Remember~

[Collector]

When I was young we had a ranch in Idaho. We rarely went to a town of any size usually the small town closest to us which at that time boasted 85-90 souls. Once a year or so we would go to CDA, Moscow, or Spokane, and dad would take us to a FF resturaunt. That was it though we rarely had pop or candy and chips or other junk food. We never thought we were missing anything, in fact we felt bad for those living in cities not having the freedom or opportunities we had out in the boondocks lol.

 

[Zeedman]

Before I bought my first 45 rpm record, I used to listen to my uncle's 78's. Same uncle used to take my brother & I to McDonald's on weekends, back when they first began counting their burgers (I remember when the sign reached "One Billion Served"). Good memories.

Going to the drive-in movie when I was in H.S., then going to the local drive-in malt shop, where the car hops served you on roller skates. The amazing thing is, that shop is still open... it was just outside city limits when it opened, it is 3 miles inside city limits now.

 

[baymule]

I am positively ancient. I used to walk to the store, picking up empty soda glass bottles on the way. I'd collect enough to buy a coke for 10 cents and I'd drink it in the store so I didn't have to pay the 3 cent bottle charge. With my leftover pennies I would buy penny bubble gum.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

This reminds me of something I (who is way to young to remember any of this stuff) saw once. I was watching an old movie Little Miss Marker, I think. And there was a scene where a man was serving cereal to a little girl, and was getting the milk bottle out to pour on it. First he took the bottle and a small jug out. He then poured part of the milk in the bottle out into the jug, looked at the bottle from the side, poured a little more into the jug looked again, poured milk out of the bottle onto the bowl of cereal, poured the contents of the jug back into the bottle and put the bottle away.

I thought this was a pretty odd thing to do. Then I remembered, back then, milk was neither separated not homogenized, so a bottle of milk would have a layer of cream on top that would have to be removed to get at the actual milk.

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[digitS']

Well yes, cream separates and comes to the top.

What I would imagine is that the little girl wouldn't object to having cream on her cereal. Maybe the man had another use for the cream. If he had left it in the jug, it might be that he likes cream in his coffee. Collecting several quarts of it, maybe he has one of those square gallon jars we had with the paddles and crank on the lid for making butter. Nice fresh butter ..! Maybe the strawberries were ripe and they were gonna slice some onto a biscuit and put a big spoonful of whipped cream on that for dessert at dinner!

Mostly, we would just stir the cream back into the milk and pour it on our cereal. There was always more milk on its way ..

Steve

 

[valley ranch]

Remember bubble gum use to be shaped like toffee with the paper twisted on both end.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

THAT I remember. At least, I remember that some gum was like that Usually, whatever I was given at the barbershop, or maybe I saw it at some bulk candy place (I say the latter only because I think the gum I got at the barbershop was usually Bazooka, which , while it IS wrapped in paper, does not have twisted ends.)

Speaking of gum, my Dad got a nostalgia burst the first time we went into one of those places where you can buy old timey candies and I decided to try a package of Blackjack. That's STILL my favorite gum (well, it was back when I could have gum)

Well yes, cream separates and comes to the top.

What I would imagine is that the little girl wouldn't object to having cream on her cereal. Maybe the man had another use for the cream. If he had left it in the jug, it might be that he likes cream in his coffee. Collecting several quarts of it, maybe he has one of those square gallon jars we had with the paddles and crank on the lid for making butter. Nice fresh butter ..! Maybe the strawberries were ripe and they were gonna slice some onto a biscuit and put a big spoonful of whipped cream on that for dessert at dinner!

Mostly, we would just stir the cream back into the milk and pour it on our cereal. There was always more milk on its way ..

Steve

Well, if the movie WAS Little Miss Marker (and I think it was) we are talking about a down and out gambler and general no-good living in a flop house apartment. I imagine milk was a premium for him (I'm not sure, never having seen it, but I assume that daily milk delivery is something you only got at homes, not apartments) He was probably too CHEAP to waste cream on a little girl (or, as he saw it, an IOU that actually required UPKEEP.)

I also seem to remember something about leaving a cream layer on top extending the shelf life of the milk a bit (though that may be wrong)

 

[digitS']

Shirley Temple movie.

I just read about it and the 2 remakes. It was the beginning of a movie career for Ms Temple but didn't seem to have that benefit for the 2 other little girls in the role of a "marker" on a bet. One did marry a major league baseball star.

I was talking the other day to my 80-something cousin. She was telling me a little about her older sister, who I had only know when I was a kid. The three children had a difficult early life. The cousin relating the story was the middle daughter. The 3 sisters were orphaned. Her own story was how her father died during the Depression when she was about 8. Her mother, my aunt, remarried but died when she was 10. The step-father had 3 children of his own and gave up care of the 3 girls to their, and my, grandmother. When the oldest girl married, the younger sisters went to live with her.

Anyway, my cousin seemed to be determined not to live her life as she felt her mother and older sister lived. She said, "you know, men thought they owned women then." I remember her once announcing to her family that she was going off "chasing rainbows" ... she was about 70 at that time. She is still a very outspoken, independent woman.

Steve

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I must have been seeing one of the remakes then, since it definitely WASN'T Shirley Temple.

 

[digitS']

"I don't want no mush" Ha! I can just see Shirley Temple saying that.

The remakes had major stars like Lucille Ball and Julie Andrews with Bob Hope and Walter Matthau in the role as Sorrowful Jones.

In the original and 1 remake, the gangsters dope a racehorse to the point of death. In the later version, the horse is brought in during the final scenes to help the little girl recover from a coma. Ethical evolution is possible ... seems to be the theme to all.

Steve