How about seeing an original Wringer-type Washing machine?

My sister got her arm caught in one. All the way to her elbow! I wasn't a
pretty sight. OUCH!

My sister got her arm caught in one. All the way to her elbow! I wasn't a
pretty sight. OUCH!
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So did I...Still remember it and I was about 4 years old...60 years ago....Hurt like Crap......and then I got a spanking for not paying attention and the lecture was worse than that.....Stayed away from them from then on......

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So did I...Still remember it and I was about 4 years old...60 years ago....Hurt like Crap......and then I got a spanking for not paying attention and the lecture was worse than that.....Stayed away from them from then on......
Not 60 years ago dummy, 59???

So did I... Still remember it and I was about 4 years old... 60 years ago...
Hurt like Crap... and then I got a spanking for not paying attention and the
lecture was worse than that... Stayed away from them from then on...

Those rollers were made for gripping and squeezing. No mercy!

Never will they get to taste Lifebuoy Soap....

How about seeing an original Wringer-type Washing machine???

Having to hang their clothes on a line with Clothes pins????


Had my arm in the wringer a time or two. Any one remember what the
blue-ing was for?

Had my arm in the wringer a time or two. Any one remember what the
blue-ing was for?
It whitened whites and brightened colors.

Had my arm in the wringer a time or two. Any one remember what the
blue-ing was for?

This reminds me of one of the things "the old folks used to say" better to post it there than here.

It whitened whites and brightened colors.

I used the past tense. Bluing still does whiten and brighten clothes.

http://guyrutherford.com/images/mcdonalds%20glass%20house.jpg

I just posted thinking (without checking) this was torn down....is it still there?

http://guyrutherford.com/images/mcdonalds%20glass%20house.jpg

I just posted thinking (without checking) this was torn down....is it still there?

It's long gone. Early 90's? I took some photos just before they tore it
down.

It's long gone. Early 90's? I took some photos just before they tore it
down.
It was there in 2003, we stopped at it on the way back from Chicago.

Here's a post on the Oklahoma Modern Blog - McDonalds Moderne (http://www.oklahomamodernblog.com/2008/01/mcdonalds-moderne.html) on January 25, 2008. He does mention the bridge in Stroud being torn down.

http://guyrutherford.com/images/mcdonalds%20glass%20house.jpg

I just posted thinking (without checking) this was torn down....is it still there?

For several years my wife and I went to Springfield MO. for bowling tourney. The return trip always included bad weather once entering OK. We stopped there many times because of heavy rain. Twice for tornado warnings. Why everyone stopped there because of tornado's I will never know. Kind of like stopping beneath underpasses. That was/is still done by many and I say it was a precaution given by somebody of authority years ago. Like opening the windows of your home. Or was it close your windows?

It was there in 2003, we stopped at it on the way back from Chicago.

Here's a post on the Oklahoma Modern Blog - McDonalds Moderne (http://www.oklahomamodernblog.com/2008/01/mcdonalds-moderne.html) on January
25, 2008. He does mention the bridge in Stroud being torn down.

I thought it was the one at Stroud. Ooops... I should have paid closer
attention. Will Rogers turnpike, duh...

Yep, the McDonald's is still there, but no longer the "Biggest McDonald's In The World" as it was once billed.

Was not sure where to post this.

Pant stretchers are still being manufactured.

Many on ebay along with sock stretchers.

Why would you need sock stretchers?

Was not sure where to post this.

Pant stretchers are still being manufactured.

Many on ebay along with sock stretchers.

Why would you need sock stretchers?

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sometimes your feet grow when you stick them in your mouth and you have to stretch your socks....

Ok, I gotta jump in. Foreman Scotty and the Golden Lasso, HoHo the clown ( loved him) ,Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans with Bunny and Mr. Moose. Romper Room, Lula Frank and Ollie. Gumbie and Pokie, Capitol Hill Icecream on Sunday after chuch, Brown's Bakery, going to 14 Flags Drive Inn Movie, backin the pickup to the speaker and whipping out the lawn chairs for the triple John Wayne. Portable record players, Huckelberry Hound Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi and BooBoo, Dark Shadows. Annie Oakly show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on Saturday morning. Getting a spanking from any adult that caught you doing bad and don't forget you had to cut your own switch.

oops, let me correct my spelling. It should be Kukla, Fran and Ollie. quit yelling.

