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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 5013366, member: 11804"] 1. Never liked it, but how about Smith Brothers Cough Drops? (Licorice was my favorite.) They and Samuel F. B. Morse put Poughkeepsie NY on the map. The two bearded brothers (William and Andrew) had their likenesses on the package, right next to the words Trade and Mark (it was one of the earliest trade marks granted by the Federal government), and a lot of consumers thought their names were Trade Smith and Mark Smith. 2. Never liked them. 3. Never had a crew cut. 4. Closest I ever came to smoking. 5. For a nickel! 6. My wife was once in the Peanut Gallery. 7, Oh yeah. 8. I can still hear the clinking sound outside the kitchen door. 9. We had one (3335-W). Our shared party was 3335-R. And this was back when you picked up the phone and the operator would say "Number Please." 10. Movietone news. And a funny picture, too. (My favorite was Popeye.) 11. How about 78s? 12. Not as popular as Connies, but we wore PFs. (Stood for "Posture Foundation.") 13. Much better than paper lunch bags. 14. The scene of my first . . . well, forget that. 15. In NYC the famous ones were MUrray Hill and BIgelow. In my little home town, it was JOhn (real creative, huh?) 16. We got TV late; I was still listening to radio every night. 17. Those classic, gleaming soda fountain fixtures all over the country were made by the Bastian Blessing Company in Chicago. I was a soda jerk for a while at the coffee shop at Grossinger's. 18. Never much for skating (which, of course, were the 4-wheel kind). 19. Yup. This was back when we had to lick postage stamps, too. 20. "Blue dots for sure shots." Holy crap, I guess I AM a dirt nerd. [/QUOTE]

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