Recent content by JohnnyGage

I had an aunt, many moons ago...her living room was all protected in plastic with a white chain draping in front of the entrance. Even when my parents visited, they sat at the kitchen table...as kids, we were sent off to play downstairs. Surreal.

One Big Bright Spot on 9/11 Happy Healthy Birthday to Dec Byrne! SLAINTE !

The extension phone was the second...

Perhaps the single most life altering invention of the American Household...the 6' telephone line changed everything.

at L 38 the old-timers were talking about egg-creams...we hit the road and bought a wooden 12 case seltzer water in those spray top bottles. That worked for a night or so, making egg creams...then like the Three Stooges, you can imagine what else happened...

Good one Ray, I was watching a documentary on candy we used to eat that are pulled from the market, these in particular because they stuck to the paper and the food adm said kids were eating the paper stuck to it...big deal, it went with the glue we ate...

and a nice cigar afterwards...loved these.

This was almost as common as a fire hydrant on street corners of Manhattan...you picked your paper and had exact change in your other hand to pay...

Say, isn't that Lt Q 112 kneeling (E 5)...