"Simple American Things Lost" list
Oct 5, 2018 14:25:47 #
Need Help from Older Americans with this "Simple American things lost" list
milkman
gas station attendants
ck. oil
clean windshield
ck tires
elevator operators
checker cabs
telephone operators
bottomless cup of coffee
cigarette machines
children walking to school
typewriters
drive-in movies
nurses in white
paperboys
10-cent BOTTLE of pop
perfect strangers giving chidren caught in the rain a ride home
(this last one is the greatest lost)
milkman
gas station attendants
ck. oil
clean windshield
ck tires
elevator operators
checker cabs
telephone operators
bottomless cup of coffee
cigarette machines
children walking to school
typewriters
drive-in movies
nurses in white
paperboys
10-cent BOTTLE of pop
perfect strangers giving chidren caught in the rain a ride home
(this last one is the greatest lost)
Oct 5, 2018 14:37:48 #
There is still a drive in theater not far from where I live.
Oct 5, 2018 14:38:11 #
Oct 5, 2018 14:38:34 #
That is so true. You can still get the bottomless cup of coffee at the truckstops but the service has went to the dogs. So it doesnt get refilled as quick as you might like. And the price has went crazy
Oct 5, 2018 14:42:06 #
Oct 5, 2018 14:42:55 #
Where's that drive-in theater? I'm shoving a 16 year old girl in. my car and head out there
Yes! the 5- cent Milky Way and Hersey Bar
Yes! the 5- cent Milky Way and Hersey Bar
Oct 5, 2018 14:46:27 #
In Massachusetts there are a couple dairies offering delivery. The milkman is alive and well.
Oct 5, 2018 14:50:09 #
Oct 5, 2018 15:53:48 #
craig.j.tucker wrote:
Where's that drive-in theater? I'm shoving a 16 year old girl in. my car and head out there
Yes! the 5- cent Milky Way and Hersey Bar
Yes! the 5- cent Milky Way and Hersey Bar
Hull's Drive In Theater, Lexington, Va.
Oct 5, 2018 16:04:11 #
wingclui44
Loc: CT USA
craig.j.tucker wrote:
Need Help from Older Americans with this "Sim... (show quote)
My news paper is delivered by a young man driving his car, not bicycle!
Oct 5, 2018 16:07:33 #
alliebess wrote:
25 cents hamburger. 5 cents 10-12 oz. bottle of soda.
I recall many years ago encountering a 15 cent hamburger. It was about an inch in diameter in a bun about 3 inches across.
Oct 5, 2018 16:44:06 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
I recall many years ago encountering a 15 cent hamburger. It was about an inch in diameter in a bun about 3 inches across.
I remember going to McDonalds after school when I was a teen paying 15 cents each for burgers and fries. Here is a post from a blog with a menu photo.
Oct 5, 2018 17:12:27 #
pmorin wrote:
I remember going to McDonalds after school when I was a teen paying 15 cents each for burgers and fries. Here is a post from a blog with a menu photo.
That photo looks like the burger is a lot larger than what I remember
Oct 5, 2018 17:19:27 #
pmorin wrote:
I remember going to McDonalds after school when I was a teen paying 15 cents each for burgers and fries. Here is a post from a blog with a menu photo.
My Freshman year in college in Paducah KY I often ate lunch at McDonald's. Fall of 1964 - walk out front door of main classroom building, cross street and walk through Carnegie Library parking lot (head Librarian's restored Ford Model T Sedan she drove to work on good weather days was a bonus), into the McDonald's lot and their side door. Cheeseburger combo with large drink and regular fries was less than $1 - great deal for a 17 year old kid who was a full time student. I seem to remember the Fillet of Fish combo was still under $1.
Then in the Spring semester the college moved to a new campus outside town on former Vice President Barkley's home and farm - his house became the admin and library building. No more McDonald's, campus cafeteria - but the prices were just about as good.
Oct 5, 2018 17:27:19 #
1964 Afternoon in Des Moines, Iowa with $1 in pocket
.25 Northwest Swimming Pool
.10 bottle of Pepsi
.30 2 hamburgers
.10 1 fries
.10 1 Coke
= .85. / .15 change
.25 Northwest Swimming Pool
.10 bottle of Pepsi
.30 2 hamburgers
.10 1 fries
.10 1 Coke
= .85. / .15 change
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