Nostalgia..What do you remember

[dmirguy]

The slogan," I would walk a mile for a Camel"

We had a sunday afternoon movie on the television, called the Mell Jazz Matinee Movie. circa 1965

I'll bet you remember Casey Jones and Roundhouse Rodney on channel 11. It was 13 blocks to school and I'd run home at lunchtime just to catch "Now arriving on track 11..."

 

[logandsawman]

I'll bet you remember Casey Jones and Roundhouse Rodney on channel 11. It was 13 blocks to school and I'd run home at lunchtime just to catch "Now arriving on track 11..."

Yesss--Casey Jones, "All Aboard...", of coarse there was also Green Jeans, Nurse Carmen, Axel...

 

[Charles Smiley]

QUOTE: ..."looking at the little 9” black and white TV’s through the store windows and wondering what it was..."

I was about 3, when one Saturday morning, a 'priestly looking chap' in all white coveralls lugged in a huge wooden box with a round glass circle about 9-inches in diameter. Once it was hooked up to a rooftop antenna that he had installed, he turned it on.

Wow! A cartoon box, I thought to myself - because that was the first image to show up.

 

[Gary B]

I remember the knife sharpener with his little cart. Had an odd bell that sounded as the wheels (2) turned. I heard that bell the last time in the 1980's walking with my then young son. I knew what it was instantly and wanted him to see it. One lone guy transported his cart by truck and was still visiting various neighborhoods in the Chicago area. While checking it out, a women came up with a machete to sharpen. Had to be 18 inches long. She said her father had made it!

Testing TV tubes at the Drug Store

 

[tootnkumin]

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[photoman475]

Gary B:

I remember that knife sharpening guy!!!!! The last time I saw him was in 1976, about 3 months before moving from the Chicago area to central Illinois.

I have wondered if he'd have done more sharpening if he hadn't walked so fast-the last time I saw him, I had him sharpen a couple of my mom's carving knives-he was about 2/3 a block away from our house by the time I could get the knives and some cash to pay him.

He had to be in the best physical shape of anyone around.

Photoman475

 

[Gary B]

I actually found a photo of one of those carts and have it on my to-do list for my layout. I'm planning on staring from an Atlas station luggage wagon. Now I need a women holding a broken umbrella. They used to fix them too.

 

[Iron Horseman]

The first colour TV in the neighbourhood, wow!

I saw my first color TV in 1964. Fuzzy dull colors but impressive. Then I still have my first color TV. Got it in 1981. First major purchase after I got married. It replaced my 13" b&w. It is a whopping 25". That was enormous for the time.

 

[Bruette]

Anybody remember electronic football?

 

[tootnkumin]

Anybody remember electronic football?

Don't know what you're referring to there Louis, but it conjures up thoughts of Grid-iron players fitted with battery packs and shockers attached to certain parts of the anatomy, so the coach can give them a hit every now and then.

 

[Bruette]

Ok King Toot... I have no idea how to respond to that.

Electronic football was a simple game with plastic players that moved on a vibrating surface painted to look like a football field. American football that is.

My Mom could only afford a cheap knock off made of fiber board rather then sheet metal and mine did not vibrate no matter how high I turned up the motor. It turned out to be a stoke of luck because I used the field to play a game I made up myself with my football cards. I will never forget how much fun I had with it. I still have my football and baseball cards.

 

[Charles Smiley]

QUOTE: Anybody remember electronic football?

What era? I remember a game that had electric vibrators under the field and the men's feet had little rubber feelers so they would move. Something like the cattle in Lionel cattle car loaders. That was mid to late 50's .

 

[FM C liner]

I remember being with my dad and pulling up to a service station and people actually came out to check your car and pump your gas for you. I also remember if you had purchased enough gas, you could get a set of dinner plates. I also remember going to Thrifty drug store with my family to get new tubes for our TV and while we were there you could get a single dip ice cream for 15 cents. I remember when the ice cream man drove a real ice cream truck and not a old van.

 

[Charles Smiley]

QUOTE: people actually came out to check your car

And they wore "garrison" caps too. Great jobs for young men and students that we no longer offer.

 

[Johne230]

Who remembers The Officer Joe Bolton show.

 

[Espeefan]

The Charles Chips truck, the Fuller Brush Man, and that guy who came around and sharpened your knives and scissors. Gasoline for 26.6 cents a gallon

 

[tootnkumin]

Does anyone remember the washing line strung between the house or a couple of trees/poles, held up in the middle with a pole that had a fork in the end that the line passed over?

 

[Espeefan]

Yes, a clothes prop is what my mother called it. Ours was in our front yard.

 

[tootnkumin]

"prop", that was the word I was looking for, must've been virtually worldwide. When I was looking for that photo, they were well represented.

 

[Bruette]

QUOTE: Anybody remember electronic football?

What era? I remember a game that had electric vibrators under the field and the men's feet had little rubber feelers so they would move. Something like the cattle in Lionel cattle car loaders. That was mid to late 50's .

That's the one Charles!