Ok, I gotta jump in. Foreman Scotty and the Golden Lasso, HoHo the clown ( loved him) ,Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans with Bunny and Mr. Moose. Romper Room, Lula Frank and Ollie. Gumbie and Pokie, Capitol Hill Icecream on Sunday after chuch, Brown's Bakery, going to 14 Flags Drive Inn Movie, backin the pickup to the speaker and whipping out the lawn chairs for the triple John Wayne. Portable record players, Huckelberry Hound Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi and BooBoo, Dark Shadows. Annie Oakly show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on Saturday morning. Getting a spanking from any adult that caught you doing bad and don't forget you had to cut your own switch.

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all right girl, you have been officially accepted into the old timer's club...But, It was Kukla Fran and Ollie....If you want to have some fun reading (and a lot of time) read the southside memories thread...you'll enjoy

Ho Ho's house was demolished today. It's just a pile of rubble.

Ho Ho's house was demolished today. It's just a pile of rubble.

Oh no!

Have I mentioned that husband has a framed picture of Ho Ho over his desk? It is just the beginning of his strangeness.

Oh no!

Have I mentioned that husband has a framed picture of Ho Ho over his desk? It is just the beginning of his strangeness.
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is he the same guy that gave out Vienna Sausages for Halloween????

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is he the same guy that gave out Vienna Sausages for Halloween????

The very same.

The very same.

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You know, I really want to meet you face to face.....He scares me.....Hey, we're going to Kansas for the quilt show.....My wife is signing books with the lady that wrote it....she (my wife) has two quilts in the traveling show....Green beans also????? are there no shrinks in your part of the world???? Pruner...if you are reading this, her husband gave out Vienna Sausages and Green Beans for Halloween treats......He must be pretty tough....can you imagine what southsiders would have done in our days of Halloween?????

He is an original - brilliant and kind and his own man. It is a shame that kind of mental illness isn't contageous.

Pruner... if you are reading this, her husband gave out Vienna Sausages and
Green Beans for Halloween treats... He must be pretty tough... can you
imagine what southsiders would have done in our days of Halloween?
I don't know about being tough. He was a very kind person. I would have
liked the Vienna sausages. Green beans? ick... He would have received a
complementary TP and window soaping.

I don't know about being tough. He was a very kind person. I would have
liked the Vienna sausages. Green beans? ick... He would have received a
complementary TP and window soaping.
I thought you were talking about Ho Ho.

Ooooops...

Never mind.

Oh no!

Have I mentioned that husband has a framed picture of Ho Ho over his desk? It is just the beginning of his strangeness.

I love your posts. Classic.

Oh no!
Have I mentioned that husband has a framed picture of Ho Ho over his desk?
It is just the beginning of his strangeness.
Who's strangeness? Ho Ho or your husband?

I'm glad I'm more normal that most people.

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sometimes your feet grow when you stick them in your mouth and you have to stretch your socks....

I'll have to accepet your explination........

I have never had that problem....................:fighting3

Yeah that McDonalds is still there.

My kids and their kids will never get to see a Paperboy on his Bicycle throwing the papers and trying to make money at the age of 12. Nor will they see some kid mowing the neighbor's yard for $2.00...oh yeah, you had to rake and bag also...My kids will never get to have the kind of fun I had at Springlake or the Old Frontier City. Everything doesn't have to be politically correct does it???? Can't we just enjoy the time we have on this old blue marble>>>
My kids will never realize the excitement of winning all the neighbor kids marbles and getting to use their own marbles for a trade say for Comic Books.. Huh???

My kids and their kids will never get to see a Paperboy on his Bicycle throwing
the papers and trying to make money at the age of 12.

My kids will never realize the excitement of winning all the neighbor kids
marbles and getting to use their own marbles for a trade say for Comic
Books... Huh?

Those are two very good ones! I never had a paper route but helped my
friends throw theirs, for nothing! The big excitement came when we finished
the route and went to Dennis Donuts while they were still warm!

Today, winning someones marbles or trading for comic books would be akin to
taking advantage of the less fortunate (read less talented).

How about:...
Cushman was a scooter NOT just a golf Cart....

The original Mustang was a Motorscooter not a car.....You could win many a bet talking about the Mustangs of the Fifties....

