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OT: Are you older than dirt?

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:
 
msf22b said:
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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My brother couldn't get enough of Victory at Sea. A career in the Corps.
 
Bigboote said:
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 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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msf22b said:
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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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.)
 
Jackcatscal said:
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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yup
 
boontonbomber said:
Some of you must have rushed home after school to watch the early years of Dick Clark and American Bandstand.
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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.
 
Jackcatscal said:
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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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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msf22b said:
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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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.
 
Scud49 said:
Proof that I'm older than dirt- Little Leauge, 1959. We had hand me down uni's, our benches were wood planks on top of a couple concrete blocks, but Ioved every minute of it. That's me batting.
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Me too, Beechmont Dairy, 1964-1966
 
Radio shows in the 40's...
Ter--eee...and the Pirates
Of course, The Lone Ranger.
Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry
Tom Mix...another western, but only vague...memories

There was guy who used to sing the news in the morning in New York...name...name?
Phil Cook.

And when I was home sick (often) I loved to listen to Arthur Godfrey and (all the little Godfreys)

M
 
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Me three, 1958, Temple PAL, sponsored by now defunct Meyers Pharmacy among others.
 
rock and roll shows in Hartford-the old State Theater. Another classic were the Christmas windows at G. Fox
 
zymurg said:
rock and roll shows in Hartford-the old State Theater. Another classic were the Christmas windows at G. Fox
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Who remembers the Christmas Lights and tinsel strung across the Post Rd in Fairfield for a mile or two? Or Sonny Fox coming to Fairfield to turn the lights on, Lol.
 
boontonbomber said:
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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Did a bit of that myself in the early '50s. Saturdays when school was in session, weekdays too when it wasn't. Fortunately, I didn't have to get up early. The driver had already started his route and would pick me up at 7. There was no passenger seat. I don't remember if there was a driver's seat. I do remember him driving while standing.

Bigboote, been there too. Well, almost. At P&W, department 517 was right across the aisle from heat treat, and on 2nd. shift on a hot summer day it was miserable. It's already well over 100°, and then the door on a big roller hearth furnace opens. You can actually see the blast of heat coming.
 
msf22b said:
Radio shows in the 40's...
Ter--eee...and the Pirates
Of course, The Lone Ranger.
Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry
Tom Mix...another western, but only vague...memories

There was guy who used to sing the news in the morning in New York...name...name?
Phil Cook.

And when I was home sick (often) I loved to listen to Arthur Godfrey and (all the little Godfreys)

M
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Saturday morning Buster Brown show brought to you by Buster Brown shoes. "Tweak your magic twang, Froggy." told by Smiling Ed McConnell.
 
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msf22b said:
Radio shows in the 40's...
Ter--eee...and the Pirates
Of course, The Lone Ranger.
Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry
Tom Mix...another western, but only vague...memories

There was guy who used to sing the news in the morning in New York...name...name?
Phil Cook.

And when I was home sick (often) I loved to listen to Arthur Godfrey and (all the little Godfreys)

M
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Might have been Bobby Benson and his B Bar B Riders.
 
Talking about little league. Right now, my grandson plays in the same town that I played in. They have tee ball, 3 levels of minors, majors, and the junior league for 13 year olds. Back in 1956 at 7 years old I made it on one of the little league teams. Back then, all they had was majors, nothing else, with only 6 teams. If you think this 7 year old wasn't a little scared going up against a 13 year old pitcher, well, I was. The town has come a long way, with a couple hundred boys and girls playing on the fields that I played on every week. So long ago.
 
I've been really enjoying everyone's stories and memories from "dirt-times." Thanks. I remember that some of the roads in my town were still dirt in the 50s, and our local ball field only had a few tuffs of grass.
I highly recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Wait Until Next Year" to everyone, but particularly those who grew up in NYC in the 50s. She brings you right back to those times, as Doris always can do. I still have my copy and now I think I'm going to read it again, for the third time.
 
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