Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

Two more things from my dim, dark, distant past: Big John and Sparky and metal soda bottle carriers.

 

I had forgotten about the metal carriers. You could also get a case in a wooden version.

Jim

 

:cornut: ..............and when the Bread Man delivered the bread in boxes to my Grandma Molly's Cafe in Buda,Texas, he would save all of the string(that held the boxes closed) for my 'big ball of string'.

Jason

 

Steve Allen host of the oridginal Tonight Show.

 

Remember the night he was late showing up, so they started without him and then reported he was killed in a car accident on the way there?

Jim

 

:cornut: Thanks Guys for correcting my memory. I thought that Jack Parr was the original 'Tonight Show' host.

Jason

 

The Tonight Show should have gone to Letterman!

 

Letterman is too abrasive for the older Tonight Show crowd. Leno isn't abrasive.... he isn't funny either! He does have good taste in cars, though!

 

:cornut: On the roads that were under construction, at night there were burning smudge pots instead of colorful striped wooden horses and blinking amber lights.

Jason

 

Has you get-up-and-go got up and went?
Were you headin' for a hoedown and you started to slow down?
I hanker for a hunk of cheese!

 

:cornut: At 2100hrs on Tues nights in my Grandma Molly's Cafe in Buda, Texas the 'honest to God' Texas Rangers of Travis and Hays Counties would have their meetings. We children were allowed to carry their coffee out once and then were banned to the back yard to play. This was 1956.

Jason

 

After those pots they used saw horses hung with kerosene railroad lanterns that had red globes..

 

If you can remember watching Captain kangaroo

 

Oh yes the red light district. :ihih:

 

:cornut: PF Flyers black high top tennis shoes

Jason

 

They still make them...

PF Flyers Center Hi - Men's - Street Fashion - Shoes - Black Canvas

 

:cornut: Well let's try Buster Brown shoes

Jason

 

Buster Brown shoes never went away – you just stopped fitting into them. The Brown Shoe Company is still one of the largest shoe concerns in the world, with annual sales of $2.5 billion.

 

:cornut: Well how about hand made shoes by the cobbler of Hamlin

Jason