How about Baseball cards in the Spokes of their bikes....Oh dad, you'll mess up the gear ratio:....What????the gear ratio was just how hard you wanted to pedal...

Knockoff White walls?....when was the last time you Heard of much less saw a set of these????

Going fishing without a guide:....

How many of them know what a deuce coupe is??????How many of you know that???

A movie that anyone in the family can go see that is NOT a cartoon....

Saturday Matinee Serials....(Lash Larue) etc.

So many things from the past at to our belief was slow paced but our parents thought everything was going to fast....

I always preferred playing cards...

I would think most car people would know what a Deuce Coupe is, non-car people not so much even though there have been a few songs with that in the lyric.

I'd forgotten about playing marbles for keepsies. You're right - if someone did that, today, the parents would get upset. I am wondering what is going to become of kids who never learned to compete when they come up against someone who has.

my 8 year old and a kid down the street play marbles. Their grandparents taught them.

Coming out of South Dakota in July there was a building that stated the largest Marble collection around....had to stop, I was pretty good in the Marble contest on our block.....I almost had a heart attack when I saw how much these marbles were bringing. I told my wife that here is exactly what my "shooter"/ tall looked like when I was growing up....$75.00 each....I asked the lady if that was 75 cents...her response was yeah....right.........Sheez I gave all those marbles away. an old steel bearing "Steelies" as we called them was $1.00 ..... might go back to South Dakota here pretty soon...I have a box of Steel Ball Bearings.....

Things Your Kids will never know about............if they're younger than 20.......MTV meaning Music television, actually showing videos. And Headline News.......having headline news.

I once had a lot of Steelies ... then I got a slingshot

I once had a lot of Steelies ... then I got a slingshot
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You and me both.....There was a kid on our block that had NOTHING...so, when I felt as though I had outgrown my Marbles...I told him I'd give them to him but he had to go and get them....I shot them at him with a slingshot.....Thank GOD
I didn't hit him with one of them....

The Meadow Gold milkman would give us marbles. A bag of 4 or 5 marbles
and a shooter. I know they came out of his pocket. I had a leather bag
from a curio shop on US 66 that I kept mine in. It had a genuine Chief's head
printed on it and a draw string!

I had marks on my fingernails for YEARS from shooting marbles.

I had marks on my fingernails for YEARS from shooting marbles.
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Is that a challenge?...You say your moving back the South side "Old Guys" can beat the North side "Old People" in marbles....Now I know I have to go back to south Dakota.....I've gotta find some pop bottles to sell though at 2 cents each I need 1500 to buy the Shooter:.........Wait a minute, i worked for TG&Y Not Wal-Mart.....We'll figure it out.....

What types of marbles are these? I never knew one from another. The first
ones are what almost all of mine were.

I found these photos here. (http://www.google.com/images?q=marbles+&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-32,GGGL:en)

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:fPcTnafgqydirM:http://www.photoblogster.com/images/20060211182945_marbles.jpg (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.photoblogster.com/images/20060211182945_marbles.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.photoblogster.com/index.php%3Fshowimage%3D218&usg=__ncHdfF34ihNOsXpXxx4TXpFSO34=&h=465&w=700&sz=107&hl=en&start=2&sig2=fjMsnhadj7rDahzGjcyM8w&tbnid=fPcTnafgqydirM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarbles%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2 006-32,GGGL:en&ei=LgmvSpO7GMKylAeg0ND2DQ)


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My kids will never realize the excitement of winning all the neighbor kids marbles and getting to use their own marbles for a trade say for Comic Books.. Huh???

We traded them for cigarettes!!!

The marbles I remember most were the steelies and the cat-eyes.

Anyone ever played "trails?" You take a stick and make trenches/trails a little wider than the marbles. Put curves in it, ran it under tree roots. Flipped to see who went first. You attempted to hit the person in front of you and take their marble. Just kept going until only one marble remained on the trail.

I remember when it was considered in my neck of the woods to be a bit unfeminine to play marbles - and I was only about nine!! Akin to chewing tobaccy. Oh course, back in those days, we girls didn't even get to play organized baseball because a ball could hit us in our undeveloped chests and cause breast cancer. So we'd play sandlot baseball with the best of 'em and at a certain age, the boys would join a team with nifty uniforms and coaches and we girls - pre puberty - got to sit in the bleachers and watch, cheering them on while they got the glory and we got butt callouses. Am I bitter? Nope. My girls never showed any inclination to play ball and I don't recall feeling disinfranchised - but if I HAD wanted to play ball or if one of my girls had wanted to, how sad. The best thing about the sexual revolution was allowing girls who were athleticly inclined to have a chance to compete.

[QUOTE=Prunepicker;254590]What types of marbles are these? I never knew one from another. The first
ones are what almost all of mine were.



I have a hugh jar full, that belonged to my Dad. Along, with the 50 cent piece he used when he and his friends pitched them for money.

[QUOTE=Prunepicker;254590]What types of marbles are these? I never knew one from another. The first
ones are what almost all of mine were.



I have a hugh jar full, that belonged to my Dad. Along, with the 50 cent piece he used when he and his friends pitched them for money.

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did that too:......One of the most expensive marbles are the "Popeye" marbles they were red and white swirled and most of them came in a box of nine....don't know why nine....the box and all the marbles for it:......$150.00 at that marble museum......I just looked......Southside Girl, those marbles are probably worth something but not as much as the sentiment.....I have a pair of McChesney signed Spurs from my Granfather who got them from his dad....They are silver inlaid and look great....been offered $3,000.00 for them...$30,000.00 wouldn't buy the sentiment.....

[QUOTE=SOUTHSIDE GIRL;254781]

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did that too:......One of the most expensive marbles are the "Popeye" marbles they were red and white swirled and most of them came in a box of nine....don't know why nine....the box and all the marbles for it:......$150.00 at that marble museum......I just looked......Southside Girl, those marbles are probably worth something but not as much as the sentiment.....I have a pair of McChesney signed Spurs from my Granfather who got them from his dad....They are silver inlaid and look great....been offered $3,000.00 for them...$30,000.00 wouldn't buy the sentiment.....

Might bring some to the Coits meeting, however won't be there on the 26th

Free Markets, non-deficit spending, life w/o internet

A guy SouthSide Girl and I went to school with (she probably remembers his name I don't) had a flea market/rummage shop off of 240. Coca Nuts I think. He bought many things in bulk and resold them. He purchased a huge amount of white marbles. Couldn't sell them even at dirt cheap. Ordered some decals to go on them and sold them for a by the dozen at an ungodly price.

Stickers read Route across the top and 66 in the center. Said he never got bored putting those stickers on.

A guy SouthSide Girl and I went to school with (she probably remembers his name I don't) had a flea market/rummage shop off of 240. Coca Nuts I think. He bought many things in bulk and resold them. He purchased a huge amount of white marbles. Couldn't sell them even at dirt cheap. Ordered some decals to go on them and sold them for a by the dozen at an ungodly price.

Stickers read Route across the top and 66 in the center. Said he never got bored putting those stickers on.
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Didn't Cocoa Nuts get hit by a Tornado?

I think it's more about my Grandkids than my kids. They'll never know about the fun of attempting to work on an old Jalopy car....The excitement when it actually started and how shocked Grandpa when it kicked over. Nor will they ever experience an AM radio only. How about having only three channels on the television and still enjoying it.? Or, Milking a cow....did you guys realize that milk comes from a cow before it gets put in a plastic Jug. And, they add Water to it? How about 19 cent gasoline and oil 3/$1.00....but, what will their kids not know about????

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Didn't Cocoa Nuts get hit by a Tornado?

Yes it did.

Here a GOOD ONE!!!!!!!SMOKING GRAPE VINES.....BURNING THE CRAP OUTTA YOUR LUNGS.....

They'll never know about homemade ice cream.....i did find an electric freezer and i hope i live long enough to make home made ice cream for my grandkids and let them eat it till the get sick....then send them home with their parents................

Here a GOOD ONE! SMOKING GRAPE VINES... BURNING THE CRAP OUTTA YOUR
LUNGS...

More Boy Scout fun!

They'll never know about homemade ice cream... i did find an electric freezer
and i hope i live long enough to make home made ice cream for my grandkids
and let them eat it till the get sick... then send them home with their
parents...

They may never experience "hand cranked" homemade ice cream. It's getting
easier to make it at home.

I took my grand daughter to a Red Hawks (of which there is no such bird)
game and bought her all the food and pop she could put away... then took
her home to her parents.