knicks...Couz, Sharman and Easy Ed on Boston; Bobby Wanzer on the Rochester Royals...

"Victory at Sea" and "Omnibus" on TV

Mary Martin in the latest Rodgers and Hammerstein on B'way.

Stickball and curb ball in the Bronx

Olinville 5-4050 our telly number
Joe D, "Country" Slaughter, Johnny Mike, Scooter, King Kong Keller and ":Flash" Gordon on the Yanks

And the "breakenest" curve I ever saw from Sal "the Barber."
Not only stickball and curb ball in the Bronx, but you play the games with a "Spaldeen." (A pink Spalding rubber ball that you bought at the local candy store. After you finished your egg cream.)
 

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Not only stickball and curb ball in the Bronx, but you play the games with a "Spaldeen." (A pink Spalding rubber ball that you bought at the local candy store. After you finished your egg cream.)
yup
 

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Some of you must have rushed home after school to watch the early years of Dick Clark and American Bandstand.
Somewhere between moves from NH to Philly to Baltimore I finally lost my big green IFIC Beechnut Gum button, given to every attendee at the Saturday night Dick Clark show. They wouldn't let my older brother in because he was a half inch too short! How sweet that was! Circa 1958.

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Soon to be 78. I am older than God’s puppy.

I have lived through apartheid in the south, Kennedy’s assassination, Vietnam, and the tv generations. From Fibber, McGee, and Molly on the radio to 300 plus channels and another 100 screening on tv. Been a wonderful life.
 

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Not only stickball and curb ball in the Bronx, but you play the games with a "Spaldeen." (A pink Spalding rubber ball that you bought at the local candy store. After you finished your egg cream.)
I was thinking of "spaldeens" just the other day.
De rigueur for stickball and curb-ball

We played stickball against the elevated wall of Woodlawn cemetery at the top of Decatur Ave...the ball
(theoretically) traveling across a large open lot.
I once hit one over the roof of 3525, my abode.

The lot and the "big fat rock" in back of first base are gone with a new (hah) apt building there,

As a really young kid, I remember a Victory garden in the upper third of the lot during WWII.
 
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I was thinking of "spaldeens" just the other day.
De rigueur for stickball and curb-ball

We played stickball against the elevated wall of Woodlawn cemetery at the top of Decatur Ave...the ball
(theoretically) traveling across a large open lot.
I once hit one over the roof of 3525, my abode.

The lot and the "big fat rock" in back of first base are gone with a new (hah) apt building there,

As a really young kid, I remember a Victory garden in the upper third of the lot during WWII.
collecting baseball cards and stamps-serials Saturday's at the movies. I remember movie posters, one in particular. It seemed like it tookforever for this film to come. It was Fort Apache, and it was well worth the wait. I had a group of close friends in high school; attending movies in a group lasted through college. As I write this, I am watching a film-"The Busby Berkley Disc." Things I started doing as a kid that I still do include being a Husky fan. George Erlich on WTIC sponsored by the Connecticut Milk Producers Association was the start.
 

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