Looking back - do you remember

[JohnnyGage]

there was nothing like an egg cream made the right way

and a nice cigar afterwards...loved these.

 

[Lt.Q L112]

How about the candy cigarettes with the red tip

 

[raybrag]

I liked these . . .

 

[Rich M]

I worked in a Candy store in 1960 after school from 4 till 11. The night edition of the News and the Mirror came out around 9 PM and the store would be crowded from about 8:30 till the papers came in. I got a lot of practice making egg cream sodas, sundaes and packing pints and quarts of hard ice cream.

there was nothing like an egg cream made the right way

Every time I hear egg cream, I think of this:

 

[Disp51]

How fast could you spin around on those red topped chrome stools?

 

[ta176]

We used to interchange with 169 and the smell of Chocolate filled the air. I never checked it out but I believe their factory was around the corner from their firehouse. They were our busy night interchange company.

 

[JohnnyGage]

I liked these . . .

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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...

 

[JohnnyGage]

Every time I hear egg cream, I think of this:View attachment 58496

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...

 

[entropychaser]

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...

Economists would characterize that activity as the best and highest use of an asset.

 

[JohnnyGage]

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

 

[JohnnyGage]

The extension phone was the second...

 

[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.

 

[Disp51]

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

 

[Disp51]

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.

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Every other piece of furniture had one of these: